Fat Sunday

I admit it. This morning I let Princess A have birthday cake for breakfast. (We had leftover cakes from two different parties - what was I to do?) For a mid-morning snack she had Cheetos Puffs, while I had chips and dip. (Yeah, I know. No excuse for this.) Though Main Squeeze acted disgusted, I notice he also partook of the junk food diet day. There is no more junk to be had on the 24th (Mardi Gras) so I have dubbed today "Fat Sunday".

Ironically, I spent a good portion of the day working on my Mardi Gras cards for the Sisterhood. (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Cards is a group on SCS that swaps a different set of cards each month. A different hostess from the Sisterhood chooses her theme, collects the cards and trades them out to the other sisters.) Mary's theme was such a challenge for me. I had come up with an idea right away, but just could not make it work. Nor could I get that idea out of my head to make room for a new. (The space in there is clearly quite limited)

I have to give a big shoutout to Jan R, for had I not run into her the other day at NESC, I expect I would still be stumped. Fortunately for me, Jan was carrying some dp that was purple, green and gold. (On the back side, was the same print, but smaller and shaped as the #3. It occurs to me I may have inadvertently grabbed Dale Earnhardt paper. But am stumped as to how I know that he was #3...) But hey, it was the right colors AND it was from the sale bin! Not having any idea what I would do with it, but knowing it would very likely come in handy, I bought three sheets. Thanks Jan for showing me the way!

All stamps are the Voila set from SU. The dp is from Scrappin Sports & More (looks like I was right about that Dale Earnhardt hunch). Both the chef's tie and the covered dish are paper pieced onto a cut out of the chef from the same dp. (The silver card stock is from SU, however) His face and hand is colored with Prismacolor markers (light peach to be exact). All of these are popped up from the card with SU's stampin dimensionals. Finally, on his coat, I added self adhesive gemstones from Crafts Etc.
The final card may look simple at first glance, but it sure was a lot of work. And with a little help from Priority Mail service from the USPS, will arrive in MD on time!
Bon Appetit!!