Studio Calico week Day 3

This card is a little out of my zone...the papers in the kit are all cheery, and I went kinda country dark with it...with black! Lol. Anyway, let's start with the sketch:

This one was a bit of a challenge design wise! I don't remember tackling it when its week came up...but decided to give it a shot now. I started by turning it on its side.

Background paper is what inspired the distressed dark  look...I wanted to transition the edges of the wood October Afternoon paper, and only had black and orange marmalade with me on Saturday. The orange wouldn't show, so....black it was! That led to distressing some of the other papers too. With yellow being my fave color, I picked the Jillibean Soup for the center, and let the Pebbles checkered pattern and black circle the pop of color. Lacey circle nestabilities are by Spellbinders.

For the side embellishments, I picked out a Basic Grey button from the kit - it's too thick to mail, so I made it a thank you card so it can go to one of our heroes with a note in it. I added a brad to the Doily Flower (by Jenny Bowlin)....when I looked at the pack of flowers I expected felt but it's plastic - a thin plastic. Darling too! I added a little washi tape coming out from under the button, and the sentiment was from my totebag....always keep a little metal on hand, ya know? :)

A funny story for you today....I was emailing with one of our heroes, with my rant in mind, and here's a snippet:

Hero: "Looks like I'm staying til summer, so keep the boxes coming. Less support coming in now." 

Me: "Awww no way! But after all, 'the wars are all over,' eh? You aren't supposed to be there any more, according to a lot of folks who don't read past the headlines. I think a bunch of people think Afghanistan is a suburb of Iraq."

Hero: "Afghanistan a suburb, that's pretty good! They're still building buildings and paving roads, with more coalition forces coming in monthly, so looks like we'll loiter in Afghan a bit longer."

Me: "Well at least you're in the 'burbs. I hear traffic 'downtown' is a mess since we left. *grin*"

Hero: "Ha! You're so funny. Thanks for the laugh."

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