St Patrick's Day Card--Sorta

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have a fun, simple little card for you today; it's sort of a St Patrick's Day card, although I don't normally send out cards for that holiday, I do have a couple of friends whose birthdays are close, so I thought it would be fun to combine them!  I saw a very sweet card on Dawn Olchefske's blog (it was a swap from Deb Snyder, and you can see it here) so I thought I would CASE it in some Garden Green papers and ink:

I warned you...super simple!  I embossed a piece of Basic White with the Stitched With Whimsy die, then mounted it on a card of Garden Green.  I had a piece of Garden Green DSP left over from another project, so I folded it on the diagonal and adhered it. I then created my shamrock by stamping and punching three of the smaller hearts from the Country Bouquet stamp and punch:

I added the "luv ya" from Conversation Bubbles and a birthday sentiment on the inside from A Grand Kid, also embossed with the Stitched With Whimsy die:

I am also entering this at the AAA Birthday Challenge, where they're looking for Stripes and/or Dots, and I have both!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Country Bouquet, A Grand Kid, Conversation Bubbles
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Garden Green, Garden Green DSP
Ink	Garden Green
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Country Bouquet Punch

AHSC486 Cheers to All Your Years

Happy Friday, peeps!  Hope you have something fun planned for the weekend!  My card today is for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge: 

which is really an interesting one!  I had to put on my thinking cap for sure!  I needed a card for my nephew, so I pulled out some elements and papers from He's the Man and went to work:

I began by cutting a tag from some of the DSP; I actually adhered part of a journaling cutout to a piece of DSP, then diecut the whole thing with a Tailor Made Tag, adding a reinforcement of Basic Black and a little Mango Melody "ribbon".  I used a sentiment from A Grand Kid, stamping it several times on Very Vanilla cardstock, then cutting it out with a Stylish Shapes die.  They were a bit too big to fit five banners on my tag, so I only used four---hope that's still okay!

I finished it off with another element from the scrapping portion of the DSP--Cheers to All Your Years--then mounted it on a panel of Very Vanilla that was embossed with the retired Dainty Dots folder. (I won't tell him the name of that folder...it's not too masculine, but it's still a great background, LOL!)  Drew always tells me how much he enjoys getting my hand-made cards, so I hope he likes this one too!  Thanks for popping in today!

So the trip down the Brandywine was...well, let's just say that the girls weren't prepared for how s-l-o-w the tubing would be.  Boredom and crabbiness set in and at the very end, Grammy got in one of the tubes and Grampy paddled the canoe and two tweens the last few hundred yards.  Truthfully, the two of them could have maneuvered a canoe by themselves but the rental facility said they each had to be with an adult.  And they thought they would like the tubes, but their short attention spans got the better of them!  The water is very shallow, in fact, the young man who was giving us instructions before we left the banks of the river said "If you feel like you're drowning, stand up!"  It was a bit deeper in some sections but some places it was only a few inches deep...and cold but very, very clear.  It was gorgeous! John thought he was taking a picture but it was actually a video....a one-second video, but a video nontheless!

Anyway, we made it back safe & sound and went to Perkins for a birthday lunch, where the staff sang Happy Birthday to Cassidy and all was well.

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Grand Kid
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Mango Melody, He's the Man DSP
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Rustic Metallic Dots
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Delicate Dots Embossing Folder (ret)

PP585 Bright Butterfly

Happy Palm Sunday, peeps! It's time for a new Paper Players challenge with Anne Marie as our hostess with a bright, happy color palette for us:

I admit that these colors made me pause a bit, but I charged forward once I had an idea in mind!  Cassidy is joining church today, AND she made straight As on her report card this quarter, so I had to make a special card to congratulate her!  She doesn't like frilly, girly-girl colors and patterns, but since there may be a little gift inside this card, I think she'll excuse my using these!  Here we go:

I chose Basic White as my neutral.  I really love the layering stencils that are in the mini catalog and sadly, they are not carried over either, so I am trying to get as much use from them as I can!  I stenciled the bottom butterfly layer in  Daffodil Delight and the top layer in Polished Pink, which of course, turned it a lovely ORANGE!  LOL!  So I added some Polished Pink speckles, a wee little layer of Polished Pink cardstock, and a pink rhinestone:

Oh, and a pink sentiment from A Grand Kid!  I mounted everything on a Coastal Cabana card on which I also stenciled some flowers!  The inside sentiment is from the same set!

And my sketch is from FMS:

The design team came up with some fun creations using Anne Marie's color challenge this week...check them out at the Players blog, then share yours with us too!

CTS385 Birthday for Cassidy

 It is really hard to wrap my head around the fact that my granddaughter will be TEN on Monday!  Where did those years go?  Last year she decided she did not like girly, frilly things--no pinks, no lace, no sparkle---boohoo.  Definitely a tomboy!  SO, for her card this year, I pulled out SU's Camouflage background stamp (cuz she loves camo!) and used the simple sketch from CTS for her birthday card!  First, the card:

This went together in a snap...I stamped the camo in Soft Seafoam on Sahara Sand, and the sentiments from A Grand Kid were stamped in Pear Pizzazz and diecut with a zig-zag circle die.  I didn't quite space the sentiments the way I wanted, so I added the little diagonal strip from Jar of Flowers between the two:

A couple more cute sentiments (and another diagonal strip to pull it all together) on the inside, and it was done, ready for ten $1 bills to go inside!

And here's the sketch from CTS:

She's having a little pizza and pool party today---not many kids are allowed to come, so it will be small, but she'll still have fun!  Thanks for popping in! And no pictures today but hopefully I will get some from the party!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Summer Suit Birthday

Happy Monday, peeps!  I have a quick post today, it's Stamp Club today!  Looking forward to seeing my stamping friends!  I recently got some new summery, brightly-colored papers and when I saw the Sunday Stamps color challenge, I knew I had to use some of them!  I matched it up with the sketch from TGIF:

And here we go:

It's a really simple card....the base is Flirty Flamingo; the sentiment is from A Grand Kid, stamped in Coastal Cabana and mounted on a mat of Rainbow Glimmer paper:

The papers are from Carta Bella's Soak Up the Sun 6x6 pad, and I used a green zigzag print from the same pad to create two tags using a retired tag punch and tying them up with some retired Bermuda Bay ribbon:

I added a birthday sentiment on the inside and it was done!  Gotta scoot!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

PP498 Fancy Fold Dino Days

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Hope you had a good Saturday!  Ann is our Paper Players hostess this week with an awesome challenge:

I had just attempted a 3D cube card (you can see it here), and wanted to make one a little smaller, so this was a perfect opportunity!  So here we go:

I needed a birthday card for one of Cassidy's friends from church...he is turning ten tomorrow, and he's as smart as a whip, as most ten-year-olds are!  I thought he would enjoy the engineering of this card! The base of my card is Just Jade, and I used some retired Birthday Bonanza DSP, Pool Party, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight cardstocks for accents.  I stamped one of the dinosaurs in Just Jade and added a Pumpkin Pie accent, then mounted him on a Tasteful Label die stamped with a sentiment and stars from Label Me Bold:

The punched stars were attached with an acetate strip, bringing the size of the card, when folded, up to a standard 4 1/4" x 5 1/2":

I stamped a sentiment from A Grand Kid to fit on the lower cubes:

And this is how it folds up to fit into a standard envelope:

This is a wee bit different than my other card, but I got the directions from the same blog; you can see the directions HERE.....the video is helpful, and he has the dimensions in inches below the video!

The design team made some awesome creations using fabulous and fancy folds!  Be sure to hop over to the Paper Players blog and get some inspiration....then share your fancy folded card with us!  Can't wait to see it!

Not a dinosaur, but who can resist a little boy with a kitten?  My great-nephew Sawyer:

I just want to eat him up! Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Dino Days, A Grand Kid, Label Me Bold (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Just Jade, Pool Party, Acetate Sheet, Birthday Bonanza DSP (ret)
Ink	Just Jade, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tasteful Labels Dies, Dino Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Star Punches (ret)

RRCB137 Hooray

Happy Tuesday, peeps! It's time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, and this week we are pairing with the Double Trouble challenge as well!

Our challenge is a sketch challenge so all you have to do for Retro Rubber is to make a card using our sketch and at least one stamp older than a year.

The Double Trouble challenge requirements are:

• Thing 1 – Trouble Maker: 3-2-1 Recipe: 3 colors – 2 embellishments – 1 old stamp
• Thing 3 – Twisted Sister: Follow our RRCB sketch with at least one angular shape.
• Thing 2 – Double Dare (Optional): If you used the RRCB sketch and the 3-2-1 Recipe be sure to link your card Double Trouble’s challenge to receive an additional chance to be in Double Trouble’s random draw.

So here is our sketch:

And here's my card:

You can't really see it, but the base is Seaside Spray; my main images are from a 2010 stamp set called Out West, and the sentiment and barbed wire are from a 2015 set called Yee Haw.  I used some papers from Authentique and Carta Bella; my 3-2-1 recipe is three colors:  mustard, blue and red; 

my two embellishments are the hat and the star brad, and my one is the old stamp! 

 

On the inside, I stamped the boot from Out West, and cheated a little because I used a new sentiment stamp from A Grand Kid because I liked the font:

I hope you'll play along with us at Retro Rubber this week, and do the Double Trouble challenge if you want too!  Remember, you must give us the approximate age of the stamps you're using and they have to be at least a year old!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Grand Kid, Out West (ret), YeeHaw (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Seaside Spray, Cowboy Country DSP (Carta Bella), Genuine DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Star Brad, Dimensionals
Tools	Markers