Baubles of Joy

Hello, my friends!

If there was ever a time when the world needs Baubles of Joy, it's now! So let's all rally and choose to keep having baubles of joy in our hearts and kindness in our actions and everything will be all right. Right?

I mean, right?!

Yes, I'm one of those perky obnoxious people. (Perky, not pesky, but I can see how you could misread that.) Until the world actually comes to an end, let's do the the thing that bring us joy.

Here is a closeup of that beautiful purple-embossed bauble:

The bauble and Joy are NBUS stamps from Skipping Stones Design. I used my gold Stella to jeuss it up. The panel is a lavender shimmer paper from PTI.

Did you notice a little hitchhiker on my card above? Here is another view:

Sometimes it's not only lizards who visit me when I'm taking my photos.

With Thanks

Soooo, have you been seeing a lot of purple and gold in Blogland this week? There has been a flurry of cards being made for the current Less Is More challenge as a tribute to LIM's fearless leader, Chrissie Stokes. Chrissie is taking a break from LIM due to all the fun she is having playing with her grandchildren and traveling with her husband.

I've mentioned before that Less Is More was one of the first challenges I entered when I first started my blog. I really had no idea what I was doing nor what all the crazy aaaackronyms meant and this hobby uses a TON (just meaning ton, the amount) of them. I was a bit lost to say the least.

I would enter LIM and then get very direct comments from Chrissie about my entries because I either wasn't playing by the LIM rules or I was unclear about what "CAS" and "white space" meant. I took the comments as the constructive criticism they were meant to be and I would email Chrissie with questions. She very kindly answered my many, many questions over several months and mentored me about the ways of Blogland, the ins and outs of challenges, and what all those aaaackronyms meant.

I am forever grateful for Chrissie's help and I have since tried to pay it forward by helping other new bloggers. Chrissie and I have become close friends, have visited each other's homes, and I have discovered how kind and fun and funny Chrissie is IRL. I will miss her at LIM, but I look forward to seeing her return there now and then and on her own excellent blog, Simply One of a Kind.

Thank you, Chrissie! I'm sure Sarah and the talented Design Team will keep everything running like clockwork while you enjoy your break!

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I liked my first card so much I made another one using my vo blue moire e/p.

The metallic in the blue moire powder appears either coppery or gold depending on the light. For this card, I chose to enhance the coppery tones by adding shimmery blue and copper matting. I don't have a copper Stella so I left off any further enhansation.

Challenges

• Addicted to Stamps and More: CAS (clean and simple).
• Less Is More: Colour brief: purple and gold.
• Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Shine Like a Diamond.
• STAMPlorations CAS Card Challenge: AG with the option of purple.

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I'll leave with a chuckle, possibly even a snort!

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