PP726 Sketch from Stef

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Stef is our Paper Players hostess and she has a fun sketch for us to try out:

I needed a little boy card, so I pulled out Dino Days and here's what I came up with:

I diecut and stamped the images in Old Olive, Granny Apple Green and Pumpkin Pie and arranged them on some diecut circles:

My card base is Granny Apple Green with some retired Dandy Designs DSP.  The inside was stamped with a sentiment from Little Delights. The font on this sentiment is one of my favorites!

This sketch is wide open with possibilities!  We hope you'll let it inspire you and share your creativity with us at the Paper Players too!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Little Delights (ret), Dino Days (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie, Dandy Designs DSP (ret)
Ink	Granny Apple Green, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Enamel Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machines, Stylish Shapes Dies, Dino Days Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret)

FMS674 Plaid Birthday

Happy Friday, everyone! Yay, the weekend is upon us!  Jen at FMS has a really cool sketch this week:

and it gave me a chance to use some masculine plaids for a birthday card:

I use the retired Best Borders die to cut my plaid and Cherry Cobbler panels, then used the Tailor Made Tags die to cut out a little tag on which to adhere my Copper letters:

I tied the tag with some retired Cinnamon Cider ribbon and added sentiments from Everyday Greetings in Cherry Cobbler ink:

And this one is in the mail, ready to go!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Copper Foil, Yuletide Plaid (Unity)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Foam Strips
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Tailor Made Tags Dies (ret), Best Borders Dies (ret), Oliver's Stitched Alphabet Dies (Lawn Fawn)

On Your Big Day

Happy Thursday, everyone! I have a friend at church who will be celebrating a big birthday soon! I decided to use the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches as well as the color palette from Hand Stamped Sentiments for her card:

She loves dogs and I always give her a dog-themed card, but I thought this year, I'd change it up!  Here we go:

I diecut the sand dollars from Seaside Wishes from Lemon Lolly (and I just realized that is NOT a color in the challenge, so sorry!) cardstock and colored them with Calypso Coral ink using a Blending Brush.  I am sure there are NO sand dollars in real life that look like this, but I am using my artistic license, LOL!  I added a sentiment from Choose Happy in Craft White and Summer Splash, as well as a cute little Summer Splash Glimmer starfish:

For extra fun, I stamped some sprinkles around the sand dollars and also embossed the outside edges with the retired Stitched With Whimsy dies.  On the inside, I combined a few sentiments from the Everyday Greetings set:

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings, Choose Happy
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lemon Lolly, Summer Splash, Summer Splash Gimmer
Ink	Calypso Coral, Craft White, Summer Splash
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Seaside Wishes Dies, Blending Brushes, Stitched With Whimsy Dies (ret)

Ice Cream Birthday

Happy Tuesday, everyone! I needed a birthday card for a sweet little girl at church, so I combined three challenges to creat one for her!  It uses the sketch from Retro Rubber, the recipe from As You See It and the challenge to use three different DSPs at Shopping Our Stash:

I pulled out two retired sets, Sweet Ice Cream (2021) and Time of Year (2016):

It's hard to see here, but the ice cream, cone and sentiment are all embossed with clear embossing powder.  I used papers from Authentique for the ice cream and the background panel; the gingham tag is from Bo Bunny:

I added some sequins and a few glimmer paper stars for extra pop!  I wish you could see the shine on the embossed pieces, it looks really cool!  I hope she likes it!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweet Ice Cream (ret), Time of Year (ret), Everyday Expressions (2009, Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Glimmer Paper (ret), Meadow (Authentique), Pincushion (BoBunny)
Ink	Versamark, Balmy Blue, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Blushing Bride (ret), Wild Wasabi (ret)
Accessories	Clear Embossing Powder, Sequins from my stash, Dimensionals, Pistachio Pudding Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Give it a Whirl Dies (ret), Tailor Made Tag Dies (ret), Ice Cream Punch (ret), Banner Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Heat Tool

AHSC616 Tools & Plaids Birthday

 Happy Monday, peeps! Living in the Philadelphia area, it was quite exciting yesterday to see our Eagles win the Super Bowl.  I mainly use watching football to knit or cross stitch, so it's not really a big deal to me, but Wayne is a BIG Philadelphia sports team fan, so he was quite happy!

Our sketch from Atlantic Hearts today is a great one if you like to layer:

I needed a birthday card for my nephew, and so I pulled out some plaid papers from Timeless Plaid and a few tool charms and went to work:

I used both sides of one plaid paper, and added a panel of Crumb Cake, embossed with the retired Subtle embossing folder.  I stamped a sentiment from Simply Said in Pecan Pie ink before embossing it!  A few tool charms were diecut and glued together for embellishments, and I added some Natural trim; it's not ribbon, so it's a wee bit more masculine!!

The inside sentiment is from a retired set called Best Year:

Our sketch is open, so feel free to play along with us and share your creation over at the Atlantic Hearts blog! We can't wait to see what creativity you show us!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said, Best Year (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Boho Blue, Pecan Pie, Timeless Plaid DSP, Brushed Silver (ret)
Ink	Boho Blue, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Natural Trim, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Subtle Embossing Folder (ret), Tool Charms Dies (My Favorite Things)

PP722 A Sketch from Joanne

Happy Sunday, all! This will be short & sweet as I am having my hostess appreciation party today! Love getting together with my stampers, and I don't think we'll have any SNOW to ruin it!

It's Joanne's turn to be the hostess at the Players this week and she has an awesome sketch:

I thought this would be a great sketch with which to use some of the new Timeless Plaid papers; here we go:

I used the retired Biggest Wish to stamp my sentiments, and a little lure from the Gone Fishing set was an accent.  I cut two sets of banners from Lost Lagoon and Basic White for a simple embellishment.

I needed a masculine birthday card for an older gentleman at church and I knows he likes to fish, so this is for him!  I hope you'll play along with our sketch this week, there are endless possibilities!  Check out what the DT created over at the Paper Players blog and be inspired!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gone Fishing, Biggest Wish (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Early Espresso, Timeless Plaids DSP
Ink	Lost Lagoon, Early Espresso
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gone Fishing Does, Stylish Shapes Dies

AHSC613 Celebrate

Hello, stampers!  The Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge for this week is a great, simple one:

I went pretty literal with it, and it gave me the chance to use the colors from the current Color Hues challenge:

I pulled out some Night of Navy, Granny Apple Green and Lemon Lime Twist products and went to work:

The Night of Navy card was embossed with a star embossing folder, and I diecut some stars from matching DSPs.  The "celebrate" and the smaller stars are diecut from Granny Apple Green foil, even though they look gold in the photo:

I also added a little line of embossing for fun!  The inside uses a sentiment from Hooray for Surprises:

I think this is a great sketch as well as a great color combo, especially for masculine cards!  I hope you'll play along with our Atlantic Hearts sketch this week too!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hooray for Surprises
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy, Granny Apple Green, Lemon Lime Twist, Lemon Lime Twist DSP (ret), Granny Apple Green Foil (ret)
Ink	Night of Navy, Lemon Lime Twist
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Wanted to Say Dies, Stitched Stars Dies (Paper Rose), Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson), Starry Embossing Folder (ret)

Happy Winter Birthday

Happy Friday, peeps! I don't know about anyone else, but I am struggling to get back into my regular routine after the holidays! I know it's only a couple of days, but I feel jet-lagged, LOL!  I did manage to get into my craft room yesterday to make a wintery birthday card!  It uses the inspiration from Inspired By and the sketch from FMS:

So here we go:

I embossed a panel of Boho Blue with the retired Cable Knit embossing folder, and diecut a snowflake with the retired Stitched Snowflake die.  The snowflake was mounted on a Sentimental Christmas DSP circle as well as a Crumb Cake scallop.  I admit, I did go a little overboard with the gems and sequins, LOL!  The sentiment is from Choose Happy, on a Stylish Shapes die:

The inside sentiment is from Unbounded Love:

I am also entering this at JUGS, where they are looking for dies!  

Now to make three more cards---January is a busy birthday month for my family!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Unbounded Love, Choose Happy
Card stock & Papers	Boho Blue, Basic White, Crumb Cake, Sentimental Christmas (ret)
Ink	Boho Blue
Accessories	Iridescent Gems, Sequins (Honey Bee)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Snowflake Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Layering Circles Dies (ret), Cable Knit EF (ret)

SOS536 Best Wishes Brother

Happy Thursday, peeps! My brother's birthday is coming up and the Shopping Our Stash challenge is asking for a winter themed card but not Christmas!  I used some plaid Christmas papers from Echo Park's The Magic of Christmas, along with a deer diecut and a Birch Wood-embossed piece of woodgrain paper for his birthday card:

My sentiment was a combination of an older Paper Pumpkin "Best Wishes" and a Fiskars "brother"; the pine cones and greenery were from W+9's Merry & Bright.  The deer diecut is from Paper Rose; finally I added some black adhesive brads to add a little zip!

Edited to add:  I am also going to enter this at the Inspired By challenge for this week as well:

Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (ret), Celebrate Family (Fiskars), Merry & Bright (WPlusNine)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic Black, The Magic of Christmas (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black, Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensionals, Adhesive Brads (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Birch Wood Embossing Folder, Merry & Bright Dies (WPlusNine), Deer Family Dies (Paper Rose)

PP715 Celebrate!

Happy Sunday, stamping friends! Claire, whose love for color matches her vibrant personality, is our Paper Players hostess today with a bright, vivid color challenge:

I thought these colors would be good for a birthday card, so that's what I did!  Here we go:

I pulled out a retired set called Holiday Haul because I knew there was a little present in there! I stamped each one in Tahitian Tide, Gorgeous Grape, Peach Pie and Melon Mambo, then diecut each one out with a retired Stitched Shapes die.  The Tranquil Tide background was embossed with Dotted Circles embossing folder and I added a wee stitched scalloped border of Melon Mambo as well:

I used an old Verve stamp for the sentiments, and the Hooray for Surprises set for the candles....hopefully Claire won't kick me out for the Daffodil Delight flames!!!

My final addition was some glimmer paper hearts; each gift was embellished with one in a matching shade (although the Mambo one looks really purple in my photo!) and a little white heart in the center just to jazz it up a bit!

SO....what will you create with these colors? The Design Team really stepped up to the plate on this one; the cards they created are really spectacular!  Be sure to hope over to the Paper Players to check them out, then come along and play with us!

So yesterday was the yearly cleaning of the chandelier globes at our church.  A group of us do the washing and drying (very carefully) after the guys take the globes off, take the bulbs out, then put new bulbs in and put the clean globes back on.  It's a painstaking process, and not for someone who has acrophobia!

Blessedly, John does not have acrophobia, but he does have a good routine and good assistants!! 

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hooray for Surprises, Holiday Haul (ret), Birthday Bash (Verve)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Tahatian Tide (ret), Glimmer Paper in Assorted Colors
Ink	Peach Pie, Gorgeous Grape, Melon Mambo, Tahitian Tide, Daffodil Delight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Dotted Circles Embossing Folder, Stitched Be Mine Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Triple Heart Punch (ret)

Happy Birthday, Cassidy!

Happy Saturday, peeps! Today is Cassidy's 14th birthday! Time flies!  I made her a card using some basketball papers from Echo Park:

It's a wee bit larger than a standard card, it's 4 1/2" x 6 1/2".  I wanted to get lots of the basketball images on it!!  Everything is from the Echo Park pad except for the basketball and the "HB".  The basketball is an older SU stamp, stamped in Pecan Pie and I added (poorly) the black lines with a fine-tip marker.  The diecut letters are from Lawnfawn. 

 Here's the inside, I used another image from Have a Ball and the sentiment is from Biggest Wish:

She asked for mostly sport-related clothing for her birthday and one sweatshirt she wanted was not going to arrive on time. So I did a little creative tracing and cutting; this will go in her card with a "coming later" note!

Thanks for poping in today! We're celebrating tomorrow, so cleaning is on my agenda for today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Biggest Wish (ret), Have a Ball (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic White, Basic Black, Basketball (Echo Park)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Basic Black
Accessories	Black Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen), Oliver's Stitched Alphabet Dies (Lawn Fawn), 1 1/4" Circle Punch (ret)

Mini Gift Card Holder

Happy Thursday, everyone!  I had an idea for a gift card holder and although this was just a "prototype", I thought I would share it anyway!  I am also entering it at Retro Rubber, where they have a color palette, and Krafty Chicks, where they're looking for Clean and Simple! 

The stamps I am using are from Picture Perfect Birthday, which came out in 2018.  Here we go:

I started out by making a note-card sized card with Lemon Lime Twist cardstock....this was a challenge to me, because this is definitely not a color I use very often, LOL!  I made a little 3D "box", stamped some "ribbon" in Lemon Lolly and Lemon Lime Twist (they're actually candles) on the front, and stamped the bow in Balmy Blue and Lost Lagoon to attach at the intersection of the ribbons.  The top of the box is 2" x 3".  I also added a little tag with a sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs:

For some added texture, I added a panel of the same color, embossed with one of the Fun Patterns embossing folders.  Here's a side view of the box; you would need a special envelope, or maybe just an A4 envelope to accomodate the thickness.

On the inside, I added another sentiment from the same set and added an embossed pocket at the bottom in which to tuck a gift card or cash!

Again, this was just a prototype, so I'll be adjusting some dimensions and trying it again in the future!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. James 1:17

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Picture Perfect Birthday (ret, 2018), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs, 2016)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lemon Lime Twist
Ink	Lemon Lime Twist, Lemon Lolly, Balmy Blue, Lost Lagoon
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Fun Patterns Embossing Folder, Mini Tag Punch (ret)