NBUS Challenge #6 ~ Day Two!

Welcome to Day Two! I hope your week is going well!

And I hope you are having fun looking through your schtuff for your NBUS! I can just picture your face as you find that stamp or die or punch that you put away and forgot you even had!

I often get comments like, "You really DO have a lot of NBUS!" Well, um, yeah! Doesn't everyone? If you drive around Blogland any time at all, you're gonna see something you want bad. If you aren't tempted by continuous new releases from fabulous companies, you're tempted by something you saw on a friend's blog, or in a challenge gallery.

For a while now, my weak spot has been dies. Good night Nancy Nannette, they are SO fun to play with! And you always get two for the price of one because you can make a card from both the positive and the negative cuts. That is so economical that it would be silly not to buy them! She says, coyly.

At Christmas I received a very pretty card from my friend Bobby on which she had used this really cool ornament die. Enabled, I purchased it foretooth. When it arrived, Hammy said, "Oh, goodie, that's a fun balloon die." Now, in fairness, he happened to be hanging upside down in his cage when I opened the package. This has happened before and, sure enough, after a bit of a laying my ear upside my shoulder, I could see what he meant.

So I made this one firstly:

I cut the die twice: once from white linen card and once from a glossy card which I handmade by blending alcohol inks in pretty jewel tones onto glossy card stock. Above is the positive die card using the white linen cut which I then laid in with the colored glossy bits. The sediment is from "Compact Sediments" by Waltzingmouse Stamps.

Here is a closeup of how shiny it is:

 Then I made this one secondly:

The sediments are from "Smirthday" by Technique Tuesday.

Didn't that ornament die make a cute balloon? Different, anyway!

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I still had some of the colored glossy paper I made, so I used a Christmas die to make another card:

This NBUS die is called "Jumbled Happy Holidays" and it's from Poppstamps. The single jingle bell is from Lil' Inkers. Here is a closeup. Using linen and gloss papers together just makes me feel jingle bell happy in my heart.

 

These colors remind me that I (and possibly you?) rarely use my whole family of orchid, plum, raspberry, and burgandy colored paper stock. I declare them popular again! Do you think that will work if I just say so?

How about if I declare these pretty raspberry and blue colors as tropical colors? Would you agree? Think of those tiny little umbrellas that come in yummy rummy drinkie poos lovingly brought to you by scantily clad pool boys as you leaf through stamping magazines on the chaise under a palm tree. 

Well, good, then. While you're thinking about that, I'm going to enter this as my first entry in the 2016 Merry Monday Christmas Challenge!

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Looking for the InLinkz button for the NBUS #6 Challenge? It is at the top of my side bar or you can click HERE. Have fun!!

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