That's right! And guess who's your Hipster Hostess With the Mostess this week?! Me!!! Yep, it's my job to give you a little inspiration to make a fabulous card.
Today's Inspiration Challenge: make a card based on a Jimmy Buffett song! Why a Jimmy Buffett song? Well, for one thing, I wanted to take it easy on you. I have lots of ... interesting ideas for future Inspiration Challenges, but I thought I'd start with something fairly tame and accessible. And that's Jimmy -- he's easy on the ear and all of us know at least a couple of his songs by heart.
My song choice? Why, "Cheeseburger In Paradise," of course! What song are you going to choose? I can't wait to see!
To play along, all you need to do is make your card and link either your blog entry or SCS gallery upload by leaving a comment to this post (you have until the end of the day on Saturday, April 26th). It's not a requirement that you use TCP stamps to play, but obviously, if you've got 'em, we'd love to see you use 'em. All submissions will be featured on Alma's Holey Moley Monday slideshow (be sure to check out the one from yesterday that shows last week's Sketch Challenge submissions) and -- here's the best part! -- be entered to win the title of SWANKY STAMPER of the month, which comes with a fabulous prize of $25.00 in CAT CASH, good for spending at The Cat's Pajamas! Woo-hoo!
Be sure to check out what the other TCP gals have made for the challenge (look on my Design Teammate blogroll to the right, and click on those with 'TCP' after their names). And when you upload your card to SCS, be sure to use 'TCPTUES04' as one of your keywords so we can lavish you with praise.
Supplies used -- Stamps: F-7448), Sprinkle Annette (
Dang Carole! Now I feel the need to purchase that Cheeseburger stamp! LOL! What a great challenge and I can't wait to play along! Don't quite know what I'll do yet, but I'm sure that I'll think of something!
Linda
Posted by: Linda | April 22, 2008 at 09:32 AM
Too fun...you know this one's right up my alley!
Posted by: Shannan Teubner | April 22, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Oh man! This is fantastic. So CUTE! Love the colors of course. I've been surfing around looking for lyrics that might match a stamp set in my collection. how FUN is this??
Posted by: Joanne B | April 22, 2008 at 10:16 AM
This is THE coolest card!! Oh my word...the colors are fantastic and those waves...WOW!
Posted by: peanutbee | April 22, 2008 at 10:21 AM
Hmm so many JB songs... Which one to pick. Great challenge!
Posted by: Lorien Clark | April 22, 2008 at 10:30 AM
OH MY WORD! This is SO fantastic, Carole! Makes me smile from ear to ear!
Posted by: Donna Baker | April 22, 2008 at 03:51 PM
Cool card!!! I want to go to the beach now (and have a cheeseburger too!)...
Posted by: Toni | April 22, 2008 at 05:17 PM
How fun! I love the bright colors and stripes!
Posted by: Shel9999 | April 22, 2008 at 06:58 PM
What a fabulous card and I will meet you in Margaritaville anytime...
Posted by: Janine | April 22, 2008 at 07:33 PM
Heehee -- this is great!! I'm sure to have some of his songs dancin' in my head today! :)
Posted by: christina fischer | April 23, 2008 at 06:45 AM
haha! Love the scene you created....so fun!
Posted by: Dawn Easton | April 23, 2008 at 07:33 AM
Here is my 1st entry.
http://stampsnmore.blogspot.com/2008/04/son-of.html
I LOVE THIS CHALLENGE!!!!
Posted by: Lorien Clark | April 23, 2008 at 08:25 AM
Too cute of a card Carole. Bright and fun...and I love the ribbon. LOVE IT:)
Posted by: mj albright | April 23, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Here's my Margaritaville card -- great challenge! http://stampmom.blogspot.com/2008/04/beates-weekend-sketch-challenge.html
Posted by: StampMom | April 23, 2008 at 02:13 PM
Oh you don't even know what great timing this was. Wish I had some TCP stamps to use but I found another image and the perfect song and I didn't keep it tame. It's posted in SCS and on my blog at www.cherylhorton.typepad.com. Can't thank you enough for lightening the day - Love ya Carole, we share the same sense of kooky humor.
Cheryl
Posted by: cheryl horton | April 23, 2008 at 03:27 PM
This is freakin fantastic!!! So super cute!!!
Posted by: Jessie/Knightrone | April 24, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Here is my 2nd entry.
http://stampsnmore.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-dont-know-i-dont-know-i-dont-know.html
Too much fun!
Posted by: Lorien Clark | April 24, 2008 at 09:01 AM
SO much fun! Loved this!
http://splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/894073?cat=500&ppuser=48694
Posted by: Nancy French | April 24, 2008 at 09:20 AM
I'm just a little embarassed to claim this card as my own!! My husband will get a kick out of it!! here's my card: http://jentapler.blogspot.com/2008/04/jimmy-buffet-inspiration.html
Posted by: Jennifer Tapler | April 25, 2008 at 12:50 AM
What a great challenge Carole. Here's my try.
http://stampedbyhand.blogspot.com/2008/04/fins-and-frogs.html
Posted by: Joanne B | April 25, 2008 at 08:07 AM
Here's my card Carole! I had a ton of fun making this! Thank you so much for the great challenge!
Linda
http://lindastamps4sanity.blogspot.com/2008/04/hula-girl-at-heart.html
Posted by: Linda (LSN on SCS) | April 25, 2008 at 12:24 PM
I hope you like my card--"margaritaville" was my theme--fun,fun challenge. The card is on my blog:
http://www.scrapbitz.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Suzanne Dean | April 25, 2008 at 02:08 PM
This cracks me up! Excellent job!
Posted by: Cat | April 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Here are my last two entries. Thanks again for the fun challenge!
http://stampsnmore.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-dont-we.html
http://stampsnmore.blogspot.com/2008/04/wasted-away-again-in-margaritaville.html
Posted by: Lorien Clark | April 26, 2008 at 05:19 PM
Carole---this was a tough one!!! I choose the song Brown Eyed Girl and uploaded to SCS with code TCPTUES04. Thanks for the fun! Angela
Posted by: Angela (monkeymama) | April 26, 2008 at 06:36 PM
HERE IS MINE!!
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/896733?cat=500&ppuser=30040
Posted by: Teresa Dolan | April 26, 2008 at 09:10 PM
Later than I had hoped it would be, but here's mine:
http://stampinlibby.blogspot.com/2008/04/yet-another-cheeseburger-in-paradise.html
Posted by: Libby | April 26, 2008 at 11:36 PM