Five Stars

Happy Friday, y'all, and guess what?  It's my birfday!!  So far today, I have done dishes, put the dining room chairs back in place (hubs moved the china hutch, yay!), and vacuumed the living room, so things are finally getting back to their rightful places after painting last weekend.  But after I take Daph for a walk, it'll be crafty time!

And I got to play with some new stamps yesterday, take a look!

You can't see it in the picture, but I used Wink of Stella on the little details on each book, and the shimmer goes along with the Fine Purple Shimmer Gems I used as accents (because I couldn't resist putting them on here even though I'm doing a CAS challenge).  I'm so happy to have some book stamps from SU!  Though I admit I bought some non-SU! bookish stamps last year (but I haven't used them yet).  So for this stamp set's maiden voyage, I used the colors at Cupcake Inspirations:

I used Pretty in Pink, Gorgeous Grape, and Petunia Pop.  I admit I had a hard time coming up with a magenta shade...I know we have Magenta Madness, but it seemed too bright and overpowering with the other two colors, so I used Petunia Pop.  The books and greeting are both stamped twice in Gorgeous Grape to give an extra-dark purple and then I colored with blends.

Next up is the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch:

I like this sketch, it's fun.  I tore a piece of scratch paper and used it as a mask before sponging and stamping in the corner, easy peasy.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Have a great day, I'm looking forward to Tex Mex for dinner tonight : )  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  For the Books
Ink:  Gorgeous Grape, Pretty in Pink, Stampin' Blends in Highland Heather, Pretty in Pink, Petunia Pop
Paper:  Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Fine Purple Shimmer Gems, Wink of Stella

One more thing, I got the pantry organized yesterday:

We painted it dark green but left the shelves that greige color that everything used to be.  And having everything back in place and all organized makes my little nerdy heart happy : )

And this is hanging on the wall in the pantry now, where it should be.  That was hand stitched by ME fifteen years ago.  Anyway, we still have to put the blinds back up on the kitchen windows and a few things like that, but I'll share pics of the kitchen once that's done.  It is not all this dark green color, that's our accent color.  Which just so happens to be my favorite color : )