Friday, June 11, 2010

have an adventure

Happy Thursday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. Well summer vacation is just about here for my grandsons.

Today they had school for just a half day so I went over to meet their bus and spend the afternoon.
We went to the mall (their idea) and had lunch. It was fun.

Both Aidin and Ethan had baseball games tonight so I didn't get back home until 10:00. Aidin won and Ethan's team was in the lead when I left at 9:15.

I started a card this morning before I left but didn't get it finished.

So when I returned my mission was to finish the card for the challenges I wanted to enter:

I noticed on Julia Aston's blog, my paper doll friend, that Waltzingmouse Stamps started a new challenge. It is a sketch challenge and this inaugural one was so easy to work with.
This was last Saturday but I didn't get a chance to make a card for the challenge until today. I hope I can get this posted before the link closes. 
So thank you Julia for giving me the heads up on the challenge.

The stampin sisters in christ challenge this week was to add an animal on your card. If you have a chance drop over to their blog. The link is above. Kathy Winter is the hostess and she really has some good insights on the scripture from Genesis 1:26. It deals with us having dominion over the animals.
I really liked her thoughts.

The crazy for challenges blog this week wanted us to use pleats on our cards.  I decided to pleat my ribbon on this card. This is such a hot trend right now and I love all the different looks I am seeing on blogs.

The creative belli blog challenge is to use rub-ons. I had these stampin-up rub-ons from the "so cool" collection. They pair up with the tall tales designer paper. I bought both a while ago and thought this would be a good opportunity to use them.

My rub-on is the alligator and the other two animals are images I cut from the designer paper. This card reminded me of a safari so I used a sentiment that reflected an adventure.

The last challenge is speedy the cat's friends challenge. Cathleen Torina was our hostess and she wanted us to use buttons and bows.
I added an old olive button to my ribbon and that completed my card.

Well it's time to turn out the lights in charmed life land for another day. God Bless!!


23 comments:

  1. Such a fun card Mary!! super funky i'll bet your wee grandfolk will love it! Thank you for playing along with us at WMS!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Mary - how cute is this! I adore that bg paper - too cute! Thanks for playing with Speedy's Friends!

    ReplyDelete
  3. SUPER CUT! Thanks for becoming one of Speedy's Friends!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Mary, this card is just the cutest! I love all the animals....esp the dp!! WOW!

    ReplyDelete
  5. oh what a fabulous card Mary!!! Love the fun image and design, great job using your rub ons!!!
    Blessings,
    Maria

    ReplyDelete
  6. What an adorable card, Mary, and just look at all the challenges...WOW!! I just love the fun colors and papers you used and what a great ribbon treatment!!! I'm really glad you came to play in the Belli challenge...your rub-ons look awesome!!!

    ReplyDelete
  7. What a fun animial card Mary! look at all the challenges you hit with this great little card!! What great bright colors! thanks so much for playing with the WMS sketch this week!!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Gosh, Mary, I love all the bright colors and those adorable animals! You rocked the sketch challenge!

    Thanks for playing with us in the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge!

    ReplyDelete
  9. Bright and cheerful child's card. Nice ribbon presentation. Thanks for joining us at Speedy's Friends again.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Love what you did with this set and paper, Mary. Very bright, cheery and colorful. Love it!!
    Thanks for playing in Speedy's Friends challenge!

    ReplyDelete
  11. you completed your "mission" with great pizzaz! This is just great!

    ReplyDelete
  12. Very cute! What a wonderful day to spend your day too! Thanks for using rub-ons and joining us at the Creative Belli Challenge.

    ReplyDelete
  13. That is such a fun card. I need to make it a point to check the Waltzingmouse sketch challenge, sketches always help my mojo. Cute paper! Thanks for participating in this week's Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Absolutely adorable! I will have to add the WM challenges to my ever growing list of weekly challenges!

    ReplyDelete
  15. Beautiful card Mary. I love the animals=) Thanks for sharing with us at Stampin Sisters in Christ.

    ~Kathy

    ReplyDelete
  16. Mary, You are really rockin' the multiple challenges! So cute and fun and I'll bet your grandsons love this card!

    ReplyDelete
  17. I love it Mary,so lively and bright! Thank you for sharing with us at Stampin' Sisters in Christ!

    ReplyDelete
  18. Wow Mary... talk about putting everything onto one card and still making it GREAT!!!! You certainly are a master at that... Love it... Great background paper and love the ribbon action at the bottom... GREAT CARD

    ReplyDelete
  19. Mary, this is one wild and crazy card! LOVE it! Super cute and fabulous!

    ReplyDelete
  20. Great job with the sketch, I love the bright fun nature of this and the ribbon treatment is FABBO!

    ReplyDelete
  21. Really, really cute card! Thanks for playing along with us on the Belli Challenge!

    ReplyDelete

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails