Sunday, March 4, 2012

Lazy Lazy Sunday

I don't want to start sounding like a broken record-

BUT.

My plan for Sunday morning was similar to my plan for Saturday morning.   I planned/hoped/wanted to wake up and be ready for the day early in the morning.  I wanted to have a  full, productive day.  Did that happen?  Nope.  Not even close.

I didn't get to bed until a little after 6AM.

Was I running wild, barhopping and falling in love?  No.  I never left the house.  I was drinking wine, playing with stamps, playing with/learning iMovie on my new MacBook, and watching random stuff on Netflix Instant on the Wii.

What?  Kory?  You have a Wii?!  I didn't think you would play video games!

Well, I don't.  I use it to watch the Netflixes.

I do have one game for it-  Super Mario.  I've loved Super Mario since the 6th grade.  It's a love that shall never die.

So, thanks to Netflix, I didn't get to bed until 6AM.  I slept until about Noon.  The day was ruined.

I did finally sit down and play with some stuff.  Here's what I've got for you!


Yeahp, that's my brand new sexy Octagon Spellbinders set!  Yeah- I had my heart set on HEXAGONS- but everyone is doing hexagons and I want to BE ORIGINAL- oh, who am I trying to impress?  They only had the octagons at Jo-Ann, and the set was marked down at 14.97.  

I didn't have any plan in mind-  I arranged the dies as I did in the above photo, thinking that I would use the negative as a misting template, or maybe as a frame-

But then I saw all those cute little shapes laying there:


I  sanded and roughed them up a bit with my new distressing tool (more about that new wonder, first thing tomorrow morning!!!).  Then, I inked the edges with some Tea Dye and Walnut Stain Distress Inks, stacked the pieces up, largest to smallest- using some foam tabs, for a little dimension...  (I found these boxes of foam tabs at Tuesday Morning for .99 each!)


AAAAAAAAND SURPRISE!!!  A flower!   A more abstract, clean looking flower, actually.  I like it.  


I didn't have any plans for where to go from here-  I made a flower.  Now what?  Well, I needed lotion and soap, so I went to the grocery store.  But my brain must've misfired, because I forgot the lotion and bought cookies and ice cream.  So I had to go back out to buy the lotion- and yes, it was a matter of life and death to get this lotion.   I was out.  Like, sticking my finger into the empty bottle, hoping for a just a drop to take the dryness away.  My skin is sensitive.  It has to be non-scented, sensitive skin lotion.  I was drying up and looking my age.  I HAD TO GET LOTION!  And, since I was going right back out, why not stop in at the nearest Michaels, just in case there was something on clearance?  Well, there was.  Do I have instinct or what?  I found some nice packages of plain 12X12 chipboard marked down to 2.49 per package.  Score!  I love chipboard.  Almost as much as I love lotion.  I was also tricked into buying more Smashbook accessories.  I love that entire line.  More than I love lotion.

I came home, drank my Kool-Aid (yes, I still drink, and love, Kool-Aid) and made this:


Is it a card?  A cover for a mini-book?  A big page accent?  I don't know yet.  But I love it.  Yeahp, I'm still pushing the OCTOBER AFTERNOON doily stamp from the FARMHOUSE line.  And I just bought that nifty Martha Stewart 'Monarch Butterfly' punch.  Don't they look great?  The flourish was cut with my Cricut Expression 2.   



I hope everyone had a great weekend- and come back tomorrow morning, to see what it is that has changed my life for a better!

-kory


8 comments:

  1. This is awesome! Love how you made the flower from oxygons. I have that journey stamp set and love it. I just made a card with it so it's fresh on my brain! :)

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    1. Thank you very much!

      Yes, that is a great stamp! I love it!

      -kory

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  2. It is scary how Netflix kept you captive......Thankfully it's not happened to me. What you made is very pretty. I'm not familiar with that stamp but love it.

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  3. love your latest creation, kory! cool lookin' flower! you did some shopping, some crafting..sounds like a pretty good weekend to me! :) hugs, hl

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  4. I love it Kory!!! You really love that Journey stamp! lol this is the second item you have used it on in a week I believe! hahahah

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  5. Very beautiful Kory, gorgeous flower very abstract and unique love! Netflix eh? Don't wanna get hooked on that yet! Hope you had a good crafty weekend!

    Frank

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  6. Brilliant post Kory!!!! Has me in fits of laughter here. I can especially relate to the going out for....& coming back with ice cream haha. I am blown away by your flower. That's definitely in my 'ideas i'm gonna steal and pretend that they're mine' file. I seriously want that die!!! I've been thinking about buying it to make covers for jam jars but now I have an extra excuse. Keep up the great blogging. I love visiting here. And yes, I could do with learning imovie too. Any tips you wish to share? Pxx

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  7. OOo you have the ideas a fluttering in my head now. Thanks for sharing!

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