The street where I spent most of my high school years was a very mid-western, middle-class neighborhood; with white clapboard houses that while they didn’t have the picket fences, they did have striped awnings on most of the windows facing the street. It was to protect the new wall-to-wall carpet from direct sunlight and thus causing fading. Isn’t it funny that now, so many years later, many of the occupants of those little homes are ripping out the carpet and restoring the simple oak hardwood floors to a beautiful lustre!
Those awning lined streets were brought to mind when I saw the softly colored strip pattern in the Sale-A-Bration special edition Designer Series Paper Delicate Dots:
I had some time to play around this morning and put together this note card set to mimic those awnings from days gone by. I have a friend who I re-connected with yesterday after many years and I think I will slip it in the post to her. I think she would enjoy it as much as I’ve enjoyed making it.
I found a pattern over on Splitcoast that I followed using one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 card stock for the folder with just a couple of simple score lines and I really like how these look.
It’s just perfect for four cards and envelopes. For the cover embellishment I used the ‘Fabulous Friend’ stamp from the Oval All So Shelli Signature Collection in the Occasions Mini Catalog and for the cards I used the popular birdie and flower from the Cheep Talk Stamp Set in the 2009 Spring-Summer Idea Book & Catalog.
For the cards I teamed Certainly Celery and So Saffron for the double scallop on the stripe card and chose the 1 3/4″ circle for the Birdie card.
I hope you have a fantastic weekend and take time now and then for a stroll down memory lane, you’ll be glad you did!
Happy Stamping
Katherine
What do boys, a.k.a. young men, do with themselves on a brief break between university studies and working for the summer? Why, create things that they can shoot or blow up of course! If you’ve ever been around a Boy Scout Troop for very long, you will no doubt have become acquainted with those boys who have a leaning for all things pyro. It’s just something that SOME children come into this world with. It’s not that they’ve been exposed to it and have been affected by that exposure. It goes beyond that. I have to admit that all four of our boys have a propensity to this, and I guess when I think about it, I’d have to admit that their father has shown evidence of these same tendencies. Go figure! 
