Hairball Awareness Day - Friends with Flair 4-24

You get a "special surprise" in your stocking today...two cartoons!  :)

Today is "Hairball Awareness Day"......so, with that in mind, here is the cat quotation for the day.....although I can't imagine someone actually putting this into a book!!!

"The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat." 

                                                                  -------------Michael McGarel 

Hi, Friends.....

Okay, so I really...ummm..."dropped the ball" today because I do NOT have a cat card for you for Hairball Awareness Day!  But who had ever heard of that special day until maybe yesterday????  (Besides, what cat owner is NOT already verrrrrrry aware....and wary...of hairballs???!!) With more Grandma duty than usual and my trusty back-up gone for a few days, I hardly had time to finish this project for the Unity Friends with Flair today....much less "cough up" a clever cat card for the holiday!  Ackkkkkkk!

What I did manage (barely) to finish up was a mixed media tag.  It is the first tag that I've ever made!!!  I have put them on cards before, but never made just a stand-alone tag.  Everyone always says how easy they are, but for some reason I find them incredibly intimidating.  EEEEK!!! 

I used a Unity - Susan K. Weckesser stamp from The Garden {What-Not} Collection that I won in a Susan Weckesser giveaway.  Was I thrilled to see a fabulous Unity set in that package???  Oh, YES!!!  :)  (THANKS, Susan!!) 

I heat embossed the image in white on a kraft tag.  Then I misted and sponged and sprayed all sorts of different products all over it.......not having any idea what I was doing!!!!

Then knowing it couldn't look any worse than it already did, I took my gigantic circle punch and went willy-nilly punching (mostly partial) circles from a text page I use for my art journal book.   I glued them on and...............it looked worse than it did before!!!  Ha!!

Then I spied my dried up and crumpled baby wipes I had used for wiping off some of the sprays and tore them up and glued those down, too.  (I saw someone that did this recently...was it on FWF???  Grandma-brain can't remember!)  Finally, I was getting an effect that I almost liked!!!  :)  Then it was time for more inking and sponging on top of all that.  (Oh, my....this isn't really how you are supposed to make a tag, is it????)








I added a little mini-tag using a Sending Love stamp from the Unity - Antique Butterfly set with some layered Prima flowers.  Then I tied on some twine and feathery yarn to finish.
 
 
What do you think????  Oh, my....personally, I don't know what to think!!!  Hahaha!!!  But it is done and I hope to have lots of opportunities to keep practicing!  :)

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NEW FOLLOWER INTRODUCTION TIME!!!!!
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I am delighted to have two new followers:

A big welcome to Patti J of Cherish Each Precious Day.  Patti is an amazing designer whose cards always have such a sense of fun!!!  You will enjoy seeing all the things she makes for the many teams she helps with!!!  Thank you, Patti, for becoming a follower.  It really means a lot to me!!!  This ginormous smile is for you!!!!

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Next is Dawn from Designs by Dragonfly.  Oh, my....Is there even one challenge that Dawn does not enter and win?????  She is a regular at Unity - Friends with Flair and her cards are just always so amazing.....not to mention that there are tons of them!!  Where does she find the time????  I am in awe!  Thanks so much, Dawn, for becoming a follower!!  This ginormous new-follower smile is all yours!!!

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Okay, friends, that's all for tonight!  Thank you so much for visiting and for your wonderful comments!!!

<3

Janis 

Thank you for the honor of entering this tag in the following challenges:
1. Unity - Friends with Flair
2. I will find a few other challenges soon..... :)