Sneak Peek #5 - Background Soup

When I saw this stamp set: Background Soup - I couldn't wait to play with it. All those circle just drew me in! The entire set consists of seven pieces. I used three on this project: upper right - open circles (colored them in with stardust glitter pen), bottom - closed circles, left side - old fashioned looking print.

After creating 4 cards this week, I wanted to play with something else. . They are so much fun to cover. This project is filled with a bunch of my favorite things...

6.5"x6.5" Chipboard Clipboard - they are so much fun to cover
Uptown Girl 8x8 paper pack - love, love, love it
Black cardstock - how can you go wrong with anything that coordinates with black
Claret & Noir Palette inks - Claret is my most favorite ink to use on Uptown Girl papers
Bitty Blossom Flower Mixes - they go with so many projects
Eyelets from TAC's hardware packs - they're so much fun to mix & match
Stardust Glittering Pen - it's one of my best friends
Ribbon - I combined the pink from the Mimi pack with the Black & White pack

Here's how the clipboard started out...

Table-Top Garbage/Scraps problem...

Life is still crazy busy; where does the time go? We are doing well and are currently preparing for a vacation to Western Washington in a couple of days. I can't wait - that's home to me!!

Since my team meeting is tomorrow night, I was straightening up and decided to fix my table top scrap/garbage problem. I recently bought these cute plastic baskets (in green & blue - my colors) thinking they'd be great for cute little table top garbages. I got them at the "Everything's a DOLLAR" store. They came 2 per pack!

I put in a small bag so things wouldn't fall thru those cute little holes...and it worked, but was quite unsightly. Plus, the basket lost all of it's cuteness.

Although it's not stamped at all...I now LOVE my little garbage container. I used about 4 yards of ribbon and a small piece of cardstock in the bottom. It took me about 40 minutes to do once I had the idea.