CH#124 Nephew's Birthday

Hello, all!  Happy Saturday! I feel like it's been ages since I posted! I hope you all had a great New Year's holiday!  I am slowly getting back into my craft room after the Christmas decor clean-up!  Now my craft room needs a clean-up, LOL!  I did manage to make one card for my nephew who will be turning 40 in a few days!  I used Bonnie's color challenge from Color Hues:

Since he has his own construction company, I chose Trusty Tools to create his card:

I used Smoky Slate and Basic Gray cardstocks for the background; stamped, diecut and colored the hammer, then added the balloons using the retired Balloon punch and retired Little Numbers dies:

A sentiment from Best Family Ever went on the front:

and also on the inside, along with another sentiment from Best Year.  Hope he likes it!

Thanks for visiting today; enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Trusty Tools, Best Family Ever (ret), Best Year (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Real Red
Ink	Smoky Slate, Real Red, Versafine Black, Basic Gray
Accessories	Dimensionals, Red & White Bakers Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Trusty Tools Dies, Diamond Plate Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Little Numbers Dies (ret), Balloon Punch (ret), Banner Dies (Pink and Main), Corner Rounder Punch, Sponge Daubers, Smoky Slate Marker (ret)

PP713 A Sketch from Ann

 Happy Sunday, everyone!  Ann is our Paper Players hostess this week and it's sketch week! I love sketches! I could just create and create and create the week we have a sketch challenge, LOL!  In fact, I did make two cards!  So here's the sketch:

It is definitely feeling like sweater weather here in PA, so I pulled out some "sweatery" embossing folders and went to work:

My inspiration came from Inspired By; they have a warm, cozy prompt this week:

I created some pine cones with Early Espresso and copper glimmer paper and mounted them on a Crumb Cake panel that was embossed with the Timber embossing folder.  I added a scalloped mat of Very Vanilla and a Crumb Cake stitched ribbon trim:

I used Tangelo Twist with the Cable Knit embossing folder and Mossy Meadow with a Cozy Knit embossing folder from Fun Stamper's Journey, then created a sentiment from Choose Happy and Peaceful Season, diecut with the Labels Aglow die:

The inside was left blank for an appropriate occasion stamp!  The next one is a masculine one, using Gone Fishing and some scraps of DSP I found in my stash:

I stamped and diecut the elements using Blueberry Bushel, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Gray Granite as my colors, then embellished them with some Matte dots and Stylish Stitched mats:

I heat-embosssed a birthday sentiment from Best Family Ever on a Blueberry Bushel diecut and added a diecut zigzag border as well!

                              

This is a great sketch and a good one to use up some of those narrow strips of DSP we always have laying around!  I hope you'll play along with us at the Paper Players! Be sure to check out what the DT created over at the blog as well!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Choose Happy, Peaceful Season
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, Tangelo Twist (ret), Copper Glimmer (Recollections)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Dimensionals, Crumb Cake Stitched Ribbon (ret),
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Timber Embossing Folder, Stylish Shapes Dies, Labels Aglow Dies, Pretty Pines Dies (ret), Cable Knit Embossing Folder (ret), Cozy Knit Embossing Folder (Fun Stampers Journey)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Family Ever, Gone Fishing
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blueberry Bushel, Gray Granite,Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Scraps from my stash
Ink	Gray Granite, Blueberry Bushel, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Matte Dots (ret), White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Gone Fishing Dies, Peaceful Season Dies, Basic Borders Dies (ret)

AHSC588 Thankful Bee

Happy Wednesday, peeps! We have the newest Atlantic Hearts Sketch for you today! Check it out:

 

Because my last few days have been so hectic, I went very easy and let the paper do most of the work for my card today!  Here we go:

I friend of mine gave me this cute hand soap for my birthday:

Isn't that cute? I love bee stuff!  So this will be a thank you card for her!  I found some cute papers in  my Echo Park Bee Happy paper pad and added a sentiment from Best Family Ever, then added the bee from Choose Happy:

I had several ideas for this card, but for a quick one, this one did the trick! Love the patterns and gingham together!  I hope you'll play along with our AHSC sketch this week....check out what the DT did and share it with us as well!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Family Ever, Choose Happy
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Garden Green, Bee Happy (Echo Park)
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Scallop Circle Dies (Nestabilities), Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen), Crushed Curry Marker

Summer Splash Congrats

Happy Thursday, peeps! I needed a couple congratulations cards for some new recuits!  The In Color Summer Splash is probably my favorite one from this year, so I decided to put it to good use, along with some diecuts from Hooray for Surprises and a sentiment from Best Family Ever:

I began by diecutting a panel of Summer Splash  with the Radiating Stitches die, then added a panel of coordinating DSP.  I cut some floral elements with the Hooray for Surprises die, then adhered them on with some matching ribbon:

I stamped the sentiment on a Stylish Shapes banner and popped it up:

The inside is from a new set called Happiest Day, which is my new favorite set; isn't this a fun sentiment?

New stamps, new colors, it's all fun! Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happiest Day, Best Family Ever
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Summer Splash, Summer Splash DSP
Ink	Summer Splash
Accessories	Summer Splash Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Hooray for Surprises Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Radiating Stitches Dies, Coastal Cabana Marker

Peekaboo Birds

Happy Monday, stamping friends! I have a quick post today as it is Stamp Club day! Yay!  I was looking for ideas using the Adoring Hearts suite and after seeing lots of cards with the individual birds from the Flight and Airy papers, I thought I'd combine them both:

I diecut a piece of Basic White using two-thirds of the die and embossing folder, then snipped out some of the birds to put behind the heart openings.  My only dilemma is that all the left-facing birds are the same color!  But hopefully the recipient won't notice, or mind!  I stamped a sentiment from Best Family Ever in Boho Blue ink, added a Boho Blue ribbon and mounted it on a Boho Blue card base!  The last thing I did was use a teeny tiny wee little bit of BB ink and water to color the background around the birds; it was getting lost against the Basic White openings and it helped define them nicely!

I left the inside blank, but this will probably go to my friend who just had a pacemaker "installed"!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Family Ever
Card stock & Papers	Boho Blue, Basic White, Flight & Airy DSP
Ink	Boho Blue
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Adorning Hearts Die, Aquapainter

Such a Lazy Stamper

Happy Tuesday, everyone! I have been a lazy stamper the last couple of days....plus it snowed overnight (first in over 700 days, LOL) so I have been in that "snow day" kind of mood. So the cards I am sharing are ones I made last week....no challenges, just some fun stamping in my craft room!

Today is Wayne's birthday, and I know that he is chomping at the bit (or the pole, or the lure, or whatever it is that fishermen chomp at) to go fishing! He got lots of fishing goodies for Christmas, so I decided to make him a fishing-themed card for his birthday, using the Gone Fishing bundle:

It's all just stamping, diecutting and layering on a Mossy Meadow card base; the sentiments are from Biggest Wish and the retired Endless Birthday Wishes.  I went a little overboard on the inside:

 

I used some more of the Let's Go Fishing DSP as well as sentiments from the Trusty Tools and Best Family Ever sets.  

My next card is a CASE from Lori Heiling...hers is much cuter; you can see it HERE.  I made mine a bit simpler, and used different stamps and paper.  Who remembers the Etch-a-Sketch?  Lori is so clever!

I added an acetate "window" on my Etch-a-Sketch (wouldn't a shaker card with gray glitter be fun too??) and put it on a wobbler mechanism so you can really SHAKE it!!!

My sentiment is from Super Cool and the stars are cut using the Give It A Whirl dies....a hidden gem that I don't use enough!  On the inside, I added a few more stars, a sentiment from Throughout the Year and the soda image from Super Cool as well:

So fun, I can't wait to mail this out to someone of a certain age, LOL!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gone Fishing, Biggest Wish, Endless Birthday Wishes (ret), Trusty Tools, Best Family Ever
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Let's Go Fishing DSP, Metallic paper from my stash
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Real Red, Blueberry Bushel, Old Olive, Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gone Fishing Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Flirty Flamingo Marker

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Super Cool, Throughout The Year
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Smoky Slate, Real Red, Smoky Slate DSP, Acetate Sheet
Ink	Basic Gray, Real Red, Early Espresso
Accessories	Dimensionals, Wobbler Mechanism (Amazon)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Give It A Whirl Dies, Nested Essential Dies, 1" Circle Punch (ret)

RetroRubber 220 Watercolor Birthday

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Are your Thanksgiving plans in high gear?  Lots of things to do! My card today uses the Tic Tac Toe grid from Retro Rubber, and I chose to make a special birthday card!  I chose the left row down of frame, diecut & ribbon:

I wanted to use a set that was still current but would fit the criteria of being at least a year old, so I chose Color & Contour (2021) to create a pretty flower to sit atop my frame:

I used watercolor paper for my image, stamping it first with markers, then using an aquapainter and inks to color it in.  After diecutting it, I mounted it on a Garden Green frame, diecut with the Scalloped Contours die.  I cut an opening in it with the Stitched Rectangle die, which made an interesting double line of stitching!  That all went on a panel of Basic White, embossed with the Timeworn Type embossing folder, then on a Petal Pink card base:

A sentiment from Best Family Ever was stamped in Poppy Parade (oops, I forgot, this is not an old set...sorry, Retro Rubber!):

A Petal Pink ribbon and some Silver Loose sequins were my added embellishments.  On the inside, more words from Best Family Ever, along with some florals stamped with Versamark ink:

Love that subtle effect!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Color & Contour, Best Family Ever
Card stock & Papers	Watercolor, Garden Green, Petal Pink
Ink	Poppy Parade, Garden Green, Versamark
Accessories	Dimensionals, Ribbon Duo Combo Pack, Silver Loose Sequins
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contours Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Markers, Aquapainters, Timeworn Type Embossing Folder

FMS602 Cupcake Birthday

Happy Friday, peeps! I have a quick, easy card today using Kim's fun sketch at Freshly Made Sketches:

Such a fun sketch wtih so many possibilities!  I had a scrap of Lost Lagoon cardstock on my desk so I decided to work with that:

I cut a snippet of Lost Lagoon DSP to coordinate with my cardstock and decided to use some Versamark ink to stamp some diagonal rows of "happy birthday" from Best Family Ever to create my own patterned paper!  I added a cupcake from Circle Sayings, using the opposite side of the DSP to create the cupcake paper.  A little fussy-cutting and some embossing of the same sentiment on a piece of Basic Black finished it off:

I confess I couldn't wait to use some new embellishments...I used both a Glitter Sequin and a Faceted Gem from the new mini catalog to sparkle it up a bit!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Circle Sayings, Best Family Ever
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Basic Black, Lost Lagoon DSP
Ink	Versamark
Accessories	Glitter Sequins, Faceted Gems, Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Heat Tool

Epic Guitar Birthday

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I have a quick card today for two challenges:  a past sketch from In(k)spire Me, which is celebrating their 12th anniversary, and the Global Design Challenge, which is looking for stripes! I chose the past sketch # 470 from IM for my sketch:

and Best Family Ever and the retired set Epic Celebration to make a birthday card for John's guitar-playing nephew!

SU's DSPs this year have a nice bold stripe, so I chose the Blueberry Bushel one and accented it with a strip of Blueberry Bushel cardstock which I embossed with a Diamondplate embossing folder! The guitar was also stamped in Blueberry Bushel and colored with Blends:

I added a couple of sentiments on the inside, and it's stamped and on its way!  Josh plays the guitar and sings in his church's praise band, so I hope he likes it!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.  Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him 

with joyful songs.  Psalm 100:1-2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Family Ever, Epic Celebration (ret), Birthday Centers (Cornish Heritage Farms), Farmhouse Scriptural Thoughts (Stamp Simply)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blueberry Bushel, Blueberry Bushel DSP
Ink	Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Radiating Stitches Dies, Diamondplate Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Blends

FMS590 You're A Good Egg

Happy Monday, peeps!  I will be busy today as I have stampers coming tonight, but I wanted to squeak in a card for the FMS sketch before it ended!  I am not sure if my friend Beth will have received this in the mail yet, if she hasn't, she'll get a sneak peek!  Before I explain, let me show you the sketch:

And here's my card; I pulled out some retired goodies for this one:

Remember Hey Chick?  I stamped that crazy chicken with some Stazon ink and watercolored her, then stuck her in a little "crate" made from He's the Man DSP.  Her "straw" is from the Basket Builder Framelits!  I stamped the word "thanks" on a Conversation Bubble diecut and added another one behind it for some contrast:

And here's the inside, using another Conversation Bubbles die:

So, what prompted my chicken-themed thank you?  Beth saw the post where Cassidy was learning to separate eggs, so she sent us both these adorable egg separators:

Isn't that the cutest thing?  The feet hang on to the edge of the bowl and you just crack the egg over the openings and the white slides right into the bowl!  Haven't used it yet, but I can't wait to try it!  Thanks again, Beth!  And thank you for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Family Ever, Hey Chick (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic White, Poppy Parade, So Saffron (ret), He's the Man DSP (ret), Day at the Farm DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Crused Curry, Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals, Candy Dots (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Conversation Bubbles Dies (ret), Basket Builder Framelits (ret), Stitched Strips Dies (Pretty Pink Posh)

SS310 Triple Heather Thanks

Happy Monday, everyone!  Hope you had a fabulous weekend!  I did get some stamping time in and managed to make a fun card using the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

I did deviate a wee little bit from the sketch, as my panels are all the same size; I used a Stitched Rectangle die, which gave me a nice stitched edge around each opening:

I cut the rectangles from a piece of Basic White cardstock, then added panels of this year's DSPs in Highland Heather on a Highland Heather base.  The big bold patterns really pop!  The panel is popped up by lots and lots of adhesive strips, too! I added two diecut hearts from the Radiating Stitches die, and stamped a "thanks" from Best Family Ever right on top:

I even found wee little retired purple adhesive sequin to stick on for fun!  This card makes me smile!  Thanks so much for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?  Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.  And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.  So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.  Matthew 10:29

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Family Ever
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Highland Heather, Highland Heather DSP
Ink	Highland Heather
Accessories	Adhesive Sequins (ret), Dimensionals, Adhesive Strips
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Radiating Stitches Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret)

PP643 Hubby Father's Day Card

Happy Sunday, friends!  Another Sunday means another Paper Players challenge with the talented Ann as our hostess!  It's theme week and here's what she chose:

A timely challenge indeed! Love all those little inspirations!  However,  I took some inspiration from the inspiration photo AND the sketch at Inspired By this week:

So that's what I used for my hubby's Father's Day card:

I used a few new goodies on it, too!  I first embossed a panel of Smoky Slate with the Timber embossing folder; I found that a quick, easy way to add ink to the raised areas is to used a little ink spot, inked with Craft White ink....went on like a charm!  I diecut three panels using Night of Navy, Balmy Blue, Very Vanilla and the new Copper Clay with the Stitched Rectangle dies, then ran them through the new Twisted Rope embossing folder in keeping with the nautical theme!

I added a diecut anchor in Brushed Silver cardstock, "anchored" by some twine, and added a sentiment banner using words from Best Family Ever.  On the inside, I stamped the Father's Day sentiment in Night of Navy and then stamped the compass image on top using Versamark ink so it wouldn't detract from it too much.  I really like the effect it made!

John might be disappointed that there's no sailboat on his card, but it does  have a nautical theme!  I hope you'll find some inspiration to create your own masculine card for our challenge this week too!  Check out what the DT created at the Paper Players blog....we can't wait to see what you create as well!

I am also going to enter this over at the As You See It challenge---it's their 300th, and their theme is "Adventure"!  Life certainly can be an adventure, right?!

Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	He's All That, Best Family Ever
Card stock & Papers	Smoky Slate, Night of Navy, Balmy Blue, Very Vanilla, Copper Clay, Brushed Metallic Silver (ret)
Ink	Night of Navy, Copper Clay, Versamark, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Thick Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Timber Embossing Folder, Twisted Rop Embossing Folder, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Sea Charms Dies (My Favorite Things)