Angled Anniversary ~ NBUS #141

Hey there!

Here we are whooshed around to another Friday already! That makes 29 Fridays we've whooshed around to out of a measlesly 52! Gulp! Pass the drinks trolley.

I really intended to get back to making Christmas cards once a week what with that rapidly ticking clock, but instead I had to heed the current month, which is still July, and make a coupleteen birthday cards and an anniversary card. Today I want to share the anniversary card I made. Which I made without a sketch challenge, if you can believe it!

I was actually updating my dies and seeing if one of them would spark an idea. A piece of paper was half covering a die and it made me think about how angled cards are back in fashion and this evolved:

What's really fun about the card is that you might not notice that the angle in the front is the bottom of a heart until you open it up and find this on the inside:

At least I hope the recipients get that it's the top of a heart and not some crazy cutout of big bosooms! Well, regardless of their possible confusion, I got a kick out of making this one! The large heart die is from Spellbinders and the word die "together" is a NBUS die from Papertrey Ink, which has a matching NBUS stamp.

The colors were provided by the current challenge at The Card Concept:

I'm also playing in these challenges:

• The Curtain Call Challenge ~ "Anything Goes."
  
  
• Pixie's Snippets Playground ~ "Use a snippet(s) on your card."
  
  
• Thanks to Sindhu, I'm also entering the Moxie Fab World "Wonderful Words Challenge - Word Dies."
  

  

The links provided will take you to the challenges where you can find the details on the rules, sponsors, and prizes. Join in the fun why doncha!!

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New Friends Corner

It is my pleasure to introduce you to five more new friends! I do hope you are managing to find a few extra minutes to read these introductions and click over to meet these talented card artists! 

Lynne J. of Ruby-Dooby-Doo Crafts. Lynne is from Northern Ireland. She has been making cards since 2006 and blogging since 2012. Lynne's cards are such happy things, more often than not there is some kind of critter showcased. And speaking of critters, wait until you see her adorable Westie named Ruby!

Ursula Uphof of My Crafting Corner. Ursula is from South Africa and she came to me via my friend, Petra. Ursula and her husband Robert have been in the business of making ceramics and candles for many years. They have four sons and nine grandchildren! In 2008 she started making cards and she started blogging in 2010. Ursula is a Queen of Challenges! She loves digital crafting and she is a designer and an award-winner!

Lynette of My Stamping Addiction. Lynette is from Minnesota. She and her husband Jim have a son and a daughter and five grandchildren. Lynette makes fantastic cards that are impeccably executed. She has been blogging since 2008!! That always gets two exclamation points because I'm thrilled to send you to a blog that has that many years' worth of inspiration waiting for you!!

Ingrid Blackburn of The Creative Grove. Ingrid is a lifetime crafter who started scrapping in 1994, joining the online scrapbooking community in 1999. She became a card artist in 2002 and began her blog in 2012. Ingrid produces a newsletter and holds online classes to inspire and educate you. Her cards are terrific and her passion is contagious!

Chris Dann of Chris's Cards and Bits. Chris is known to many of us as Mrs. D. She is from North Wales and she and her husband Adrian have two daughters and three grandsons. In addition to making cards, Mrs. D loves knitting, crocheting, and sewing. She started her blog in 2013 where she loves sharing her desk and her projects via the famous What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday!

Thank you for joining, ladies, and welcome to the Playhouse!

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

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower! Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor! 

  

 

*Life Is Too Short!

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Just for fun, appropoopoo of nothing:

Spiders in the Bathtub
by Darnell (Irma Iowa)

A couple of times a year, we see daddy long-leg spiders or other little harmless spiders show up in the bathtub. It's often very hot and dry. Mister says they are looking for water. I don't blame them.

I think they come up through the drain. Mister thinks I'm nuts because, of course, in order for that to happen, you'd have to have a hole in the pipe somewhere and that's not a good thing to have in a pipe. But it just makes more sense to me that they are coming in that way, through some imperceptible teeny pipeseam opening, than that they are climbing into the bathtub from all the way outside. Because, I mean, let's think about this for a second.

The bathtub is dozens of feets from the nearest window or door leading from the outside of the house to the inside. So there's that. According to Mister's thinking, that would be the point of entry.

So let's say there's a daddy long-leg spider named Gary who is really thirsty and his family is really thirsty and he needs to find some water.

So Gary climbs up the side of the house and squeezes in under the screen in the bedroom window. He slips in over the sill just before the window is closed for the night. 

Phew, he made it! He clipped the end off leg #5, but that's no biggie.

Now all he has to do is climb down the wall and make his way along the baseboard all the way around the bedroom to the door and down the hall to the nearest bathroom. But just as he is about to step into the hall, the light comes on.

Panicked, he pulls in his legs and shrinks back into the bedroom and under the dresser. Footsteps thunder down the hall and into the bathroom. "Well, dang," Gary mutters, "I wonder how long that will take. I'm really dying here." He passes the time by thinking about his family outside in the dark under the hydrangea, waiting patiently for him to appear with his Thor Axe full of refreshing water. He knows the missus will wring his scrawny neck if he comes back empty.

Finally, he hears the toilet flush. The door opens and the footsteps recede back down the hallway and the light goes off. "Hmpf," he thinks to himself, "someone doesn't wash their hands." But it's not his place to judge and even thinking about water gives him renewed energy to scoot down the hall and skitter over the threshold and into the bathroom.

"I made it!" he exclaims to himself, taking a moment to roll over onto his back and clap four sets of feet! There is nothing as fun as clapping four sets of feet! He doesn't revel long, however, as there is work to do. Righting himself, he realizes that he now has a decision to make.

"Oh, crap," he mutters, "why did I have to be selected for this mission? Everyone knows I am the most indecisive spider in the family! Just because I screwed up the design on that last web is no reason to send me on a water mission that requires a decision!"

Because there he was. At a vary-table smorgieboard of watery relief!

To his left a sink. Dry.
To his right a toilet. Wet.
And straight-ahead a tub. Dry.

Swinging his eight eyes from the sink around to the toilet, he thinks and thinks.

The sink is dry. It is the closest.
The bathtub is dry. It is the furthest away.

The toilet is full of water. It is closer than the tub.

Brilliantly, he chooses the bathtub!

That is dry.
And farthest away.

And that requires quite a lot of effort to get into because there is that sliding glass shower door blocking entry.

So like an idiot, Gary dances across the floor and behind the toilet which is full of water. Because he left his little suctioned socks at home under the hydrangea, he can't climb up the bathtub, up the glass and over the top. Already tired, he neverthemore scoots up the wall until he is higher than the shower glass, walks along the ceiling and and then down the other side.

"Hoo Ray!" Gary cries from the edge of the tub. "I've made it!" Tucking his stick legs in, he dives over the side and body surfs down the slick porcelain sides of the bathtub to the bottom. Slowly, he untucks his limbs and looks around him at a sea of boundless white.

A dry sea of boundless white.

Where the only way to get water is to sit there like a flippin' sitting duck and wait until someone comes along and turns on the water.

Praying he is invisible. With his darkly colored body surrounded by white.

Praying that he won't get squished.

Praying that somehow when the water is turned on he can leisurely fill up his water tank and not be picked up by the rushing water and propelled rapidly down the drain and out to sea.


Yeah, okay, like that makes any sense.

I'm not a big fan of spiders, believe me, but I think they are smarter than to walk past a toilet full of water to get into a bathtub.

I think they come up through the drain.

The End.