Whoosh! It's Fliday

Hello There!

I think we should start a campaign to change the name Friday to Fliday because of the way it flies through the week and shows up every five minutes.

I am bringing you a card today that, well, I think maybe I was unclear on the concept behind it. So what happened was, I was really intrigued by Monday's Make It Monday hosted by Nichole Heady over at her {capture the moment} site. The theme is "creative card borders using nonborder dies." Doesn't that sound ultratriguing?! I watched the brilliant video by the equally brilliant Danielle and then I went through my PTI dies and did some heavy thinking.

Finally, since I like to break down the box on occasion, I chose "Harvest Berries" and made this:

which was really hard to photograph outside in the sun, and not that easy inside either, for that matter.

I really like how it turned out but I had to pull a lot of teeth to get there, unnecessary teeth, I think. I started by running my die through a scrap and laying it out to see if it would work. Good.

But once I went to lay the die on my card to do a partial die cut off the edge of the paper, per the video, I went into a tizzy. I spent several minutes in a paragram universe trying to find that top part of the vine. You see those three leaves at the top above? Well the dies in the package look like this:

But neither of those pieces was that top piece and I couldn't find where it slithered off to (where it off to slithered). I woke the hamster, even though he's a total grump when I do that. We bobbed up and down and around and under the desk to the point where I got a migraine, which didn't help the sittiation, which word might or might not be missing an h.

Well, Dawn dawned, as she does and Hammy noticed that actually the die on the right is not laid out end to end, but in two pieces widthwise on the same die, you nitwit. Wait. What?

Well, slap my noodle, what was I going to do now?! Thankfully, the Mister happened to be home so naturally I asked him to separate the die. He and his girlfriend Dremel handled it very nicely for me.

Now I could lay them lengthwise with the help of a bit of Washi tape and run it halfway through the BS. That's either design dedication or just plain silly! 

While I like how my card turned out, in this case it would have been a lot quicker if I had just stamped the image and then cut around the leaves! But I do love the idea of this technique, however, and I will definitely be trying it again with some of my other dies. If the process is confusing as I've tried to explain it, please do pop over and see Danielle's video via the link above; it isn't in the least bit confusing!

Besides the Make It Monday challenge,

I chose my colors from the current challenge at the always-fun ColourQ. Here is the fabulous inspiration photo:

I'm also joining in the fun at Pixie's Snippets Playground, where the brief is simply to use up those scraps!

The challenge links will take you to the details regarding rules, sponsors, and prizes.

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New Friends Corner

I'm as happy as lark on a lark to introduce you to five more new friends today! Please meet:

Beverley Daw. As near as I can tell, Bev, you haven't an active blog. If that's not right, please let me know so I can share the information here.

Wendy Nicola Jackson of Crafty Kiwi Mama. Wends lives in New Zealand and she has been blogging since 2009. She is a designer who loves entering her sensational card art in challenges and she has tons of awards as a result. Each card, or bag, or treat box is a gift unto itself. You'll be raring to go after a visit to Wends!

Cara Malmrose of My Creative Chaos. Cara's enthusiasm just leaps off the pages of her blog. She has been blogging since 2013. Although sight-impaired, Cara loves crocheting, reading, hiking, and shooting, in addition to making her fantastic cards. She is a designer, challenge participant, and award-winner!

Vicki Robertson of He'art'ful Validation of Vicki. Vicki has been a designer since 2005! She is a well-published, award-winning card artist whose works of art range from scrapbooking to altered art. I met Vicki through The Creative Blog Hop and this post will give you a terrific bio of Vicki and her art!

Annie C. of Arty Farty Annie. Annie has been blogging since 2012 and her blog is chock full of everything from home and garden to family life and from altered art to zentangle! She is a truly well-rounded artist who is happy to share with you through her posts and her tabs on ideas, challenges, tips, techniques, and tutorials!

Thank you for joining, ladies, and welcome to the Playhouse!

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I'm sending out extra prayers for the people of Hawaii during this unprecedented hurricane/ tropical storm landfall. As it happens Dan and Rachel and the twins are there on vacation so, of course, it's a bit of a personal worry for us.

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Here's a little funny for you which sooner or later, isn't so funny any more. Ask me how I know!

Thanks, Mary!

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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!

Project Details
Paper	PTI white; SU island indigo, tempting turquoise, and summer starfruit
Stamps	PTI "Harvest Berries"; Technique Tuesday sediment
Ink	SU tempting turquoise, summer starfruit
Accessories	My Mind's Eye enamel dots

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