The More the Merrier Challenge

Hey everyone:

Well, I seem to be getting back to where I was before and I want to thank each of you for the kind thoughts and concerns - it is so appreciated and I am truly blessed to have wonderful friends.

A while back, I found my way to Karen's blog and as I was looking at her wonderful cards, I saw she was talking about rock cakes she and her friends had at one of their gatherings. I was intrigued by what a rock cake was and had to ask about them. She was very kind in forwarding me the recipe and even though I have attempted to make them 3 times now, they are not turning out that well and I'm usually a good cook - I'm going to keep trying until I get them though. Well, rock cakes brought us together and have become fast friends. - we talk often and I look forward to it each time. During one of our conversations, I found out that she and some of her friends in the UK were part of a monthly challenge group and even though I'm in the US, they invited me to join along. Of course, I couldn't pass up this fun opportunity. After some discussion between us, we decided to start our own challenge group and Karen came up with the perfect name - "The More The Merrier Card Challenge Group". I have put the names and blog information of everyone in this group so far on my left sidebar. Please go by and say hello to everyone - they are so very talented and I am enjoying getting to know them better.

The challenge requirements are that on the first of the month one of us has to post the challenge and by the 24th of the month, the challenge needs to be completed and up on our blog. The rules are that you have to stipulate three things in the challenge with an optional fourth (being layout). We are to pick out our favorite and the winner of that month's challenge will come up with the next challenge.

Karen started off our first challenge: it had to be a birthday card with a maximum of four colors, one stamp used and an embellishment except ribbon (UGH - I'm a huge ribbon fan) - there was no layout stipulation for this challenge. Well, even though it was extremely hard :) for me not to use ribbon, I thought what I came up worked pretty good. I hope you enjoy it.

I have rambled enough (can you tell I'm feeling better). I hope everyone is doing well and have a great evening.

Janet