Hi there!
If you're a baseball fan, you've enjoyed this year's World Series! We have a yearly championship series where the winner is decided by whichever team wins the most games out of seven games. No matter which of the two teams you were rooting for, you were happy it went all the way to seven games, and you saw some outstanding baseball being played! Congratulations to the Chicago Cubbies for the win and for breaking the 108-year curse!
And now, how about we start with a tag today?
If you're a baseball fan, you've enjoyed this year's World Series! We have a yearly championship series where the winner is decided by whichever team wins the most games out of seven games. No matter which of the two teams you were rooting for, you were happy it went all the way to seven games, and you saw some outstanding baseball being played! Congratulations to the Chicago Cubbies for the win and for breaking the 108-year curse!
And now, how about we start with a tag today?
I cut a stitched tag with a Dienamics die and stamped the image in Versafine. I used a vo wooden stamp from SU with an image of a cake stand stacked high with six cupcakes. I colored the stand with my Ziggies. I then used two itty-bitty and vo NBUS punches from SU to punch the itty-bitty cupcakes in PP and I glued them over the inked cupcake images. I added a little shading to my pink frosting to make you want to swipe your finger in it for a taste. I backed the creamy tag with a neon green tag and tied them together with some gold and pink ribbon.
I did all of that because I was inspired by this tag:
The creator of the above beautiful tag is Ruby of A Rare Ruby, who is the featured guest designer for the current Tag You're It challenge. I think you can see the elements that inspired me!
Other Challenges
I hope you get a chance to play along with these fun challenges!
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And how about a Christmas card? Or two:
Other Challenges
- Naughty or Nice: Don't pull your punches.
- Pixie's Snippets Playground: Use those snippets!
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And how about a Christmas card? Or two:
Another QACAS card for batch-making. The brilliant vellum paper is from SU. The unknown die was borrowed at the Lake House. I made several cards with green bases and several with white bases.
Challenges
Challenges
- Addicted to Stamps and More: Holiday.
- Christmas Card Challenges: Anything goes.
- Holly Jolly Christmas: Trees or Christmas trees.
Ergo Nomics
I copied this old photo from the "My Playhouse" tab at the top of my blog. This row of filing cabinets is on the west wall of the Playhouse for storing some of my color families of paper, ribbon, and markers.
Below is a photo I took a coupla days ago. (I started clearing things out before I thought to take a picture for you.)
You can see my guillotine cutter and Big Shot on top of the filing cabinets. Bending over to cut paper was starting to whack my already wacky back. (In truth, I usually use the BS on the floor so I don't have to bend and twist. You know, because getting up and down from the floor is a breeze at my age.)
So a couple of weeks ago I bought a vowel, which is another way of saying I had a light bulb moment, which is another way of saying I got smart. The kicker was when Hammy looked up from his coloring book and queried, "What are all those loud creaking sounds?" Really? It became clear that I am TDO for this arrangement and changes needed to be made before I really hurt myself.
Now it looks like this:
Now it looks like this:
Aaaah! Much better! Huge thanks to the Mister for putting together all four cabinets last (rainy) weekend! They are so streamlined and pretty and they hold so much. Most important, the counter-height is fantastic. BTW, these cabinets are an IKEA knockoff that I bought from Wally (Walmart) for a third of the cost. I have IKEA cabinets on the other wall and, as near as I can tell, Wally's are just fine.
Where's my BS? I beg your pardon? Oh. I've made a place for it on the end of my desk where I don't have to bend or twist. Whoop!
Where's my BS? I beg your pardon? Oh. I've made a place for it on the end of my desk where I don't have to bend or twist. Whoop!
Unfortunately, there's a downside that I hadn't considered. Now a certain little hamster is having the time of his life racing from drawer to drawer through those little hand holes. Sometimes he hides in a drawer and scares the carp out of me in the process, much to his delight!
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We are having the grandtwins for a sleepover from today through Sunday ~ oh, and the two granddogs, too, of course! With the boys' activities, we don't see them as much as we did when they were younger, so we are really looking forward to it!
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We are having the grandtwins for a sleepover from today through Sunday ~ oh, and the two granddogs, too, of course! With the boys' activities, we don't see them as much as we did when they were younger, so we are really looking forward to it!
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