An Arrowmatic Birthday and a Rufous

Hi Stampers and Scrappers and Scamperers!

Welcome to the fresh clean scent of a Monday of a new week of - hey look! - another new month is coming to the door on Friday this week! Are you ready for May?

Wait. What? Already?

Yup! And the reason I'm giving you a head's up is because this particular new month is going to expect you to throw it a May Day celebration party! With garlands and poles and privacy screens.

So let's get right to it cuz I know you're gonna want to do your semi-annual vacuuming (I can't be the only one) and make that mandarin orange cake for all the May pole revelers!

Here's macard:

I actually made this card a while back. I was reminded I hadn't posted it yet when I saw the current challenge at Less Is More, which is "put a tag on your project."

The card base is SU green galore, to which I removed one-half inch from the right side of the card front only. Not the back. You don't want to mess with cutting on the back if you can help it.

Then I covered the now-narrower front with a white embossed layer, sized to fit. The embossing folder is "Arrows Textured Impressions" made by Sizzix for SU. On the left side, I covered the last embossed row of arrows with a border cut from a piece of patterned chevron/arrow paper made by GKW. 

The wee NBUS tag is meant to replicut an arrow, pointing the holder to the inside where presumably some cash could be gleefully hidden and found. The tag and sediments are called "Teeny Tag Greetings," made by Creative Time. Get this, there are 27 tiny stamp sediments in with the teeny tiny stitched die! No lie.

As you can see, I made a mat for the teeny tag in the same pp as the border and attached it to the card front with a v.o. lime green square brad. I gave the brad a one-quarter turn to make it a diamond so it lions up with the pointy bits of the e/f. It's all about the details.

I'm also entering the "Anything Goes" challenge at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge and the "Clean and Simple" challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. Make sure you play along and please note there is also a Design Team Call going on for the Monday Challenge!

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New Friends Corner:

It is my pleasure to introduce you to five more new friends!

Kim of Tangled Blue Rose. Kim has been blogging since April 2014, so Happy First  Birthaversary to your blog, Kim! In addition to making amazing altered art and cards, Kim loves photography and reading and whatever catches her fancy! You will enjoy her fantastic creativity!

Carol (Caz) of Bunny's Bits n Bobs. Caz has been blogging since 2011. She is a fabulous digi card artist, she is on several design teams, and she has won many awards. You will love her shaped, layered, embellished, and brilliantly colored works of art!

Andrea Patching of Andrea's Creations. Andrea is from the UK and she has been blogging since July 2014 when she was appointed to a design team. Andrea is a wife and mother who enjoys both crafting cards and baking. Her card art is always happy and her beautifully colored images are wonderfully layered!

Chrissy of Chrissy's Cardland. Chrissy is from New Zealand and she has been blogging since 2011. (Hammy loves it when I visit Chrissy because he sees his photo up on her blog header!) Chrissy's cards are always so pretty, impeccably made with layers and patterned paper, and punctuated with sensational embellishments!

Margreet of Margreet's Scrapcards. Margreet is from the Netherlands and she has been blogging since 2009. I'm sure you have seen Margreet at various challenges in Blogland over the years, where she has won many awards. Her cards are truly works of art showcasing excellent coloring and die cuts!

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


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Our Beautiful World

I don't have a second card for you today, but I do want to bring you a hummer update and I want to play in this week's Our Beautiful World. The word this week is "Flutter."

Here is my hummer aflutter photo:

I spend so much time watching them and taking pictures that sometimes I have to lay down.

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On Friday, we had a brand-new hummer experience in the Playhouse backyard. We normally are habitated by hummingbirds called Anna's. You've seen many photos of our resident Anna's hummers over the last coupla years. They are quite iridescent with bright green backs.

Friday our feeder and swing were taken over by a Rufous hummingbird!

His coloring is very copper/orange and you can't miss him against the green tree leaves. The Mister tells me not to get attached to him because they are migratory and he is on his way up to British Columbia. I think he may already have moved on. We saw him Friday and Saturday, but not at all yesterday. It was really delightful to have him stop in for some rest and relaxation!

Just for fun, here you can see the front and back comparisons between the Anna's on the left and the Rufous on the right.

It's an ever-changing landscape around backyards everywhere. Especially in the springtime. I hope you are being entertained by what's happening in yours! I mean, besides in the hot tub.

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