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Another image from the Digi Shack. I'm lovin' these sweet little treats! Another SCS sketch challenge #174 too.

Had a great mail day. Walked up the steps to find:

Private Quarters Pillows
Photo paper I got for free from Canon
[P]Hot Tub filter cover and dummy how to sheet
[P]Free Glamour Magazine
Pizza Coupons

[P]Sorry I wanted everything on my list to start with a [P].

Graffiti

When the digi shack came out with this little fella I knew he had to be mine. So many sentiments can go with him! Inside I put the sentiment "Maybe the hokey pokey is what it really is all about" Put your giraffe arm in, put your graffiti arm out.

So funny story about that...

My sophomore year of high school I walked into my language arts class and I saw giraffe on the chalk board. I asked Mr. Moore what it was doing there. He said "a freshman asked me what a "gear-ra-fee" was." I started laughing, once the second person walked in they asked what I was laughing at and I said read the board. She did and said...oooooh graffiti.

Groovy things I have learned lately:

Deer lose their antlers every year, each year adding a point.

Canon will give you a discount on product even after your warranty has expired if you fall into their loyalty program. I got this (a refurbished one) for 135 dollars!

Find some great free stuff from here.

If you are parallel with the water while water skiing, you are bound to get a nostril full of river.

And my creative challenge update...

Right now I am finding my creative 20 minutes when I should be doing something else, and late at night. It has finally warmed up in the basement so I want to be down there. What I accomplished:

[5] cards

[25] thank you's

[28] gift certifcates

[3] 3x3 cards

[1] My idea of home album, just waiting on finishing touches for the cover

And have a serious plan for Nicole's wedding invitations, now just cutting and glueing need to take place.

With that I am challenging myself again. 20 minutes a day and see what I can produce.

[3] Goals:

Complete Nicole's Wedding Invitations

Create an easy to find stamp index of all of my stamps (currently just stamped randomly on pages with their set, I want categories so if I need to find a bird stamp they are all together).

Double my card and scrapbook pages from last month. The scrapbook pages goal should not be hard at all! I know I set the bar high!

I love SUMMER!

Inspired by the Splitcoast stampers sketch #51, the image is from the digishack. What is it about icecream and me, I have to have a gallon of Schwan's icecream in my freezer at all times.

Found some flow

The digi shack is my new favorite place. That is where this cool little cheers image came from. The sketch is from iheart2stamp. I printed off the images back when I purchased them, matched them up with patterned paper, colored them in, and here is the first that I made into something. And this week I have used the OMS technique to finish them off and add some blingy stuff. It has been slow, but hey it's flow.

Sit back

This was the last card I made at my aunts house, my old dwelling. Saw the stickles idea somewhere (can't remember where) for salt and thought it was just too cute. Time to do some relaxin'.

This little image is from Wish Rak isn't he cute!? Wanted to use some designer series paper I had yet to use and of course my new stickles from my TAC order! I tried to emboss the oval with the nestabilities and cut it out at the same time, not my recommendation. That is the reason for the tatty edges on the oval. Today is an Easter egg hunt with 25,000 eggs, but I have to go with my Mom's side of the family since my cousin will be out of town tomorrow. Bummer I bet 25,000 plastic eggs is a site to see, better yet a bagillion kids chasing after 25,000 eggs has to be a site to see! Well laters.

Bonanza #2

Totally diggin' this golfer guy- his navy tatt is too cute!

Prisma Coloring Class

I have been stamping for YEARS and never tried the ole' prisma pencils and odorless mineral spirits. Well let's just say I am hooked! I have been searching for a deal on the pencils because you know the queen of color can't handle just a handful of colors. Anyway Toni taught me this technique at her Meetup and these are just two of the cards I made. Lovin' them!