Are We There Yet? Found the Stamp! NBUS #120

Hello, my friends!

I'm going to show you my card right off the bat today just to shock your croissants!

I purchased this fun street corner stamp several weeks ago and I'm excited to finally use one of the NBUS stamps from the set called "On the Corner Of," made by Neat and Tangled. They have a challenge blog called Little Tangles. This week's challenge is masking, which I didn't do so I can't enter, but I wanted to pass on the information to you anywhiffle.

The other NBUS on my card today is the turkoys car from The Alley Way Stamps set "Priceless Joy." I had to put some Dimensional Magic on the car windows, tres fersure.

And where did that well-known sediment come from? My own little right-hand man, Hammy the Hamster, drew it!!

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Challenges

The foundation of my card came from two related challenges on the challenge board this week. Over at One-Layer Simplicity Challenge, the brief is "Road Trip." Check.

Over at Addicted to CAS, the code word is "Wheels." Check.

And it was fun just using a pop of color on my card, which I pulled from Less Is More, where the brief is the color turkoys. Check.

PLEASE NOTE: Less Is More is holding a call for a new Design Team member. If you wish to be considered, there is a separate post and linkie for you to use. Good luck!

My little vehicle off in the distance is a NBUS stamp from the Paper Smooches set "Metropolis," so I'm joining in the fun at the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge. They are holding everyone's favorite "Anything Goes" challenge this week! Check.

And finally (thank you, Greta), I am also entering the "Journey" challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

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All of the details regarding rules, sponsors, and prizes can be found by click on the challenge links. I hope you can join in the fun provided to us by the challenge owners and their very talented design teams!!

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JUST AS YOU PREDICTED!

So this isn't videotaped or audiotaped or lie-detector-taped, but this is what happened, just as you said it would. We discovered on Saturday, March 29th that grandson Adam's favorite stamp was missing. After looking everywhere I keep stamps, I made a plea to you for help identifying the missing stamp:

My friend Bobby did better than that. She found the stamp on eBay! I made a bid and then waited five days for it to end, which it did on April 5th. I WON!!

Late in the afternoon on THE SAME DAY, I went out to the Playhouse. The light from the sun threw a long shaft of light from the west window and across the floor to the other side. As I leaned over from my chair to get something in the wooden file cabinet, my eyes fell upon an object way in the back between the desk and the cabinet.  Wait. What?

Here I'll pull it out so you can see for yourself. I said to meself, "Hmmmmm, that's an odd place for it to have ended up seeing as how my stamps are not usually over in that area." Followed by the realization that the twins may have been good-naturedly messing with each other and Henry tossed Adam's stamp off to the side, not even noticing where it went. Then they were called in to dinner. Then they went home and by the time they came back two weeks later, they were clueless. Call me Dee Tective.

Naturally today, April 7th, the new stamp arrived in the mail!

It happened just like you said it would! As soon as I bought a replacement, the old one turned up! I mean, the same day! The replacement stamp was only .99 cents and having a happy grandson was more than worth it! Thank you, Bobby, and thank you to all of you who prayed to St. Anthony!

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New Friends Corner

Today I'm delighted to welcome Christine of Crea Christine. Christine is joining us from Belgium. She has been blogging since 2011. Besides making fantastic cards, Christine loves maps and lives on a farm with goats, chickens, and four dogs! How fun! I love her CAS style of card art and I know you will, too!

Thank you for joining, Christine, and welcome aboard!!

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