Seasons

Hello Stamplings!

Hope you're doing well! This is always such a whirlwind time in America with one holiday nipping at the heels of another, both in terms of card-making and outside of card-making. Wait. What? There's such a place?

Right now we are a few days away from Halloween, but I don't have a Halloween card to share this year. I made one with several ghosts on the front of it and then it disappeared.

So here is a fall/Thanksgiving card I made, because you know, Thanksgiving gets about two days of Interweb time before we kick into Christmas designs. Which you'll find starts just below this card!

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This terrific pumpkin image is a NBUS stamp from the Altenew stamp and die set called "Autumn Bounty." It was such fun to color with my Ziggies and Hammy had tremendous fun schplattering with a bit of diluted white Tempura. The background is pp and a strip of copper paper provides a grounding shelf. The blessings die-cut sediment from Hero Arts was cut from the same copper paper.

Challenges

• Addicted to CAS: Layered.
  
• Four Seasons: Anything goes FALL.
  
• SSS Wednesday: Anything goes.

Twofers

At our last crafty Zoom get-together our technique was Metallic Watercolouring on Black with Betsy Veldman. I used Stonehenge black watercolor paper and became somewhat addicted to the process! I love the way it heat-embosses. I painted with a tiny pack of Pearl Ex paints I've had for twenty years and it paints beautifully on the Stonehenge. It was hard to capture the sheen from the painted areas. (It goes without saying that someone was in schplattery heaven with these cards!)

Challenges

• Addicted to Stamps and More: Make your mark.
• BYSH Card Makers: Falling for the holidays linky party!
  
• Rudolph Days: Anything goes Christmas.

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

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse, being a follower, and leaving me some love!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

*Life is too short!

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Autumn Lanterns

Hello Stamplings!

How are you? I hope you're doing well! We're good. We're enjoying the cooler temps and busy with house and yard projects. And with the fall TV lineup in full swing, I'm away from my computer a lot more. 

Then I saw a few challenges I wanted to hit before they close so made this:

This design features the Penny Black Flower Lanterns. It is not NBUS, but I've only used it once before. I started by coloring directly on the stamp with markers and then spritzing, but it didn't work as well as usual, so I used my Ziggies to paint it in, ending up with more of a no-line watercolor look. Hammy, who is bored with me being busy elsewhere, gleefully added schplatters!

Challenges

• Color Hues: Orange and green.
  
• Penny Black Saturday: AG with option of spooky.
  
• SSS Wednesday: Fall colors.
  
• The Flower Challenge: Use a sentiment. Happy 6th Birthday!!🎂

And sharing ...

These are off-season cards I made a while back, but I think if I don't pop them on here now, I will forget about them by next summer. I figure some of us will have some warm days again with Indian Summers ~ in spite of the fact that some places are already getting snow flurries!🫤

The jar and sediment are NBUS from The Greetery's "Just Mason Around" stamp and die set. The flowers were all die-cut ages ago, waiting patiently in my stash to be colored. I gave the set away, so I don't know the manufacturer.

I stenciled the backgrounds for a bit of fun. Hammy wants to have a go inking the stencils, so we are having the local cobbler prepare little tiny daubers for his feet. They will be sewn from the finest leather and well-supported because the little feller has weak ankles. (All those years on the wheel you know.)

I'll be linking this to Snippets Playground. The jars and flowers were all cut from snippets.

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And then this happened ...

It's been about four years since the last time, so that's not too bad. I did my best cleaning them up. I'm still finding them with my bare feet. The sequints aren't too painful to step on, but those little tiny beads I had in the container (who knew?) are no fun to step on!

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

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse, being a follower, and leafing me some love!

*Life is too short!

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Leaf It to Me

Hello Stamplings!

Happy October! Wait. What? It's not the 1st? Whoosh Whoosh . . .. 

We are enjoying cooler days, sprinkled with occasional hot flashes, but, hey, that's Mother Nature in the fall! And speaking of fall, I beleaf I have a few cards to show you, so off we go!

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This card looks delish, doesn't it? Like the leaves are made from flavors of gelato! It was sure fun to put together. It started with Hammy and I tossing around innovative ideas for putting leaves on cards. He was the first to remember I recently purchased the NBUS Pretty Pot Die from The Greetery, so I used that, die-cutting it from a snippet of glossy packaging I had saved. 

Then, before I got out various items of crafty Prairie Fanalia to make some leaves, I took a look at BOB ~ my ooofanism for Box of Bits. I found a few glossy paper ink-blended backgrounds I'd made long ago which I thought would make fun leaves.

The leaves are from Impression Obsession. The sediment is unmarked, but looks like it might be from MFT. The pointed border from poppystamps was cut from pp which looked like a piece of rusted corrugated metal. Hammy was exuberant with his schplatters!

Challenges

• Four Seasons: Anything Goes Fall.
  
• Fusion: Color Palette: Autumn Leaves. Sketch and colors.
  
• The Paper Players: A Theme Challenge From Joann: Autumn.

Twofer +

So what happened was, I saw the Leaf Fragments die from Tim Holtz and Sizzix on my friend Brenda's blog and then on my friend Jules's blog and I had to get it. I don't know what rock I was under when it came out two years ago, but somehow I missed it or I've forgotten that I've seen it before.😏 

As you can see from the picture below, I became addicted to die-cutting leaves from various snippets of pp as fast as Hammy could fling papers from the pp drawers!

Above the above photo are three of the cards I made and below are the rest of them ~ 29 in all. For the card bases, I took the occasion to use many sheets of wonderful textured paper I've had since the last century.

I'm not showing you all of them individually because a) you'd be over-stimulated and you know how you get when you get over-stimulated, or b), conversely, you'd fall asleep in your chair. (Not to mention ~ you might be getting one of them in the mail!)

Challenges

• Addicted to CAS: Autumn.
  
• Just Us Girls: Scraps.
  
• Snippets Playground: Loads of patterned paper (pp) snippets used for leaves.

Shrinkflation ~ Attention Grandmothers

Finally I leaf you with this latest outrageous case of shrinkflation:

I don't know about you, but as a grandmother, I'm never without Werther's for myself my grandtwins. And now this happened. Four ounces fewer caramelly, buttery, creamy candies for the exact same price. (But watch, next week the price will go up.) Grrrrr! It's truly devious.

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In spite of that, do enjoy your day! No, seriously, enjoy! LITS!*

As always, thank you for coming by to visit the Playhouse, being a follower, and leafing me some love!

*Life is too short!

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