NBUS Challenge #6 ~ Day Three!

Hi there! You made it up and over the hump of the week! It'll be smooth-sailing down hill to the weekend from here!

I put that new "feature" button on my side bar about the challenge, but it just occurred to me that some of you can't even see the side bar on your devices so instead of that, I'll start each post with a link to get you to the linky tool. Here you go: NBUS Challenge #6.

I sure appreciate how you are jumping in and playing! I picked March and September for my biannual NBUS challenges, thinking there weren't many other things going on around those dates, but between Blogland and Facebook, I see that there are a ton of new releases and hops, and even new challenges happening right now. The more the merrier to keep us inspired and creating, right?

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Today's post is a case of card interruptus. I had a card all lined up and my post half-written and then all of a sudden, Hubert whistled all the other hamsters into the conference drawer for an emergency intervention. In order to make some chaos out of the order around here, we agreed some months ago to run the Playhouse as a democracy.

The long and the short of the becitement and voting was the creation of this card:

What happened was the current CASology challenge showed up on Hubert's blog list. He is the most athletic of the hamsters and so he subscribes to all the in-cage exercise and wheel-spinning blogs that are out there. (You might be surprised how many there are!) Since the cue card this week at CASology is "spin," it popped up on every single one of the blogs in his little reader!

Now you would think we would have made a card like this:

Except that we already did that last year and I've since made more of those cards so that each of the little furballs has one for their poster board. Because of that, we wanted to go a different way and use NBUS.

The NBUS that launched this card were those sweet pinwheels. A package of them was given to me as a bit of card candy by my friend Kim M. about four years not too long ago and they've been used as hamster toys ever since, waiting for the right inspiration to propel them onto a card. Thank you CASology and thank you Kim! And thank you, Hubert!

My sunshiny yellow white space is embossed with a swirl e/f. I purpoisely placed it on the card upside down because I thought it better reflected swirling wind spinning the pinwheels which are popped onto the card sans sticks. The watercolored paint schmear is a stamp from MFT called "Jumbo Abstract Art." The circle die is from Lil' Inkers.

The word "spin" is made by lining up each individual script alphabet letter together. Shut up! No, seriously! How fun is that? You can spell anything! They are from Concord & 9th, a newish set from a newish company. Despite my resolve not to buy any more NBUS, I simply had to have this and play with it! And I'm not sorry either. There, I said it. 

Challenges

• CASology Cue Card: Spin.
  
  I realize my card today might be a bit too busy for CASology, but the little whisker wearers got so into it, I didn't have the heart to tell them that. Besides, I'm always happy to just spread the word about the challenges that are out there!
• CAS Mix Up Card Challenge.
  
  This is a brand-spankin'-new challenge owned and operated by my friends Loll (Stamping With Loll) and Bonnie (Stamping With Klass). They have teamed up to bring us a challenge with a concentration on technique! We are all constantly learning and loving new techniques, so it sounds like a frolicking good time with lots of ideas and tips to help us. My card has the requisite stamping and watercoloring with a third element of dry embossing. Ladies, I wish you lots of luck with your new challenge and thank you for all your hard work!

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