Good morning, Glories! (I'm writing this at 6 a.m., which is why I say 'morning,' but if you happen to be reading in the afternoon or evening, please substitute 'morning' with whatever time of day is appropriate. That probably goes without saying, but typing it out gets my rusty fingers going...)
My stamps from The Cat's Pajamas have been feeling pretty neglected, and I fear Sprinkle (TCP's feline mascot) is about to give me a nasty case of Cat Scratch Fever (try to get that song out of your head, now; you're welcome!) if I don't show 'em some love. This week's TCP TUESDAY challenge - a color challenge hosted by the loverly Lori Tecler - is the perfect opportunity to show Sprinkle & crew that I haven't forgot them.
Here's what I came up with...
I used the oh-so-fun HELLO, PUMPKIN set featuring everyone's favorite penguin trio, and paper-pieced the pumpkins and Larry's scarf. Then, I fussy-cut around the image and popped it up on foam boosters on top of a Jenni Bowlin Mini Bingo card that I've had in my stash forever. Another stash-dweller -- the Imaginesce jack-o-lantern brad -- was rescued from oblivion to adorn the paper flowers made with TCP's Button Flowers CutUps dies. The sketch is this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch (#170), courtesy of spider-lovin' Karen Giron. :)
Yesterday was Pirate Day at Carter's school. It's Red Ribbon Week; an annual campaign for alcohol/tobacco/drug/violence/frog-licking, etc., prevention. I'm not sure that prior to this week Carter had an awareness of tobacco or drugs (can't say the same for alcohol, as Mama does like her wine), but he does now as he came home Monday full of facts about the dangers of drug use and addiction. And even though we just had a week full of dress-up days (or as I call them, "distractions") for Homecoming week -- not to mention that they're allowed to wear their Halloween costumes to school next week -- little Blackbeard, to your left, set sail. {Can you tell Mama thinks dress-up days are a PITA and basically a waste of a school week? I thought perhaps I was being too subtle... ;)}
If nothing else, Carter did come home with an AWESOME pirate accent and two actually funny jokes (as opposed to most of his repertoire, which are of the painful knock-knock variety).
Q: Where to Pirates like to shop?
A: Tarrrgh-get!
Q: What's a Pirate's favorite restaurant?
A: Arrrgh-by's!
Q: What's a Pirate's second favorite restaurant?
A: Carrrghl's Junirrrgh!
Carrrgh-ter's a chip off the old block, is he not?! Well, I'd better get going -- gotta get ready for "Crazy Hair Day."
Supplies used - Stamps: Hello Pumpkin from The Cat's Pajamas; Paper: patterned paper from Echo Park's Dots & Stripes - Homefront and Pebbles' Seen & Noted (6"x6"), Intense Kiwi (Prism), Basic Gray (SU!), Orange Fizz and Perfect Panels (MFT); Ink: Marvy Matchables Black; Accessories: TCP CutUps Dies (Pinking, Flower Buttons, banner from Easy Rosette), Copic markers, Jenni Bowlin Mini Bingo Card, Imaginese brad, foam boosters from Jody Morrow's Sticky Stuff Store.
Cute card. Love lime green for Halloween. And I'm with you about those dress-up days at school. Big PITA! Have a good weekend. It's been raining her for 24 hours and I'm about ready to send the DH out to build an ark!
Posted by: Robin Barwacz | October 27, 2012 at 04:28 PM
This is too fun! Love the paper pieced pumpkin and the bingo card background panel.
Posted by: Lori | October 29, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Thanks for the inspiration and what a beautiful card I love all your patterned paper
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Posted by: DIANA L. | October 29, 2012 at 05:10 PM
CONGRATS on being selected as the Sweet Sunday winner! I love penguins and using them on your Halloween card was so creative. Looking forward to seeing what you make as a guest designer. :)
Posted by: Gabby | November 12, 2012 at 02:28 AM