August's Inky I.D.E.A.S.

Hello Stamplings!

And Aloha August! Did you know that the original name for the eighth month was Sextilis? That's a rather tilisating bit of trivia, isn't it? If you'd like to know more, I added it at the end of this postoastet. No, I haven't been drinking (yet). I'm just celebrating a reduction in the temperature for two whole days!

And a new month means I start over on my I.D.E.A.S. with a concentration on inky creativity for this first week. Today's cards were made from backgrounds I created (cough) two years ago while on a fun Oregon retreat with friends. 

To make pretty bold prints you smear ink cubes over a stencil and then liberally spritz the stencil with water. Next you lay a panel of watercolor paper over the top and press all over with your fingertips or a brayer to transfer the ink to the paper. You can often get more than one print. Gina K. has a video: Stencil Spritz Technique.

The scallop frame is from Pink & Main, the banner is from PTI, and the leaf is NBUS from SSS called, "Lush Leaves." (I thought at first it said, lust leaves!😆 Hey, maybe The Mister substituted wodka for my water again. He's such a lark!)

Here are the rest of the cards I made with the help of a coupla cute hamster fellas:

In addition to using my NBUS, this I.D.E.A.S. schedule has freed me up to look at and use my unfinished background panels and die-cuts. Techniques are so fun to do, but I'm really bad about turning all the panels I gleefully make into finished cards!

I remember when self-discipline was a thing I had on my Traits Resume. Who erased that? Also, self-control. Where dat go? I think they are more important than self-driving cars, but nobody asked me. They just came and stole my self-stuff.

Sorry I digested. Let me know if you get inky this week, so I can 📌 you! Even if you don't let me know, I hope you get a chance to get inky this week!

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AUGUSTus, cont.

You're surprised I remembered, aren't you? Now that I'm in the bottom half of the ninth inning of my life, large chunks of my brain have turned into ball corpses, but this time I held a thought! Here you go:

In the original 10-month Roman calendar, August was the sixth month with 

30 days and was originally named Sextilis. In 8 BC, the Roman Senate rewarded Octavian Augustus a month in his honor. The founder and first emperor of the Roman Empire, Octavian Augustus selected Sextilis, which under the Julian calendar was the eighth month with the addition of January and February. 

Renamed to Augustus, there remained the issue of the month having fewer days than Julius (July). Whether Octavian adjusted the number of days to match that of July is uncertain, but the result left February with 28 days except in a leap year and September and November each gave up a day to October and December to avoid a trifecta of 31 days in a row. For hubris or pride or both, the Julian calendar came to be.  

Courtesy of National Day Calendar.com 

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