A thank you card for beautiful paper

My friend, Maria, got me a surprise gift of a beautiful piece of paper from Papyrus. The texture/stitching is absolutely fabulous and I am planning to use it for the cover of a journal. (I've been making books off and on, certainly this stunning paper is perfect for a book!)

Here's a simple thank you for my friend using Club Scrap paper and felt for Sizzix die cuts. I wanted to mimic the beautiful colors and patterns of the gift paper -- this is the closest I can get because the paper is so wonderful that it can't be copied!! I used Stickles on the flowers & leaves, the "thanks" uses Heidi Swapp rub-ons (so nice -- they don't stick to the wrong places).

Maria does a terrific job with needlepoint but I can't convince her to scrapbook yet. She has two new babies (puppies) and I'm trying to demonstrate that they are perfect subjects to scrapbook! (Of course, her poor cat is getting neglected during puppy potty training -- we still love you, BoBo.)

This is about all I've done this weekend as we are still working in the attic on the radiant barrier. We discovered some leaks in the upstairs A/C unit so spent a good bit of time with mastic (sticky, gooey, yucky, messy, smelly stuff!) patching holes and leaks. It took me 10 minutes just to wash my hands!

After all this work, I've banned the cats from the magic water fountain (aka the bathtub faucet LOL!) so that I can have a bubble bath tonight (bubbles only, no fur, please)! I am ready to try spelunking after squirming around in the attic all weekend! But I have to brag that my wonderful husband, Andy, has done a superb job on the floor in the attic and putting up the radiant barrier. Goodbye to $600 electric bills in the summer!!!! (I hope...)

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