Celebrate From the Sublime to the Ridiculous!

Hi there!

I had to take some time and create something to share in the celebration at Less Is More, where we are fortunate to have the 200th challenge to play in! You know it's one of my favorite (and first) challenges and I wanted to play to thank Chrissie, Mandi, Jen, Sarah, and Anne for all their hard work week-after-week bringing us fun challenges, making visits, and commenting on our entries! 

Naturally, Chrissie has chosen "Celebration" as this week's theme and, naturally, I'm always up for a celebration!

First up, a streamlined CAS sub lime card:

I have this fun striped Washi tape in red and white and in green and white, so I laid one strip of each side-by-side and then I cut out the word celebrate. I made a card background using the Sissix snow e/f and attached a stitched NBUS hill by Paper Smooches. Then I attached the letters of celebrate and had them march across the snowy hill like a choo-choo train. Of course, the North Star lights the way.

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And then this happened:

You're thinking, whoa, what? Okay, so it's really kinova funny story. A week ago Tuesday, I was jogging along my normal route which takes me past the Granada Shopping Center. Now I've jogged past Lou's Lounge and Billiards, next to the Lucky Grocery, about I don't know how many times, but it's always been closed because they don't open until 2 p.m. 

Imagine my surprise then when the door opened as I ran past, almost cold-cocking me right in the kisser! I stumbled backwards into the row of grocery carts. Ouch, right?! Well, Pete, who turned out to be the owner (Lou is his wife), felt horrible and insisted that I come inside and take a load off. 

"Hey," I said, "I resemble that remark!" Pete laughed at my badinage and poured me a tall one. I felt it was only polite to accept.

As it happens, Pete was opening early because it was the day of the Lounge Christmas party and that's how I came to have my picture taken with a Santa hat on! Fortunately, I keep my lipstick (which doubles as emergency rouge) in my sock coz a girl never knows when she might run smack into a party! 

Here's to Less Is More and the next 200 challenges! Thank you so much, ladies! And, Sarah, thank you especially for the beautiful written tribute to Chrissie! 

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There are other challenges that are also apropopo for my cards:

• CASology, where the cue card is "Old." I'm pretty sure you weren't thinking ME and you're right. I know they don't look it, but my Christmas socks and sneakers are at least 15 years old.
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, where the theme is "Christmas/Holidays."
• The Paper Players, where Jaydee has a Bingo theme for us. I chose bottom left to upper right: star, embossing, white.
• Words 2 Scrap By, where the challenge is "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry."

The links will take you to the challenges where you will find information on the rules, sponsors, and prizes.

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