A DOUBLE Woo Hoo!!

Well.........yesterday my hubby brings the mail and as I look through it, WOW.....I have a complimentary copy of Stamper's Sampler Catch Up Issue!!  THAT means that I was Published!  Isn't that cool??!!!   So.......I quickly scanned through the copy to find my card (since I have NO idea which one it might be).  Hmmmm.....I can't find it.  I scan through slower......still didn't see it.  So I went page by page and read the names of the submitting artists.  Finally......on page 110.....there it was.......a card that I sent in over 2 years ago.  Wish I could do that card over again because I could do it much better now!!  It was done before I even had my Nesties.  So......let that be a good lesson to you.......never give up.....they may finally pick your card!!

THEN..........Since I am a guest designer for Hambo Hoedown today I thought I'd show you my card.  You should pop on over to Hambo to look at their other designer's cards as well......so cute!  The challenge was to use lots of lace and flowers.....so I did!  ;-)  I hope you enjoy it!

Tooting my Horn!

Sometimes you have to toot your own horn, right?  Well.......here are two different toots for ya!   The first toot is that tomorrow on the Hambo Hoedown, I'll be the Guest Designer.  How fun is that!!  You can visit the Hambo Hoedown by clicking on the badge on my right sidebar.  Tomorrow challenge is real frilly!

Now......as for the other tooting.......it is a stretch but this week's Hoedown challenge was to use the King image below announcing something.  Well, sometimes you just have to announce that you are thankful for something. So, I made the king's banner say "Thank You!"    I used the "out of the box" technique with Nesties.  The fabric of the banner is cut out and mounted up a layer.    I happened to have some crown brads that I got at one of the Hot off the Press warehouse sales.  I thought it fit perfectly.  His hair HAD to have a little grey in it!  ;-)  Hope you enjoy him! 

YES.....I am distressed!!

This week on the Hambo Hoedown challenge we were to distress this darling Orge with distress ink or distressing of some kind.  Funny that this week I am certainly distressed with WAY too much to do.  My DVD project for the rhodie society convention for the bus tours is going mega slow.  I've got 7 other cards due for design team work and some stuff for my 40th reunion as well.  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!   I wish this little orge would carry me away!  The background came out really cool and the camera almost caught the cool gold spots I gave it.

Hambo Hoedown penguin the right way

I made one card with this darling Hambo Penguin Bunny but this time it uses the correct challenge technique called an easel card.  Really easy to do..  The instructions are listed on the Hambo site.  You can see the challenge by clicking on the Hambo Hoedown badge on my sidebar!  I added a little sparkle to jazz it up too.

He's Dreaming.....

We had a darling caterpillar this week for the Hoedown challenge (see sidebar link).  In addition to using the image we were to use lots of pink and green....both bright.  So I took the little shoes off the bug and made them into some patterned paper.  Then I thought he should be dreaming of becoming a butterfly!  All colored (except BG paper) with copics.  The DREAMER stamp is from StampAttack in the UK!

Making do........a Story of Circles

This is a story...........a story of Ann.......who loved the new Hambo image so much that she ran down to the Stamp Hole the minute she got it and worked diligently coloring the image she loved.  THEN......OH MY!!  She remembered that each week had a theme and she had forgotten to check.  Quickly she ran upstairs to the computer and pulled up the Hoedown blog.  ALAS!  The sketch design wanted a circle and she had cut a different shape.  Horror of horrors.  What to do, what to do.  She looked at the image she had colored and thought that it would be a shame to let this image go to waste.  So she put on her thinking cap...........ADAPT!  She would MAKE the image into a circle even though it wasn't.  Swiftly she grabbed her circle nestibilities and stared at them.  Surely they would speak to her and give her the answer she needed.  THEN, it came to her.......make a circle FRAME!  Saving the image already colored and STILL using the Hambo Hoedown sketch!  Success was hers!

Hee Hee.....I hope you enjoyed my little story and like the result I got!   This Hambo sketch and image are from the Hoedown challenge that YOU can participate in as well!  Click on the badge on my sidebar.  She is colored with copics and it has three layers.....which naturally don't show on the picture.  I colored the cup band so that it looked corrugated even though the original image shows it smooth.

Do you do this?

I don't know why but I do this ALL the time, do you?  I wait until the last minute to get something done.  I know that if I had done it earlier I would be so much happier.  BUT I wait and let that devil "Procrastination" get the best of me.  You don't do that do you?  ;-)

This is the weekly card for the Hambo Hoedown.  It really is a fun challenge because everyone is a winner!  You all win a free digi!  Click on the badge to the right to find out more.

The elephant was duplicated, flipped (for one) and resized to create a trio of ellies.  I didn't have much time to really color nicely as I was trying to get done before my grandson woke from his nap!  The background piece is from my stash of TJ techniques.  This one is called Simple Sumi!  We were to use sparkle and I really wish that cameras and scanners had a sparkle button.  This is much more sparkly in person!  The elephants even have a sparkle ground.