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Happy Friday, peeps!  I am busy prepping for my stamp club meeting tonight, so this card is short and sweet!  I have been very remiss in my Christmas card-making, so I used the sketch from CAS(e) This Sketch to use up some hoarded washi tape!  Here’s the sketch:

And here’s the card:

My sentiment is from the new Christmas Greeting thinlits, and I cut the “merry” out three times, one each from Riding Hood Red, Mossy Meadow and Old Olive, then layered them atop the washi.  The enamel dots are also new from SU:

I love this look!  Thanks for popping by today!

These photos are lousy, but the little chef was helping make sausage and peppers!!  Yum!

Enjoy your day!

Paper Players 232

Hey peeps!  Today, Joanne is our hostess and she’s got a sweet clean-and-simple challenge for us….use a bird on your card!  Yay!  I love birds! 

I am a bit disappointed that my card didn’t photograph as well as I would like, because it’s really cool-looking IRL!  At any rate, here it is:

I used some washi tape, and the top one is the gold one from SU’s Watercolor Wonder, but the shimmer just doesn’t show up in the photo!  Trust me, it looks better than it does here!   The birdhouse tape is from my stash and the other two are from SU’s Sweet Sadie.  I am not sure where the bird die came from (there’s no name on it) and the sentiments and dotty corner are from SU’s set called So You, which is a really fun set from the Occasions Mini.  I stamped the “happy” in Memento Black ink, then used a blender pen and Crisp Cantaloupe ink to fill it in:

I mounted my Very Vanilla panel on a Crumb Cake card I already had laying around (I was trying to use up some stuff I already had cut!), and then added some piercing and sequins.  This is less clean-and-simple than I usually do, but I think it still qualifies!  This also qualifies for Little Red Wagon’s Winter Washiland challenge as well as the sketch from CAS(e) This Sketch:

I can’t wait to see what you come up with for Joanne’s challenge!  Share your creations with us at the Paper Players and meanwhile, check out what the other designers did as well:

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Claire
• Debbie
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Karren
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Shannon

Cassidy made some Valentine cookies for her mommy and daddy on Friday:

I had some leftover white and pink icing in the freezer, so we put both in the frosting bag at the same time with a star tip and had lots of fun decorating them!

Enjoy your day!

Washi Tags

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Wow, it has only been a few days that I haven’t posted, but it feels like forever!  My sweet friend Linda at The Catered Crop chose this card to highlight earlier this week and asked me to participate in this week’s challenge, which is to use Washi Tape!   So I searched my stash and realized I had more than I thought!!!   I wanted to do something other than a card, so I looked through my “alterable” box and found these tags I bought a looooooong time ago at my local office supply store.  Once I got started, I couldn’t’ stop!!!

I don’t usually make tags for my Christmas gifts because we all know where they end up, but I felt that using up some of my stash of alterables was a good sign that I am working on not hoarding stuff, LOL!  Here are some closeups:

All the tags use the washi tape along the bottom edge; they are from various sources, including Stampin Up, Martha Stewart and another company that I can’t remember (because I threw out the packaging!).  The images are from various sources; if you want to know a specific image, send me an email (NOT a comment) and I’ll do my best to let you know the manufacturer.  As I said, I had a blast making these and will gladly embellish my gifts this year with them!  Be sure to pop over to The Catered Crop to see what else those clever stampers have come up with!

I know Halloween is over, but I wanted to share with you some cookie-making we did earlier in the week:

We rolled out the dough and cut it with Halloween cookie cutters:

After decorating them with sprinkles and baking them, we put them on a plate:

But the best part was giving Grampy a green bat-shaped cookie!  (He doesn’t look too sure of this, but he ate it!!!)

Thanks for visiting today!  Be sure to stop back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

Washi Wonders

Hello, peeps!  I’ve got a couple of washi-embellished cards today that I made a wee bit ago!  The first one uses a Chalk Talk die; I covered a piece of white cardstock with strips of the tape, then cut it out with the die and decorated it with various embellishments and ribbons:

Here’s a closeup of the tag:

Don’t these colors and prints just make you happy?

The next one is a CASE from Mary Fish, but I added a strip of washi tape before punching out the butterfly, then did some piercing around the opening:

These both feature the new note cards, a nice little size!  The smaller butterfly is embellished with a candy dot:

as well as a pretty little sentiment from A Dozen Thoughts!  Sweet too!

Another sweet card I received from my friend Christy!

I just love all the details on this!

Cassidy was playing around Grampy’s tractor and got a little souvenir; you might be able see the smudge on her nose and her cheek as well, LOL!

Have a blessed day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Four You, A Dozen Thoughts
Card stock & Papers	White Note Cards, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight
Ink	Strawberry Slush
Accessories	Chalk Talk Die, Stitched Ribbons, In Color Boutique Details, Gingham Garden Washi, Candy Dots, Rhinestones, White Baker's Twine
Tools	Occasions Piercing Pack, Piercer, Big Shot, Elegant and Bitty Butterfly Punches, Dimensionals, Small Heart Punch