Book Nerd

Mornin' y'all!  I am running on about four hours of sleep--the hubs and the kiddo came back from Alabama last night and by the time we got home from the airport it was almost one in the morning.  Then Daph woke me up to go outside at 4 and at 6 I just gave up and got out of bed.  I think a nap will be in order this afternoon before Ryan's swim lesson.  Still happy to have my boys home : )  Funny story:  I thought they were coming back on Sunday until Sunday afternoon, good thing I found out I was wrong before heading out to the airport late Sunday night!

Anyway, have you ever seen a challenge that just makes you ponder for a while?  Because that was me with this week's Paper Players challenge:

What do I have that I can recycle on a card?  I looked all over my craft room and was pretty much stumped, and then I came across some stickers on the dresser in my bedroom.  I buy hand-dyed cross stitch fabric from this wonderful lady in Indiana and she puts little goodies in the packages when she sends the monthly subscription fabric (I have enough fabric to last a couple of lifetimes but don't tell my hubs that).  It used to be candy, for a while it was cute little shaped erasers, and now it's stickers.  And I found two of them on my dresser and finally a light bulb went off.  So here's my card:

I used both stickers on my card front after stamping my bookish background with various stamps from For the Books.  And if you lurk here on the regular you know that I have been turning my book obsession into cards for a bit with my Nancy Drew challenge : ) so yeah those stickers are perfect!

I took my color cue from Cupcake Inspirations:

I used Peach Pie and Poppy Parade for the colors, happily for me that heart on the first sticker dovetailed nicely with this color challenge.  So yay, I've actually used two of the stickers instead of just letting them pile up in my house, so thank you to the Paper Players for the recycling challenge.  It started out as a head-scratcher but I'm happy with where we ended up : )

Time to get Ryan off to his first summer camp.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  For the Books
Ink:  Peach Pie
Paper:  Basic Black, Poppy Parade, Peach Pie, Whisper White on the inside
Accessories:  stickers, Textured Notes dies