Happy Monday! It's time for a new challenge at
BBTB2 and this week Stephanie asked us to make a birthday card and incorporate pearls. I bet you were expecting to see some kind of feminine card with pearls. I totally wanted to do the unexpected this week and went with a boy card. How in the world could I incorporate pearls into a little boys card--with a treasure chest of course! My fabulous printed border is from
The Cutting Cafe's Ahoy Matey printable stamp set. My treasure chest came from the 3 Birds-Life's A Party cartridge. I cut it at 3.25" from brown cardstock adding some metallic gold for the coin and lock layers. I added some rhinestones, and of course, pearls. Really quick and easy card. It seems that's all I have time for since we came back to Michigan. We have been so busy visiting kids and grandkids and cleaning out our storage unit which is three hours south of where we're camped. We no sooner get to the camper and we have to head back south for some family commitment of some sort or other. Every week since we got here we've had to do that. The first week it was our granddaughter's graduation, the next week our youngest grandchild's birthday. Next it was a week of preparing for a garage sale by cleaning out our storage unit and setting up the garage. We survived that and headed back north for a couple days of rest. This week it was back down for a granddaughter's ballet recital (pictures to come next week). I will be so glad when this summer is over and we can finally head back to Florida and our quiet, peaceful life in our retirement community. This weekend it's back down for our granddaughter's graduation party. Can you say exhausted? Who said retirement is a time for relaxation? We weren't this busy when we were working full time! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you get a chance to play along with our birthday and pearls challenge at
BBTB2.
