Bosh:

foolish talk or activity; nonsense – often used interjectionally

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Creative Imaginations - Inspired by: Anything Goes
Inkspirational - #31 Anything Goes
House of Cards - Photo Inspiration + Any style


I choose to pull from the colors of the photo inspiration to work with, in a CAS style.

I stamped the image twice so that I could cut out the spool and wrap it with sewing thread, then added my own needle to it.

Our Daily Bread - Spool and Tape stamp and die,
 Sewn with Love sentiment
StazOn - ink
Ranger - distress stain ( spool, scissors )
Faber Castell - gelato ( measuring tape )
American Craft - Slick Writer
DCWV - Shimmer Stack

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

Capraesque: adjective

From Frank Capra (1897-1991) American

Think: celebration and eventual triumph of the average guy, sentimentalism.

(Probably the first nonactor movie director to be known by the general public.)

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Paper Smooches - July 15-21 Cool Shades challenge

  

Craftin Desert Diva's - Summer Linky Party #10

I started my card off with a piece a watercolor paper, spritzed it lightly with water and then gave it one good shot of ink spray, took a paper towel and dabbed away the outside edges leaving me with a focal point for the camp fire.

 I was a little stumped at first with how to create the fire staying within the color parameters, because I wanted to add oranges and yellow to the flames. Then it hit me on the head like a bottle of V-8...paper piecing! So I stamped the image first on grey paper for the logs, then 4 more times for the flames. Cut out the flames and adhered them with LSD for dimension. I used the same pen to color them in, just layered the ink for different intensity levels.

The marsh mellows are paper pieced too, I wanted to make sure I had a piece of the cream white for the color scheme.

Paper Smooches - Happy Camper stamp set

Tattered Angels - Midnight Blue Glimmer Mist

Faber Castell - PITT pen, pale geranium lake ( pretty name for red, huh? )

Helmars - Liquid Scrapdots

Petunia Bounce - font

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cardabilities - Sketch #79-Design Team Reveal 

and

House of Cards - Classic & Elegant

also in:
Creative Inspirations - Inspired by: Ribbon and Bling
Moxie Fab - Tuesday Trigger

The water feature is reflecting an arc of light across the picture, I should know better than to photograph out there in the afternoon. I will replace the picture tomorrow with a better one.
UPDATE: New picture, goes to show you that it is important to pay attention to what time of day is the best time to take photos!

DCWV - Homespun Card Stack, glitter paper
Prima - Candy Gems Carmel Apple
Helmar - 450

sesquipedalian: adjective

having many syllables : long

 using long words

pronunciation

( I do love sesquipedalian words like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, just some are too hard to say and to spell! )

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It's time for the Monday Inspiration girls over at Frosted Designs!

 We would like to see your cards, layouts and off the page projects using only 3 colors.... black, white, and one other color of your choice!

I did another lay out!! Don't faint....lol 

After checking, I see that my last one was made back in November so I had better get caught up!

 Now what do you do when you don't really have anything to journal about? I used a poem from e.e.cummings and wrote fun facts about tulips around the edge of the LO. .

I also like that I got to use a small piece of ephemera, the top of the Biltmore ticket stub is used as my title. And my subliminal sub title which is God - everything - yes, because God is everything!

 entering this in:

 PageMaps 7th Anniversary sketch contest

Cut out the banner from the Cricut and adhered it to some twine.

 

 Used a French knot to secure the large overlay to the base. .

 Sprayed some mister on the overlay and let dry before placing the bling down. Because I sprayed onto a slick surface you really have to be careful and make sure it's completely dry. You can see where I added a little extra glue to the bling because it re-activated the spray, although in my book, that wasn't such a bad thing.

And attached the small journaling circle that I cut out with a stick pin which I outlined with a pen so it pop. I had to paint my date on top of the journaling sticker so that it would show up.

Cricut - Country Life cartridge

Prima - bling

Hambly - overlays

Colorbok - black felt butterfly

Maya Road - hat pin butterfly

Faber Castell - PITT pen

American Crafts - Slick Writers

Higgins - waterproof ink

DCWV - white paper

I hope you play along with us, I am looking forward to seeing what you create!

Mirandize: verb

to recite the Miranda warnings to (a person under arrest)

pronunciation

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This week over at Frosted Design, we have a travel theme challenge for you. Remember you can enter a card, Lay Out or an off the page project as long as it has something to do with travel.

 Play along with us and you have a chance to win:

A Travel Mini Album Kit by Artsy Albums

Please pop over and take a look at my fellow Monday inspiration ladies have come up with for this challenge. I like to think my card as traveling with versatility :)

 

DCWV - Shimmer Stack

Cricut - Everyday Paper Dolls, p. 71

Flashing Tape - hardware store

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots

The Cricut has a slit cut for the door so I just went with that idea, and printed my sentiment on a banner and slid it through the opening. It's lifted up with Helmar's Liquid Scrapdots, outlined with American Crafts Slick Writer.

 

To me, this sentiment makes it a more versatile card, it could mean:

"Happy Travels, here's some spending money"...or

"Here son, some money to fix your car up with"....or

"Get well soon, here's a gift to make you feel better"....or

 "Hard times happens, here's a little something to get you back on your feet"...

lots of ideas here!

 

So, do you have any travel plans for the summer?

 Jamie and I are going to Florida for a week, and I cannot wait! It will be so much fun to have someone to bum around with! 

hackneyed: adjective

lacking in freshness or originality

 

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( I turned the sketch on it's side )

 

Here is my card for the DCWV April's Stack-a-holic Template challenge using the Animal Crackers Stack, and I have to tell you that it's been awhile since I have had this much fun making a card.

 

 

First off, this is one brightly colored stack, that's what drew me to it in the first place. I love all the glittered pages but it caused me some problems in the beginning of the sketch as all the colors were competing against one another...but I rubbed some Ranger's Distress Ink over the leaf portions to tone the white background down, and wow..instant resist!! ( Ink it and then rub off with a paper towel any ink left on the glittered leaves! ) Now I began to enjoy the process a little more!

 

One of my favorite pages from this stack is a page of toucans, and I love to cut them out to use. I fussy cut this one, outlined him with my Faber Castell PITT pen pop dotted him to try and separate him a little more from the background elements.

I also love this sentiment which I printed off the computer, the Happy Birthday is a stamp from CARDZTV.

 

Now how many times can you say that you have giggled at an element that you created? I wanted to make it a birthday card so that I could also enter it in Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Happy Birthday. ( second entry ) I knew I wanted to add a birthday balloon in the toucans beak, so I had this Balloon shaped raindot by Cloud9 that I wanted to use and I was randomly placing it over images from the stack trying to figure out what would work and when I placed it over the monkey I actually LOL'd! Come on...I know you're smiling too!

It looks to me like the monkey somehow ended up inside the balloon and is quite surprised about it himself!! I think the toucan has an evil sense of humor if you ask me!

 

Also entering this in

 Crafty Cardmakers - Challenge 88 Humor

Sparkles Monthly Challenge #42 - Birds

Sister Act Card Challenge - #1 Anything Goes

 



balneology: noun

the science of the therapeutic use of baths
( is this similiar to Calgon-ology? )

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Paper Playtime
come join us!!

Ch#7 Use a PUN
Begins: Mon, Apr 1

Ends: Sun, Apr 14

Prize $15 Gift Cert. from The Robin's Nest
and
My Craft Spot with a prize of Metal Dies or Stamp Set
 (winner's choice). WINNER MUST HAVE A USA ADDRESS

Winner announced in the WINNERS Page Tab

Here's what I created for this challenge:

 

 I think it makes a dino-mite Easter card for a little boy.

 

Cricut Craft Room - Create a Critter ( free cut )

Ranger - stickles

Faber Castell - PITT pens

DCWV - Glitter Stack

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots ( to lift the Easter egg up a little )

 

I can't wait to see what you come up with, after all PUNS are FUN! 

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Here is my Monday inspiration for the Frosted Designs challenge which started on March 29th, go check it out and play along with us, you still have plenty of time!

 

 My favorite part of the card are all the little stickle dots and doodling :) They make me happy!

CARDZ TV with Mary - stamp

Stazon - ink

Ranger - stickles, Liquid Pearls, Distress pen

My Little Shoebox - papers

 

Make a card, layout or off the page project with scallops on it and you can enter it into our challenge to be eligible for this prize!

Words or Whatever

 

This weeks Prize is 10 pieces of chipboard of your choice

There is some amazing chipboard designs, go over and check it out HERE

 

*PLEASE REMEMBER, WE ASK THAT YOU ONLY SUBMIT ONE PROJECT PER CHALLENGE! THANK YOU!* 

cajole: verb

to persuade with flattery or gentle urging : coax

or

 to obtain from someone by gentle persuasion

also

 to deceive with soothing words or false promises

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It's Tuesday, which means it's time for

Try it on Tuesday challenge:

 

Hats and Easter Bonnets

Our Sponsor for March is Crafty-emblies

Easter bonnets? Remember wearing them..with white gloves, black patent leather shoes and lacy edged socks? My dad, bless his southern heart, use to give mom and me corsages every Easter too!...sigh....Such sweet times to think about, and this challenge made me think of all those good things...way back then! I was inspired by vintage Easter images, like this:

So I drew this

DCWV - Glitter stack

Faber Castell - Art Grip Aquarelles, PITT pens

Reminisce - white pen

 

And sewed a few glass flower beads to her bonnet

 

I hope you get out your Easter bonnets and come play along with us over at Try it on Tuesday!
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A quick and easy St. Patrick's Day card to be entered in:

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Me Monday - #152 Luck O' the Irish

 

I cut this out when it was a free cut from the Cricut Craft Room.....thinking maybe it was the Spring Cards cartridge, but I'm not positive, so if I am wrong, someone correct me!!

 

Echo Park - pattern paper

Reminisce - white pen

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and #22 of 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days to be entered in: 

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Chic to be shabby

Pan Pastels UK Challenge Blog - Challenge 10, Girly theme

 

Used Helmar's Liquid Scrapdot under the white flower and the banner, this is the BEST stuff!!

 

Inkadinkado - dress form stamp

Little Yellow Bicycle - Snugglebug paper

Prima - white flower

Ranger - antique linen Distress Ink, Liquid Pearls, buttercup

 

 

 

paltry: adjective

inferior, trashy

 

 mean, despicable

 

  trivial

 

meager, measly

pronunciation

 

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( Click on the picture to take you to TH tutorial )

So here is my take on Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2013 as a 6x12" wall hanging.

The only question I have .... 

Is this feminine grunge?

 

I cut my label from the Cricut, French Manor cartridge, p. 54 at 7 x 4.361" ( took it to the Cricut Craft Room to remove the extra cuts so that I had one solid cut ), if I had the proper bunny silhouette cut I would have used the CCR to layer my cuts and would have been done, ( much like TH showed using the mover and shaker die and the bunny die ) but since I didn't; I had to print out and cut a clip art bunny shape, use a tiny bit of double sided tape to it and laid it on top of the label and then used my Fiskars Finger Tip knife to cut the image out. Inked the edges with Antique Linen ( but note to self, make sure mat is clean as other inks will transfer, which is why I have a rosy tint to outside edge of the label )...sigh

How many of you held your breath when applying the heat gun to your tinsel?
I know I did!

 

  I found this great sentiment on the Internet by Gene Audrey and thought it fit the sweet retro feel to my sign. I used Traveling Typewriter font and embossed it since the nice shiny DCWV helps the ink from the printer stay nice and wet longer. I love the Blue Moon Beads hummingbird charm :)

 

My grass was cut from the Cricut cartridge, Country Life, p. 73. Since I didn't own any of the kraft core paper, I cut my image twice. One in matte shade of green ( 2.5" RDS ) and the other in a shiny green ( 2." RDS - flipped ) I flipped the image so that the grasses would not line up and give a similar effect to offsetting the cuts like TH did. Then, I inked the edges of the grass using Antique Linen with my blending tool.

The most fun was had when I finally broke open my stash of Distress Paints, ( and yes, I am the proud owner of every single color.) I was giddy with excitement....OK...not really giddy but darn happy! I wanted to make some Easter eggs to along the bottom and thought I'd try a Tye dye egg or 2...or 3. I used the broken china, spun sugar and mowed lawn...yum! ( I did learn that poor spun sugar can be quite overwhelmed by her sister colors so ended up putting extra spun sugar on top of the other colors after they dried. ) Eggs cut from Cricut's, Stretch Your Imagination, p. 67 ( used in CCR to remove the paintbrush )

other products used:

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Helmar - 450

basket weave paper - ( who knows? it's oooooollllldd...and I hooooaaarrrdddd iiiiiit!  And if you know Ron White, the comedian from Blue Collar Comedy, channel his voice when you read that, lol)

Prima - leaves and flowers

 

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#15 -  Mother's Day card

 

Kinda came about unintentionally, while looking for a green card stock I found this negative cut that I must have done ages ago. I placed a piece of my sprayed tissue underneath it,
 and then accidently smudged a bit of gesso on it.....darn.....
that's what I get for working on more than one project at a time!

 

 I sat there and looked at it for a moment and then thought, what the heck. Got out more gesso and lightly spread it onto the card, lol Thanks for the Mixed Media Monday gals for helping me pick out a button :)

entering this in Moxie Fab's challenge: Emphasize on the Negative