SPRING CHICKEN

Welcome Sunday and the new Paper Players challenge! Our very creative Design Team member Joanne is challenging us this week with a sketch:

The Paper Players: PP650 - A Sketch Challenge from Joanne

Here's my take on her sketch. I've been playing with a new stamp set that I bought a couple of weeks ago that caught my fancy - Simon Hurley/Ranger "Spring Chicken" #HUR83351. I love all of the chicken images on this set, and I'm sure there will be many more that will pop up on my cards from this point forward!

This card is pretty straightforward with the many layers, numbered in order of layers:

                        1. Started with a kraft wood textured card base

                        2. Die cut stitched rectangular panel

                        3. Die cut stitched rectangular frame from wood textured cardstock

                        4. Overlapped matted rectangular patterned paper

                        5. Stamped and colored chicken and die cut with a circle die

                        6. White heat embossed sentiment

On a personal note: What a crazy week - we finally have a new lawn! Early in the week, we had to have an electrician mend and re-wire the connection to a light post. The light post will be replaced at some point, but probably not until the spring. The sod arrived early Friday morning and was rolled out for an instant lawn. The sprinklers and drip lines were all started up, and everything is looking so much better! What a process this has been - a full year of living with a large dirt patch for a yard. In a couple of weeks, once the area has been watered regularly, we'll be adding a couple of inches of bark mulch and calling it quits until the spring, when we complete the plantings. When everything gets cleaned up and the bark mulch is in place, I'll post some before and after photos.