Happy Gal N. Tine's!

Hello Stamplings!

I hope this finds you well or you soon will be! 

I made some cards! There are so many challenges celebrating Valentine's Day, or Galentine's Day, or Hearts-n'-Love-For-No-Reason-Day that it's hard not to be inspired! It's "D = Dies/Die Cuts" week on the I.D.E.A.S. Calendar and I happen to have purchased a few things (cough) recently to help motivate me. 

Today's NBUS feature is the "Jar of Wishes" from Pinkfresh Studio. All the rest of the schtuffs I used today are BUS!

I cut the Jar of Wishes from a light gray cardstock and then again from vellum and used the matching stencil to add pink highlights. I cut the lid from a scrap of cork and then filled my Jar of Wishes with little pink and red heart flowers from Impression Obsession dies. The SWAK stands for "sealed with a kiss." Anyone remember writing those letters on the flap of envelopes back in the last century? SWAK is from Penny Black and it comes in a 3-pack with XOXO and I💗YOU.

For the background I used one of those O(ld)BUS narrow embossing folders, shown here with Ms. Val:

Just to be different, I alternated embossing and debossing down the length of the card front. Here's a close up of the card:

Playing with: Pinkfresh February Challenge and Little Red Wagon.

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Next I used a NBUS die that was a gift last Galentine's Day from my friend Ang, lovingly known to many of you across the pond as Mrs. Duck. Hammy calls it a quilt die because it has so many panels and there are so many designs you can make with it. My puzzle-lovin' heart had a ball!

Playing with: Color Hues.

Playing with: Just Us Girls.

Playing with: Addicted to Stamps and More and CAS on Friday

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

And enjoy the Olympics! It's impressive to see all the athletes so dedicated to their sport, but it's also emotional as they alternate between the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. It was so sad that Lindsey Vonn broke her leg, but she sure gave it her all!

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and thank you so much for the warm welcome back to Blogland last week!

I'll leave with my annual crocus photo. They are sure to bring a smile, especially if you are still snowbound and frigid! I'm sorry, what?

*Life is too short!

Happy Groundhog Day!

Hello Stamplings!

I hope you are doing well! I'm happy to be back in Blogland! In the past months, I've missed wishing you a few Happy "Thises" and Happy "Thatses," but I couldn't miss popping my head up today!

I went to heat-emboss a sediment for a card the other day and when I opened the Drawer of Heat Embossing, I just stood there staring down at it. Too soon. So today I will just enter stage left very softly, on tippy-toes, and share these cards I made the first part of last September last year:

They're all the same, but different. I used some of my pretty colored cardstock for the bases to showcase the "Stitch Wreath" die from Poppystamps and just puzzled my way around the wreath using the Jigsaw Technique, punctuating some of the card fronts with scoring. 

With a new year, like many of you, I have been trying to think of ways to schpark my mojo. It hurt my head. I finally decided, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," so I will continue with my I.D.E.A.S Board, which was a big help the last two years. 

This is the first week of February, which is I = Ink/Color Medium. I'm not sure if I'll manage a regular weekly routine or not, but I hope my mojo juices start flowing again soon.

By the way, before you ask, Hammy is still with me.🐹Thankfully, our neighbors agreed to foster Hammy and Stanley during my break, but their daughter Daphne fell totally in love with young Stanley! I couldn't break her heart, so he lives with her now. Happily, we get to see them nearly every day.

I want to thank you again for your friendship over these last many months, for sticking with me, and for all your emails, cards, prayers, and best wishes for both of us! I'm proud to be a part of such a great and caring online community, especially in these distressing times! The Mister still has a lot of rehab to do, but he is very positive and determined and he is making great progress:

Here we are out for dinner with friends recently to 

celebrate our 55th wedding anniversary!  

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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! Life is too short ~ don't ever take it for granite! 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse for all or some of the past almost 15 years and special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower!