Here's a second card for the CASual Friday Birthday Bash challenge, as well as the Simon Says Challenge this week: "Anything Goes."
The calendar for the end of April, May, and June is packed with birthdays and anniversaries, so I set a challenge for this week to get some cards created using the April Simon Says Card Kit. I love the mix of yellows, grays and blacks so it was easy to do. You'll be seeing several cards with this color scheme this week.
All the product for this card except the wood veneer star (Studio Calico) which I painted yellow, the banner die (also Simon Says), and the rickrack from my ribbon stash came from the April kit. These kits are a great value. You received a full set of stamps (which retail for $14.99), a mix of patterned papers, cardstock, and embellishments for $19.95. There's easily enough product to create a minimum of ten cards without raiding your stash (though I usually do add a few items) which is certainly cheaper than Hallmark.
Inside I repeated a strip of the Washi tape, and used some Papertrey Ink products for the inside sentiment. (Tremendous Tags die, and 2012 Birthday Tags stamp).
There's been quite a bit of blog conversation about what reader to use once Google Reader disappears this summer. I've been using Feedly for a month now, and can highly recommend it. I have it on my desktop, iPhone, and iPad, and blogs read seamlessly on all three. I can actually say I prefer it to Google Reader. I love the small photos and summaries of the posts on the desktop, so if it's a blog where there are only certain posts I read carefully, I can work through them very quickly.
I also switched my browser to Chrome which I like as well. Safari was giving me a hard time about comments on several blogs, so I moved to Chrome to see if things would improve. It's very fast, and the only feature I miss from Safari is the ability to "save" blog posts or websites to read later without having to add them to your bookmark system. On my agenda is to set up a bookmark folder in Chrome for that purpose (and to clean out the old bookmarks I no longer want!)
