Ahhh, The Little Things

Good Morning!

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend!

Today I'm presenting the last, but not the least, in a series of February guest designs and it's for something brand new, so it's a pleasure to help spread the word!

I'm talking about the new Inspired by All the Little Things card game. Right off the bat, I love the name and what the name brings to mind: life is too short, live in the moment, stop and smell the roses, don't be so impressed by the sunset that you step on the daffodils ...

Okay, I made up that last one, but you get the idea.

The creator of Inspired by All the Little Things is none other than Lesley Croghan of Always Playing With Paper. Lesley moved into Blogland back in 2009 and promptly became the Mayor of Challenges. I could list them all, but it's more impressive if you check out the resume she has on her blog here. You'll need a lie-down after you read it!

The thing is, her new venture is NOT a challenge! Wait. What? Here is how Lesley explains it:

This is NOT a challenge but I hope you will "play" along and share how you were inspired by my inspiration photo. Of course, you may not be inspired at all! But if you are...please share! 

So there you have it! Inspired by All the Little Things is a place where we can share with each other and inspire each other! No competition ~ just inspiration ~ and, of course, enabling! There's always that! Lesley has a linky tool for you to share how her weekly photo inspired you.

Here is the fun photo for this coming week:

I was inspired by the colors and the stacked cups and the polka dots in the shape of stars! How cool is that? And I happen to have some ancient pp that worked perfectly for this photo, so perfectly, in fact, that I have made a twofer for you:

First:

I used those Lil' Inker stitched rectangles again. This time my NBUS stitched ovals made their debut. As a matter of fact, everything else on the card is NBUS, too. The Poppystamps teacups were inlaid. (I sometimes call it paper-piecing, but really it's inlaying or laying in. Then there's laying about, but that's for the end of the day or your no-good Uncle Scradmer.) The banner and sediment are from the Layered Banner set by Papertrey Ink.

And my twofer:

This happened when I started gathering up the starry papers from my desk to put back and Harmony asked if she could have a go at showing her Hammy daddy what she learned in her composition sessions with him. (She's a good little learner, don't you think?)

Instead of stacked cups, we stacked paper shapes. You might think every shape of stitched die known to man has been used for this card, but not so. Nowadays you can get stitched anything on a die. The stitched star is NBUS, as is the hello sediment from Simon Says Stamp.

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Thank you, Lesley, for the honor of being the Guest Designer for this new and fabulous card game! I hope to see a lot of you joining in. Play for fun and share how you were inspired by all the little things!!

 Spread the word!!

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Finally! NBUS #6!

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