Everybody Needs a Jar of Happy ~ or Confetti Collection Day!

And Happy Hump Day!

A quick post today. Stop laughing. It really is this time!

I have about six challenges that I want to play in this week, lots of one layers, waters being colored, and Christmas stashes being grown and not enough days in the week, so I was trying to decide which way to go when I saw the Make It Monday challenge and video arrive in my inbox. 

This week it's all about confetti. Squee! Hammy loves confetti! I have tons and tons of it from using dies and punches, as I imagine so do you, and about a year ago I started putting mine on the floor of Hammy's cage. I venture to say he has the stylinest cage in all of Hamsterdam! 

Settle down. Let's get back to Make It Monday. I haven't either had the capability and/or the time to play for quite a while, but I do always watch the excellent videos on Nicole's site. I really wanted to play last week, but that's water over the damn or under the bridge, depending on the vocabulism of your region. When I saw this week's video, which was delightfully made by Danielle, showing us how to use the leftover die confetti on our cards, everything else got swept off my desk and I made this:

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink One-Liner Happy die:

My confetti is made from the popout letters from the happy flag part of the die, including the poput pieces from inside the Ayes and Peas.

I also used this jar die from Paper Smooches called Crystal Clear 1:

For the colors, I chose the current challenge at The Paper Players. Here are the fun colors chosen by the talented Anne Marie:

The gold vellum I used for my jar is from a Grafix vellum pack, which perfectly matches the SU crushed curry paper. To make the jar I put a snippet of vellum on a wide piece of double-side tape before die-cutting. When I peeled off the backing, I stuck some of the confetti to the tape "inside" the jar before adhering it to my PTI white card base. The other pieces were glued invididually.

Speaking of snippets, my confetti was all made from snippets of paper in the challenge colors, so I'm also taking my card to show my friends at Pixie's Snippets Playground.

Just click on any of the challenge links to find the details regarding rules, sponsors, and prizes!

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While the idea for this card appeared on the Hammy retina, I do feel like I've seen it done before. Maybe I even did it before. Right this minute I can't put my finger on where I might have seen it, so if you have made this card design before, or know someone who has, please let me know so I can give proper credit. Thank you. At my age, the seed could have been planted somewhere up there by any one of you and today it dropped neatly into the slot where I keep my own imagination.

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