Distinctive Touches

Happy Birthday - Treasured Friend

Just a quick post today to let you all know I'm still alive!  LOL 

I've been hugely busy finishing up one big project and starting another.  I can't wait to be able to share some of the things I'm working on with you...  but for now they are still hush hush...

Meanwhile, many of my friends are celebrating birthdays this week - so I decided to post a  greeting for them all...

Celebrate Big everyone... Celebrate Big!

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*Digital images from Hambo Stamps - colored with Copic Markers

A Sneaky Hambo Hop!

What a GREAT morning it is today. 

It's Wendesday and time for some fun... so let's have a HAMBO HOP! 

What's a Hambo Hop you ask?  Only the coolest, greatest, most fun blog hop evah! 

All of the design team members (past and present) for Hambo Stamps are getting together
to surprise Monica and Tim (the awesome owners) by sharing some super samples with some of their newest stamps!

Why?  Well, because WE LOVE HAMBO!!!

SURPRISE Monica and Tim!!!

My contribution to the hop is this cutie patotie card. 

I used Tim's new Thief digital stamp and colored it in with my Copics.  (I printed the image on Georgia Pacific paper and heat set it with my heat gun for just a few seconds and I had no trouble at all with the printer ink smearing.)

I just love the way this guy is sneaking away with a bag full of hearts!  I can't decide if he is truly terrible or absolutely adorable!  LOL

I stamped some words "you stole my heart" around the outside and doodled in a frame. 

This stamp is so perfect for Valentine's Day, anniversaries or just about any other occasion.  I've even thought about masking off the hearts and filling the bag with other things... chocolate, cupcakes, presents, flowers... you name it!

Okay... I'll send you off to SNEAK over to the next blog on our hop... Isabelle!

If you are joining from my blog or just popping in, you can join the hop at any of these blogs:

Asela

Colleen (you are here!)

Isabelle

Jane

Libby 

MacKenzie

Melissa

Thanks for stopping in... and don't forget to visit Hambo and give Monica and Tim some love!

A Pile of Fun!

Wanna hear a story? 

We have a dog.  His name is Takeo.  He is 3.  He likes to bark.  A LOT.  He can open our shades.  

One night (wee in the early morning hours actually) my husband and I were startled awake by Takeo's terror filled barks.  He had opened the shade and was furiously barking at something outside.  By the tenor of his yowls and yips and snarls there must have been something HUGE lurking in the back yard. 

We both jumped out of bed fully expecting the house to be broken into by large, brutish thugs at any moment. 

Takeo was just about bouncing off the walls as his barks echoed through the house at this point.

Silently (and a bit terrified) we crept up to the window, turned on the outside light and peered out...  

The terrifying beast that met our eyes?

A turtle! 

Wasn't as cute as this pile of turtles from Hambo, but pretty darn close! 

Darn dog!

Hambo Stamps (one of my all time favorite stamp company for funny images and quirky sayings) now offers digital stamps as well as the regular red rubber ones.  I was THRILLED to snag this "turtle pile" image (along with a few others that you will see soon).  I used it to create this card for my mother's birthday.  I thought it was fun.  Turtles make me laugh... especially when they are creating a well-balanced cheerleader-like pyramid!  (I'm sure THIS would really set Takeo off...)

I used my Copics to color the image (printed the image onto Georgia Pacific card stock with a Kodak ink jet printer.  No problems with smearing or smudging. 

Speaking of Copics... I want to thank the wonderful ladies that welcomed me to Amarillo, TX this past weekend.  I taught my Copic 101 class at a sweet little shop called The Paper Garden.  It was such a super group of gals... full of questions and ideas and joy about coloring.  It was a blast!

Thanks for stopping by!