Rock the Blue ~ World Autism Awareness Day!

Hello Stamplings!

I hope you all had a marvelous weekend celebrating Easter, Passover, and/or lots of relaxation and craftiness! And I hope you all had a joke pulled on you or you pulled a joke on someone in honor of yesterday's April Fool's Day! I missed not doing my Boo-Boo Hop this year, but it fell off my plate which was loaded with ham and smashed potatoes!

Today I'm joining in a wonderful blog hop for World Autism Awareness Day. Like cancer, the autism spectrum has touched my family and no doubt it has touched your family or friends, as well. Here is my card for the link-up:

This cute bear is from "Cheerful Critters" by SU and the NBUS encouraging sediment is from Dylusions.

The Hop will be open until April 8th. If you would like to join in, here is the logo and link:

There are many sponsors and prizes!
2018 Stamping For Autism Awareness

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Then what happened was, I happened to see the new Less Is More challenge. It is a Lucky Dip and the brief is to CASE (copy and share everything) a card made by my talented friend, Aileen of Colour and Sparkle. Here is her card:

Keeping with the blue theme, I CASEd her, thusly:

I finally played with my alcoholic inks on Yupo paper! I used sailboat blue, denim, and stonewashed dropped onto a piece of Yupo paper. After the paper was dry, I die cut this beautiful bloom from The Ton, and leaving it in place, I stamped the coordinating bloom in Archival Ink over the die.

I wanted to add white washing to make it look more like Aileen's pretty flower, but I was too scaredy-cat that I would wreck it, so I quit while I was a head. Not to mention, now that I mention it, the dark and brooding boldness is really striking just as it is. The NBUS sediment is from CAS-ual Fridays.

Challenges

• Addicted to Stamps and More: Photo inspiration.
• Just Us Girls: Wild card: CAS.
• Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge: Anything goes.

And because Hammy was messing around with the leftover negative cut and a few extra stampings of the bloom, I realized that this looked rather fab, too!

Super QACAS! I think I'll send this to a friend who loves coloring! The bloom is inlaid into the opening. I'm entering this in Cards In Envy, where the brief is to use the negative die space!

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Enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse and special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower! Please let me know you came by so I can be sure and return the flavor!

If you haven't seen the winner's post for Twofer Card Challenge #3, don't forget to check it out!

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