No Time To Stamp?

… of sorts — LOL!!! Today while washing and hanging out some old kitchen curtains, I noticed they suffered damage in the washer — not to blame on mylaundering skills, but more the mere age of these curtains — OLD! I remember well when my husband’s Aunt ordered these from the catalog for her kitchen. She was an old maid, I guess you would say, who devoted her life to taking care of her farmhouse and many bachelor brothers. As we were looking at her new kitchen curtains, she explained to me that though she would have wanted ruffles for her windows, she felt this pleated trim on these curtains was more appropriate for this *man’s* kitchen — LOL!!! Funny the things you remember, but I do remember it as if it was yesterday, and I’m sure it wasclose to 25years ago. The occupants of that farmhouse are long gone, and today one of our sons is renovating the house, so Mom took the curtains home to wash. And today was gorgeously breezy and sunny, a perfect drying day. Here they are:

And yes, we do hang our clothes out in the summer! And no, I don’t even have clothes poles — LOL!!! One end of this line is hooked to an outbuilding and the other end is tied around a tree. And it’s probably been that way for 100 years, so far be it from me to change it!!! But, once realizing these curtains were destined for the rag bag, I KNEW I could use that pleated trim on some cards, so here’s my first attempt:

No stamping — none — just a quick card. My pretty image is from a sweet little notepad type of booklet by Crafty Secrets — totally darling!!! I distressed with my scissor blades as I couldn’t seem to find my distressing tool. See my pleated trim cut from those curtains! Gosh, I can makea LOT of cards with all that trim — LOL!!!! It is attached with double sided tape. The buttons are sewn on using the string I have in the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store and, of course, that’s where my wide silk is from as well. But check out my bow — I am SO excited over this one. I learned a new way to make a bow — this one is actually a double bow — and it is SO easy. I am running out of time tonight, but I will plan to share more on this bow tomorrow evening (Tuesday) when I post. Hope you can check back in then to see! Oh, this card is 5″ wide x5.5″ high.

Stamps: None

Paper: PTI Vintage Cream (backing image), Prism Suede Brown Dark, Frosted Orange. Birds and Botanicals Images and Notes by Crafty Secretes.

Ink: Colorbox Chalk Creamy Brown

Accessories: Wide Silk Ribbon and String by May Arts from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store, Buttons from Wal-Mart, Old Curtains, Zots, SU Corner Rounder, Glue Glider.

Shopping:

The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store has the silk ribbon and string as well as much more!

Stampers Dream is my source for Prism Paper.

Joan’s Garden is my source for my FAV adhesive, the Glue Glider. (And it’s Monday, so that means Joan just listed some fun, new things!)

Thanks much for stopping in — truly appreciate all your visits. Hope you are enjoying lovely days as well — see you soon!