Pool Party

I admit it.  I don’t have a creative bone in my body.  But I absolutely love stamping and scrapbooking!  So what’s a creatively-challenged girl to do?

Copy and steal everything!  (Or, the alternate form: copy and share everything…)

CASE-ing is a term we papercrafters use to describe a project that was either copied directly or inspired by someone else’s work.  And it’s a skill I’ve become quite good at using. 🙂

Give me a blank piece of cardstock, some stamps and ink, and some embellishments and set me to work — I’m going to sit there and stare for hours, completely overwhelmed by my crafting choices.

But… also give me a picture of someone else’s project and I’ll set to work immediately!  It’s just that little bit of inspiration that’s needed to get the ideas flowing.

For example, here is a photo of a card that I love, created by Kris McIntosh:

 It’s a simple layout, but I like how she did it.  So I adapted it:

I simply changed the color scheme to Pool Party and used Moving Forward, this year’s Ronald McDonald House set — which is retiring at the end of this week.

And now it’s a whole new card!

Be sure to come back tomorrow to see another version of this layout…