Twisted Sister Lighthouse Challenge and Word Art Wednesday #180

I made the above card for two challenges.  The twisted Sister Challenge at Split Coast Stampers where Lesley issued this week's challenge to have a lighthouse on our card. 

The light house on my card was colored with copics by my hubby
And he did his best to come close to the colors of the actual lighthouse...

The light house is located at Cape Hatteras North Carolina...
Here is a link to that lighthouse 

http://www.outerbanks.com/cape-hatteras-lighthouse.html

Jim and I were very briefly in North Carolina...but never had the privilege of seeing this light house in real life...It would be nice to do that someday...well, at least I can dream about it...smile.

The image Jim colored had Stampendous stamp written on the back and it was colored many years ago, so I hope that I have that correctly that is their stamp...

My sentiment was stamped with a stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs...

The card is a Twisted Easel fold.

The link to the Word Art Wednesday challenge can be found here

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2015/04/challenge-180-anything-goesfamily.html

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Serendipity, and Word Art Challenges...

I made this card for two challenges...This Month's Serendipity Challenge which can be found here...

http://serendipitystampschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/sscb42-monograms-verse.html

This month's challenge is to use at least one Serendipity stamp...with the challenge theme which is Monograms & verse.  I know that I used this same stamp in last month's challenge but it's the only Serendipity verse stamp I have (so far)

And for this week's word Art Wednesday...the link to the challenge can be found here...

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2015/04/challenge-179-anything-goes-family.html

I made my card using a verse stamp from Serendipity which happens to be my favorite scripture verse.  I stamped my image with versamark and heat embossed with black embossing powder.

I cut out my background with a die from Tessler crafts...Ellentina Cutting die  DCB003.  And Spellbinder Big Scalloped Squares Large die.  I dry embossed the die cut with a cuttlebug folder

(Textile)  and added brads and a stick on flower from K & C company.

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."  

William Shakespeare

Thank you for visiting my blog,

Blessings,

Jill

Addicted to this card fold

Okay, I admit, after having such a difficult time with this fold in the beginning...  (after my first card...ages ago with the card that went into the trash)  I now really do like this fold.  Just wish I would remember to take a side view of this card too.  (Easier to see the steps that way)  

Again  some of my embellishments came from a "freebie sheet I printed from....

http://www.paperwishes.com/

I also used an image that was stamped with a stamp borrowed from a friend.  I'm pretty sure the image is made with a Stampin' Up stamp, but I don't know the name of it.  Hubby colored it for me with copics.   The sentiment was stamped with a stamp from Northwoods rubber stamps.

The challenge can be found here...

http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2015/02/challenge-169-anything-goes.html

 

Happiness is a form of courage.    

~Norwegian Proverb

Thank you for visiting my blog today,

Blessings,

Jill

Again the link to the fold that I used can be found here

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/sidestepcard/

To everything there is a season...

I made this card for this month's Serendipity Challenge.  The link to the Challenge can be found here

http://serendipitystampschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2014/09/sscb35-summers-last-hurrah.html

I'm putting in a very late entry...For one thing I was kind of stumped as to what I could use for this month's theme  "Summer's last Hurrah"  and then it hit me about the Season change, and realized that my Scripture stamp from Serendipity would work...

"To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaver." Ecclesiastes 3:1

The scripture above is my very favorite scripture verse.

Besides using the Serendipity stamp, my  card was made using a Martha Stewart Punch around the Page punch.  (Deco fan).  I also used a The Crop-o-dile Corner Chopper to round my corners.   I used my bow easy to make my bow (the ribbon was from Pure Color).  and I added dimensionals.  (and, when and if I find what I did with my sequins...I might add a few of those too...smile)

My card made weekly Favorites
Yesterday was a very special day.  It was one of those perfect Autumn days.  A day that was just a delight to meet up with friends for breakfast.  Hubby and I met with Kathi and Cherie for breakfast to help celebrate Cherie's birthday!

We had hoped to go to a different place for breakfast (so Cherie could get a free breakfast, but we ended up getting a late start. (Breakfast would have been over at that restaurant.  So I suggested maybe we go to A different restaurant.  I couldn't remember the exact name but I thought it was called Squirrel Something.  We had only been there twice before, but I remembered that they had breakfast till maybe 2:00.  Kathi and Cheri had trouble finding the place I mentioned so Kathi called me on the phone and said did you mean Squires?  Until then I didn't realize I had the name wrong!

Okay, now you can laugh!  They sure did.  What is wrong with me?  Who would name their restaurant Squirrel something...   There probably would be people thinking they served squirrel on their menu.   BELIEVE ME, I WILL NOT LIVE THIS ONE DOWN FOR A LONG TIME!  If Ever.!  But we sure had a few good laughs over this one.

 I have a pic of us eating at the restaurant, but I couldn't get a hold of the ladies in the pic to ask permission to post the pic.  (I try not to post anything on my blog unless I have permission)
So you will probably miss the pic and won't see that my shirt almost matches the wallpaper in the background!  Again, what was I thinking?...and maybe you won't get to see the pic even with their permission.  smile.  The food was great and they even had entertainment as the sign below reads.

  This was not a fast food restaurant  (but the service was still good!)

 A another funny post script...Jim and I left their company early.  They still wanted to do some shopping.  I found out that after we left.  Cherie received a call from her daughter, telling her that there was a squirrel in their house.  What should she do? At first Cherie thought this was some kind of Joke that Kathi or I had told her about the "Squirrel" restaurant!  Not!  Of course, her daughter wanted her Mom to come right home...but they were too far away.  So Cherie told her to take the cat crate and put some peanuts in it to see if she can catch the squirrel and take it outside.  It did not work.  Cherie has this potted tree in one of her rooms, and the squirrel climbed up her potted tree and stayed there.  So her daughter ended up taking that the potted plant (with the squirrel still on it...outside.   
It took me a while to stop laughing after this phone call. 

I'm sure it's a birthday we will all remember!  If you have an extra moment please stop by and wish some belated birthday wishes to Cherie...The link to her blog is here

http://paperinspirationsandcreations.blogspot.com/

Also Happy belated birthday wishes to another dear friend, Carol    (Carol, your card will be late...but you know how busy it's been around here lately...so I'm sure you'll understand!

My Autumn card above is my birthday card for Cherie, and you know that I am going to put a picture of a squirrel inside the card.   the Squirrel image above came from

http://digitaltuesday.blogspot.com/search/label/animals

I'm also entering this card in the Twisted Sister challenge 

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/

for this week's theme fall.  and to make a card that makes you think of fall.  The first thing that always comes to mind to me...if the beautiful colors of the changing leaves.  (at the restaurant we did not stay to watch the leaves changing colors...LOL)

Edited to add...I just realized that this card would also fit...this week's Word Art Wednesday.  I like that challenge, but I often forget about adding my cards, because on  many of my cards I don't add a sentiment.  This card would fit the requirements.
The link to the challenge is here

 http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2014/09/challenge-151-anything-goes.html
Thank you for the great challenge....

Thank you for visiting by blog today,

and I hope you  have a great weekend...

Blessings,

Jill

And PS.  We have some company coming to visit that we have not seen in years...so you know what that means...Lots of cleaning...So when the company leaves I will try and catch up on my commenting.