PP719 Color Challenge from Ann

 Happy Sunday, stampers! Today is our last Paper Players challenge of the year, with Ann as our hostess, and she has a wonderful color palette for us:

What a great way to end our holiday stamping, right?!  I just had to go with the retired Poinsettia Petals set, embossed in gold, with some Pretty Peacock accents:

I remembered some gold-printed DSP from waaaay back so I pulled that out for a background panel, and I also used the retired Pine Bough embossing folder as well:

The sentiment is from the same poinsettia set, but I mounted it on a banner from the Peaceful Season set, and added some gold pearls for accent.  The inside sentiment is from Greetings of the Season:

Of course, I had another idea in mind, so I made a second card, similar layout, using the Christmas Labels set and a diecut bell:

And a little sentiment from Lil'Inkers, which is where the bell is from as well, for in the inside:

I hope you'll come play along with our last challenge of the season, and share your color-filled creation wtih us at the Paper Players! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Easy Peasy CTS402 Christmas Cards

Hey peeps!  Hope you're having a great Saturday so far!  I was up early today and got a few things done, so I decided some time in my stamp room was my reward!  The CAS(E) This Sketch one was a fun one this week and I made some REALLY easy peasy cards using one piece of Crumb Cake cardstock, a couple scraps of Classic Christmas DSP and some much-underused washi tape from my stash! So here's the sketch:

So here we go:

As I said, both cards used DSP from the Classic Christmas line, one piece, the opposite sides.  This one features gingerbread men and green dotted washi tape with a sentiment from an old My Favorite Things stamp set called Stitched Stockings:

Isn't that cute washi??  Love it, why don't I used it more?!

The second one uses some Santa and silver star washi tapes with a sentiment from the same MFT set, and a wee little star from an old Lil'Inker set:

I just LOVE the detail of this washi tape...I only wish I could remember from what company I bought it!  I also did some embossing around the edges of the card for a little extra interest!

Thanks for popping in today! 

Cassidy and Dana were able to get outside for a few minutes the day after it snowed and made a wee little snowman:

And kind of like Rudolph, Eden was not allowed to play in Cassidy's snowy games....who knows where she would have taken off to, LOL!

 Enjoy your day and be blessed!

FMS458 A Friend with Chocolate

 Happy Saturday, peeps!  Hope you have some fun plans for the weekend.  This afternoon is our church's harvest party...a wee bit different than last year's but hopefully still fun for the kiddos!  

So today's card is for the FMS sketch this week from Kim:

This is such a great sketch, and I can see it being used with lots of little DSP scraps!  But as I was perusing my Martha Stewart magazine a day or so ago, I came across this "Magnolia Manifesto" from Chip and Joanna Gaines, and it reminded me of this sketch:

Such a fun thought and I loved the colors....so I put on my thinking cap to see how I could translate it to a card, and here's what I came up with, using some OLD stamps, LOL, and flipping the sketch to its side!

I pulled out an old stamp set I got at AC Moore many moons ago....not even sure of the name of the set or the maker, but they all feature sayings from kids, and they're very cute.  A friend with chocolate is a very good friend indeed! I stamped the swooshy image from the retired Work of Art in Bumblebee, Gray Granite, Poppy Parade, Sage Shadow (ret) and Petal Pink, then stamped the sentiment on each color.  They're clear stamps, so I cut them apart to make them easier to stamp.  I trimmed my panel down, mounted it on a Basic Black mat and added a sentiment from an old Lil'Inkers set and a heart from Banner Year before embossing my card with the Subtle EF.  

And before I did this card, I did a trial run on some Walmart cardstock, and I liked it so much, I mounted it on a Bumblebee card base and now I have two!

I wasn't real crazy about where the birthday sentiment was, but I liked the rest of it, so I'm sticking with it!  Thanks for popping in today!

"Give thanks to the God of heaven; his love endures forever." Psalm 136:26

A little cuddlebug...or should I say, "cuddle-chihuahua"?

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Banner Year, Work of Art (ret),  Friend with Chocolate (unknown), Rainbow & Cloud (Lil'Inker)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Thick Whisper White, Basic Black, Bumblebee
Ink	Memento Black, Bumblebee, Gray Granite, Poppy Parade, Sage Shadow (ret), Petal Pink
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Subtle Embossing Folder

PP509 Woof

Hi everyone!  It's Sunday and that means a new Paper Players challenge, and I am the hostess this week!  It's Clean and Simple week....if you need a refresher as to what CAS entails, check out the PP blog, there are guidelines there! Here's our inspiration:

Isn't that cute?  Cassidy's dad has a little corgi like the one in the photo....Chase is his name, and he's a pistol!  Anyway, my first card was not so CAS...I really think I could have done better...so I made another one, LOL!  So here's the one that made the cut:

I used the FMS sketch and the colors from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

I stamped my little pup from Close to My Heart in Cinnamon Cider on a scrap of Crumb Cake DSP left over from another project and shaded him a little bit with some Cinnamon Cider ink and a Blender Pen, then die cut him, along with his little ball:

I cut out circles from Mint Macaron gingham and Cinnamon Cider, then added my sentiment on a Stitched Nested Label:

Before adhering everything, I ran the card front through the Subtle embossing folder, then stamped a sentiment from an old Lil'Inkers on the inside:

I am sure anyone would love to receive a card with sentiment inside!  I hope you'll play along with us...there are lots of pet moms and dads out there, even pet grandparents (like me), so create something CAS and share it with us at the Paper Players blog!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Here's Cassidy with her wee little pet, Ginger--my grand-dog, LOL!

Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pal Pets (Close to My Heart), Ruff Day (unknown), Rainbow & Cloud Sentiments (Lil'Inkers)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Mint Macaron, Crumb Cake DSP, Cinnamon Cider, Mint Macaron DSP (ret)
Ink	Cinnamon Cider
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Subtles EF, Circles Dies (ret), Stitched Circle Dies (Lil'Inkers), Paper Pal Pets Dies (Close to My Heart)

IB67 Rainy Day Party

Hello peeps!  It's Thursday...yay, the week is almost over!  We are taking another load from my dad's house to the auction tomorrow and Saturday, so it's going to be a busy weekend, but we can see the light at the end of the tunnel! 

Laurel has a delightful Inspired By inspiration prompt for us today, and she convinced me to break into some "hoarded" papers from Simple Stories' I Am line!  So here we go:

And here is her pretty prompt:

I went with the colors more than the theme, but I did use some cloud dies to create my focal point:

I diecut them in Very Vanilla cardstock, then added some Dazzling Diamonds layers behind them (a wee bit hard to see), and stamped some sentiments on them.  I did add a few little sprigs behind them because the Sunday Stamps sketch was perfect for it:

They were diecut from the Flourish thinlets, colored with a Flirty Flamingo marker and accented with a bit of Wink of Stella!  I think I will send this card to my college roommate---she just had her hip replaced and could use some cheering up!

I hope you'll play with our fun challenge this week...proof that a party even on a rainy day can be fun!  Check out all the samples at the IB blog!

A warm day calls for a walk in the creek!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lil' Inker Cloud Nine??(ret), Mini Tag Sentiments (Divinity Designs, Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Dazzling Diamond Glimmer, Blushing Bride, I Am DSP (Simple Stories)
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Rainbow and Clouds Die Set (Lil'Inker Designs), Flourishes Thinlets, Flirty Flamingo Marker, Wink of Stella Marker

JB18:12 and CTS274 Jingle All the Way

Hi everyone!  Monday morning, a gray rainy weekend is over and hopefully sunshine will be on tap sometime this week!  I have a CAS Christmas card to share with you today, using the prompt from the Jingle Belles of Christmas bells, and the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch:

I found this pretty little scrap of polka-dotted paper on my desk, and I happened to have a piece of Lost Lagoon already diecut, unused from another project, and I thought they looked nice together!  To round the corners of the polka-dotted paper, I used my Envelope Punch Board--I always forget how handy that is!  I diecut a Dazzling Diamonds bell from a Lil'Inker die, added some ribbon, popped it up and it was ready to go:

To make the bell stand out a bit, I added a layer of Lost Lagoon underneath:

And I thought this sentiment was from Lil'Inkers as well, but if it is, it's retired.  I can't find a name on the sheet, but it was with my other LI sets.  I thought it was cute with the bell:

Happy that you popped in today!

So Saturday was my niece's bridal shower; it was a lovely event, most of the time we managed to be outside by the pool!  There were a couple of raindrops, but it didn't dampen anyone's spirits!  Here's the lovely, sweet bride-to-be:

And the groom-to-be:

The incredible desserts:

My other niece's husband is a chef, so although he didn't prepare these desserts, he made crab cakes, salmon cakes, two kinds of pizza (the bride's favorite food!), tossed salad and a lemon pesto pasta salad.  It was ALL delicious!

And I have to share this as well; this wooden "cupboard" is HUGE; it takes up a whole wall in my sister's kitchen.  The neat thing about it is that it came from my father's workshop on the farm, and it was his father's before that.  There are about one hundred drawers and they used to contain nails, screws, and whatever else farmers needed to fix things!  My sister had the foresight to see what a great addition it would be to her kitchen!  She cleaned it up and it is a great place to display holiday decorations, or items for a bridal shower!

Looks like something out of a magazine, doesn't it?  It's priceless to us!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!  And be sure to come back tomorrow for two fun posts!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Sentiments (Lil'Inker???)
Card stock & Papers	Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer, Rustic White (Papertrey), Lost Lagoon (ret), misc DSP
Ink	Tranquil Tide
Accessories	Tranquil Tide Ribbon, Silver Cord, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Bell Die (Lil'Inkers),  Single Stitch Line Rounded Rectangle Frame Die (My Favorite Things), Envelope Punch Board (to round corners)

Paper Players 334 Hippity Hoppity

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Time for another Paper Players challenge!  Sandy is our fabulous hostess this week with a fun, easy challenge for us:

My only problem was, which die to use?!  I just received these Pretty Pink Posh scallop dies after seeing my friend Lisa use them all the time!  And since we're coming up to Easter, I pulled out some of my all-time favorite stitched dies from Lil'Inker, the bunny and bow:

Isn't he cute?  I simply diecut him from some Whisper White cardstock; the background is from Graphic 45 and the frame is So Saffron.  I hand-cut the grass:

And the sentiment is one I luckily remembered I had, from the And Many More set, stamped in Mint Macaron.  The little eggs are from Itty Bitties!  And I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

And finally, this pretty sentiment from the Occasions catalog, from the set called Suite Sentiments, was stamped on the inside:

Thanks for stopping by today!  Be sure you check out what the DT did as well:

  Claire

·      Jaydee

·      Joanne

·      Laurie

·      Nance

·      Sandy

·      Crystal

·      Valentyna

·      Deanne

Last week was Dr Seuss Week at Cassidy's school and Wednesday was Wacky Wednesday!  She wanted to go to school with wacky hair, so Dana got the spray they used at Halloween and "decorated" her hair:

Yep!  She had pink, purple and green hair!  

Have a blessed day!

Project Details--All Supplies Stampin' Up! Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Suite Sentiments,  And Many More (ret), Itty Bitties (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Mint Macaron, So Saffron, Secret Garden DSP (Graphic 45)
Ink	Mint Macaron, So Saffron
Accessories	Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Scallop Frames Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Stitched Bunny (Lil'Inker Designs), Banner Dies (Nestabilities)