RRCB224 Over The Top Easter Basket

Happy Friday, all! Yay, the weekend is here! I haven't played with the girls over at Retro Rubber lately, and now that Valentine's Day is past, I decided to focus on some Easter cards.  They have a sketch this week:

I always loved the Basket Bunch bundle from 2017, and I never got a chance to use it that much! So of course, I went overboard with all the little elements in the set...I kept stamping and diecutting and coloring, well...it's easy to go "over the top"!  So here we go:

All the images were stamped in Versafine Black ink, then colored with ink and an aquapainter, except for the leaves and stems of the flowers and the basket--they're Granny Apple Green and Crumb Cake:

I used a piece of retired plaid Crushed Curry DSP for the circle in the background (which you can barely see) and some retired yellow sequins for embellishments.  A sentiment from Suite Sayings (2016) was stamped on the inside with Balmy Blue, along with a few unused diecuts!

Thanks for visiting today!

Eden is such a funny dog:

Maybe her nose was itchy?  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Basket Bunch (2017), Suite Sayings (2016)
Card stock & Papers	Basket White, Crumb Cake, Granny Apple Green, Mint Macaron (ret), Crushed Curry DSP (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black, Daffodil Delight, Balmy Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Fresh Freesia, Bubble Bath, Crumb Cake, Granny Apple Green, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Yellow Sequins (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Basket Builder Framelits (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

AHSC516 An Easter Treat

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I have a fun Easter card for you today---it was a bit labor-intensive, but I don't mind them once in a while!  It uses the sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

And I pulled out a cute retired set called Basket Bunch to create this fun little Easter basket scene:

I stamped and diecut all the little itty bitty pieces--some bunnies, some peeps, grass, eggs and a few healthy carrots-- and assembled them on a Scalloped Contour diecut, then added a sentiment from the same set:

The background was created with stitched gingham squares that were mounted on a Mint Macaron card base; it's a wee bit larger than a standard sized card.  I added some diecuts on the inside; the Mint Macaron panel is there because I ROYALLY messed up the area under it, so I just covered it up!  I am sure I'm not the only one who's ever done this, but this was a really BIG one, LOL!

Anyway, I had an extra little chocolate bunny, so I stuck him in there too!  Thanks for popping by today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Basket Bunch (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mint Macaron, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Granny Apple Green, Country Gingham DSP
Ink	Versafine Black, Soft Suede, Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contour Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Basket Builder Die (ret), Ornate Frames Die (ret), Easter Die (Pretty Pink Posh), Stamparatus

PP582 Bunny Trio

Hi peeps!  Another Paper Players challenge for us, with Joanne as our hostess with her pretty color palette shown here:

The first thing that came to mind was flowers, but I have been stamping a lot of flowers lately and I wanted to do something different! I had an old wooden set out on my desk called Holiday Blitz, and it has a funny little bunny image in it, so that's what I chose!  Here we go:

I stamped a bunny in each of the colors, diecut them with a Stitched Rectangle die, then gave them each a carrot from the retired Basket Bunch set.  I mounted them on a Basic White panel, embossed with the Elegant Dots embossing folder, then added some gingham ribbon for fun!  The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs' Mini Tag Sentiments!  

And since the Just Us Girls want to see embossing folders this week, I am entering it there as well!

This is such a fun, fresh color combo, I hope you'll have some time to play along with us at the Players!  Be sure to "hop" right over to the PP blog and check out what the Design Team created as well!  See you there!  And thanks for popping in!

Dana sent me this photo of Eden....she's straddling BOTH beds.  I asked her where Ginger was and she said she was probably burrowed under the covers of Dana and Wayne's bed, LOL!  Poor Eden!  Although she looks like she is sound asleep here, so I guess she's comfortable!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Be still before the Lord  and wait patiently for him;  do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.  Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;

    do not fret—it leads only to evil.  For those who are evil will be destroyed, but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land."  Psalm 37:7-9 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Holiday Blitz (ret), Basket Bunch (ret), Mini Tags Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Pear Pizzazz
Ink	Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, Pear Pizzazz, Memento Black
Accessories	Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Basket Builder Dies (ret), Elegant Dots Embossing Folder

Thanks a Bunch

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Hope you have a nice weekend planned!  It's raining here so I SHOULD be cleaning up my craft room....we'll see how that goes, LOL!  I do have a quick little card for the FMS sketch by Judy, as well as the Sunday Stamps color challenge...I love orange, but it took me a little while to figure out what I wanted to do with it!

 

So since I had this Basket Bunch still on my desk from last week (remember I said I needed to clean up!?) I thought a little punny card would be fun:

I used Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze and Sahara Sand as my colors; I stamped the carrots in black and colored them with Blends, then diecut them and layered them on a panel of Sahara Sand.  The ribbon was some Grapefruit Grove retired grosgrain that I "dyed" with a Pumpkin Pie Blend.  Once it dried, I adhered it to the bunch of carrots with a glue dot.  The horizontal panel is Pumpkin Pie, diecut with a die from Ornate Layers, and the sentiment was stamped in Cajun Craze:

I also added some background speckles using the Sweet Ice Cream set!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!  And be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge! 

A little funny my sister sent me:

"To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice."  Proverbs 21:3

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweet Ice Cream, Basket Bunch (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Pumpkin Pie DSP
Ink	Memento Black, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Grapefruit Grove (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Grapefruit Grove Narrow Grosgrain Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Basket Builder Dies (ret), Spellbinder Rounded Corner Dies, Blends

RRCB152 Happy Easter Day

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we give some of our older stamps some love!  We have a sketch for you this week...love sketches!

This may be one of the busiest cards I've made in a while!!!  Once I got started, I couldn't stop adding more little bits and pieces to it!  Here we go:

Remember this cute set?  Basket Bunch came out in 2017, and again, I barely had time to play with it before it retired!  I might have made up for it on this one card, LOL!  The DSPs are several from a few years ago; the card base is Very Vanilla with a Balmy Blue mat (although I should have used Soft Sky), and the bunny and all the accoutrements are stamped on Whisper White, colored with Blends and die cut with the matching Basket Builder Framelets!

The sentiment banner is from last year's Itty Bitty Greetings.  Aren't all the eggs so cute?

I used a sentiment from Suite Sayings (2016) for the inside:

The design team has come up with a lot of fun ideas for this sketch and we hope you'll play along at Retro Rubber!  Just be sure to share the age of the stamps that you use...they must be at least a year old!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for popping in today!

Today is Dana's birthday and we had a little get-together on Sunday!  Happy Birthday, Dana!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Basket Bunch, Suite Sayings (both ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Balmy Blue, Crumb Cake, Misc retired DSPs
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Basket Builder Dies (ret), Blends

IB118 Mini Bunny Basket

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Inspired By has some fun announcements--new designers and added sketches!  Woohoo!  You can find out all about it at the Inspired By blog---be sure to check it out, and give Amy and Donna a big hello!  And on to today's challenge--check out this little bunny!  Isn't he cute?

I saw a sample out in blogland of a teeny tiny Easter basket using one of the Sweetly Stitched dies, but it had no watermark on it, so I don't know who originally came up with the idea...if anyone knows, let me know so I can give her credit!  But I thought it would be adorable for today's challenge, so here we go:

As I said, this is very "wee" for sure...it measures 2 1/4" across and 1 3/4" high, without the handle...just big enough for a few jelly beans or a couple pieces of chocolate!  I pulled out the retired Basket Bunch stamp set....a set in my opinion, should have continued into the main catalog, because it is chock-full of fun springtime images and it just wasn't around long enough!  Anyway, I took that little chocolate bunny image and stamped it twice; once the normal way, and again in reverse, stamping it on a silicone mat and transferring the image to some Thick White cardstock.  I did have to go over the outline a bit with my Early Espresso marker, but it turned out pretty good!  There is a die to go with it, but I chose to fussy-cut it since I had two images, and they were small!  I added an Easter sentiment on a little banner from the Smooth Sailing Dies, and some grass from the Basket Builder Framelit dies:  

Here's the opposite side, using the eggs and dies from same bundle:

I added a couple of larger eggs on the side, as well as a stitched handle with a Soft Seafoam strip:

I used Thick White cardstock for the basket construction as it is quite sturdy for something this size.  

For the basket itself, here are the measurements I used (the original may be different, but these are the ones I came up with):

• Thick Whisper White cardstock, cut to 3 1/8" x 3 1/2"
• On the 3 1/8" side, score at 3/4" from each side
• On the 3 1/2" side, score at 1 3/8" from each side
• Fold and burnish on all the score lines, then snip the little sides up to the score line and fold and adhere to make the box shape.
• Cut a strip of Thick Whisper White cardstock 1/2" wide and however long you want your handle to be and adhere inside, or outside, if you desire!

I used the largest Sweetly Stitched shaped die (not the scalloped rectangle) and cut it in half, then glued it to the front and back of the box.  Then you can decorate it whatever way you want.  Here is the adorable sample that I used as my inspiration:

Again, if anyone knows the designer, let me know so I can give her credit!

I am also entering this in the Inspire. Create Easter challenge as well!

I hope this cute little image will inspire you to create something cute for us to look at!  Can't wait to see it!  And don't forget to check out the IB blog to see all the new details!!!  Thanks for popping in today!

I spent Tuesday making fabric masks; I have two nieces who are nurses in senior care, so they both said they would take them!  I had a dear friend send me some elastic as it is in short supply, apparently.  I had plenty of fabric and wire, just no elastic.  So I could only make eight, but hopefully they will be able to use them.  I used this video for my version (has a pocket for a HEPA filter).  My friend used this version for her masks....no pocket and there is a version with ties, which I might try next!  Our state is thinking about requiring everyone to wear a mask of some sort when they go out in public.  Definitely not a fashion statement but if everyone else is wearing one, it makes it fashionable, right?!  Needs be, I guess!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Basket Bunch, Teeny Tiny Wishes (both ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Whisper White, Soft Seafoam, Balmy Blue, Blushing Bride, Purple Posy, So Saffron, Mint Macaron, Seaside Spray, Mango Melody
Ink	Soft Seafoam, Balmy Blue, Blushing Bride, Highland Heather, So Saffron, Mint Macaron, Seaside Spray, Rococo Rose, Early Espresso, Mango Melody
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers
Tools	Big Shot, Smooth Sailing Dies, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Basket Builder Framelits (ret), Stitchling Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)

Hello Peeps

Happy Saturday!  I have a couple more cards today; this one is another CAS one, using the CAS(E) This Sketch sketch, way back from its very onset:

As I was laying in bed yesterday morning, this little set, Basket Bunch, popped into my mind and I thought how cute it would be in this layout!  So here we go:

All the peeps and bunny were stamped in Stazon, colored with Blends, and mounted on a small stitched circle die from Stitched Labels:

I pulled out a couple more oldies for the inside:

Jingle Belles has a Fa-La-La challenge, which is to use music on your card, and I have had some of this musical DSP for a long time, and never knew quite how to use it:

I mounted it on a cardstock of Crumb Cake after sponging the edges, then added a wide organdy ribbon, a sentiment from O Holy Night (Papertrey), stamped on Very Vanilla, and I added some glimmer paper greenery:

A good trick for diecutting glimmer paper using intricate dies is to peel the backing off the back of the glimmer paper.  I also use a Precision Base Plate....the combination of those two really make the paper pop out easily!  This uses the sketch from Inspire Create:

Thanks for popping in today!!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players sketch, too!

A little virtual karate:

Master Fisher is doing his best to make sure his students don't lose their skills!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Basket Bunch, Little Cuties, And Many More (all ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, 2018-2019 In Color Gingham (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Early Espresso
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Labels Dies, Basket Builder Dies (ret)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	O Holy Night (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Dark & Light Green Glimmer (ret), Deck The Halls DSP (Melissa Frances)
Ink	Merry Merlot, Crumb Cake (for sponging)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Wide Organdy Cherry Cobbler Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Nested Labels Dies, In The Woods Dies

Happy Card and More Happy Mail

Hi everyone!  Happy Saturday!  It's gray and gloomy here this weekend, so I thought I would share a happy, cheerful card I made recently to say "thank you" to a customer!  I had never used this particular pattern of the Festive Birthday DSP...it was a wee bit too busy for me....but I thought it would be fun to pair it with the flowers from Basket Bunch as well as the retiring Friendly Wishes!  So here we go:

The sentiment was stamped in Melon Mambo and diecut with an oval stitched die; then I stamped the flowers in Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie and Delightful Dijon, then lightly sponged each one so as not to overpower the outline:

I thought they worked with the floral background pretty nicely!  It sure made me happy! And I had to chuckle when I saw my German friend Claudia's blog yesterday!  Check out her card here!  Great minds think alike!

 Here are a few more cards that made me happy as well!  This is from Claudia:

And two cards from my upline Pennie:

And finally, some REAL happy flowers from a recent jaunt to Longwood Gardens:

Aren't they gorgeous?!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!  And be sure to come back tomorrow for the next Paper Players challenge!

Project Details
Stamps	Basket Bunch, Friendly Wishes
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise, Festive Birthday DSP
Ink	Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie, Delightful Dijon
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers