Polka-Bug Dots!

Happy Hump Day friends--it's the middle of the week already! What do you all have planned for the day! Here's the low-down on my day--work on magazine projects & do laundry, get a pedicure, pack kids suitcases and pick up daughter from cheerleading practice and head 2 hours south to my mom's house. Then get back in the car and head back home (hopefully minus the rush-hour DC traffic) and finish projects and pack for myself (and hubby)! Can you say jam-packed? LOL!

Yesterday I was trying to finish many projects and many emails in between shuttling kids to activities and having a house full of teens!  Alexa had 3 girlfriends & 3 boys over yesterday to "hang out" & watch movies---thank god for Domino's Pizza and a 3-level house, lol!  Alexa is not allowed to date until age 16 but she can be "in-like" with a boy, hee hee---right now she is "in-like" with a boy who is 15 but looks 22!  He's cute but I like that he's respectful (so far) and his parents are on the same "rules-parenting" wave length as us which is good.  But he's the football quarterback and my daughter is a cheerleader--how cliche is that?  UGH!!!  I'm sooooooooooooo NOT ready for all of this I tell ya--please pray for me, heehee!  I might have an even rougher time when Riley starts getting serious about girls--NOT MY BABY!!  How did this happen?  LOL!  Okay let's move on before I start crying :)

NewsBitz:

-I need ALL of you to HELP me out, 'kay?!!  We're looking for lots & lots of HOLIDAY Submissions for the magazine Through the Craftroom Door.  All levels welcomed, any sort of handmade item with a fall or winter holiday theme!  You name it, we want to see it if it's handmade (jewelry, papercrafting, clay/pottery, woodworking, all sewing).  You will get your items and blog published if you are picked & we have lots of slots to fill my friends!  Not only that but you can win prizes for entering as well--how cool is that?  So send all your NEW (never published online/paper) projects to craftdoor@yahoo.com with subject line "HOLIDAY" by September 4th!!  Break out the holiday music & get crafting!!

-I have some yummy blog candy going on right now---see the post below today's to enter!!

-SCACD also has their weekly "Try It Out Tues/Thurs Challenge" going on HERE---we hope you join in!

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Polka-Bug Dots!!

Today kicks off the BRAND NEW Challenge Blog for 7 Kids College Fund HERE (challenge starts at 7 am EST)---Yay!!  And to celebrate Tab (the delightful owner) is giving away a $50 gift certificate to a lucky someone who enters!  This week's challenge was to use lots of PINK & POLKA-DOTS in honor of the 7 Kids logo!  Well I love me my polka-dots and I love pink so this was easy-sneezy!

I used a cutie-pie CC Designs stamp called "Ladybug Nora"--I had to ink her up since she was all dotty, hee hee!  I followed a sketch from my friend Jen del Muro's SFYTT blog--I liked all the layers!  All of my papers are from PTI--they make LOTS of polka-dot papers to match all their cardstock (swoooon)!  The ribbon is from PTI as is the sentiment (Mixed Messages).

This cutie is of course colored with Copics (RV29,RV23,RV10/C7,C5,C2/E25,E31,E50) and I added some stardust stickles to her wings and diamond glaze to the little ladybug friend.  I think she's a super-cutie!  IF you only ever get one bottle of Stickles make it either diamond or stardust--they are my favorites and you can use them over any color and it will shine thru (stardust sparkles more tho-wink)!!

Now hop over to the Challenge Blog HERE to see the rest of the DT's beautiful projects and to join in on the fun with us!!