CFC92; Pixie's 62 ~ Wallpaper Paper

Oh, dear, I think it might already be Tuesday morning for some of you, while it's Monday afternoon for me, so I'll just say, Hi!  How's it goin' this Monuesday?

Feel like putting up some wallpaper?  If you're as old as me, you'll say, "No way!"  But if you are young and on trend, you're prolly considering it.  I have a friend (in another part of the country) who was an expert hanger and from what she says and from what I've seen on the home shows on TV, it's coming back and there are some beautiful papers on the market.

Here in Cardville, Michele and her amazing Design Team at CAS-ual Fridays want us to make our own wallpaper to use as designer background paper on our cards. 

So I made a few CAS cards.  These are the stamps I used for my wallpaper designs:

When I first started stamping, I often made my own background patterned paper.  I got a bit out of the habit so I had a good time doing it again today.  You might say I got carried away ala Susan G. or Joyce.

First, I made a couple of cards using the CAS-ual Fridays Stamps "Calm and Gentle" stamp set.  Once in rainbow colors:

and then in mono chrome colors:

This one makes you tilt your head and squint a little, huh?  What with the "arrows" going east to west, and the words going north to south.  Or is it the other way round?

Then, since we are all SO ready for spring, I thought a few spring showers might be funtastic:

My (apparently giant) butterfly was made with snippets of card scraps, so this one gets to be carried over to the Playground at Miss Di's Pixie's Crafty Snippets.  I'm going to miss my visit next week, so this time I'm going to take two turns on the merry-go-round, maybe even three.  Mmm, or maybe not because then I get too dizzy and no one wants to see my knickers when I fly off into a snitty snowbank.  Ooof.

And lastly, how about a rainbow of love beads?

I'm thinking a sweet tag tucked into that clip will be just the ticket when the time comes to send this card to its new owner, as yet unknown.

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That was fun getting all inky.  I like having the option of making my own paper design or using the wonderful store-bought patterned papers I have.  Sometimes you feel like getting jiggy with the ink, sometimes you don't.

There is still lots of time to play with making your own wallpaper, so I hope you'll join in the fun at CFC!  And the gates are just about nearly always open at Pixie's, so you can go and play there very nearly almost any time.

The end of card talk.

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When we first moved into this house in 1977, every single inch of wall was covered in wallpaper.  Most of it shiny shiny neon bright wallpaper.  Wallpaper that was established upon the walls with Super Glue.  I know you know what I mean.  It makes your stomach ache a little bit remembering the wallpapers you've removed in your lifetime (or watching your mother do it), doesn't it?  And they wonder why us old homemakers smoked and drank. 

Sadly, film was expensive to buy and develop (ha ha) back in the day, so I don't have pictures of all the rooms to share, but I do have a picture of the kitchen (after we replaced the formica countertops with tile) where you can just see the wallpaper border.

That's our little DS who is now 35 with 8-year-old boy twins who have often stood in that very spot.  Awwwwwwwww.  But just look at those awful amber-colored plastic cupboard inserts!  I mean, what were they thinking?!  Oh, yeah, dude, that's right, what were they smoking?!  Then there's the stunning "harvest gold" appliances.  (Yes, the carpet was "avocado green!")  Oh, well . . . every generation thinks the prior generation had taste only in their mouths.

Any wood workers among you will also note that my noncarpenter Mister made sure there were enough corbels under that bar overhang so that even the heaviest visiting acrobatic elephants (or 8-year-olds) had no worries about it breaking off!

Five years ago, we hired it remodeled so it now looks like this:

 

Which I love to pieces, which is good because I'm way too busy playing in my Playhouse to even think about reremodeling again!

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