OLW 106 ~ Sponging; CASual Fridays 71 ~ Fall Fun; Simplicity ~ 2012 Gratitude Campaign

A Sunny Sunday Hello!

 

I morphed around with today's card.  It was like one of those Make Over shows on TV.  Why am I never walking down the street and lucky enough to have some celebrity host or hostess offer me a free make-over, head to toe?  Whadya mean it's because it's only a one-hour show?  Brute L.

 

This week's One Layer Wednesday is being hosted by the Sponge Queen, Heather Telford of bits and pieces.  If you haven't seen her sponge work, you are missing out on a treat!  Click it.  She shows you how she does it and you gotta love that kind of generosity!

 

So here is my attempt at sponging, masking, and embossing all in one caboose:

 

 

It's sort of what yud call Elementary Sponging.  I'll confess I tried to do a snowbank in the manner of the beautiful inspiration cards posted, but my efforts, to date, are not ready for Worldwide Webbing.  My rolling snowy hills looked more like a plate of elbow macaroni what had been left outside in the full moon.

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So then, seeing as how the distress ink colors I used for my sponging are fallish, even though the rusts and oranges aren't as vivid in the photo as they are IRL, I added a leaf embelly to my card for this week's challenge (CFC71) over at CASual Fridays which is "Fall Fun."  Go over and have some fun with them!

 

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So then, seeing as how I'm trying to enter a card a week in Susan Raihala's thoughtful 2012 Gratitude Campaign on her Simplicity website, I morphed my card again, thus:

 

The linkie for the Campaign is on Susan's sidebar.  Please do read her compelling thoughts here and join in with your cards of thanks.

 

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We had a fun day yesterday celebrating Mister Papa's birthday.  All cameras were once again forgotten, but I did manage to grab one cell phone shot of the twins on the soccer field:

Aw, sweet, I seem to have captured a nice brotherly moment.  As least I prefer to think that it's a moment of brotherly encouragement, as opposed to a push about to happen.  Boys, you know.

 

BTW, I'm happy to report that no one lost control in the eating of deviled eggs, the California HASMAT team did not need to be called in to control emissions, and no one had to sleep alone on the couch.  It was all good.

Enjoy your Sunday!   I hope to get crafty again today as tomorrow I have a crowning ceremony to go to at early o'clock.  I could leave you imaging I've won some brilliant beauty contest, hahaha (see opening paragraph), but alas, no.  The crowning in this case is being done by a dentist.  When he is finished, I will honestly be able to say that I have more gold up in my grill than I do in my jewelry box.  That's just wrong. 

 

As always, thank you for stopping by to visit.   Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment!

Paper:  Stampland glossy

Stamp:  Hero Arts K5517 Tall Wheat;

  and A3079 Gratitude Seldom

Ink:  DI:  spiced marmalade; rusty

  hinge; tea dye; mustard seed; and

  scattered straw

Rusty leaf from Dollar Store bag;

Yellow leaves from backyard

LIM Week 84 ~ One Layer Card With Foliage; and One Layer Wednesday 105 ~ Autumn; Gratitude Campaign 2012

 Hey, Hey,

I'm playing in Mandi's and Chrissie's Less Is More challenge, which is a one-layer card featuring foliage.  I'm combining it with this week's One Layer Wednesday (OLW), which features both Susan's Gratitude Campaign 2012 and Cheryl's fun theme this week, Autumn.

So up my alley.  So the wrong time for Moe Joe to leave the Playhouse.  Actually, I think he's still here, he's just wasted.  I finally broke down and went to the doctor this morning about my flipping flipped-out back.  He prescribed pain pills and muscle relaxers.  Said to come back in two weeks if it isn't any better.  I'm so sure.  Dude, I'll be seeing a different doctor if it isn't any better long before that!

Here's my entry.

I'm feeling negative about it, which I'll blame on the meds and behinds which, I don't like it when other artists are negative about their cards.  So instead I'm going to say, what a doggone cute embellishment that is!

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I have been wanting to share this with you for a few days: 

Some of you know that I subscribe to Dictionary.com's "Word of the Day," even though lots of days I forget to look at it on my home page.  Well, last week my eyes were drawn to it and they couldn't believe what they were seeing.  Turns out there is a real word in the Dictionary that describes my "special" way with words!  I know!  Can you believe it?!  I'm totally not even making this up - you can check it out yourself.



Word of the Day
Wednesday September 5, 2012

cacology \ka-KOL-uh-jee\ , noun:

 

Defectively produced speech; socially unacceptable diction.

 

Examples:

"As to prose, I don't know Addison's from Johnson's; but I will try to mend my cacology."

 

Lord Byron, The Works and Letters of Lord Byron

 

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"Such cacology drives some people to distraction."

 

Linton Weeks, "R Grammar Gaffes Ruining the Language? Maybe Not", NPR

 

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Cacology comes from the root caco- meaning "bad."  I beg your pardon?  That seems awfully similar to the word "cacao" and we all know THAT does not mean "bad!"

But it does make sense when you think of the word cacophony, which means "a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds."  Discordant means that annoying sound corduroy makes when your knees rub together.  I'm just kidding about that, but this word thing can be a full-time hobby.  When you look up one word, the description often contains another word you have to look up.  At my age, by the time I've ridden that word merry-go-round to completion, I've forgotten what the original word was that I was looking up!

Cacophony is pronounced Ka-cough-o-ny.  I always read it as Cack O. Phony first, then stop, remember, and read it the correct way.  Talk about annoying.  I also have trouble with the name "Penelope," which, you guessed it, I always want to pronounce Pen Ah. Lope, like it's a member of one of the hundreds of subspecies of antelope.

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As ca-ca as my blitherings may sometimes be, I delighted to report that I was nominated for a Liebster Award by Shirley-Bee.   Thank you so much, Shirley!

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Okay, that's enough interdiction for today.  I hope you're having a great day whatever you're doing, or sleep well, if it's night time where you are!  As always, thank you for stopping by to visit.   Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment!



Paper:  PTI white
Stamps:  Clear Stamps "Botanicals"
  SU sentiment
Ink:  Color Box Tuscany; Judi Kins
  embossing powder, Metallic Bronze
Embellie:  Boutique Trims, Inc.
Corner Chomper

CASology #9 ~ Family; OLW #104 ~ Gratitude Campaign 2012

And we're back around to Friday!  Whoosh!

Today I'm combing two posts.  Apparently I'm also being economical with my letters.  Mister uses a similar expression when he tells me how much money he spent on a motorcycle item.  "Are you lying?" I ask. 

"I'm not lying," he demurs, "I'm being economical with the truth." 

I let it be since, natch, it only follows that I can use the same expression regarding craft supply transactions. 

It didn't take me very long to pop the train off the tracks this morning, did it?  Let's start over.

Today I'm combining two posts.  I'm playing in two challenges, but unlike the usual course of events, this time each has its own card.  I'm putting them together in one post because, to my way of thinking, you shouldn't have one word without the other.

 

For CASology this week, the cue word is family.

 

Of course, I immediately thought of stamping one of my little boy stamps two times to represent twin grandsons, but I ended up going broader than that, like this:
 

I have all these great family name stamps from Hampton Art Stamps that were perfect for this challenge and that fit perfectly stamped in rainbow colors along the side of the card base.  I rummaged through my alphabet stickers and found the perfect stickers to "match" the fun stamp designs of the words.  I wish I got paid a dollar for every time I use the word perfect in one paragraph.

 

Happily today, "family" is more diverse and more widely accepted than the Ozzie and Harriet Nelson TV model of the 50s and 60s, although even then (behind the TV eye), there were families that were nontraditional.  I grew up for the first eleven years with four sisters, two brothers, an uncle, a grandpa, and a mom who was mentally ill.  Then I was placed in a foster home for seven years where I was an only child with two older strange, and I do mean strange, people for parents.  Sometimes in life you trade one onion for another and you have no choice but to start peeling all over again.

It was a rough go those first two decades, but then I met the Mister and his family and my family blessings haven't stopped since.  The blessings grew with first our son, who then brought us a daughter (-in-law), and then they doubly blessed us with their two sons.  And let's not forget all the four-legged pets and frogs and fish along the way.  As if that weren't enough to be grateful for, twelve years ago, I reunited with my brothers and sisters after being apart from them for forty years.

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Which brings me to my second card.  Susan Raihala of Simplicity started a "One Layer Wednesday" challenge 104 challenges ago.  I think it's a blast.  This week the challenge kicks off her 2012 Gratitude Campaign.  To quote her:

 

"The Gratitude Campaign is my annual attempt to save Thanksgiving from the commercial limbo between Halloween and Christmas.   . . ."  You must click over to her blog to read the rest.  Hear, hear, Susan!

Your family may be traditional, it may be non-traditional, it may be your friends, or it may be your pets, but whatever it is, it's good to be reminded once in a while not to take them for granite and to express your gratitude, like this maybe, with Prismacolor pencils:

 

 

Enjoy!  Enjoy!  As always, thank you for stopping by to visit and leaving a comment.  Special thanks to all of you who have become my second family in this wonderful online community!  Mm-waugh!! 

Family
Paper:  PTI white, unknown green BP
Stamps: Hampton Art Stamps 23 (words);
  Hero Arts F3342 Stitched Ribbon
Ink:  Marvy Matchables
Ribbon:  Richard's dollar bin
Stickers:  unknown

Tulips
Paper:  Strathmore
Stamps:  Tulips, PSX K-1695;
  Hero Arts, A-3079 Gratitude
Ink:  Prismacolor Pencils