My First Card for a Cause!

sNow that the wedding is over, I decided to make another attempt at this whole card making thing. I've been blog-stalking for almost a year, but haven't actually made very many cards at all. So, when I saw that one of the blogs I stalked (Punkydoodle Papers) was offering a challenge to make a card for a cause every week, I thought I'd give it a try (and she's offering some fanTASTIC blog candy because it's her blog birthday/anniversary; nothing like that for fantastic motivation to make some cards!). This is my first ever card for anything other than my own friends/family! I hope it suffices; strangers don't love me enough to like them no matter what!

So this card was made for the Week 1 Challenge at Punkydoodle Papers; Valentine Cards for the Elderly.Please forgive my poor camera taking skills. And also my poor creativity skills; I feel like the card needs something more, but I don't know what. I don't have a single Valentine's stamp/sticker or anything except for this Love stamp embossing folder that came with my Cuttlebug. The stamp image is cut out of some shiny white cardstock that was the front of a thank you card I messed up on (gotta love recycling!). I put some stickles on it to make it a little more interesting. The sentiment is a Studio G stamp. The line next to the sentiment and the canceled stamp squiggly lines are from PTI's Faux Ribbon stamp set (I just bent the stamp on my block to make it curvy for the cancellation and then stamped it 3 times, so there were a total of 6 lines). Apparently I didn't ink the stamp well enough (twice!), but I decided that makes it look more like it was really canceled maybe.

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On an unrelated note, look where we found our cat earlier this week. Yep, that's right, she is balancing on top of our bathroom door as if it's a balance beam. You might ask, how did she get there?! We suspect she jumped into the bathroom closet (you can see the doors to the right) and from there up to the top of the door. I heard a loud bang as she jumped up there and when I saw where she was immediately grabbed my camera. It was hilarious. She actually walked around up there for quite awhile. I don't think she knew how to get down, so Troy ended up getting her down.