Stoned cowboy!

Well.........he isn't actually stoned!  Hee hee!!  The technique I used on this card is called Polished Stone through the Window.  I really love the way this cowboy stamp comes out with this technique.  I also used torn frames around the sentiment.  That cowboy, by the way, is from www.Rubberstampave.com.    The owner, Kathy, has absolutely awesome cowboy stamps.  This cowboy has always been my favorite for this technique.

When you read this post, I'll be at the end of a week long stamping retreat at the beach!  I know I'll be in 7th heaven.  My hubby, however, probably isn't.  He wasn't too thrilled about me being gone a whole week.  I'm coming home soon honey!!

Mid-Week Class

It seems like forever since I made a post that wasn't connected with a challenge.  It was fun to just do what I wanted for a change.  This card uses a rubber stamp from RubberStampAve.  I think that it is sooooo classy.  Kathy (RubberStampAve owner) has a ton of wonderful images.  You can check them out HERE.  Tell Kathy you hear about her from my blog!

The image is colored with copic markers.  The background is a super fun technique called Bingo Blast.  It is a "blast" to do too........would be a wonderful technique to play with when you're mad about something!  LOL....      I added a little bit of satin ribbon left over from a special gift, some glitter on the rose to glitz it up, and some faux stitching to give it a little bit of umph.  I hope you enjoy it!

Now for a little Willie update (the dog).  Still no real diagnosis about the excessive water drinking.  He has been on antibotics for almost two weeks and I actually think he is drinking less.  One more test on his urine to see if it is concentrated or not.  I'm hoping that this is the end of the whole thing.........

Now for some fun news.  One of my best friend's daughter, Mandy, is pregnant.  On bedrest.  BUT they accidently found out what the baby's sex will be (they didn't want to know).  A different doctor was seeing them and didn't realize that they didn't want to know and spilled the beans.  I'm happy though.  I really don't care for buying yellow and green baby clothes.  I get to buy PINK!  She may be induced this week (3 weeks early) because of low fluid levels.  We'll see.  Sounds like baby is healthy and weighty enough to do it.  Now for them to get a name picked out. 

No new news on our own home front.

Artful Sentiments Copic Challenge #22

This week Kimm is featuring greens as her copic colors of choice. I thought about what image I would use. Frogs........well, I have a few but none of them really called to me this week. Leaves.......hmmmm.......I guess leaves could work but I would really want to add more colors in than just green. So I looked over the stamp shelves.....still no inspiration. Next I grabbed my unmounted notebook. I keep a printed version in a notebook for all my unmounted stamps. It is categorized into sections......nature, animals, words, people, etc. As I was going through the gladiola stamp from RubberStampAve caught my eye. I have always loved those green glads. So.......here is the card I made. I had some green striped paper in the decorated paper stack but it was a little too bright for the image. So, I took the colors of copic markers that I used in the image and made my own stripe paper. Thanks to Kimm for this idea....she used it several weeks ago for a card that she did. After everything was together, it looked a little bare. One of my friends in my submission group, Mari, is working on a card for a submission this month. It was a monochromatic card where she had put on a butterfly (she later took it off!). So, I thought.....hey!.......I should put a little butterfly on my glad! So here ya go! The little antennea on the butterfly were too little to cut and stay attached, so I used a little bit of dark wire instead. Hope you like it!

This has been a busy week for me. A couple of days watching Zander thrown into the mix as well. Most of my time was spent getting ready for the car rally we are having tomorrow. A rally is where you are given a set of vague instructions(like turn left at stop.....instead of the street name) and asked to follow them and fill in the answers to questions that are asked along the route. Our rally centers around the Oregon Trail. The pioneers ended their pilgrimage to the Northwest right where we will be starting our rally. The Oregon City Interpetive Center. There are three HUGE wagon type buildings there. Our rally has lots of references to the Oregon Trail. Each 'wagon' (car) loads up on supplies that are in small bags, they choose a child, and some furniture. Along the route, they can barter with the Indian (My Ray) for extra supplies, they will encounter a calamity with their furniture, and then there will be some sillyness with their child. The people with the most correct rally answers, the best poker hand, the closest mileage to actual, and the people with the most points from their supplies will all get prizes. It is a special way to have fun with you cars! We'll meet at a local pizza place to grade our rally pack and award prizes.