Day #13 of Beccy's Place Month of Holiday Cards

The letter for today's challenge is "L".  

Beccy's free digital image Christmas Lantern will be perfect.

I also used some Light green background paper, a piece I found already stamped in last year's Leftover box, and CTMH Liquid Glass to give the appearance of actual glass in the lantern. 

The sentiment is a CTMH stamp.

The image was colored with markers, watercolor pencils, and gold Wink of Stella.

Challenges: 

Beccy's Place November Challenge - Day #13 "L" 

QKR Stampede Challenge #269 - Touch of Gold 

Hiding in My Craft Room Challenge #326 - Super Scraps Saturday

Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #105 - Glamorous Gold

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #157 - Use more than 1 stamp (I've used 2; a digital and an acrylic.)

I discovered why that piece of background paper was in the leftover box when I took the picture.  It is hard to see because the design is so faint, but either the sentiment or the music itself is upside down.  Oops!

The Great Save! using an Ai Stamp for a Red Hat Birthday

Last Wednesday, on the way back from a Red Hat luncheon, Mom and I stopped at Pet Smart for a few items for Mom's new cat, Angel.  It just so happens, Pet Smart is right next to Michael's where I picked out a few sheets of sale paper and flowers I just had to have. Unfortunately, the 50% off coupon I was carrying only applied to regular priced items.  What better way to spend it than on an Ai stamp set that would be great for Red Hat cards! 

I knew I had a card to make for the 15th.

Last night, while attempting to fall asleep, 

I remembered that I had a card to make for the 15th.  

Not a problem.  It was this morning's first order of business.  

I'm not including the mundane everday stuff like making the bed, getting breakfast, getting dressed.... 

I stamped the image, multiple times on various paper scraps, so I could do some paper piecing.  Then I headed to the patio table with the images, markers, pencils, scissors and my tea.

We haven't seen sun in a while and I wasn't wasting it! 

When everything was colored and fussy cut I came back inside to complete the card and get it in the mailbox before the mailman arrived.  Mission completed!

So, while the liquid pearls dried, I got an envelope and my birthday/mailing list.  Whoops!  I needed 2 cards for the same day, only it wasn't the 15th, it was TODAY!!  I got out another envelope.  If I changed the hat and feather from red to purple, one of the cards I had would work fine.  And I didn't have to hurry, because the mailman just went up the street and both cards were already late. 

Before I put the cards in their respective envelopes, I took the card with the fun Ai stamp upstairs to show my DH.  It was my favorite and a lot of work.  As I was patting myself on the back for all the intricate fussy cutting I had done,

I saw it! 

Do you see it?

 Look closely!

BTW, this is the second card I altered to fit the occasion:

I not only changed the hat, but changed it from a side fold to a top fold, because I stamped the Happy Birthday inside the wrong way.

Yeah, it's one of those days!

So did you find my oops?

Would you believe, I dug out the scrap paper I had used and there in the middle was one, tiny, unscathed hand? 

I colored it, cut it out, and saved the card.

 

 I am entering these challenges: 

Art Impressions Challenge #184 - Laugh with you!
C.R.A.F.T. Challenge #363 - Birthday 
Sassy Studio Designs Challenge #333 - Anything Goes 
Seize the Birthday Challenge - Birthday + Coloring (Dresses and polka dot hat trim are paper pieced.  Everything else was colored with pencils or markers.)
Southern Girls Challenge #134 - Anything Goes 
Through the Purple Haze Challenge #101 - Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #71 - Polka Dots or Stripes
Scrapy Land Challenge #41 - Anything Goes + Die sold by Scrapy Land (I used 3 of the Heart Oval Dies by Spellbinders.)