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Wednesday, 2 March 2011

Hang in there!

I hope you are all having a lovely week so far!  I spent Monday and Tuesday with this thing attached to me to monitor my blood pressure over 24 hours - fun!  It's just like how the doctor does it - the bag gets wrapped around the upper arm and then pumped up to get the blood pressure reading - all by it's lonesome - clever machine!  

Unfortunately, it's a big clumpy thing and every half hour it pumps up whilst making a weird, loud whirring noise!  I got some very funny looks when I went to buy some lunch, lol!!  And then it goes off on the hour every hour during the sleeping hours - guess how much sleep I got?!!  So I was a very sleepy bunny yesterday.  Luckily I was awake enough last night to finish a card I've been playing with for the past few days...

 
 
I just love those Some Odd Girl images!  This little monkey is called Hang Out Ollie - look at those saucer sized eyes! Their current challenge is to create your own embellishments so I cut out the two smaller clouds (the largest one is from the My Favorite Things Die-namics trio cloud die (from Dies to Die For in the UK here) but they were the wrong sizes and shapes for my card!).   I used my trusty kraft cardstock and NO design papers again!  Instead I used a Hero Arts cloud background stamp - this is one of my all time favourite stamps!  I used some bakers twine - this stuff is fabulous, I have it in all of the colours!

I based my design on last week's CPS #206 sketch - as soon as I saw it I knew I had to make a window!


Enjoy the rest of your day and I hope you can join me tomorrow with my DT card for Quixotic Paperie!
 

Paper/cardstock: Bazzill cardstock
Stamps: Hero Arts cloud background, Elzybells sentiment
Mediums: Copics, Versamagic chalk ink
Accents: BasicGrey button, bakers twine (you can get here from Quixotic Paperie)
Tools: My Favorite Things Die-namics cloud die, Nestabilities circle dies
 
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26 comments:

  1. Unknown2 March 2011 at 07:37

    Very lilt card!!!

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  2. mrsk062 March 2011 at 07:52

    Oh mary that sounds like fun NOT!! Hope you get that thing off soon my dad suffers from hig blood pressure and is always on that machine bless! Hope your ok and btw your card is soooooo cute i love lil ollie too! and i love the clouds a great touch! Hugz xx

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  3. cebelica2 March 2011 at 07:54

    Awww, this little monkey is so cute. I love his big eyes!

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  4. Tamara Morton2 March 2011 at 08:08

    Hi Mary, gorgeous card I love the 3D clouds
    Hugs
    Tamara

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  5. Pöydän kulmalla näpertelijä2 March 2011 at 08:12

    Too cute! And that cloud stamps is awesome.

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  6. Nikbee2 March 2011 at 08:36

    A wonderful card. I love the cute monkey.
    Nikki x

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  7. Lisa Jane2 March 2011 at 09:05

    HI Mary - sounds like that machine is enough to send your blood pressure soaring!!
    Love the cheeky monkey and the sky DP.. hope you will be much better when you have slept lol
    Lisa ;)

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  8. cowboydutrem2 March 2011 at 09:14

    What a cute card! I've had the blood pressure 24 hours test too, difficult to sleep as you say... And I was teaching a 2 hours course, they saw a big peak in pressure just a bit before and during the course, no wonder why!!!

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  9. Shirley-Anne2 March 2011 at 09:14

    Super fun card. Love the wavy sentiment banner and those clouds are to die for ...

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  10. heidy2 March 2011 at 11:49

    Oh this is too cute!
    Hugs Heidy

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  11. Michelle2 March 2011 at 13:04

    Hi Mary J

    Oh Wow!!!

    This is awesome, so cute! Love the 3D effect.

    That blood pressure machine sounds awful, I hope you are ok.

    Michelle :-)

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  12. Pami2 March 2011 at 14:02

    Hi Mary, oh hon, I hope you are ok? :-( Great card today, I love the interpretation of the sketch. Pami x

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  13. Monique2 March 2011 at 15:52

    Oh My...how can you not smile when you look at the cutie pie.... Love the clouds in the BG and the 3d ones... Really cute... ...I also hope that your ok..!!

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  14. Silli2 March 2011 at 18:57

    BIG smile sweetie, your card is sooo funny!

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  15. Unknown2 March 2011 at 19:44

    That doesn't sound like fun hunni..hope your ok xx

    This card is so cute!!

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  16. Cindy Haffner2 March 2011 at 21:18

    Ohh Mary that Monkey is so SWEET!!

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  17. Anonymous2 March 2011 at 21:35

    Fab card Mary, love the image! Doesn't sound like you have had a good week, hope it improves!
    Helen x

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  18. Julie3 March 2011 at 00:05

    This is adorable!

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  19. Unknown3 March 2011 at 01:56

    This is adorable, i just love what yo did with the layout!

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  20. Fabiola3 March 2011 at 19:28

    oh il est trop mignon! biz

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  21. Anonymous4 March 2011 at 22:31

    Made me smile so big Mary! Adorable! CUTE! LOVE It! Fabulous designing!
    Pam Going Postal

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  22. Nic aka The Sticky Elf5 March 2011 at 23:36

    Mary, I adore this card. Absolutely fantastic!! I saw this CPS sketch and couldn't come up with anything I liked. Brilliant job. totally inspired.
    Nxxx

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  23. Unknown6 March 2011 at 22:57

    Adorable card Mary, he looks so cheeky, and I love your choice of cloud papers etc. Thanks for joining us this week on Some Odd Girl.
    Caz
    x

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  24. Sarah Rice7 March 2011 at 05:28

    sooooo darling!

    Thanks for playing with us at some odd girl

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  25. Åsa aká Scraphorse8 March 2011 at 18:58

    Wonderful! It´s amazing! Thanks for joining us on Some Odd Girl.

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  26. Anonymous9 March 2011 at 13:37

    So adorable! The whole design is great! I'll be getting a hold of you later this week ;) Thanks for being Odd with us!

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Hello! Thank you for taking the time for any comments, advice or thoughts you may wish to leave for me - I really appreciate you taking the time!

Mary J x