Birthday Dawg and Christmas Stocking

Hello Stamplings!

Good day! I just ate a fat left-over Easter egg, so pardon me if I get chocolate on your screen. It's been hiding behind a potted plant on the deck for a few weeks, but it was okay to eat, doncha think? Sure.

Thank you for letting me know how much you enjoyed my bunny up a tree in the last post. The world is pretty anxious these days, so it's nice to have little unexpected giggles. I do tend to levitate towards critters when I make my cards (gee, Hammy wonders why!) and I did it again today with this Onefer.

I used a NBUS "Pawsome" set from Taylored Expressions that I've had for a little while years. I don't know why I haven't used it before because it was fun to watercolor with my Ziggies.  I added a few grass clippings and some rainbow-colored party confetti to match the tops of the birdie's party hats. A wonky MFT border seemed appropopo for the frame and it was good to go.

Challenges

• CAS Watercolour May Challenge: For a child.
• Krafty Chicks: Celebration.
• The Library Challenge: Herriot: All Creatures Great and Small.
• Seize the Birthday: Anything goes with optional Texture.
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Birthday. Happy 10th Birthday!!!! WOW!!
• SSS Work It Wednesday: Pet project in honor of Nat'l Pet Week.

Twofer

Here we have a classic Christmas card depicting, "the stockings were hung by the chimney with care." There's only one stocking on this card because it belongs to Emily. She's a young single woman who is celebrating her first Christmas in her new home! I used a Tim Holtz stencil for the chimney. The stocking is from MFT and the sediment is from GKW.

Challenges

• CAS Christmas Card Challenge: Stocking.
• Merry Little Christmas Challenge: Anything goes.

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Off to play with our company. Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

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Friendship needs no words, but sometimes it needs Depends

Hello Stamplings,

Oh, dear, that hasn't happened for years. My whole post just went belly up and disappeared. Pfft! And I was all finished. Total operator error, I'm sure, but that doesn't give me any solace, especially since I'm not sure prezackly what I did wrong. Since everything I write is spontaneous, it's weird to start over so we'll just move on as soon as Hammy returns with my wodka. Thank you, buddy.

Okay, that's better. Here's my Onefer:

It's hard to get more QACAS than this card with no stamping on it. This lovely friendship text paper (from PTI?) is from my stash. The NBUS die cut called "Sweet Tulip" is from Simon Says Stamp. I'm tickled to say that I haven't had it on Mt. NBUS for two years like usually happens. In fact, it only arrived a few days ago! The sediment is a store-bought button, also ancient and also from my stash. I backed it with a matching stitched circle die cut.

BTW, I just found out I have a Super Power! Yup, I do. I have the uncanny ability to complete the purchase of craft items online just hours before they go on sale! It happens with different companies and this is the third time in a row that it has happened with SSS! (Don't tell the Mister.)

Challenges

• Double D Challenges: Pink and white.
• The Flower Challenge: Use your latest stamps or dies.
• Inkspirational: Text. Designer's choice: Use your stash.
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: No stamps allowed.
• Stamp Ink Paper: Monochromatic.

 

Twofer

See, now the title of my post makes sense! This card is a reminder of the Best Friends challenge currently going on at Words 2 Craft By (W2CB) where I have the pleasure of being the Guest Designer this month! 

The NBUS girlfriends and the sediment are from the Art Impressions stamp set called "Laughing." It was a gift from my friend Brenda when I went to visit her last fall. (Thank you, mf!) I paper-pieced and Ziggified the girls and then I masked them in order to brush antique linen Oxi ink through a water drop stencil to make the background. The panel was then inked around the edge and adhered to the card base.

I hope you'll be able to make a friendship and/or kindness card and play along this month at W2CB! 

Challenges

• Addicted to Stamps: Anything but a square.
• Mod Squad: Brand name clear or rubber stamps.
• Pixie's Snippets Playground: Anything goes with snippets.
• The Library Challenge: Spark Joy by Marie Kondo. (Title.)

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Caught this little guy on the fence yesterday. Don't know whose yard the orange came from, but you can't blame him for stealing it. This is, after all, cold and flu season!

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

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A Rose By Any Other Name Is a Poinsettia

Hello Stamplings!

Welcome back from the long 4th of July holiday. The 4th fell on a Wednesday this year so a lot of folks went on vacation for the week, bookmarking it with weekends on both ends. The rest of us stayed home and simply ate the whole week long preparing food before the 4th and eating it after! Burp!

I managed to get away from the trough long enough to make a coupla of pink flower cards ...

Onefer

This card is a birthday card for my friend Janice's 50th birthday. Not only does she love roses, but two years ago she treated herself to braces and next week will be the big reveal!

This rose is die-cut in gold from a NBUS SU "Rose Garden" die. I received it from my friend Hazel three years ago when I met her in England. This week Hammy and I were feeling nostalgic and looking through my saved cards from that trip and there was the die, forgotten inside Hazel's card instead of filed away in the die storage. Oops! Thank you again, Hazel! This design is a CASE of Hazel's card where the rose is allowed to be the star of the show! I added a navy blue border and a die-cut Smile sediment from Penny Black.

Challenges

• Color Throwdown: I couldn't miss participating in this monumental celebration of 500 challenges! Congratulations! As someone who recently started a challenge, I am incredibly impressed by that number! That's a lot of work and we all appreciate it!
• Seize the Birthday: AG Birthday ~ optional: sequins.
• The Library Challenge: The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley.
• TIME OUT: Smile quote.

Twofer

This design has the navy blue border on both sides. The framed stamp image is NBUS from PTI's set, "Botanical Blocks IV." I watercolored the poinsettias with my Ziggies. I love these small framed botanicals. Of course, every little bit of it has been liberally Winked, so it's quite appropopo for Christmas!

Challenges

• AAA Cards: Use a frame.
• CAS Christmas Card Challenge for July: Poinsettia.
• Little Red Wagon: Christmas in July.

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

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower! Please let me know you came by so I can be sure and return the flavor!

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