Paper Playtime - google eyes

I love googlie eyes, they just make me smile and can deliver even the snarkiest statements in a friendly and fun way, like this birthday tag saying, "you're how old? "...lol

I used my paper which had a cute little monster to create a balloon shape and added the goggle eyes to it and some twine for a bow.

I filled in the negative space with glossy accents after filling in the centers of the A's....( not sure what this says about me, but I don't deal with negative space very well, I guess I want happy space )....::eye roll::

Pink Paislee - watercolor paper tags

Faber Castell - water color crayons

Bella Blvd. - arrow stickers

Reminisce white pen

CardsTv - stamp

Ranger - glossy accents

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

Helmar - Craft & Hobby PVA glue

Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination, p. 60

also entering my birthday tag in:
Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

rowel: verb

to goad with or as if with a pointed disk at the end of a spur

 vex, trouble

pronunciation

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Creative Inspiration - Inspired by Anything Goes

Inkspirational - #34

I swear, I think the same letters used on the CASE are the same ones I used. I had these rub-ons like forever and they were not user friendly because they were printed so close together that it was like impossible to cut them apart to use, so in the spirit of Donna Downey, I just took the whole sheet of the blasted things and rubbed them onto the base of my card. Problem solved, now they are gone!

I took my distress ink and rubbed it across the rub-ons, just love the resist it creates, the bird was dipped in the melting pot of UTEE and the chipboard branch was cut free hand and tinted with the same distress ink.

My Mind's Eye - rub-ons

Cricut - French Manor, p. 39

Martha Stewart - doily

CARDZTV - sentiment stamp

Ranger - distress ink, melting pot

Recollections - pearl

Codswallop:

 words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas; drivel

( Does that mean that supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a bunch of codswallop? )
trying saying that fast, lol

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Paper Smooches Sparks challenge - Anything Goes
 
Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - # 44 ~ Animals
Craftin Desert Divas - Birthday Linky Party
Creative Inspirations - Inspired by: Anything Goes

 After stamping the pelican and coloring him in with distress stains, I cut around his beak so I could slide the tail of the balloon around his beak and then let the balloon "float" out of the Polaroid frame using LSD for support.

Paper Smooches - Surf and Turf stamp
Little Yellow Bicycle - paper, frame, heart
CARDZTV - sentiment stamp
Faber Castell - PITT pen
Helmar - Liquid Scrapdot
Ranger - Distress Stains
Cricut - Everday Paperdolls cartridge

Buffoonery: noun

foolish or playful behavior or practice

pronunciation
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Chocolate, Coffee & Cards -  44 ~ Animals

Sparkles Monthly Challenge - #46 * Autumn Colours *

Craftin Desert Diva's - Craft It Up & Link It Up Party #11

Jo's Scrap Shack - #10 Bling it Up

I added some bling for the leaves in the tree

Did a little bit of masking for the 3 stamps.

Hero Arts - Sparkle Gems

Paper Smooches - Happy Camper stamps ( deer, sign ), Hello Fall ( tree )

Ranger - Distress Stains, stickles

Faber Castell - PITT pen

CARDZTV - sentiment stamp

Eisensteinian: adjective

From Sergey Eisenstein (1898-1948) Russian

Think: montage, montage, montage.

This rounds out our top 10 words inspired by filmmakers

and again, this one isn't actually IN the Merriam-Webster dictionary

although they offer it up as a word!

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House of Cards - Shabby & Vintage

365 Cards - Day 202 - Super Sketchy Sunday

It's so nice to have a sketch to follow, takes all the stress away. 

Love the felt flower layered over the lace. 

DCWV - Shimmer Stack

Prima - butterfly paper

Martha Stewart - doily

Maya Road - felt flower

brad, lace - misc.

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Simon Says Monday Challenge Blog - Celebrate

Craftin Desert Diva's - Craft It Up & Link It Up Party #11 - Birthdays

Crafty Cardmakers -#96  Birthday

( The balloon is hand drawn. )

My Little Shoebox - stamp

StazOn Ink

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Ranger - Distress Stain

K&Co. - pattern paper
CARDSTV - sentiment stamp

Solstice: noun

Imagine an object, tossed in the air. When it reaches its peak, before coming down, it appears for an instant to stand still.

Now imagine the sun, rising in the sky over the course of the year, reaching its peak around June 22 (in the Northern hemisphere).

That day is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. It gets its name from the ancient observation that the sun – like the tossed object – has reached the peak of its arc.

Solstice comes from a Latin word that means "sun standing still."

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Ya'll met Stella the day before, meet her partner in crime..Gus.
 Looks rather cantankerous, doesn't he?
Well, I just love the old fart! HA! ( even if he is wearing a speedo!! )

Bugaboo Digital Stamps - At My Age

Ranger - Distress Stains

CARDZTV - birthday sentiment

I added some glossy accents to his glasses to give them a little bit of shine...I also added some little fishes to his sand bucket, but just couldn't get myself to post a close up of that since his who who was right there in the picture too! LOL!!

entering this speedo loving man in:

Catch The Bug Challenge - July Anything Goes
Craftin Desert Diva's Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party #10 - Summer

Ketchup: noun

This all-American condiment started out as a spicy, fermented fish sauce in Malaysia.

That version, known as kěchap, made its way first to Europe and then to the New World, where tomatoes eventually became the defining ingredient.

Elsewhere, ketchup retains an earlier identity. Traditional English ketchup, for example, is a pureed seasoning based on mushrooms, unripe walnuts, or oysters.

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Simon Says Stamp and Show - A little stamping

Paper Smooches - July 8-14 Designer Drafts challenge

A very simple card, letting the paper be my background. The sentiment is made with with 2 different stamp sets. The Happy Birthday is from CARDZ TV and the deer is from Paper Smooches, where I masked off the my and just used the deer.

I stamped the fawn out first, colored it in with distress stains and fussy cut it out, used a charcoal pencil around the edges of the card, smudged with my finger. Sprayed it with a fixative so the charcoal would not mess up the card or the fingers, when the recipient handles it.

Paper Smooches - Happy Camper stamp set

Creative Imaginations - background paper

SpectraFix - Pastel fixative

Frisbee - noun

 Frisbee - pronunciation

"The story involves 1950s college students playing catch with cake tins and pie pans – sometimes from the Frisbie Pie Company of New England.

There was already a plastic flying disk on the market called the Pluto Platter, and the students nicknamed it Frisbie. When Wham-O bought the rights to that plastic disk in 1957, they respelled the nickname and made it official.

Because Frisbee remains a trademark, the more earthbound generic term is flying disk."

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Yay, I am so glad to be home! So glad to be crafting again, I'm not sure that my decision to not craft at all the entire week I was gone was a good one or not ;/

Quick check at the Art MoB finds that I need to make 6 female birthday cards, so expect a few, just a warning! My first one up is for Paper Smooches - Trend Watch challenge



 

Considering I only have 2 sets of Kim Hughes stamps, this was a happy start back into card making for me today.

 

Here is my card using her Surf and Turf stamps:

I colored in the little fish using distress stain first and then gelatos, finishing off with some doodling and cut him out and adhered him to the face of the card.

Also entering this in:

Creative Inspirations Paint - Anything Goes
and
House of Cards - Cute and Fun challenge with a color palette
 

Ranger - Distress Stain
Tattered Angels - ink spray
Faber Castell - PITT pen, metallic gelatos
CARDZTV - birthday stamp



prosaic: adjective

 characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual

 

 dull, unimaginative

 

everyday, ordinary

pronunciation

( As a side note, I have to say I got tickled yesterday in church when our Preacher coincidentally used the word for the day that I had posted on Sunday. He was talking about the acrostic that we use to remember the colors of the rainbow...do you know it? )
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Hi everyone, it's time for the Frosted designs Monday Inspiration girls to give you a last burst of creativity for the new challenge...are you ready? Now they gave us a LO sketch, but frankly after all the scrapping I did for NSB I was totally out of pictures. Can you believe it? So I converted the sketch into a card.

So I am hoping that if I put my card right next to the sketch, then you will see how I adapted it. Not always the easiest thing to do, but it is doable.

The playing cards came from a museum in Charleston, SC and I've had them like forever. They are too flimsy to actually play with and I never knew quite what to do with them. So glad I hoard  save everything! lol See, that reinforces me to not throw anything away!

The last of my black felt butterflies....sigh....

Colorbok - butterfly

CARDSTV - sentiment stamp

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Ranger - Distress Marker
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My discussion over at Journal of a Lazy Dieter is about the affects of caffeine on your body. I HAVE to cut out the tea and chocolate, heaven help me.

sui generis: adjective

constituting a class alone : unique, peculiar

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Moxie Fab  350 Cards and Gifts Week - Gift Card Holder Challenge
365 Cards - Day 131 Put it in your Pocket
All that Stickles - Cotton Candy Linky party

Inkspirational - Challenge #19

You know, put a pink glittery balloon on a gift bag and I'd be happy. Nope, it doesn't take a lot for me :) Of course, one that holds a gift card makes me a little happier and this one does slip out of the bag for ease of shopping! :)

 I love this background paper, it's a flocked embossed texture that feels so good to run your fingers over.

Added lace to the inside of the bag to emulate tissue paper. I do recommend adding a bit of wax paper into the bag to keep the glue from adhering the bag together. The handle is created the same way from a piece of twine.

The balloon is sitting on a glue dot and I tried to shape the balloon over it to give it a more rounded look. I spread some stickles over the balloon and then outlined with the same color. Filled in with some glossy accents.

Ranger - stickles ( cotton candy ), Glossy Accents

Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

Making Memories - ribbon

Cricut - Everyday Paper Dolls, p. 43

Maya Roads - envelope
CARDZTV - stamp sentiment
Heidi Grace - paper is old, from 2007..I've been hoarding it that long! lol

fathom: verb

to measure by a sounding line

 probe

 to penetrate and come to understand

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Scrap it with a Song - Blowing in the wind by Bob Dylan

Aud Sentiments - #79 Happy Birthday

Pixies Crafty Snippets Playground - Week 71

I used the negative piece from an old Cricut cut ( my snippet ),
 ( The insert was used a long time ago for a different project; I cannot begin to fathom why I kept this for so long, but I am glad I did! )
I laid a smaller blue dot paper under it and filled the holes with the small rain dots.

Cloud 9 - raindots

CARDZTV - sentiment stamp

Cricut - Don Juan cartridge, p. 44

paper - from scraps

word trend watch

Ethereal

Ethereal means not only "celestial" or "heavenly," but also "marked by unusual delicacy or refinement."

When:       Lookups spiked on April 19, 2013.

Why:       NASA released a new photograph of the Horsehead Nebula – an image of gas and space dust that various commentators described as "ethereal."

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I have vivid dreams. Usually I can remember a small part of the dream, like the other night I dreamed I found a tiny orange butterfly in my house, and I scooped it up in my hand and as I was walking to the door to release it, muttered to the poor thing that I hoped it was Ok....and it answered me and said "yes".

Now I also believe in dream interpretations as much as I do horoscopes, fun to look at but not basing my life around them...so here are the interpretations of the dream:

To dream of butterflies means happiness and the coming of change in your life. the transformation of something, could be your self or your life style. a new beginning.

Orange denotes hope, friendliness, courtesy, generosity, liveliness, sociability, and an out-going nature. It also represents a stimulation of the senses. You feel alive! You may want to expand your horizons and look into new interests

To dream that animals can talk, represents superior knowledge. Its message is often some form of wisdom. Alternatively, a talking animal denotes your potential to be all that you can be.

Or it could mean I just have butterflies on the brain since I have been playing around A LOT lately with them and it was just my daily life imposing itself into my dreams.

Anything but a Card -  #18 - ATC Extravaganza

PanPastel Challenge Blog - #17 Dreams
Die Cuttin Divas - #113 Anything Goes
Pixie's Crafty Work - #70 Snippets

A few of you might know by now that the wax paper that I keep in the bottom of my spray box is much loved and put to many uses. ♥ I cut out these butterflies using the die that came with the stamp.

 I layered the butterflies and stapled them together, then fluffed their wings a bit.

 ~l♥ve ~ 

The hardest part was choosing which one to put on the top!

Our Daily Bread - butterfly grunge stamp and die cut

CARDZTV - sentiment stamp
Ranger - Dylusion Ink sprays
Really Reasonable Ribbon - lace



Word quiz :)

What member of the "claudere" family can refer to a monastery or convent?

( answer at bottom of the post )

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My card was deigned around the sketch from:

Inkspirational challenge #17

I began with my background first using a sheet of wax paper that has been inside the bottom of my spray box. To get the background on my card I simply sprayed the surface of the wax paper and then pressed my paper down onto it. I really love this technique!

I then applied the paints to my stamp and then misted it with water to emulate a watercolor effect.

 After stamping my flower with Ranger's Distress Paints ( broken china and spiced marmalade ), I used my Fiskar's fingertip knife to cut around one of the flower petals so that I could slide the banner stamped with CARDZTV sentiment under it. I love "sinking" one image behind another, almost as much as I love adding dimension with Helmar's Liquid Scrapdots.

Also entering this in: 

Moxie Fab - The Wonder of Watercolor challenge  ( 2nd entry )

and

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes ( 1st entry )

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Did you get it right? 

¹clois·ter

 noun \ˈklȯi-stər\

1

a : a monastic establishment

b : an area within a monastery or convent to which the religious are normally restricted

c : monastic life

Anyone else thinking of the TV show The Flying Nun?

The misadventures of a nun who can fly and her convent and neighbors. Sister Bertrille could be relied upon to solve any problem that came her way by her ability to catch a passing breeze and fly.

Wouldn't it be lovely is life was this simple again?

Word trend watch

Surreal

when:  Look ups spiked on April 15th, 2013

why: Used in some of the media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings.

 Surreal means "marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream." The same word was frequently looked up after the 9/11 attacks. A relatively new word in English, surreal dates only to the 1930s. It comes from the name of the artistic movement known as surrealism, whose effect was often created "by means of unnatural or irrational juxtapositions and combinations."

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Moxie Fab - The Wonder of Watercolor challenge   ( which started it all )

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Color ( medium used - watercolor )

Sister Act card Challenge - #3

Craft Room Challenge - So Sentimental

Your computer and printer can be very useful tools in creating a card. You can use it as a light box to trace over images and you can run painted images through the printer too.

Remember: Whatever you run through your printer has to fit through the printer, and all images MUST be dry!!

voila!

water colors - so old...so very, very old

Traveling Typewriter - font

Honey Script - font

American Crafts - Marvy Marker

CARDSTV - stamp