10MCD and other things

Snow's coming. That means it's a perfect day for crafting and cleaning. I took a few minutes this morning and made a card for Paulina's 10 Minute Craft Dash. Now I know that some of you are a bit intimidated by just the thought of trying to make a card in 10 minutes or under, but you really should give it a shot. Look at the little color flags, get the ideas pinging around in your heads, gather some supplies, set your timer, and go! While cleaning in here yesterday, I ran across a package of card bases by Doodlebug, that I won at a scrapping/stamping convention, oh, hm, about 2-3 years ago. Knew I had them, knew I liked them, knew I'd use them; it's just that they got "put away" well in my 'cards I am making' box. Probably the one box I've avoided for oh, hm, about a year. So yesterday when I was pulling stuff out and putting it away where it ought to be, I left these out determined to use them within the week. Then, this morning, I saw Paulina's challenge. And what do you know, I had a brown card base!!

So this is how it went...

Once I remembered the file folder card base, my brain pinged "office supplies"

Grabbed the spiral bound pad, stapler, a paper clip, a sheet of pink bling, white and blue scraps, the washi tape, markers and two sets of stamps. Then it was off to the races!

In 9:31 seconds:

                         1. Rip pink paper off pad, trim a bit, adhere to base

2. Tear white scrap, decide to leave top edge torn at last minute

3. Trim blue scrap, can't do any more messy edges, so cut clean

4. Staple white to blue

5. (and this was the most time consuming part) Use markers and color pencil stamp

6. Stamp pencil

7. Color senitment, stamp, and underline both images

8. Adhere to card base

9. Washi tape corners of pink

10. stamp small sentiment and adhere to tab

11. Breathe again!

12. Look at card--hate the way the tab sentiment looks

13. Rip off sentiment (here's where panic sets in...)

14. Don't look at timer, don't look at timer....

15. Find better sentiment stamp on TOP of others (whew!)

16. Color sentiment, stamp, trim and adhere to tab

17. Double whew!

18. Examine card...where's the paper clip??!!!

19. Grab paper clip and add a heart bling once it's on card.

20. Make a Margarita 

It really is fun! And here's the final, final project:

What a hoot...I had a blast making this and I can't believe that it came together in 9:31. I used the Doodlbug brown card base, random scraps of white and blue, and a no-name pad with multiple colors (pink here), washi tape, regular office supply staples and paper clip, unknown pink bling, SU markers, PTI enjoy stamp, PS Just a Note stamp, and Amy Tangerine pencil from Hey There. So I'm off to post this to the 10MCD. You should give this a try--it's sooo much fun! Happy Dances everyone.