Christmas Friffles (Frilly Ruffles) ~ NBUS #116

Hi gang!

It's International Day of Happiness and the First Day of Spring!! Let's just take a moment and think about that with a nice deep breath. Aaahhh!

I have a busy couple of weeks coming up, so I'm not sure how often I'll be posting, but I made a special effort to make a card in celebration of one of my favorite challenges, the Merry Monday Christmas Challenge. Lesley, the hostess with the mostess familiar to all of you for her tireless creation of challenges throughout Blogland, and for her outstanding card art, has just posted her 100th challenge to Merry Monday!!

Yes, no, go ahead and stand and join me in applause!! She richly deserves it! (I personally think she might not be human, but that's just between you and me.) Congratulations, Lesley! Thank you for all you do to make this house a home. I look forward to the next hunnert challenges!!

To celebrate this momentous occasion, here is this week's terrific challenge:

I stuck to the colors, but I used a few liberties from my Box O' Liberties for the sketch:

The little card skirt has cast a shadow on the sediment. In case you can't read it, it says, "Celebrate the magic of Christmas." The center medallion is a Christmas Nordic sweater pattern from the Wplus9 set "Winter Wishes." So you might could say that I dressed my card in a lovely Christmas sweater and flouncy fruffly skirt! The party in my head thinks so anyway. Now we need to go make it a purse! 

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I love how those sweet scallop flags turned out on the card and I think this design would be cute for other occasions. I may make one as a birthday card for the adorable little girl who lives across the street from us. Her name is Emma and she and the Mister have crushes on each other. Now that I think about it, I have a crush on her, too. She's four and wears pigtails. If she is outside, she will stop what she's doing and watch the Mister zoom in the driveway on his motorcycle after work. She has learned to wait patiently while he removes his helmet and ear plugs and then she yells, "Hi, Keviiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnn!" He swoons.

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I used lots of scrappy snippets from VOPP to make my ruffles, so I'm going to run my card over to show the kids at Pixie's Snippets Playground. Hammy is very excited about getting to play with Parsnip again!

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New Friends Corner

Karen S. of Karen's Stamping & Crafting Creations has joined us. I met Karen through the fairly new challenge, "The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers"; the name alone always makes me smile! It's all in good fun. Karen has only been blogging since the very end of 2012, but she has many awards under her belt! When you pop in to visit, Karen's blog will inspire you. You will see lots of other crafty projects she has made, in addition to her wonderful cards!

Welcome, Karen, and thank you for joining the party over here!!

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If you live where there is still snow on the ground, please stop and quickly page down to comments. Sorry! 

In my backyard, I'm so blessed to have evidence of the first day of spring. I relocated my little lilac bush last fall and it seems to love its new spot in the backyard. Maybe this is a trait of lilacs, but I think it's amazing that the blooms are really bursting forth before the leaves have even opened up! Is that normal?

Long-time readers know how much I love lilacs. When I said at the beginning of this post that I had lots to do in the next couple of weeks, one of those dos will be burying my face in these flowers for minutes at a time, as often as I can!! I hope your creative imagination will have you smelling the heady and intoxicating aroma as you enjoy the collage.

Okay, you smell sensational! Go 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!

Project Details
Paper	PTI white; Provo lime sherbet rope ladder DSP
Stamps	Medallion: NBUS Wplus9 "Winter Wishes" Sediment: NBUS PTI "Tree Trimming Trio"
Ink	SU melon mambo
Accessories	PTI NBUS Scallop banner die SU melon mambo ribbon Large lime sequint from Darice Hot Pink bling from Hero Hues

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