Last-Minute Lucy and Awesome Friends!

Hey Peoples!

I've missed you.  I've been whooshing away working, and cleaning house, and planting all those flowers you saw the other day, and hosting a card party!

After the party this afternoon, I made a really quick card as a tribute to my friends and to play in a couple of challenges.  Challenges which are almost over, hence the "last-minute Lucy."

Over at 10 Minute Craft Dash for challenge #12, Paulina has given us bright and cheery colors:

On my monitor the banner looks like lime, but the DT cards look like aqua, so I went with aqua mist, and early espresso, and melon mambo.  Because of the heat embossing, I took 9 minutes and 13 seconds to put my card together.

To help me with the design layout, I used the current (also, almost ended) challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.  This is challenge #75 and the outstanding Tui gave us an uber CAS sketch to play with:

I eLongated the sketch and made this card:

I'm also going to enter my card at Simon Says Stamp where the challenge is "Anything Goes!"

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Our fun get-together was ... well, here's a photo to show you.

from bottom left going around the table:

Gladys, Harriet, Cindy, Donna, Kim, Nancy

Sorry for the poor quality ~ lots of light coming in the windows.  We are long-time stamping friends and brand-new stamping friends.  It was fun to get better acquainted and/or meet each for the first time.  Thank you, ladies, for a great stampganza!!

 

I made a little baggie of tags for each of the ladies as a take-home thank you.

 

 

Someone at my grocery store made the little cake pop with a shamrock and a green ribbon.  I just attached my little tag bag.

 

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Oh, I wanted to ask you.  Is anyone else getting this annoying message every time they go into their "design" feature on their Blogger blogs?

 

 

It has been popping up for over a week now.  I just hit "close," and everything operates fine, so I don't know why they're sorry.  They seem to be able to complete my request, except for falsely popping up to tell me they can't.  I would go and report it to Blogger Support, would I could find such a thing.  The Help Group appears to be less a Help Group than other bloggers whining about issues.  So do you know what the deal is?  And what website I can visit to successfully report this annoying popup?  Thank you so much!

 

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Hope your weekend is going well.  Take a moment to reflect and enjoy!  No, seriously, enjoy!  LITS*!

*Life Is Too Short!

 

Paper:  SU! melon mambo, early espresso;

  PTI aqua mist

Stamps:  Hero Arts K5517 "Tall Wheat"; SU!

  "My Friend"

Ink:  SU! early espresso; dark brown EP

Die:  My Favorite Things "Fishtail Flags"

Honey Bee from stash