Hooray Banners and a Chill Gingerbread Man

Hi there!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and your week is shaping up to be terrific!

A couple of days ago, I decided to clean out a small cabinet in the Playhouse. Forty-eight hours later and it looks like a bomb went off as one thing led to another thing and presently I am two-thirds of the way through reorganizing and purging every square inch. As a serial organizer, I have to say it has been way too long since I scratched that itch and I'm in hog heaven.

In spite of that, after all those hours, I also felt the itch to make a card or two and so as I was cleaning, I had Hammy be On The Alert as he watched me from the safety of his cage, fascinated by the unusual mess of the Heaveho. And what a good lad he is, stopping me not five minutes later as he saw a patterned paper that reminded him of the current ATCAS challenge and HLS challenge, both of which are "banners!"

And I made this with it:

Clearing off six inches of space on my desk, I used my NBUS Lawn Fawn "Speech Bubble Border" to die cut the paper, which I placed over the top of a card base embossed with a NBUS "checkerboard" folder from Darice. And, no surprise, the die-cut sediment from Penny Black is also NBUS. You might say this card was a NBUS sundae!

Challenges

• Addicted to CAS: Banners.
• Happy Little Stampers Sketch Challenge
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.

Today's Twofer

Then during lunch, I looked through some of the incoming posts. I was really taken with the adorable tag cards over at Tag You're It, so I made a Christmas tag card for my entry:

This snowflake stencil was one of several that Lolly made for me. (Thank you, again, Lolly!) I used a light application to sponge on Tim's tumbled glass, milled lavender, and picked raspberry using a dauber. The sediment is from Paper Smooches. The two tags were cut with an MFT Dienamics die in a pink vellum and a piece of PTI pp. The stitched gingerbread man is made from a NBUS die from Lil Inker. The twine is a hemp cord that I sponged with tumbled glass.

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Here is Anja's super cute inspiration tag card:

The tags made by Betty as Guest Designer and the DT are also fabulous!

Other Challenges

• Less Is More: Use "Berry" Colours.
• Merry Monday Christmas Challenge: Use Pastels.
• Pixie's Snippets Playground: Use snippets.

New Friends Corner

I'm delighted to welcome more new friends to the Playhouse!

Bunny of Bunny's Cards. Bunny has been blogging since January 2014. Actually, I'm not sure how long before that she was blogging as her first blog was pirated away by Creeps. A good reminder about backing up! Bunny's cards are so bright and happy and impeccably made! She loves entering challenges and serving on design teams as a member or guest designer. Bunny's trophy case is bulging at the seams from all her many well-deserved challenge wins!

Miranda Mols of Stampin Utopia. Miranda is from Limburg where she lives with her husband, two children, and a dog. She has been blogging since 2013. Miranda started scrapbooking in 2007 and making cards in 2011. In 2012, she became a Stampin' Up demonstrator and she has been the #1 demonstrator for the last two years! Her fun and original card designs are wonderfully CAS!

Donna of Room in a Cupboard. Donna is from the UK and she has only been blogging since February of this year. Please make a special effort to visit and follow Donna and welcome her to our wonderful stamping community! You may already recognize Donna's blog name (which I love) because she already plays in many of the same challenges that we do. I think you will find her expertly made cards to be charming and very inspirational!

Linda W. of Scrappin', Stampin' & Singin'. What a great blog name! You already feel like a happy lady lives there! Linda has been blogging since 2011. And the singing is serious: she is a member of Sweet Adelines! I love Linda's pretty designs which are colorful and make me smile. By the way, her blog is an excellent source of inspiration for Christmas cards!

Buffy Esser-Burnside of Cherished Mementos. Buffy has been blogging since 2012. She is a scrapper and a card artist and like so many of us, she loves challenges and she serves on a design team. So whether you are looking for page layouts or card layouts, Buffy will have something to inspire you!

Thank you for joining, ladies, and welcome to the Playhouse! (Hammy loves that we are welcoming both a Bunny and a Buffy today!)

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