Soaring By

We're havin' a heat wave {OK, sing along with me now}, a tropical heat wave . . . While I do not enjoy the high temperatures we've been having, I do get a secret little kick out of extreme weather conditions and setting new records and such. Our little digital indoor/outdoor thermometer has a sensor in the shade on our north-facing front porch, and a little while ago it read 101F. That's the first time since we've had this thermometer that it's registered a three-digit temperature reading! It's not an official record or anything but it gives me a good excuse to stay inside in the cool air-conditioning and do a little something that makes me happy.

After the bustle of end-of-school-year activities and "honeymoon" period of summer vacation with the kids, I'm trying to settle back into a routine that includes the Splitcoaststampers daily challenges and others whenever possible. I enjoy them so much and it allows me a little bit of happy time each day! One of today's challenges was a color challenge to use these three colors.

It struck me as an odd combination at first, but I'm glad I tried it because I love the result! I also used this sketch challenge from Card Patterns.

And finally, I needed to decide on a theme for my card. Last month, I won a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions in their WHAT IF? Wednesday sketch challenge. I had so much fun picking out and buying new rubber stamps from their website with my winnings and couldn't wait to use one of my new RI stamps, a cute kite stamp. Using a little pennant banner in cards or scrapbook layouts is really hot right now, and I challenged myself to try one those today, too. Here's the final result. I love how it turned out!

For supplies in this card project, please click here.