Dog Days of Summer!!!

Good morning everyone!!! It's been a lazy week around here....nothing to exciting going on. School starts on Monday so we have been doing some clothes shopping for the Grands. They all have grown by leaps and bounds this summer!!! I also ordered my new glasses yesterday...yikes!!!! I haven't bought glasses in about 4 years and boy have they gone up...the first pair I tried on cost $450.00!!!!! No, I didn't get those....anyway....

Today is the monthly Dirty Dozen/Alumni challenge...Val (11Valerie11) challenged us to make a card with the "dog days of summer" theme.

The requirements are to have a dog image or sentiment and summer colors such as yellow, orange, red. The restricted element is flock or any fluffy embellishment. The dog images from SU's Man's Best Friend were stamped with Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust, Real Red, and Ruby Red, cutout and attached to the SU cloud background with dimensionals. Googlie eyes were added to the dogs and a little glitter (not fluffy!!) was added to the colors and noses. The large eyelet and ribbon finish it off.

This is the card I made yesterday for the Sketch Challenge on Splitcoast. The Clear Dollar Stamps Aster-The September Flower of the Month, was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with copics. I used Stampin Up's Razzleberry Lemonade dp for the layers and ribbon, Primas, punched leaves, and silver pearls finish it off.

Recipe:

Stamps: Clear Dollar Stamps Aster - September Flower of the Month
Paper: White, RRich Razzleberry, Razzleberry Lemonade dp Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Nestabilities, Primas, Silver Pearls, Ribbon

Tuesday's Color Challenge colors on Splitcoast
were Taken with Teal, Close to Cocoa, and Vanilla. This was also made for Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday challenge. I am really excited because the Mudder got a great deal for the tea party...We went to Peggy's Cove in Nova Scotia! Whoohoo!!!! Da Mudder struck a bargain with the Lighthouse People so we got to stay in the Light House! The down side was we have to catch 42,000 lbs of fish...yikes!!! I did ask my bird friends to help us out a little...maybe we could eat a few, too!!! If you want join the party, check out Mothermark's blog. I used images from three different Kittie Kits Cause a Scene by Rubbernecker: Master#2, Scene #6, and Scene #5. The images were all stamped with Close to Cocoa, colored with ink pads and an aqua pen, cutout, and attached with dimensionals. A white gel pen was used on the waves, Mothermark's Cloud Template was used for the clouds and ribbon and a charm finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by this morning....I hope your day is wonderful and you get to do something super special!!!!!