PTI May 2014 Blog Hop ~ NBUS #133

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Happy Funday Every Body!

It's a nice long weekend here in the States. Monday is Memorial Day, a day for us to celebrate and appreciate the men and women who currently serve and have served our country in the military!

I had a great time yesterday with my crafty friends Kim and Harriet, making coin purses using the PTI dies (photo below). It wasn't until I woke up this morning that I remembered about the May PTI blog hop.

Here is this month's photo perspiration:

Fortunately, I had visited my girlfriend Joanne recently and part of my clearance-rack purchases included a two-pack of Washi tape. The design of one of the rolls just happened to be aqua and melon triangles. Oh, snap my peas!

So, I made this QACAS and graphic card:

I used the PTI sketched shapes die (NBUS) for the triangles and the sediment is from PTI's "Think Big Favorites #24." The little glass embellies are from Lynn.

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I am also entering my card in Seize the Birthday (no toppings):

and in Addicted to Stamps and More where the theme is the ever-popular "Anthing Goes!" The prize is digis from Rick St. Dennis (zibbet).

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New Friends Corner

I'm delighted to introduce you to two more new friends! Please welcome:

Dottie Jo of Just a Dotty Pudding. You know you are going to love her already with that blog name! Dottie Jo has been blogging since 2009 and she has an impressive number of awards to show for it! Her blog is inspirational, personal, and full of fun, just like her cards!

Helen Finlay. Helen, your name was not clickable and I couldn't find a blog for you when I asked Mr. Google. Please let me know if you have one, so I can edit this and include a link for others to find you. Of course, if you don't have a blog, you are very welcome here, too!

Thank you for joining the Playhouse, ladies!

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Okay, short and sweet as you have hopping to do! I will leave you with a small collage of Harriet, me, and Kim having fun at my house making little felt coin purses. We spent so much time talking and laughing, mine isn't finished yet to show you. I hope you are having as much fun at your house!

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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 leave a comment and/or join as a follower! Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor! 

 

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MUSE #5 ~ Hello, Dear Friend

A Rootin' Tootin' Hello Thursday!

I had to take a break from my stamp reorganization and make a card.  Reorganizing is really tiring and really boring, but it will be so worth it when I'm done.  A while back I learned a new word from my friend Kim S., a word that has made it's way into the Urban Dictionary.  It's "exhaustipated."  It means "being so tired you no longer give a shizz."  I love it and wish I'd thought of it.  Oh, wait. 

 

Another comingled word I like is confuzzled.  I mean, I don't know if that's in the Urban Dictionary, but it's in my dictionary.

 

So if we could just focus back on the card blog for a minute ... I made a quick card for challenge #5 over at the MUSE Card Club.  This week we are fortunate to have Design Team member Marion Vagg as our Muse!  Marion made this bright and colorful card for our CASEing pleasure:

 

 

It's so cheerful, my goodness.  You would smile with your whole face if you got that in the mail!  I am still a newbie at using washi tape, although I did make a similar banded card using washi-tape and an elephant not too long ago.  It was a fun technique I was looking forward to doing again and I got my wish in no time.  I don't have tapes in the sunny colors that Marion used, but I flipped my card and CASEd her design idea with some tapes I do have and I used a similar "hello" sentiment.

 

I hope you like my interpretation:

 

The sentiment is one I happened to mention just yesterday when talking about cutting up stamps, so it's funny how that worked out!  Both washi tapes are from Freckled Fawn; as you can see from the slight glare, the pretty silver one has a glossy finish.

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Okay, short and sweet for me today.  I'm off to visit Verna, followed by a ladies luncheon, and then I'll be back to tackling the mess in the Playhouse.  It occurs to me that you might wonder what I'm doing at a ladies luncheon.  Oh, very funny.

Here's a real funny I saw on Facebook:

 

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Enjoy your day!   No, seriously, enjoy your day.   LITS*!  Don't exhaustipate yourself!

Thank you so much for stopping by the Playhouse. Special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment or join as a follower!

*Life Is Too Short!

 

Paper:  PTI white

Stamp:  SU! Moving Forward

Washi tape from Freckled Fawn

Bling from Hero Arts

Clean & Simple Card Making 2, Days 7 and 9 ~ Washi Paper and Oopsie Poopsie

Hey!  How's it goin'?

It's a cold mess in parts of the Midwest and the East Coast this weekend.  I hope everyone has power, is safe and sound, and well-stocked with provisions.  Eeeks.

I've got a quick post today.  I'm still doing a bit of funwork from my class and I have lots more to do.  Today I made my own background paper using nothing but washi tape, which I'm not sure if I'm supposed to capitalize on or not.  If someone named washi invented it, then I think I should be using a big double u.  Does anyone know?  I've seen it both ways.  Our card inspiration was provided by the fabulous Lisa Spangler.

So here's what I made:

Him's so cute.  The tape is from Lawn Fawn.  I used the fun sticker from Stickopotamus on a white and red mat.  I used Lil' Inker Designs flag additions die and stamp (curving it a little) for the sediment.  On the inside of the front I attached a same-size sheet of white card stock to cover the turned tape ends and that's it!

This card is going straight to the twins because they both adore washi tape and I do miss them.  They are into basketball now late on Saturday afternoons which is severely restricting our weekend sleepovers.  Frownie face.

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Then I tried to make a card using instructions from the brilliant Julie Ebersole.  She made an awesome card using a big cityscape stamp, stamping the image in two overlapping colors and then heat embossing the third overlapping.  Sort of like this:

Cool idea.  So then I was on the telephone and instead of doing proper doodling like everyone else, I started filling in the craters in my black embossed flowers with a black Copics outliner brush pen.  Oh, very nice.  Talkie, talkie.  Oh, shoot, is that a speck?  Talkie, talkie.  Let me brush that ....  EI YI YI, NO No no no no!  By the time I swished away the speck, I had forgotten I had put black ink on the flowers, and my swish caused a smoosh and I started shizzazzing all over the place.  Dang, double-dang nabbit.

I did what anyone would do when that happens, if it's a big smoosh, which this was.  I smooshed the whole area in that not challant way one does like one meant for that to happen all along.  I won't lie, IRL it looks like carp.  But I decide to publish it anyway just cause, hey, bloopers happen!  It's all good.

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Okay, before you break into groups and start tearing into the washi (or doing the washing IRL!), please welcome today's new friend, Beanie of Beanie's Place.  Beanie is brand, brand spanking new to Bloggerville and guess what?  She crafts in her own little shed, too!!  Thank you, Beanie, for joining our journey!

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And thank you for playing in yesterday's word game!  I will wait a few days to see if more peeps jump in the puddle before I compile a lation.

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

Thank you so much for stopping by the Playhouse. Special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment or join as a follower!

Second card:

Paper: SU! white, black, and

  certainly celery

Stamps:  SU! and Hero Arts

Ink:  Memento black; SU!

  bordering blue, and

  certainly celery

EP:  Silhoette back

Butterflies:  K&Company

Smudge:  djkardkreations