Bye to Bodie and Snowflake Joy

Hello Stamplings!

I hope this finds you doing well as you climb Mount Wednesday and start the downhill journey into the weekend! Be careful you don't get going so fast that you miss the awesomeness Thursday and Friday have in store for you!

Today we begin with this Onefer:

I mean, how cute is that dog?! Our dear and long-time local friends said goodbye to their beloved Basset Hound "Bodie" recently and I made this sweet card for them. The basset stamp is from a great group of dog stamps by Katzelkraft. The sediment is by PTI. The background was lightly painted with my Ziggies.

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Twofer

It's time for another Rudolph Days Challenge and this is my entry. The pretty snowflake-JOY die is NBUS from Poppystamps, cut from an old scrap of blue textured pp. I lined the tag from behind with a snippet of smooched ink. Then I attached a pretty pink bow to pick up the pink in the background. I attached all that to a snowflake-embossed card base. This one will go in the "Hand-Deliver" stash box.

Challenges

• ABC Christmas Challenge: "S is for Snow."
• Jingle Belles: Let It Snow.
• Pixie's Snippets Playground: A/G, but use those snippets!
• Poppystamps: Anything Goes.

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I thought you might be amused by this:

Didn't I do a marvelous job applying my little round foam glue dots to make sure my tag would adhere to the card base and not be uneven? Phew! That took a while!

When I was finished, I proudly held it up for Hammy to see. In that droll way of his, he smirked and asked, "And on your finished card, will the recipient know what YOJ means? In fact, what does YOJ mean?"

I whipped my head around and said, "Wha - !" Fortunately, with a little patience and a mug of wodka, I was able to unstick all of the dots and restick them on the reverse. Never a dull moment when you craft while old and distracted!

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I was delighted last Thursday to welcome a visitor to the Playhouse who came from very far away!

This is my friend Sonja all the way from Slovenia! Her blog is Old Punca and we have been online friends since September 2014, when we first commented on each other's blog! It was a pleasure to meet her and her husband Silvo in real life and enjoy lunch and a few hours getting to know each other better! Thank you, Sonja, for making a visit to see Hammy and the Playhouse a part of your San Francisco holiday!!

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Enjoy your day! 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! Please let me know you came by so I can be sure and return the flavor, although I'm not sure when that will be right now! I'm taking off on Thursday on an extended vacation to visit my sisters and friends, leaving the Mister here to keep the home fires burning. I've got my October Twofers scheduled so my blog won't be completely dark and I just might pop in now and then to surprise you!

*Life is too short!

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MoJo In Quadruple MoTion

You can tell how much I hate packing and how much I'm going to miss my little sanctuary when I tell you that this afternoon I snuck in some time to make a card which I managed to make fit FOUR challenges!  What?!  I would wait and post it tomorrow, but time is running out over at LIM and I'm not very good at math and the card is made, so why take chances?

Here they are, in alpha order:

 

ABC Challenges, where the theme is "Anything Goes!"  We love those!  ABC stands for All Beautiful Cards (aw, love that, too) and the site is hosted by the talented Patty Gorka and supported by an amazing Design Team.

Hero Arts March Contest, where you have lots of options and lots of time! The details are on their site.

 

 

Less Is More (LIM), where for Week 109, the funtastic Design Team of Ms. Chrissie and Ms. Jen have presented us with a very challenging color scheme:

 

 

After fourteen trips to the bakery and a 14-pound increase in my weight, I finally was able to overlook the dough-doughs and concentrate on the colors!

 

... and ... 

 

Retrosketches #53, where there are coffee stains to go along with the dough-doughs on this schweet sketch by Arielle:

 

 

There is an amazing Design Team at Retrosketches, too! 

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With Easter fast approaching, here's what I made:

 

 

 

In my head my card is covered with polka dot sprinkles!  Num-num, I hope you like it.

 

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Oh, look!  Before you go, we have a new friend at the door!  Please help me welcome Karin of Karrootje.  Karin has a lot of talent on her site, free for the looking!  Thank you, Karin ~ we are all happy to have you join the party!

 

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

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

*Life Is Too Short!

 

Paper:  All SU!

Stamp:  Hero Arts "Little Happy Easter" A2152

Ink:  SU! Pixie Pink

Dies:  Lil' Inker Stitched Mat Rectangles;

  PTI Egg and fish-tail banners