Clean & Simple Card Making 2, Days 7 and 9 ~ Washi Paper and Oopsie Poopsie

Hey!  How's it goin'?

It's a cold mess in parts of the Midwest and the East Coast this weekend.  I hope everyone has power, is safe and sound, and well-stocked with provisions.  Eeeks.

I've got a quick post today.  I'm still doing a bit of funwork from my class and I have lots more to do.  Today I made my own background paper using nothing but washi tape, which I'm not sure if I'm supposed to capitalize on or not.  If someone named washi invented it, then I think I should be using a big double u.  Does anyone know?  I've seen it both ways.  Our card inspiration was provided by the fabulous Lisa Spangler.

So here's what I made:

Him's so cute.  The tape is from Lawn Fawn.  I used the fun sticker from Stickopotamus on a white and red mat.  I used Lil' Inker Designs flag additions die and stamp (curving it a little) for the sediment.  On the inside of the front I attached a same-size sheet of white card stock to cover the turned tape ends and that's it!

This card is going straight to the twins because they both adore washi tape and I do miss them.  They are into basketball now late on Saturday afternoons which is severely restricting our weekend sleepovers.  Frownie face.

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Then I tried to make a card using instructions from the brilliant Julie Ebersole.  She made an awesome card using a big cityscape stamp, stamping the image in two overlapping colors and then heat embossing the third overlapping.  Sort of like this:

Cool idea.  So then I was on the telephone and instead of doing proper doodling like everyone else, I started filling in the craters in my black embossed flowers with a black Copics outliner brush pen.  Oh, very nice.  Talkie, talkie.  Oh, shoot, is that a speck?  Talkie, talkie.  Let me brush that ....  EI YI YI, NO No no no no!  By the time I swished away the speck, I had forgotten I had put black ink on the flowers, and my swish caused a smoosh and I started shizzazzing all over the place.  Dang, double-dang nabbit.

I did what anyone would do when that happens, if it's a big smoosh, which this was.  I smooshed the whole area in that not challant way one does like one meant for that to happen all along.  I won't lie, IRL it looks like carp.  But I decide to publish it anyway just cause, hey, bloopers happen!  It's all good.

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Okay, before you break into groups and start tearing into the washi (or doing the washing IRL!), please welcome today's new friend, Beanie of Beanie's Place.  Beanie is brand, brand spanking new to Bloggerville and guess what?  She crafts in her own little shed, too!!  Thank you, Beanie, for joining our journey!

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And thank you for playing in yesterday's word game!  I will wait a few days to see if more peeps jump in the puddle before I compile a lation.

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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!

Second card:

Paper: SU! white, black, and

  certainly celery

Stamps:  SU! and Hero Arts

Ink:  Memento black; SU!

  bordering blue, and

  certainly celery

EP:  Silhoette back

Butterflies:  K&Company

Smudge:  djkardkreations

CTS#14; SSS; ATCAS #5; Bonus Day 1 ~ Washi Tape and A Valentine Heart For My Good Man

And we're back around to Friday ~ whoosh!

I made some funwork for Bonus Day 1 of my online Clean and Simple Card Making 2 class, which is various techniques using washi tape and dies.  I also saw the sketch for this week's challenge at CAS(E) this Sketch (#14) and I put the two together.  The wonderful sketch is by one of my favorite card artists, Jackie Rockwell.

 

 

I am also entering my card in the current Simon Says Stamp, where the theme is "Have a Heart" and where there is always a fab prize!

 

I left my card cleanly black and white, becousin I do love a black and white card.  I did toy with the idea of adding just a sweet spot of red ... I may still do that.  Sometimes it's hard to know when to stop and when to add just one tiny little sumpin sumpin, you know?  Well, course you do.

 

 

 

I think this could be filed in the "Valentine Card Ideas For A Man" file.  You don't even need stamps or ink to make it! 

At the urging of some friends, I'm also entering this as my second entry in the Hearts challenge at Addicted to CAS (ATCAS) #5, just under the twine, so to speak.

 

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We have a new friend!!  You are going to be tempted to think I made up her blog name just to be silly, but I didn't.  This funsome crafty lady did it all by her ownself!!  Please welcome, Suzy from Suzie McFloozy!  Doncha just love that name?!  Thank you, Suzy, I think you'll find yourself right at home in our rockin party arty Playhouse!

 

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So that's the end of card talk.  Feel free to fly down to the bottom, leave some love, and fly out!  It won't hurt my feelers if you don't read to the end; I know time is precious, Festus.  TFL!!

 

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My sister, Dood, sent me an email she got from someone containing an essay written by A. Nonnie Mouse.  That gal sure writes a lot!  Since she prefers to remain unrecognized, I've gone ahead and taken some liberties with the text of the original email and then, after the quoted section, I've added a few of my own.  I'm sure I'll think of more after I've published this post. 

 

If you want, please feel free to add your own entry in your comment and I may just turn this into its own post or page here on the blog, giving your entry appropriate authorship credit, of course.  Here we go.
 

I have visited many places, but I've never been in Cahoots.  Apparently you can't go alone.  You have to be in Cahoots with someone.  

I've also never been in Cognito.  I hear no one recognizes you there, and the town is made up mostly of the family of A. Nonnie Mouse.

I have, however, been in Sane.  They don't have an airport; you have to be driven there.  I have personally made several trips there, thanks to my friends, family, and work.

I would like to go to Conclusions, but to get there you have to jump.  I'm not too much on physical activity anymore.

I've also been in Doubt.  That is a sad place to go and I try not to visit there often.

I have been in Continent, but I don't remember what country I visited.  It's an age thing.  I just remember that it was very wet and damp there.

I've been in Flexible a time or two, but only when it was important that I stand firm.

As I've gotten older, I find myself in Capable more often.

One of my favorite places to visit is in Suspense!  It really gets my adrenalin flowing and the old heart pumping! 

 

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Yesterday, I found myself in Adequate.  There are too many mirrors there for my comfort, which made me fully aware of my shortcomings.  If you get lost driving out of there, you may find yourself in Ability.  That's hard on your self-esteem, so beat feet out of there.

 

When I finish up here in a minute, I'm heading over to in Cessant.  I hadn't planned to go there today, but now that I've started this, I know that before I can even catch up, all the people in my head are going to be in Clined, where there is a huge Word Travel Agency.

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Okay, your turn!  I think this will appeal to you word lovers out there.  This is a brain exercise, so no fair asking Mr. Google or his Dad, Mr. W. Wideweb, for help!!

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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!

 

Paper:  PTI white
Washi:  Lawn Fawn
Punch:  SU! Heart
Die:  Spellbinders Circle
Twine:  Doodbug Designs

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 ~ Day 8 DIY Inkpad; ColourQ #175; MUSE #3

Ello Everyone, it's Thankful Thursday!

 

I enjoy taking a quick second on Thursdays to be thankful for some of the little things that we take for granite.  Today I'm thankful for pot holders.

 

I worked yesterday, so I am D. Lin Quent on my online card class funwork for Day 7.  Just skipped over it, like a da hoppa scotch, but I will go back.  Today I used the technique from Day 8, which was yesterday, and I may be back later with funwork from Day 9 (today) to ketchup.  Whatever, sorry.  So on Day 8, we learned how to make our own inkpads.  This isn't new, a lot of you have probably done it.  I have heard of it, but today was the first time I actually did it.  It works! 

 

The terrific Jennifer Mcquire was our teacher.  I didn't have any felt pads, so (per Jennifer) I used three baby wipes folded over, added ink drops from my SU! reinkers, and walla, an inkpad:

So that's the homework part from class.  For my card inspiration, I wanted to play in this week's MUSE challenge #3, where our Muse is the outstanding card artist,  Laurie Willison.  Here is her gorgilicious card:

I love Laurie's layout and CASEd the two-panel front, with the connecting band across them, popped by the layered square panel.  For my colors, I played with this week's always fun colors at ColourQ.  I hope you get a chance to play along!

 

Isn't that headband sensational?!

 

You might be surprised to see that I didn't use those amazing Valentiney colors for another Valentine.  Nope I did this:

 

So, there you have it.  My card ended up looking pretty distressed.  Also, it's distressing how difficult it is to photograph distressed cards. 

 

I'll be honest, I don't really like the distressed look (so sorry, Mr. Tim), because, well, it distresses me to think the little card is in that state of anguish.  So sad.  But my baby wipe DIY inkpad coverage presented this way, so I went with the low flow.  Next time I make my own inkpad, I will add more drops of ink.  (It's not so splotchy bleh IRL.)

 

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I'm so delighted to have Ria of Ria Gall, joining us and sharing her talent!  Please visit her and make her feel welcome on our little adventure!  Thank you, Ria!

 

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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!

 

Paper:  PTI white; SU! pink pirouette

Stamp:  PTI Rosie Posie hexagon;
  Inkadinkado "Kathy Davis - 96027 Q"

Inks:  SU! reinkers: pink pirouette,

  melon mambo, tangerine tango,

  and cherry cobbler

Bling from stash

 

Happy 2nd Birthday, LIM! Clean & Simple Card Making 2 ~ Homework Day 6

Happy Monday!  Doncha just love the fresh clean smell of a new week!

 

I went to my online CAS class first thing this morning and, again, loved the video training presented by the very amazing Kristina Werner and Jennifer McQuire.  I CASEd Kristina's card, sorta, and I'm entering it in this week's "Kraft and Kreme" challenge at Less Is More.  (OBTW, fab prize from Pink Petticoat!)

 

It's a very exciting time over at LIM where the SECOND Birthday celebration is going on!  Less Is More is one of the first, if not the first, challenges I started entering on a regular basis a little over a year ago.  I had so many pesky questions about "white space," and (for Pete's sake) "Lucky Dip," and many more!  Chrissie and Mandi were so kind, often emailing me directly, to gently guide me in the ways of making my favorite style of "less is more" cardage.  Ladies, words can never adequately express my appreciation for that!

 

As regulars know, Mandi has moved on to expend most of her creative energy on her new wedding business, which appears genius to me.  Mandi has just today made an announcement on LIM about leaving Less Is More  for good.  You will be missed, Mandi, but your decision is so understandable as you concentrate on your new adventure.  Your pictures on the LIM post today are beautiful!  I wish you every success!

 

Replacing Mandi has been the incredibly talented Jen of The Tiny Blue Butterfly!  Chrissie and Jen's inspiration cards each week are knockouts!

 

Here is my card:

 

 

I know, having said all that, that I didn't follow the white-space rule, Chrissie, but I loved Kristina's card today and wanted to CASE it for you anyway, using your theme colors, and using the music background stamp because it is in tune with your logo.  May LIM have many, many more birthdays!!

 

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I'm being a rebel all over the place today.  Because I wanted to use the colors from LIM, I didn't prezactly follow Kristine's video with my homework, although I did use the design.  I will come back with a tone-on-tone background another time.  The video and card by Jennifer are super fun, too, so I will be CASEing that one, too, at some point.

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The Playhouse welcomes two new friends!  Yippie! 

 

First, please meet Stacy H-W from Scrap with Stacy.  She is a seasoned crafter and mother of five.  Mm-hmm, that's right.  You rock, Stacy!

Also joining us is the uber talented Judy from Livin' the Dream.  Judy's banner name comes from traveling with her husband for five years in an RV.  What exciting journaling that would make!

Please check out our new friends and introduce your own selves.  Thank you, ladies, and welcome to the party!!

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I have to share this with you.  You may know that you can check your stats in Blogger and see who your audience is.  You might be amused to know that my blog is looked at by a lot of Russian, um, adult type sites.  Isn't that a hoot?!  What in the world?  You didn't know granny's cards were so hot, did ya?!  We don't even want to talk about the twisted English I am putting out into the world!  I must be causing chaos in the Translate Software brain. Tutu phunny!!

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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!

Paper:  PTI Kraft and Vintage Creme

Stamp: Music background SU!

Ink:  Imprintz white

Dies:  Simon Says Stamp

Button and Thread from stash

SU! circle punches and Corner Chomper

CAS Class 2, Day 6; FMS71; CFC88; and Pixie's ~ Bonus Love

Happy Funday!  And Happy Super Bowl Sunday here in America!  In my little area of America, we are rooting for the San Francisco 49ers, baby!!  How many of you are soooo happy hubby is glued to the tube, so you can craft to your heart's content?!  Go crafters, baby!!

I had a little creative fun in the Playhouse yesterday to show you today.  First off, I made an EZPZ card for this week's CAS-ual Friday where the theme is "Love Letters." 

For those of you who have been around Blogville for a long time, my card is prolly passhay.  After Valentine's Day last year, I bought a few things from the Stampin' Up! Clearance Rack, including some incredible designer paper and heart charms.  It's all new to me, and may be to some of you, so here is my long tall LOVE-in-letters love letter:

When I cut my off-set opening, I cut down from the top and up from the bottom to leave a half-inch piece of the card stock in the middle to wrap the ribbon around, which made it sturdy to hold the charm.  All products are SU!

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So then, I watched my class video for the bonus day, where JJ Bolton wowed me with her amazing die cutting.  So I did a CASE of her card.  I was able to do that and play along with Freshly Made Sketches and use the fun sketch by the talented Linda C.

Okay, I gotta say, I loved doing the techkneeQ, and I'll do it again, but I found this to be pretty complicated.  Maybe it's just me.  I used the Spellbinders heart die in three colors.  You can see that I nestled just the points of the heart alternating the colors, stuck in place with washi tape.



It just could be that I found this to be complicated because after I made the above wizlet, I lost it.  Not my mental marbles, the wizlet.  As I snipped the last bit of washi tape so it was all ready to apply to my card, it fell out of my hands.  Oy.

I backed up, I looked around.  I creaked on down on all fours and carefully looked under my roller cabs,

cause I didn't want to pull them out and run over my wizlet, leaving wheel marks on it, like a nasty hit and run on a dark tree-lined highway where no one in their right mind should have been walking at dark o'clock anyway.  Wait.  What?

Have you ever had part of a card slip out of your hands and actually fly INTO drawers like you see here?  Kinda weird, huh?  Since it wasn't anywhere on the floor, I pulled open every drawer and looked inside.  Stickers and embellies on the left, snippets on the right, it was like opening drawers of straw, looking for a needle.

Up and down, in drawers and out, I finally gave up.  I mean, the flippin thing had to be there, but before I succum(b)ed to road rage, I thought it best to go to the Bighouse for a drink of fortitude water.

And that's when I looked down as I opened the door and saw this:

Oh, for crying out loud.  Oh, yes I didda!  (Cute fuzzy socks, huh?)

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Okay, if you're still with me (I thank you), here is my card for the Bonus Saturday card class and Freshly Made Sketches:  



Speaking of snippets, I used my scraps for the wee hearts, so I get to take a break and go play with the other girls at Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground.  I hope you can join us!  We are going to make a topper for the treehouse!  I'll let you guys shinny on up to the top while I watch from over by the donkey, who conveniently is wearing a keg around his neck to ward off the win tree chills.

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I am so delighted to introduce two new friends today!  Please help me welcome Cathy of Cathy's Card Spot and Laura Norris.  Cathy is just revving up her blog making awesome cards and I know she'd love some visits.  Laura, I'm not a Google+ member, so I can't get past your profile page.  If you have a blog, please email me (see my profile page on side bar) and let me know so I can share it here.  Thank you, ladies, and welcome!!

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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!

Paper:  PTI white; SU! pretty in

  pink, basic grey

Stamp:  SU!

Ink:  Vivid cobblestone

Die:  Spellbinders hearts

Washi tape

Corner Chomper

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 ~ Homework Day 5; OLW & CASology = A Perfect Game Day!

And we're back around to Friday.  I whooshed yesterday, so I won't do it today.  I don't want to sweep you off your feet.  But I will wish you a Warm Welcome to Feb U. Rary!

Okay, lots to show you, so I'll get right to it.

Another great class today on making CAS cards.  Today was stretching our stamping imagination and thinking of three ways we could use one stamp.  Always good to stretch that muscle, also good for the pocketbook.  (Oh, but that makes me so want to take you on a journey to the history of "pocketbooks," but there is not enough time today, alas.)  Julie Ebersole made a scrumilicious kraft card and I made my take and bake after hers.

The stamp IS embossed today and the highlighted sunflower and leaves have sparkle pen on them, but apparently, and more's the pity, my sparkle angle lens isn't working right now.  Please feel free to use your image maturation.

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It was so fun checking in with a couple of challenges last night, that I did a couple more today.  Otherwise, I'll have challenge withdrawals and a chattering monkey on my back.  Sew.  Since I missed last week's One Layer Wednesday (sadly, I love doodling), I wanted to play this week.  Our hostess is the sensational Ardyth from Maskerade and she has chosen the theme, "Your Perfect Day."  That's not the least bit broad. 

No.

While I mulled that over, I saw that at CASology, where the diabolical talented Ardyth can also be found on the Design Team, the cue card is "Game."  Hmmm, I could feel light bulbs flickering up there in the party in my head.  I mean besides the disco balls.

Apart from spending time with Mister (spoken in my game show voice), doing artsy things in the Playhouse, especially artsy things with the twins, I do love games.  Playing a good board game, or putting together a puzzle, or a playing a game of cards, especially with my sisters, is a perfect day for me.

Then again, so is gardening, watching TV, or eating.  I'm very easy to please, you see, especially if you put eating at the beginning of any list.

It just so luckily happens that I found an old favorite fun toy at a thrift store for the twins this past Christmas. It's basically drawing with spirographs.  Do any of you remember Spirograph from the early sixties?  They still make it, but I saw the price on Amazon is like $50, which is ridic.  I paid $3 for it at the thrift store, without realizing what a bargain it was; I just got it for nostalgic reasons.  Anyhoo, the twins absolutely loved it.  Here's a look at it:

And here's the OLC flower card I made with it:

The three layers of color make it look blurry in the photo, but it looks cool IRL.  It was great fun playing ~ you could even call it a perfect day!  And I think this will appeal to Ardyth's geometaphorical style.

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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!

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Clean & Simple Card Making 2 ~ Homework Day 4

And there's the first month of 2013  gone ~ whoosh!

 

I was going to start participating in Christmas card challenges all year long.  Not.  It feels like a speeding train.

 

Today's CAS class was again CASucational!  I CASEd Julie Ebersole with white ink on a dark background and I got another Valentine made in the bargain.  Yippididdle!!

 

Here you go:

EZPZ.  I think it would really be stunning embossed, but this shows that you can make a perfectly happy card in less than five minutes.  EZPZ.

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I'm going to see if I can squeeze in a couple of makes for challenges tonight.  But first, please help me welcome Jean Manis of Right As Rain, another totally adorable blog and artist!  Thank you so much, Jean, for joining us!!

 

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I'll leave you with a few *smilie* photos, whether you be a cat-lover, or a dog-lover, or a baby lover!

 

 

Karma, Baby

Smoochable!!

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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!

Paper:  SU! Cherry Cobbler

Stamps:  SU! heart, unknown set

  sentiment:  PTI Birthday Bash

Ink:  Color Box frost white

Gold cord

Clean & Simple Card Making 2 ~ Homework Day 3

I'm doing a Post Drip today.

I'm no longer in detention at school.  I caught up on my homework.  Yahoo!

 

One time when I was prolly about ten years old, I reached across the space between desks for something on someone else's desk that wasn't mine, and I tipped my desk over.  Instead of sending me to the Principal's office, the teacher made me go sit in the Kindergarten class with the five-year-olds. 

 

It was all I could do to squeeze into the little baby desk.  I can still feel my cheeks burning when I remember all those innocent round-eyed faces staring at me in disbelief.  Actually, I'm the one that was staring in disbelief, they were staring in amusement!  It was such a genius punishment because it was extremely effective.  I'll bet you have a similar grade-school experience to share, hmmm?  No?  Oh.

 

The fun thing about taking an online card class is that it is self-paced.  I'm only kidding about being in detention.  It's just easier to keep up and do "funwork" the same day.  I have a better chance of remembering it if I stay on pace.

 

So without further achoo, here is my card with an off-set opening:

 

 

Today's class videos were again excellent!  Thank you, ladies!  I chose to CASE Jennifer McQuire's technique on gradient stamping.  I didn't have the best possible stamp for the technique, but I enjoyed employing it with what I had.  It's brilliant for making a few inks look like more!

 

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Today I'm thrilled to introduce you to Colleen from One Smile Lifts A Spirit!  Isn't that a wonderful banner name?  I like the entire phrase on her banner, which I'll share here:

One seed can start a garden, one candle can light a room, one step can begin a journey, one conversation can start a friendship, one smile from a handmade card can lift one's SPIRIT!

 True that!  Thank you, Colleen, and welcome!

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I hope you've been seriously enjoying your day!  See you tomorrow!

 

LITS!

 

Paper:  PTI Hawaiian Shores, white;

  SU! Certainly Celery

Stamps:  Unmarked clouds;

  sentiment: JRL Design Co. T122

Inks:  SU! certainly celery, Bermuda

  bay; PTI hawaiian shores

  Imprintz white embossing powder

Die:  Lil Inker Bow

Punches: EK Success little heart;

  Corner Chomper

 

Clean & Simple Card Making Homework; Hero Arts January Contest

Happy Humpty Dumpty Day!

I made that up because normally it is What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday, but I'm not going on the WOYWW tour today because I'm taking an online class and afters I have funwork assignments to do and this week there are domestic matters like a car tune-up and a washing machine recall repair and crafty matters like orders for Valentine cards, all of which will prevent me from stopping by other WOYWW desks, as I am wanton to do, and if I can't go visiting, then I don't go linking. 

 

But if you came to peek at why I'm not WOYWWing, then hello and thank you for stopping by!  That was really sweet of you, leave a note to let me know you were her and I'll be happy to return the flavor.  Let me know you were her.  Ha Ha, I like that one.

 

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I am thoroughly enjoying the online Clean & Simple Card Making 2 series. Yesterday was the second class and I've already gotten so many tips, I can quit my other waitressing job.  The teachers are very generous with their knowledge.  (Thank you, ladies, if you happen to read this!)

 

For my homework last night, I CASEd Julie Ebersole again.  (I just found out from Maile that today is Julie's 50th birthday, so happy birthday young Miss Julie!)  Following Julie's lead, I masked and sponged and masked and glittered and, well, here:

 

You guys, I actually used Distress Ink and didn't leave lines!  First I masked the card and sponged the negative heart die cut and then I masked the heart while inking the "arrow."  It was a maskafest!

 

I put "arrow" in quotes because I don't actually have an arrow stamp of any kind to put through the heart, so out came my Thinking Cap.  Turns out one of the stamps in the Hero Arts Ribbon Borders set made a nice shaft and another from a tiny corner stamp set made a perfect point.  All made even more perfect courtesy of a Stampa-ma-jig.



So next thing I did was lay down a couple of strips of Scor Tape and, seriously for the first time ever, I poured out two solid strips of glitter.  I have several little containers of lovely glitter and have had them for years, but other crafters (Frank Lee) have scared me silly from using the stuff.  Last night I threw glitter to the wind and went for it.  It was pretty darn fun if you ask me.  I was very careful and used a big sheet of paper under the card and then I scooped up the excess like I do with embossing powder and it was all good!  Mwah!

Then again, I haven't gone back out to the Playhouse yet this morning, so ask me later if it's all over everything.  If that's the case, I'll take a picture and post to WOYWW after all!

 

The little heart brad is from Stampin' Up!.  I do have bubble tops, but I couldn't find a paper accent I liked; I searched for way too long before I opted for the brad.

And, finally, it's a one-layer card!  Don't you love it?!  You have to admit that's a lot of dementia for a one-layer card!

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Since I used Hero Arts, I popped over there to see what the current contest is, and squee, it is "Try Something New!"  That Serena Dipity is a hoot.  I'm just getting in under the wire.  My new was Scor Tape and glitter and using two HA stamps that I have never inked!

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So that's it.  I'm hoping to get on track with the rest of the class and post my homework card the same day as the lesson, rather than the day after, so I may be back later today with a second post.

 

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!

Paper:  PTI white
Stamps:  Hero Arts Ribbon Borders
  and separate Corner set; Hugs is
  Hero Arts A1308
Ink:  DI Barn Door; SU! Night of Navy
Die:  Cuttlebug Classic Hearts
Glitter:  Sulyn Xtra Fine; Scor Tape
Corner Chomper

 

CASEing Klass and CASEing Class

Hey There, It's Tuesday!

 

A blog friend of mine, Bonnie, of Stamping with Klass, is the Featured Stamper this week at Splitcoast Stampers (SCS).  Congratulations, Bonnie, for the well-deserved honor!

Bonnie is a prolicorice clean and simple (CAS) card maker whose work is so inspiring to me.  I have usually missed the opportunity to CASE (copy and share everything) a card from the past SCS Featured Stamper's galleries, for one reason or several, so I'm happy that I was able to make a card this week as a tribute to Bonnie.

 

It was very difficult to decide on a card to CASE from Bonnie's outstanding gallery at SCS, but eventually I settled on this cutie patootie from September 14, 2010:

 

 

We are to change at least two elements when we create our CASE card.  Here's what I made:

I love Bonnie's little vase of flowers.  I flipped the card and made my vase by layering several small Cuttlebug ornament die cuts.  I used dimensionals, and patterned paper, and dotted swiss instead of the textured plate embossing.  I used the colors, which are favorites of mine, to play in this week's Color Throwdown Challenge:

 

Or not.  I just noticed the collection is closed.  Don't you hate it when that happens?  That's okay.  That challenge photo is so amazing.

Anyhoodle, I hope sweet Bonnie likes my VASE CASE card!

 

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I have enrolled in my first online class!  The class is one I imagine a lot of you are familiar with.  It is Clean and Simple Card Making 2.  I enjoyed the videos yesterday very much and I learned several practical tips already! 

Our homework was to make a CAS card CASEing one of four sketches.  I can't copy and show you the sketch I chose for obvious reasons, but I can show you the card I made:

 

You'll have to trust me that it looks similar to the talented Julie Ebersole's card.

Okay, I know, I didn't follow the "Rule of Three."  But, shuckie cheese, there is also a "Rule That If You Mess Up, You Put Bling Over It," especially if the other tips don't work. 

So with the conversation bubble counting as one, I have five blings ... go ahead, count, I know you want to ... that makes six, which is doubly pleasing to the eye, right?  Three squared, right?  Rule of Six*?  Doubly pleasing or chicken poxish? 

 

Whichever which way, between the up and down chevron washi tap and the pops of spots, this card is just wild about you!

 

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And that's about enough out of me.  I'm off to take my second class.  Oh, wait, did you meet Kay?  We are so lucky to welcome Kay Miller of My Joyful Moments today!  Don't you love that banner name?  Talk about a girl after my own heart ~ and just wait until you see her sensational cards!!

 

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

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 *You know if you put on your blog that the Rule of Six is so on trend right now, we could start something.