April Fool's Day Tribute to My Ugliest Card

Happy Monday morning, the first day of April, the start of the fourth month of the year, any minute now it will be Christmas.  Sorry.  Someone had to warn you!

If you're a regular reader, you know that my friend Suzanne Dahlberg of the card yard is hosting the Ugliest Card Ever Blog Hop on her blog to celebrate all our crafty regrets from prior work. Please click over to Suzanne's blog to read more details and I hope you will be able to join in the hop.  You don't have to write a whole new post, just link up an old post to your ugliest card. 

It was NOT easy picking my ugliest card, but I finally settled on this one:

I'm just going to let the card speak for itself.

I would have liked to have remade a card using this exact stamp to redeem myself, but the truth is I threw that stamp away a couple of years ago.  I love this company's amusing stamps, but honestly, they aren't very deeply carved and after just a few stampings, you lose all the detail and this stamp was particularly bad. 

I do love the sentiment that goes with it, however, which I still have: 

"If you don't have anything nice to say about anyone, come and sit by me." 

Very naughty, but it makes me laugh every time.

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Even though I don't have that image, I did make you a new paper-pieced, embossed, and die-cut card of friendship to start off your new week:

 Thank you, Suzanne!  That was really fun!

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Today, in some parts of the world, we celebrate April Fool's Day.  Mister falls for it every single year.  I'm so lucky that I live with a verifiable knight in shining armor and I do appreciate that.  As such, he really makes it easy to trick him on April Fool's Day if I say that there is a:

flat tire
spider
washing machine leak
computer glitch
tack in my shoe
broken anything
...

You get the idea.  I don't deserve all the fun I have at his expense.

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Enjoy your April Food's Day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS*!  April Food's Day?!  Now there's a holiday that Mister would definitely enjoy!! 

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*Life Is Too Short!

Happy Happy Happy Birthday to Kim H! ~ Announcement re Ugliest Blog Card Hop!

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday, fellow carder
Lovely lady, and friend, too!

 

Today is the 38th birthday of Kim Heggins of Cupcakes, Cards and Kim!  Our mutual friend, Joyce (top of the hop list below), initiated this fun birthday card hop for our little friend.  We've kept our hippity hop tribute a surprise, which was not easy for me, so I'm pretty puffed up about not spelling beans and posting blogs inappropriately out of shedule.

 

I'm still getting to know Kim, so I'm sure you will be amazed at the detecting skills I used to gopher out the inspiration I used for my card for her:

• I'm going to go out on a limb and say that she likes cupcakes. 
• Having enjoyed several months of her wonderful card postings, I believe that she likes Disney, especially Mickey M.  A lot.
• She has a red wall that she uses as a backdrop for her card photos.

 

So I made her this:

To see the other birthday cards for Kim, here are the linkies:

Joyce http://cards-by-the-sea.blogspot.com/
Darnell  http://www.djkardkreations.com/ (that's me)
Harriet http://allycatcards.blogspot.com/
Jeanne  http://akeptlife.blogspot.com/
Kara http://kandrdesigns.blogspot.com/
Kelly http://ginghamgirlsadventures.blogspot.com/
Marybeth http://marybethstimeforpaper.blogspot.com/
Renee http://itsapatchworklife.blogspot.com/
Sharron  http://onpapillonwings.blogspot.com/
Tracey http://inmycreativeopinion.blogspot.com/

Kim, you are always positive and supportive and enthusiastic and I hope you have the best birthday ever and many, many, many more!! Thank you for befriending me!

 

Mwah!

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Ugliest Card Ever!

Another blogging friend, Suzanne Dahlberg, of the card yard posted that she wants to host the Ugliest Card Ever Blog Hop on her blog to celebrate all of the stamping fools who have some crafty regrets when they look back at prior work. The hop will take place on April Fool's Day, but of course.

How fun will this be?!  I'm helping Suzanne give everyone a head's up since (gulp) April lst is just a couple of weeks away. (Don't even think about it.)  If you are interested, please click over to Suzanne's blog to read more details and to leave her a comment that you will be playing.

It would be great if you could also spread the word on your own blog and then start backtracking through it for your ugliest card.   Most of us know prezactly which one that is!!  Oh, haha, don't take that wrong.  I mean, we don't know which one is your ugliest, we know which one is our own ugliest!

 

It'll be a hop hoot and I hope you'll throw pride to the wind and showcase that bad boy, baby!

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Enjoy Kim's birthday today, wherever you are!  (You get to eat a cupcake and the calories don't count!  Tell 'em I said so.)  No, seriously, enjoy!   LITS*! 

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*Life Is Too Short!

Paper: Bazzill golden yellow; PTI black
and white; SU! real red
Stamp: Simon Says Stamp Conversation
and Banner Sentiment
Die: PTI Cupcake
Punches: SU! Circles and Corner Chomper