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Polka Dot Challenge & A New Neighbor

I know, I know I'm late posting these babies.  Sorry guys.  I don't know if I've ever mentioned this or not, but I've sort of 'adopted' my next door neighbors dog - going on 2 years ago now.    Well not literally.  When I found out my neighbor had a dog and he spent ALL day outside with no one to play with or even walk him I just about died. Gals meet Frijolito (as in little bean).....

Well last Friday Frijolito fractured his toenail, which can be serious if left untreated.  This was all new to me since I've never had a dog.  I took him to the ER - big mistake... $$$ and they only wrapped it.  By yesterday he was still not using his foot, so I took him to my regular vet and they said the nail had to be removed.  So I took him in for a little surgery.  I was busy last night making sure he was happy & comfortable.  I just *LOVE* this little guy and my DD is crazy about him too.  My DH thinks I'm a complete nut job for commandeering someone else's dog.  I'm not sorry I did.  I mean, would you like to live outside ALL the time with no one to pay attention to you?  Heck no!  My neighbor doesn't seem to mind.  We joke that we have joint-custody!

Now on to my cards for Michelle's cooler than cool Polka Dot Challenge....

These were fast and simple to do.  Hopefully I'll get a chance to play some more with the holiday tomorrow.  Enjoy!

 

Deets for 'Thanks' Card:  Images, notecard & ribbon by A Muse, pearlscent ink in chocolate, oval punch & dimensionals.

Deets for 'Thank you' Card:  Images, notecard, Pretty Little Papers, Twinkle Stickers & ribbon by A Muse, classic oval & scallop punch by Marvy, Copic & Spica markers & dimensionals.

Have a fabulous day everyone!!!!       

 

TCP Tuesday!!!

I was so excited to see that Katie was this week's hostess with the mostess for TCP Tuesday.  This week's challenge was to use Sprinkle Relaxing. I was like, YAH!  I have this stamp!  In case you didn't have the deets on  how to get in on this fun, here's all you have to do to play:  (Lifted from Katie's blog)

1. Each a week one of the The Cat’s Pajamas DT members will host a challenge.
2. The challenges will vary {stamp, color, theme, sketch, etc.}
3. You will have until {this} Saturday night to complete the challenge.
4. Link your project on this post in the comments section.
5. Yes, you must use this specific stamp to be in the running for the Swanky Stamper award.
6. There will be one winner each month. They will be deemed that month’s Swankiest Stamper and get $25 in Cat’s Cash {money to spend on the TCP site!}.
7. When uploading to SCS, please use the keyword TCPTUES14 for this challenge.
8. Alma will post the entries from the week the following Monday on her blog.
9. The newly crowned Swanky Stamper will be announced on the First of the Month and have his/her winning entry posted on The Cat’s Pajamas website where he/she will reign for the entire month.

There is A LOT of sparkle on this baby that is difficult to see in the picture.  I outlined the flower with black spica pen.  The glitter flakes look incredible IRL.

Deets:  Images by TCP, Cardstock by SU!, PP by DCWV, ribbon by A Muse, Brads by Doodlebug, Copic markers, Spica pens, circle punch by SU!, flower punch by Marvy, and decorative scissors.

Be sure to stop by later.  I will have more cards to post for AMAP weekly challenge.

Red, White & Blue Sparks

Good evening!!  I can't believe it's already Sunday evening.  I haven't even started dinner yet, but I had time to make a this quick card.   For this week's Share your Spark, Heather challenged us to do something using red, white & blue!!  Naturally I thought of the 4th of July     which is coming up this week.  Fireworks weren't illegal when I was growing up.  Yah, I'm OLD!   I could remember buying them as young as 11 years old!  I wasn't in to anything to big or loud.    I could sit happily with a box of sparklers all night.  So this card is inspired by that happy memory.

Deets:  Images, Notecard, ribbon & Twinkle stickers by A Muse, ink by Verafine & ColorBox, Prisma Markers & Spica pens.

Enjoy the rest of your evening!!  A Muse A Palooza will be here in 8 more days!!!!

Mystery Hostess Challenge

Happy Friday gals!!  Have you been over to the AP Blog lately?  This weeks Mystery Hostess is none other than our *musically challenged rockstar* GEETA!!

And the crafty diva has 2 awesome challenges up her sleeve.  Pocket cards!  Can you believe I've never done one up until now?!?  Geeta challenged us to a square pocket card and a 4-bar one.  Here are my submissions.

And a close up of the sparkly 'bomb'

Deets:  Images, Notecard & ribbon by A Muse; ink by Versafine & ColorBox, circle punch, spica glitter pens in black & yellow, stickles.

These were both A LOT of fun to make.

Deets:  Images, Notecard, paper & ribbon by A Muse, Ink by Versafine, brads by Queen & Co., rectangles by Nestabilities, Copic & spica pens.

I hope you enjoy these as much as I had making them.  I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Tisha's Sketch Challenge #2

Goooooooooood Morning!!!!  Hope everyone is doing great today.

It's really crazy here in Northern California right now with all of the wild fires.  Last I heard on the news there were over 800!  Isn't that insane?  The air quality is terrible pretty much anywhere you go.  We could even smell the smoke in our office at work!  It's gross.  I've had this nagging headache for the past couple of days and a sore throat.  Supposedly it's related to the poor air quality.  A HUGE Thank You for all of those firefighters that are out there trying to battle these horrible fires.   This is for you!

Now on to today's post.  I had some time to play with Tisha's 2nd sketch challenge.  And yes I did make DH dinner last night!    Here is the original sketch...

Deets:  Images, notecard & ribbon by A Muse, ink by Versafine, scallop oval punch, Copic & Spica markers, oval punch by SU! & dimensionals.

Deets:  Images & notecard by A Muse, ink by Versafine, classic & scallop oval punch, Copic & Spica markers, stickles; bling by Heidi Swapp; paper frills by Doodlebug & dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by ladies!  My signature seems to be on the blink, so I will leave you with this...

Tisha's Sketch Challenge #1

Happy Hump Day!!!    Have you guys checked out this week's challenge over on the A Muse A Palooza blog?  Tisha has not only 1 but 2 rockin' sketch challenges!!   I made a mad dash to my stampin' area last night as soon as I got home from work.  I told the hubby - "NO DINNER TONIGHT!  I've got some work to do for A Muse A Palooza!" 

The first sketch is for a square card....

Here's are my entries:

Deets:  Images by A Muse, notecard in Plum; Pretty Little Papers - international polka dot, cardstock & circle punches by SU!, spica markers & swarvoski crystal.

Deets for card #2:

Images, notecard, paper & twinkle stickers by A Muse, ink by Versafine & Memento, window punch by SU!, Copic markers & baby blue stickles.

I hope to get to sketch number 2 tonight!  With any luck I will and hubby will have to fend for himself again for dinner!  LOL!

Have a GREAT day!!

Woo-hoo!!! Spark time!

Hi there!!!

I don't know about you but I sure missed Heather while she was away.  I've become addicted to her weekly Share your Spark challenges that she posts on Fridays.   I guess I can forgive her, after all she was in Europe.  Can't top that!  Well maybe stamping in Europe!  LOL!! 

Welcome home Heather!!! 

I thought I was going to die with this week's challenge.  No images!!!

Yikes!!    But I turned to my trusty Birthday Builder set and viola!  This is for one of my daughter's friends that will be turning 6!

Card deets:  Images, notecard, Pretty Little Papers & ribbon by A Muse; black cardstock by SU! inks by ColorBox & Versafine;  circle punches by SU!; spica glitter pens; dimensionals.

***It's been awefully quite on my blog lately.  Are you guys still with me?

Or have I scared you away???  I hope not.  Don't be shy.  Let me know you're still stopping by.**

Is it Monday? Again?!?

Darn it if weekends don't just fly by!  Sooo not fair.  Hopefully this week will be calm in comparison to the last couple.  Today's card is inspired by one of my *favorite* stampers --- Katie Stilwater. I'm sure most of know Katie from her blog... Listen to this.  Katie is also on The Cat's Pajama's design team as well as C.C. Designs.  Katie is just an AMAZING stamper.  I find a lot of inspiration from Katie's work.  I am drawn to her designs over & over again.  What can I say - her stuff ROCKS!!

There are so many talented stampers that I find inspiration from - just look at my blog roll!   Sadly there are some that are not there like TINLA!!  {Hi Tinla! }  You all remember Tinla, right?!  Yah, we're still working on getting her to start one.

This card took me just a few minutes to put together.  I needed something simple & cute for my daughter's summer camp teacher's birthday today.  I remember THIS card that Katie did last year. 

Card deets:  Images (polka dot present is retired), notecard, & ribbon by A Muse, inks by Memento & Versafine;  circle punches by SU!;Copic markers; spica glitter pens.

If you haven't been to Katie's blog - what are you waiting for?  Get over there NOW!  The woman is a genius!   Give her some blog love too. 

Toodles!!

Twinkle Time with Taylor

Happy Sunday!!  Things haven't settled down much since my last post.  But all is well.  I could use some serious Z's, but other than that life is good.  Smokey seems to be plugging along. He's always been a bit of a spit fire - that's probably why he's 16! 

Since I'm an early bird, as soon as my cup o' joe was ready this morning, I began stampin'.

This week's A*Muse*A*Palooza mystery hostess challenge was with the *AMAZING* Taylor!  Taylor has come up with one of my favorite challenges --- all things bling!!  For some reason the octopus image immediately came to my mind, so I went with it. 

There's a lot of detail on this baby.  Almost every aspect is sparkling!  I used my new Koh-I-Noor pencils that I recently got from A Muse on the octopus.  I used waterfall Stickles on his legs.  The heart is actually the top of the heart topiary stamp.  I used Colorbox Scarlet on it, cut it out and used red Stickles on it.  I stamped the seaweed with SU! certainly celery then went over it with a clear spica pen.  Then stamped the fish on an orange A Muse notecard and colored it in with more spica pens.  On the sentiment I used the heart trio to *dot* my i.  I'm so cleaver!  ROFLOL!!! 

Hope you all have a fantabulous Sunday!!   

   

Outside the box Challenge

Good evening gals!  Sorry I've been away the last couple of days.  Work has been crazy again and the home stuff.. well that's always crazy.   I had 'one of those day's at the office, so I was *really* looking forward to stamping something tonight.

I used Novell's design here as my inspiration for this weeks A Muse A Palooza challenge.  Elena is this week's designer hostess.  I was SOO lucky to *meet* Elena (virtually at least) during last year's A Muse A Palooza.  I really love her style.  Simple, clean and VERY fun.  Just check out her card!  I *love* it.  I actually remember having a "policeman" at my bachelorette party.  He didn't pop out of a cake, but he was pretty beefy!  ROLOL!  Get it beef-cake?!  Sorry.  It's been a LONG week and I'm feeling the sillies again.

So on to the card..... I was stressin' about the challenge and then it just hit me on the drive home tonight... pulling a rabbit out of a hat!

Card deets:  Images, notecard and ribbon by A Muse; cardstock by SU! & Papertrey Ink; inks by Versafine & ColorBox;  decorative scissors, scallop rectangle punch, stickles & dimensionals.

Update on my baby Smokey.....First thank you to everyone for their kind comments and well wishes for him.  I knew he had lost a lot of weight but when he weighed in at 7.9lbs. I just about fainted.    The vet ran some blood work and and did a physical exam.  His heart, kidney's, and liver were all in great shape.  His white cell count was up which indicates a possible infection.  The vet believes he may have irritable bowel syndrome.  For the next couple of weeks we're going to try a prescription diet to see if his weight improves.  If it doesn't they'll need to take some x-rays.  So were not out of the woods yet.  So keep him in your prayers.  I will post updates as things progress.

Till next time....