Have a Happy! WOYWW #215, Pixie's Week 81, and Moxie Fab World

Well, Hello!

It's time for our weekly desk hop via Julia's What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday (WOYWW) even if you, like me, never did quite hop to as many desks as you had hoped to hop to last week!  It's summertime and the living is easy.  Translation = we can't wait for nice weather and then when it gets here it takes us away from our desks!  What can you do?  Well, go out and enjoy it while you can!

Howbutever, if you did step back inside to cool off for a bit, here's what I have for you:

 

Um, shoes?  Yes, but I'm not showing them because I'm selling them, so don't pull my street creds, Miss Julia!  Although I will say that they are not only the cutest shoes, they are comfy like bedroom slippers, and if you're curious, they are made by Aerosoles.

And what do my shoes have to do with card making?  Actually, I'm pretty sure none of you asked that question.  You all know where this is going.  Here is a close-up where you can see up close that the shoe design is chevrons and I hope you can see that there are sparkly threads that run through the pattern.  And, as you can also see in the picture, I just happen to have a few rolls of sparkly simultaneously-colored Washi tape.

 

 Ever since I bought these shoes in May, I've been wanting to use them as inspiration for a card.  Yesterday I decided to just up and do it before chevrons become passay.  I laid the tape in colored rows to mimic the shoe pattern and then I ran the page of rows through my BS using the chevron stripes die from My Favorite Things.  I also ran a "happy" cut from my Memory Box die, and I came up with this: 

Walla Walla Bang Bang.  As usual, it is hard to fully capture the sparkle in photography, but the sun helped my efforts much better than the inside lights.  I tried adding several chevron rows because I ended up cutting several chevrons in two different widthecees, but in the end, just a narrow top and bottom ensemble encaptillating "happy" made me happy, beings as how I like CAS and all.

 

Seize the Birthday is still having their month-long challenge of "Anything Goes" (ending August 4) and Moxie Fab World is still having her birthday celebration challenges (ending August 12), so I'm linking my happy shiny CAS card with them.  And because I used a snippet of SU! champagne (oh, you perked up at that, didn't you?!) glitter paper for the "happy" die cut, I am finally able to run over and see my playmates at Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground!

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I know I have an indecently long-running birthday (woot!), but I simply must share with you my latest fabmeristic gifties which I have lined up on my window sill to delight me!! 

Thank you to my very good ~ and very talented ~ friends, Anne Redfern and Shirley-Bee!!
  

Made by Shirley-Bee

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Made by Annie

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Enjoy your WOYWW hop and enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS*! 

 

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to leave a comment and/or join as a follower!  If you let me know you stopped by, I'll make sure I return the flavor!

 

I'll leave you with Wendy Vecchi's brilliant rules to live by:

"Always be nice, do your best, love generously, live life fully, praise loudly, and never give up."

 

Amen.

 

 

 

 

 

*Life Is Too Short!