More is More

Wow – what a weekend!  Curt picked up our niece Britta after work Friday night to spend the night.  We got up early Saturday morning to go to Sea World with another family – we had reservations for all three kids to do the Dolphin Encounter (Britta’s birthday present) and between traffic and some other issues we just made it by the skin of our teeth!  The Dolphin Encounter is a really cool program that includes a class on dolphins and about 30 minutes in the dolphin pool. 

Participants are broken up into groups of 4 and each group gets a trainer and a dolphin.  This time we just signed up the kids to go, but someday I’d like to do it myself.  We were able to watch from a close vantage point so I snapped a bunch of pictures while Curt took video. 

Here’s Britta posing with her dolphin.

The weather was beautiful and the park was a bit crowded, but not overly so.  Walking until I was almost ready to drop – thank heaven for the shows and a chance to sit for awhile!  The shows are truly amazing!  We stayed at Sea World until 10pm and  didn’t arrive home until almost 1am.  Exhausted does not begin to describe the feeling.  Even all day today I have felt totally spent.

Of course today was Father’s Day and we met my Uncle and my parents for lunch at a local BBQ joint.  Here’s the card I made for my Dad.

My parents enjoy poker tournaments, so when I saw this image from a Crafty Secrets Vintage Booklet I knew I had to make my Dad a card with it!  It’s just too funny!  I mounted it on a piece of Real Red cardstock that had the corners punched with the ticket corner punch, then that was layered onto Chocolate Chip.  I found that this polka dot Celery paper from the SU Palette o’ Prints went perfectly with the new Wild Wasabi cardstock for layering.  Big Pieces were embossed on Real Red cardstock using Chocolate Chip Craft Ink (gotta love those Craft Spots for having the full color range available) and clear powder.  Some red brads are the final touch.

The card I made for my uncle is in my SCS Gallery – the first time I tried a Stampscapes card – really fun stuff to play with!  Wow – I just looked that up to link it and I can’t believe I made that last August and saved it for Father’s Day.

After lunch we went to pick up Curt’s new-to-us pre-owned truck.  His current truck is 12 years old and pretty rough looking at this point, so the shiny red paint is pretty exciting!  We drove 30 minutes to get it, only to realize that I had left the checkbook at home (changed purses for Sea World yesterday – oops) and had to drive back home and back again to get the truck. D’oh!!

After my last post showing my Prisma pencil holder I was asked about how I separated them by SU color families.  There is a wonderful chart on SCS made by fiona51 of the Prisma matches to SU colors.  That link will take you to the thread on SCS where she has posted it.

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  I need a vacation after mine! *grin*