A Sandy Christmas

For today's 3 Clovers Thursday challenge
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Stamps: Sand castle by Magnolia; sentiment from Memory Box
Paper: Ruby Red; Kraft; Papertrey Ink white;
Ink: Rich Cocoa Memento Ink; Copics Other: Unknown ribbon, charm and rhinestones; Dazzling Diamonds glitter from SU
Card Measures 5.5"x 4.25"

Hello! Welcome to another 3 Clovers Thursday! I appreciate you stopping by today.
It seems weird thinking of Christmas and cold weather in the middle of July. Sometimes it's difficult to switch gears. Especially when a new summer stamp arrived in the mail earlier that day! I had ordered some stamps and a few other things from Magnolia-licious and yesterday it showed up at my house. One of the stamps was this sand castle. So I thought why not do one of those Christmas cards that someone from a warm climate would send. Or maybe that you'd send to someone in a warm climate...or maybe just to show that you were wishin' you were in a warm climate! LOL! So whaddya think? Did I pull this off OK? or does it look like I was just trying to pass off a summer card as a Christmas card? I had picked out all these papers, but nothing seemed right, so I thought the best route for me to go would be a Clean and Simple (CAS) card. Here's the problem: although I have found a new appreciation for making these CAS cards in the past few months, the card making part of my brain is not originally wired to make these. So what should be simple is not. I fool around with twisting the card this way or that way. with what embellies to put or not to put. Where to put them. Then I take it off...and of course I tear the cardstock in the meantime. LOL! So what looks like a 20 minute card actually takes me about 90 minutes. Can you believe it!? I get so annoyed with myself when I do this!

I hope that you will join us this week and participate in our Christmas in July challenge!! We love when you play along!


Tomorrow the Magnolia-licious DT is doing another blog hop...we hope that you will join us!

Speaking of Magnolia-licious, did you know that you can purchase the 12 new shades of Copic markers there? Right now, Diana is offering them for a sale price of $69!! She also carries the copic ink refills there for ony $5.50 each. So if you are a Copic lover be sure to check those out.


By the way, thanks to those of you that inquired about Declan. He had woken up with all these spots down his right arm and on his right hand. As well as a few on his neck and chest. They kind of looked like small mosquito bites....but there were like 50+ of them. And some were clustered. Kind of like Chicken Pox. I was pretty sure that they weren't CP as #1) he had the vaccine when he was a year old. #2) He then had a mild case of the CP when he was 5. Anyhoooo, I took him to the DR. and the DR. said that he has seen several children come in with this rash this summer. Like Declan, mainly on the arms and hands. For the first bout out kids he ran a whole gamut of tests and nothing was out of the ordinary. So, he said to just keep an eye on it. I was not going to push for blood tests as they don't seem to be bothering Declan and it is extremely hard to take blood from Declan. Think of 3-4 adults trying to restain him. Then he is so tense that even when the needle gets in it takes forever to enough blood. He is so rigid that so are his blood vessels. By the time we are done, I am usually exhausted and sweating. Anyhow, I wan't going to do that to likely get no answers. The spots look better already today. Thanks again!!

Have a Merry Thursday!