Tilda with Luv.....

Well, after yesterday's lunch with Kim Reid, I came home so inspired and I waited (im)patiently all day to get to my stamp room!

I had stamps to be stamped! I had bought stamps and paper AND that dreaded lunchbox at The Town Scrapper, so I needed to play! I am in fear of altered projects, that is why the lunchbox is so dreaded!


What I ended up doing was stamping Marcie's stamp that she won on Kimmie's blog and making a card with Tilda and her basket! Marcie's in Hawaii -- she'll never know!!


The patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Mellow line and it worked beautifully with the card I was trying to do.


Obviously, I was very inspired by Kim Reid and her work, but also by the other Magnolia designers, Inga in particular! I mean, just look at all those layers - I love the clean, sleek cards too, but I LOVE layers!!

I dragged out my Quickutz binder and found the grass die I had been hiding, I guess I was so into stamping I forgot that combining the two is an art form all its own.

I stamped and colored Tilda with her cute little basket and cut her out.
After making layers out of cardstock and Basic Grey Mellow, I combined some Heidi Swapp flowers, Prima flowers and MM flowers, added a button and some brads and made a pretty fantastic flower, if I do say so!

I stamped a layered tag with the CC Designs Little Penguins "luv ya" stamp and added some MM ribbon to it. Then I adhered it to my card, popped up Tilda and there she was. Too cute!!

I forgot to tell you that at lunch yesterday, Phebe had brought a little gift for everyone----we had to reach into a bag and pull it out. I picked a breast cancer stamp with a package of Queen & Co. mini letters!! So sweet of her!!

And the VW story.....ugh......well, hubby has been looking for a "great-on- gas" car for ages - probably because he drives a Dodge Hemi truck and that eats gas for breakfast, lunch, and supper!!

So he found a great little VW Cabrio, cheap - and it really is the cutest little car you ever did see and I love it!!

I drove it to Petrolia yesterday and when we came out from lunch, I went to put my parcels in it and I couldn't unlock it!! It must have some sort of security system, because the lights were flashing, the windows were going up and down and the doors were NOT unlocking!!

Everytime I pressed the unlock button everything would work except the unlocking of the doors part!

So I put the key in the lock and the same thing was happening---ugh!! Finally, I stood on my head, swore a bit, turned around 3 times and magically it opened!! (not really) I don't know what I did, but it did unlock.

That is my VW story today. Now I need to get the manual and start reading -

"How to Unlock Your Car Door Without Having a Stroke" on page 72 LOL!!

LUCKY ME!!