you guys know i'm pretty good at making cards from my scraps, right? one would think that the card would come after the layout … but not lately. i think it's the neat freak in me. i just want to get the scraps out of my way and cleaned up … so i start the card super quick and then get rid of the remaining scraps. then i eventually get around to finishing up the layout! lol! so … just consider this a peek at a layout in the works.
what is this … a birthday card?!?! how crazy is that … because i never make birthday cards … even though they are the one type of card that i always need. lol! most of this is scraps from one layout i have going … except the blue pattern paper, which i pulled out for the card. so the blue pattern paper is ki memories … and the red and yellow pattern paper is basic grey. the black dot circle tag is a clear tag from making memories … along with the "happy birthday" tag and the brad.
a while back i saw nichol use this star stamp and star punch from stampin up. in a perfect world, i would have linked you up 4 times in just that last sentence (to nichol, the stamp, the punch, and stampin up) … but i'm in "typepad-whose-new-improved-compose-screen-won't-let-me-link-and-makes-my-photos-look-wonky" world. lol! anyways … i knew i had to have that star punch … i love stars. and the star stamp … had to have that since it fits perfectly in the punch … and it has dots, which i love even more. the red star was stamped on white cardstock with red ink and then punched out … the black star was punched out from some ki memories paper and then adhered with a pop dot. for the third star … i adhered some yellow magic mesh to white cardstock and then punched it out. the scrap of blue magic mesh was actually a tiny little piece that i had cut off from a different layout … but it kind of had the same curve as the circle, so i used it.
i keep going back and forth on just chatting about what supplies i used as i explain the projects. or adding the supply list at the end of my post. i like how a lot of designers are adding the supply lists … i just hate repeating myself if i've already mentioned it. plus, typepad is bugging me this past week … so it might take me longer to format it the way i'd like. i don't know … what do you guys like? i'll leave it up to you!
Laura Vegas 
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