LIM 108; LRW 174 ~ Vellum Piecing or Piercing?

Tarantulas and Taradiddles, it's already Thursday!

I simply HAD to play in this week's Less Is More (Week 108) challenge.  The challenge is to use paper piercing.

 

ETA:  My friend Jessi from One Crafty Mama suggested I also link my card to the current  Little Red Wagon where challenge #174 is to use vellum.  Thanks, Jessi!

So here is another light and springy card, made especially for those of you under gray skies:

I think you can tell by the slight puffiness that the top layer is vellum.  It is so hard to photograph vellum.  I heat-embossed the flower in white and pierced around the flower and up to the butterfly.

 

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A Tribute

 

It's that word thing again.  How the addition or substraction of just one letter can change the whole meaning of a word.

 

You might be amused to know that as of just last June, I had never paper-piEced a card before.  I had done a little pieRcing around a border, but never piecing (which I now LOVE!).  My first one was here.  And the first time I had even heard of it was from a Less Is More challenge.  I believe I entered a card with paper-pieRcing and Chrissie or Mandi set me straight.  Do you remember, Chrissie? 

 

One of you said at the time that now that I mentioned it, a paper pieRcing challenge would be fun to do sometime and now here we are!

 

My goodness those two ladies were so nice to me, a fairly new bee, just trying to get my feeties wet with challenges and figuring out the lingo.  It's a confusing world out there when you first start out. 

 

I also recently came across an email  that I sent to them last summer to clarify what "back-linking" was!  I had even Googled it.  As near as I could tell it meant to link-back (back-link) to your blog and I was having a heck of a time figuring out why this was not allowed, since the whole point of a blog, I thought, was drawing people TO your blog.  C & M gently explained it all to me and brought me back in from out in left field.

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(Backlinking means you can't take a card that you posted once before, say, last November and "repost" it in a new current challenge. Why the heck we don't just say "no reposting," I don't know.  Please, someone, correct me if I still have the meaning wrong!)

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I've come a long way in these last few months and feel like an old-timie blogger now, but I would so still be out-to-sea-without-a-paddle if it weren't for their help and the help of other challenge owners and design team members.  Now the fabulous Jen has taken over for Mandy at LIM, and she is equally a doll.

 

 If you are new to this crazy world, feel free to ask questions of ANY of us.  I'm sure my story is the same for all the other established bloggers in our crafting community; when they started, they were helped by those who blogged before.  I think by the very nature of our craft, we are a very nice group of people.  You don't make cards to bring joy to others without being a very nice person.  I mean, right?!  There are, however, some bloggers who don't leave comments or reply, but that is extremely rare.  If that should happen, don't be discouraged, just ask someone else.

 

Thank you for indulging me in my tribute to the ladies who made me feel at home and educated me SO much!  Mwah!!

 

A pretty for you until your own spring comes around the corner!

 

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Just in time to help me pot some fresh flowers around the Playhouse, please help me give a warm welcome to our new friend, Kay, from 505 Whimsy Girl!  Kay is one of those multi-talented crafters who's a paint-on-canvas artist, a card maker, a knitter, a photographer, a mixed-media participator, and a truly friendly and fun person.  You'll enjoy meeting her!  Thank you, Kay, and welcome!!

 

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I hope you enjoy your day, even if you're still up to your knee crackers in snow!  No, seriously enjoy your day!  LITS*!

*Life Is Too Short!

 

Paper:  SU! textured pink; vellum

Stamp:  SU! Every Moment

Ink:  Hero Arts white EP

Hat pin and SU! mat pack

Butterfly: K & Company

Brads from stash