Cheers!

Hello Stamplings!

I hope this finds you well and I hope you had a wonderful Father's Day weekend! The family came for dinner and it was a treat to sit down just with them. (We normally host bigger gatherings.) We were blessed with beautiful weather, which I know isn't the case for some of you. I hope it calms down and cools off where needed!

Today is "Anything Goes" week on the I.D.E.A.S. Calendar, so the sky's the limit. I might be weird (I see you cocking your head at the modifier!), but I don't do as well without boundaries. I have too much schtuff!

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Thankfully, other challenges give me guidance when my mind is going in a million different directions. The current Color Hues challenge by Carol is yellow and black. I've been wanting to bring this very old set from Altenew out of mothballs. This one is called, "Painted Butterflies." They are from 2014! They are easy to layer and since the invention of the MISTI, it's even easier now.

I decided to use the whole set to make my own DSP. The lads did a light ink schplattering and I used a gold and black birthday sediment strip from Memory Box to finish it off.

I'm also playing in: Addicted to Stamps and More (Any Occasion).

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For my Christmas card design, I used the sketch by Narelle from Freshly Made Sketches, but to make it work for my die idea, I turned the sketch on its side. 

The die is "Moose & Pine Trees" from Cottage Cutz. To cut the rectangles and silver panel, I used "Dotted Rectangles" from Sizzix. I struggled with whether to add a sediment and, if so, where, until I saw this teeny tiny "cheers" stamp in the "Holiday Greetings Mix 1" from SSS. It's really a fabulous set of varied sediment stamps.

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I was going to launch into an essay about why deer remain deer even if there is more than one, yet tree becomes trees, if there is more than one. Then, when I typed the above, I saw from the name that the critters on the die were moose, not deer. Still, why don't moose get an 's?' Cows get an 's.' Or, at the very least, shouldn't moose become meese in the way that goose becomes geese?

And who gets to decide these things? They didn't ask me for my opinion. Did they ask you? 

Which reminds me. Did you know watermelons now come in yellow? On the inside? I tried one and it did my head in. It looks yellow, but tastes the same as the traditional red ones!

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

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower! 

*Life is too short!