Happy New Year With New Friends!

Greetings, Stamplings!

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Happy New Year!

I appear to have started celebrating early and have my ginfers on the wrong qwerty keys! The Mister took my picher:

You might notice the size of my tipply, but I'm a big girl and I han candle it! Here, look how glossy and beschparkled I got for the occasion!

Sediment by Happy Little Stampers, fun lady by Art Impressions, drink by Inkadinkado, and Stately e/f by Craft Concepts.

Challenges

• Cards in Envy: Celebrate the Season.
• CASology: Toast.
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Party Time.
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

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New Friends Corner / Followers Update

With my various travels and the holidays, I've not allowed space on my posts for my New Friends Corner in quite some time. In order to bring myself up-to-date before the year ends and not to keep these lovely ladies waiting any longer, I'm going to introduce all of them to you today.

I'm hoping that during this sort of lull between Christmas and the first week of January, you will take the time to visit these talented crafters and introduce yourself! Why not end the year by making new friends!

Francesca Ferrari of A Rainbow of Colors. Francesca is from Italy and she has been blogging since 2014. She started her blog to share her talent for making paper creations of tags, cards, and other projects. Francesca has a wonderful talent for layering and embellishing her beautiful works of art which will enchant you!

Fikreta Posavec ("Fiki") of Bad Kitty's Craftroom. Fiki has been blogging since 2012 and fortunately, she blogs her wonderful card art often. And not just plain cards either! Fiki is a well-rounded crafter who makes shaped cards, gift tags, gift bags, and many other delightful projects to inspire you!

Seemaa of Paper Passions. Seemaa has only been blogging since February of this year! She has a 7-year-old child and works full-time. Seemaa started sewing about three years ago and then moved on to paper crafting where she found her true passion. She is another well-rounded crafter who doesn't limit herself to just making cards. You will enjoy how Seemaa provides a photo tutorial of her artistic process. I hope you will make a special effort to welcome Seemaa to Blogland!

Sue of Sue's Card Craft. Sue has been blogging since 2012. I'm sure you have seen some of Sue's incredible card art at some of the challenges around Blogland. Her cards and tags are really exquisite between the design, the colors, and the clean execution. You might want to sharpen your Pinterest Pin before you step inside Sue's blog, if you know what I mean!

Elisabeth M. of Auf's Papiergebracht. Elisabeth tells me that is loosely translated to mean, "To Bring Something On Paper." Elisabeth started blogging in 2013. Fortunately for us, she often posts her extraordinary art pieces. I say "pieces" because I think of Elisabeth's cards as little sculptures that should be framed in a gallery. You'll see what I mean when you go have an amazing journey back through the creations on her blog!

Christine Alexander of It's a Card Days Night. Christine just started blogging last month!! She came over from Splitcoaststampers where she is known as Calex. Christine has been making her wonderful cards for nine years now and her passion is for both CAS and Mixed Media. It takes talent to combine those two styles and Christine does it perfectly! Please make a special effort to visit Christine and welcome her to our supportive community in Blogland.

Rhonda of Wheelie Crafty Designs. Rhonda is from Australia and she has been blogging since 2014. You may have seen her beautiful creations either as a design team member or a guest designer. Her card are amazing, but her layouts will knocks your socks off as she thoughtfully pays tribute to those she loves!

Tina H. of Tina's Creative Studio. Tina is from Australia and she has been blogging since 2006! What?! Granted, some of those years were lean years when it came to posting, but goodness, Tina was one of the early pioneers in Blogland! As a Stampin' Up demonstrator, Tina excels at showcasing SU products whether it be on standard cards, shaped cards, or fantastic scrapbook layouts!

Tee of The Altered Paper. Tee has only been blogging since April of this year! Like so many of us, Tee started her blog to share her creations in challenges. As her blog name attests, Tee loves mixed media and altered crafts and she does it well. In the few months since she has been entering challenges, she has won well-deserved recognition! Please make a special effort to welcome Tee to Blogland!

Thank you for joining, ladies, and welcome to the Playhouse!

As a reminder, if you don't see yourself introduced, it's because I couldn't find you. Please contact me to give me your blog URL and I'll be happy to introduce you!

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Follower Following Issues

Speaking of followers, there are again issues with blogger inexpischplibly dropping us and with our ability to follow.

• Check the side bar. I have noticed lately when I visit my bloggie friends that there have been several instances where the button on their side bar says "Follow" when I know, for a fact, that I have already followed them! This has also happened on challenge blogs!
  
  I have also had several friends say my blog (and others) have stopped showing up in their reader. It didn't occur to them that Blogger might have dropped them from someone's blog. So, please glance over at the side bar follower thumbnail here and on other sites you visit to make sure it says "Unfollow" indicating that you have not been dropped. If you have been dropped, please refollow.
  
• Double-click to follow. If you do need to refollow and you get the "Oops" error popup window stating that you cannot follow, just ignore it and double-click the "Follow" button again. Sometimes it takes more tries, but twice usually works. You will then get another window on top of the Oops window that gives text information and if you scroll down a bit, you will see a "Follow" button. Click that and then refresh the home page of the blog you are trying to follow.
  
  If you don't see your face as the first photo in the line-up after following, never fear, you should find yourself in the first of the "no-face" followers. I haven't figured out yet why the face thing is happening, but at least double-clicking "Follow" is allowing us to follow blogs again, which it hadn't been doing for many months.

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Enjoy your day and your New Year's Weekend! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse! We are tickled that the boys will be spending the weekend with us so I'll see you in 2017!! I wish you all the very best for a happy and healthy new year filled with lots of love and giggles!

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