Sending Love Stewie Is

I was so happy to get the mail today - new SA/DF Valentine's sets!! I just had to make a Stewie card (aka Maggie - our neighbor's dog) and wanted to make Stewie center stage so I kept my card real simple. I just love pink, black & white together! It was good to get my hearts cb folder out again. Sending Love sentiment is from All About Love

Tonight was the first time I stamped since last Sunday, suddenly I got sick on Weds. morning and by the afternoon I had a fever up to 101.00, had hardly anything to eat because my stomach hurt so badly, had a raging headache & was so weak I was hardly able to sit up for any length of time. My fever broke some time during the night but John made me stay home from work again today to be sure I got more rest & didn't prolong being sick. I didn't stamp this card until 4:00 when I finally started to get a little energy back. I believe in the power of prayer, I know that's why I wasn't sick for long but have no idea where it came from (well, I think it was lingering around in my body since I got sick Christmas Eve) but it's been years since I've had a fever. The shining part of my day was when my sweet 2 1/2 year old niece called to talk to me and cheered me up! Little did she know how sick I was! She really made my day!! Now poor John he's had continual congestion for so long it's not funny, he has an appt. with an ear, nose & throat Dr. next month and we hope he has some answers to why he has continual drainage, phlegm, etc.

edited to add: don't forget if you'd like to buy any of the new Doodlefactory Valentine's stamps - you can get a 10% discount using the following code at checkout: savetendb

SA Doodlefactory Challenge - Let's make a Scene!!

Donna D. on the SA design team suggested in the Starving Artistamps group on Papercraft Planet that we start a weekly dt challenge, and well you know me & a challenge~love 'em! I am starting with this first one.

I love making a scene (not an obnoxious in your face kind of one but with my stamps!) specifically, my Doodlefactory stamps which lend themselves to creative gathering of the characters since they are sized relatively the same. That is one of the first things that drew me to Starving Artistamps - the Doodlefactory images. Irene does a bang up job with their expressions, I love the fact they are all named-it brings them to life for me!

My challenge this week is to make a scene of some sort - tell a story with your stamps.

My card uses Santa, his sleigh-full of presents & the North Pole, I made some snow by tearing paper and covered it with stickles. I love this Santa (his beard is covered with Liquid Pearls, I love how the sun is reflecting on it, love the shine! Santa is just the jolliest around! He is raring to get to the North Pole or Bust! This set totally reminds me of the year I was 11 years old and I was in the Christmas play at school, I was Jolly the head elf. I remember wearing red tights, green shirt & shorts and had a cute elf hat & shoes. All my best friends were in the play too. The funniest thing I remember is when Donald Chew (can't remember his character name) was so nervous during the play, when he went to get the tray of cookies from the table accidentally spilled them ALL over the floor! No big deal except they were really checkers so they all rolled and made a bunch of noise and nearly everyone lost character (but didn't!) because it was so funny! The audience couldn't help it though, I heard some laughs from them!

I hope you have a chance to play & upload your card to the SA/DF group so we can see your creation & feel free to post on your blogs to get the word out about these fun stamps! If you have doodlefactory stamps, please use them it's fun but if you don't please play anyway then go get some DF stamps *wink* Edited to Add: please use keyword SADT111708 if uploading to PCP or SCS!