No More Adventures

One of the personal challenges I have with my irreverent cards is that while they might be funny, when would you actually send one of them? At my farmer's markets and craft shows, I'd ask people who bought my snarkier cards about this, and the two most popular responses were "Oh, I know exactly who's getting this." and "Send it? Heck, I'm gonna frame it!"

So with that in mind, I bring you my next irreverent card:

That's the same lady from my previous post, and this time I've paired her with one of the sentiments from my new (to me) Say What You Mean set from Dylusions. That "pole" under the sentiment is to give some contrast to the word sections (I love that they come all ready to cut apart!), and I even ran it through the Big Shot with a wood-grain texture plate:

I based my layout on the September sketch over at the Artful Delight blog:

which I turned on its ear for my card:

So when would you send this card? Hmmm, how about after a particularly bad vacation, like a cruise ship that got boarded by pirates? Or maybe a vacation to an island and you arrived just in front of a hurricane? (I claim two of those. They were taping store windows while we drove to the hotel. Not a good sign.) Or maybe a bike ride where you had an unfortunate encounter with a tree and you had to spend your afternoon in a hospital getting your arm put into a cast and being told to stay off your bike, but you didn't listen to them and rode one-armed for six weeks (happened to a friend of mine.)

Yeah, things like that.

Okay, I might have a few more challenges in me today. I'm trying not to think about heading back to the Day Job in the morning. After Labor Day = 99% of the schools back in session and Congress is back in town and all August vacation people are back. Traffic is gonna suuuuuuuuk.

Thanks for stopping by!

Recipe:
Stamps - Stampers Anonymous, Dylusions; Paper - Basic Grey Granola, SU Early Espresso, clearbags,com cream linen card base; Other - wood-grain impression plate (don't remember whose), SU French Blue grosgrain (yes, it's that old)