Encore Mellow Yellow

Hey Gang!

Sorry, I meant to come back a little earlier and play cards with you. What happened was my neighbor needed me to help her with something and in the process, the back door fell off, crashing through the plate glass living room window, sending the other neighbor's dog out into the street and across two other backyards and out of sight, so she took off after him and I went in search of a deep bowl to rescue the goldfish that were now lying somewhere under the living room couch.

Hmm, no, actually I just went out to a lunch that ran longer than I expected. You know how rowdy and long-winded six blue-haired old ladies can get! 

So, without further a dew:

Here is the first card, which I made for the "Hello, Sunshine" theme at the always-fabulous Less Is More challenge.

This card has three stamps applied to glossy paper: a NBUS corner sun ray from PTI "Shakers and Sprinkles," a NBUS sediment from SU "Faith in Nature," and sandals from Technique Tuesday "Sunshine."

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Next, while I had my SRM thank you stickers on my desk, I made another thank you card. This one was inspired by the The Card Concept "Frilly and Fabulous" challenge. In addition to the sticker sediment, I used: a NBUS woodgrain stamp from Altenew "Wood Pallet Background," a "Folded Banner" die from Simon Says Stamp, a store-bought blossom from Jessica Swift, a piece of v.o. mesh, and two enamel dots.

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Wait, hold up. We have a bonus card today!

The Mister's gym shorts needed an iron-on patch on the left thigh, just above the hem. (Ancient unsolved mystery: Why is it that all men's shorts rip horizontally right there?) At first, I laughed hysterically when he pointed it out to me, with a fond far-away look in his eyes, as if remembering the early days of our marriage when I did such a thing.

Then he went out of town for a couple of days and I don't know, I must have mist him because I thought I would shock his biscuit by patching them while he was away. So I got into my sewing basket (after taking a few icky minutes to remove all the spider webs) to see if I still had some antique iron-on patches and just look what I found under the bottom tray:

 

It's a plastic bag which once contained a pair of lady's gloves. Now the package image is yellow, so you might think the bag once contained those heavy rubber washing gloves, but it dinnit because it's a small narrow bag, only large enough to have held a pair of for-real lady's gloves. 

I have no idea why I would have this bag in my sewing box as, certainly, the only gloves I've ever worn are the washing-up kind. I can only guess that a couple 30 years ago I heard a tiny voice in my head telling me to keep it for the future when the older, more robust, me would turn it into a shaker card. 

I know. Spooky. Who knew there was a hamster up there all those years ago?!

So, naturally, I slid two pieces of acetate into the bag, filled it with sequints, sealed off the top, attached it to a white card, and gave it a matching yellow paper frame. This will go very nicely in The Paper Players CAS Challenge: "Girly Thanks," even though I haven't fingered out yet to whom it will go.

Oh. And those gym shorts? The patch was loving applied after an additional three hours spent looking for my iron. The Mister came home the next day. He wore them that day. And the next day. And the next day. Finally, on day four, I pointed at his leg and made a snarky sweet comment.

"Oh, would you look at that?" he marveled.

Whereupon, I gave him something else to marvel about.

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Speaking of rejoinders, you all made some great comments to the last post. In fact, I was over whelmed by them! I've decided to give a spontaneous little somethin-somethin prize to Brenda of Inkspired to Stamp, who said:

"If you are under whelmed, does that mean your wheel was square or you just didn't finish in the alloted time?"

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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy.  LITS!*  For those of you in the U.S. of A., be safe if you're traveling on this long Memorial Day weekend. Take a pause to remember with thanks all those who serve our country in the military, past and present.

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! 

  

 

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