Celebrate Your Birthday

It's a new week already. My weekend was packed and today was the first chance I've had to do any crafting. I made a grocery run this morning, finished laundry, made tomorrow's lunch (we have the twins), transplanted my marigolds and tied tomatoes, etc. So it was later this afternoon before I had a chance to make this card.

The image is from QKR Stampede called Enjoy the Sun. I colored him with Spectrum Noir markers on shimmery card stock. I fussy cut the image. The designer papers that I used on the card are from my scrap bin. I think the water paper is from the Stamp Studio. The others I'm not sure of. The sentiment is from 2 different (retired) Gina K stamp sets. "Celebrate is from a 2009 stamp set called Lazy Days of Summer and "your birthday" is part of a sentiment from a 2010 Stamp TV Kit called Enjoy the Sunshine. The sentiments were die cut with MFT Essential Fishtail Sentiment Strips. The sun is from Spellbinder's Sunny Days stamp and die set. The sentiment and bear are popped up with foam tape. The "sandy" paper was die cut with MFT Stitched Circles. This will be my nephew's summer birthday card.

I am entering these challenges:

• QKR Stampede challenge: anything goes 
• Atlantic Hearts challenge: sketch 
  
• Crafty Cardmakers challenge: masculine
• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies: use a critter
• Creative Knockouts: anything goes

Just in case you think I whiled away the weekend in the sun (well I was in the sun but not relaxing) here's what we are up to.

We are raising the roof on the back of our barn. We managed to get the trusses built and up and then added some of the purlins for the sheeting. It's quite the project and than goodness my husband and FIL know what they are doing because I sure don't. But I can follow orders pretty well. On Sunday we had the twins and their parents out for a cookout at lunchtime. They got to play in our pond and when we tired of the pond they came back to the trailer and played in our rain barrel.

Valerie is a little water baby and Arthur is much more reticent but once he gets going he thinks it's great too. That's my daughter, their Mom, in the background. Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a super week. Stay safe out there.

Donna