Paper Players 141

Happy Sunday, peeps!  I hope you are having a splendid weekend!  I spent yesterday at the Baltimore Regionals!  More on that later on!  Today, Anne Marie is our Paper Players hostess with a fabulous color challenge:

Aren’t these beautiful together?  I am going to miss Baja Breeze SO MUCH!  And here’s what I made:

Another vintage goodie; I combined elements from Postage Due and Collage Curios, stamped randomly on a piece of Crumb Cake: 

I ruffled some BB seam binding along the edge and use some punches to make my focal point:

I also used the sketch from Create with Connie & Mary:

Now….what lovely creation can you conjure up with these beautiful regal colors?  Can’t wait to see it…share it with us at the Paper Players, and make sure you check out the designers’ creations as well!

 

It’s hard to believe a couple of days ago, we were in shorts and bare feet!  Cassidy took advantage of the nice weather to play with her sponges on the porch.  As she was lining them up, she realized she could bend them (they’re dry):

Then she could line them up like a road….or maybe some bridges?

Or maybe it’s a snake?  Who knows what’s in her little creative mind!

FMS76

Howdy, peeps!  TGIF!  I have been trying to make some samples for my club girls…..the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches this week was super-duper!  You know how I love my “threes”!  Here’s the sketch:

And here’s my card:

I just love this pretty print from the Print Poetry DP pad….so fresh & springy!  I recently got both the butterfly punches, so I have been using them a lot too, especially after seeing this cute card from Mary Fish.  What a simple but effective idea!  I also used the butterfly from Collage Curios to stamp over my sentiment from Fabulous Phrases:

Nothing says spring like butterflies!  Thanks for visiting today!

Thank for you the many get-well wishes for Cassidy!  She is feeling better, just a little runny nose….lots of energy, so I know she’s on the mend!  She is really into “playing” now….especially dressing and undressing her dolls.  Over and over and over again!  And since she can’t quite get the clothes on and off herself, guess who gets to play along?!

This poor thing has on two sets of pants!!! LOL!

Thank You Collage

I made this card before I went on vacation; it was for my friend who just placed an order!  It was fun just to “play”….no sketch, no color challenge, just fooling around with stamps, ink, paper and tools!!  Back to the basics!!

My tag is a panel from the Fan Fair DP on which I randomly stamped some collage-style images.  I added some butterflies from Papillon Potpourri as well as a ribbon & brad embellishment.  The embossed scallop on the side was made with the Borders Scoring Plate, which I trimmed by hand.  The card base was  embossed halfway with the Honeycomb EF and stamped with the single doily stamp called Gossamer Lace, and a flourish from Creative Elements:

Thanks for visiting today…if you have any questions, shoot me an email!

Cassidy actually asked to play with stamps when she arrived on Monday morning!  I pulled out some little foam Christmas stamps from a long time ago, an old ink pad and she went to work:

If she knows what to do at 2 1/2, imagine how she’ll be in a couple of years!  Now if I could just make sure she puts the rubber side down on the ink pad!!!

PPA152 and FMS73 for Valentine’s Day!

Happy Valentine’s Day!  I hope everyone gets lots of “sweetness” today!  For my project today, I chose some sweet colors from the Pals Paper Arts challenge:

I wanted to make a special treat bag for my daughter to take to work; I saved this little pancake mix bag that we had gotten in a gift basket for Christmas:

(They were yummy, too!)  I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

to transform my bag!

I wheeled the background and used some images from Artistic Etchings as well as the Spring mini set Collage Curios; the doily was a little too big to fit my panel, so I pleated it a bit and added my heart, butterfly and key embellishments:

And of course, it is filled with some yummy goodies! 

For a friend of mine who LOVES chocolate, I made a heart candy kiss holder after seeing this on Martha Stewart’s website:

It’s a bit difficult to see, but it has two little petal-shaped pockets; I made this one out of some heavier-weight DP from my “other” friend Martha!!  I started out with a 6x6” square, followed the directions for folding and cutting it out, and then embellished it with some little doodads and a pretty gingham ribbon.  There is a video that you can see here that explains the process a little more clearly than on the MS website. 

Finally, this little treat came from my sweet friend Frenchie….she sent this all the way from Florida for Cassidy:

It’s adorable!  Thanks so much, Frenchie!  Thanks, all, for visiting today!

Trying to get that last little flake out of the breakfast bowl!

January Club Projects

Happy Friday, peeps!  We are waiting for some snow to arrive….it’s certainly been cold enough, maybe TOO cold?  Anyway, I thought I would show you the club projects my hostesses made this month featuring some spring mini products:

This is actually a very simple card; we ran the Core’dinations Primrose Petals card through the Honeycomb EF and sanded it for a vintage look.  I used a sanding block from my husband’s shop, and a lint roller to clean up the little “shavings”!!  Worked like a charm!  The Collage Curios stamp set gave us a chance to practice with the Stamp-a-Ma-Jig as well as use those cute little Soda Pop Tops!  A doily cut in half adorns the top!

Our second project uses Oh, Whale! with the coordinating clear Sizzlets die as well as the Cloudy Day EF and Sunshine & Sprinkles DP:

And did you know that you can cut three layers of DP in one pass of the Big Shot?  We cut little squares of the polka-dotted Patterns paper, stacked them one on top of each other and cut out the little fishies!  Cute!

And finally, here is the gift I gave my hostesses:  a tin filled with little goodies, covered in Sunshine & Sprinkles DP and adorned with the flower from Decorate a Daisy, a leaf cut with the Autumn Accents Bigz Die (still available!!!) and a little pop top adorned with a lady bug from Itty Bitties:

These bright cheery colors remind me that despite our dreary skies, spring will be coming!  If you have any questions about anything shown here, just shoot me an email!

Cassidy found a box big enough to play in:

Standing…..

jumping and sitting!

Wheeeeee!

Embossed Love

Just felt like stamping for fun yesterday, found a few challenges and combined them for a shabby chic card:

This card began when I took a few embossed pieces of our new Core-dinations paper, cut them into squares and mounted them on a scallop which was diecut from a page from an old house plant book.  I added some hearts, a piece of lace, a text pennant, and a sweet little sentiment from Pennant Parade:

The image behind the “Love” is from Collage Curios, which I just need to play with some more!!!  So many cute little images in that set!  The background was stamped with Distressed Dots, and the vertical panel is a piece of vellum embossed with the Vine Street EF from the SAB catalog. 

Here are the challenges:

Stampin’ Royalty #160, polka dots; Little Red Wagon, text; and Freshly Made Sketches #70:

Thanks for visiting…if you have any questions, shoot me an email….my address is on the top right!

Thanks for visiting!