SUO Challenges: CASEing Jolanda

ACK!  Apologies to my SUO Challenges teamies, for some reason I thought I had already written and scheduled this post and so here I am merrily organizing all my new books and the blog is postless!  So let's fix that now, and this is a fun new challenge where we CASE Jolanda!

So here's what I came up with:

I was looking for a DSP that had yellow and pink in it and then for this card I ended up with part of the wash that's mostly orangey.  I *finally* used the Flowers Fair stamp that Joanne and Jan convinced me to get--hooray!  And I found the exact thanks greeting that Jolanda used in Notes of Spring.  I turned her card layout on its side for something different and added some Strawberry Slush gems below the greeting.

This was actually my second card for this; here's the first one:

This one just didn't feel balanced quite right and I'm not sure why, so I made the Flowers Fair card and I felt like that one was more successful.

We hope you'll play along and post your card on the SUO Challenges blog.  Don't forget to keep it to Stampin' Up! products only for this challenge, and have fun!

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  Flowers Fair, Notes of Spring
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Strawberry Slush, Pumpkin Pie, Shaded Spruce
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Garden Poetry DSP
Accessories:  Eyelet Blooms die, Strawberry Slush Gems, Dimensionals

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  Fern & Flora
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Flirty Flamingo, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Shaded Spruce
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Shy Shamrock, Crushed Curry, Garden Poetry DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Leaves die, Fern & Flora dies, Dimensionals, Array of Dots

And if you scrolled down this far, here's what I was working on this morning:

Innit BEAUTIFUL!  Really I could space out the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books to completely take over both shelves (especially since I have quite a few paperback Hardy Boys books still to add to my collection), but the two shelves upstairs are overstuffed even after I sold three boxes of books last week when we were in Texas.  So for now at least, I have my Patricia Briggs and Kristen Britain hardcovers on the top shelves here, then Nancy Drews , then Hardy Boys, and the bottom right shelf has the ND/HB super mysteries.  I'd love to get another bookshelf but I really don't know where I would put it...I wonder if it would fit in the entryway?  I can just imagine the side-eye my hubs would give me if I floated that idea, ha!