Kiddin’ Around and Hot Air Balloon Bendi Card

Happy Monday from the Frozen Tundra of the Arctic! It’s been an extremely cold weekend around Norther Illinois recently. We had -40° wind chills this past weekend. This morning was -30°!!! Not fun! It’s hard enough just to keep the sidewalks/driveway cleared but when you have livestock, the water tanks freeze over (even with heaters in them!) and it’s just not fun to trek to the barn through 3 ft snow drifts. Now, I hear Canada had -60° wind chills. 😯 I don’t know how anyone does this on a regular basis and we only have 2 horses and 2 barn cats. Thank God I have a heated tack room where I can go to warm up. 40° in the tack room feels mighty good after being in those wind chills! That’s where the barn kitties stay when it’s this cold too- regardless of how much they want to be free to roam the barn! 🥶

So, onto my card for the day. This is one I made for a challenge. My upline, Linda Bauwin, offers us the opportunity to win product from her. If we opt in the challenge, she sends us a packet of goodies, we use the items to make cards and send back to her to be judged. This was one of six that I entered.

I have not bought the Hot Air Balloon or the Kiddin’ Around Bundle— yet 😉 but I love them both and this card is testimony to what you can do just having the paper. I love our papers! I do. I might be a tad biased, but to me Stampin’ Up! has the BEST paper on the market, always. I REALLY want the whole Kiddin’ Around Suite, but I don’t have human kids and I don’t have a lot of kids to send cards to so I’m trying to refrain. We’ll see how that goes over the next month or two! 😉 The paper is vibrant and fun and the die cuts have a castle!!! I mean, how cool is that?

Top View

Back View- The sentiment and greeting are from the Perennial Postage Stamp set

Close up

How can you not love that little girl with her spatula?!

And look at those great embellishments! All the products are listed below. You can click on any of them to take you to my online store. This card is a replica of a card I made a couple of SAB’s ago. You can see that card HERE.

I have another one of these fun folds coming up on Wednesday, so stay tuned!

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