Wrinkles and Smiles

 Maureen is hosting this week's Viva La Verve challenge, and has provided a fantastic sketch for us to play with this month ...

The sentiment and butterfly are from Verve's Blue Skies. I'm so glad I pulled out this older favorite because I had forgotten some of the awesome sentiments that are included. Check it out ...

I used papers from one of the My Mind's Eye Stella & Rose collections. The blue background has been crumpled and sanded (it needed some wrinkles to fit the sentiment {wink}). The rectangle focal panel was die-cut with a Spellbinders Wonky Rectangle Nestabilities die. Wonky Rectangles is turning out to be my sleeper favorite from this latest Spellbinders collection. I pretty much overlooked it in favor of some of its sexier siblings, but now that I have it, I am absolutely loving it! It adds just the right amount of fun and whimsy!

Happy Friday, friends! Hope you have a fantastic weekend :)






P.S. Remodel update: I may not turn out to be the DIY-er that I claimed yesterday I was going to become. The current master bath remodel is pretty much 100% hired out (I did change cabinet doorknobs yesterday -- teehehe) and I'm already in major stress mode. Yesterday evening I went from yelling snapping at the whole family to sobbing, "I'm so stressed out" -- all within half a second. Today, I'm all chill, "it is what it is." Sometimes I just have to freak out a little before I put things in perspective and find my calm place ;) Oh, and per request, I'll post some favorite newly discovered DIY blogs soon, as well as before and after photos of our MBa improvements.