Joy

Hi there! I'm popping is for a quick minute tonight to share a card for a couple of challenges. My sweet freind Marcia is looking for pink and aqua over at Color Hues and Jaydee wants Clean and Simple Christmas cards at The Paper Players. One card, two challenges... here we go!

I used the sweet little snowbaby by Impression Obsession as the O in my JOY (TSM) die cut. I colored this little cutie with Copic then die cut her with a MFT stitched circle. Once I decided on placement, I stamped my favorite Hero Arts snowflake in PTI's Aqua Mist ink. 

 

And off we go to the galleries. 

Thanks for taking a look!

Just a Note

Hey there! I'm popping in for a quick minute tonight with a card I made for The Paper Players. Dots were involved in the current challenge... you know me, I can't pass up a good polka dot!

Actually dots or stripes are the current challenge. What the heck, I used them both! I went waaaay back to an oldie but a goodie from PTI for my dots. I used the Mat Stack 5 set to create a landing spot for my pretty little SSS sunflower. A simple sentiment by Pinkfresh and an embossed base (Lifestyle Crafts, I think) completed my CAS card.

Off she goes to the gallery. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Wishing You Happiness

The Paper Players are celebrating their 700th challenge! That's quite a milestone, ladies. Congratulations! 

I didn't want to let this pass by without them knowing how much I appreciate their card challenge. It's always been a go to for me. LeAnne has given us a sketch to work with this week. This is my take on it...

I had this Poppystamps butterfly already cut and thought it was a good substitute for the largest circle. The bottom layer was stamped with polka dots and the body colored with a Copic marker. I popped this onto a polka dot embossed panel, matted with black then, onto the card base. Little leafy stems by TSM were my choices for the other two circles in the sketch. A simple sentiment from on older PTI Mat Stack finished it off.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you're staying cool; we're back up to 90 for a few days... ugh!

Life is Beautiful

Good morning! Life is beautiful and it does get busy! I'm here this morning with a card that's headed right over to The Paper Players gallery before it closes then I'm back to the business! 

I swapped out the squares in Joanna's sketch for a quartet of small Carta Bella wreaths. They're topped with a PTI peony bloom and a couple of Poppystamps butterflies. The sentiment and it's banner came from the same Carta Bella set. I picked the ME scalloped frame to mimic the look of the wreaths. Hubs thought it was pretty, I hope you do too!

 

Thanks for visiting, I love it when you do!

Love You

Hey there, I'm popping in again today with another card! This one is for The Paper Players challenge.

With the rainy day we're having, I thought a bright and happy rainbow was in order. The Poppystamps Hearts Shining Arch is a cute one! I Copic colored the paper added behind the cutouts, (made with the Rainbow Arch die), then framed it with the Double Scallop Frame. I picked the bright green from the rainbow as my card base color. A simple sentiment was all it needed. I'm thinking this is a Sweet P card, hence the blue heart, her favorite color!

Thanks for taking a peek, I appreciate it!

Happy Spring

Hello lovelies! I had a little playtime this afternoon and put together this little number for The Paper Players. LeAnne has given us a cute sketch to work with and this is what I came up with.

I already had one of those cute little PPP tags stamped and die cut, so I stamped a cut three more. All of the images are little rubber stamps by Impression Obsession and my sentiment, topped with the ME bow, is Paper Inspiration. More of that sparkly paper from my Sweet P is making an appearance in the form of a PTI tag. I popped it all onto an embossed card base. Layered but still simple!

I hope you've enjoyed your weekend. Ours was a quiet one and that's okay by me!
 

Showers of Blessings

I have a card for The Paper Players that fits right in with the chilly rainy Wednesday we're having. I can't really complain, the last two days have been a sunny 73!

   

This cutie little frog (Art Gone Wild) always makes a spring appearance. I surrounded him with some sweet little blooms by IO. I know clouds are white or gray, but this polka dot pair from PPP seemed like they needed to be aqua. Am I right? Embossed buds for the background and a sentiment tag (also PPP) finished things off. 

EDIT* My friend Stephanie reminded me that this card fits in at Time Out so I'll be adding it to their gallery as well!

Thanks for stopping by today. I'll be back tomorrow with a new Just Us Girls challenge. Hope to see you then!

 

Happy Birthday to You

Tonight's card was created for three challenges! Kind of fun when that happens. A sketch, a color and a theme all combined into one card. Anne Marie, over at The Paper Players, provided me with a sketch and JoAnn at Seize the Birthday is looking for the color red. Those two played along quite well with the gals over at Double D Challenges who have asked us to use patterned paper. I just reorganized my 12x12 sheets by cutting them down to a more manageable size and packaging them by like colors. I knew just the reds I would pull and then I put the sketch to work.

Simple Stories papers, PTI's Pretty Peonies and a PF leafy die cut provided me with everything I needed. I started with an ivory base embossed with my fav polka dots then layered on all of the components following the sketch. 

I really should use my patterned paper more often. I use to put it on just about every card I made! Goodness know I have enough of it! Thanks for popping in!

Our Friendship

Happy President's Day! I'm popping in this morning with a sweet little pair of bears for The Paper Players challenge. CAS and Forever Friends are Ann's required elements this week.

 

This one is pretty simple. The MFT set was stamped, die cut, Copic colored and attached to a card base that has a few stenciled clouds. And finally, a sprinkling of PPP tiny gold hearts to add to the playfulness. That idea came from a movie we re-watched this weekend. It Could Happen to You with Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda. At the end of the movie they release oodles of paper hearts from a hot air balloon!

Okay, off this one flies to the gallery. 

I hope your week has gotten off to a good start!

 

Celebrating You

Hello and Happy Valentine's Day to you! I'm sharing a quick post today with my card for The Paper Players challenge. LeAnne picked a lovely color palette that I couldn't pass up! Take a look...

After a long wait of it being out of stock everywhere, I finally got my hands on the pretty Cosmos Backdrop plate and stencils by Spellbinders! My sweet friend Nancy (aka the enabler!!) let me know this could be hot foiled and that's just what I've done here. Once I foiled it with Pewter foil, I was good to go with the stenciling. The light and dark pinks look so pretty on the petals. Two shades of gray were used on the leaves and the darker gray on the sentiment. A sprinkling of sequins and she was good to go! I love the way this turned out!

Thanks for visiting with me today, I appreciate it and you! And thanks to you Darnell for the reminder about your NBUS blog!

Blessed

I'm still taking advantage of the "stay in because it's freezin' season" mindset, how about you? It was a good time to use a couple of new products from those holiday sales! This card will be heading to the gallery over at The Paper Players. 

Take a look...

Anne Marie is hosting and has asked for cards with black, white plus a pop of bold color. Red popped into my mind! I picked up a 12x12 sheet of scrapbook paper at JoAnn last summer. It was covered in pretty little houses with leaves and flowers tucked behind them. I used it here with my new cover plate from Mama Elephant. Oh my goodness, I'll probably use it until you are all sick of seeing it! It's topped with a pretty MB Poppy die. I just realized I added the front petal upside down. I'll fix it before mailing! The leaves are from the Altenew Weekend Doodles set. Hope you like it!

Thanks so much for taking a peek. Have a blessed day.

Christmas at The Paper Players!

Hey there! Did you have a good weekend? Ours was very busy, but productive! This is a quick post with a card for The Paper Players.  They have a Christmas theme challenge this week. Yeah... I have a few of those cards!

I'm kind of crushing on this card! I do love they way those pretty little polka dot poinsettias (WF) look with their sparkly centers! The tag and knit embossed panel are a few last bits from The 12 Kits of Occasions. 

Thanks for visiting. 

I'll be back soon with a fun Poppystamps card!

Merry Christmas

LeAnne is this week's hostess at The Paper Players. Her challenge is a CAS card with a tag on it. I had the perfect polka dot tag just begging to be used!

The little RC tag was in my pile of Christmas paper snippets to be used up. It was just the right size for this sweet Stacey Yacula (POD) bunny, Birch! I stamped him with kraft ink them clear embossed him and trimmed him out. A couple of holly sprigs by Simply Graphic bring out the green in his cute little hat! I thought the playful font on this DeNami sentiment suited him well.

Off this goes to the gallery. Thanks for stopping by!

Wishing You a Merry Christmas

I had a little fun playing with some new Waffle Flower products. Well, I've had them for weeks, but they're new! I have to say, I'm quite smitten with the Folk Art Frame stencils and dies!

 

After I stenciled and die cut them, I added them to the Folk Art Background die. There's gold metallic paper behind it. Do you see it peeking through? I added a couple of those little cut out dots to the flower centers. My sentiment is by Morningstar Stamps. I'm not sure if they're still in business. I bought this at a stamp convention years ago.

 

Okay, off this goes to The Paper Players gallery. Red, green, gold and a color of your choice... I picked blue!

Just For You

I took a break from Christmas cards this afternoon to create a card for The Paper Players. I wanted to challenge myself to use the colors for a non-Halloween card. The hubs gave it a big two thumbs up and put it up their with his all time favorites. When he said "Now that's pretty!" I knew I had achieved my goal!

The Gracious Floral set by Memory Box was Copic colored, die cut and popped onto a SSS debossed panel. I place it over the edge just a smidge and trimmed off the excess. I have to say, I love it too!

 Thanks for taking a peek!

Being Patient...

Sweet P got a puppy for Christmas and he has his first birthday coming up this fall! She likes that they share the same birthday month, so I can't let his go by without a card. He's a berne-labra-doodle, so he's a big boy! All black with just a little white strip down his chest.

I was a lucky winner at Colorado Craft Company this summer. I picked their Anita Jeram ~ Stay Pawsitive set because the pup reminded me of Crosby. Oh yeah, that's his name! She named him after her favorite hockey player! I think he'll fit right in at The Paper Players this week. They're looking for four legged friends. 

He's stamped with black ink, then again with Versa Mark and clear embossed. I was holding my breath that he would turn out colored all black... and he did! Next came a little ink blending followed by the flowers (IO) and sentiment. I added a polka dot panel cut with MFT's Wonky Rectangles. The butterflies were last minute additions due to an ink smudge!

Okay, off this goes to the gallery and off I go to the grocery store!

Just For You

 

This week's Color Hues palette is Olive and Berry and The Paper Players are looking for food items. Well it seemed to me that these two challenges were meant to be combined!

 

I used PTI's Sweet Celebration set to create all of the die cuts. A few extra layers of frosting were cut from vellum to make this cupcake look even more scrumptious! I popped everything onto a polka dot background with some raspberry paper peeking through. I hope it's CAS enough for the gals over at The Paper Players!

 

I hope your week has gotten off to a great start. Our temps are down a bit, so that's a good thing! Thanks for stopping by!

Sending You Smiles

 

Hey there! Popping in today for a quick minute with a card for The Paper Players. When I see a challenge with a rain promp this little fella comes to mind!

Now I ask you, what could be cuter than a frog in a rain slicker and wellies?  Maybe one surrounded by sweet little flowers! I bought this frog stamp years ago at a stamp convention from Art Gone Wild. The cutie little flowers are by Impression Obsession. Probably picked up at the same convention. I had the raindrop embossed (TE) panel with the circle cut-out on hand. Remnants from a previous project I guess! A playful sentiment banner topped things off.

Off he hops to the gallery! 

Sending Hugs

 

I squeezed in a little crafty time this weekend and put together a card for the Tic, Tac Toe challenge. I used the left vertical line: flowers, embossing & encouragement. Hmm... is sending hugs considered encouragement? Or I guess I could use the line: flowers, yellow and gems. But then again, are gold confetti pieces gems?

I'll also add this to the gallery over at The Paper Players where Anne Marie has a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge for us. I used the top horizontal line: bright colors, layers & embossing.

I started with die cut roses from Altenew. I heat embossed them in gold then Copic colored them. They're adhered to a lovely PTI bookmark die along with the sentiment and gold confetti. I layered everything onto an embossed panel sent to me by a friend. I think that friend was Greta. She's so good about enclosing something pretty with her marvelous cards!

Thanks for spending a bit of your time with me!

Happy Easter

Hi there! I have a couple of sweet peeps to share with you today. They'll be making their way over to The Paper Players gallery for their Easter challenge. I haven't used this set in a long time and it was fun to revisit it! 

 

I found this Prima Marketing set at Hobby Lobby years ago. After stamping, I used markers and a waterbrush for the coloring. The hills were cut with a PPP border and an IO grass die. The butterflies were stamped with a very pale pink so they didn't distract from the two cutie patooties!

 

I hope you like it. Thanks for visiting!