Flip Flops

I know! How in the world can I be talking about flip flops when it is eleventy-billion-degrees below zero in half of the country?! Winter Storm Olaf. Let It Go. FROZEN. Have you not been outside? Have you not been to the movies?! Hahahaha. I know, right?  (by the way, Frozen totally had me in tears five minutes into the movie) ANYWAY.

You know the PTI 7th Anniversary gig is going on right now. The challenge today was "Building Blocks". Roll a die nine times. Each roll, visit a design team member's blog and get your "block" for building your card.

So, apparently 1 is my "lucky number" - I rolled it four times!  Nichole stated that if you didn't have a particular supply, you could roll again.  Well, that last 6 required seam binding. I have none. So, I rolled again and got a 3. 3=embroidery floss. Dude, I have floss out the wazoo!! But my color combination sent me over. the. edge. Hawaiian Shores. Raspberry Fizz. Melon Berry. With Vintage Cream as my neutral.  Make a friendship card using generational stamping, brads and embroidery floss.

Hawaiian Shores & Raspberry Fizz - okay. Bright. But fun. Okay. Then, MELON BERRY?!  Melon Berry?! With Raspberry Fizz?! Are you kidding me?! I thought about rerolling. But the fun is trying to have a Tim Gunn Moment and "Make it work!"  So then I thought, "Oh, I can use generational stamping to make the blue and pink softer to work a little better with the Melon Berry."  I decided I could use Flippin' Out - two pairs of flip flops, one each in the bright colors with Melon Berry straps. That would work - and be cute. But how am I going to work in brads and floss? The more I stared at my "rolled" sketch, the more I kept thinking about Nichole Heady's adorable card introducing the set Flippin' Out set (see it here). She had that little strip of cardstock with the floss fringe. Bazinga!!  Still had no idea what in the world I was going to do with brads - other than be married to one (with an uppercase B). OR how I was going to use generational stamping. Then I realized what I could do -- little flowers scattered around my flip flops were stamped using the generational stamping. And, tada, brads make perfect little flower centers.  Personally, I think life is better in cowgirl boots - but flip flops run a close second!

Supplies (are Papertrey Ink unless otherwise specified):
     Stamps:  Flippin' Out
     Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Hawaiian Shores, Melon Berry
     Cardstock: Melon Berry, Vintage Cream, Hawaiian Shores
     Other:  Stamps of Life (I think they're Chocolate...but I won them in a goodie box so I'm not sure and they aren't labeled -- they look more brown than black); DMC floss 958 and 3778