SSC206 Two Sympathy Cards

 

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend!  We had a crafty yard sale on Saturday and it was crazy for an hour or so!  I can finally see the floor of my craftroom and got rid of some tubs of retired product I had been saving up!  

I needed sympathy cards this week; two brothers lost their mom, so I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps to make two easy cards.  Here's the sketch:

And here we go:

The first one uses a Paper Pumpkin card front that I cut down, then trimmed the back panel for the back layer:

I used a sentiment from Better Together (I cut it apart so that I could position it the way I wanted...fits the oval better!) and diecut it with a Stitched Shape oval, popped it up and it was done!!  

The second one is a little stepped-up; it uses the Graceful Glass DSP, which I totally forgot I had!  Turning the sketch on its side, I colored the back of the vellum with blends, backed it with a scrap of white cardstock, added a mat of Strawberry Slush and a panel of Basic Black:

I added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings, diecut with the Stitched Rectangle die and attached it with a dimensional!  Still very easy but quite pretty!

Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow where I'll have a new Retro Rubber challenge for you!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

No Cassidy pictures, but this picture of my great-nephew Sawyer was so cute, I just couldn't wait to share it:

Love that little ginger!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Paper Pumpkin May 2019
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Basic Black, Strawberry Slush (ret), Graceful Glass DSP
Ink	Stazon Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Blends in Various Colors

RRCB109 Anything Goes in a Garden

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's time again for the latest Retro Rubber Challenge, where we challenge you to use stamps at least one year old!  This week, it's "Anything Goes"!  Yay!  That's always fun!

My SIL has a birthday coming up, and she loves to garden, which gave me a chance to use one of my all-time favorite older SU stamps. Garden Pleasures, from 2001--wow, that's 18 years ago! So here we go:

I used the Global Design Project's sketch for this week, flipping it so my little birds would be looking at each other:

I stamped my image on Shimmery White cardstock, watercoloring it with an aquapainter and inks:

I added a sweet little Be Mine diecut Kraft element at the bottom, after cutting the image out with the Stitched Rectangle die (shortening it a wee bit).  The little sentiment banner is from a set called Small Sayings, from 2006; the inside birthday sentiment is from Better Together (2016); the rest of the images are from the same Garden Pleasures set:

I hope she likes it!  And I hope you'll play along with us as well!  Remember, stamps have to be at least a year old, and you must tell us the age in your post!  Check out all the DT samples at the Retro Rubber blog!  Hope to see you there!

Speaking of gardening, Cassidy is getting into her own little gardening groove:

Dana said she did this planter all by herself!  I think I need to put her to work on my patio!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together, Garden Pleasures (ret), Small Sayings (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Shimmery White, Crumb Cake, Kraft (ret), Precious Memories DSP (Graphic 45)
Ink	Stazon, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, So Saffron, Balmy Blue, Flirty Flamingo
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Be Mine Dies, Radiant Sunflower Die (for circle) (Simon Says Stamp), Aquapainter

TO132 Wedding Card

Hello everyone!  Happy Monday!  A young couple from our church got married over the weekend and I made them a wedding card using the Time Out Challenge for my inspiration:

I still had some of this DSP from last year (can't remember the name--Floral Boutique, thanks Karen!), and I thought it would look lovely with some Blushing Bride accents:

I used some old and new dies for my butterfly and the trim, and a sentiment from Best Birds:

and again, some old and new stamps for the inside:

They are off honeymooning in England, I can't wait to hear about that trip!!!  

Saturday was church clean-up day; it started out a little cloudy but the sun came out and warmed everything up!  Cassidy was on wheelbarrow duty:

She probably took more breaks than wheeled the wheelbarrow, if I know her, LOL!

The pastor's kids got in on the action too!  Look at one-year-old Joshua with his little rake!

The team did an AMAZING job....there were lots and lots of leaves to be cleaned up...now we're ready for spring!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Birds, Better Together, Graceful Words (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Floral Boutique DSP (ret)
Ink	Night of Navy
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Be Mine Thinlets, Butterflies Thinlets (ret), Bold Butterfly Framelits (ret), Banner Die (Nestabilities)

GDP178 Just A Note

Happy Saturday, peeps!  The Global Design Project has a pretty sketch this week:

And I made an uber-quick card using a pattern from the Animal Expedition DSP that I had never used before:

I let the paper do 90% of the work; I added a mat of Berry Burst to my Garden Green card, then stamped a little Lemon Lime Twist circular image on a stitched circle, and added my sentiment, heat-embossed in white:

I added a little glimmer banner and do you see it...a CRIMPED banner of Berry Burst!  When was the last time you used a crimper?!  I saw mine in the drawer and thought it should get some use!  My final addition was a little leaf I cut out from a scrap of DSP!  EASY!  That's it for today!  Come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

More snow fun--Cassidy had an inservice day yesterday, so no worries about a make-up day!!  She decided to go sledding down our hill with Lee backwards!  They had a good time!

And yours truly....bundled up! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together, Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Garden Green, Whisper White, Berry Burst, Mint Macaron Glimmer (ret), Animal Expedition DSP
Ink	Craft White, Lemon Lime Twist
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Rectangle Stitched Shapes, Crimper (ret), White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

Easy Shaker Cards

Hi peeps!  Thought I would share what we made at our club meetings yesterday.  At the beginning of the year, I had a few suggestions of techniques to try and a shaker card was one of them.  I usually don't have good luck with shaker cards....the sequins stick to the sides of the window when I use adhesive strips and they just frustrate me.  So I set out to try to find a different way, and although we still had some "stickage", I think it was an acceptable attempt.  The card itself is very simple, using Jar of Love and Iridescent Sequins, but we were focusing on technique more than stamping!  So here's the card:

And the "technique" was to use a sheet of 2mm Fun Foam, available at any big box or craft store, instead of the adhesive strips.  

1. I cut a piece of the foam slightly smaller than my top layer, and after stamping the jar on the Whisper White panel, I laid the foam underneath and cut both layers in the Big Shot with the Everyday Jars die.  You can cut them both in one pass!
2. I adhered a Window Sheet on the back side of the jar, then used Elmer's Craft Bond glue on the foam piece (that's the only glue that I found that really worked on the foam) around the edges of the opening and adhered the foam to the back of the stamped panel.  I smooshed the glue around with my fingers to make sure I had a nice coverage, but don't use so much that it glops out!  
3. Once it's dry and secure, I attached the goldfish to the card base with mini dimensionals, piled on a little pile of sequins, then used the same Craft Bond glue to attach the jar layer to the card base, applying the glue to the other side of the foam piece.  It is a good idea to use some Tombow adhesive on the outer edges of the foam to make sure the whole thing is adhered down.  

Now, don't these little fishies look cute swimming in their iridescent water?  I love that by using dies and the foam, you can easily cut any shape of opening without having to bend those adhesive strips around!

To give my girls something a wee bit easier, we made this note card with the Wood Words floral image, stamped on a piece of Mango Melody which had a circle die-cut from the center.  I took a 2x8" cello bag, cut it down to 2 1/4", filled it with sequins, taped it shut (use clear tape, not frosted!), then taped it to the back of the stamped piece, centering it over the opening.  I just used plain old scotch tape, taping the corners and making sure no sequins were stuck in them!  Then I adhered the piece to the note card using a dimensional in each corner and stamped the sentiments on the front and inside!  Another cute technique, quickly done and using the cello bags makes them really easy!

 

We didn't make these note cards during class, but I had made them as samples; the first one used a leaf image from Rooted in Nature stamped in Stazon ink on the window sheet; the second used a longer piece of a cello bag behind the negative portion of the "celebrate" diecut:

Thanks for popping in!  Maybe you'll be inspired to make a shaker card too!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Ahh, the satisfaction of a puzzle completed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Love, Better Together, Wood Words, Rooted In Nature, Itty Bitty Greetings, Woodgrain
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Balmy Blue, Soft Sea Foam, Mango Melody, Calypso Coral, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, So Saffron, Window Sheets, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper
Ink	Balmy Blue, Soft Sea Foam, Grapefruit Grove, Mango Melody, Stazon, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Iridescent Sequins, Fun Foam, Dimensionals, Mini Dimensionals, 2x8" Cello Bags, Craft Bond Glue
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Framelits, Everyday Jar Framelits, Nature's Roots Framelits, Celebrate You Framelits, Balloon Punch

Swirly Snowflake Christmas

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Today is feeling more like fall than summer in SE PA!  Chilly rain and winds!  A perfect day to stay inside and clean my stamp room!!  We'll see if that actually happens!  I do have a Christmas card for the Jingle Belle's challenge this week, which is White Christmas.  My card is almost all white, I did add some Crumb Cake for contrast:

These Swirly Snowflake dies were on my wish list for a long time, but I felt they were probably too intricate and fussy, but when I saw they returned in the catalog this year, I decided to go for them!  They are just beautiful and not difficult to use at all, especially using the Die Brush to poke out all the little pieces!  I cut one layer of the intricate snowflakes, and another of the outline and layered them together, then placed them on a card I had embossed with a Darice snowflake embossing folder:

The sentiment from Better Together was stamped in Soft Suede and diecut with a Stitched Shapes circle die.  My only other embellishment was a white ribbon!  Easy peasy!

Some reading time with Grampy:

Did you know that dragons like tacos?!  According to the book, they do!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Ink	Soft Suede
Accessories	Whisper White Classic Weave Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Swirly Snowflakes Thinlets, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Snowflake Embossing Folder (Darice)

PP395 A Sketch from Me!

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Hope your weekend is going well!  I am the hostess at the Paper Players this week and I have a sketch for you:

I am slowly but surely breaking into some of the new colors that will be available in the upcoming catalog!  My card today highlights the new In Color, Blueberry Bushel...a nice bright blue that works great for boys' cards, which is exactly what I created with it:

Doesn't that little Bella look sweet?  I think he's offering someone his dog bone as a birthday gift!  I stamped him in Memento Black ink and colored him with Light & Dark Crumb Cake Blends, then added some color with a blender pen and some ink for his collar and heart.  The grass was drawn in with Light & Dark Old Olive Blends:

The sentiment is from the new set Itty Bitty Greetings, stamped in Blueberry Bushel and diecut with the retired Bitty Banners die. I didn't have any Real Red Candy Dots left in my stash, but I did have some Melon Mambo ones, so I took my Dark Cherry Cobbler Blend and "adjusted" the color a little bit...such a great way to customize your embellishments!  The DSP is from the new In Color pack in Blueberry Bushel as well!

And on the inside, a sentiment from Better Together!  And it wasn't intentional, but aren't these great colors for a Memorial Day weekend card, LOL!

I hope you'll play along with my sketch this week and be sure to check out what the DT created at the Paper Players blog as well!

John marched in his twentieth West Grove Memorial Day parade yesterday!!:

He also participated in the 21-gun salute (although that might not be the technical, military term for it, that's what I call it!):

Here he is, all dressed and ready to go before the parade:

And I sat on the curb next to this little cutie as I waited for the parade to begin:

She might not be as cute as Bella, but she got an A+ for patriotic friendliness!!  She wanted to give me lots of kisses, LOL! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Bella and Friends, Itty Bitty Greetings, Better Together
Card stock & Papers	Blueberry Bushel, Real Red, Whisper White, 2018-2019 In Color DSP
Ink	Memento Black, Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Framelits, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Dark Cherry Cobbler, Light Pink Pirouette, Light and Dark Old Olive and Light and Dark Crumb Cake Blends, Bitty Banners Framelits (ret), Blender Pen, Real Red Marker