Fire up the BBQ Grill girls ...

 I  wanted to share with you this really cute invite I made the other night .. and of course  I DO  NOT have a BBQ party planned any time soon.( I wish )    Just thought it was  cute  and since I have been smelling the BBQ grills  cooking around our neighborhood  this past weekend  made me  want to make this card .. It is a  tri fold of  sorts I guess you could say    I have  attached photos  of  each  step of this card as you open it  and here are the measurements  .

Your basic  base card ( real red )   measures 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 ( your base card will open from the left)  the  top  black mat size measures   4 1/4  X  3 3/4  on the 4 1/4 " side  score  at 1/4 "  this will be  where you will apply the sticky strip  to and wrap around to back side of your base  card . That's it in a nut shell ..  Now  you go make one of your own .. I actually have  this  template  made up with no  stamping images  on the card  just 2 pieces of card stock  made into this template  write your measurements on the back side and you will always have a  quick reference  for a quick  cute card   for  any occasion .. I received  12  different templates similar to this one a few years ago from  the Holland  stampin seminar I attended  and  I have always loved these cute and simple templates .. and so will you ..

I thought it was time again to brush  the  dust off  these cute templates and  make a few  of them with updated  sets.  Even though this BBQ set  is long gone ..I still think of it as new  since It has hardly been used,  But  is still a keeper  in my book .. Now if I could only  find a way to add the  scratch and sniff of a BBQ grill cooking , THEN I  think the card would be totally  AWESOME  Don't you ?

Great news hubby started receiving his  mail yesterday  ( OK actually it  was His Thursday  MY Wednesday ( yesterday )  Is that confusing or what ?  Especially now that he is  working midnights  OH boy .  I was really  beginning to get concerned with that whole issue  with him not getting his mail  ya know .. HELLLLOOOOOO  I am getting ready to send  him a ton of cards and the last thing we need is to  have them lost over the  Atlantic  or  Indian  Ocean  some where .. Now we can NOT have that one little bit .. sooo  this was  really  wonderful news  I got last night  from hubby that he is getting his mail now ..YIPPY!  Apparently  the post man over there  was on  his  RR leave back  home  in the US    sooo that was the reason for the hold  up ..

I have been trying to get a  few things stamped ahead of time  before my  knee  replacement surgery on the 10th  since I will not be able  to go  down stairs to my  stampin room   for  awhile  I  figured I  would try  to  stock pile a few things that will tie  us all over  during this down  time  thats approaching very quickly I might  add YIKES!!

Flash backs are suddenly  appearing  alot more frequently  If your pickin up what I laying  down ? Hee! Hee!

Yesterday was  a super dee duper mail day

7 packages arrived  with cards  from

Melissa Duncan,

Tessa Boulter,

Melanie Taylor,

Liz Kilburg,

K Skiff,

Snookie Hilker

Thank you  girls sooo very much  all your cards are sooo Beautiful .I am sooo excited about getting these to the troops .. 

I have 1  request today...

Can  K. Skiff  &  Snookie Hilker

email me personally ..

Did you all see LOST last night ?  Oh my !! What Sun is going to die now in 2 months ?, Jin is the baby's father , Who is that woman that fell  from the sky? She said they found the plane and there were NO survivors WHAT IS GOING ON ????... Good'O Juliette is up to her  tricks again with Ben cause she is  leaving  secret messages for him , even though  she did say she hated Him ..  and didn't the  eye patch guy die a couple  shows back ??HUUMMMM Just more questions to make it more Twisted  HUH?  Isn't it GREAT though ?  gotta love LOST! 

Have a Fabulous day and  until later... Happy Stampin!!

Comments

[Rose Ann]

What a cute BBQ card!! I'm glad to hear your DH is getting his mail now. ;)

[lvzdaycare]

I am loving this BBQ invite. I traded for this set last year and haven't even touched it yet. My hubby and I would like to have a cookout party this summer. Now I have a great invite idea. Thank you.

[Dawnmercedes]

I'm a LOST fan too...Lots of new turns last night.

I put a box of goodies on your front porch today. I don't know if you are a front door or back door family!

[Dawnmercedes]

I'm a LOST fan too...Lots of new turns last night.

I put a box of goodies on your front porch today. I don't know if you are a front door or back door family!

[Alex (aka Sillybirds)]

Oh thanks for that Dawn, just given away what is going to happen in Lost, we in UK still waiting that episode!!!!! he he

Love that BBQ card, just wonderful, what set did you use for this?

[Ctbigreddog66]

Nope, don't watch that LOST show. If anything, it keeps interferring with my Jim Belushi show According to Jim, KWIM?

Yes that is a cute set since I used it on my never ending calendar which I showed my dh Brownie Troop Leader last night when we were all making cards for that poor little sick boy in Canada that everyone is posting about to reach his goal before he dies. And, of course we made some cards for the troops in Iraq as well. It's so amazing the out pour of support when you ask a child to help in such great causes.