Overwhelming Awesomeness

I'm baaaaaaack!  Ok, so, for a while all the blog posts here have been of projects I made while we were still in England; I had posts scheduled out until last week.  But today I can share the first card I made after we got to Alabama!  And none too soon, since I was out of scheduled posts :)

Yeah yeah, I got the greeting on there crooked, but we all know that pretty much everything I do is a teensy bit crooked :)  I was trying to start off easy so I used a CAS card sketch to focus on the pretty colors, which I got from the Colour Me Card Challenge:

I wanted to do something with fall leaves, but I only have a limited number of stamp sets with me at the moment and none of them are leafy I don't think.  I got the Flower Patch stamps and Framelits right before we packed out in England so I hadn't had a chance to play with them at all yet, so that was a good reason to choose them for my first card.

So for the moment, I have a makeshift tiny stamping space in the closet of my future craft room:

(Everything in this house is brown.  I so wish I could paint it all.)  It's a little claustrophobic...that table is actually a sewing machine that I inherited from my great-grandmother (I own at least two sewing machines and I don't know how to use them!).  The work space is so tiny that every time I use the paper trimmer, the trimmed paper falls on the floor--the top of the sewing machine table is *just* big enough for the paper trimmer and my grid paper, that's it.  After I made this card, I pulled out the sewing machine into the room so it feels less claustrophobic, but then I don't have all my blocks right next to where I'm working either so I have to keep getting up to get things from the closet and I've got stuff strewn all over the floor.

It's all going to get better on Wednesday though:  we're finally getting the rest of our stuff!  We've been in this house almost exactly a month, sleeping on an air mattress and using two uncomfortable metal folding chairs, so I am super excited to get a real mattress and our couch back.  Not to mention my craft table...never thought I'd miss a cheapo plastic table, but I do!

Anyway, I've got to run...I've got to clean up the craft room so I can fit all the furniture in there when it gets here on Wednesday :)  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Flower Patch, Big News
Ink:  Tempting Turquoise, Tangelo Twist
Paper:  Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories:  Flower Fair Framelits, rhinestone, Dimensionals