Enjoy the Ride & Honey, I'm Home!

It's always SO HARD for me to get back into the swing of creating and blogging after returning from vacation.  I think part of the problem for me is having too many ideas!  Course it didn't help that I needed to make a "man" card for my BIL's birthday next week -making masculine cards just isn't my "thing" :)  I took my inspiration from the current Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger  :

This image made me think of some colorful pp that's part of My Mind's Eye Fly a Kite collection.  Now the OUTSIDE of my card is pretty simple -just some diecutting and minimal stamping:

I had alot of fun finishing off the INSIDE of the card:

Never made a pop-up card before and it's alot easier to do than I thought!  My BIL and SIL really enjoy spending some of their free time motorcycling :) 

Materials Used:  Hero Arts Birthday (outside sentiment) and Going (motorcycle) sets, Penny Black Hello Gorgeous (inside sentiment), Stamp Art pine tree, Stampscapes Duck Trio in Flight, Papertrey ink cloud die, Cuttlebug border embossing folder, Cricut Kate's ABC's (number die cut), Spellbinder's Nestie, WPlus 9 banner dies, My Mind's Eye Be Merry pp, Stampin' Up red and kraft cs, Hero Arts eggshell layering paper, Ranger walnut stain, tumbled glass and peeled paint distress inks, SU so saffron ink, HA latte ink, silver gel pen

My husband and I returned from Madrid, Spain last Monday night right before the violent protests erupted.  We knew something was brewing as evidenced by the Occupy Wallstreet-like camps set up in some of the plazas and the very prominent police presence throughout the city especially at night.  None of this dampened our enthusiasm and we experienced as much as we could in the too short of time we had.  My husband is quite the shutterbug - he took over 700 photos on this trip! - and I plan to share some of them in my blog posts starting with this one :)

We spent three days in Barcelona before taking the train to Madrid.  I read somewhere that a person really can't appreciate the essence of Barcelona without walking its streets.  Can't see this stuff in a museum:

Gaudi's infamous Casa Batllo - don't the columns look like bones?!! :

Gaudi was really ahead of his time - can you believe he actually had to sue the people who commissioned him to build Casa Mila to get his money because they didn't like it??!! :

Aren't the mosaics and intricate ironwork adorning this building's facade just beautiful??!!  I was almost jealous of the couple we watched walk arm-in-arm into the building:

Rainbow cake - Yes, please!!!! :

Doesn't he remind you of the Hero Art's owls??!!  :)

Fishing bobbers as ornamentation anyone??!!! :

You can tell my husband had hunting season on his mind - he was quite enamored with all the "camoflauge" trees we saw during our walks :)



Thanks for stopping by!  I've been "lurking" around everyone's blogs when I could and will now have time to actually comment :)