Time Rips, er, Flies ~ NBUS #132

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I am still in love with all things Shari Carroll emanating from the Online Card Class I am taking. She did this incredible emboss resist watercolor painting which had amazing depth and part of the image faded off the paper in an awesome fashion. Several of the card artists taking the class have CASEd her perfectly! I don't have a cool honeycomb or hexagon or similar background stamp like Shari used, so I used a NBUS block background stamp called "Inspiration Mosaic" by Gina K. Designs.

And I made this.

Even though this background stamp isn't as dramatic for this type of painting, it is still a pretty color block of watercolor painting. Like the inspiration, I had the edge fade away and I turned my card to have the fade-out be at the bottom. 

Then I went in search of a challenge to give me inspiration for how to use my pretty background. I decided to play in the current TIME OUT Challenge which is "Time Flies ~ Love Lasts." 

I pulled out my little container of clock/time stash and found the perfect wood veneer timepiece which I smooshed through a pool of purple watercolor paint. 

I giggled out loud when I found that I had a stamp that actually said "time flies!" It's NBUS, and I don't know who makes it, but it was cool to find it. I next pulled out my "love" word dies and knew immediately that the block script of this love die (also NBUS) from Papertrey Ink would be a perfect die for the block pattern of the background.

S'kewl, right? You're with me so far? 

And then somehow it all went horribly wrong when I decided to travel back to 2003 and rip off the bottom of my card. My thinking was something having to do with the paints dripping down beyond the block pattern and fading away and so it might be cool to have the card be ripped along the edges of the paints. 

You know, like time tearing through the fabric of our love, or love lasts through the torn ridges of time, or ... or? Dude, what were you thinking?

The bottom line (oh, hahaha) is that a lot of work and effort went into this card before I decided to rip into it and I'm for sure not going to not share it with you, even if it means I have to resort to double negatives to do it. 

And that's what happened. I'm moving on. I suggest you do the same. Just move along folks. There's nothing more anyone can do for this card. Officer, would you please put up the crime scene tape and bring in forensics? And would someone please find me that doggone hamster?!

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