Bunkum: noun

 insincere or foolish talk; claptrap

pronunciation

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Busy day, busy post!

Will be helping out my gallery today with the new Hendersonville Arts District, whoop whoop. We are hoping this will be a big draw for us! So getting out my 1950's party supplies to take over there, might even share a picture or 2 tomorrow.

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And since I am feeling the love of my hometown, I made a shaped card which represents the town of Hendersonville in a lot of ways. We do a charity event called Bearfootin' which support many local community projects in our area with the money raised when they auction off the bears. The bears are huge too, 5' tall, and painted any way the sponsor wants!

I added a little dollop of LSD under the butterfly's wings so they wouldn't get crushed.

Our Daily Bread - 2 Step Butterfly, Butterfly 2 Die, God's Love

Rangers- Dylusions Sprays

Memories Mist

Cricut Craftroom - ( free cut last week ) Backpack Iron on

entering my artsy fartsy bear in:

Die Cuttin Divas - #126 Anything Goes

Fantabulous Cricut - #171 Shaped Cards

Simon Says - Anything Goes

Our Daily Bread Designs - ODBDSLC164 Stamped Fluttering or Flying

Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - #44 Animals

Inkspirational -  #31: Anything Goes!

Creative Inspirations - Inspired by Anything Goes

( whoa, that's a whole lot of entries, for me anyway!! )

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 I also have the winner of the Gelatos:

( sorry I'm a day late announcing it )

which is...

Bridget, who wrote

What a neat project! I love this idea and am going to give it a try. Thanks

(I am a member of your blog)

Bridget, send me your address and I'll get your prize right out to you!

sandeesetliff@yahoo.com

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and I had a Flicker encounter which you can read about here, if your into birding :)

( side note )

While you have to register to be able to leave a comment, you don't have to register to leave me a "like". ♥ I love the likes ♥

:)

Bosh:

foolish talk or activity; nonsense – often used interjectionally

pronunciation
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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

comely: adjective

pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion

 having a pleasing appearance : not homely or plain

pronunciation
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Inkspirational - #25

Eclectic Paperie - E-Team Picks Challenge - Monochromatic

All the major work on this card was done on the background. I think sometimes I can get more wrapped up when creating my own paper than the actual design of the card itself. Anyhoo....I first used Broken China along with water, spritzing, and drying, but it still was too dark. So after I finally achieved what I hope for will pass as a sky, I let it thoroughly dry and then sprayed it with my Archrival Varnish and let that dry. Then, I went over the background with a white wash to soften it up somewhat. Stamping the image and sentiment was the easiest part. ;)

Ranger - Distress Stain

StazOn - ink

Hero Arts - branch and bird stamp

Our Daily Bread - sentiment

Golden - Archival Varnish

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Cute Card Thursday - # 274 - In the Summertime...

Little Scrap Pieces - Fun Friday Summer Luvin' Challenge

Delightful Inspiration - i {heart} card sketches no. 23

I colored my cool cat in with some distress stains, added a little stickle to the center of the flower on his sandals....done. :) 

Creative Imagination - pattern paper

Hambo - cool cat digital stamp

Ranger - Distress stains, stickles

Faber Castell -PITT pens

Really Reasonable Ribbon

Helmar - 450

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



ceorl: noun

a freeman of the lowest rank in Anglo-Saxon England

pronunciation
( OK  so the word of the day isn't one that will find it's way into any conversation soon, which is good, because I couldn't pronounce it either...not without a couple glasses of wine anyway! )

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Cute Card Thursday - #266 Can't stop the Rain

Scrap it with a Song - "Foolish Games" by Jewel

I used the first line to her song for my inspiration:

You took your coat off and stood in the rain,
You're always crazy like that.

I don't know about you, but I love the rain. Love listening to it. Love sleeping while it's raining. On warm days, I even love to walk in it. When I was a youngster my favorite thing was taking my dad's huge golf umbrella and making a "tent" out in the rain ( sometimes more than one umbrella was involved! )...accompanied by my troll dolls. Now as an adult, I'll settle for the covered balcony ;) Although I do have a healthy collection of umbreallas ♥

When staging this photo I have to admit I had a giggle because it's shot right in front of my Fushia plant....and I kill Fushia plants. I love them but have the hardest time keeping them alive...so in a way...this card is for my plant! lol 

Fiskar - Rain embossing plate

Big Shot

Our Daily Bread - stamp ( sentiment )

Ranger - stickles, Glossy accents

Faber Castell - PITT pen

Hero Arts - stamp ( bird )

Reminisce - white pen

milieu: noun

the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment
pronunciation
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Pause Dream Enjoy Challenges - #8 Friendship

 

 

 

The inside of the card:

 

Our Daily Bread Designs - stamp

Cricut - French Manor, p. 54

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Experimenting with my camera, I am titling this "winter into summer"...lol
yeah, I know, gumballs and weeds...don't ask...:)

Yesterday the skies opened up and it poured for about 30 minutes with lightening and thunder galore. Enough to make me unplug everything and go stand by the porch to watch the creek fill up and that's when I spied someone else seeking shelter from the deluge :) When it was all over, he got a Graham cracker from me and scurried back to his home.

 

ramify: verb

to split up into branches or constituent parts

or

 to send forth branches or extensions

also

to cause to branch

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Hello to all my lovely WOYWW friends, am I glad to seeeeeeeeeee you!

As you can see, my creativity has taken a turn for the FB games, in particular Words with Friends, here I am currently losing AGAIN to Angela, she whoops me every single time, that woman is smart! If you ever want to play, find me on FB, I'm a willing gamester ;)

 

Speaking on smart women,  I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine who is going to participate in WOYWW this week, her name is Lori and she does Mixed media canvases and has an Etsy store. We met in a FB group that meets every Monday night and paints and chats together called Mixed  Media Mondays with Tracy Weinzapfel, now I told Lori all about you ladies so y'all better behave!!

( I might have left off that we are a stalkerish sort of group, but she'll figure it out! lol )

Please go over to her blog, and say hi :)

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I have gotten away from a favorite site of mine called Our Daily Bread designs, they make wonderful stamps...when I crashed my last computer I lost several favorite places ... and it really didn't dawn on me until I pulled out the "Sewn with love" stamp set the other day for this wall hanging. ( one of my favorite sets )

They currently have a challenge called:

Something Old Something New

 

my old: Our Daily Bread designs Mini tag 3 stamp set ( Happy Birthday to you! )

my new: Cricut cartridge - Wildlife ( Christmas present to myself )

Creative Imagination -  paper

twine, pop dots - misc.

Helmars - Liquid Scrapdots ( to keep all those little areas up so they don't get smushed, ears etc. )

Stazon ink

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and another card I made, just cause I am having fun :) I really, really need more of this paper, this is the last little bit of it :(

entering this in:

Paper Playtime: Challenge #1 Pets
 ( well, she will allow any animal but if your current on my blog then you know that the wildlife in my backyard are my pets! I just need to include a raccoon card and squirrel card to make it complete! ) 

quintessence:noun

the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form

or

the most typical example or representative

pronunciation HERE

 

Did you know?

Long ago, when people believed that the earth was made up of four elements—earth, air, fire, and water—they thought the stars and planets were made up of yet another element. In the Middle Ages, people called this element by its Medieval Latin name, "quinta essentia," literally, "fifth essence." Our forebears believed the quinta essentia was essential to all kinds of matter, and if they could somehow isolate it, it would cure all disease. We have since given up on that idea, but we kept "quintessence," the offspring of "quinta essentia," as a word for the purest essence of a thing. Some modern physicists have given "quintessence" a new twist—they use it for a form of so-called "dark energy," which is believed to make up 70 percent of the universe.

from Merriam-Webster Online

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I discovered a new challenge site called Electic Paperie, it's pretty awesome, loving all their ideas.

Get Altered Challenge - Using Canvas

 

"The Get Altered Challenge is about exploring your creative journey, about stepping outside of your comfort zone, experimenting with new products, and creating altered and mixed media art."

from Electic Paperie

To me, that's a challenge explanation in it's quintessence .

also entering this in:
PanPastel UK Challenge 1 - Anything Goes
 

So in that spirit I added canvas material to my board. Most of you that know, know I paint on board so this was a fun venture for me to create a wall hanging using canvas material. First I adhered the material to my board, then spray painted it a light pink. Then I painted the 2 red hearts. Next I punched the holes through the canvas and board ( would have been so much simpler to have done this step BEFORE adhering it to the board..::sigh:: ) anyway...I sewed on the flourishes.

The scissors were created by sticking down my metal Flashing tape to computer paper, printing out the scissor clip art onto it, embossing the wet ink, cutting it out and then running it through my Big Shot using a Fiskar swirly embossing plate.

Our Daily Bread - Sewn with Love stamp

Stazon ink

Fancy Pants - buttons ( they are acyually for Christmas, just turned over )

Faber Castell - PITT pen

measuring tape ribbon - misc.

Primo Elite - Charcoal pencil

and

The stick pin was created by Sherry Ellison of Creatology ( who sent it to me as a surprise RAK Christmas present, check out her Etsy store! )