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!

TGIF498 Fragrant Forest

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I am squeaking in a card for the TGIF498 sketch challenge:

At our club meeting on Monday, we used the Fragrant Forest background stamp.  I think background stamps can be a bit intimidating, but with a little practice, a stamp positioner and maybe a sticky mat, you can create some pretty awesome backgrounds!  Here's the card we made:

We used Lost Lagoon ink and the Peaceful Season stamp set.  I had another blank panel stamped, but not adhered to a card, so I decided to cut out part of it with a circle die and use it for the TGIF sketch:

I used some retired Soft Glimmer papers in Lost Lagoon and Pretty Peacock for the horizontal pieces and the scalloped mat, then added another sentiment from Peaceful Season.  I also added an embossed panel (Snowflake Sky).  

Here's the inside:

These trees are so pretty!  Thanks for popping in today!  

My brother sent me this photo from my dad's field:

Pretty awesome!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details for Both Cards—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Fragrant Forest, Peaceful Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Soft Shimmer in Lost Lagoon & Pretty Peacock (ret), Brushed Gold Foil
Ink	Lost Lagoon
Accessories	Neutral Sequins, Pretty Peacock & Gold Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Snowflake Sky Embossing Folder, Peaceful Season Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Iconic Imagery Dies,  Layering Circle Dies (ret)

CASC&S548 x Two

Happy Monday, peeps!  Today is stamp club but I just had to share a couple of cards I made over the weekend!  First, let me say that the stamping community is so wonderful; if you give other stampers their due credit, you usually can "borrow" their ideas and make them your own!  Amanda Mertz at Did You Stamp Today? is one of my favorite stampers and she had a card recently that I thought I would CASE (Copy And Share Everything) with a current color challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches:

You can see her card HERE. I wanted to re-create that card using the above colors, and here's my take on it:

I used the Iconic Imagery set, punches and dies, and the challenge colors.  I love it, but it wasn't quite clean and simple enough for me to enter, in my opinion!

And here's the inside:

SO, I went back to the drawing board to make a new card!  This time I used Golden Greenery and Peaceful Season in the challenge colors, along with the Birch Wood embossing folder:

I finally mastered a trick to get these double die-cuts to line up easily (maybe I'll share that in a later post):

And here's the inside:

But that's not the end of the story!  Yesterday, Amanda posted THIS card on her blog; a little bit different than my card, but we were on the same wave length for sure.  And honestly, I made this card before seeing hers!  Anyway, I think my second card is sufficiently CAS for the challenge, so in it goes!

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

Project Details for Both Cards—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peaceful Season, Iconic Imagery, Golden Greenery, Choose Happy
Card stock & Papers	Real Red, Shy Shamrock, Shaded Spruce, Basic White
Ink	Real Red, Shy Shamrock, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensional, Festive Pearls, Red Satin Ribbon
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Birch Wood Embossing Folder, Golden Greenery Dies, Peaceful Season Dies, Various Circle Punches (ret), White Gel Pen (Posca)

Fun Fold Christmas Card

Happy Thursday, peeps! I was scrolling through my favorite bloggers' posts and came across a really sweet fun fold card from Michelle Last.  (You can see her video HERE or her blog post HERE.) I decided to use the Nests of Winter DSP and the Peaceful Season bundle.  So here we go:

There is a bit of an accordian-style fold on the inside and the front is scored and trimmed to the three panels.  I fussy-cut the birds and added the diecut and stamped sentiments outside and in:

I finished it off with some red ribbon and another little bird on the inside.  This was actually the second card I made; here's the first one I made; I haven't added the sentiment yet:

This time I used the dies to cut out the birds, and used a different sentiment and Cherry Cobbler ribbon.  It's not hard to figure out the panels once you do it a couple of times!  I am not quite sure why I used Moody Mauve for my card base, I must have thought the berries would match or something...I'll try it again with another shade, LOL!

Since this is a fun fold, I am going to enter this at Debbie's Creative Creases #94 Challenge!

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

Project Details for Both Cards—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peaceful Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Moody Mauve, Garden Green, Nests of Winter DSP
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Cherry Cobbler & Gold Ribbon, Red Ribbon
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Peaceful Season Dies, Corner Rounder Punch (ret)

Framed Joyful Images

Happy Monday, peeps! I was experimenting with the frame die that comes with the Gone Fishing dies; I thought it might make a good frame for some postage-stamp-style images, but even before I started thinking about what stamps to use, I realized that some of the images from the Joyful Images Ephemera Pack would be really easy to plop in there!  So here we go:

I cut a frame from Garden Green cardstock and trimmed off the little tabs that are on the side, then adhered it to a Basic White card.  I adhered images from the Ephemera pack around the frame, and die cut one more inner piece from a scrap of white on which to stamp the sentiment from Peaceful Season.  I added the remainder of the sentiment, "a season of wonder and happiness" on the inside.  

So then, I had five diecut pieces from the inside of the frame, and I thought I could use them for another card:

I sponged some ink around the edges to give them a little depth, added some glimmer ribbon and bows and a sentiment from More Wishes.  A couple of red and green sequins finished it off!  Easy peasy!  

Our church had its annual Harvest Party, and the weather was perfect!  We had a bonfire, roasted hot dogs, went on a hayride and made freshly-pressed apple cider!  Dana and the family couldn't make it this year, but I did see these little punkins:

Maven and her cousin Piper!

Sawyer helping feed the apples into the apple press!  Just look at all those apples below!

A hayride is more fun in the dark!

Thanks for visiting today, enjoy it and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peaceful Season, More Wishes
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Garden Green, White, Gold and Red Glimmer Papers
Ink	Garden Green, Real Red
Accessories	Sequins, Joyful Images Ephemera Pack
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gone Fishing Dies, Mini Gift Bag Die (bow)

PP713 A Sketch from Ann

 Happy Sunday, everyone!  Ann is our Paper Players hostess this week and it's sketch week! I love sketches! I could just create and create and create the week we have a sketch challenge, LOL!  In fact, I did make two cards!  So here's the sketch:

It is definitely feeling like sweater weather here in PA, so I pulled out some "sweatery" embossing folders and went to work:

My inspiration came from Inspired By; they have a warm, cozy prompt this week:

I created some pine cones with Early Espresso and copper glimmer paper and mounted them on a Crumb Cake panel that was embossed with the Timber embossing folder.  I added a scalloped mat of Very Vanilla and a Crumb Cake stitched ribbon trim:

I used Tangelo Twist with the Cable Knit embossing folder and Mossy Meadow with a Cozy Knit embossing folder from Fun Stamper's Journey, then created a sentiment from Choose Happy and Peaceful Season, diecut with the Labels Aglow die:

The inside was left blank for an appropriate occasion stamp!  The next one is a masculine one, using Gone Fishing and some scraps of DSP I found in my stash:

I stamped and diecut the elements using Blueberry Bushel, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Gray Granite as my colors, then embellished them with some Matte dots and Stylish Stitched mats:

I heat-embosssed a birthday sentiment from Best Family Ever on a Blueberry Bushel diecut and added a diecut zigzag border as well!

                              

This is a great sketch and a good one to use up some of those narrow strips of DSP we always have laying around!  I hope you'll play along with us at the Paper Players! Be sure to check out what the DT created over at the blog as well!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Choose Happy, Peaceful Season
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, Tangelo Twist (ret), Copper Glimmer (Recollections)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Dimensionals, Crumb Cake Stitched Ribbon (ret),
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Timber Embossing Folder, Stylish Shapes Dies, Labels Aglow Dies, Pretty Pines Dies (ret), Cable Knit Embossing Folder (ret), Cozy Knit Embossing Folder (Fun Stampers Journey)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Family Ever, Gone Fishing
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blueberry Bushel, Gray Granite,Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Scraps from my stash
Ink	Gray Granite, Blueberry Bushel, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Matte Dots (ret), White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Gone Fishing Dies, Peaceful Season Dies, Basic Borders Dies (ret)

AHSC600 Joy & Love to You

Happy Monday, peeps! Tonight is Christmas card stamp camp so I am going to make this short and quick!  I love this week's Atlantic Hearts Sketch; it's a riff on my favorite sketch!  The dimensions are just a wee bit different but I love it just the same!  Here we go:

I love these vintage-style designs in the Sentimental Christmas papers; these candles are reminiscent of designs from when I was a kid!  I paired it with some retired gingham and added some red glimmer trim:

The strip is some CTMH glimmer tape; the bow is a diecut from the retired Pierced Blooms.  The sentiment is from the new Peaceful Season bundle:

The inside sentiments are from the same set! So versatile!

I hope you'll play along with us this week...it's an easy sketch!  We can't wait to see what you create with it!  

So this look is a wee bit different than the last pictures of Cassidy I shared:

She went to Homecoming at her friend's school; no heels allowed in the gym, so they got matching sneakers! I don't understand that "look" but she sure looks grown-up here!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Happy are those who obey the Lord, who live by his commands.  Your work will provide for your needs; you will be happy and prosperous.  Psalm 128:1-2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peaceful Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Red Glimmer (ret), Sentiment Christmas, Pretty Peacock Gingham (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Red Glimmer Tape (Close to My Heart)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Peaceful Season Dies, Pierced Blooms Dies (ret)