When pigs fly

Good Morning!  Thank goodness for coffee or I wouldn't be able to post this early....EVER! That would not do though, because this is my last post as a Guest Designer over at Hambo Stamps for the Hambo Hoedown.  Sniff, sniff, sniffle... :(  I don't want it to end, I've been having so much fun over there.  The team and the coordinator was great, the challenges fun and the stamps are awesome!   I can only hope that they will invite me back to play again one day.

This weeks challenge was to use eyelets.  That is a hard one for me, I don't often use eyelets.  The last time I used them was to make a flip-flop card and prior to that probably over a year ago.  I took my cues for this card layout from Retro Sketch #74.  I believe the xxx's are intended to represent a sentiment, but I decided to use them as my eyelets.  For my image I used Hambo Stamps Floating Pig.  This is a perfect parting digi stamp because, well it's a pig (as is Hambo's Logo) and it is floating away as if to say goodbye, though I had to provide a couple of extra balloons to keep him buoyant- LOL!  I LOVE this image, it is one of my very favorite from their digi library.  Oh wait, I also love all the monsters...and fish...and birds...and Bailey... and Wee Henry.  :)

So won't you pick one and come play this challenge with us.  You can grab some bragging rights if you win and each week you play you get the next week's digi release for free!  AWESOME!

Now onto today's Question of the Day- The other day I was dancing around trying to kill a wee-tiny spider about the size of a typical sequin (I know, the crafting reference  helps you visualize) because it was #1- near my craft stuff (BIG NO-NO!) and #2- creeping around on eight legs giving me the hebie-jebies .  I was trying to smash it with my computer power cord/battery (isn't that what they are for?!) and kept missing because it was in a corner.  I was totally freaked!  Eventually I got it- BOO-YAH!  So, what critters, bugs, etc. are you afraid of and why?

Thank you again Hambo for having me!  It has truly been a pleasure!

PS- Only two days left to enter my giveaway here!

BOO-YAH!

So what is the definition of Boo-yah!?  I often use it in conjunction with an accomplishment or feat, like, "woo-hoo, I did it!"  It might mean something different to you though?  I was checking out the Urban Dictionary definition and there are several funny things that come back when you type in boo-yah!  For example:

• Boo-yah! - An annoying exclamation, often uttered by planetarium-headed freshmen who think they're karate kid, often in a high-pitched, grating, nasal tone.  Example- "Boo-yah! I'll slap you!"

There are some others that I found funny, like an example with Hillary Clinton.   (Disclaimer- The fact that I think it is funny has nothing to do with my political views and I don't express them here  I don't want to offend folks and that is never my intention, I just like to laugh and have fun.  That, however, is why some of the examples are left unsaid here.)  Anyway, you should check it out.  While you are there when you go to the UD main page, there are some funny new-to-me terms like:

• Emotinap- Being too emotional, that eventually as a result, you fall asleep.  (This is *so* me!)
• Moronimated- Something so dumb it has to be animated.

Anyway, I made a card with the sentiment BOO-YAH! today using my CAS-ual Friday Exclamations set, so fun.  And per UD this tends to be a guy term so how appropriate that I made it on a masculine card.  I used my Lawn Fawn Botanical Bliss set for the vines and some of their Dewey Decimal paper to fill in the leaves.  That was a LOT of fussy cutting, but it worked out so glad I did it!  I love this combo of blue & aqua with the orangy-yellow (should I submit that term to UD?!).  I made this using this week's CAS(E) this Sketch #38 and The Pink Elephant #210 with a masculine theme.  This could easily be used for a birthday, which is why I'll submit to Seize the Birthday...again (they are probably tired of me!).  Or this card can be used for any accomplishment, "Boo-yah! You Graduated!" or even like "Boo-yah! I love you!" LOL.  I have to say, this is pretty CAS for me, so I am feeling pretty impressed with myself...BOO-YAH! :)

The Question of the Day is what terms do you use on a regular basis that may or may not be recognized by a standard dictionary and what do they mean?  Maybe you made them up or it was an accident, who knows. My daughter actually made one up last night, she freaked out about a little bug that kinda looked like a potato bug but not quite, it looked "gross" and "sorta rotten" so she called it a "potato-nub-nub"- we laughed about that and used it all night long.  That one is going down in the history books for sure! ;)

Thanks for stopping!