See Me Roar

I've been feeling a little overwhelmed with the incredible inspiration out there in the craft-blogosphere, but doubt is part of creativity. The other part is sucking it up and just creating, darn it.

I knew I wanted to use the lovely paisley stamp my husband picked up for me before I got completely distracted by Christmas, and for some reason the not-so-my-style color combo at the Play Date Cafe really spoke to me. I colored the stamps with watercolor pencils,my new favorite trick. I only used a red and a yellow pencil for the paisleys...I'm so tickled with how the watercolors make each unique.

For more inspiration, I took the Card Cupids challenge of Anything Goes and broke out a poem that a FaceBook friend sent me some time ago. (Girl you're so awesome! Thank you!)

Since I haven't used my sewing machine in some time and actually have to work the pedal with my hand, I went ahead and eyeballed the stitching right onto the printed poem. Cannot believe this worked! Then I edged the card and paisley paper (which I've been hoarding for just this kind of occasion) with a light pink marker. I did the same to make a message card for the inside.

I'm really enjoying making off-center gate fold cards, or whatever you'd call this. I backed the front paisley with decorative paper to make the inside view a little prettier.
Inspiration:
Play Date Cafe Challenge #62
Card Cupids Challenge #5: Anything Goes

Supplies: Rubber stamp by Stampabilities, Royal watercolor pencils & brush, StazOn ink, Core'dinations cardstock, Classic Paisley Pink Polka paper by the Paper Studio, sewing machine & thread, ZipDry glue, HP printer & ink, Tim Holtz scissors, papercutter with decorative blades, Copic marker RV21 & blender, Folkard™ font