Thank You Kindly

Happy Friday, everyone!  I had some fun yesterday, between mowing and making roasted peppers, doing some stamping and watercoloring!  I pulled out an old stamp from 2010 called Countryside, along with the also-retired Buffalo Check from 2018, and this is what I made:

I was inspired by three challenges: the photo and sketch at  Inspired By, Vicky's Tic Tac Toe board, and the Retro Rubber Anything Goes:

Since my truck has apples instead of pumpkins, I chose to make it red!  I stamped it in Black Stazon ink and watercolored it with reinkers.  I did a bit of selective cutting to get my stitched square to work properly!  The Buffalo Check was stamped in Real Red on Very Vanilla and diecut with the Deckle Edge Rectangle dies.  The little apple, from the same set, was also diecut and the sentiment, from Poppy Stamp's Whittle Sayings, has some red and tan twine to make it into a tag.  It fits with the diagonal on the Tic Tac Toe board of  twine, diecut and plaid. 

I always thought it would be fun to drive a truck like this, now that I know how to drive a stick shift.  However, I doubt it would have power steering or power brakes, so I think I'll just admire it from my stamp room!  

John visited his sister Mimi a few days ago and she gave him some bounty from her garden:

She said she planted three mounds with three or four seeds in each mound and got ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY EIGHT gourds...so far!  Wowza!  Not sure what kind of fertilizer she's using, but it's working!   Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

The Lord is good; his love is eternal and his faithfulness lasts forever.  Psalm 100:5

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Countryside (ret), Buffalo Check (ret), Whittle Sayings (Poppy Stamps)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Watercolor
Ink	Stazon Black, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Gray Granite
Accessories	Red Twine (ret), Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Deckle Edge Rectangle Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Square Dies (Lil' Inker), 1/2" Banner Dies (Pink & Main), 1/8" Hole Punch, Aquapainter

RRC165 Cruisin'

Hi everyone!  It's time for a new Retro Rubber Challenge where we give our older stamps some attention!  Here's our prompt for today: 

That vintage tractor reminded me of a vintage truck stamp that is in the Countryside stamp set from 2010.  Normally I would stamp it on some watercolor paper and color it in to create a vintage-style card, but I went in a different direction this time!  While searching for some suitable DSP, I found this lovely blue buffalo plaid piece and that's what got me started:

I stamped the truck in Night of Navy and diecut it with a Stitched Nested Labels die.  I cut another panel from the same die in Cherry Cobbler and cut it half, layering it behind the image.  The smaller sentiment is from Papertry Ink's Barnyard Sentiments (2015), diecut with the same die and layered with Night of Navy.   

The plaid panel was embellished with a Cherry Cobbler zig zag diecut border and for the final embellishment, I added a couple of enamel dots at the top.  Clean and vintage?  That's what I've got today!

Now, what will you create for our "Cruisin" challenge this week?  Just remember to use stamps that are least one year old and tell us the age somewhere in your post!  Thanks for visiting today!

SO....yesterday while playing in a Bounce House, we had a little mishap:

More than likely a broken ankle...we'll see what the orthopedic doctor says!  What a way to start your birthday week!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Countryside (ret, 2010), Barnyard Sentiments (Papertrey, 2015)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Down on the Farm DSP (Echo Park)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy
Accessories	Enamel Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Basic Borders Dies, Stitched Nested Labels Dies (ret)

RRCB138 Country Best Wishes

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Wow, can you believe it's the last day of June!  July, here we come!  But first, it's time for another Retro Rubber challenge:

Anything goes!  Well, that means it's wide open, just as long as your stamps are at least a year old!  I went country/vintage today with a stamp from 2010 called Countryside:

I stamped my images on Very Vanilla cardstock in Stazon Black ink and colored them in with an aquapainter and inks.  I just want to give you all a BIG WARNING/HINT if you purchase the new SU Water Painters....they are very similar to the Aquapainters, (and a great product, of course) but the top portion of the brush that screws off to fill the barrel is LEFT-TURNING.....it is the opposite of the way the Aquapainter opens.  I almost broke my hand trying to get it to open, and finally had to call SU.  DUH....all I had to do was turn it in the opposite direction. What genius designed that?  Anyway, just a heads-up if you decide to invest in a new set...be forewarned, LOL!  So after coloring all my little pictures in, I over-stamped the images with the Linen background stamp (2006) with Sahara Sand ink, diecut them with some tag dies and sponged around the edges for a more vintage look:

I gave each one a little Linen Thread doodad, mounted it on some red barnwood DSP and added a diecut sentiment (oops, not a year old) along with some candy dots, then stamped the inside with another sentiment and the truck from the Countryside set:

I hope you'll play along with our Anything Goes challenge...just remember your stamps have to be a year old or older, and be sure to tell us how old they are!  We can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for popping in--enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Countryside (2010 ret), Linen (2006 ret), Itty Bitty Birthdays
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Frontier DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Stazon Black, Cinnamon Cider, Garden Green, Cajun Craze, Real Red, Smoky Slate, Sahara Sand, Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret), Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Tags & Labels Framelits (ret), Sponge Dauber

IB92 Truck Full of Pumpkins

Happy Thursday, peeps!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge--Laurel always comes up with beautiful inspiration photos!  Here's my take on her challenge today:  a truck full of pumpkins!

And here is her inspiration:

  

The vintage truck theme is wildly popular these days, but usually it's a RED truck, so I was excited to see this tan truck!!  My mind immediately went to the old SU stamp called Loads of Love, but apparently, I got rid of the Accessories set, which had pumpkins in it!  So I turned to another set called Countryside...it had a perfect vintage truck, but it had the word "apples" on the tailgate and the baskets inside are full of apples...SO....I need you all to put on your imagination hats and pretend that these apples are actually those little baby pumpkins...you can do it!!  Check it out:

I began by stamping my truck with Stazon ink on SU's watercolor paper and using my aquapainter to color it in.  I cut a little scrap piece to fit over the tailgate to hide the word apples...betcha couldn't tell that from the photo, could you?  It blended very well!   After watercoloring it, I diecut it with a Nested Label die, then added a sentiment from an old Impressions Obsession stamp and diecut it as well:

I mounted it on a piece of woodgrain paper, then on a Pear Pizzazz card, and stamped an image and sentiment on the inside:

I am also entering this in Happy Little Stamper's October watercolor challenge!!  

I need lots of masculine birthday cards this month and I am really low, so this will go into my stash!  I hope this fun photo will challenge you to make a card too--share it with us at the Inspired By blog!  See you there!  And thanks for popping in today!

So here's the outfit for Wacky Wednesday (and the wacky ham that's wearing it!):

And the wacky hair:

 Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Countryside (ret), Autumn, Autumn Squares (both Impression Obsession), Watercolor Wishes (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Pear Pizzazz, Watercolor, Cajun Craze, Thankful Heart DSP (Recollections)
Ink	Stazon Black, Sahara Sand, Smoky Slate, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Gray Granite, Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Old Olive Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Banner Die (Reverse Confetti), Aquapainter

Two Rustic Birthdays

Happy Monday, everyone!  I've got a couple rustic-themed birthday cards for you today!  My birthday card stash is pretty slim, and these are actually going out in the mail today, so I need to get busy!  My first card uses the CAS Colours and Sketches sketch:

and it is for a horse-loving friend of mine!  The papers come from a line from Authentique called Frontier; I stamped a horse from PTI's On The Farm and embellished it with some punched stars:

I added some Candy Dot "brads":

I used the same paper as the stars for my sentiment, and die-cut it with a stitched tag from Pretty Pink Posh:

And on the inside, I stamped sentiments from Country Road, along with a border from the PTI set:

The next one uses the sketch from TGIF:

Same line of papers, but this time I used an image from SU's Countryside, stamped in Early Espresso  on Crumb Cake and colored with blends; I stamped the Crumb Cake card base with the woodgrain image from Gallery Grunge:

I just love that little bird!  

The sentiment is from a past Paper Pumpkin kit:

And again, I stamped the inside with Country Road:

It was fun to stamp with warm country colors and images...I am getting itchy to stamp some pumpkins, so be on the watch for them!!

Speaking of itching, at church yesterday, Cassidy sat with our new preacher's family; they have a three-year-old little girl and Cassidy was just beside herself trying to be a babysitter to her:

Blessedly, the preacher's wife was very gracious and gently "helped" Cassidy be a little less motherly!  All was well!  Thanks for popping in today...enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gallery Grunge, Country Road, On the Farm (Papertrey), Countryside (ret), Paper Pumpkin
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Vry Vanilla, Early Espresso, Frontier DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Stitched Labels Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Banner Dies (Nestabilities), SU Blends, Star Punch (ret)

Chicken Wings!

Happy September, everyone!  Hope you're having a great week so far!  My card today is for three challenges:  Stamp Ink Paper's Wonderful Wings; Freshly Made Sketches' sketch; and Retro Rubber's Critter Time:

Now, don't laugh, but chickens DO have wings, so my critter is a chicken, from a set called Countryside, which is from 2010.  I pulled out some scraps from my bin, punched some circles, did a wee bit of stamping, and this is what I ended up with:

I always wanted a chicken wire stamp, but I never did get one! I did remember that I had a Crafty Secrets digital image, so I printed it out on some Naturals White cardstock;  the chicken is stamped in Cherry Cobbler, and each circle is sponged with a little Sahara Sand ink to give it a vintage look:

I stamped a "hello" (Papertrey's What the Doodle Feather) in Delightful Dijon, added some thick baker's twine and my country creation was done!

Pix from the last hurrah of summer at Dutch Wonderland:

Have a blessed day and thank you for visiting!

Saturday Sketches

Happy Saturday, all!  We had an absolutely glorious day yesterday—definitely fall-like, and I was able to stamp some, too! My first card is for two challenges:  Create with Connie & Mary’s color challenge 320, and the CAS-Colours & Sketches sketch challenge 91:

and here’s my submission:

Simple and easy!  I chose to make a regular-sized card because I already had a card base sitting on my desk…..I used the swoosh and heart from Work of Art and a sentiment from Something to Say.  I stamped the heart twice without reinking and popped one up:

The new All is Calm DSP was a perfect match for this color challenge too!

My second card is note-card sized; it uses the theme of “Chickens” from Shopping our Stash, and the Match The Sketch sketch 37:

I feel like I never got to use this little chicken image from the retired SU set, Countryside, and I was perusing my old sets and thought it would be perfect for the challenge:

She (or maybe it’s actually a he, a rooster!!!) is stamped in Cherry Cobbler and mounted on a piece of Cherry Cobbler stamped with the retired French Script BG stamp and cut out with a W+9 die.  I did some overstamping on a piece of Pink Paislee paper with an MFT honeycomb stamp, and added some washi tape banners.  I popped it all up on a Sahara Sand note card.  Sentiment is from PTI.   A funny thing about the black sequins I used; we were garage saling on Saturday and I offered a quarter for this package of unopened sequins….she took my offer, and when I got home and opened them, the date on the inside packet was 1947!!!!!   Truly vintage, wouldn’t you say?!

We went for Cassidy’s x-ray yesterday, so we’ll see what the doctor says about how her wrist is progressing!  Meanwhile, she is getting quite adept at using her left hand!  Here, she’s playing with glitter glue and spreading it with a paintbrush.  The only challenge is getting the lid off and she tries to use her TEETH to do it!  Needless to say, I am discouraging her to do that!!!

Thanks for visiting today!