Cupcake Confetti and Christmas Pines

Hey! How's it going?

You know what I'm going to say, doncha? That's right, we've whooshed through another week to Friday! Yay, it's the weekend! Not only that, but it's a long weekend with a Monday holiday for some countries!

And it brings us that much closer to NBUS Challenge #5 coming to a theater near you on Tuesday, September 8th!! Hammy and I have been busy cleaning out the Inlinkz boxes for your upcoming beautiful cards. We've also been lining up lots of prizes, but we took a break yesterday after lunch and before nap to play with a couple of card challenges.

First up:

The e/f is by Darice called "Multi Circles." I supersized my tag and made it with this antique tool I have called "scissors." The stitched circle die is from Lil' Inkers. The cupcake stamp is from SU, however, I wanted the flame to be more prominent, so I used a NBUS raindrop stamp from Paper Smooches "Sunny Side Up" set. The "Sweet" is from Serendipity Stamps and the NBUS confetti is a Cutaway die from Winnie & Walter. 

My friend Carol Mayne (Just Me: c) is the designer being showcased at Tag You're It! Here is her outstanding tag which was my inspiration:

I'm also playing in:

• AAA Cards: Spectacular Embossing
• Retro Rubber: Anything Goes
• Stamp, Ink, Paper: Colors.

Today's Twofer

This Christmas card has a white card base and a copper metallic mat from GKW. The Christmas trees were made with Memory Box dies "Pine Border Background" and "Pine Border Outline." The background was cut from a design I made by playing with alcohol and inks on glossy paper. Wait. What? I meant to say alcohol inks on glossy paper. Here is a close-up:

The copper e/p is very old from Stampa Rosa. The sediment, however, is NBUS from the SU "Ornamental Pines" set.

My inspiration came from Kimberly Wiener (wienerhoneymooners) who is the current MUSE at MUSE: Christmas Visions. Here is Kimberly's extraordinary card:

As you can see, I was inspired by all the copper and embossing, including the sediment. I was also inspired by the colorful and variegated backgrounds of Kimberly's trees. Her little bird on the tree top is represented by a copper star on mine.

With all those triangles and triangles inside of triangles on my card, I am also playing in Virginia's View Challenge: Geometric Patterns.

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Planet Delusional

On the home front, I've got a poorly Mister. Last weekend we went away for four days to a lake with some of his siblings and a cousin and their spouses and we all had a great time. Except for they decided to rent a boat and go water skiing like they used to do when they were kids. I mean it's like riding a bike, right?

Not so much. It turns out 45 years might be too long between lift-offs and the Mister ended up with a severely pulled hamstring at best and at worst, the possibility of needing surgery to fix a detached ligament at his hip. We will find out today. In the meantime, the poor guy literally cannot sit down, so he cannot drive, so he cannot go to work. Pray for me him, please.

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ONLY FOUR MORE DAYS!!

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