Truckin'

I'm going to try and make this a quick post because I have a closet intervention on my agenda today.
This particular closet is where my granddaughter and I kept the stacks of unfinished craft projects, leftovers from finished craft projects and other miscellaneous items we saved for crafting at Nana's. 
Granted I still have grandsons with whom I craft, but the boy stuff is elsewhere.  And as for my granddaughter, she has advanced to making a baby of her own.  That means I am going to be a Great Grandmother in March. 

OK - let's get truckin' or this won't be quick!

Get it now?  Truckin'  Card with a truck on it.  That's as witty as it's gonna get today.
I have been wanting to use that black polka dot paper for a while and thought it would be perfect with this old truck from My Grafico digital images steampunk set.  The paper has a really interesting texture to it.  I paired it with some barn red textured cardstock and barn red ink for the sentiment for just a bit of color.  As always, I printed the image twice then fussy cut the body of the truck and used 1/8" foam tape to raise it a bit (see the faint shadows?).  

This card was made for the following challenges:
Cards in Envy - Masculine Cards (that easily fit in an A2 envelope)
Digi Haven Challenge - Vintage or Old
PunkyyouGirl Challenge - Red and Black
Simply Create Too Challenge #45 - Vintage or Old
Ruby's Rainbow Challenge #62 - It's a Male Thing
Whimsy Stamps Challenge #63 - Masculine cards
Can You Digi It? Challenge #43 - Very Vintage
Digi Sketch Challenge - Vintage and/or Sketch
A Little Bit Crafty Challenge - Clean and Simple
Creatilicious Challenge #54 - For the Boys

Now I'm off to that closet! 
Have a great day!

Life is Full of Disappointment

Please bear with me for a moment while I get something off my chest.  I don't mean I literally need to remove lunch particles, a creepy crawly, or other unwanted article from my person, but I do have something that is bothering me.  In a way, my problem is of the creepy, crawly category.  I am talking about those teeny, tiny sugar ants that have appeared in my kitchen, more specifically in the microwave oven above the stove.  First of all, the microwave is clean, spotless, free of anything even a teeny, tiny ant mighty find as sustenance.  And yet, when I open the door there are always a few ants inside.  I'd simply wipe them out and then use the appliance.   After several days of this, I decided I wasn't going to do that, I was just going to nuke the little buggers.  Here's where the disappointment comes into the picture.  I was hoping they'd pop like popcorn, or maybe jump around like water on a hot skillet, and at the very least, DIE!  But nothing.  Zero.  Nada.  I opened the door and they were still just on walk about in my microwave.  You can cook a fish, a hot dog, veggies in my microwave, but not teeny, tiny, annoying sugar ants.  I needed to share that with all of you.  I knew you'd understand.

Now, today's card.....
This card was created using A.J.’s Digi Globe by Amanda Marks, a piece of junk mail that came with my credit card, a piece of black and white DP (which will make you dizzy if you look at it too long), a die cut from the new CTMH cricut cartridge, Artbooking, CTMH stamp "live life", some bling, CTMH Trinkets Wooden Shapes, and some zigzag stitching on the sewing machine.

It was made specifically for the following challenges:

LEJ Designs Challenge #68 - Holidays + Travel
Through The Craftroom Door - Aug 27-Sept 2 - Anything Goes
Catered Crop Challenge - Map It! Recipe Swap Quickfire
Come and Get It Challenge - Let's Go on a Holiday
That Craft Place Challenge - Stitching Real or Faux
Sweet Stampin Challenge - Journeys, Travel or Destinations
The Artistic Stamper August Challenge - Postcards, Travel and Holidays
Heck of a Challenge - Summer Holidays


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Below are 2 cards I made this morning at Joyce's open house.  
CTMH has a new cricut cartridge which is responsible for the cuts that make up this 4 layer card.  All we did was glue it together.
 

And for the month of September CTMH has a pretty sweet deal which lets you get 3 stamp sets for $10 with a $50 purchase.  The stamps used on this card are from 2 of the special sets.  The 3rd set is an alphabet set, upper and lower case letters.