TCP Tuesday # 8 -- Here's the Story of a Cat Named Sprinkle...

Welcome to another edition of TCP Tuesday, with me, your Hipster Hostess With the Mostess!  I bring to you the TCP Inspiration Challenge for this month, which is to create a card inspired by a television sitcom.  Can you guess which one I know every episode of by heart?
As I made this, I wondered to myself, "What did Carol Brady actually do?"  Yeah, I know there's that episode from the first season where she and Mike trade places for a day and he's exhausted after a few hours of walking in her shoes, but come on.  She had Alice to do all of the cooking and cleaning.  Man, what I wouldn't pay for an Alice! 

Remember that tiny little room off of the kitchen Alice had?!  There's no way it had any windows -- I'm pretty sure it must have been a crawl space of some sort.  Did she ever get Sam the Butcher to commit?  I would have told Sam, "These damn kids are driving me nuts!  Cindy with her baby talk, Bobby wanting to shoot everything in sight like Jesse James, Jan's sibling rivalry issues, Peter's squeaky voice and incessant demands for 'Pork chops & applesauce', Marcia's vanity, and Greg's alter ego Johnny Bravo -- I tell you, it's all too much!  Fish or cut bait, meat grinder!"

But I digress.  Back to the challenge!

You have until Saturday night to create your card inspired by a television sitcom and post a link of it in a comment to this post.  Then, I'll get all of the links to Alma on Sunday and you'll be featured in her Holey Moley Monday slideshow, as well as given an opportunity to become May's Swanky Stamper of the Month, which will entitle you to that fabulous title, a feature page for the following month on the The Cat's Pajamas website, and $25 in cold hard CAT CASH!  Do you have to use TCP stamps?  Well, not technically, but if you have 'em, by all means use 'em (we with TCP are kind of fond of them, after all...)!  If you post your card to your SCS gallery, be sure to use the keyword TCPTUES08 so we can leave you wildy enthusiastic praise. For further inspiration, come and knock on the doors of my TCP Design Teammates blogs to see what they've come up with.  They'll be waiting for you, where the kisses are hers and hers and his...

Supplies used: Stamps: It's a Mod, Mod World set, Baby Sprinkle, Baby Poochie, all by The Cat's Pajamas; Paper: Basic Black (SU!) and Georgia Pacific White; Ink: Brilliance Archival Graphite Black; Accessories: Copic Sketch Markers, Creative Memories 1 1/4" square punch.

Comments

[Dawn Easton]

Oh my Carole! This card is FANTASTIC~! haha! thanks for the memories....

[Kristi (kmallett78)]

What a fun challenge! I hope I get to play :)

[Laurie]

Such hostility towards Carol and the rest of the Brady's. Are you sure you are all right. Very cute card by the way.

[Linzi]

That's too funny, I thought at first look you were making it based on Hollywood Squares! Same thing, I guess. Thanks for the inspiration!

[Julee T.]

This card is DA BOMB, Carole! I absolutely love it! Now I'll be singing the Brady Bunch theme song all day. :)

[Maren]

WOWZERS! This is fabulously creative! Love it!!

[Linda Marie]

LOL! What a fun & creative card. Brilliant!!

[Tosh]

This is Way too Fun Carole!!! I love your theme!!! And all your questions....they are worth giving some thought for sure...Hmmmmm

[Janine]

Mrs. Brady - I think you nailed it!!

[Christina Fischer]

Heehee -- I LOVE this!!! I now have a slideshow of Brady episodes running through my head, and all I can hear is "Oh, my nose!"

[Alice]

What a FUN card, Carole! I love how you made Marsha Sprinkle taller than Jan Sprinkle, and Greg Poochie taller than Peter Poochie. And there is Fifi Alice, caught in the middle of the whole family!

This was a tricky challenge. I had ideas, but not the stamps to execute those ideas. I finally settled down and made a card, based on a classic sitcom:
Here 'tis: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/920700?cat=500&ppuser=86922

Pretty sad results, but at least I had fun creating it!

[Jennifer Buck]

How fun! TFS...I hope I get to play! :)

[Nancy French]

OK - this definitely was a challenge - I can't tell you how many times I had to cut the pieces of Sprinkle's costume out! But, it was fun, so here's mine:
http://splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/920862?cat=500&ppuser=48694

[jules]

Carole... thanks for the trip down memory lane. I love that show. :)

And your card is adorable. I love the shade of the blue too.

[chris mott]

OMG this is so fun and hilarious. Love the BB..one of my favorites growing up...Love all the cat styles

[Holly Powers]

Carole - This one was fun and challenging especially since I don't have a lot of the stamps yet. But it turned out cute.

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/921417?cat=500&ppuser=169305

[Jessie/knightrone]

I love coming to your blog because every single one of your posts makes me LOL!! I love the meat grinder comment, classic!!

[Libby]

Love your card, too funny! I hope to play this tonight - although, I just realized my idea may not fit the challenge bc it's not really a "sitcom" - DARN IT!!! Well I may stick with that idea anyway bc I'm not sure I can think up another...

[Angela (SCS monkeymama)]

Carole, what a great card; you're so creative! Here's my entry: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/923585?cat=500&ppuser=45344
Mine is based on Doogie Houser M.D.---Doogie=Doggie! Complete with library clips to resemble surgical clamps! Thanks for the fun!
Angela

[LSN]

Hi Carole! Thanks so much for the fun challenge! This challenge really made me think and I had a blast participatig! Here is a link to my challenge card.

Linda

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/923779?cat=500&ppuser=39533

[Libby]

Here's mine! It's late, but it's still Saturday night!! :-) http://stampinlibby.blogspot.com/2008/05/sprinkle-bradshaw.html