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What a great day! 🙂

We are getting the exterior of our house painted and for much of the day today our doors and windows were covered in plastic.  It felt like I’d been sealed inside.  Now normally that would have bothered me – made me feel claustraphobic, but today I had all my new SU toys!  This was the perfect day to PLAY!  I stamped for several hours and just had an absolute blast!  Most of what I made is for Dare To Get Dirty on SCS next week, so I can’t share it just yet.  But be sure your Fan Club membership is up to date and mark your calendars to stamp with the Dirty Girls past and present starting Wedensday the 25th and running for a full week!  I promise it’s going to be a ton of fun!

I do have one card to share tonight though.  This one was started before my new stuff came and then finished off today with So Many Sayings (Level 1 Hostesss set).

I’ve always loved this Farmyard Jumbo wheel and finally ordered it just before it retired.  It was wheeled on Confetti White cardstock and watercolored with watercolor crayons and an aquapainter.  I just love the sweet look of Liquid Applique on clouds and some stickles brighten up the sun.  The main image was layered onto Chocolate Chip cardstock trimmed with mini scallop scissors and then layered onto Ruby Red.  The Summer Sun card base was stamped with Flannel Plaid in Chocolate Chip classic ink.  The hearts and sentiment are from So Many Sayings and were inked with a Ruby Red marker and placed using my Stamp-a-majig.  Some chocolate grosgrain finishes off this simple, fun card.  I’m a city girl all the way with some romantic notions of life as a farm girl.  Our house was originally on a dairy when it was built and we still have the original chicken coop in our backyard.  I’m pretty sure this is as close as I’ll ever come to living on a farm. *wink*

I have to tell you that I am in a bit of a quandry…I seem to have misplaced a brand new still uninked stamp set.  I had Heartspeak in my hands several times today, but ended up not using it for any of the *assignments* I had.  I was dying to play with it though, so when I was all finished I went back to maybe work on just one more card, but I couldn’t find Heartspeak.  I thought when I straightened up it would present itself, but no.  I’m guessing it’s one of those situations where it’s right in front of me and I’m not seeing it, but for the moment I’m very frustrated.  I mean…I didn’t even leave the house today…where could it have gotten off to?  Do you ever lose stuff like that?

Several of my friends are off to Summer CHA in Chicago tomorrow.  I’m a little sad about not going, but overall it’s really a good thing for me now.  I won’t miss Winter CHA though!  Safe travels to those of you going – I can hardly wait to see pictures!

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