Baby~It's HOT Out!!!

97 degrees to be exact. Geesh!!!!!!!!!!! We just got back from watching a friend's daughter play in her final softball game before the championship game. These girls played in the hot baking sun starting at noon. The winner gets a little break and heads to the championship game. Uggghhh!! Unfortunately, "our" team lost by one point. But my selfish brain said to itself, "at least I won't have to sit in this dust bowl and broil any longer!! (bad, bad attitude!!)

When it is hot like this, I only want cool. Cool foods, cool drinks, just everything cool. Including my cards!! But, ya know~~sometimes you just have to add a POP of color to add some sizzle!!

Can you guess what was my inspiration for this card?!! Yup. The flower pots that I just got done planting. Now, originally, I had planned to add some type of stitching so that I could use this for the Rubbernecker Blog Challenge for this week. But then I got hot. And needed cool. Which means CAS (clean and simple) to my way of thinking.

This is a 5x5 square card. The image was stamped using Ranger's Archival Jet black ink on Gina K's 120# pure luxury paper. I colored it with my copic ciao's and cut out the image and placed it on the base layer. Supplies: Stamps: Rubbernecker. Inks: Ranger Archival Jet black, copic ciao markers. Paper: Gina K's 120# pure luxury, whisper white.

Thought I'd share a blast from the past using this same stamp. But this one must have been made when it was cooler. Got some HOT background colors!

I really can't decide which one I like better. They are both CAS. And in some ways I like the coloring on the blast from the past better. But I think I like the POP that the newer version holds with using just the white. Hmmmm.................guess I should be happy that I rather like both of them!!

Thanks for dropping by. Hope the rest of you are staying COOL!!