Three Challenges in ONE card...

   Hello friends and bloggers!

It's the 28th of the month and that means it is Calendar Girls' FUN time again!!

 

Who are the Calendar Girls? ♥ You can check them out here:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/blogging-groups-f290/calendar-girls-blog-group-full-10-members-t512917.html

 

I{{{ ♥ }}} being part of this great group of creative individuals...their challenges get my juices going and my mojio re-activated each and every time...lol

  To begin, my card needs a wee of explaining this month, as I tried to combine THREE CG's challenges in one card, since I was dreadfully behind with a couple of previously missed summer challenges. Thankfully I am now all caught up!

yeahhh meee!...*sigh of relief here* :o)

Let's start with last JUNE's challenge, hosted by Michelle (SCS - pattem)

Here is her own request:

"My challenge is...using SC 388 (found in the SC thread), with any color combination create a card that best suits your beginning to summer, or summer plans. It could be a trip you are planning, a flower that is blooming, a wedding you are attending, or a graduation gathering. Whatever it could be...have fun creating a card to go with it..."
For Michelle challenge , I followed the sketch below, and added a cute girl on her bike image which represents my joy of summer riding even though I haven't done that in years, until my hubby bought us both new bikes at the beginning of summer (sadly, I only used mine once due to back problems!) :/ Thanks for a  great sketch Michelle!:o) 

                                            
Next, is the month of AUGUST,                                  with Debbie at the helm (SCS - djones)
Calendar Girls Olympics:
"Since the Summer Olympics are now going on, I decided the theme for this month would be our very own Calendar Girls Olympic challenge. There are two parts to this month’s theme:
1. The colors of the rings on the Olympic flag are: blue, yellow, black, green and red. Your card must have at least one embellishment and it must be in one of those colors.
2. Please make a card based on one of the Olympic events. The events in this summer’s Olympics are: Archery, Badminton, Basketball, Beach Volleyball, Boxing, Canoeing, Cycling, Diving, Equestrian, Fencing, Soccer, Gymnastics, Handball, Judo, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Track and Field, Trampoline, Volleyball, Water Polo, Weightlifting, and Wrestling. So, here are some examples…I have a stamp of a women jogging, making a card with this stamp, my card represents the Track and Field Event. That one is pretty obvious...."
For Debbie's challenge I chose biking as my Summer Olympic event, and used a cute Penny Black image, then added all 5 colors of the Olympic rings via the handcut 4 lil pennants with their black background. The big yellow button also takes care of the embellishment part of this 
olympic theme. Thanks for such a fun challenge Debbie!♥

And, finally here we are with the present challenge for the month of OCTOBER , hosted by Tami  (SCS - BlueInks)

She presented us with the challenge expressed here :

Our October Theme :

"We are all about the month of October!

I have three little challenges for you girls this month.
It is the tenth month of the year, so please have exactly ten( 10 ) items on your card. No more, no less! The ten items do not include your card base. Your image stamped on a piece of card stock is counted as one item.
Our due date is the 28th. So, that is going to require two ( 2 ) circles needed on each card and a minimum of eight ( 8 ) different colors.
Are you scared yet?!......lol...."

 

Soooo, lets see if I did the math right...let me count the ways...  I believe that I CAN count exactly TEN items in total IF my lil pennants are counted as one combined item...*grinnn*

The wee sentiment DOES count too...right?...RIGHT!!??  ;o)

The two circle: yellow button and white circle w/stamped image, and I used more than 8 colors  for my sweet immie ; 12 copics in total (2 pinks, 3 browns, 1 grey, 2 blues, 2 oranges, 2 yellows) ;o) Anyways, math and I always had a 'rapport' like oil and water...*rolling my eyes*

which could possibly be reflected even on my card...how lame is that?? LOL

Regardless, this challenge was soooo much fun to do! I found myself grinning often, as I counted items over and over in a totally non-mathematical way...yet trying to make sense of it! (not!!) ehehe  ... Still grinning...;o)

 

I kept the inside of my card fairly simplistic and empty of sentiment for the time being. I will most certainly give it to my youngest, sweet grandaughter once she's ready to trade off her training wheels...this immie reminds me sooo much of her! ♥

 

Tami thank YOU for such FUN, FUN, FUN

math challenge!! I had a blast! ♥

 

Blessings to all of you, and thank you for visiting!

Card Deets:

Stamp: Penny Black ' Easy Rider' ; SU 'Picture This'

C/S: Really Rust (SU) ; DP : My Mnd's Eyes 'Sunny Side'

Ink: Memento Black ; Copics for coloring

Accessories: punches, Spellbinders circle die, lrg button ,

Sew Easy fancy floss -lemonade-, dimentionals

Tecnique: distressing (circle), layering ,counting to 10 (lol)