Tuesday, June 17, 2014

A minute or two of free time....

Well, we had a wickedly wild rainstorm roll through here about an hour ago, accompanied by lots of wind and a tornado warning. No damage here, one branch down and I will need to pick some patio furniture out of the field. Oh, and a plastic watering can that had blown into hubby's parking spot got flattened when he drove over it, much to the delight of my youngest two who were watching out the window. Lots of raucous laughter from the younglings followed that incident, as you can imagine.

Sun's out here now but the major doing of this storm was the effect it had on ball for the family tonight. I cancelled the practice for my son's team (I'm coaching them); dd's practice was cancelled and my game, which was to be at 9:00pm got (prematurely) cancelled as well.

So, as the title suggests, I have a scant bit of time this evening, which is a rarity for me. I figure it's the perfect opportunity to post this tardy Father's Day card.

And here it is.....


I combined two MelonHeadz freebies and coloured 'em up to look like my three kiddos. The sentiment like that has soooooo much more to do with the fact that they don't call their Dad "father" but "Dad" and much less to do with the fact that I didn't have any alpha stickers that were small enough to get the word "father" on that speech bubble, not to mention that fact that none of them come with an apostrophe. Yeah, definitely that first one.

And finally, if anyone happens to look at the time this was posted.....yeah well, I had gotten up to the end of that last paragraph and that was the end of my "minute or two". Plus Stoopid Blooger decided it wasn't going to upload my photo. So, that made "...roll through here about an hour ago" actually more like four and a half hours ago.

But, you get the picture.

For:
MelonHeadz:  anything goes when using a MelonHeadz image
Cutie Pie:  a cute one for dad
Digi Sketch Challenge:  theme - for the men
Ooh-La-La:  Father's Day
Use Your Stuff:  Father's Day
The Male Room:  Father's Day
Catered Crop:  manly men
Love to Create:  anything goes

12 comments:

  1. Wonderful images, Jan! Love how you have personalised them to make the card so special!
    Thank you for joining us at the Cutie Pie Challenge. Jane xx

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  2. LOVE LOVE LOVE this. Thank you for joining us this week at Use Your Stuff.

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  3. Great card, i love everything about it! lol Fantastic card! I love everything about it! Thanks for playing along in the Father's Day/Male challenge at OLLCB!
    Good Luck
    Hugs
    Dawn xx

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  4. Awesome card! I love the melonheads! Thanks for joining us at Use Your Stuff this week and hope to see you again.
    Tammy DT

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  5. Great card, lovely image and so beautifully coloured. I like the little wooden speech bubbles. Thanks so much for playing along with The Male Room!

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  6. Awesome card ... love that you colored the image to represent your kids! Thank you for joining our "Anything Goes" Challenge at Love to Create this week.
    Ruza ~ LTC Admin/Designer
    Ruza's Craft Corner

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  7. Beautiful creation, love the lay-out!
    Thanks for joining us at Love to Create!
    ♥ Sandra ♥

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  8. Dag gone! That is some cute kiddo's ! Thank you for joining us over at love to create challenges this week
    Amanda LTCDT

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  9. Cute cute cute - love the textured paper you used too - Thanks for joining in with The Male Room~

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  10. Really like your Fathers'Day card, the image is lovely and I like the texture to the papers- the lettering is fab too. Thanks for joining us in The Male Room this week

    Louise xx

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  11. The colouring on this card is just wonderful Jan....wonderful work. Glad you were all safe during the storm etc.

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*sitting with brow furrowed in concentration*...*staring at the ceiling while pursing lips*...*resting with head on hand while tapping foot*...

Nope, I still got nothing.