Hello, hello! It's The Cat's Pajamas' New Release Blog Hop time, in addition to being TCP Tuesday. Our Hipster Hostess With the Mostess this week is my sweet friend JULIE MASSE, and she's got a Supply/Technique Challenge for us to create HOMEMADE FLOWERS!
As our Challenge Hostess, Julie is starting off today's blog hop, so if you didn't start there, you may want to head back to the beginning so you won't miss one beautiful thing. If you've been a good little hopper, you've come my way via my oh-so-sweet and talented Dirty Dozen teammate, CHRISTINE OKKEN (we served on the SCS DD together in 2008 - good times!).
If I told you what a long and grueling week this was, I would not be lyin'. In addition to the internal angst that accompanies having your seven-year-old undergo 5+ major orthopedic surgeries, I have the external aches that go with sleeping on one of those impossibly uncomfortable hospital fold-out chairs for the past five nights. You know what I could use right now (in addition to a Xanax drip and gallon-sized premium margarita)? A little BUBBLE THERAPY!
Fortunately, Sprinkle is looking out for me...
Glamour puss Sprinkle lounges in a paper pieced tub with a Copic airbrushed background. Her bubbles were made fluffy with liquid applique. The sentiment was heat embossed with white detail embossing powder - see what I mean?
And I fulfilled this week's challenge using my brand new POM POM FLOWER CutUps Die. It makes such a yummy, fluffy flower - I lurve it so.
Okay, gang. Be off - I've got a bed to fold out and try to catch a few winks on before a nurse comes in here with a flashlight & meds (that should be right as I doze off...), and you'll want to see what sort of breathtaking wonderfulness my favorite Pickler, AMY SHEFFER, has to inspire you!
And don't forget to head on over to The Cat's Pajamas website when you finish the hop, for all of the swanky new goodies are waiting for you to give them a good home and put them to use. :)
Such a beauty! Love the pretty touches of white that emphasize the fluffiness of the flower.
Posted by: alma de la rosa | April 23, 2012 at 11:14 PM
This is GORGEOUS! I love the papers you picked! The flower is lovely and the stitching is awesome!
Posted by: Ashley N Newell | April 23, 2012 at 11:46 PM
Yes- you better not tick those nurses off;) hehe!! Great card....I hope you are home soon and soaking in a relaxing tub of your very own:):)
Posted by: Jenny Peterson | April 24, 2012 at 12:03 AM
Beautiful Carole - the colors are gorgeous. Hope you and that cutie pie are home soon.
Posted by: Nancy Thomas | April 24, 2012 at 12:17 AM
love this!! SO pretty and I love the stitching and soft colors. :)
Posted by: Noelle | April 24, 2012 at 12:28 AM
OMG!!! Love this card! the cat in the bath just makes me laugh!!
Hugs
Shirley
Posted by: shirley pumpkin | April 24, 2012 at 01:25 AM
really pretty card...best of luck and hoping for a speedy recovery
Posted by: wendy | April 24, 2012 at 07:30 AM
Love the stitching, love the bubbles, love the cat, love the colors - what's not to love - it's a gorgeous card!
Posted by: Brenda S | April 24, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Greetings from the northern part of MN, Carole! If I lived a little closer I might be able to help you out with those margaritas! Carter is in excellent care at Gillette. I teach first grade so 7 year olds are near and dear to me. You are in my thoughts! Give Carter a hug!! Praying everything goes well.
Posted by: Kitty Rodahl | April 24, 2012 at 12:29 PM
ooo such yummy stitching girl! It's like a spa flower garden! Delish!
Posted by: ChristineCreations | April 24, 2012 at 02:18 PM
OO PS. You're right, those were some good DD times, nice to relive it just a little this month!
Posted by: ChristineCreations | April 24, 2012 at 02:18 PM
Beautiful, Carole! Love the polka-dot tub and how you did the bubbles. Here's to a comfy bed, margarita, and bubble bath in the near future, and, most important, to a successful outcome with Carter's surgeries. Thinking of you!
Posted by: Amy Sheffer | April 24, 2012 at 07:25 PM
she's beautifully bubbly!
Posted by: Cyndi | April 24, 2012 at 08:47 PM
So pretty! Love the Liquid Applique bubbles!
Posted by: Lori | April 24, 2012 at 09:40 PM
Tooo cute! I love the bubbles!
Big Hugs!
Posted by: Lisa | April 25, 2012 at 04:26 AM
Awww, what a sweet card, LOVE your bubbles. Hope your wee one is recovering, and that you get to relax in one of these soon!
Posted by: Lynne in NI | April 25, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Been thinking about you...and Carter. Hope everything is going well! Super cute card and I LOVE that poofy flower! Sending hugs!
Posted by: Michele Boyer | April 26, 2012 at 07:23 PM