A Questionable Gift and CCEE Name Challenge

My husband just returned last night from a medical mission to Honduras. He went to assist a team of urologists who were doing humanitarian work sponsored by the Army.

He was gone for a couple of LONG weeks and we are so happy to have him back. Although I typically do not write about his work, deployments, etc. (because I do not ever want to compromise the safety of him, his team or my family)....but.....since he is home now---I had to show you the special gift he brought me (remember this was a urology medical mission!):

I could not stop laughing when I unwrapped this! Thought you guys might appreciate the humor. (Well, I know my friend Carole will--bet she might even want to borrow it! SNORT!) Now, I have to figure out where I should display it!?

OK...how about a card?! It is time again for the zany challenge with my CCEE friends on Splitcoaststampers. Once a month we "honor" another SCS member--picking a funny or interesting sign-on name to play around with and then sending her (or him) the cards.

This week we selected Butterfly Ears. I heard it through the grapevine (Mothermark!)--she used this name because of her dog's ears in her avatar look like butterflies. So....one of the loco rule makers in our group (see itallic name above!) decided we had to make a card with two butterflies on it and four paws. (@#$!@)

But.....I figured out how to use these rules to my advantage (I used Kangaroo paws!) I thought this set drawn by my friend Melanie for Gina K Designs would be perfect for this challenge.

The main image is stamped and colored with prismacolor pencils and I used my new H2Os that I was enabled to buy by the ultra talented Ila (check our her work--she is amazing!)

I am still learning but it is fun trying to use them anyway!

Materials used: Stamps-Just so Hoppy (Gina K Designs); ink-black; cardstock-olive, choc chip, white (SU!); dp by Chatterbox; white embossing powder; versamark; Cuttlebug and Nestabilities; horizontal punch and tab punch (Stampin' Up!); corner rounder punch (Creative Memories); white brads (Paper Studio); Prismacolor pencils and odorless mineral spirits; Twinkling H20s; dimensionals (SU!); ribbon (May Arts).

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