Here is a card for a few challenges! I just had to come and celebrate our QFTD Linda (snail) today! She has sure talent in making CAS cards and all in all beautiful work! She always encourages alot of us with her kind words. So, I used her card for this week's SC, because of the cool sketch yes. And the soft pastel papers, she used, yes! But, it's her little mice that did it for me, they inspired me to use my new little Dreampuff stamp,
which was part of a gift from SimonSaysStamp.(I have to say a huge shout out to the girls there for adding the little pink rhinestones to my order also. Of couse I used only one, but I promise, I am not hoarding them now. LOL)
Also, for today's IC challenge from Stephanie, was not a website. Very unusual and new and yes, also fun! We were to make a card inspired by what is home to us. So for me, it's "down home Nova Scotia", where my dad was born and raised. We use to make the trip every summer, and stay for a whole month. We stayed in the little house my father was raised in, and mostly I remember is stories and songs. But one stood out and it was "them old cottonf fields back home" Dad sang a bit out of tune, but his heart and soul made it sound so good to me! Hence this little Monica mice sleeping neatly on her cottonball, just like I use to sleep snugly in my grandparent's bedroom, which my mom and dad used when "down home".
Thank for looking and reading. Enjoy your saturday! Thank you Stephanie for the trip down memory lane...or should I say down the cotton fields back home!
Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010 GMT Views: 1336
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Registered: August 21, 2007 Location: Wayland MA Posts: 105288
Sat, Apr 10, 2010 @ 1:17 PM
Nova Scotia is surely beautiful!! We spent a couple weeks there a few years ago, and loved it! We couldn't get over all the incredible forests!! Your card is darling!!
------------------------------ Anne HarmonFS154, QFTD58, PROUD FAN CLUB MEMBER (photo of our Great Granddaughter Elise, just 6 months old) and me, even older.
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Sat, Apr 10, 2010 @ 3:42 PM
Peggy, you did an incredibly beautiful job in this case of Linda (OMGosh, her gallery is loaded!) Your card is super-sweet and your story more so. I love how you speak so well of your parents and your memories. I can see you snuggled in your grammy's bed. Thanks for sharing your work and your heart. Love you...
------------------------------ Pat Smethers "The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden." Isaiah 58:11
Registered: February 5, 2007 Location: St. Louis, MO Posts: 92694
Sat, Apr 10, 2010 @ 4:04 PM
An absolutely darling card....and a heart-warming story! The image of the little mouse curled up on the cotton ball...or boll, is TOO TOO cute. You did a beautiful job creating this card!
Registered: August 9, 2005 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 16812
Sat, Apr 10, 2010 @ 5:03 PM
This is so sweet! Love the mouse on the cotton ball!
------------------------------ Jerri Kay My Gallery My Blog - A Touch of Grace Shout to the Lord, all the earth let us sing, power and majesty, praise to the King!
Registered: March 6, 2004 Location: Casa Grande, AZ Posts: 28932
Sat, Apr 10, 2010 @ 8:05 PM
Thanks for sharing the bg story and most of all for this lovely card - I had not noticed this mouse before (as long as it is on paper it is ok) - so cute in pink!