Embossing Christmas

Hello, Stamplings!

I know we are all up to here with Christmas cards, but I have a couple more to share that haven't been posted. (Not that they will be the last ones I'll post throughout the year because I'm really committed this time to making them all year long!)

We enjoyed another weekend with the grandtwins and it was nice to get the Christmas decorations packed away and normal decor back in its place. Those sweet boys were very helpful and removed all the ornaments from the tree as Papa and I wrapped them in tissue. The ornaments, I mean.

Okay, first up:

A ridiculously QACAS card! The chalkboard 25th is actually an old sticker from GKW. The embossing folder is by SU and the sediment is a piece of Mike's Washi tape! I did at least put a little effort into this card by trimming the top panel and popping it up for some dementia.

Challenges

• Cards in Envy: Winter.
• Merry Monday: Embossing.
• Stamp Ink Paper: Emboss it.

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And next,

My friend Trina made the most adorable omni Noel card in blue where she substituted the "o" for a wee birdie, so I CASEd her. Don't go look at her version because it's way better than mine, haha, but I sure had fun with her idea! It was another quickie card. The most time-consuming part was waiting for the gloss to dry. The NBUS Santa Chick is from Penny Black's "Winter Wonderland" and the Noel, which I've had for more than a year, is from Winnie & Walter.

Challenges

• Jingle Belles: Something new.
• Shopping Our Stash: Watercolor with us!
• Simon Says Monday: Something new.

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

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And if you live in parts of the world that are suffering terribly with deep-freeze temperatures, my heart goes out to you. Please stay inside if you can and I pray it doesn't last much longer!

*Life is too short!

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A Christmas Baublet

Hey, there!

How are you? I hope you're doing well! Any plumbing problems? You know I just had my personal plumbing problems fixed, but guess what happened yesterday? The main line to our home became plugged due to tree roots! Ka-ching! Ka-ching!

What to do?

Why, go to the Playhouse and talk to you, of course!

When I was resting and visiting friends around Blogland, I noticed a coupla five challenges that I wanted to participate in. Thanks to Serena Dipity, I happen to have a card to share that I made before Christmas, but never posted. 

To make this QACAS card, I cut the Poppystamps "Merry Ornament" from a snippet of Brusho background I made and then attached it to a fine linen panel. That was matted with a snippet of Christmas green textured paper that I've had since the end of the last century.

Lastly, I covered the bauble with Modgepodge Dimensionals. Here's a closeup. Shade your orbs!

Challenges

• Addicted to Stamps and More: Holiday.
• HLS February Watercolor Challenge: AG / optional twist: dies.
• Less Is More: 6th Birthday Celebration! Congratulations and cheers to many more! Colour Wheel (green to yellow).
• Merry Monday Christmas: Clean and Simple (CAS).
• Pixie's Snippets Playground: Use Your Snippets

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NBUS Challenges

I want to sincerely thank all of you who played in my three-week, three-part NBUS celebration challenges! I've made my way through the amazing galleries in #8 and #9 and commented on at least one of each participant's gorgeous entries. I should be through #10 in a few days. You ladies are the BEST of crafters and friends!!

Please note that I have Pinterest boards for each of the NBUS challenges for you (and me) to visit again and again for inspiration! 

I will be back on Monday with the winners' post!

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Miss Elaine E. Us

I'm very sad to share that the baby hummer did not make it. I've already seen the mama collecting spider webs, but I'm trying hard NOT to see where the new nest is.💧

But on a cheerier note, I want to share with you these get-well cards that 12-year-old Adam and Henry made for me:

All those early years spent crafting in the Playhouse with Bama paid off! They make GREAT cards for me, even if they depict bloody limbs!!😊

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Enjoy your day and the weekend! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

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Backyard Hardenbergia

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Wintry Cards

Hello there!

How are you? I hope you are recovered from the holidays and looking forward with anticipation to a brand new year stretching out before you, uncharted, unknown, and capable of so much contentment and satisfaction!

Yes, that's right, I could possibly have had some wodka. 

Sorry I've been away longer than I intended and thank you for your notes of concern. Between Hammy taking his semi-annual holiday to visit his offspring (who now have offspring of their own!), the Mister retiring, and some home improvements, I've been away from the computer and time has already been whooshing bye-bye faster than I can keep up.

But, thank goodness, Hammy has returned! He arrived the day before yesterday and slept for 43 hours. When he finally woke up, he was raring to go and so we got busy. Since there are still wintry challenges going on and it's never too early to get a head start on that 2017 Christmas card stash, we went thataway.

Onefer

Isn't that the sweetest stamp? Like a lot of you, I'm starting the new year with fresh resolve. For me, that always means attacking NBUS Mountain with renewed verfer, oops, I mean fervor. For this card I used a NBUS stamp that I had to have a year ago (possibly two years ago?!) after seeing it on a friend's blog. It's from Stampendous. The sediment is NBUS from Sunny Studio. The schparkly Washi tape is from my stash. I colored the angels with my watercolor pencils and liberally applied both a Clear Star gel pen and some Stella.

Challenges

• Merry Monday Christmas Challenge: Angels.
• Moving Along With the Times. Something in the Air.
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: New Something.
• Sunday Stamps: Winter Frost colors, see below. My first time here!

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Twofer

This card gave me a way to use one of the leftover die-cut snowflakes from the Lake House, which die I believe I borrowed (with thanks) from Anita. The embossing folder is by Sissix for SU and the sweet sediment is by PTI. I watercolored the bottom panel using my Zig KGT paints and I topped that panel with a band of icy blue organza ribbon. Squeezy-peezy!

Challenges

• CASology: Cold.
• CAS Watercolour Card Challenge: Snowflakes.
• Pixie's Snippets Playground: Use your snippets.
• The Heart Desires: Photo ~ see below.
• TIME OUT Challenges: Winter.

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Speaking of Hammy, I have to show you this adorable 2017 calendar my friend Ruth sent me all the way from England. (Ruth's blog is Crafting While the Baby Naps!) 

Hammy and I are going to have such fun looking up on the wall all year long and seeing the whiskered furballs of each new month! Some of you may remember that Hammy has done some modeling himself in the past and as I type this, he is calling his agent about doing a 2018 calendar. Hamster see, hamster do!

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A Trio of EZPZ QACAS CCs. What?

Greetings, Stamplings!

If you're still beavering away on holiday preportations, I've got a card that will make you smile, no matter what:

I made this one-layer card with two different Purple Onion snowpeeps. I drew the landscape, sponged on a little color in the sky, and added dimensional snow with irRESISTible.

Twofer

From the silly to the serene, I made this one-layer card while at the Lake House:

I had a lot of fun working out the design with the help of several of the BABES. The tree is from Stampingbella. I borrowed the sediment from one of the BABES. In person, the beautiful silver ink is, well, beautiful:

Threefer

And finally, a simple dove of peace, matted in black:

Both the dove and the Peace are from Skipping Stones Design. I was going to do a second gold embossing because the coverage wasn't great the first time, but then Hammy said he rather liked the effect. Like Peace has seen better days, but it's still flying and trying.

Challenges

Onefer: 1) Less Is More: OLC Outlines; 2) Make My Monday: Show Me a Snowman; 3) Merry Monday Christmas Card Challenge: Winter fun; and 4) Simon Says Stamp Monday: Let it snow.

Twofer: 1) Addicted to Stamps and More: Clean and simple; 2) Stamps Ink Paper: Winter holiday; and 3) The Merry Christmas Challenge: Christmas trees.

Threefer: 1) The Male Room: Christmas/Winter wishes & December celebrations; and 2) Uniko Challenge: Christmas.

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You know how sometimes bad luck seems to go in cycles? Hopefully three at a time. Well, first it was the plumbing, then the computer, and now this week, it's been the furnace. We were without heat for 48 hours before we could get someone out to fix it. Fortunately, it wasn't too nasty cold like the 20, 30, and even 40 below freezing temps some of my family and friends are experiencing right now! It only got down to 54 inside the house overnight, but that's still chilly, Milly. Fortunately, further, we still like each other so we snuggled up and were able to stay warm.

I hope you are toasty warm wherever you are and that you enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

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Leftover Christmas Makes

Hello and welcome to a wonderful new week in the dwindling year of 2015! I hope your week ahead is terrific!

Quick posts will be arriving on your monitor landing strip for the next few weeks as the Playhouse Hamster Factory whips out CCs for your inspiration.

Today we are bringing you cards made from leftover (negative) die cuts. First up:

This white-on-white (more like white-on-blue) with peek-a-boo section, sediment, and snowflakes are all made from glossy paper. The sediment is from Avery Elle and the snowflakes are from MFT. The negative came from a NBUS Snowflake Border die from Simon Says Stamp. The pretty blue paper is just a snippet from my stash.

To tell you the truth, I didn't really know what to do with this border die. All the hamlettes were too busy on other projects to Google me images using this die. I was down on the floor with the die-cutting machine and too lazy to get up and look myself, so I just laid it in the middle of the paper to get both ends and see what it looked like cut.

I believe it is intended to be a lovely swirl on the top or bottom corner of a vertical card design, but at least I was able to make a WOB card out of my experimental cut. (I'm pretty positive you'll peruse the positive portion in another post.)

Challenges

• Addicted to CAS: Dimension. (Happy 3rd Birthday!!)
• Jingle Belles: Use Leftovers.
• Merry Monday Christmas Challenge: Blue and White and Texture.
• Pixie's Snippets Playground: Use Your Snippets.
• TGIF Challenge: Theme: White Christmas.
• The Challenge: Photo. (Curved snowflakes on staircase.)

Today's Twofer Tripled

You may remember my post here. These are three cards I made with the negative cuts left over from filling the baubles.

What you can't see is that I put acetate behind a couple of the bauble cards for a little extra pizzazzarino.

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That's it, back soon. Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

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