Keeping in Touch With Friends, Part 2 ~ ATCAS #29; NBUS #90; TCC #1

Hello Again!

My second card for The Card Concept challenge is being entered in the style category called Clean and Layered.  At least I hope it fits that category.  As I mentioned in my prior post, the concept behind this challenge is a new one and they describe it way better than I ever could, so please click on the link for all the details and to join in.  (Since I realized Mr. Linky may not let me link up two cards with one post, this is my second post for today.)

Here is the inspiration board for this first challenge, which is a color challenge:

And here tis my second entry, this time in the Clean and Layered (CAL) category.  (DT, if my card better fits another category, please let me know and I'll edit my post.  Thank you.)

As you can see, I applied a VERY literal interpretation of the inspiration photo to my card. I used a NBUS die from Memory Box called "Cityscape Nightmare."  Oh, for goodness grapes, I need my eyes ezamined. It's called "Cityscape Nightline."

I die cut the image in kraft, espresso, and pretty in pink paper.  Honest, it is PTI kraft card stock; I don't know why it looks like a shade of kackacki green on the screen. Not only that, but the clouds are not black. Honest honest, I followed the color palette. In IRL, the espresso brown and pink and kraft look really pretty together.  Ya gotta love trying to post photos on blogs!

The die cut is horizontal, like this:

In order to make my cityscape vertical, I cut all my cuts (what?) into lots of little pieces and then I stacked them up on double-sided tape.  Neat, huh? Then I adhered my city to a vanilla card, added the sediment (CTMH), and some "Puffy Clouds" also by Memory Box.

Because I used die cuts, I'm also entering my card in the current Addicted to CAS (Clean and Simple) challenge where the fabulous Loll has chosen the code word of "Die Cuts." 

I realized that other partipants might use their cityscape stamps or dies because of the photo inspiration, so before I published this, I popped over to The Card Concept to take a look to see if anyone had done it yet, and sure enough, there is a beautiful card entered by Joyce of Cards-By-The-Sea!  You could say I CASEd her! I love how she layered her die cut skyline in the different colors of paper!

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In Our New Friends Corner, I am so pleased to introduce you to Maria of Maria's Merry Makings!  The name tells you how much happiness will be found on her site!  Maria is a very experienced card artist who has been blogging since 2010.  Her cards are visions of loveliness!!  Thank you, Maria, for joining our merriment at the Playhouse!!

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A lot of you really resembled my remarks about living with retired hubbies! There are several ladies interested in starting a think tank to come up with "Hobbies for Hubbies" as brilliantly suggested by Colleen!  One comment in particular really had me choking on my laughter:

. . . My mom said to my dad on their 25th wedding anniversary, "If I'd killed you the first time I thought about it, I'd be out of jail by now."

Alycia, I love your mom!  That sounds just like something I would say to the Mister!  

Thank you to all of you for your supportive and entertaining comments!

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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!  Please let me know you came by, so I can be sure and return the flavor! 

  

 

*Life Is Too Short!