I think the Universe is trying to tell me something. Last week I saw the most beautiful leaves that I would have missed had I not been paying attention to where I was. The same thing happened to me this morning as I was eating my breakfast and looking out the window. A bird I had never seen before - a mountain bluebird I believe - came to eat for a bit at one of our feeders. These days it is so easy for me to be distracted - to have my attention diverted by some type of electronic device (as your attention is diverted now...reading this...and mine, typing this). I take my smart phone on my walks with me. I tell myself that it is just in case of an emergency and yet I find myself checking email as I'm walking or I will pause to sit in a park and within minutes the phone is out and I start surfing. Ugh! I am not pleased with this behavior I've been exhibiting and I am very grateful that the Universe is sending me signs that I need to pay attention to where my attention is. How unfortunate it would have been had I missed the gorgeous leaves or that precious bird. I've gotta finish typing this...there might be something out my window that I am not seeing because I am too busy looking at this screen!
Today's card began with a scrap piece of Very Vanilla card stock that I found on my craft table. I had been inking up some vellum card stock earlier in the week and it takes awhile for ink to dry on vellum. So, rather than wait, I decided to just rub this piece of card stock over the wet vellum and this is the "monoprint" that I ended up with. I decided it would be the perfect backdrop for a simple birthday card so I just stamped the letters from the Sketch Alphabet set using Midnight Muse ink. So simple :)
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