Marvelous Possibilities

I have to g ive with a big shout-out to Unscripted Sketches Challenge  #206 Blog, because it's their 4th Blog-iversary, and they had a very unusual challenge this week.  They wanted birthday cards, and to use the number 4 on the card.  I knew first of all that I had the cute little birthday salutation from Bring on the Cake stamp set with all these numbers in a cluster, and I love coloring in the number for the age of the birthday boy or girl.  I decided that I wanted to use the idea from a card I cased with the stack of four elephants, bringing in a group of four also.  This cute little elephant is from a stamp set called Patterned Occasions from this spring's SaleA bration sets.  All the little elephants remind me of an old song called Baby Elephant Walk  (click to see it here), which was an instrumental by Henry Mancini, and it was from the score for a movie called Hatari, starring John Wayne. (We had the soundtrack album with the music,...

Happy tax day to you! I'm glad that was done months ago.  I'm too busy to do taxes today.  I have made a little game this week to keep me on track making cards for my display board for our upcoming Spring Fling next weekend.  We have a wonderful day planned for our demonstrators and their customers to come together for a full day of paper crafting fun.  We have cards and banners and scrapbook pages to make.  Even though I have a wedding in the afternoon, I just could not miss out on the opportunity to spend the morning at this fabulous event.  I have wanted to accomplish some wonderful things for my display that I have had up my sleeve, and I hope to get a bunch of them done, but I do get off track, and sometimes really derailed.  So, to keep me going I always look for challenges, and I also created a little game for myself by making up a list of different occasions for cards and I cut them up, put them in a jar, and I draw a slip and make a...