Bookmarks LII: Seven-Pointed Snowflakes

The inspiration for this bookmark was very simple. "Hey," I said to myself, "I should use this snowflake stamp." And the bookmark turned out to be a pretty simple thing too, which actually seems just right for snow.

I didn't do a terribly good job stamping evenly, but I like it anyway. I wish I'd bothered to count the spokes on the snowflakes before I bought the stamp, though... these are all wrong! Two of them have seven points and one has five, but real snowflakes have exactly six spokes.

Not that this makes these snowflakes any less pretty, so I don't think I ought to be disturbed about it. Real snowflakes aren't this big, either, and that doesn't bother me a bit.

I am entering this ice-blue bookmark in the following challenges:

• Bunny Zoe's Crafts: Winter
• Addicted to CAS Challenge #1: Snow
• Ladybug Crafts Ink: Snowflakes
• SweetStamps Challenge #93: Cold & Snowy (not a SweetStamps stamp, alas)
• Victorine Originals Challenge #48: Blue and White (a fairly turquoise-y blue, I admit)
• Ladybug Crafts Challenge 3: Monochrome/Tonal (heck, it's so monochrome it even matches my blog!)
• One Crazy Stamper: Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp: Anything Goes

Supplies:

Bookmarks XXXVII: Pair o' Pairs

Here's the story: I had rescued a particularly hideous greenish mustard piece of cardstock from the floor, so it was sitting on my cutting mat. I was paging through DCWV's "Sweet" matstack looking for something to think pink with, because hey, right now that's enter-able into about a dozen challenges without even stretching. (Look, they don't always have to be challenging.) And then there was this floral pattern incorporating pink and an almost mustard-y yellow. It kinda looked like it would go with that ugly cardstock.

I determined to force the issue. Almost-coordinating papers don't give you the opportunity to use up something ugly every day, after all.

I also wanted to use some of my new fruits and sweets stamps. And it hit me that, hey, pears are a yellowy-greenish color!

There was also a light blue on the floral print, giving me the opportunity to use some fairly dull and uninspiring light grey-blue cardstock as well... and to make a pair of pear bookmarks.

I promise that's the only play on words I'm deliberately committing here. And I totally would have stamped a bunch of grapes for the blueish bookmark if I'd had such a stamp, just to avoid the pun. 'Cause I like clever puns, but this one is not clever.

Also, that blue pear kinda weirds me out.

I stamped everything in pink (and clear embossed), edged with pink, and used a little of my new pink polka-dot washi tape in an effort to play up the pinkness for all those Breast Cancer Awareness / Think Pink competitions.

To be fair to the grey-blue cardstock, it's not entirely uninspiring. However, the only thing it suggests to me is rainy days, and I own no cloud, raindrop, or umbrella stamps. So.

I'm entering this pear pair of bookmarks into the following challenges:

• Link Up For Pink
• Our Craft Lounge 137: Go PINK for Breast Cancer Awareness
• Art Impressions 83: PINK! for Breast Cancer Awareness
• Dream Valley Challenge 42: Go Pink
• Lexi's Creations Challenge 75: Pink
• Drunken Stampers Challenge #100: Think Pink
• Ladybug Crafts Ink: Flowers and Embossing (flowers on my patterned paper, and all the stamping is heat embossed in clear)
• Stampin' for the Weekend 18: Feeling Floral (flowers on patterned paper)
• Joanna Sheen: Down in the Garden (more like down in the pear orchard, yeah? But that's a kind of garden.)
• Crafty Bloggers Network #4: Anything Goes

I'm also linking it up to DL.ART's October Linky Party.

Supplies: (washi tape is "printed paper tape" from Up & Up / Target)