Paper Playtime #2, Jeff's bd card

good morning to all, yesterday I found this over at PPT where Janis has a simple challenge this time
Ch# 2 Use some BROWN

I had this card on my DS ready to be made for a man, I had already planned on having brown in it!
this is going to Aubreys' other grandpa whom she shares a birthday with...

fancy circle edge

good morning to all,this one is going to my girlfriend for her birthday, I used the circle on page 65 in Art Philosophy,  shift font layer and deleted most of the design in the center and welded a circle from George in the white and placed another circle in the brown on top of that for the background.
this is also for a challenge over at paper playtime #89   anything goes
used a lot of my glitter pen to sparkle things up!

cute story with this card

good morning to all,,    a bat flying?  for your vacation theme you might be asking yourself????
we don't get away much on a dairy farm, it is more getting off for a milking here and there.
For our grandson Eli's birthday I do manage to get my husband to take a little time off, My daughter and s-i-l. drive about half way between Coleraine MN and Wausau WI  and go camping  the week of Eli"s bd, and we meet up with them there,,getting to the bat, my husband wanted to use the GPS to get us there, well the darn thing took us the back roads through small towns and 20miles out of the way, good thing I printed out the direction Sarah sent us....and then when we got to a sign saying Chippewa campgrounds this way, he wanted me to go straight (I was driving)   but I turned anyway because I did not want to go another mile out of the way, plus I knew there would be outhouses there.    I was right on both count, they were there with a outhouse close by.
I think a bat with a compass would have gotten us there just as good....
I can laugh at it now but at the time I was not too happy!
 I used campin' critters for the bat,  PAF for the tree tops, and bat is on a wobble

Over at BBTB 2 Carole has this challenge
  Since we are in the summer months, I thought that a good theme for our challenge to be a vacation time.

and over at Paper Playtime...
 Our current challenge is:
For Ch # 82
Theme: Use POLKA DOTS
PLUS add a SENTIMENT

4 challenges in one!!!

good have to all, I  been thinking about these four since Monday and this morning I made this card, for

   1    Mojo Monday the sketch, tilted to the side

    2   for Bitten by the bug 2....use balloons from any Cricut cartridges
I used celebration for the balloons and Art Philosophy for the tag...

     3     for My Craft spot....

This weeks challenge : Make It Pop!

 (Use dimensionals to make some part of your card really stand out!) 

4          and Paper Playtime  ...      

Ch# 72 - Say it With Sentiments theme "Birthday Card"

 not a very good picture, but they are layered and pop dotted...

  the sketch, on its side....