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

berceuse: noun

a musical composition usually in 6/8 time that resembles a lullaby

pronunciation

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Paper Smooches - Anything Goes

The scarecrow is stamped onto a transparency.

The leaves are cut, painted and scrunched up and given dimension, and outlined lightly with a pen.

Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination - tag, p. 80

Simply Scarecrow - leaves

Kim Hughes stamp

Really Reasonable Ribbon - hemp cord

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Helmar - V2 spray, Liquid Scrapdots

Ranger - Distress Paints

Maya Road - transparency

My Little Shoebox - pattern paper

Ariel - font
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So yesterday I thought I could finally put away the blankets and tarps that I use to cover my tender plants during those sporadic frost that spring gives you and what did I discover? A nest that had been built into the folds of my tarp...aka old picnic table cloth.

Now if this little nest had held eggs, I would have been stuck with the blanket sitting on my glider and basically no access to my small balcony, so whew...no eggs. Out it came! And notice all that moss? It's from my planters!! I was wondering what was happening because I was seeing moss here and there and my planters were getting all bald!

I found a display spot for it though, it won't last long probably but I'll enjoy it for awhile. See that ugly moss covered purse beside it..yeah..the one with the big ugly brown bald spot...yep...

And if anyone is wondering it's the nest of a Carolina Wren:


Now if I can just get that darn Chickadee from decimating my basket handle cover, it seems to have developed a fondness for burlap....

xenophobia: noun

 fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
pronunciation
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Cute Card Thursday - #265 Cakewalk
CARDZ TV - #28 Cute as a Button

Do you think a sticker has to stay in the way it was made? Or do you like to alter them? I buy sticker sheets for usually about ½ of them, and then have leftovers that use to drive me crazy because I felt I wasn't getting my moneys worth...now I love the left over stickers because I can play with them, change them up, alter them and it's fun!

 

Tip 'o the Day!

 Here, I had used half of this sweet little glittered flower border and had a portion left over so I used my hole punch to remove those flowers and put them on the cupcake as sprinkles. And if you look at the tag itself, those cute little bees were all cute out from the sticker sheet. ( I do recommend placing the stickers on a piece of paper before cutting, makes it very easy then. ) That big Happy Birthday sticker is another one I changed up, it was too big for the tag so I removed an element and then ran a line of stickles around it to hide where it was cut off.

So, alter..or leave in your scrap pile in case you might need it one day...which way do you roll?

 

Viva - Pearl Pen

Little Yellow Bicycle - striped paper, bees, sticker sentiment

Ranger - stickles

candy buzz - font

Cricut - Rock Princess, p. 77 ( cupcake )

Stretch Your Imagination, p. (tag )

Zig - marker
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Fantabulous Cricut - #156 April Showers
Chocolate,Coffee, & Cards - #37 Download

Sketch as is on left, and flipped on right

 

As you can tell I chose to flip the sketch over;

The umbrella was cut out of chipboard and then the handle was cut off so I could lift the canopy up for some dimension using Liquid Scrap Dots. Added some faux stitching to the canopy.

Cricut - Everyday Paperdolls, p. 42

My Little Shoebox- pink cloud

American Crafts - felt flowers

felt flower brads - misc.

Copic

Zig Writer

Assorted sprays

Fiskar - embossing plate

Petunia Bounce - font

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots, Gemstone Adhesive

Top 10 List for names of unusual colors

#1: Vermilion Vivid reddish orange

#2: Verdigris Green Yellowish green

#3: Titian Brownish orange

#4: Bisque Light grayish brown

#5: Puce Dark red

#6: Cattleya Medium purple

#7: Smalt Medium blue

#8: Damask Grayish red

#9: Jasper Blackish green

#10: Bittersweet Deep reddish orange

 

Learn any new color names?

I did, cattleya and smalt....and I admit, I think of damask as a pattern and not a color.

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Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog - Happy Birthday ( third entry )

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Challenge #69 Buttons and Bows Theme
Sister Act Card Challenge - Challenge #1
Craftin Desert Divas - Linky party #3 Cute as a Button
 

 I just adore this sweet button ribbon and I even found a matching pink flower shaped button in my stash!! 

 

 

My Little Shoebox - paper

Really Reasonable Ribbon - Baby Buttons Satin

button - misc.

Faber Castell - PITT pen

American Crafts - Galaxy marker

Helmar - 450

balneology: noun

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

pronunciation
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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!* 

gnomic: adjective

characterized by aphorism

or

given to the composition of aphoristic writing

pronunciation

 

ok, so what does aphorism mean? Answer at the bottom of my blog :)

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Inkspirational - Challenge #10

and entering this into:
Bitten by the Bug 2 - So Lucky Shamrock Challenge
 

The house was cut in the Cricut Craft Room, but I don't remember the cartridge name. It was one of the free ones they give you to play with. Right now they have a neat Southwest, Spring Cards cartridge and a single Father's Day cut that are available for you to play with..for FREE! You can't beat that!

 

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Reminisce - glittered shamrock sticker

heart sticker and gem - misc.

 

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No #18 of 30 Mother's Day cards in 30 days for the Art MoB challenge

 

Moxie Fab - Speech Bubble Challenge

I think speech bubbles are an aphorism!

all paper from My Little Shoebox, Lil Critter and Cute as a Button

( I fussy cut the hedgehog out from the paper and then outlines him with markers )

Close to my Heart - marker

Ranger - Distress marker

gold pearls- misc.

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aphorism is a short statement of a general truth or idea

 

pronunciation

 

Did you know it?

I didn't, lol 

pedagogical: adjective

of, relating to, or befitting a teacher or education
prononuciation HERE

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CARDS Blog Challenge January

 

OK, seriously 2 of those colors just confuse me, so I had to look up exactly what Chartreuse (  a bright yellowish green color ) and Aqua were.  ( The difference between aqua, teal and turquoise is turquoise is more green, teal is more blue than green and aqua is a light blue ) I am forever getting Aqua, Teal, and Turquoise mixed up unless they are all laying beside each other. I was happy when I read that there were a lot of people that have this same confusion....it's not just me! yay!! lol

I mean I can't trust my computer to show me the true colors.
 

 

It's a very simpe card, double mat with chartreuse and light grey paper, first stamp the Happy Birthday sentiment stamp on the aqua paper and cut out. Cover the chipboard person with gelato and smooth out. Run message bubble die cut through printer with your own message and pop dot over sentiment. Finish by doodling around the edges of your card.

 

supplies:

Hero Arts -  Make A Wish Message stamp

Cloud9 - grey paper

aqua, chartreuse - from stash

Maya Road -

My Little Shoebox - Lil Critter die cut ( message bubble )

Faber Castell - PITT pens, silver metallic gelato
font - Traveling Typewriter ( is anyone else addicted to fonts? )