Happy Saturday everyone! Hope you all here in the US (and Canada I think too) are enjoying the 3 day weekend! I am my parent’s house thru Sunday evening for the holiday weekend since its been ages since we’ve been done for more than a few hours at a time (yes mom I see you nodding your head lol)! The boys are going to see an Air Show at Patuxent Naval Base, if you’ve never seen the Blue Angels fly it is something to remember for sure! I grew up near the bases including Andrews Air Force Base so I got to see them fly and practice near where we lived and it was always exciting. The girls are going to see Blake Shelton & Chris Young in concert Sunday evening and I CANNOT WAIT!! Whoo hooo you will hear me hollering for sure Last night hubby and I were SUPPOSED to have date night to go to dinner and see “The Help” (yes I made him go, lol, cuz it was my fave book from last year) BUT PLANS CHANGED! I swear my teens are like attached to my hip—worse than when they were small—aren’t teens supposed to NOT wanna be with their parents? Somehow a party of two turned into a party of 6!! LOL! Each of the kids brought a friend to dinner, the football game and then the movies. Riley and his friend saw “Planet of the Apes” and the rest of us saw “The Help”---so not really a romantic date night for us! Hubby actually really enjoyed the movie, the girls cried (I didn’t cuz I’m not much of a crier and I had read the book) but I think the movie was EXCELLENT and definitely stands on its own. There was a man behind us who fell asleep and SNORED thru the whole movie—only a man would do that LOL! Big Kudos to the two fabulous ladies who played Abilene & Minnie—they were fabulous. And yes I see a bit of myself in Skeeter played by the brilliant Emma Stone (she was fab in Crazy, Stupid, Love too). And if you haven’t read the book or seen the movie—beware of Chocolate Pie—and that’s all I’m saying <giggle>!
NewsBitz:
-CMC Copic Class registration is up for Chicago and Delaware & Ohio! See www.cmcroad.com for more info. Sorry Kansas City is sold out both days!
-New Challenge is up at the CMC Challenge Group! Also new book and challenge is up at the CMC BookEndz Group too! Go on & join in, we’d love to have you!
-Check out the yummy NEW Holiday paper pads at SCACD—oh my santas, sugarplums and snowflakes galore! Also Kraftin’ Kimmie stamps are in stock too!
The beautiful image is another fabulous one by Elisabeth Bell for SCACD “Peekers 2 Collection” called “Bubble Bath Peeker”—isn’t she adorable! The papers are from Best Creations “Bird Song” – these paper pads are triple the size of other 6x6 pads and have both double sided and glitter papers, I just love ‘em! The dies behind the image and swirls are Marianne Designs dies as is the black flower that I mounted on a Prima and topped with a bow, black flower and Bella Bauble. I added a nice coat of Diamond Glaze to the tub to make it shiny! The bath bubbles got a mix of Stickles and Diamond Glaze. Copics used (my close up pic did not turn out well, sorry, and its 3 am as I type this—eek): C9 thru C1, R21,R20,R11,R00, E11,E00.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend and see you back here on Monday! Busy week again next week--what's new 'eh LOL! ;)
I adore the way you used Black in this design. Very striking. I am reading "The Help" as I writ. In fact I just read the chocolate pie part. Never trust Mexican Vanilla.
ReplyDeleteWOW, she's so cute!!! I love the way you color! And yes, in Canada we also have Monday off!
ReplyDeleteHugs
Brigitte
so beautiful Suzanne! gorgeous coloring and I love the way you used the die cuts!
ReplyDeletehugs
Thank you so much for sharing @ Inspire Me Fridays, this week!
Your card is just adorable, Suzanne; so precious!! Those "Peeker" stamps are just soooo cute and irresistible.
ReplyDeleteI too read The Help and saw the movie; loved both!! It was one of my favorite books and the movie was wonderful, but I cried, even though I knew what was coming. They did a great job with it. Have a wonderful time with your family and enjoy the concert, Whoot Whoot!!!
Fab card! I love the colors. Thanks so much for playing along over at Frosted Designs.
ReplyDeleteVery sweet bathtub image. Great coloring! Thanks for joining us at the Alphabet Challenge Blog.
ReplyDeleteDarling image and design, Suzanne! Thanks for playing along in CIC35 :D
ReplyDeleteI'm usually the silent one, show up to read your blog and never leave a comment. With you talking about "the help" I just had to leave this with you....
ReplyDeleteI work at a Credit Union and I told my boss (we all saw the movie together) that instead of serving DD munchkins on paydays we could also serve chocolate pie to our "bestest" members....
Aww this is so so cute. I love what you have done...Gorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us at Frosted Designs this week. I hope that you enjoyed the challenge.
Amanda
Beautiful card! I love the dark contrast with the pastel shades!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Alphabet Challenge Blog!
Sheena
xxx
What a cutie-pa- tootie that little tub time girl is! Gorgeous card as always. Glad to hear you like the movie. I am still trying to get to it. Loved the book and I laugh every time someone mentions chocolate pie! Ugh! Gross, but funny.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend!
Sorry you night out was not so much fun but things like this happen when the kids get bigger they do not think Mom and Dad want to be alone. Love your card seen it on the Copic site. Great job on the bubbles turned out so nice.
ReplyDeleteHugz, P
what an absolutely precious card! love those flourishes!
ReplyDeleteI thought the book was soooo good, but know that there is no way I could get my hubby to go with me. now once it comes to DVD he will probably watch it with me. ;) go figure!
thanks so much for joining our die cuts/punches challenge at Jellypark Friends. :)
I love those black 3-dimensional flourishes! Hope to see you creating with us again at Frosted Designs! ** Roberta **
ReplyDeleteGreat card Suzanne ... and you must be doing something right as a parent if your teenage kids want to hang out with you!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card Suzanne, I love the black & pink :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us at Jellypark Friends & Good Luck.
Hugs
Tracey
x
Fun card. Love pink and black together.
ReplyDeleteOh I think the black tub is perfect. like the fancy cutting behind the image as it goes with the claw tub feet. super cute card.
ReplyDeleteThanks for using patterned paper with us at Clearly Inspired Challenge. Hope to see you Friday the 16th for the next challenge at www.clearlyistamp.typepad.com