Your Favorite Season!

Hello Stamplings!

No, it's not Monday already! I'm honored to be here today as a Guest Designer for TIME OUT Challenges! The brief for this challenge is Your Favorite Season! I love the changing tree graphic!

For me, it is a toss-up between spring or fall being my favorite season. While I was looking around and thinking about which way to go with my design, I found a NBUS sediment stamp from Memory Box called, "Harvest Love and Kindness," which made the decision easy! 

I cut a stitched circle out of vellum and then added the white heat-embossed sediment. The background is simply a beautiful pp from Craft Consortium called Ink Drops - Sunset (perfect for fall), which I embossed with a leafy e/f. The leaf brooch is from Impression Obsession, balanced with a triplet of enamel drops. 

I want to thank TIME OUT for this honor and I hope you can join us for this fun challenge with your designs reflecting your favorite season!

This challenge is sponsored by Waffle Flower Crafts! The winner will be chosen by the Design Team, will receive a $25 store credit, and will receive an invitation to be a future Guest Designer! 

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Aren't these leaves beautiful? I picked this up on a walk, but I'm not sure what type of tree it came from.

On a personal note, it's ironic that I am posting for the TIME OUT challenge, because I need to take some time out from blogging for a while.

Even so, my plan is to keep NBUS running because it doesn't require much of my time and we all enjoy visiting the gallery and being inspired. When I can, I will continuing to visit your blogs and comment. Thank you for understanding! 

Please keep enjoying yourselves! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

[Edited to add: I have to moderate comments on my blog and I accidentally deleted six comments. If you don't see your comment below and it's been a couple of days, please resend. Thank you!]

Love and hugs,

*Life is too short!

Orange and Green Convene!

Hello Stamplings!

Welcome on this fine fresh start to another week! It's so nice to be able to have the windows open and breezes blowing through. In fact, I need to get outside and tend to some neglected flowers, so I will get right to it.

This is D = Dies/Die Cuts on the I.D.E.A.S. Calendar. My cards are more suited for inky week, but as these designs show, any wee die cut on your card counts. 

Onefer

I'm starting with the star of the show. This is one of my favorite old-timey stamps from Penny Black called, "Perfect Pear." It lends itself to coloring directly on the stamp, but this time I stamped it in DI Old Paper for a no-line watercolor look and then I painted it with my Ziggies. 

I had begun to paint the leaves when I went into the Big House for lunch and when I came back, I was quite taken by the unfinished panel:

Isn't that pretty just as it is? But the Color Hues challenge is orange and green, so I kept painting. Hammy and Stanley added schplatters and we called it a day. The frame and sediment are from Memory Box.

I'm also playing in the Anything Goes option at Seize the Birthday.

Twofer

Keeping with the o/g colors, this design was inspired by AAA Cards, where the brief is to follow Ceal's Lead (CASE her card). I went with another oldie by SU, using the peaches and turning them into oranges. I stamped and painted them and then I stamped and fussy-cut a mask to blend the light blue rectangle background ala Ceal. 

I kept the sediment simple with a bit of bling, but it needed some umph, so I got out the ol' glossy accents for the fruit and blossoms and the lads winked the leaves.

I am also playing in the challenge at Allsorts where the brief is Birthdays/ Anything Goes.

Threefer

I was out of manly cards, so for this design I used a few NBUS stamps from Stampers Anonymous. I thought they were a good choice for keeping the orange and green and glossification going. The sediment is from GKW and the frame is from Mama Elephant. Besides the Color Hues challenge, I'm playing over at Krafty Chicks: Birthday.

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I.D.E.A.S. Calendar: D = Dies

You will find a linky tool below for you to share your creations using your dies! Your lovely card may help motivate someone else! 

I love seeing what you create, visiting you, and pinning your designs! 

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Enjoy your week! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!* 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse! 

*Life is too short!

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Septimus Alredius!

Hello Stamplings!

I hope this finds you feeling well!

Following last Monday's post, I did call in Scour and Reorg. The timing turned out to be good because the busyness helped take my mind off yet another senseless school shooting in this country which left two children dead, many injured, and anyone there mentally troubled for the rest of their lives. I want to rant on about it, but that's not why you're here. 

We've turned the calendar today for the ninth time in 2025! Happy Labor Day to those celebrating! There are only three more turns to go and the yuletide will be coming in! This week's I.D.E.A.S. Calendar is I = Ink/Color Medium. With the Playhouse turned topsy-turvy by my crew, not to mention my mental state, I consorted with B.O.B. and I found two inky panels previously made with Brusho powders. And, thus:

Onefer

Some of my bloggie friends made cards a coupla weeks ago using the Northern Lights technique. This isn't that, but a shoutout to them for the inspiration to see this panel as very Northern-Light-ish, so I simply used an old wooded SU silhouette tree stamp in the foreground. (I meant to say wooden stamp, but you have to love the English language because ha-ha, it's also wooded!)

This left me with turkoyce hills, so I covered them with snow using my NBUS Simon Hurley Astro Paste. It's crazy how impossible (especially in the sun) it is to photograph the stunning schparkle of this paste when it dries. In real life the whole bottom area is covered like in the lower left-hand corner. 

I'm playing in Jingle Belles where the brief is "Cardstock Christmas." I used black and watercolor cardstock only.

Twofer

For this design ... wait. Where's the rest of this Brusho panel? Wheeeel, what happened was, I went to CASE my friend Susan's card because her design reminded me that I have the same Santa and his sleigh silhouette stamp which I thought would be perfect for a Northern Lights sky. Using my MISTI, my first stamping of the sleigh in black with a heavy hand still wasn't enough coverage, so I reinked the stamp and stamped it a second time. When I lifted the lid of my MISTI, I saw that the Brusho panel had moved in spite of a grip pad and magnets. Wah. Wah.

My cursing made Stanley dive under his blankets, but Hammy calmly suggested that I just cut off Santa and his sleigh and use the partial panel on a card. B.O.B. provided the die-cut sediment and Pinkfresh Studio Washi butterfly which led to the Sizzix cloud e/f and, well, B.O.B.'s your uncle! And now I'm on Santa's naughty list. (Like I wasn't already!)

I'm playing in Addicted to Stamps and More where they are celebrating Challenge 500! Congratulations!! This time the brief is Die Cuts / Stencils. Also, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday where the brief is Anything Goes featuring Pinkfresh Studio.

Bonus!

After I stamped the trees for my Onefer above, I put a white folded card in my MISTI and stamped off the heavy black ink. Bonus! It gave me another perfectly useable card for my Christmas stash. I've always had a fondness for black and white evergreen trees and simple sediment for a Christmas card design. For this card, I used a sediment from SSS "Holiday Greetings Mix 1." I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to add a period to that sediment.

I'm playing again at ABC Christmas Challenge under Q is for Quick! It doesn't get much more QACAS than this!

Lesson

And then what happened was, bless my heart, I thought why not run it through my Gemini using an embossing plate to add falling snow for, you know, interest. Only I didn't ask my little rompers, so I grabbed my 3D snow when I should have grabbed my 1D snow and now here's a lesson for all of us on how sometimes cards don't need more interest!

That poor little bird is about to be knocked out of the sky by that snowfall those snowballs!😆

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I.D.E.A.S. Calendar: I = Ink/Color Mediums

You will find a linky tool below for you to share your colorful/inky art! Your creation may help motivate someone out of their mojo schlump! 

I love seeing what you create, visiting you, and pinning your designs! Thank you so much to everyone who shared their designs last week! Mwah!

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As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse! Enjoy your day!

No, seriously, enjoy! Life is too short!

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