June Dueling Darling Challenge

Well hello all...here we are again embarking on our June challenge. Our lovely hostess' for this month were Barb and Michelle and they chose the theme "The Great Outdoors" which reminds me of the wonderful John Candy movie...what a hoot...I was the lucky recipient of Barb's kit....and oh my what a kit...we had tons of fun things to choose from and plenty of left overs to make more fun things... this is my left overs...and I used alot of the kit to make my card!!!

I chose a new card for me...it is called the Marvelous Magical Marquee Card and you can find the video and measurements Here. Last year the talented Judy gave me an amazing card made with this design and I've wanted to do one ever since. I figured that I could use at least 3 pieces of the beautiful DSP from Bo Bunny  Barb sent along. What a fun card it was to make...kind of like a gate fold card but with a fun twist....Here is the card closed and I will show you as it opens...heehee...

 

Isn't this fun....I used the Bo Bunny camper image for my focal image and the Whipper Snapper "toss out the map" for the inside saying. The front "explore" is a Bo Bunny stamp and I used one of the green buttons to accent the "O" in explore. I thought the yellow grosgrain ribbon was the perfect touch for the inside of the card.

I'm not so great at following directions...holy hannah...I read and re-read the instructions and then forgot to add my "Great outdoors Story"...so am adding it now...sigh... If you know me in person you would know I am a chatter box and have been most of my life...(hmmmmm...got in a bit of trouble in school with that...heehee). so you would be totally surprised if you went fishing with me...I am convinced that if you make noise in the boat...you will not catch a fish and I need to catch at least one...(so I never talk while fishing and it has amazed more that one person in my life that I can stay quiet for so long...). anyway on to the story. When I was in my early 20's I went to my friends cabin to visit for a couple days....Her DH was an avid fisherman and she was an avid talker like me...anyway, he took us out in the boat to do some bass fishing and I baited my own hook with frogs and  cast out....she chattered on and on and on....her dh was getting mighty frustrated with her talking and then she started getting her line hooked on branches etc ....so her dh finally gave up fishing and would row us over unhook her line and let her cast again, get stuck again....and again, and again...well at almost the tip of his frustration, I had cast out my line and was struggling with what I thought was a dumb tree branch that had at my line, I was not too excited to let her dh know that I was the one stuck this time so I just kept playing with my line...I would lift it up sharp and drop it in, in hopes of getting it unstuck, at one point it seemed to be working and I was able to keep reeling in the line....whew disaster averted there....when I got most of the line in I figured I had better stop while I was ahead...just as the hook was to surface much to my surprise and everyone else's I saw a "HUGE" bass on the end of the hook...My girlfriend started jumping up and down in the boat and screaming...(oh did I mention I'm not a very good swimmer??? )...I was sure her dh was going to take an oar and hit her over the head to get her to be quiet and sit down...(although neither one of us wanted to rock the boat anymore that it was already rocking)...it turns out that I had caught the biggest bass yet for the season....needless to say that fish was the end of our fishing for the evening...her dh needed a drink...lol...and I needed solid ground...my friend...well she needed to keep chatting...lol...

Thanks for stopping by. Make sure you stop by the other Darling's blogs and take a peek. I am sure you will not be disappointed....

Until next time.

Hugs,

Carol