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We have another guest hostess this week - Charlene (LilLuvsStampin).  She chose a very cute teapot with a very cute story about poor little Dusty the bear.  Check it out here.

I'm a bit tired so I'm going to cut to the chase on this one.  I searched through my stamps and found a cute little bear stamp from Provo Craft and an even smaller one from All Night Media and the round sentiment from Sweet Celebrations.

And the little bear close up

I used a texture plate and my new MS deco fan punches for the white medallion.  I slipped some half scallop circles under the medallion to give it some more color. 

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Okay, so I couldn't resist.  Here is my flying pig.  See her cute little curly tail.  She's got super strength in that tail that will help get Santa's sleigh off the ground and flying around in no time.  (Check out the story on Cindy's glob if you're lost.)

I drew the pig and colored her with my SU watercolor crayons, adding a bit of shine with some Platinum Shimmer paint.  The background is a texture plate that I inked up with Bashful Blue ink and ran through the Big Shot.  That left the raised areas white, kind of like some whispy white clouds. 

I'll be depending on a pig for support myself later this week.  They'll be using some heart muscle tissue from a pig to help repair an incisional hernia that I've developed.   So I'll have a real good reason to celebrate National Pig Day come March 1st.

So, keep me in your thoughts on Thursday.  I'll be posting periodically for the next week or so while I recuperate.

Teapot Tuesday 66

Hey, did I ever tell you that our Teapot Queen lives in Colorado?  And you know what happened in Colorado lately, don't you?  You know, that little balloon launch, um, er, stunt.  Well, pair that with this week's teapot and you'll have our challenge for this week. 

It seems we're heading to the North Pole to give Santa a hand getting off the ground.  Go check it out..... go on...... I'll wait.  

Well, you see, I can be inspired by flying things too.  In fact, it was just a week ago that I had stayed up late to watch the World Series (GO YANKS!!!) and then got caught up in a stamping project - what else - so it was pretty darn late (some would say early) when I got to bed.  It was a hazy night and kind of spooky outside.  Put that together with the lateness, the closeness to Halloween, and being tired and something odd was about to happen. 

I climbed the stairs to our bedroom and before I even turned on the light I took a look out the window across from the bed.  There was an eerie pink glow in the sky and in the middle of it was a cigar-shaped object with white, red, and blue flashing lights moving very slowly across the horizon behind the trees.

Gasping and blinking my eyes I tried to focus on what I thought I was seeing.  Yes, it was there for real.  And it took me a little while to realize that no, it wasn't an airplane or a UFO.  It was, in fact, the blimp that had been covering the World Series game in New York returning to our local airport for mooring. 

So Santa (you did read Cindy's blog right?) here is another way to help you get around this Christmas. 

Aha, I bet you thought I was going to give him a flying pig!!!!   Not tonight.  But here's a really clever flying pig card from crazykim!  I love it!!!!

And my UFO close up.

This card by Michelle Zindorf was also an inspiration for my card.  I absolutely love her work.  Her tutorials are so easy to follow and I think I've gotten pretty good results.  (I did try that direct to paper card on her blog and I'll be posting that soon.)

So.... Live Long and Prosper, and drink tea from a teapot.

GO YANKEES!

Thursday's Throw Aways - Happy Halloween

I picked up some new toys to use for Halloween.  One was a Martha Stewart Drippy Goo Punch.  The package had spiders printed on it that were pretty cool so I punched them out and saved them.

Then I found some cute little striped buckets in the $ section of Target.  They had a tag that had a cute little Halloween black cat on it, so I punched those out and saved them.

Then, I had some extra little Halloween chickies that needed a home.

I just love the way these turned out!

Friday CPR 10/30 - Go There if You Dare

There's a new post there today. 

Another Haircut Another Treat

A quick little treat for my hairdresser.   Some orange mints wrapped up for Halloween.

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Yippee Yay - Cindy's back today!!!  And with a stinkin' cute teapot and a story to go along with it that you have to read to understand my card for today.  Please go visit Cindy's glob and give her a great welcome back! 

This little teapot house belongs to Blacken White and his wife Blanca.  Blanca has a mission for us.  She's tired of the same old black and white and she wants us to hit Blacken with color.  So here is my story........

Mr. and Mrs. Blacken White and The Magic Room

Blanca the wife

and Fran with the Plan

got some sheets ready

and snuck up on the man.

They spun and they twisted

and though they felt crummy

they wrapped Blacken up

till he looked like a mummy.

The moon was full,

the bats flew by,

the pumpkins stood watch

as they gave it a try.

They pushed him in

and counted to three.

They opened the door

and what did they see?

Blacken was wrapped

but he wasn't duller.

Oh no, it was magic

He was now full of color!

This is called a magic card and I found the directions on Splitcoast in the Resources section.  This mummy stamp was in the $1 bin at Mike's along with the pumpkin stamp this year.  I picked up the sentiment and bat stamps at Mike's a couple of years ago.  I used SU's Itty Bitty Backgrounds on the Pumpkin Pie cs. 

Pretty cool, huh!