Greens and Blues

Hello Stamplings!

I hope you've had a good week and you're feeling well! We've had some excellent springlike weather, but in a coupla days, that's going to fade out to allow winter to come rushing back in for an encore.

While they are here, the sunny days and warm temps brought this first design to mind.

Onefer

I can't look at this card without laughing, which makes it hard to type. What happened was, this NBUS Sissix "Thankful Bicycle" stamp and die set was on super sale somewhere and naturally I couldn't resist a deal. 

The background embossed cloud panel was in my stash. I added Washi tape shamrock grass and then die-cut the bicycle and flower wheels. I used my Ziggies for the first time in ages to watercolor the flowers, which Hammy winked. I die-cut once more to make the basket and I fussy-cut some of the shamrock flowers from the Washi tape to fill the basket.

That didn't take long, but then I sat hunched over for ages trying to make the flowers fit into the wheel hubs. The front was straight-forward, but the back fender is really curved too much for the flower to clear the hub. Rolling them this-way and that, I finally found the best spot and glued everything down.

It wasn't until I took the photo that Hammy and I fell over laffing because we hadn't realized that the flowers had a flat spot which I stupidly lined up in such a way that now it looks like this poor green bicycle has two flat flower tires! What's the rider to do with two flat flower tires? 

And from the hamster cage:

"Shirley you realize that the rider wasn't going to drive on those 'tires' no matter what the rotation?" 

Imagine a wee hamster, speaking sardonically, and using little tiny paws to make air quotes. 😂😂😂

Challenges

• Color Hues: Lime green and cyan.
  
• SSS Monday: Things with wheels.
  
• Snippets Playground: Anything goes with snippets. I used snippets for the bicycle, the basket, the sediment, and the flowers.

Twofer

Aaah, no drama-rama-ding-dong with this CASlicious design! A simple e/f, a strip of perfect Washi tape, and a bird and tag from my stash. Thassit. QACAS to the max usin' up my schtuffs! I love these colors, so I also have the fixings for a few macaw cards and a few flower stencil cards, but I didn't finish them in time for this publication.

Challenges

• Allsorts: Anything goes (w/ option of wings.)
  
• Can You Handle the Pressure: Anything goes (w/o option).
  Happy 1st Anniversary!
• Double D: Birds.

Threefer

And for my Christmas card, another QACASilicious and self-exploratory design. It's a design I used for this past Christmas, but didn't post. I decided I loved it so much, I made more. The stamp ("The Magic of Christmas" from Simon Says Stamp) was colored directly using markers and spritzed before stamping. The NBUS sediment is called, "Holiday Greetings Mix 1" and it is also from SSS.

Challenges

• Krafty Chicks: CAS.
  
• The Four Seasons: Winter.
  
• We Love Stamping: Anything stamped (no option).

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