Retrosketches #21 ~ By Tracey

A Thursday hello!

I was able to take some time yesterday and make a card for this week's sketch over at Retrosketches.  This sketch was designed by the very talented Tracey McNeely of "In My Creative Opinion."  She does lovely work and I wanted to honor that by joining in the challenge.

I look at these sketches, as you probably do, and cock my head and point my ears, which helps me think better.  Yes, like a dog, trying to figure out if you're going to sit there and eat that whole sandwich in front of him, or actually share part of it.  I stop short of drooling, however.  I save that for looking at stamping magazines and any online stamping supply stores.

My heart was in the challenge, but my Original Creative Thought was low on batteries, so when that happens, I create literally.  Here is the design sketch:

 

Here is what I saw. 

I saw a little candy baggie and sentiment kisses.  Which made me think of chocolate kisses, which look like chocolate chips.  And I have a chocolate chip stamp!  By that I mean I have a rubber stamp in the image of a chocolate chip.  If I had a chocolate chip stamp, it would have been eaten long ago.  As it was, I was going to use an actual chocolate chip where the white heart brad is, but while I was making the card, I ate all the chocolate on accident.

When Dan was little he used to say, "I did it on accident."  Not "by accident," the way adults say it.  He knew that things were done "on purpose," so it only made sense to him that the reverse of that would be "on accident."  I didn't have the heart to correct him because, frankly, it made sense to me, too, and I've said "on accident" ever since.

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You remember how Mister built me clever collapsible structures out of PFC pipe so I could hang sheets over my hydrangea bushes on hot days?  Then a nice follower said she just puts small garden umbrellas over hers.  Oh, snap!  So that's what I do now.

It's a lot easier and a lot more colorful than my old beige sheets, but we have a lot of hot days and I'm starting to ask myself if they're worth it, considering they have to spend almost the entire summer covered up, so they don't shrivel up and burn.  And they're located in the shadiest part of the yard, so moving them is not an option.  Sigh. 

It looks like I'm hiding tiny naked sunbathers from the neighbor's prying eyes!  Which, okay, I find rather amusing.

Enjoy your day!   As always, thank you for stopping by to visit.   Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment!

Paper:  PTI brown; unknown beige; vellum
Stamps:  Penny Black,  with both xes for
  kisses and oes for hugs, but I just used
  the kisses part (169UL); chocolate
  chip: Stamps by Judith
Ink:  SU chocolate chip; Marvy marker
Nesties scalloped circle die
Dotted swiss embossing folder
Unknown heart brad, baker's twine
Corner chomper