OLW #112 ~ Just A Musical Note

Mondays.  Mundane?  I think not.  Few of us can predict prezactly what the week will bring, so think of Mondays as a launch pad into adventure!

The office called.  They want me back.  Punishment will continue until morale improves.  They are bringing me in to do stand-up during the employee water-and-cracker breaks.

I couldn't leave for the day without saying hello and posting my cards for this week's One Layer Wednesday challenge hosted by Ardyth and originally started by the Queen of OLW, Susan Raihala.  OLW doesn't have a big design team, nor sponsors, nor prizes, but the hostesses work hard to bring us ideas each week and I wish more stampers would join in.  I have noticed a lot more interest in CAS (clean and simple) cards across the blog o' sphere (which is awesome!) and, well, you can't get any more CAS than one layer.  I'm just saying.  Gently.

This week Ardyth has challenged us to make one-layer cards Representative (or it can be Senator) of whatever song we might have in our heart.  Naturally my song has a Prelude.

I live in California, the land of fruits and nuts and beautiful golden poppies, our state flower. 

Here's a lovely photo:

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I have taken some lovely photos of them meself over the centuries, but I can't find them right now when I need them.  We have a really adorable picture somewhere of DS, about five years old, crouched nose-down in a large field of poppies.  We reactivated the pose with the twins, but, of course, I can't find that either, so the above will have to do you.

Naturale mon, someone wrote a song about them in 1917.  A war bride, her name was Leila France, and she had never seen anything like it where she came from.  Near dawn one morning at a table in a corner at Alfonso's on Telegraph, she penned this:

California Poppy Song

Poppies, golden poppies, gleaming in the sun,

Closing up at evening, when the day is done.

Pride of California, flower of our state

Growing from the mountains, to the Golden Gate.

Flower of the hillside, flower of the plain,

Flower of the sunshine, flower of the rain.

California's children, be they far or near,

Love the golden poppy of our state so dear.

You can find a Bob Fox arrangement here, if you want to bang it out on your piano.  It's the kind of song that, if I wanted to torture you to death, I could make up 67 more verses right here, right now. 

I wanted to combine this week's OLW challenge with the CASE study challenge and the pink challenge over at LIM, but apparently that combo hasn't been paid full union wage for last week's gig at The Vine, so I'm doing a solo challenge presentation.

But I made two cards, so neener-neener, who needs a band?!

I even broke out my twinkling H20s, praise buckles and broth!

Ol' Leila had me in such a festive mood after my third screwball with sugar, that I went scrummaging through my Ribbon Remnants and look what I found:

Re-ember when decorative card-making ribbon was the rage before we were invaded by the Washi's?  It's amusing to stay connected to a hobby long enough to notice the revolutions.  I have no musical talent, so I hope the above ribbon music isn't too risk-A, like from a can-can or something.

Enjoy your launch day!   As always, thank you for stopping by to visit.   Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment! Snigger.  I just realized that some of my follower friends won't know what a can-can is.

A can-can . . .

Poppy

Paper:  PTI white
Stamp:  all Su!
Ink:  PTI black, Marvy markers,
  Twinkling H2Os

Just a Note

Paper:  SU! white
Stamps:  SU! note;
  PTI (?) sentiment
Ink:  PTI black
Ribbon:  Bobbin Ribbon,
  item 90041-1127
Pearl from stash