meritirious: adjective

worthy of reward, gratitude, honor, or esteem

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 Moxie Fab World - Card Creations Week

The Speech Bubble Challenge

Card Makin' Mama's - Green

 ( the pattern paper is a lime green but photographed yellowish )

 

#17 of 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days challenge issued by the Art MoB.

I love speech bubbles, maybe it's because I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was a little girl, but this trend makes me smile!

 

I added Helmar's Liquid Scrapdots under the butterfly wings and used their Gemstone Adhesive  to glue the pearl body on. I also doodled around the outside edge of the base card to emulate the white dots on the speech bubble.

My Mind's Eye - Lime Twist "Happy Go Lucky"

pattern paper, speech bubble, and butterfly

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots and Gemstone Adhesive

Reminisce - white pen

Making Memories - Diva Shimmer alpha sticker letters

American Traditions Designs - eggplant card stock

 



 

gambit: noun

a chess opening in which a player risks minor pieces to gain an advantage

or

 a remark intended to start a conversation

also

 a calculated move

 

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Hello WOYWW stalkers visitors!!
Welcome to my mess :)
Instead of my desk, I thought I'd show you the sordid floor picture. This is to the left of my desk and must be stepped OVER to get to my desk. The general mess can stay like this for weeks on end too...just shameful. On my basket of Really Reasonable Ribbon; I have my mixed media coasters almost ready to go for mailing, 2 Easter cards for the ART MoB that just need sentiments on the front before being packaged up, papers for my "local flavor" cards that I make for the Art Mob and my dish from breakfast....oh and upside down magnet that recently got knocked down and is forlornly laying there.

 

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I wanted to show this card on a WOYWW post as there are so many of you that really enjoy Tim Holtz and the Blueprint Stamps by Mario. I found this font and thought of your ladies.

You might need to click on the picture in order to see it better but it's called

Handwriting draft

 

Here is the card which is entered in:

 

Paper Playtime - Challenge #2 Use some brown

 

( this is what I referred to when I said "local flavor" cards ) 

 

Creative Imaginations - squirrel from paper

American Traditional Designs - Evergreen Forest paper

Faber Castell - PITT pens

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Mystery solved

 

Not that you knew I had a mysterious situation, but alas, I did.

I have a suet feeder that has had it's flimsy chain broken now twice this past week. Which meant that it has fallen and had to be retrieved and fixed each time. I have had to resort to a heavier clip and been blaming my squirrels although it didn't seem possible. I've seen their acrobatics out there, hanging from the arm to feed on the suet but didn't think it was possible for them to break the chain, because I've never seen their entire weight on the suet cage. They always hang using their hind feet to hold them up.

 

 Plus the arm of the feeder is always knocked askew which also seemed weird, which I thought was the raccoons trying to pull the suet over to the railing so they could get to it...until..I witnessed....
 

the attack of the big ass crow!

I wish I had gotten a better picture for you but this is one huge crow; that attacks the suet feeder with gusto. I think his weight alone is what broke the chain and after his tangle with the feeder the arm is pushed around almost back onto the porch!

A mystery solved!



ensemble: noun

a complete costume of harmonizing or complementary clothing and accessories

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Frosted Designs - On the Third Day of Christmas

3 mists/inks/paints

 

I used 3 mists:

Tattered Angels, Midnight Blue, and Pearl

Ranger's Dylusions, Vibrant Turquoise

 

I first sprayed the background with Midnight Blue, then Vibrant Turquoise followed by a nice coating of Pearl. The backdrop has a lot of nice shimmer to it.

( when will I learn that Dylusions are so strong, they over power other colors?? )

Next, I applied:

Me & My Big Ideas - Glitter snowflake rub ons adding a tiny rhinestone in the center of each snowflake

 

( I can always see mistakes better in a photograph, the snowflake on the left needs to be touched down! )

 

I took a piece of scrap white paper, tore the top edge and then hand stitched around the snowy ground finishing it off with a rub-on sentiment from American Traditional Designs.

 

Here is the finished card complete with a beautiful reindeer set in a snowy white scene.

Cricut - Winter Woodland cartridge

 

also entering this in:

Perfect Sentiments Let it Snow Challenge 

 

With some extra paper left over I made 2 more cards for the Art MoB with these snowman stickers from my stash that I discovered, had matching ensembles with the background! lol

I love to embellish stickers, you will see a pom pom adhered to the snow hat, rhinestones on top of the buttons, Ranger's stickles added to their carrot noses and even another sticker added ( the holly on the stove pipe hat also with rhinestones added for the berries )