Summer Seashells ~ ATCAS #19; FUSION #14; PIXIE'S #84; SSWC; NBUS #33

Yo!  How are you?  I'm sorry I wasn't here this morning to welcome you to a new week.  Welcome to a whole new week!  It's a happy week for me as it is my last week of work for a couple of months.  Can I get an amen?

I only had time and energy to make a QACAS card.  Mercy, children, I used to be able to task so many multiples at one time.  And the squirrels, wow, I used to be able to keep them at bay, but now I'm distracted so easily and there are so many of them!  My sister recently reminded me that when I went back to help her stage her house a few months ago, we jumped around from project to project, so unlike us.  It got to the point where we wet ourselves laughing when one or the other of us would say, "Oh, look!  A squirrel!"

Where was I?

~~~

I'm linking my card with these four challenges:

Addicted to CAS (ATCAS) has a new challenge where the code word is "summer."

With such a broad-ranging word for this challenge, I'm sure you can link up a summery card!  Of course, we don't use the word "broad" anymore, let along ranging broads.

 

The Fusion Card Challenge has a brand-new look and a brand-new hippo the sis for us:

 

I did a fusion of the photo and the sketch.

 

The patterned vellum on my card is a snippet so I can happily skip across the pond and join in the hooliganisms at Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground!

 

Finally, ever a big hit with card bloggers worldwide, the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is "Anything Goes!"

 

As always, many of the challenges I enter have awesome sponsors and prizes, so I hope you will click on the links for the details, meet the fab Design Teams and Guest Designers, and join in these fun challenges!  The DT cards are always awe-mazing!

 

~~~

 

My simple QACAS/NBUS card:

You can see by the refractation of light that the gold paper is metallic.  The snippet of patterned vellum was a left-over part of a page of several small square scenes.  In order to follow the sketch, I used an oval die to cut the square into an oval.  This left an oval with square ends, so I hid that little fact with my blue vellum strips.  The strips were folded over the gold paper and taped to the back and the gold paper was stuck to a white card base.

 

The flying bird is from a NBUS trinket pack.  My friend Sam would also call it VOS (very old schtuff)!  We are going to imagine the bird is Jonathan Living Seagull, as would be fit the shell-filled beach scene. 

 

And there you go, a beach at sunset.  Or sunrise.  In the summer.

 

~~~

 

Enjoy your summer 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!

 

 

*Life Is Too Short!  

 

Paper:  PTI white; unknown gold;
  Grafix vellum
Stamps:  Exactly none
Ink:  None neither
Die:  Sizzix Framelit Ovals
Embellie:  "Everyday Moments Trinkets" EM3126