random reflections

AAA Cards & Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

When I saw the challenge at AAA Cards for Maximum White Space, I had an idea for a Christmas card.

Now, white space does not have to be white, and in this case it's navy blue. Photographing the card turned out to be a monumental challenge. It's so dark and dreary here that finding the right light was nearly impossible. 

I trimmed a piece of navy cardstock to 5 X 3 3/4 and embossed the star in Rose Gold from a set called "Totally Happy." Somehow (like the light) I can't figure out who the manufactures the set. The sentiment is from an older Simon Says Christmas set, "Ornaments."

I popped the panel up with a piece of fun foam before adding it to a navy card. Maximum white space equals Clean and Simple, for sure. Also quick--except for trying to get a photograph! 

I'm adding this to the huge gallery of cards at Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

 

November 5 in 5: Hannah@Breakfast

Unlike the past two months, I'm posting right on time for Sandie's meme: 5 in 5. One of the fun features of my iPhone is the Portrait mode, and one of the last mornings we were in Racine last week I started snapping photos of Hannah while she "ate" her breakfast. These were easily in the five minutes allowed by the meme: five photos in five minutes. I love the variety of expressions Hannah uses in just a few minutes. None of the photos were edited except to crop them to the 4X6 aspect ratio. My only complaint about the Apple camera app is that you cannot set the aspect ratio, so that in order to make prints you must remember to leave some extra room in your composition or crop off a portion of the original photo.

Hannah wakes up happy every morning, and stays that way for the majority of every day. It's not that she doesn't have "her moments." Like any two year old, she certainly does, but they are generally few and far between. These photos show her true personality.

 

Time Out Challenge

I have a "just because" card for the current Time Out Challenge:

I made this card for my granddaughter so she would receive a cards when I sent a congratulatory card to her brother upon passing a karate test.

The white panel was embossed with Papertrey Ink's "Simple Strips" Impression plate. I cut it down so there would be a border of the Hawaiian Shores card on each side, and then die cut three small circles with a Spellbinders circle die. The little owls from Clearly Besotted's "You're a Hoot," were a prize I won on a blog contest quite awhile ago. I colored them with Copics and die cut them out to peek through the circles. 

The sentiment from Reverse Confetti's "So Many Sentiments" was embossed in white on black cardstock and trimmed down. Both it and the white panel were attached with dimensional tape. 

It's very, very windy here, but so far no power outages. Halloween was almost a wash-out. We got just a few trick or treaters in the brief span when there was no rain, and a few die-hards after it starting raining again. Sarah said the other day that her memories of Halloween growing up were that they were cold and snowy! I do remember a couple where we had snow, but more of them were simply cold. Last night, however, it was in the 60's.