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No, that's not a secret code, nor is it an acronym. It's how I spell the sound a cute dinosaur would make, like this one:

When I made the video for yesterday's CYDI tutorial, I might have started over about 4 or 5 times, so I had a lot of pieces of colored embossed card stock laying around. As is my nature, I let it approach critical mass before I tackled it, and since I was packing for a crafty retreat and planned to pretty much dump my desk into a large bag, I didn't need this stuff coming with me, so I used it. I'm sure you'll see more UFO projects here shortly.

The dinosaur was left from a pile I'd cut for yesterday's SOS challenge, so my self-challenge was to use them together. I decided he needed to be purple, and not Barney purple, but Giant Purple People Eater purple. Different ear worm. You're welcome.

I tied some twine between the blue and purple areas, and popped the dino up on dimensional adhesive so the twine could be his "ground". For the sentiment ... do you know it's tough to find speech bubbles with the tail pointing in the desired direction? Someone needs to make mirrored speech bubbles. Please, get right on that.

So I wanted to put a sentiment in a speech bubble, and I chose to open and use my Paper Smooches Alphawimsy set because they juuuust fit. Also, because they work with wonky and not perfectly straight. You know how I can be.

So today I'm en route to a crafty retreat, where I plan to get all sorts of stuff done. I mostly plan to crank out some cards for OWH, and to use my pile of not-yet-used stamps and dies. Wish me luck! :)

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Products used but not linked below: Whisper Graphics Divine Twine, Martha Stewart glue pen.

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Tutorial Tuesday at CYDI: Gelato Emboss Resist

[If you're looking for today's SOS post, please scroll down.]

I'm over at Can You Digi It today with a post about how to use Gelatos with embossed card stock. Here's one of the cards I made:

Why not stop by and check it out? I even did a soundless video. Soundless mostly because I had no voice that day. Baby steps, people, baby steps.

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SOS #96 - Not Your Normal Paper

Happy Tuesday! It's time for a new challenge over at Shopping Our Stash. This week our theme is Not Your Normal Paper. By this we mean use a specialty paper you had to have - glitter paper, honeycomb paper, corrugated paper (or crimp your own), canvas, cork, etc., or use book pages, newspapers, wrapping paper ... you get the idea, right?

I went searching for some specialty paper, and from my selection of potential victims, I chose a piece of die-cut paper and made this:

That swirly stuff at the top was cut from a 12x12. I thought it looked kindof like a design you'd find on a cave wall, so I used my Paper Smooches Cuteasaurus stamp set. I also threw in a piece of cork for the "ground".

I used the Paper Smooches Dino 1 dies to cut the dinosaur, then I stamped him, and I fussy-cut the tree. For the speech bubble I used the Hero Arts Frame Cuts Phrase Bubble, but I wanted the tail to go in the other direction.  I cut off the original tail, then I die-cut the speech bubble again and flipped it over, then mounted the trimmed on on top of it. Did that even make sense?

And those are stone-age hearts, not red butterflies. There was too much WHITE over there so I had to do something!

Oh, wanna see that pretty paper up close and personal? Here you go:

You can just about make out the gold swirl that runs through the paper. it's very pretty!

Okay, now it's YOUR turn. Go dig in your stash and find some Not Your Normal paper. Then make something and come back to Shopping Our Stash and link us up so we can see what you've made!

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Products used but not included below: Paper Smooches Dinos 1 dies, Chatterbox Fine Filigree paper - Willow, cork.

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