Did Hell Freeze Over??

Seriously, did it?? Cuz look what happened on Friday!!!!!

Dude, got the FREAKING pole at Atlanta!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!  Saying MEGA prayers for Sunday's race!!

Hero Arts Goodness

I love this stamp from Hero Arts. It is called Antique Writing and is one of their new cling mounted rubber stamps. Hero Arts have the MOST incredible quality rubber stamps. They stamp like a dream. I stamped the butterflies and dragonfly a second time, colored, cutout and mounted using foam squares. There is also some glittery goodness on the critters, but I'm such a craptastic photographer that you are unable to see the dimension and sparkle.

Stamps: Hero Arts-antique Writing, PTI-In bloom
Paper-PTI-Rustic Cream
Ink-Memento-Rich Cocoa, PTI-Chai and Chamomile
Other-Copic markers, Spica clear glitter pen, gems, DMC floss, tag

A Fish Story

Thomas Jack and I headed to my hometown of Muscatine(right on the ole Mississippi River) to see Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle Clay and Aunt Shanna. The highlight for Thomas was going fishing with Grandpa and Uncle Clay. My brother caught a 4 pound bass, the biggest he has caught on the river. Thomas also caught a fish. They were gonna pull a fast one and tell everyone Thomas had caught the "big one".


This was the 4 pound fish my brother Clay caught!
Thomas wearing his favorite attire as of late, Iowa Hawkeye shirt, shorts and new Cubs cap.

My brother Clay and his catch of the day! Yes, he is very tall! (6'3")Thomas and his fish.Why isn't his life jacket zipped????

Check out the NEW Hero Arts website!!

Hero Arts will be updating their already AWESOME website this week. Check them out HERE. They are a fabulous AMERICAN company which also happens to be CERTIFIED green! All of their products are made in the good ole USA. Not to mention they have the best and cutest stamps ever!! Not only do they have an awesome card making gallery, but also a rockin' scrapbooking gallery...tons of layout ideas. AMY...go check it out!! I also want to give a shout out to their BESTEST EVER designer Jennifer McGuire. I puffy heart LOVE her. Here is her blog. Get going peeps this is fun stuff!!!!

I GOt a TOP 5...LOL

I won third place on the Hero Arts blog this week!!! Go HERE to see my card.It is the one with the fern stamp.To say I was stunned is putting it mildly.The talent of the ladies on this Flickr group is amazing.I regularly browse the gallery and literally gasp at some of the creations. I may pull off an ok card occasionally, but hardly anything "gasp" worthy.

The challenge last week was to use complimentary color combinations; black and white, orange and blue, and red and green. Not colors I readily utilize, so this was a stretch for me. Go HERE to check out the HERO ARTS Flickr group. Beautiful, fun, funky stuff!!