Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The Trick


You know that trick when someone tells you that you have something on your shirt, you look down and realize nothing is there and you've been played a fool?... I don't like to fall for that trick.

As I was tucking the boys into bed, our conversation went like this:
Son#1: Mama, you have something on your shirt.
Me: No I don't, I'm not falling for that trick.
Son#2: Mama, you really have something on your shirt.
Me: No, really, I don't, I'm not falling for that trick.

A secret: After the boys were in bed I did look down, and sure enough, I had a seahorse tail stuck to my shirt...

Latrice Murphy challenged her readers to create a Lawn Fawn project inspired by her beautiful rainbow colored and handmade necklace. After stamping the seahorse from Lawn Fawn's Critters in the Sea onto a post-it, I cut him out and used that as a mask to create a few colorful and rainbow like seahorses in a row. Unbeknown to me, part of the masked tail stayed on my shirt. After all the seahorses were sponged, I stamped over them with black ink and mounted them onto a blue cardstock based embossed with a water pattern (which is really woodgrain.)
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30 comments:

  1. LindsayJuly 6, 2011 at 6:59 AM

    Hee hee! Love your story Karen! This card is super fun! I love the colors and those seahorses are too cute!

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  2. ~amy~July 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM

    Such a cute card...love the colors and loved your story:)

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  3. KellyJuly 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM

    great colors. Never know when you have crafting shrapnel on your clothes!

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  4. LynnJuly 6, 2011 at 7:21 AM

    Too funny. Life with a house of little and big boys results in a lot of tricks! Love your card. The seahorses are very sweet.

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  5. LaurelJuly 6, 2011 at 7:48 AM

    Cute card and story!

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  6. ChristinaJuly 6, 2011 at 8:32 AM

    Love your card AND your story, Karen! Those rainbow colored sea horses are too cute!

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  7. BabyBokChoyJuly 6, 2011 at 8:49 AM

    oh yeah, i should try that prank on my kids, thanks for reminding me!!

    Your seahorses are too cute!! lol

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  8. LatriceJuly 6, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    This is such a cute card. I love the row of sea horses so much :) thanks for joining my challenge

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  9. Virginia L.July 6, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    How FUN and CREATIVE, Karen! Love the rainbow colors of the seahorse! My kids find me too gullible, so I refrain from believing what they told me--sometimes! Your post makes me smile!

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  10. Chari MossJuly 6, 2011 at 10:22 AM

    Ha ha! Cute story Karen! Love your card, so bright and colorful and happy. I also love the textured background. It totally works as water in my opinion.

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  11. scrapsnsuch@gmail.comJuly 6, 2011 at 11:13 AM

    :>) It was worth this card - super cute!

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  12. KryssiJuly 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM

    How utterly deLightful!!

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  13. farmhouse-storyJuly 6, 2011 at 1:04 PM

    that smart cookie knew what he was talking about!--too funny! darling seahorses, karen!

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  14. Leigh Ann BairdJuly 6, 2011 at 2:05 PM

    Cute card and story!

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  15. JennyJuly 6, 2011 at 2:08 PM

    Little boys just love to play tricks, mine still does at 15...he fortunately has a great sense of humour :)
    Cute row of seahorses :)
    Jenny x

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  16. Erin (Homemade Cards by Erin)July 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM

    Oh the story is almost as cute as the card, love the blue bubbles.

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  17. Jen W.July 6, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    The woodgrain/water idea is brilliant! I love your colourful little seahorses and the sentiment in the bubble. (Your boys probably think you're nuts for walking around with the post it on your shirt!)

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  18. Jay GeeJuly 6, 2011 at 4:55 PM

    Isn't is always the way that the one time you don't fall for a trick it is true! Love your card Karen and the 'water' background :)

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  19. AimesJuly 6, 2011 at 5:53 PM

    Ha ha! Well of all the things to have stuck to your T-Shirt, a sea-horse has to be the most unusual LOL!
    Love this rainbow design - cute and sweet!
    Hugs,
    Aimes
    x

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  20. UnknownJuly 6, 2011 at 8:15 PM

    Very cute, love the colors!

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  21. AlbertaJuly 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM

    Great colors and textures.

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  22. Amy KollingJuly 7, 2011 at 12:00 AM

    Your story totally made me laugh! My luck would have it....that seahorse would have been stuck right on my ****! hehe I have to say though that I would have looked down....I'm gullable!

    Love your rainbow of seahorses and the texture of your background paper!

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  23. ~Tammy~July 7, 2011 at 3:46 PM

    Cute story, and I would have fallen for the trick! This is an equally cute card! Love the textured background you have added!

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  24. Alice July 7, 2011 at 8:17 PM

    beautiful! love how you created your rainbow seahorses and the woodgrain water is so clever. fab card, Karen!

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  25. Lisa PetrellaJuly 7, 2011 at 9:20 PM

    Funny story! HA! And GREAT technique for coloring those seahorses!! LOVE LOVE LOVE the results!!!

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  26. Karolyn at Paper TherapyJuly 7, 2011 at 10:36 PM

    Love the card . . . love the story even more!! Kids are so funny!! LOL

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  27. MichellemJuly 8, 2011 at 11:59 AM

    Your story is so funny! Once my two brothers and I told mom she had something in her teeth in a restaurant. She kept trying to get it and we kept telling her that she missed it - she looked at my dad and he made the face like we were telling the truth so she went to the bathroom to look and there was nothing there! She is still "not happy" with us over that but we thought it was hysterical!

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  28. Emily LeiphartJuly 8, 2011 at 10:07 PM

    LOL, that's hilarious! But how DID you have a seahorse tail stuck on your shirt? Those aren't fussy cut, are they? Your card and story couldn't be any cuter!

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  29. TigriswillreignJuly 9, 2011 at 11:53 AM

    lol! ;)

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  30. artfuldelightJuly 10, 2011 at 7:11 AM

    Adorable card! :-)

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