The turtle has finally crossed the finish line!

Here I am late again. I have been so crazy I just don't know where time goes. I had my card all designed in my head for this weeks challenge but things didn't work out the way I wanted to. And of course I waited to last minute. Then I had family here for a visit which I absolutely love. My niece & nephew were visiting from Florida and loved playing with the 2 boys that live behind me. They had a sleep over the first night, second day we went to an amusement park (not a very big one...but still cost me an arm & a leg!) then the next day we had a couple of families over for a neighborhood and all the kids decided to have a sleep over outside in my tent. I have a 3 room tent and we had 9 people in there plus 2 dogs. My two sisters (Bless their hearts) stayed in there with a bunch of crazy kids. By the time everyone left I was just drained. I came into my craft room and just staired into space for hours..no joke. So making a long story short my project was late.

The challenge this week at Peachy Keen Stamps is to do a layout or a card of your favorite Summer Destination. You also had to use Brads, Buttons or Bling. I had a hard time picking the photos to use which is what delayed me. I had so many different ideas it drove me crazy. But I settled on a photo from our trip to Hershey Park which was a couple of months before the accident. We were saying how pretty it was over there and ironically we ended up moving this way after the accident not to far from Hershey. The kids had a blast. I am going to have to do a whole album just for this trip!!

I thought it would be cute to design a Chocolate Bar character which I lovingly named "Charlie" on my Design Studio. It took me almost all day to do and when he came out I realized I didn't have a stamp big enough for his face! So I had to go back in and resize everything. I used 4-5 cartidges on my yummy chocolate bar Charlie. I used The challenge this week PK-490 Everyday Character Faces for his adorable little face and then covered it in Liquid Glass from CTMH for a little extra shine. I had some Hershey Kisses stickers which I cute a few out and stamped them with PK-540 Funshine Face Assortment Stamps. I know the faces are hard to see but I tried stamping them in white and it looked horrible so I had no other choice. I didn't want to make the LO all brown so I picked some papers from Mind's Eye to brighten it up a bit. I will probably use this has the opening picture in my Hershey Park album.

I am going to submit this LO to the Creative Cottage No cards allowed challenge.

Well I am off to catch up on everything else I am behind on.!! It's going to be 100 degrees today so I am defintely staying indoors!