Feel Better Quinn

Happy Thursday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. Well we had the sun that was called for today. You might wonder why I am making a big deal out of sun. Here in Pittsburgh we don't get much sun in the winter months. So to have the sun shining 3 days in a row is glorious.

It put me in the mood for crafting. Well the snow, rain and sleet put me in the mood for crafting as well (lol)!!! I wanted to make a card for 6 year old Quinn. He is the nephew of my daughter-in-law. He was just diagnosed with diabetes. He was released from the hospital yesterday after a 5 day stay.

I had this sweet turtle image (Inky Antics) and he has never seen ink. I have been coloring images today. Practicing with my prismacolor pencils and gamsol (odorless mineral spirits). I am thinking about taking a class at the end of the month. I want to get better using this medium to color. So practice is what it takes.

I checked out the Wednesday & Thursday challenges on splitcoaststampers and from there had my layout and the theme of my card.



Kim Hughes, the Thursday hostess, wanted us to use polka dots on our card. I have lots of paper with polka dots so I just needed to select some.

My background paper is from Bo Bunny the Sophia dots collection. The blue dotted paper is from Stampin-Up's "marina mist collection".

I stamped clouds (amuse stamps) and grass(amuse stamps) along with the turtle. I personalized the card by stamping a "Q" on the balloon for Quinn.

Added some balloon buttons and that completed my card.  The 3 buttons on my card also let me enter this in the Stampin Sisters for Christ challenge. They have a great reflection on Psalm 9 on their blog this week. Check it out.

card recipe: Stamps: inky antics, amuse
paper: su marina, gina k white, bo bunny dsp, su dsp
ink: marina mist
accessories: balloon buttons, prismas & gamsol