TIME OUT to DJKASE Kylie

Hello! I hope you all had a fantastic Valentine's Day and weekend! We had a wonderful time with the grandtwins (photos below) and I was still able to get creative after their bedtime so I could play in the current TIME OUT challenge.

The brief is to CASE a card made by the uber-talented card artist, challenge owner, web designer, and my kind and generous friend, Kylie Purtell of  Kylie is Addicted to Stamps.

Here is my CASE, which I'm calling a DJKASE, so I can add it to my DJKASE tab at the top of my blog:

I changed it just enough to bring in my style. I did a switcheroo of the texture so my tag looks like Kylie's card base and I put the flowers on my card base, rather than on the tag.

I used Recollections white and SU strawberry slush for my card stock and Lil' Inkers for the stitched rectangle. (BTW, you might notice that I sometimes use the reverse side of the stitched mat because I think it looks less perfect and more like real stitches.) I also used NBUS Lifestyle Crafts e/f for the horizontal stripes, SU Sizzix Textured Impressions Stripes e/f for the vertical stripes, NBUS Paper Smooches for the stitched tag, Rubbernecker "2 Daisies" for the flowers, NBUS Avery Elle sediment from "All Squared Up," and ribbon from PTI.

There. I'm nothing if not an equal-opportunity productionist! 

I used my SU markers to color directly to the stamps, followed by a light shower of mist. Of course, the blooms had to shine, which I was able to capture a little bit in this photo:

And here is Kylie's brilliant springerly card for our inspiration:

There is still a little time to join in the TIME OUT challenge! 

And in these "Anything Goes" challenges as well:

• Addicted to Stamps and More
• Simply Create Too
• Pixie's Snippets Playground (as long as you use snippets).
• Lil' Inker Designs Monthly Meet Up Challenge
• Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge: Embossing

Please click on the challenge links for all the details on rules, sponsors, and prizes.

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Rant

I had quite a jarring experience when this post suddenly went belly up and died on me. Worse, I have no idea what I did wrong to ensure it doesn't happen in the future. I know our blog posts are saved regularly, but "undoing" brought me no reparation. I Googled until I was googly-eyed trying to find the answer. There are asundred posts about recovering, but you have to be a computer programmer to be able follow the instructions. 

The worst websites are the how-to posts with five thousand links that are supposed to be helpful, but lead you, like a scared rat, through a maze. So, for instance, if you need to go to your cache, and you don't know what your cache is, you can click on the highlighted word cache, which will take you to the post about caches, but first you need your identification numbers, which instructions are helpfully highlighted so if you don't know how to find them, then you simply click there and when you get there, you have to double-back to your history and if you don't know how to find your history, you just click on the word and you will be taken to another planet and given Kool-aid and then you board a white bus which will go down a rabbit hole ...

After a couple of hours of that, you give up and start the whole thing over. Beverage?

On a Happier Note;

I will leave you with a mahoosive portphotio.

Here we have a few collages of our weekend with our beloved grands, Adam and Henry:

As opposed to the East Coast, the West Coast is enjoying unseasonably warm weather which has the flora all in a tizzy of early bloom. Here, a gasp-inducing hillside of California poppies even though it is only the middle of February:

We decided we needed an updated picture of the four of us so after trying to figure out the timer, here is the progression:

Setting up the shot.

The Unposed Shot.

The Posed Shot

As Good As It Gets

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After wards, I went off to a fun lunch with Kim and Harriet at Harriet's home in the Snob Hill region of San Francisco.

Harriet, Darnell, Kim

We do enjoy having our photo taken under the portrait of Harriet's Great-Aunt Maude Marvy, who was the originator of the first dual-tip marker!

Okay, not. Actually, we were at a restaurant, but I had you going there for a second, didn't I? (Harriet's like, "What?!") These two talented ladies are such a kick!! We are fortunate to live near each other!

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