Book of Composition ~ CASology #59; MUSE #32; NBUS #47

How Dee!

I imagine a lot of American stampers and crafters are off on a three-day weekend for Labor Day end-of-summer happiness.  Then again, a lot of American stampers will be staying home and having a wonderful three-day weekend getting crafty!  That'll be me.  We usually lay low and stay off the roads which are overcrowded with peeps rushing to and fro.

 

And why is it, do you suppose, that we don't actually use the word "fro" in our everyday lexicube?  It certainly fits the modern convention of abbreviated words.  Hmm?  Nah.  Me neither.  It just sounds too odd.  "I've just come fro the store ..."; I've gotten a letter fro Jane ... ."  It looks too much like one of my typos where I meant to say for and mistyped it fro.  Never mind.  A bit more of that nonsense and we'll all be froing at the mouth.

So then what happened was I wasn't going to play in this week's CASology challenge where the cue card is "Book."

Sometimes the word is too broad for me to narrow down to one card, you know?  There were endless possibilities, but Hilda the hamster in my head wouldn't settle on one.  (You should check out the gallery!  It's very obvious that many artists didn't have a bit of trouble making genius cards with the word!)

Then I saw the current MUSE Card Club Guest Designer's card. 

The Guest Designer is the brilliant Lori Techler of Inkling Aloud.  As you know, sometimes when I look at an inspiration photo or sketch, Hilda helps me imagine what it would look like flipped.  When I envisioned Lori's card upside down, like this:  (stick with me)

I immediately thought of one of those black and white spotted composition books.  Like this:

So I made this:

Composition:   2 a work of music, literature, or art.

I took an artsy shot of my card fro the top of the washing machine in the garage with the DS's (now twins') chalkboard in the background.  The card base is made from this awesome shiny faux leather paper that is magical for making little purses for cards.  And, today, for making a faux composition book to CASE Lori's design!

 

The Washi tape and the little conversation bubble stickers are today's NBUS.   I'm not sure what I'll use my card for, perhaps for my niece in college, or perhaps I'll turn it into a gradulations card in the spring. 

 

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Enjoy your weekend!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS!*  It's supposed to cool off here so I'm hoping to do some overdue gardening, being careful not to overdo.  Oh, that reminds me. 

 

Last week when we were heading out to an appointment, I mentioned to Mister that we had somehow lost all trace of three plants that used to be in these rocks:

Only one week later, when I went out to my lunch with the girls, look what had sprouted like hope eternal!

It's a bit bed raggled because we've had lots of heat and wind, but it's almost unbearably sweet, don't you think?

 

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*Life Is Too Short!  

 

Paper:  Unknown PP
Stamps:  None
Ink:  Markers
Punch:  SU! label
Stickers:  Mrs. Grossman
Washi Tape:  Freckled Fawn