New Stamps New Cards

So things have been crazy around here! Looking forward to a couple of days off! Dave has an event in Sharpsburg so the girlies and I are hanging at the pool. Sunday is the last day it's open until next summer! Summer is almost officially over. The kids head back to school Thur & Fri. and football starts a week from Sunday. That's it what's left. Anyhoo we're hanging out and having fun this weekend. I've been working on some cards using some new images over at Odd Bird Planet. The Rainbow here and a lot of Bo Bunny Double Dots. Gotta love that!
This one is adorable isn't he. Randi pointed out people in other parts of the country/world may not get my reference to Cocoa and Joe(minus Hardrock). But every time I see this dude the song starts playing in my head. Does anyone remember Frasier Thomas? Dianne does the song really well! Everyone should ask her to sing it for them then it can be stuck in your head! HA Ok enough about that it's really late and my other cards are drying now. Must go to sleep! Have a great weekend!

Whoa Nessie

Almost forgot my sea serpent card! She cracks me up!

Puppy Party Pics

These were the dog houses(that Dave built) and puppies ready for the party guest to arrive and pick them! Each child chose a puppy and named it then went into the kitchen to decorate their dog house. Randi and I, determined breed, filled out birth certificates and made sure the puppies name was on his house via the little bone.

These are the cupcakes Dianne and I decorated.

More cupcakes.

These are the dog dishes we served the food out of. This seems to be the only color Walmart carries which is fine everything matched but we had to go to 2 stores to get all the bowls we needed. Then we stamped doggy words on them.

I made puppy chow(rice chex, peanut butter,chocolate chips and pwd. sugar) Yummy. We also had Scooby Snacks, Pretzels and Bagel Dogs(they went in the empty bowls they were baking when I took this pic). The grapes are because I thought maybe the meal was a bit toooooo unhealthy. I cut out and baked the sugar cookies and turned them into place cards for each child.

After decorating the dog houses the girls did a dog show and they each signed the autograph doggy, in the family room to music then moved on to lunch. Once that was done we had them outside with more of these bowls doing some water relay games. Then it was inside for cupcakes and presents. After all was said and done we had 10 min to spare before parents picked up and I had set up the disco ball in the FR while they were outside so they did some freeze dancing. We also gave them a doggy calendar and in their cups was a dog collar bracelet, some candy, more cookies and doggy tattoos.

Here is a shot of some of the puppies getting ready to go home! All in all I think it went very well. Considering it was my first kids party. I mean I have b-day parties for family and friends every year but never just kids. I think they had fun and Emily loved it!

Invited

So we did Em's friend b-day party. I used one of her favorite stamps she purchased with her allowance from our new LSS. She chose the colors and drew out the design for me. Then well I made 12 of them. The theme of the party was dog/puppies.

Have You Seen The New STAMPS?

Isn't he just darling? I love the little sleeping gnome! Oddbird Planet has tons and tons of new stuff to check out! Also the stamps come unmounted WOO HOOOOO! For those of us with dwindling space this is JUST FABULOUS!