November has arrived!

November has come in just like October left – high winds and rain. Miserable, ugly day today. The rain sure put a damper on last night’s activities (I know bad pun). By 7:15 we only had about 20 kids including three teenagers just collecting food for the food bank but I insisted they take some candy too. Usually by that time I’m half out of candy. By 7:30 there were no kids to be seen up and down the street so I closed down operations. Before I had all the lights out a few kids showed up. Not sure where they came from but there they were. None until after 8:00 and even though the lights were all off they knocked on the door, and again at 9:00 two teenagers knocked on the door. In total, about 30 kids. Oh boy do we have candy left over. I had a box of 125 chocolate bars and I don’t really like chocolate very much so Joe has a lot of chocolate to eat. I think a lot of it is going into the freezer for the grandkids later on.

This is Friday so it’s another Bellariffic Friday card using a Stamping Bella stamp.

 

Turns out this stamp has been discontinued. Oh well, who knew. It makes a very cute card for a toddler and I use it quite a bit. I wasn’t crazy about the sketch she provided this week and a few others didn’t like it either – and some made a card that was very varied from the sketch! This one was coloured up with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol. The ovals are Spellbinder’s dies. The sketch called for a flower where I put a balloon brad but a flower on a child’s card just didn’t suit. The “wish big” sentiment is from another Stamping Bella stamp set. I may add some yellow Stickles around the candles now that I see it here.

I like next week’s challenge much better – just use two different Bella stamps on the card. Easy peasy.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Cheers

Violet