Last-Minute Lucy and Awesome Friends!

Hey Peoples!

I've missed you.  I've been whooshing away working, and cleaning house, and planting all those flowers you saw the other day, and hosting a card party!

After the party this afternoon, I made a really quick card as a tribute to my friends and to play in a couple of challenges.  Challenges which are almost over, hence the "last-minute Lucy."

Over at 10 Minute Craft Dash for challenge #12, Paulina has given us bright and cheery colors:

On my monitor the banner looks like lime, but the DT cards look like aqua, so I went with aqua mist, and early espresso, and melon mambo.  Because of the heat embossing, I took 9 minutes and 13 seconds to put my card together.

To help me with the design layout, I used the current (also, almost ended) challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.  This is challenge #75 and the outstanding Tui gave us an uber CAS sketch to play with:

I eLongated the sketch and made this card:

I'm also going to enter my card at Simon Says Stamp where the challenge is "Anything Goes!"

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Our fun get-together was ... well, here's a photo to show you.

from bottom left going around the table:

Gladys, Harriet, Cindy, Donna, Kim, Nancy

Sorry for the poor quality ~ lots of light coming in the windows.  We are long-time stamping friends and brand-new stamping friends.  It was fun to get better acquainted and/or meet each for the first time.  Thank you, ladies, for a great stampganza!!

 

I made a little baggie of tags for each of the ladies as a take-home thank you.

 

 

Someone at my grocery store made the little cake pop with a shamrock and a green ribbon.  I just attached my little tag bag.

 

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Oh, I wanted to ask you.  Is anyone else getting this annoying message every time they go into their "design" feature on their Blogger blogs?

 

 

It has been popping up for over a week now.  I just hit "close," and everything operates fine, so I don't know why they're sorry.  They seem to be able to complete my request, except for falsely popping up to tell me they can't.  I would go and report it to Blogger Support, would I could find such a thing.  The Help Group appears to be less a Help Group than other bloggers whining about issues.  So do you know what the deal is?  And what website I can visit to successfully report this annoying popup?  Thank you so much!

 

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Hope your weekend is going well.  Take a moment to reflect and enjoy!  No, seriously, enjoy!  LITS*!

*Life Is Too Short!

 

Paper:  SU! melon mambo, early espresso;

  PTI aqua mist

Stamps:  Hero Arts K5517 "Tall Wheat"; SU!

  "My Friend"

Ink:  SU! early espresso; dark brown EP

Die:  My Favorite Things "Fishtail Flags"

Honey Bee from stash

 

 

 

 

WOYWW#192; CASOS#1; DD#38; 10MCD#11 ~ Amore Hearts

Wednesday Welcome!

 

Although I'm still taking my online class and I haven't done my funwork yet, I did finish most of my Valentines like a good girl, so I have time to join in the fun at Ms. Julia's What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday (WOYWW) this week.  I missed you last week.  

 

I've nicely staged my desk for you this time in order to show off showcase my pretty little Valentines.  I just love making them cousin they are all about love and kisses.  My friends and coworkers have ordered up a few, so that's a lot of them you're seeing.  Some you've seen on past challenges.

Gosh it sure makes the desk look purdy!

 

If you're just here on the WOYWW bus and need to get back on, ta ta, and thank you for stopping and letting me know you were here.  As always, I will visit as many of you as I can throughout the week. Thaz okay, right, it's not like your desk is going anywhere. Well, unless your desk this week happens to be your lap, in twitch case I will have trouble finding you.

 

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I've made an uber, and I do mean UUUber, CAS card for the brand new challenge blog, CAS on Sunday.  Basically for this first challenge, anything goes as long as it is a Valentine card.  And CAS, of course!  The title of the challenge is "Be Mine Valentine."  The wonderful sponsor this month is Stampin Utopia.

 

 

I just love how CAS (clean and simple) seems to be all the rage right now.  Or else I just wasn't looking in the right corners of the Blogsphere before.  Anycake, isn't their logo so fun?!  And the Design Team, child, there are amazingly talented ladies on that team!  I hope you get a chance to check it out and join in the fun!

 

For my colors, I am squeeeeaking through the door at Dynamic Duos, where the colors are aptly Valentiney real red and pretty in pink.

 

 

I think it may have been the CASOS challenge logo that made me think of this:

 

 

 

I used SU! real red for the card base, a mat of SU! pretty in pink, one giant pink brad, one tiny pink brad, and one fabulous metal charm from SU!  That's pretty darn UCAS (uber CAS), you have to admit, but it screams Valentine.

 

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Because of the stark uberness of this card, it took me seriously one minute to make.  Between that, and those hearts, I just have to enter it into the current challenge (#11) at Paulina's clever 10 Minute Craft Dash, where the theme is hearts.  The idea of the challenge is just like it sounds, make a card in 10 minutes or less and note the time.  (You're allowed to get all your ingredients ready before you put together your card.)  The lucky winner will receive a $20 DeNami gift certificate, so check it out!

 

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Ladies and ladies, please put your hands together to give a warm welcome to our two new friends, Linda from Lin's Craft Corner and "Kris in Alaska."  Lin is fairly new to our blogging community and I know she'd love your visit to see her wonderful cards. Kris is a huge supporter of many of our blogs; we'll be ready to return the flavor when she starts her own.  Welcome, ladies, and thank you for hopping on the ride!

 

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

Thank you so much for stopping by the Playhouse. Special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment or join as a follower!

 

 

*Life Is Too Short!



Wishing You Merry Christmas Happy Holly-Days! CFC #83 ~ We're Dashing Through The Holidays w/ 10-Minute Craft Dash #9

That's a Lotta Title!

And here, made especially for you, my online friend, is your Christmas card from me:

Just this once, I've put my card first, in case you only have a second . . .

It's made from really beautiful glossy card stock.  It looks quite like a decorated cake in real life and it's hard not to eat it with a spoon.

It took me eight minutes to make it, but only because I'm a little slow.  So I'm entering a challenge that is new to me, that I heard about through a challenge that's a favorite of mine.

That makes it a two-for-one challenge and you can't beat that when your rushing around doing ... oh, I can't fool you and pretend I'm rushing around.  The truth is I'm doing absolutely nothing but crafting in my Playhouse.  Soon we will leave to spend Christmas Eve eating and drinking and engaging in joviality at Mister's sister's and then the whole thing will be repeated on Christmas Day at the House of Twins.

So I have it made!  I'm the most blessed gurl in the wurld!

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Here are the links for the challenge details:

CAS-ual Fridays (CFC83) ~ Dashing Thru The Holidays

10 Minute Craft Dash #9 ~ Holiday Theme

So, listen, both of these challenges are running extra trains so you have days and days left to play along.  I know you can find a spare ten minutes to join the fun!  Unless you are away at Aunt Edmar's and Uncle Flip's where you're having a different, but nevertheless, fun kind of fun!

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Enjoy your holly-day!   No, seriously, enjoy your holly-day!!

As always, special thanks to all of you who have joined my little party as followers or subscribers and who consistently come by the Playhouse to visit and leave me love and support.  I appreciate you so much!

Mwah!  Merry Kissmas!!

Paper:  unknown glossy and
  handmade textured green
Stamp:  Cas-ual Friday Stamps,
  "Merry Kiss-Mas"
Ink:  SU! Real Red
Ribbon:  SU! Real Red
Die:   Christmas Holly
Jingle bells:  Darice, Inc.
Aileen's glue and pop dots