CFC #104; Pixie's #75; RS #67 ~ Happy Spring!

Hi Everyone! 

Welcome to Monday!  Please move your game pieces back around to the start of a fresh week.  Before we dig in, let's give ourselves a round of applause for being alive and healthy enough to start a new week!!

I particularly say that because we almost keeled over from a skah-orcher on Saturday!  Yikes!

It's only the beginning of June.  There are places where that might be an expected tempture, but it's very unusual for this time of year in a location that is less than an hour outside of San Francisco.  Add to that, our power went out three different times, for hours each time!  Oy.  We took turns hosing down poor ol' Duke and soaking our heads in buckets of ice.  On the bright side, it was a good excuse to eat all the ice cream in the freezer.  There is always a bright side!!

Between dunking and slurping, I made a card.  After thinking all those deep thoughts on my last post, the least I can do is follow through on my big-mouth meanderings.  BTW, the results of my question were tallied-ho and the consensus is that there is no consensus over which comes first for you card artists, the cart (product) or the horse (challenges).

I always did love that very visual expression, "Well, hold on there, youngster, you've got your cart in front of your horse!"

[Sorry, I'm very digressive today.]

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Back to my new processi, this is Day Two.  (I'm nothing if not a superb Title Writer.) 

First, I picked a product from my never-used-schtuff in the Playhouse, which was a sheet of chipboard banners and buttons from Woodland Park.

Armed, I checked my usual favorite challenges and I found two that I could use!  I started to build my card using this terrific sketch by Danielle over at retrosketches.

I smile every time I see one of these fun sketches!  They are so adorable on the torn paper with the hot cocoa stains.  They might could be coffee stains, but my experience has been that coffee drinkers are usually pretty careful so as not to waste a drop and whereas, hot cocoa drinkers get so becited about all that whipped cream they crash into their concoctions with their spoons, erupting cocoa missiles up and over the sides of the cup.  I'm just sayin'.

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Since the sketch had a banner, I knew if I used one of the cute banners from the chipboard array, I could also enter my card in the "Banners and Flags" challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays.  The generous sponsor this week is ellenhutson.com.  (BTW, I've purchased from this company and the service has always been excellent.)

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Here is my take on the sketch:

Using ribbon, I snipped and added two background flags behind the sweet spring robin flag.  I placed my sediment on a punched snippet of matching card stock paper to give the card extra dimension.  Oh, hahaha, you know better!  It was done that way because, yep, when I stamped it directly onto the card stock, I stamped it crooked.  Nice save and a tip o' the day!

All that talk about snippets reminds me that I can also enter this card in Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground, where we are happy to have our beloved Headmistress Di back on duty!!  In Spelling I learnt that the word "headmistress" is compound and it takes on a whole new meaning if you add a space and uncompound it.

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Here are all the products I used.  In the end, I was able to use two items of never-used-schtuff (NBUS) on my card because I also used a previously unopened packet of sweet bubble embellishments from Reflections. 

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I've been wanting to capture a photo of one of the sweet yellow-bellied finches that flit down out of the trees for a drink and quickly dart back.  Finally, my camera happened to be handy:

I'll keep working on trying to get one to smile for the camera.  The birds and the Duke and the peeps were all very happy when the temps plummeted twenty-seven degrees on Sunday!  That's more like it!

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

And thank you so much for stopping by the Playhouse.  Special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment or join as a follower!

*Life Is Too Short!  

Paper:  PTI vintage cream and spring rain;
  unknown DSP, but I think it's DCWV
Stamp:  unmarked
Ink and ribbon:  SU! certainly celery
Unmarked jute thread
Bling:  Reflections
Corner Chomper and SU! punch