Material Girl Cooling Down ~ ATCAS #17; CCCB #166; CFC #108; NBUS#18; Pixie's #80

Happy Day!  Happy Day!

Before I forget (and to possibly save some of you from the flusteration I experienced), if you are getting a "required field must not be blank" message appearing on your draft posts which is preventing you from saving, previewing, or publishing your posts, it is because Blogger has annoyingly decided that you are not allowed to start typing your post until after you have filled in the post title.  That's all, just put something on the title line, even temporarily, and you can continue with your draft.

I think it would be nice if Blogger would email blog authors when they make this kind of change; they know who we are.  Also, perhaps the staff at Blogger have too much time on their hands.  Perhaps they might like to write their own blogs instead of mucking around with ours.  Oh, was that out loud?

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I took a break from making a card to visit a few bloggie friends yesterday when I came across a brand-new-to-me challenge via the incredibly talented Barb Murphy of Barbles, to wit, City Crafter Challenge Blog.  This is this week's CCC photo inspiration, "Cooling Down."

I know, you gasped, right? 

 

I'm like Barb, and prolly a lot of you, in that I love anything to do with leaves and trees. Every piece of non-family framed art in my admittedly-small house is trees or leaves or parts of trees or leaves.  Not only that, but the above colors are beyond delishus.  Not only that, but some of you know I have the awesome "Water Droplets" stamp from Designs by Ryn, a gift from a generous and sweet friend.

 

So, naturally, I had to stop what I was doing and make this:

My NBUS (never-before-used-schtuff) for this card is both the "hope" sediment from the CAS-ual Fridays stamp set "Calm and Gentle" and the jute ribbon from Creative Ideas. 

 

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Can you believe the new challenge posted at Addicted to CAS is the code word "water?" Sometimes things just fall into place!  I suspect we will see a lot of cards featuring Ryn's delightful water images!  The prize this week is a $15 GC from Clearly Digi Stamps.

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In addition, the jute ribbon I used is perfect for the fun at this week's CAS-ual Fridays challenge where we are to use some kind of material (fabric, felt, canvas, etc.) on our projects.  There are sensational DT inspiration cards for you to check out and I imagine this week we will see some equally sensational participant cards!  The prize is a fabulous $25 GC from Ellen Hutson!

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And last, but not least, the paper snippets I used allows me to join in the play at Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground.  At Week 80, this is a good time for me to acknowledge the kind and entertaining and lovable hostess, Miss Pixie Di!  Thank you, Di, for all you do!  This is she:

 

Just looking at that picture makes you want to be her bestie!

 

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I'm working part of next week, actually part of the next five weeks, filling in for other staff who are on summer vacations.  I've also got three online card classes going ~ whatever was I thinking?!  The plan, if I'm not too tired, will be to post my homework and keep on NBUSSING!  So far, I've missed ezactly five days of a class that ran five days last week.  Alrighty then.

 

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

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*Life Is Too Short!  

 

Paper:  SU! DSP; PTI vintage cream

Stamp:  Designs by Ryn "Water Droplets"

  and CFC "Calm and Gentle"

Ink:  SU! crumb cake and tempting turquoise

Ribbon:  Creative Ideas "Toffee" Jute

Embellie:  SU! clippie