TCC Reminder ~ Things With Wheels

Hello Stamplings!

ZOOM, ZOOM, I'm popping in today from up in the Vancouver area where I am happily crafting at my second retreat with Loll and friends. If you missed it, you can find last year's recap here. It's such a great time because these ladies are very fun and very talented when it comes to mixed media, so it's a blast to stretch my style horizons with them!

I'll have more to report on that later, but for now I have a coupla more inspiration cards for you as a reminder that we are halfway through our May Twofer Card Challenge #16 where the brief is THINGS WITH WH⎈⎈LS!

I used a little toy airplane stamp for my two wh⎈⎈l designs. I have no idea who the manufacturer is of this super cute trio of toy vehicles. I thought it might be Paper Smooches or Lawn Fawn, but I've searched there and generally on Google, SU, and Pinterest and confound it, I'm at a loss.

Onefer

Isn't this one wheelie fun? It's for a youngster's birthday. Or it could be for an oldster's birthday since I'm convinced after age 60 we start regressing in a positive way and becoming more child-like. I'm not talking about mental deterioration, which is sad and not positive. Rather, I mean in the way we recapture our zest for the little things in life. We stop and look at bugs or at the clouds passing overhead. Or we play with the grandchildren's toys even when they aren't visiting!

Challenges

• Double D: Frames mood board.
• Inkspirational: Adventure.
• Stamp Ink Paper: Let's hear it for the boys!

Twofer

This is a wheelie QACAS card if ever there was one. I'm going to use it as a Thinking of You card. I stamped the airplane on SU pp and added a foam SWAK from my NBUS "Filled With Love" die set by Penny Black.

In case you are unfamiliar with the expression, SWAK stands for "sealed with a kiss." And here is some interesting information I found when I searched the etymology of the expression:

attested from 1911, in a legal publication quoting a letter from 1909:

"... Well Kid I don't know nothing else to say only that I hope to see your sweet face Sat. Good by from your Dear Husban to his sweet little wife. P. S. excuse bad writing and mispelled words take all mistakes as kisses. S.W.A.K. * * *" This letter was postmarked at Des Moines October 20, 1909, addressed to Carrie Sprague at Jefferson, Iowa, and reached the latter place October 21, 1909. [State v. Manning (a conspiracy-to-lure-women-to-prostitution case), Supreme Court of Iowa, Nov. 16, 1910, reported in "Northwestern Reporter," Volume 128, 1911]

Popularized in soldiers' letters home in World War I. It probably is meant also to echo the sound of a kiss. 

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I hope I've inspired you to both kiss someone and play along in our May Twofer Card Challenge! Thank you if you've already played with your wh⎈⎈ls! The challenge closes at the end of day on May 24, 2019.

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

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