A Sunny Hello!
And we're back around to Friday ~ whoosh!
I have missed Days 3 and 4 of my online card class, so I've got some catching up to do in class time and in homework. Oopers. I spent the entire day yesterday cleaning up the Playhouse, which means I'm also behind in my visits to you.
A lot of you know that I love polka dots and plaids and stripes. You may have noticed that I like my ribbons bespectacled in this way, too. I've purchased dotty ribbons from SU! and PTI and striped ribbons from SU! The truth is, however, that until they ended up together on my desk a couple of weeks ago for some forgotten purpose, I had never noticed how striking the stripey SU! ribbons were together.
I was really taken with them and I wanted to make a card with them. I HAD to make a card with them, but they weren't dressed for the various events on my calendar. So they waited. While they waited, I kept stacking them in different color order, fondling them when I was on the phone. I wished I had a straw hat so I could make happy ribbon hatbands for it.
And then along came yesterday. Yesterday I was a Hoover with a Master's Degree in Organization and Efficiency, deployed in Operation Clean Sweep. If they were going on a card together, it was now or maybe never. From behind my apron strings, peeked little Miss Nida Challenge.
She's a persistent little thing, so I searched my Challenges tab to see what was on tap and lookie here what I found! An absolutely perfect sketch at Mojo Monday.
As you can see, it is "Round or Square" week and the sketch, seemingly made just for me, is by the talented Julee Tilman.
I haven't played at Mojo Monday for a while and I'm delighted to do so again. I'm pretty sure that Mojo was the very first sketch challenge that I played in and I did so often. It's a popular challenge and the sketches are usually more layered than I prefer, but I have never felt unwelcome with my CAS cards. Check them out if you haven't already!
Here is my card.
This will make a cheery graduation card for my niece who is getting her real Master's and going on to medical school. It was actually pretty QACAS, so I went to see if my colors would fit for the current 10-Minute Craft Dash, but not. (Hey, if that had happened, I would have had to wash my face and put on shoes and go buy a lottery ticket!)
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My ribbons are now happily back with their color families and I can resume my classes and visits and shopping. Wait. How did that get in there? And why do you need a resume to take an online class?
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I'm pickled tink to announce that we have Julie Juhl joining our journey! Julie, I can't find your website if you have one. If you do, please email and let me know, so that I can share your site with everyone! Thank you for following!
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Member the Cooper's Hawks I told you about that were perching often in our neighbor's tree? This is a photo of one of them:
Well, well, well. They have moved over to OUR large maple. This is the result:
Nature giveth and giveth! And spit happens.
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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!
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 vintage cream; SU! melon mambo,
wild wasabi
Stamp: PTI (I think) from a "Dream Big" stamp
Ink: SU! not quite navy
Ribbon: SU! melon mambo, wild wasabi, and
not quite navy; cheapo skinny organza
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