Golden Delicious ~ CASology #60; CFC #114; MUSE #33; NBUS #49; PIXIE'S #89

Al O. There!

It's lovely to be back.  It seems like it's been ages.  I'm feeling well enough to get back to reorganizing the Pigpen Playhouse, which is quite time-consuming when you are making gingerly movements.  Wouldn't you think that gingerly would be a more exaggerated version of ginger?

 

Ah, not so.  Here is gingerly, just as you suspected:

 

1 in a careful or cautious manner; 2 showing great care or caution.

 

And here is ginger:  2 stimulate; enliven.  "she slapped his hand lightly to ginger him up."

 

Indeed.

 

Today I've made another QACAS card.  I sure seem to have the "simple" part of "clean and simple" (CAS) down pat, don't I?  I resemble that remark! 

The challenges for today's card are CASology where the cue card is "apple,"

CAS-ual Fridays where the theme is "back to school,"

Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground where the theme is always "use those snippets," (here are mine for today)

and MUSE Card Club where the inspiration artist this week is the outstanding Laurie Willison.  Here is her fun Muse Inspiration Card for us:

 

Please click on the links for these fun challenges for any sponsor information, rules, etc., and please join in the fun!!



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Here is my take on Laurie's card:

I literally followed Laurie's design sketch, which I'll be using again.  I fussy-cut the apple and the pencil out of some designer paper scraps.  Since none of my oodles of bling seemed right, I just made my own using a snippet of blue and two different-sized hole punches.  I don't often get the chance to use that notebook paper edge punch, but it's sure fun when I get the opportunity.  Today's NBUS is the sediment.  

 

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I was in the middle of doing a bit of paper sorting today,

Could I be a paper ho, d'ya spose?

when I was pleasantly distracted by two things. 

 

The first was a for real squirrel (not just the one that shares space in my head with a hamster).  We are still having summer here with the temperature rising to a hunnert degrees.  Mister had just watered everything and gone back inside.  A few minutes later, I looked out and saw this little guy, cooling off his hot unders! 

 

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Secondly, a lovely new friend came to play!  Her name is Karren J and her wonderful website is Stamping Stuff.  Please take some time to visit Karren and introduce yourself.  Karren has loads of awesome cards for your inspiration!  Welcome, Karren, and thank you for joining us!

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Enjoy your day!  No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS!*  We are off to spend part of the day with the twinklets, who have just moved into separate rooms and want to show them off to us!

 

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:  unknown card base; DP is either DCWV
  or K&Company
Stamp:  SU! "Loving Thoughts"
Ink:  Versafine onyx black
Punch:  SU! notebook paper edge; small dots