This week's Tea Party is very special to me. It's for my mom's cousin Claire, who is really more like an aunt to me. She is going through another tough round of chemo for her cancer that can't be cured and she could really use your love and support. I have been sending cards to her almost weekly since she was diagnosed and she loves them. She is going to be floored by all of your talent. I hope you'll find the time to join us this week.
I went with a bowling theme for my card and combined with the TLC and CAS challenges. For Lisa's shoes challenge, I stamped some wingtip shoes and changed them into bowling shoes. I specifically colored them to match the rentals that we had at our old bowling alley. My family used to run a duckpin bowling alley and several of us bowled together in a league on Monday nights. If you've never been duckpin bowling, you're missing out. It's way better than ten pin. Duckpin bowlers carry three small balls with them instead of one big ball, so I cut those out with some marble paper. I wanted to do green ones, but I didn't have the right paper, so I went with pink ones. We did have some alley balls that were pink with a blue swirl through them. I fit the shoes and balls onto the mini card for the TLC Challenge. I used a piece of leftover WFD background. To keep the card CAS, I wanted to put it on a white background, but I didn't want to leave it plain white. So I used a technique that had been a challenge I think in a VSN? I can't remember who hosted, but we did some illegible writing to make a background. I illegibly wrote a message about how much fun I used to have bowling on Monday nights with Claire and other family members.