Dueling Darling's - We're going CAMPING!! :)

**Second post of the day - please scroll down for my FBD weekly card!**


Hiya!  It's the 15th and that means the Dueling Darling Divas "battle" it out with the Dazzlers!  For those that are new to my blog, we're a group of SCS friends that got together to create cards kits with the same theme but neither of us knows what the other team will receive til posting day!  This month, our hostess was none other than the fabulous BARB!  She's known for her amazing swaps on SCS and luckily, one of the Divas :)  This month she sent us the most scrumptious kit to work with!  I mean, this kit was so full of scrumptious papers and embellies, it was impossible to chose which to use!  So much so, I made two!  But .....  only one card posted for today :) 

Her theme was ..... The Great Outdoors!

Here is my card for Team Divas!  And the inside view which is where I added the sentiment :)  And the paper isn't upside down, LOL!  I promise!  It's one of those fun papers where the image goes E, W, N and S :)  All the elements used were from Barb's kit!  The only thing I had to use was my SU cardstock and some itty bitty twine! (and a smidge of tombo!)  Her kit was SO generous!  Thank you, Barb!  {Love you!!}   And this story gets longer .... lol!

With the DDD posts, the hostess gives us a challenge part of the card :)  Barb asked us to share a funny story of The Great Outdoors.  A little over a year into our marriage, dh thought it would be FABULOUS (snort!) to take me camping.  Um.   Yes.   We spent a fortune on camping gear from this cushy tent to a pontoon looking boat thing and drove to the middle of nowhere central Florida and camped.  I was TERRIFIED!  I felt lousy, I wanted a/c, and as soon as dark hit our deserted campground, I went into full blown panic, sitting up in my "sleeping bag" while dh snored like a bear.  I was crushing a flashlight in my hands and just had to shine it into the woods and just screamed!  Lots of glowing green eyes were staring back at me, just sitting - watching ... while a family of raccoons had made an assembly line to our tent - ripped a hole in it and had stolen everything from the bread to the chips to the paper towels!  I ran to the car, refused to come back out while screaming in hysteria at my dh to leave!  He said "well, why did you have to look into the woods!?" LOL!  I had put up with 6 ft snakes all around us, buzzards, sneaky raccoons, water mocs in the "swim-able lake", still felt lousy and had had enough!  We left, drove 55 miles in silence at 1-ish am and found a hotel that wasn't much better than the campgrounds, but it at least had 4 walls and a roof!   We returned the next day, everything completely intact aside from the footprints of critters all through-out the campsite despire that 15 foot bonfire dh set when we left and there is a VERY Happy ending to this story!  Aside from us going home, lol!   That "Lousy" feeling I'd had that day and a half and the 10 trips to the one soda machine on the campgrounds to get grape soda one after the other was me 3.5 weeks pregnant with our first baby {our 16 year old daughter} :)  And no, I have never gone camping again -  He has! And I stayed home!  In the house.  Happily!  :)   I have taken my dd with her Girl Scout troop but we had cabins, a kitchen, meeting house - very cushy, not even real camping ;)

Be sure to head on over to the Divas and see what they have created with this fan-tabulous kit Barb sent to us!

*  Barb  *   Carol  *   Jamie  *   Laurajean  *   Judy   *   Joan  *  Tami   *  

and the Dazzlers! 

 You can find the blog roll here on Jeanette's blog :)

Card deets:  Chocolate Chip; Green Joanns; Dusty Durango; GP White; Images and sentiment from

Whipper Snapper Great Outdoors and Bo Bunny Roughin' It; Brown twill ribbon; Ivory buttons;

Brown floss; olive brads; cuttlebug, nesties; tombo; 3d dots; prismacolor markers