Challenge 17 : Open House

Hello all - I’ve been ‘holidaying’ this past week with my sister - looks like perhaps a good many of you have as well. Congrats Kim! You win again - lol. Good thing for you I’ve been in the city this week - so an extra sweet goodie bag for you when I get back.

I’m back on the two week schedule. Not sure how much longer I will keep this up. It takes a little work and dedication and I’m afraid that I fell down on the job a couple weeks back and perhaps may have lost some of the faithful few.

We will have a last ‘kick at the cat’ so to speak and see how it goes.  So for the Challenge #17 - anything goes - post your favorite work between now and August 22nd.

Off to see the sights again - going home Tuesday so must cram in as much as I can. Will post Mr. Linky later today!

I’m late! I’m late! This should have been posted last night but DH has had an affair with a kidney stone the past few days and I’ve been back and forth to the hospital and what not. He’s home again now and things are back to normal. Or as normal as it gets around here. Still not quite ready for that wedding. SIL called last night and I missed a few names on the list in preparing the wedding favors, etc. so I’m still not finished! I think I might be color blind. My niece had it all laid out wonderfully in a spread sheet, color coded and everything . Amongst those I missed were my brother and his wife - parents of the bride. haha  Fortunately it’s raining here today and coolish so I’ll head on up to the loft and get things done. The past couple days we’ve had fabulous weather - in the low 30s - amazing! Here in Newfoundland, that is uncommon, believe me. I hope it lasts - the wedding is on Saturday and is to take place outside in the garden! Max is ‘walking  in the wedding’ he tells me and Grammy can’t wait to see her two boys dressed up wedding fashion!

Sooooooo, in keeping with all the activities around here this week, the challenge at Just Scraps is to create a wedding card! I have to get a special one done for Sarah Jane myself but I’ve been fooling around with the stamp set Artistic Impressions from Stampin’Up. I’ve seen a number of beautiful cards using this set and have cased several.

I have a stack of tiny cards on hand that I use for leaving DH notes as necessary. They are super easy to make and he actually notices them. This is a new version - a little fancier - using the same stamp set. He’ll know he’s my king - haha - tongue’s in the cheek on that one ladies!

The hardware on the last one is actually silver but it photographed as gold.

That’s it for today.

And Congrats to Mary Demmons who won this week’s little bit of blog candy. Contact me at justscraps.ca@gmail.com Mary with your snail mail address and I’ll get a little package in the mail to you this week.  Too funny! I’ve been cutting out numbers and stirring them up in my butter tub for DH to draw from. Just discovered random.org and it took me only seconds to generate #17. Needless to say, the butter tub has just been retired!

Be sure to sign on with Mr. Linky below. Mr. Linky closes next Sunday, July 18th at which time I’ll use random .org - no butter tub - and get a little blog candy in the mail.

Have a great week !

I’ve had this Stampin’ Up set, Loads of Love, for ages but believe this is the first time I used it and I am so so pleased with the result. I will admit that the layout and color combo I saw elsewhere and copied into my notebook of “things I really like and might do some day”. I needed a card for a male friend who is recuperating from recent surgery and this one certainly fits the bill. Used my Stampin’ Up piercing tool and mat to add a little detail. I know the chrome on the tire IS the tire - no rubbah here - and is perhaps a little too much but I so love this touch. Super cool! “Grammy, that’s a cool truck,” Max would say. I asked him one day what made a car ‘cool’. Lots of stickers, a spoiler and hubcaps, I was told. With hubcaps this big, this truck has GOT to be cool! Inside I used the stamp set Lovely as a Tree and the sentiment Get Well Wishes from Teeny Tiny Wishes. The cardstock is Kraft, Night of Navy and Old Olive. The ribbon is also Old Olive. I colored the truck with my Copics: B91 Pale Grayish Blue and B95 Light Grayish Cobalt. It doesn’t fit into my Double Double challenge, I’m afraid. While I have used two hubcaps, nothing I used was laying about or unfinished. Still, I do so like the card. It’s a manly man’s card. lol  I hope it brings a smile.

And inside . . .

Hope you’re feeling better and back in the driver’s seat in no time!