NBUS Challenge #12 ~ BONUS LAST DAY!

Hello, Stamplings!

Welcome to the Bonus Day of NBUS Challenge #12! If you are just arriving at the challenge, please see Day One for all the pertinent information. If you're a veteran NBUS challenger and you have a card to enter, the linky tool is below!

My Bonus card:

And that, ladies and gentlemen, pretty much encapsulates life in the Playhouse for me and Hammy!! 

Oh, wait, here's one where I have my glasses on:

Now you see why they fell off my face in the first photo! These are loaner glasses from Barbie. I scratched mine on my trip so they're in the shop for repair.

The NBUS comment over my head is from Funny Bones by Riley & Company. Hammy's comment is unmarked. You can tell I hand drew the bubble around it and I didn't do a very good job. It was the very last thing I did on the card, (naturally), so I stopped messing with it before I completely botched it. The NBUS Thank You Channel die is from Poppystamps. 

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I truly do thank you for your excitement, enthusiasm, and encredible entries in my little challenge to eradicate Never-Before-Used-Schtuff from our craft rooms!

Hammy and I hope you've enjoyed the smiles and laughs we've provided the last eleven days with our NBUS creations. The fact that we have over 300 entries and the challenge still has a day left tells us that you have enjoyed digging your way through your own NBUS mountains and that makes us very happy! We hope you continue to use your NBUS, even without a challenge. It's great to see you identifying NBUS this and NBUS that in your posts throughout Blogland!

So. I have to ask: has your NBUS Mountain grown as a result of this challenge? Mine certainly has! Over the years I've had friends ask how I can still have any NBUS? Seriously?! I think there must have been fifteen new stamp companies start up this year!!

I believe Lucy summed it up best for all of us when she commented:

"... If I were to win, I'd like one of the gift certificates to buy some adhesive to glue my billfold shut!"

Haha! We are still laughing at how funny that is! In fact, Lucy is getting her own $25 gift certificate in a surprise new prize category called, "Hammy's Favorite Comment!" 

The rest of you will have to wait a few days for the prizes to be announced. We had a surge of entries the last three days and I want to get to everyone before calling in the Doc and his Missus to hold the random drawing! Good luck, everyone, and thank you again! Mwah!!

Off you go now! You've got until 11:55 p.m. PDT tonight to enter your NBUS creation!! And please don't forget to visit the other entries in the gallery and leave them some love and thanks for their cool design ideas!

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NBUS Challenge ~ Day Nine!

Hello, Stamplings!

Welcome to Day Nine of our ten-day challenge to USE NBUS! For all the details on the history, rules, and prizes, please go here. If you have a card to enter today, the linky tool is below!

So here's the thing. Ahem. I did not excel in math in school. In fact, I had to take remedial math as a senior in order to graduate. In every other class I was an A student, but with my good looks and personality, God didn't think it would be fair if I excelled at everything!

Hammy and I were having our chocolate chip croissants and hot cocoa with brandy for breakfast, as we are wont to do, and we were admiring again all the excellent creations in the gallery and talking about what cards to make for the last two days.

Hammy went back to day one to remind himself of what had been posted when he suddenly coughed up a chocolate chip, which hit me square in the nose!

"What the what?!" I exclaimed, looking up to see him gesticulating wildly at the screen. I went around the table to see what had his carrots in a blender. As I leaned over, he pointed to the dates and times and whispered, "I think you have this thing set for eleven days!"

First I counted out the days, then he did, then he started smirking, and then we checked with The Mister, who further confirmed it and then he started smirking, too, and by then Hammy was rolling around clutching his sides until he laughed so hard he rolled right off onto the floor. 

He's okay.

So how about that?! I'm delighted to announce there will be an eleventh day ~ let's just call it a BONUS DAY ~ to my September 2017 NBUS Challenge!

In celebration of that, and the fact that the entries in the gallery have gone over 250 (whoot!), I think I need to add five more $25 gift certificates* to the list of prizes, donchu agree?! You're welcome, but, no, really, thank YOU for being a follower and a friend and for playing along and using your NBUS!!

And now for a card!

This NBUS sediment is one of my faves! It's from Verses Rubber Stamps. The bowl is from Stamps By Judith, which I watercolored with my Ziggies and an aqua brush. I hand drew the cheerios and the schparkly fruit loop, which is glossed to high heaven!

Challenges

• Addicted to CAS: Your Favorite Stamp.
• CASology: Fortune. (That sediment sounds like a cool fortune from a fortune cookie to me!)
• Less Is More: Watercolour.

And real quick:

Every time you think I can't make a more QACASer card, I fool ya! I spose I could have left off the ice cream cone ...!

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Enjoy the challenge! No, seriously, enjoy! 

Don't forget, you have a BONUS DAY to enter or enter again!!

*From any USA company.

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NBUS Challenge #12 ~ Day Eight!

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Welcome to October 1st! And welcome to Day Eight of our ten-day challenge to USE NBUS! For all the details on the history, rules, and prizes, please go here. If you have a card to enter today, the linky tool is below!

Just like this year, this NBUS challenge seems to be going by too fast! Today I have a coupla cards for you and a recipe. You might say the sediments on these cards are updated versions of "Old Wives Tales!"

On a light pink card base (which  looks jaundiced on my monitor!), I stamped one of the "My Ladies" stamps from Stamps By Judith. Thankfully, Judith is still in business along with her daughter! I colored this zany chef with my Ziggies and added a sediment from an ancient black foam-backed stamp with no name. Then I used a piece of old SU! pp to cut a fun frame from MFT.

I think she is making Christmas Rum Cake, don't you?!

Christmas Rum Cake

(unknown source)

Before you start, sample the rum and check for quality.  Good, isn't it?  Now, go ahead.

Select a large mixing bowl, measuring cup, etc. and check that rum again for quality.  It must be just right.  With an electric mixer, beat one cup butter in a large fluffy bowl, and add one teaspoon of sugar and beat again.  Meanwhile, make certain that rum is still the best quality.

Add two large eggs and two cups dried fruit and beat well until bery high.  If fruit gets stuck in the beater, pry it out with screwdriver.  Sample rum again, checking for consistency.

Next, sift in three cups of baking powder, pink of rum, one seaspoon toda and one cup of pepper.  Or is it salt?  Anway, don't fret, just test the rum again.  Sowie . . .

Now, sift in half a pint of lemon juice, fold in chopped buttermilk, and add strained nuts.  Rample the sum again.

Now, add one bablespoon srown tugar or whatever color is around.  Mix well.  Grease oven and turn on cake pan to 350.  Now pour the whole mixture into the oven and ~ oops ~ now where did I put that mop?

On second thought, gorfet it, check the rest of fa rum, and go to bed!

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I also colored this character with my Ziggies, but this time I drew a funky frame around her. (She looks like she stayed up half the night making two batches of Rum Cake!) Then I stamped the NBUS sediment from Cheeky Monkey and added the Washi tape. Yes, I know, I'm using a lot of NBUS Washi tape ~ bonus!

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I want to share two links with you as additional sources for funny/snarky stamps. Gail told me about Carmen's Viranda (just the company name karacks me up!) and Mary Anne told me about Creative Vision Stamps. Enjoy!

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Off you go! Have a great day using that NBUS!!

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NBUS Challenge #12 ~ Day Seven!

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Welcome to Day Seven of our ten-day challenge to USE NBUS! For all the details on the history, rules, and prizes, please go here. If you have a card to enter today, the linky tool is below!

So here we go with today's laughs! I only used two sediments, but I made six cards because I wanted to ink up all six of these fun NBUS Katzelkraft dogs!

Background is pp, bottom border is Washi tape. The sediment is from "Funny Bones" by Riley & Company. The pile of crap was cut from a roll of Washi tape I have that is a long series of face emojis, along with the pile of poo poo! (I drew the stink and shadow lines.) 

This is super QACAS with a double-row of Washi tap for a top border. And isn't he so proud that he did his business?!

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Below are four more dogs and a bone from the NBUS Katzelkraft set, decorated minimally with Washi tape or a bit of coloring or googly-eyes. 

Aren't they such great drawings by the artist?!

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Some of you have asked where I find all these funny sediments. A few of them are from my early days of stamping and the companies are out of business. If I know the name of the stamp or the company, I am putting that information on each post and then you just need to Google where to find it in your area. If you would like information on the 5-mile sediment, please let me know. Another source for fun and snarky sediments (besides Google) is The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

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Off you go now! USE that NBUS!! You're doing great! I hope you are finding some time to visit the other ladies in the gallery, too, and leave them some love and thanks for their cool design ideas!

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NBUS Challenge #12 ~ Day Five!

Hello, Stamplings!

Welcome to Day Five of our ten-day challenge to USE NBUS! For all the details on the history, rules, and prizes, please go here. If you have a card to enter today, the linky tool is below!

I'm so glad you are enjoying my humor theme for this NBUS Challenge! I'm sure having a lot of fun making these cards. But mostly, I'm having fun seeing how many of you are getting in there and getting yourselves dusty bringing your NBUS into the light of day!

This time I went UBER-doober-CAS! This is like QACAS on steriods! It doesn't get any easier that this ...

I don't know why, but this kind of goofball simple comment karacks me up! This NBUS sediment is from Cheeky Monkey. 

Now I don't often say this, but I think it was pretty genius of me to add the strip of numbered Washi tape. Right? I mean, that way the person's age is on there somewhere and shazamban, suddenly a very sterile card becomes more personal! Right?! 

Of course, this is all in cheeky jest. This is a card you would only send to those friends you have previously showered with gorgeous colored and/or layered and/or bejewelled and beribboned creations because they know your normal handmade cards are true works of art!

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Okay, so then what happened was Hammy took over. Being a genius made me very tired. He reminded me that I said recently, "if I don't start making some Christmas cards, I'll be sending out blank white cards with a note inside!" Remember that?

Well, Hammy remembered, so when he saw the above card, he grabbed his tiny package of Sharpie pens and did this!

Eh? Hmmm? Who's the genius now?! 

I didn't get a chance to add a festive strip of Christmas Washi tape, but I promise I'll do that before I send this card to you!

I'm adding this to Maureen's Rudolph Days Challenge as my second entry.

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Off you go now! Use that NBUS!!

Thank you to all of you who have already played once, twice, or three times!

Enjoy the challenge! No, seriously, enjoy!

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NBUS Challenge #12 ~ Day Three!

Hello, Stamplings!

Welcome to Day Three of our ten-day challenge to USE NBUS! For all the details on the history, rules, and prizes, please go here. If you have a card to enter today, the linky tool is below!

Thank you to all of you who have already entered! I love the enthusiasm!!

I have two cards for Day Three:

The beautiful NBUS sediment from Hero Arts is not funny, but I'm hoping you find the card itself humorous, given the look on the face of that jiraffe with a knot in his kneck ~ maybe from carrying around a jiant jingle bell! The giraffe is a NBUS stamp from Katzelkraft which I colored with pencils and Ziggies.

Here's a closeup of the metallic red jingle bell I cut from a Lil Inker die.

I just love that side eye and the way the artist drew the mouth. Our dogs would look just like that after they'd done something naughty!

Challenges

• Rudolph Days: Anything Christmas Goes.
• The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge: Anything Christmas Goes.
• Jingle Belles: Tic Tac Toe: red, cardstock, bling.
• The Merry Christmas Challenge: Anything Christmas Goes.

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So what happened was a few weeks ago was my friend Susan sent me a funny cartoon perfect for us card artists:

Har-Har! Corny, but pretty cute, right?

Some of you might remember that we have a niece who recently became a doctor. Her name is Kathrine and she chose her specialty at the same time Susan sent me the cartoon. 

Well, so, given her specialty, Hammy insisted that I make Kathrine a personal card! I used the "cardiologist" cartoon above for the front of the card ... and then I hand-drew my own cartoon using her specialty on the inside and typing the sediment on the computer: 

Groooooan?! I couldn't resist! (BTW, I know it doesn't look like Kathrine gave the gentleman very good news, but I'm sure with diet, exercise, and some medication, he'll be able to change the path he's on for the better!)

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Off you go now! Use that NBUS!!

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NBUS Challenge #12 ~ Day Two!

Hello, Stamplings!

Welcome to Day Two of our ten-day challenge to USE NBUS! For all the details on the history, rules, and prizes, please go here. If you have a card to enter today, the linky tool is below!

My card for Day Two:

I have so many friends who would love this naughty Halloween card with a NBUS sediment from Riley & Company! Somehow those frolicking giggling ghosts make it less offensive!

I'm entering this card at Moving Along With The Times, where the brief is to use a sediment as the focal point with no other stamped images.

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Oh, wait, speaking of shenanigans, I forgot to show this photo the other day:

Are we all looking in a different direction?! That's funnier to me than my attempt to do the hokey-pokey and shrink myself because they put shorter Lois behind me! You can see she is on her tipply toes. Too bad you can't quite see Hammy in my right hand!

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Off you go now! Use that NBUS!!

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NBUS Challenge #12 ~ Day One!

WELCOME!!

Let's get right to it! We've been doing this for FOUR years now, if you can believe it! If this is your first time, here's what you need to know.

Anything Goes!
(As long as it has NBUS!)

12:05 a.m. PST on September 24, 2017 to 

11:55 p.m. PST on October 4, 2017

• You must use a NBUS item on your creation and indicate what it is. It doesn't matter if it is old or new, although that old virginal schtuff would really like some attention!
• This challenge is a thank you to my followers, so to be eligible for a prize, please join via the blue button on my side bar to your right where all the happy little faces are! If the button says "Follow," you have not followed me; you click it to join and follow the prompt in the popup window. If it says "Unfollow," you are already a follower and you don't need to do anything! Thank you!
• Include a link back to here in your post.
• Please enter only four other challenges in addition to this one, for a total of five.
• You may enter a total of three times. New work only please.
• Link up your creation using the Inlinkz button at the bottom of this challenge in the usual way.
• HAVE FUN!!

For more detailed rule information and instructions for how you enter if you don't have a blog, please click HERE. 

For history and prior challenge winner information, please click HERE.

My card.

Mother Nature has put us through a few rough weeks with fires and floods and earthquakes and wind all around the world, so I will be focusing on HUMOR with my NBUS cards for this challenge. 

I love snarky sediments and have accumulated a few over the years, but they can be hard to use for specific challenges or events, so this will give them an opportunity to feel some inky love and hopefully bring you some smiles!

Is this perfect for opening day of this challenge, or what??!!

I can't remember now where I first saw this hysterical sediment, but I had to have it immediately. It is from Simon Says Stamp. The little crazy stamping lady ("Mad Stamper") is from Uptown Design, and the "Life is Good!" border is simply a double layer of Washi tape from Mike's.

 

I can't wait to see the amazing creations you make and enter below using one or more item of Never-Before-Used-Schtuff!! Thank you very much for participating and for being incredible followers and supporters and friends! Your friendship and your encouraging comments keep me going! MWAH! 

If you have any questions, please use the Contact Me form on the side bar or email darnell dot knauss at gmail dot com.

[All prizes are donated by me personally, except for #18.]

• Five (5) Gift Certificates of Winner's Choice to any USA company!

• These new stamp sets and dies:

6. Build A Blossom (SU!)

7. Small Circle Burst (Memory Box)

8. Fringe Circle (Memory Box)

9. Elegant Weeds (Hero Arts Clings)

10. Madison Avenue (SU!)

11. Distress Oxides (unopened) ~ set of five

12. Shadow Play (Altenew)

13. Uplift (Skipping Stones)

14. Tasty Trucks (SU!)

15. Wish You Were Here (Lawn Fawn)

16. Tin of Cards (SU!)

17. Borders and Backgrounds 3 (WPlus9)

18. And last, but not least, this new PTI "Holiday Greens" stamp and die set donated by my friend, Linda Snodgrass of Lin's Craft Corner. Thank you, Lin!

Selection of Winners: Because you are all my friends, I could never select one of you over another, so I will use Dr. Random and Mrs. Dot Org to choose the prize winners by random drawing. They will work tirelessly around the clock, with Hammy providing beverages to keep them highdrated. 

Feel free to let me know in your comment which prize you prefer if you're a winner. I will post the winners as soon as possible.

Enjoy the challenge! No, seriously, enjoy!

Viscous Circle Warning: Participating in the NBUS challenges will diminish your stash of NBUS! Yay! Unfortunately, because part of participating in the NBUS challenges is visiting the other gallery entries and leaving comments, you will find yourself experiencing severe PE (Product Envy). This, in turn, will cause you to purchase more NBUS and your stash will grow. 

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