Simple Saturday

Oh, boy! I've been a lousy blogger this week ... not to say I don't have an excuse or two. The extreme fatigue I was experiencing (tiredness I was blaming on having so much on my mind) earlier in the week was most likely leading up to yesterday, which I spent flat on my back in bed. With a headache that measured a solid 8.5 on a scale of 1 to 10, body aches that extended to every hair on my head, and a fever, I figured I had full-blown influenza. But, after sleeping all day, I woke up around dinnertime feeling better. Today, I'm at around 80 percent. Whatever it was appears to be of short duration, which is good because I have things to do and places to go.

My Simple Saturday offering was created with a sweet little stamp that landed in an online shopping card a while back that I hadn't gotten around to using until now. The image was colored with markers with the exception of the background which was filled in with a watercolor brush and Petal ink. The image was stamped on Colonial White, backed with Olive cardstock, and mounted to the card with foam tape. The rest of the paper is from DCWV's Latte Matstack. I used a Gelly Roll Clear Sparkle pen to add a bit of glimmer to the bee's wings.

Material & Tools: Colonial White and Olive cardstock; DCWV Latte Matstack; Black and Petal ink pads; Petal, Chocolate, Garden Green, and Sunflower markers; Stampendous Happy Word cling stamp; Garden Green mini brads; Watercolor brush; Stampin' Up Ticket punch; 3M foam mounting tape.

Thank you for all of your kind birthday wishes. It was a good day. Today, I'm going to do as much as I feel up to doing. Tonight, we have a wedding reception to attend. I hope your day and weekend are wonderful. Later...