Paper Players 201

Hi peeps!  It’s Sunday, and that means another Paper Players challenge!  Wow, we really loved seeing what you came up with for the 200th challenge!  Now, on to the next 200!  Wheee!  This week, Nance has a lovely sketch for us:

I have a confession:  I have a ton of new SU stamps sitting in a huge stack on my desk to play with, and yet I used non-SU stamps for my card today!  I know, shame on me, but when I saw this photo inspiration from Inspired By:

I just had to pull out some little kitchen-y stamps I purchased recently at a LSS:

I did use Hardwood for the background, and the new Pictogram for the cute little flowers:

I already had a little piece of shabby seam binding on my desk, left from another project, so I added it to some rickrack from my stash, along with a little gray button, atop our burlap ribbon for the banner:

I also did some stitching and distressing, so I am entering this in the Shabby Chic challenge at the Kraft Journal as well!  This card will be going to my sister….she did something really nice for me last week, and we always hang out in my kitchen!!  Well, on the porch drinking coffee and watching birds too!  And I just love this sketch so much, you may see it again this week!  Hope you all will play along too!  Here’s the DT links so you can peek at theirs:

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Jaydee
• Nance
• Sandy

Enjoy your week!

Say “cheesy curls”!!!!

KJ170–Just For Her

Good morning and happy Thursday to everyone!  The Kraft Journal has a Just For Her challenge this week; you are required to make a card for “her” and it doesn’t have to be a Mother’s Day card!  I needed a bridal shower card for a fellow TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) gal; we had a kitchen shower for her and I knew just the stamps I wanted to use:

I knew I wanted to use as many of the images from this fun little Vintage Kitchen set from TPC, and I couldn’t figure out what sketch to use, so I just stamped them, cut them out and popped them up on a piece of DP on which I stamped a few country/kitcheny/vintagey images!  Here are a couple closer views:

I added some twine, a burlap banner and a button, mounted it on some Crumb Cake cardstock and put it on a Naturals Ivory card base.  It’s a fairly large card, so I made my own envelope with the punch board.  Sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  Aren’t these cute?  I wanted to give her some recipe cards but I ran out of time….maybe later!

I bought a little tub of yard sale matchbox toys for my nephews to play with when they come to visit, and they were a hit with Cassidy:

Even to the point of giving a couple of them a car wash in the birdbath:

Enjoy your day!