High Hopes Stamps - Party Donkey

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One of my first High Hopes Stamps images.. I still swoon when I pull it out to play! "Party Donkey" is an all time favorite... I mean common folks how can you not love a donkey carrying a cake!

Now I know I have a bit of special place in MY heart for donkeys.. but the talent to bring you a cake should impress everyone. I colored my little guy with Copics after stamping the addition of the "Three Candle Cake".  On the cake I added some orange Stickles sparkles. I cut out the edge of the cake and then cut out the rest with a Whimsy Oval Stitched Die. As a mat I used a Spellbinders die. My papers are from Moda Scraps Little Boy collection that I sewed down with a zig zag stitch and placed on a brown card stock base.

Then for my sentiment "Make A Wish" from High Hopes Stamps. Works great with a Donkey bringing a birthday cake don't you thin?

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Love Love Love my donkey stamps! And High Hopes Stamps has all time favorites! I am sure they have your favorite too! Click HERE to visit the site and fall in love!

Have a blessed day-
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Whimsy Digital Stamps - Penguin Fun in Fall

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Anyone else feel like Celebrating Fall coming? ME ME ME! I am so ready for summer to be done and over! Ready for some fall weather and fun! Whimsy Stamps Digital Stamp "Penguin Fun in Fall"  by Crissy Armstrong is in the celebrating mood sure!

Do just love this cute little guy or what? I colored with my Copics (colors below) and then matched up with a million different papers and embellishments... Maybe it is just my mood from the insane crazy week ... but I think I needed a little CAS card. Just wish my house and everything else was clean and simple! I sewed down the image paper onto a sage green card stock and then placed on a light brown card stock base. The same brown card stock I used my Whimsy Stamp die "celebrate"

I do love my word dies!

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It felt good to finally get some coloring time this week.. therapy that is much needed!

Make sure to see all the fun "therapy" at Whimsy Stamps HERE and I promise there is so much to make you feel happy all over!

Have a blessed day -
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Animal Crackers - Sweet Faces

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 I love these faces... all of them. Some have so much personality in just that glance of an eye.

Lacey and Patti have those faces that just make you smile. Especially Lacey her eyes talk all on their own. Patti has expressive eyes too, they just don't have the humor in them that Lacey has. Patti's is all about did you bring me a snack? Lacey would for sure take the snack.. but she is also all about being the center of attention. Always wants to be in the middle front and center for all the attention.. all the lovin'... all they head scratches.. and oh yea.. all the snacks.

Macie her eyes are all about warmth.

Her eyes are so big, expressive and just simply gorgeous. And they just warm my heart...

Olive Oyl - now she had a hard spring, loosing her baby. But she is still a loving sweet girl.

Such a love and now we have to decide how long we wait before breeding her again. If we breed her again. But I so want that line passed down and her sweet personality. I know she will be a loving attentive Mom as she was so good with Domino when he was a baby... we called her Aunt Olive and much of the time we would find Olive sleeping with Domino.

Willie... oh my Willie.

 
Just like his Mom he is cautious and wants so badly to be friendly and come for loving. He is so close to just going for it.. and once in a while he allows some petting and loving but cautiously for sure.
Now his brothers...

 Yes they know no caution.. they are all in 110% - it is gimmie gimmie gimmie for all attention. We have be be a little more careful with them. They are getting bigger and stronger so those cute little polka dot head butts I use to get from them... well they have some force now. They just don't realize they are hurting they just want all the attention petting and loving they can get... and I try and give all I can cuz.. well how could you not with those adorable faces?

Ok so this isn't just a face shot here... But this little lady looked so sweet and peaceful perched up on her bar yesterday morning. 

 We FINALLY got some rain Thursday afternoon. All around us all week everyone was getting so much really soaking rain. Heck just 15-20 miles from us people were getting 8-9 inches! And we were not getting a drop. And we are just so dry and need it so badly. Then Thursday it was our turn and we were blessed with some decent rainfall.  There is more predicted for this weekend. Praying we get more to help green up things around here more. Its all about rain when you raise animals... we need that rain to keep everyone healthy and happy.

 I hope you enjoyed my faces today -
Have a blessed weekend -
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High Hopes Stamps - Tracking Thomas

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This week for High Hopes stamps I just had to dig into my older High Hopes Stamps and find Tracking Thomas... as soon as I saw the paper pad from Carte Bella's Cowboy Country collection. those tee pees from the collection needed Tracking Thomas right?

Handsome Indian Boy isn't he? I colored with my Copics (colors below) masking off Thomas and then stamping him a little tee pee for him to live in. This High Hopes Lg. Tee Pee stamp. and then pulled out three patterns from the Carta Bella Cowboy Country paper pad... the red solid, the teepees and then a stripe off of a buffalo pattern. Perfect band for my little tracker. I stacked them all up on a kraft card stock. Then the fabulous sentiment made for these imaegs "Tracking Birthday"

Great card for a young man or older man in your life don't you think? It makes me so happy to find perfect pattern paper for an image!

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Hope you enjoyed -
Have a blessed day -
HUGS and

Whimsy Stamps New Release - Girl and a Pumpkin

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Back again today with another new release image from Whimsy Stamps! And today is another new Digital image, from Crissy Armstrong "Girl and a Pumpkin" Such a beautiful Fall image for sure!

She is just so pretty! I colored her with my copics (oops... forgot to take a photo of them sorry) and then cut her out with a Spellbinders Oval ... then I matted her sort of matted. I cut out the mat from a light green card stock with the Whimsy Stamps Oval Stitched Die Set... then that fun Pumpkin paper shows through just a bit around the image. And do you love that pattern paper with this image??!! I pulled out some older corner dies for the corners of the mat and then added them on with orange brads. Wow haven't used a brad in forever! Need to keep them out on the desk and use more! Then to finish of my card the Whimsy Word die "Celebrate" - love that this set has three different words to play with "Smiles Happy Celebrate" Love them!

Now run over to the Whimsy Stamps Web Site HERE and find all the new goodies to play with!

Have a blessed day -
HUGS and

Whimsy Stamps New September Release - So Nuts About Home!

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We have a new release going on at Whimsy Stamps! And on the Digital team there are some really sweet images to play with! And with Digital you can play sooner and make your project to your sizes and backgrounds!

For my first image I colored up Crissy Armstrong's "So Nuts About Home"

I just adore those "full" little cheeks! I colored with my Copics below and then cut out the sweet image with the Whimsy Basic Stitched Ovals Die Set. Love how the dies make the edges have that stitched look! I found an older My Minds Eye pattern paper that was just perfect with the image. I sewed all the layers down on dark brown card stock. For some added embellishments I found four rhinestone flowers for the corners. Such a cute image !

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Now make sure you go and see all the Whimsy Stamps fun!!! Head to the web store fast with this link HERE

I'll be back tomorrow with another new image!
HUGS and

Animal Crackers - Just Chillin'

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Well its Labor Day weekend here in the states, and Crissy is looking like she is working up to the long weekend here.... 

 Doesn't she look relaxed - sun bathing mid morning. Such a sweetie.. and pretty too!

Now the next photo isn't the best... sorry I was a long way and shot it with my camera... but I knew the second that Jennifer knew I was walking that way she would move. And I thought it was a cute photo.

You see we have some of those Igloo dog houses for the goats. And well a few of them are older and just don't lock down like they use to. And with a few head butts.. and a few of the chunkier girls jumping on and off of them they come loose and the top rolls off. I suppose that Jennifer decided that the top provides just as much shade as getting into the hut... and hey a bit of a rocking chair effect I would guess.

Peso wants to say something... 

I have no idea what.. but he was talking big time! He is such a funny man... high pitch voice and those bug eyes.. such a cutie!

Speaking of talking....

 Raffie was really calling out LOUDLY! I don't have to read his mind at all... Love the look in his eye... YEP the girls were really really close and that was a very seductive call to the girls. They were not paying attention at all.. Sorry buddy but they saw the hay Dad had just thrown in the pen for them, and fresh food.. yeah that rates a bit higher than your flirting.

Seems that Sweet Pea has slipped right back into her normal life - right in beside her Mom Belle. And like mother like daughter those horns are just stunning -

These two girls really do have LONG horns that are perfectly shaped. Not to thin.. not to thick...
Belle was suppose to be one of my future hot shot Breeding goats... but her first birthing was triplets Sweet Pea delivered first but the second two were in a race for number two and were a bit tangled up. It was a hard delivery and they did not survive. Belle nearly didn't as well, as she had some sort of stroke during the delivery. For a while we were worried that Sweet Pea would be an orphan and that Belle wouldn't make it much less raise her little baby. But we helped Sweet pea eat and in a short time Belle seemed to try and love on and clean her and despite being a little slower, she seems to have recovered. But I have always been scared to breed her again. So Sweet Pea will have to carry on her line. And she had done it beautifully... Domino is such a love, and handsome too. Now if only I could get a little girl and those blues eyes from Belle... but I know the girl part is the dudes job. So next time we will try again... Can't wait for it to cool down some so I can split up these girls and start a count down to babies again!

Hope you all have a wonderfully blessed weekend -
Hug a furry or feathered friend -
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