Sock Monkey Trying to Be Funny

Every year my brother finds the funniest cards for everyone's birthday! Now it's become quite my challenge to try and come up with a humorous Stampin' Up card for HIS birthday. So, here's my attempt...

On the outside, I paperpieced the sock monkey coming out of the scallop square punch and attached the saying: "You put your right hand in, you put your right hand out..." On the inside it reads: "What if the HOKEY POKEY really is what it's ALL about?" It's from the Smarty Pants set:

Would love to know what you think...

Top Note - Note Card

With Rex and house training taking up a good part of our free time, I've had to find quicker ways to create... is that possible??? So, as you can imagine, that's not good for my creative mojo. I'm finding that the clean and simple cards are the way to go. There are some great challenges on SCS. Here's one for this week. Thanks for visiting and please feel free to comment.

Trying to add a little something to the inside of my cards, too!

Purple Challenge!

How could I resist a challenge to use purple??? This is actually my second try to this challenge and this layout challenge.


I used the Rich Razzleberry Designer paper with the clear button to create the center of the flower. That was fun to put together and I really think that adds a nice punch of color to match the ribbon and background flourish.

Thanks for visiting!