Friday, September 23, 2011

Travel The World!

After Lisa made reference to some of us might be "smarty pants," I had all sorts of ideas for the Bloggers Challenge theme of "Travel."   Then I decided to fly straight!  I have wanted to use Mr. Tim's Air Travel stamps, so I decided today would be the day!  I did a couple of technique's from the "Compendium of Curiosities," one is that you emboss your image with clear embossing powder and then do you inking and other stamping and then remove with an iron.  Really if you don't own this book, it is a pretty great investment! 
I would have posted this earlier, but my lunch bell (Molly) was just ringing away!  How many of you know about Dalmatians?  Well, I have had the honor of owning two and never did I set out to get a purebred, it just happened with the first, Misty!  We did this "Sponsor a Life" event at the local shelter and for fun, we went to see the dog we were sponsoring.  We were so excited to see how lovely she was and knew without a doubt that she would be adopted!  I called that Monday to check her status and was told, she would be put down in an hour.  I lost it and cried like a baby and told them, don't you do that!  We will take her.  I called my hubby and told him to go to the shelter and pick up Misty!  We already had Shadow a smooth coat Border Collie (the little one in my pic), so I had not planned on #2.  When Misty died, Shadow got so depressed and we ended up at the shelter and there was Molly!  Anyway, this got very long to tell you that Dalmatians are very vocal and have no problems telling you in is time to get up at 5:30 AM on weekends or that it is time to eat! 

Have a great weekend and thank you for stopping by for a visit!  Oh, come by tomorrow for a little surprise!

27 comments:

Brenda Brown said...

Love this Terry and your story about Misty and Molly. What fabulous dogs to have and Shadow of course.
Have a fabulous weekend.
luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

Valerie-Jael said...

Love your tag and your doggy story. I am very sad that I am not able to keep a dog here! Valerie

Lisa Somerville said...

Wonderful tag - fab use of Tim's stamps with the added Batik look! Glad you could play along with the Bloggers Challenge!

Debi said...

Love this tag Terry, and great techniques x Debi x

Lucy Edmondson said...

This is great, Terry!

Lucy x

cheryl said...

oh you always make,the most,amazing tags hun and this is just brilliant love those stamps you have used,and just love the dog story,love hugs cherylxxx

judyjstamper said...

I really like this tag ~ the plane looks like's 'in the air' the way it's placed! So cool.

Dogs are such a joy are they not?!? Glad you are enjoying yours.

Beverly G said...

Your tag is great, makes me want to travel. Glad you were able to save your new friend.

Ida said...

Awesome tag. Love the mixture of images and how you created the background.
Enjoyed hearing about your dogs as well. It's nice to know your animals are well loved.

Michele said...

beautiful travel tag Terry! xo

Netty said...

Your story about the dogs is very moving, thank you for sharing.
Loving your wonderful tag and I totally agree with you about the CofC book, its fabulous for so many techniques. Enjoy the weekend, Annette x

Lisa said...

I SO hadn't thought of using that technique with the passenger ticket- but I love, love, love how it turned out!
Thx for sharing your doggie story, I had always thought I'd love to have a Dalmatian, but we ended up with two toy poodles instead...and funny enough, they were the one dog we weren't interested in having. But Hercules would've been put down and we saved him too! =)

Basement Stamper said...

Great tag, love Tim's stamps. Thanks for playing with us at blogger's challenge!

Kimberly Gajewski said...

What a terrific tag, Terry! Great images! Have a wonderful weekend! :D

Sharon said...

Love your travel tag Terry!! Has a real masculine "feel" to it too!! I also love your dalmation story!!!

Shelly Schmidt said...

Great tag Terry! Love the plane and I have never tried embossing and ironing over it! OMG, I am a night owl, I would not like it if my dog woke me up at 5:30AM!

Cindy Adkins said...

Wow, gorgeous, Terry!!! I love this tag and your doggy story...aren't they such a blessing? If you get a chance, hop over to the Girl's Club--you are featured!

XO
Cindy

Pam said...

Great tag Terry, and I own the book too! Love your doggie story! I don't know much about dalmations, but they sure are cute!
Pam

Gerrie Johnnic said...

This is so cool, that plane is coming right at me, how'd ya' do that? I still miss my Penny after 30 years she was the best companion. Egg is standing tall!

Maria Ontiveros said...

A great tag, as always (love how placing them off the tag simulates movement), but I really love you doggy rescue story! thanks for sharing it,
Rinda

Lynn Stevens said...

Awe, I have a tear in my eye with your story of Misty and Molly,your such a good mommy!
had to laugh about the morning wake up call! LOL
Lovely tag Terry, havent done that technique in eons!
Have a great weekend
hugs Lynn

Unknown said...

Your travel tag is superb Terry! Great colours, wish airliners would issue tickets like that!! Loved reading your story about Misty and Molly! Have a great weekend, hugs, Ira

Meggymay said...

Love your travel tag Terry. The story of your dogs was very moving. We rescued one of our collies many years ago, following a radio broadcast. Yvonne x

Marjie Kemper said...

Love this tag, Terry! The way you've done the plane is awesome - it looks like it's coming in for a landing! Enjoy your new pooch - does this mean we'll be seeing lots of spots in your artwork?

Unknown said...

Ahhhhh.. What a big heart you have. I enjoyed reading how you ended up with your spotted friends...

Your tag is gorgeous as usual. Hope you have a happy weekend my friend..

Hugs, Linda

Silvia(Barnie) said...

Great tag and love your story.

1CardCreator said...

Awesome tag and technique Terry! Love all you did in the bg too, great piece!

Blog Archive