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dino-riffic birthday!

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Hello Hump Day!

The other day we went to a Dinosaur themed birthday party at a local park for one of our favorite little guys turning ONE! Can't believe how fast time flies! It seems like it was yesterday that we were visiting his family when he was born!

supplies: CS: kraft, orange (Bazzill), Chocolate Chip (SU!), light green, dark green (DeNami Design); cricut cartridge: Create a Critter (dinosaur & volcano cut at 3"); other: Chocolate chip ink (SU!), sentiment rub-ons (SU!), cloud die cuts (Taylored Expressions), dimensional adhesive

The birthday party was dinosuar themed and I wanted to make a matching card for the birthday boy. I really love the Create-A-Critter cartridge by Cricut! I can see why it's a favorite for a lot of people! So many fun images! The only bummer thing was that I didn't have a sentiment in my stash (rub-on or stamp) to match, so I had to just use what I had. Don't worry, I purchased some stamp sets this weekend to go with my Cricut cartridges so I can remedy that quickly! :) Yay for new goodies to play with!

Anyway, the party was at a local park in the Bay Area and I have never, in my 30-something years of living in the area, been there... Well, maybe I had when I was little, but I don't remember! *loL* The park is really cool - petting zoo, playground, steam train, carousel, etc. The kids had a great time feeding the animals - we're probably going to go back in a couple of weeks when school is back in session and the park will be less crowded. (We like to avoid crowds. *lol*)

Super proud of myself for creating another Cricut card! I'm really getting the hang of it! I'm really trying to explore my cartridge collection too. Now if someone would teach me how to use my Gypsy, that would be more AWESOME! *lol*

I'm entering my card for the following challenges:

Frosted Designs - Animals
Make It Monday #50- Anything Goes
Paper Playtime - Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesday - Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Non-Stamped Sentiment
wee memories #64 - Masculine Card

Thanks for visiting today, everyone! Have a great rest of the week!

DeNami, wee Memories, & STITCHING!

Hello again!

I have another DeNami card to share with you guys! This week, DeNami is sponsoring my pal Jenny's wee Memories challenge: STITCHING!

Ok, you all know that I CANNOT sew. I've whined about enough, I think. *lol* But did you know DeNami Design carries stitching stamps???

There are quite a few of them and I really had to stop myself from adding to my collection *cough* buying to many. :)

My card for the challenge features the Stitched Border stamp. Simple and understated, just how I like it! There are so many possibilities with this simple stamp, I can't wait to experiment!

I stamped the Surfboard Trio stamp on 3 different pieces of patterned paper and cut them out individually and placed them on top of my kraft "sand." I also inked the edges with some dark brown ink to give the sand  more definition. I then placed all of it against my sky card base, placed a couple of die cut clouds on top, and stamped Aloha in Versamark to look like sky writing.

My favorite most recent card! :)

Well, I'm off for the day - off to 2 parties: 1. Celebrating my BFF's son's 1st birthday (my godson!) and then celebrating a high school graduation! Whew! I'm already pooped just thinking about our long day!

Have a great one, everybody! :)

a quick challenge card!

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Hi again everyone!

I have to make this super quick - the kids are really fighting for my attention today and they're driving me nuts! *lol* I'm so tired - I spent most of last night catching up on TiVo. My hubby works nights and the only time I get the TV to myself is when he's at work and when the kids are ASLEEP!

Anyway, I managed to create one card last night for a couple of challenges that I've been itching to participate in!

I created this card for Jenny's fabulous Sky's the Limit Challenge #7! I've been in AWE with what she does with cloud stamps so I had to get my hands on one. I couldn't decide because there are so many out there, but I finally settled on a Hero Arts one - I LOVE it! I can't wait to play with it more!

I also used one of my favorite Cuppie stamps from Taylored Expressions - Cuppie Love Scenes and used some of the Valentine's KI kit. Yippee! The sentiment is from DeNami.

AND, my card is based off of TE's Sketch #114.

Super proud of myself for getting a couple challenges done with one card that's NOT a part of my normal DT work!

Hope you're having a wonderful Thursday! Pray for me that my kids BEHAVE! *lol*