Embossing Day!

Hello Stamplings!

Howze you doing? On this part of the globe, we are in that middle-of-February sick-of-winter time with its freezing boring cold and gloomy dumpy doom. To combat this, we make cheery cards!

It's Embossing Day at Chez I.D.E.A.S. That reminds me of the old-timey, "Wash on Monday, Iron on Tuesday, etc." schedule which described the lives of wives from Victorian times until, well, our time. I'm grateful for all the modern conveniences and inventions which allow me to spend my days using my new-timey hobby schedule to make crafty things!

Onefer

The first NBUS product I am featuring is, "Cheerful Floral" by Memory Box which comes with stamps, dies, 3D embossing folder, and stencil. I didn't notice until this minute that there is also a separate die for the center blossom, so you could make it, what, 4D? I mean, if the embossing folder is 3D? Anyway, next time. I painted the bouquet with my Ziggies, painting all the flowers in different shades of CP pinks, per The Flower Challenge.

The process is pretty self-exploratory, except to say that I used a heavier hand when blending the same color of ink in order to create some shading on the flowers and leaves, rather using than the stencil bits provided. I'm sorry you can't see that the lads liberally winked all the bits. After wards, I added a diluted schplash of squash white. And the background panel was embossed with SU's Subtle e/f.

Playing in:

Addicted to Stamps and More ~ make your mark.

The Flower Challenge ~ feature the colour pink.

Seize the Birthday ~ A/G option.

Twofer

The NBUS product on this card is another 3D e/f from Memory Box. This one is called, "Snowy Forest." I simply used my brayer to apply Versamark to the raised bits and then heat-embossed the panel in silver e/p. 

(I didn't want all that powder on the sky part, but after I tried applying the Versamark directly to the folder [and getting it on the sky part], and after I then tried swiping the Versamark directly to the embossed white card [and getting it on the sky part]), I just decided not to fight it.)

Playing in:

Krafty Chicks ~ Christmas.

Little Red Wagon ~ red alert.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown ~ masculine Christmas.

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Sing it with me!

Uh-huh.

Monday – Wash Day!
Tuesday – Ironing Day!
Wednesday – Market Day!

Thursday – Cleaning Day!

Friday  – Bake Day!

Saturday – Fun Day!

Sunday – Rest Day!

Everybody happy?

Well I should say!

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Enjoy your week! 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! 

*Life is too short!

Tickled Pink on Fun Foam

Hello Stamplings!

It's lovely to be here and I hope you're doing great! I hope the team you (or your mate) were rooting for won the Super Bowl.🏈 I'm surprised they haven't made the Monday after a national day off!

Our plans changed last week due to the rain, so I had some unexpected crafty playtime with the lads. Squee for all!

Onefer

This week's I.D.E.A.S. letter is D = Dies and my first NBUS feature is the smallest feather stamp and die in the Feather Finery set by Papertrey Ink. The NBUS sediment is from the same set. I would have preferred "pickled tink," but we'll just pretend it says that. 

The second NBUS feature product is the Pink Fresh "Dotted Chevron" cover plate. Stanley honed his blending skills with CP ink and we used colored paper👍for the card base. Playing in:

Cut It Up! ~ this makes me smile

Freshly Made Sketches ~ sketch

We Love Stamping ~ CAS

Twofer 

Looking for the Onefer cover plate, I ran across this framed heart die from Reverse Confetti. Just last week when Hammy and Stanley were looking for a specific pp, they came across my stash of fun foam and asked if we could use it soon ... 💡click!

I had forgotten all about fun foam and it cut like a dream with this die. I attached it to a hammered card panel and then added some funky flat bling from GKW. I used a simple 'Hi' sediment so I can use it for any number of occasions. Playing in:

Just Us Girls ~ heart dies

Colorful Options ~ mood board

{PIN}spiration ~ mood board

Obfuscation

You know how I love words and playing with words. I think it's fun except when companies do it in an effort to make something deliberately unclear, pull the wool over my eyes, or pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

An email from a well-known company just arrived, saying they are going to "update" our pricing soon. Update? How about they just say they are going to "increase" our pricing soon (again) and leave it at that? I resent being treated like I'm too ignorant to see through it.

But that's the way of the world now. 

So when you have your next annual physical and the doctor comments on what's been happening with your weight, just smile innocently and say, "That's not an increase, doctor. That's an update!" 

Oh, and another thing. For those of us of a certain age who are shrinking vertically, why doesn't the doctor ever factor THAT into the math when he mentions our weight? I'm a little over 5'3" now, but I was once three inches taller. If my current weight were on a frame 5'6" tall, the doctor would be telling me to eat more!!🍔

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Enjoy your week! 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! 

*Life is too short!

❤️🩷❤️

Hello Stamplings!

Happy Febrrrrrrary! I always feel sorry for the Cupids out there in parts of the world where it is freezing cold. Their poor quivers!

This is a quick post as we have company coming for a few days. I'm not sure if I will be able to post next Monday, so I went with a Valentine for you today:

This week the IDEAS schedule is I = "Ink" and next week it's D = "Dies," so I've covered them both with this card. My featured NBUS today are the dog and mouse from "Wishing You Happiness," by Anita Jeram for the Colorado Craft Company.

(Am I the only one who buys a popular stamp set and then doesn't use it right away because it's being used by everyone? Then, you know, years go by ... so dumb, but hey, the important thing is to eventually use them!🙃)

I die-cut the stitched heart (from Cottage Cutz) and removed it from the panel. Placing it on a piece of scrap paper, I stamped the splotches using spritzed Distress Inks. I put the painted heart back in its original place, taped it at the back, and stamped the two arteests. The critters and brushes were lightly painted with my Ziggies. 

Then I sent Hammy and Stanley deep into the pp drawers and they found a piece that perfectly matched the pink and red inks I used. I die cut and stacked the love word (from My Creative Time) and then used the same piece as a mat. That was attached to a white card base so you'd never know the mat paper has part of it missing where the die was cut.🤫 Playing in:

Addicted to Stamps and More (diecuts and/or stencils), 
Cut It Up (have a heart),

Color Hues (pink and red collaboration with Inkspirational),

NBUS.

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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!
 
*Life is too short!