Sites of the week

Well, yesterday’s card was a little wild and I just kept going with that theme for today’s TCP Tuesday card. Ever since Leigh did THIS CARD, there has been a little joke going around about making Ronnie a little more colorful than Alma probably originally intended.

Susan is the Hipster Hostess with the Mostess for this week’s challenge. The challenge?…use any stamps from the set Havin’ A Pow Wow. Here’s my “colorful” card…

Detail shot {that’s right…no shirt! LOL!}…

So, wanna play along with the TCP Tuesday challenge?…EVERYONE can! Here’s what you are gonna want to know…
1. Each a week one of the The Cat’s Pajamas DT Members will host a challenge.
2. The challenges will vary {stamp, color, theme/inspiration, sketch, etc.}
3. You will have until {this} Saturday night to complete the challenge.
4. Link your project on this week’s hostess’ challenge announcement. This week you will link your project on THIS post on Susan’s blog.
5. TCP stamps are not required, but of course, highly encouraged. {Unless it is a challenge calling for a specific stamp}
6. There will be one winner each month. They will be deemed that month’s Swankiest Stamper and get $25 in Cat’s Cash {money to spend on the TCP site!}.
7. When uploading to SCS, please use the keyword TCPTUES54 for this challenge.
8. Alma will post the entries from the week the following Monday on her blog.
9. The newly crowned Swanky Stamper will be announced on the first of the month and have his/her winning entry posted on The Cat’s Pajamas website where he/she will reign for the entire month.
10. Oh yea…HAVE FUN!

In addition to the colorful cowboys, I also have a full of color turtle to show you. A few years ago, I picked up this ceramic black turtle to put in our garden. Well, the weather has not been kind to it and I decided it would be fun to give it to Ellie to paint. Yesterday after dinner, we put on some paintin’ clothes and went outside with a few BRIGHT colors of paint and gave the turtle a makeover. I’m even going to let her add some more tonight with a few other colors, then I will seal it and put it right back in our garden as a priceless piece of art!

Cheeeeeeeeeeeese!…

Picasso has nothin’ on us!…

The masterpiece as of now…

Meet Missmatch Ketto. She’s fun. She’s eclectic. She’s a free spirit. She reminds me of Tony’s cousin, Stephanie. {waving hello}. There was a point in my life that I wish I could have been a little bit more granola, a little bit more into indy-rock, a little more tree-hugging. Truth of the matter is that I have always been a Tim McGraw loving, mini-van driving, soccer mom in the making…a cool one, tho!

Well, just like all the other Bella lines, I have taking a liking to the Kettos {no surprise there!}. This lil’ Missmatch Ketto makes me giggle as I think of the those free spirits. With a name like Missmatch, I felt that I had a little creative freedom with colors, cuts and styles to use on this card…hence the combo of polkas and plaid and tilted panels. What do you think?…

For my finishing touches, I used a few Swarovski crystals to bling up the edge of the scallop edge rectangle that partially mats the main image. I also used SU!s heart punch and some black and white polka dot ribbon I picked up at Michael’s ages ago. The sentiment is also from Stamping Bella and I think that it sarcastically goes along with this fun image.

Well, it’s the start of a busy week here, as I am sure as it is for you, too. See ya soon!

Happy Saturday! Tony had yesterday off of work and we ran some errands and planted some flowers in the front yard. I still have a bunch more to plant, but it’s starting to look good. I love having lots of color in our planters and I really want to win “Yard of the Month.” Silly, I know, but I just want to win it once and I think that once all these flowers grow in that maybe…just, maybe I could get it! Once I get all done, I will be sure to post some pics.

Alright, down to BIZNESS! Here’s the sketch for this week…

Fun and funky, right? I had A LOT of fun with this one and I really hope that you will give it a shot! Here’s my sample…

I have to admit that it takes A LOT for me to pick up a stamp at a major retail chain. Maybe I sound like a bit of a stamp snob, and I probably am, but I already have so many stamps and I really like supporting smaller companies. However, when I saw this stamp at Hobby Lobby from Stampabilities I fell in love! He’s just so darn cute! I didn’t have any yellow flock, but I colored his tummy a darker yellow and then flocked over it in white. The flowers are cut from my Slice machine…sorry if I over doing it with these Slice flowers, but I LOVE ‘em!!

Here’s is this month’s Designer of the Month, Kimberly Crawford’s, clever sample. I love how she embossed the clear panels!

Want more samples? Check out the SFYTT Sisters…
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Susan Liles
Carole Burrage
Kelly isn’t playing along with the sketch today, but be sure to check out her Papertrey creation! A HUGE Congrats to Kelly for being their Guest Designer!!
Kelly Lunceford