It's the 25th ~ Time for PTI and Rudolph!

Happy 25th Day of August 2015!

I hope you're having a great day! When I can, I like to play in two challenges that occur on the 25th of every month, so that makes it an automatic twofer day!

First up:

After masking the top of the card base at an angle, I first heat-embossed the NBUS PTI outline "Vintage Linens" stamps in black. Then, using the PTI photo inspiration below as, well, inspiration, I stamped the solid stamps in PTI inks: orange zest, scarlet jewel, raspberry fizz, and spring moss. The sediment is SU. 

When I removed the mask, I was horrified to find the scarlet jewel ink had bleed through my mask onto the white card base. That little booboo was quickly fixed by adding the PTI classic kraft ribbon and a swirly paperclip. Truth be told, it was another one of those happy accidents as it looks so much better dressed! (Don't we all, really?)

Challenges

• August 2015 Blog Hop Challenge for Papertrey Ink: Photo Inspiration.
• Less Is More: Sketch Inspiration.

  

Today's Twofer

Switching gears to Christmas I made this:

This OLC is adorned with NBUS Technique Tuesday "Chickadees" stamps which I purchased over a year ago. (Slap!) I'm not sure if I have used the "Jolly" die from Lil Inkers before, but I can tell you that the gold lamé paper from Tim Holtz is NBUS and I had a heck of a time cutting it. The red sparkly side embellies are Washi tape. The sweet little santa hats are from Memory Box. I drew a bit of ground for the Santabirds to stand on and then enhanced their beaks and feet with a gold At you Spica pen.

After making this card, and enjoying a minute of Hammy doing a dozen summer salts to signify his pleasure, I took some photos.

When the above photo appeared on the monitor, however, I sat with my head leaning over my left shoulder. To me, Mr. Santabird and Mrs. Santabird look adorable in their cute santa hats. Fine. But doesn't it seem like Mrs. Santabird is looking at something that isn't there?

Well, I thought so, too, so I gave them some privacy for a brief 30-minute gestation period and now they are a family!! This time even I did a couple three summer salts!

Ah. That's better!

I know there is a baby bird in the Chickadee set, but I wanted a baby who was returning mama's gaze, so I used this cutie-patootie stamp from Paper Smooches "My Peeps" set.

(That explains why the Missus has a "Well, who are YOU?!" look on her face. We won't mention that the Mister simply looks clueless.)

Challenges

• Happy Little Stampers August Christmas Challenge: Sparkle.
• One-Layer Christmas Card Challenge: Christmas Card (w/o twist).
• Rudolph Days: Christmas Card.

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I Miss You ~ CASology #52; CFC #109; CTD #250; MUSE #25; NBUS #21

Hello Friends!

I have a fun, fun card for you today.  It is not my usual QACAS, in that it took some time to do it, but it is still CAS.  And it happily fits in several challenges!

 

It all started because of these two challenges:

 

MUSE Card Club.  I'm a big fan to Therese Calvird, our MUSE for this week's challenge.  Here is her delightful inspiration card:

 

I was drawn to the bright colors Therese used and the "Miss You" sediment.  I used those elements on my card and flipped the image to the left and the sediment to the right.  You'll see how I created my "story" in the different colors of my straws, as Therese did with her fab flamingos!

 

Colour Throwdown.  I noticed the colors of this week's challenge were right in line with the MUSE colors that Therese used.  I haven't played at CTD for quite a while, so I'm excited to be back!  Congratulations, ladies, on your FIFTH anniversary!  Talk about being leaders!  And thank you for the opportunity to win spectacular prizes from tons of awesome companies!  Here are the colors:

 

Again, such a great summery feel which I tried to capture on my card. 

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Then I took a look at this week's CASology challenge where "NEON" is the cue card word!  I have to agree with Ardyth that the MUSE colors are not only summery, they are quite neon, so I decided to include my card there, as well. 

 

I hope you see all the inspirations I used from these challenges to make my card:

 

Normally I would insert a lighter color of paper in those two cutouts the designer provided at the side and along the bottom of the glass, in order to artistically show the sunshine bouncing off the glass.  I decided not to do that for this card because when I tried it, I found it distracted the eye from the fallen straw which is making a statement.  Pretty deep, huh?

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And then, after I completed my card last night, I saw that this week's challenge at CAS-ual Fridays is to use polka dots!  That couldn't have been more timely, so I'm also joining their new fun challenge.  Serena Dipity visits again, yippee!!

 

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As usual, I have listed my ingredients at the end of the post, but I'd like to distinguish the NBUS (never-before-used-schtuff) on my card.  This time the NBUS are the shadow stamp from Paper Smooches and the lemonade die from Memory Box.  Yippee!
 

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You will be happy to hear that we have just had two new friends join us at the Playhouse.  The first is our Mystery Guest, Paula.  As you know, we have several Mystery Guests, which I think any good Playhouse should have and we love them all!  Second, we have Deepti Stephens of Catchy Crafts.  Deepti is amazingly talented and has tons of inspiration waiting for you to soak up when you go visit her!  Welcome, Paula and Deepti, and thank you!!

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Enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS*!  I hope you have a lovely weekend and manage some crafty time!

Thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse.  Special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower!  I'm off to make some raspberry lemonade!!

 

*Life Is Too Short!  

Paper:  SU! DSP, Bermuda bay, melon mambo,
  so saffron, and crumb cake; PTI white
Stamp:  CAS-ual Fridays "Calm and Gentle"
  sentiment; "Shadow" is Paper Smooches
Die:  Memory Box "Summer Lemonade"
Glossy Accents
Corner Chomper