Hammy's Card

Happy August!

Thank you for stopping in, fresh from whooshing through your week, in fact through another month!

Poor August is such a bipolar month. It is the saddest month for children because it means summer is almost over and school will start again. At the same time, it is the happiest month for parents because it means summer is almost over and school will start again!

I knew a little boy named August, which is a sturdy name to be giving to a child. The name has stayed with me my whole life whenever I hear the peculiar names some people give their children (like Darnell!), especially names like John Johnson, Andy Anderson, Will Williams, and go forth. I think, surely, they must have had a stutter. Please don't be mad if that's your name, I'm sure it must be a tradition; it's just good-nurtured teasing. Listen, if my foster parents had adopted me, my name would have been Darnell Carnell. That's the truth. What are the odds?! But I digest. You're still wondering about what this has to do with that poor boy, August. Was his full name August August, you ask? No, worse. His last name was Harvest.

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Today's card HAD to be made. There was no amberguity about it. It's for the challenge at the City Crafter challenge blog where one of my bestie bloggie friends has a gig as Guest Designer: the adorable and talented Bev of Happy Dance!

And why the pressure to make this card? Ah, hello, here's the inspiration photo:

Remind you of anyone? You can imagine that a certain little hamster could not contain himself when he caught sight of this picture over my shoulder! At first he thought it was himself, then he thought it might be his girlfriend, Miss Thang, but after I calmed him down with a rub of cocoa butter, we both weren't quite sure ... but we still had to play!

Here is Hammy's card: 

I'm going to count on your disception not to tell Penny that I have tried to turn her hedgehog into a hamster! It was an effort trying to turn that spikey hedgehog hair into soft fluffy hamster hair and I tried to give up several times, but Hammy was adamant about finishing it up. It's a whole bit fussier than I usually create when left to my own devices. 

We used the sketch portion from the current FUSION challenge. I had to flip the focus pocus so that Hammy wasn't looking off the left edge of the card at something off stage.

The patterned paper and butterfly brad are ancient and from GKW. The sediment is from the Paper Smooches stamp set "Metropolis." The Penny Black stamp is "Ladybug 'n Hedgehog." The daisy was first colored with colored pencils and then glazed using NBUS Enamel Accents white. (That schtuff is fun!) The stitches circle is from Lil' Inker.

I'm also playing in:

• Time Out Challenges where the theme is celebrations, with the optional twist of butterflies. Check and double-check!
  
  
• Butterfly Challenge where the them is Summertime Butterfly. We are to use summertime colors and a summertime theme. Check and double-check!
  
  

Please click on the challenge links to find all the details on rules, sponsors, and prizes and to be inspired by all the Design Team projects!

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Winner! I drew a name for the Darice embossing folder "Brick Pattern" mentioned in my post on July 24, 2014. The winner is Sue Rose of Sue's Stamping Station! Congratulations, Sue! Please email me.

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I thought I would leave you with a couple photos looking out my Playhouse window yesterday:

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