Well, I had all the plans in the world to complete all 16 challenges from last week's Shimelle Cropping Weekend, but when your dog eats rat poison, you spend the day at the vet. This may be the last challenge I complete. It is also in combination with "My Favorite April Picture" from TWELVE. How fitting since it is a picture of the same dog, which we took to the vet. Challenge #8 was to create a project using 1 stamp you should use more often. I chose to use a very large block "grid" stamp. I have no idea what to do with it; so, I used the stamp as a background with the scraps from the layouts I created this month for TWELVE. It is a picture of my dog looking over her shoulder at me with an innocent face as if saying, "What? I didn't do that?" So typical!
(preface: I lost my entire post, complete with pics. do you know how hard this is for me to do? Aargh! This is why it has been 5 months since I blogged.) Wow! It has been 5 months since I posted a blog! Stacy Julian at Big Picture Classes has teamed up with Doodlebug Designs to create ONE per day and mail to a lucky BPC member! So, they have issued an October Happy Mail Challenge to all members. Create a card using these colors (above right). I knew I wanted to create a Halloween card for my secret pal at church. I used black & orange cardstock scraps for the base. I attached a BoBunny "Note Worthy" Halloween Journal Card to the front middle. I added a 3D candy corn embellishment (so old, I have no idea who made it). On the back I used a PSA Halloween "Trick or Treat" stamp design with white chalk ink and signed it (your secret pal, of course) in white ink. Easy Peasy! Thanks for the challenge! 
