Spring Rain and Shamrocks ~ NBUS #114

Hello on this Sunday Funday!

I am here with part two of yesterday's post. I hope you had a lovely sleep in between. Sometimes Blogger doesn't publish to my subscribers until 24 hours later, so maybe some of you will get two in one day. The other day one of my posts never reached my subscribers. Never mind, enough of them do!

My card today was also the result of watercoloring efforts for Virginia's View Challenge which I'm entering again.

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I am also entering my card in another BRAND NEW challenge started by incredible card artists that you are all prolly familiar with. The challenge is called Time Out Challenge.

The brief for the first challenge is:

This fortnight we want you to be...

Inspired by words:

This is the challenge where we give you a quote, a popular saying or inspirational sentence to inspire you to create. And this week we have this very popular saying for you:

Dancing in the Rain

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And if you look closely at my card closeup below, you will see that I hand drew two little 4-leaf clovers for you because tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day and there is a Happy St. Patrick's day sediment on the inside. It also happens to work for the newest challenge from Addicted to CAS:

Where I come from four-leaf clovers represent good luck!!

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I hope you will have some time to join in and support the challenges that I give you links for! The Design Teams work very, very hard to bring us these ideas to spark your own creativity and they provide all of us with amazing works of inspiration, as well! Just click on any of the links to find information regarding the rules, sponsors, and prizes.

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And so, my card:

The image was watercolored using my SU watercolor pencils and Koss watercolor chalk with an aqua brush. It is much more subtle than the spritzing and splatting that results from using the acrylic block.

The "Toadstool" is a NBUS stamp by Purple Onion Designs (Stacey Yacula) and the sediment is from a NBUS set I got at the Expo called "Umbrella4you" by Stamps for Life. The "Raindrops" are by Designs by Ryn. The waters splats on the toadstool are from a NBUS set called "Splat That" by Waltzingmouse Stamps. Wink of Stella was applied liberally.

That took care of using up three more NBUS stamps and I love that SEVEN different company products were used in this simple one-layer card!

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New Friend Corner

I'm xtatic to welcome a new friend! Please meet Becky S. of Stamping and Scrapping. Becky is a North Carolina gal who has been blogging since 2008! As you know, that means you are in for a ton of wonderful card art inspiration!! I love Becky's style of CAS cards. They are always well-designed and well-executed. You will enjoy your visit to her!

Welcome, Becky, and thank you for joining us!!

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I made you a St. Patrick's Day card a few days ago for a challenge and I told you about the time I was driving around in my unnerwear ... well, my little friend PJ of Blog This! could not believe that I hadn't made a card with another well-known Irish blessing having to do with frogs and unnerpants to punctuate that story! I totally agree. Wazzup with that?! I have no scuse zept for I'm like gettin' old!

So, thanks to PJ looking out for me, I'm happy to leave you today with this sweet Irish blessing to wish you a Happy St. Patrick's Day tomorrow, whether you're Irish or not!

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