Harriet's Birthday? FBW #252; MFW Gold; NBUS #50; STB!

Hi There!  We have whooshed through another week in the blink of a star!

 

Today is the birthday of my friend Harriet Skelly of Ally Cat Cards so my card today is dedicated to her.  Happy Birthday, Harriet, and many, many more! 

Wait.  What? 

I just got an email from Harriet thanking me for my card which I put in the mail to her a couple of days ago.  She said, It's a bit early since my birthday is in November but I love it!!!  What can I say?  Ya gotta love me?  It turns out that today is Harriet's wedding anniversary, not her birthday, and I didn't make that distinction on my calendar.  Well, boogers, I'm going to publish this anyway, since it's all written and then in November on her real birthday, all I have to do is send her a link to this post!  In the meantime, Happy Anniversary, Harriet, and many, many more!

 

Harriet is on the Design Team of the wonderful Flutterby Wednesday challenge blog, where the theme each week is, um, let me think ... oh, yes, butterflies!  And/or fairies! 

Besides butterflies and fairies, the current challenge is to use autumn colors on your card.  It seemed approbate that I play in this week's challenge while celebrating Harriet's special day!

There is also an "Anything Goes" challenge going on at Seize the Birthday with an optional monochrome topping. 

 

And my friend Diane at Nellie's Nest suggested that I also link my card up with the All That Glitters is Gold Challenge in the Moxie Fab World: 

The All That Glitters is Gold Challenge

Ends 10/14

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Here's my card:

I'd love to take credit for making that awesome background paper, which is NBUS, but it's from a single sheet of patterned paper I found while sorting through my papers.  Some day I'd love to take a stab at making paper like that.  It turned up because one of the things undergoing revamping is my stash of 8.5x11 patterned papers.  I used to keep them nicely organized in beautiful plastic trays under my desk, behind my wastebasket.  Thus:

How'd that work out for me the last three years?  Yeah, no, not so well.  The stack has been rescued.  I resorted to resorting it and another time I will reveal where it now lives ~ hopefully it will prove to be a place where I will actually remember it's there and use it!

 

Okay, back inside, recess is over.  Returning to today's card, the other stunning feature of the card is that exsqueezit butterfly!  I didn't make that neither.  That was made by my friend Nancy on order from me.  You can see the other ones she made for me here.  This is the first time I've used one of them on a card so it's also NBUS.  I know Harriet loves Nancy's butterflies, too, so I'm delighted to send her this one!

 

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Today we have THREE new friends in the Playhouse!  I'd like you to meet Jeanne.  Jeanne, if you have a blog, please let me know so I can edit this post and share the link.  Please also meet Andrea of Arty Andrea and Bernadette Bliss of Sweet Paperbliss.  Both of these card artists have the most incredible cards on their sites for your pleasure and your inspiration!  Welcome to all three ladies!  Thank you so much for joining our party!

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As I mentioned on Wednesday, I am taking off for a few days for a fun visit with a friend.  I've already gotten behind in my visits to a lot of you because of limited computer time and now I'll get even further behind.  That makes me sad.  Thank you for your understanding and for being kind enough to continue to leave me comments!  I'll catch up with you as soon as I can when I return.

In the meantime, enjoy the coming days!  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 DP

Stamp:  PTI "Birthday Bash Sentiments"

Ink:  SU! baked brown sugar

Butterfly by Nancy

Corner Chomper