You make me happy...

I was up at 6am this morning, even though we had quite a hectic day yesterday visiting the new twins in the hospital and having dinner with the old twins at their home.  My husband was still sleeping and I wondered if I could actually make a card before he woke up... just A card.  I saw this beautiful blue paper staring at me from across the room and decided I'd see if I could make something using it.

 

Step #1,  See if I have any paper in my stash that matches it... I found the brightly colored flowers.  The bright flower paper reminded me of OWH's Sketch #218 which is perfect for paper that needs to be showcased.  Step #2, Find two other patterned papers to match the colors in the flower paper.  Hence the light blue and sunny yellow.

Step #3, Cut all the pieces following the measurements.

Step #4, Assemble all the pieces.

Step #5, Pick a sentiment.  The whole color scheme seemed so happy.  I looked at the sentiments I have in a printers tray on the wall and there staring back at me was

"You make me happy".   How perfect!

Step #6, Add brads.

 

Wow!  I looked at the clock and it was only 9am... and seven cards were done!  I was amazed at how quickly something comes together when you use a sketch, find some papers

and "Just do it..."