Very revealing...

Its the August Card Chain Challenge reveal!

Here's the card I sent to Oreet, who was my recipient this month. I decided to go bright and cheery... and totally whimsical with this cute stamp from Tara Wakefield. As always the big reveal over at Deborah's is well worth a visit as there are some very talented crafters who take part each month.

My sender for August was Dawn in NZ. I love her sweet Tiddlyinks card, as does my mom who would have quite happily taken it home with her if I had agreed!
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The Card Chain Challenge runs each month under Deborah's watchful eye and if you click here you can go and sign up for her September Challenge. This month she has bagged another fabulous challenge sponsor meaning one lucky participant will be winning some gorgeous Lawn Fawn goodies at the end of September.

Finally, to further enhance my credentials as a crazy cat lady I'll point you in the direction of this fabulous post over at The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee. Scroll through and enjoy all of the sweet kitten photographs but pause at picture #5 to see the world's happiest kitten ever! Guaranteed to brighten your day and melt even the hardest non-kitten-loving heart.

Happy crafting everyone.

So thoughtful!

I'm just dropping by to share my entry for One layer week over at LIM. The theme is 'Thank you!' so I broke out one of my favourite script stamps from Papertrey Ink and paired it with this sweet duo from Tara Wakefield.

Crazy cute or what? I spotted another image from the set on Kimberley's amazing blog here, I fell heavily in 'stamp love' and well, you can guess the rest!

I purchased the stamps from Tara's Etsy shop and wish I'd also bought two of her other sets as they are all ridiculously and wonderfully cute! 

The background was created using Distress inking through a TCW stencil, which was then sprayed with Glimmer Mist. I stamped and masked the bear and his little chum, then used the stencil, sprayed with Glimmer Mist, added the sentiment and finally coloured with Promarkers. 

Happy 'humpday' everyone, its all downhill to the weekend from here!