RRCB240 Tree For All Seasons

Happy Friday, peeps! Hope you have a good weekend planned! I am going to put up my Halloween decorations! My card today uses the sketch from the girls are Retro Rubber:

How fun is that?!  Gave me a chance to use up some "retro" scraps as well as use a stamp set that debuted in 2006!  That's 18 years ago!  This was one of my favorites from way back when, too!  So here we go:

The stamp set is called A Tree for All Seasons, and of course, I used the fall image.  I stamped it in Stazon black ink, then watercolored those itty-bitty teeny-tiny leaves!  My only regret is that I think I should have used white cardstock instead of Basic Beige.  Anyway, I diecut it with a Stylish Shapes dies and added a sentiment from the retired Banner Year (2020), stamped in Old Olive:

I cut 1" strips of DSP from Orchard Harvest & Come to Gather DSPs, and added a scalloped mat of More Mustard.  It's a wee bit busy with all the prints, but it was fun to put them together like a quilt!  

Dana and I both had entries in the Solanco Fair this year;  I didn't take a picture of my cross stitch (it won a 2nd), but here's a picture of her winning kaleidoscope crochet blanket....she won a first in her division!

It's a wee bit hard to see as there is a heavy layer of clear plastic over it to keep the dust off!  But the whole blanket is just full of these "Rich Regal" hues! Thanks so much for popping in today! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Tree for All Seasons (2006), Banner Year (2020)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Beige, More Mustard (ret), Orchard Harvest DSP (ret), Come to Gather DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Old Olive, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Aquapainter

As You See It 169 A Tree for All Seasons

Happy Friday, everyone!  It's time for another As You See It challenge, and this is a real fun one!  We want you to go back to your first stamping experience and "fill in the blank".....

I distinctly remember my first SU party....we did a one layer Thanksgiving card, stamped a cornucopia in Really Rust ink and added some sprinkles from Itty Bitty Backgrounds!  Talk about clean and simple!  SU's envelopes were so smooth, they felt like velvet!  I was in heaven!  I believe my first purchase was Say it with Scriptures, and I used it so much, the rubber is worn down on most of them, LOL!  But I know one of my first hostess sets was A Tree for All Seasons, from 2000, and I still have it, so I inked it up for today's card:

I colored it in with markers and mounted it on a stitched square; it's really hard to see, but I also used a sponge dauber (another one of my first purchases) to add a tiny bit of Soft Sky to color the sky.  I also used Deckle-edged Scissors (remember them?  Another early purchase!) to add a border along my Floral District panel:

I added some candy dots here and there on the DSP as well as my little Pear Pizzazz "hello" and finally mounted everything on an Old Olive Polka Dot Parade piece of DSP:

These fun colors make me think that spring might actually arrive, but for now, it's still pretty chilly around here!  I hope you'll play along with us, going "old school" and dig out some of those early stamping purchases!  Can't wait to see what you create...share it with us at As You See It!

I took Cassidy to have her hair trimmed last week....getting a style is serious business, apparently:

But a little "pink" brings a grin:

And since she didn't want any hairspray, these gorgeous curls lasted about five minutes!

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Tree for All Seasons (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Tangerine Tango, Polka Dot Parade and Floral District DSPs (both ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Soft Sky
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Greetings Thinlets (ret), Deckle-Edged Scissors (ret), Markers, Dimensionals, Sponge Dauber

Paper Players 263

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It’s time for another Paper Players challenge with this week’s clean and simple challenge hosted by Laurie!  She is the QUEEN of CAS, I must say!  Here’s your theme:

I have to admit, “scenes” are not my forte, especially CAS scenes!  There are several really cute scenery-themed stamp sets in the SU catalogs this year, so in anticipation of that, I chose a really, really old set for my card today!  Remember A Tree for All Seasons?”

My club girls were talking about this set last week and I remembered I still had it!  It was one of the first hostess sets I ever earned!  I stamped the fall scene on some Very Vanilla and colored it in with a sponge dauber and some markers, then die cut it out:

I used a Project Life stamp set from last year called Holiday Cheer for the gratitude sentiment, along with the leaves that I stamped on the front and inside:

The Thanksgiving sentiment is from last year’s Paper Pumpkin kit and the swirlies on the front are from an Impression Obsession autumn set called Autumn Squares (I think!).  I added some striped ribbon that is currently in the catalog and some random sequins from my stash.  It all is sitting atop an Early Espresso card base, which has rounded corners made with the PL corner rounder.  And the layout is from CAS(e) This Sketch 141, although they’ll probably kick me out, because it’s not really that CAS!!!:

It was really fun creating this little scene with an oldie but goodie stamp set!  I hope you’ll play along with the Players as well!  You can check out all the samples at each of the designers’ blogs, or on the PP blog:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

Earlier last week at dusk so the bees wouldn’t bother us so much, we picked apples from our apple trees, which are loaded with apples .  Cassidy had her boots on and was helping Grampy:

We’ll be picking more later!!!