OLW #101 ~ Blue! and Addicted to Stamps ~ Boys!

And we're back around to Friday!

I'm playing in a couple of challenges that don't see a ton of participants.  If you're looking for something new to play with, they'd love to have you join in!

This week's One Layer Wednesday challenge is being hosted by the MMS CAS artist, Heather Telford on her site bits and pieces.  The MMS stands for Master of Masking and Sponging.  It's hard not to be intimidated by the talent of some of the folks around Blogland, but they are all so warm and welcoming that the inspiration overcomes the intimidation.  Still.  Go see. 

Heather's challenge this week is to make a one-layer card featuring BLUE.

That's almost too much freedom.  I've got a lot of Real Life distractions (don't you hate that?) right now, so I alley-catted my way around the Intertube for a piece of flint to spark my creativity.

I found it at a newish challenge blog, Addicted to Stamps.  It's "theme" week and the challenge is to make cards for boys.

Well, duh, blue . . . of course, boys!  Rather than a baby boy card, I used this image:

I can't say I'm overfly fond of this card, all and only in shades of blue.  If I'd had more time, perhaps I could have worked and shaded and layered on more color and I don't know.  And raised the sentiment higher, too.  There's a mom somewhere with several girls and one boy who would be amused.

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I had quite a few positive responses to the cool red shoes in my last post, so I thought you'd get a kick out of the fact that I have the green ones, too!  Why are you not surprised?  Only I don't have the red shoelaces or the cool Pipi stockings. 

The red ones are Vans. The green ones are Keds.

And, in case you're wondering, no, I don't have tennies in every color.  Just those two pair, other than normal colors.  I do, however, have loafers in lots of different colors.  You know what I always say, "If you're feet are smiling, the whole world smiles with you!"

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I had a lovely three-hour lunch with my girlfriends yesterday. I made the delicious dish I mentioned a couple of weeks ago here, using our abundant tomato and basil crops.

You may remember I told you that we didn't plant any new tomatoes this year; we just let live the volunteers that came up.  Check out how that worked out for us!

Pretty awesome!  DS and the Mister are quite impressed and now wonder why anyone buys new plants every year?  I wonder can you keep on growing volunteers every year, or do they lose their gusto after, say, one year?  I think it's rather fun, and certainly green.  I may keep up this experiment next year and see how it works out.

Enjoy!   Next on my agenda is being the Emcee at the Saturday night banquet for a statewide professional organization I belong to.  I'm as nervous as nelly, I'm not gonna lie.  I just want to get through it at this point.  I may adjourn to the Playhouse and create through my nervousness with a post tomorrow, or I may just go do laps around the house.  On the inside.  The neighbors already think I'm cray-cray as it is.

Have a great weekend!  As always, thank you for stopping by to visit.  Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment!

Paper:  PTI rustic white

Stamps:  Boy: Art Impressions, Q-1524 Back;

  Sentiment:  Penny Black, 435D

  Dots and Star:  Stamps by Judith

Ink:  Stamp-n Stuff pacific blue embossing powder;

  SU navy embossing powder; Prisma pencils

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