AYSI363 Peace Love Joy

Happy Friday, all!  Time for a new As You See It challenge, and it's an interesting color palette!  Here we go:

I am way behind on everything this Christmas!!!  But I did manage to make one more card using the colors and new die (Merry Christmas to me!)! What do you think? (Sorry for the poor picture quality---too many gray clouds these days!)

I used Michele's sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

I cut the Spellbinders Barn Star from Mossy Meadow cardstock and added Pecan Pie pine cones and Mossy Meadow foliage (sponged with MM ink to make them darker).  It was mounted on a circle embossed with the Dotted Circles embossing folder.  Sentiment on the banner is from Simon Says Stamp's Tiny Words Christmas:

The inside sentiment is also from Simon Says Stamp, Christmas Blessings, stamped in Night of Navy:

I think these colors would be great for a masculine card as well!  I hope you'll play along with us at As You See It this week!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp), Tiny Words Christmas (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Pecan Pie
Ink	Night of Navy, Mossy Meadow, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals, Navy Stitched Ribbon (ret), Rhinestones (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Dotted Circles Embossing Folder, Nested Essentials Dies, Barn Star Dies (Spellbinders), Blending Brushes

AHSC659 Peace & Joy

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch:

Rather than stamp & diecut several images for this sketch, I opted to use an image from a past Unity Kit of the Month set! Here we go:

I will admit that I am not 100% sure about this card, but after spending some time on it, I didn't want to give it up, LOL!  I stamped the image on Basic Beige cardstock with Stazon ink and did some watercoloring. 

To give it a more vintage look, I over-stamped it with a retired Linen background stamp and sponged some Pecan Pie ink around the edges, and I used versamark to stamp some subtle greenery on the banner:

Both sentiments inside and outside were from the same set.  The card base was Pecan Pie.  My final additions were green baker's twine and some pretty sequins.

Hopefully I'll be getting my cards signed and mailed this week!  Such a busy time! I hope that you'll make some time to play with our sketch this week and share it with us at Atlantic Hearts!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Linen (ret), Sweet Bliss of Christmas (Unity)
Card stock & Papers	Pecan Pie, Basic Beige
Ink	Stazon Black, Versamark, Shaded Spruce, Cloud Cover, Calypso Coral, Craft White, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Baker's Twine (ret), Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentails Dies, Blending Brush, Aquapainter

PP767 Challenge from Jaydee

Happy Sunday, all!  Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess with a really fun theme challenge this week:

Hmmm...this is open to so many interpretations!  A gift on your card?  An actual gift you created?  How about a card that looks like a gift!  Here we go:

My inspiration came from the Double D Challenge this week:

Aren't those presents pretty?  I used some old and new products on my card today!  The base is Cherry Cobbler, the top layer is Crumb Cake embossed with a Waffleflower Sweet Plaid Texture die.  I added "ribbons" of paper from Unity, a bell from Lil' Inker (sadly no longer in business), some Tim Holtz Greenery, a shabby tag from Gummiapan, and that cute little bow is Simon Says Stamp! Phew!  Oh, and the sentiment on the tag is also from Simon Says Stamp!

I hope you can find some inspiration from the DT's samples on the Paper Players blog, then squeak in time between all your holiday preparations to play with us!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tiny Words Christmas  (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Basic Black, Yuletide Plaid (Unity)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Greenery Dies (Tim Holtz), Bell Dies (Lil'Inker), Sweet Plaid Texture Die (Waffleflower), Old Tag 1 (Gummiapan), Pretty Bows 2 (Simon Says Stamp), Sponge Daubers

TCH123 Warm Wishes

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! I had a couple of Lawn Fawn diecuts laying on my desk unused from another project, soI thought I'd use them with Color Hues' challenge for this month, which is pink and green:

In hindsight, I probably should have used markers to color in these little images, but I love to watercolor, so that's the medium I chose.  Here we go:

I'm afraid my early-morning photography is not as good as it should be, so my colors look a bit washed out!  I stamped my houses in Versafine Black and colored them in Smoky Slate, Pretty in Pink, Soft Sea Foam and the retired Soft Succulent.  I added some glitter to the rooftops and mounted it on a panel of Basic White, embossed with a Waffleflower snowflake plate.  The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp, stamped in Smoky Slate, and I added some tiny rhinestones for fun!

On the inside of the Pink Pirouette card, I stamped another sentiment from Simon Says Stamp (see how pale the pink looks?!):

I have a whole stack of UFOs, as Bonnie would call them (Unfinished Objects) on my desk, so my plan the rest of the week is to FINISH them!!!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Celebrate Winter (Lawn Fawn), Christmas Blessings, (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pink Pirouette (ret), Soft Sea Foam
Ink	Versafine Black, Pretty in Pink, Soft Sea Foam, Soft Succulent (ret)
Accessories	Rhinestones, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Simply Celebrate Winter Dies (Lawn Fawn), Christmas Blessings Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Dashed Snowflake Panel Die (Waffle Flower), Aquapainter

PP766 Tic Tac Toe from Claire

Happy Sunday, peeps! Claire is our Paper Players hostess this week, and since it's the fifth Sunday, it's a Tic-Tac-Toe!  She has some wonderful choices for us!  She must have known how much I love vintage, so my automatic choice was the right column of Vintage, Patterned Paper and Sparkle!  Let's go!

 

I had a couple of pieces of some lovely vintage papers from Simple Stories left from a pad I got several years ago....they're almost all gone, but I salvaged one piece with this wonderful Santa against a collage of vintage prints.  I didn't want to cut it down, so I made it into a large slimline card measuring 4" x 8"...here we go:

I did have to make the paper a bit narrower, so I trimmed it down and cut out the holly leaves, then added a strip of red glimmer paper and re-attached the remaining paper behind it to fit my card.  I stamped a vintage sentiment in Cherry Cobbler on some of the same paper and diecut it, then adhered it to the front:

Another vintage sentiment on the inside, along with some plaid paper to accent the bottom:

I do love my vintage images and this was a treasure to create! I hope you'll find some good inspiration using Claire's grid for your own card.  Share it with us at the Paper Players blog! Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Vintage Christmas (Flonzcraft)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals Ivory (ret), Cherry Cobbler, Simple Vintage Christmas (Simple Stories), Red Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret)

To a Deer Friend

 Happy Thanksgiving eve, everyone!  I have a fun little Christmas card today, a bit "punny", and it is for three challenges:  Color My Heart Color Dare wants shades of brown, plus two other colors; Christmas Kickstart wants to see antlers, and the CAS Colours & Sketches is a sketch:

I had not used the pretty little deer from Papertrey's Deer To Me for a long time, so I got to work:

My shades of brown are Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Pecan Pie and Early Espresso; I added Real Red and Shaded Spruce as my two additional colors.  I faintly stamped trees from Pine Tree Trimmings in the background, and the punny sentiment is from Poppy Stamps' Whittle Sayings:

A sentiment from Best Year went on the inside:

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pine Tree Trimmings, Best Year (ret), Deer to Me (Papertrey), Whittle Sayings (PoppyStamps)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Sea Foam, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Real Red
Ink	Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Craft White
Accessories	Red Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn), Deer to Me Dies (Papertrey), 1/8" Hole Punch

AHSC657 Christmas Tufted Titmouses

Happy Tuesday, all!  Time for a new Atlantic Heart Sketch challenge, here we go:

Since I am kind of done with fall cards, I chose to make another Christmas card, albeit in rather non-traditional Christmas colors!  I chose to use the little tufted titmouses (or is it titmice?!) from Winterly Tree Tops, along with some Nests of Winter DSP:

I used a postage die to cut out the striped paper, then stamped, diecut and watercolored those cute little birds:

I added some berries in Cajun Craze, a little Copper Clay baker's twine bow, and a sentiment from the retired More Merry Messages:

Some sequins finished it off! I'd like to make another card with this sketch, this time using embossed panels behind my main image!  What will you create with it?  I hope you'll play along with our sketch and share your final creation with us at Atlantic Hearts!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winterly Tree Tops (ret), More Merry Messages (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Smoky Slate, Basic White, Nests of Winter DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Smokky Slate, Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze, Garden Green
Accessories	Copper Clay Baker's Twine (ret), Dimensionals, Sequins from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Winterly Tree Tops Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

PP765 A Sketch from Ann

Happy Sunday, peeps! Time for a new challenge from the Players! Ann is our hostess with a really lovely sketch for us:

I had some of the papers from the Christmas Tags & More DSP on my desk and I thought one of the designs might make for good elements for this sketch! So here we go:

I started with a Soft Sea Foam card base, then added a mistletoe mat.  The half-wreath image was cut down to size, mounted on a panel of Real Red and a sentiment from Wishing You Joy.  I diecut a bell and bow (Honeybee) from some Champagne Foil, Real Red and Cherry Cobbler cardstocks, then "hung" it from some silver thread:

I just realized I forgot the clapper! Oops!  Oh well!  This sketch is really lovely; I love things in threes, and you could use different papers or images for the three panels, or just cut one apart as I did! So versatile!  I can't wait to see what you do with it! Hop on over to the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers did as well!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wishing You Joy
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Christmas Tags & More DSP, Champagne Foil (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Thread (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Bell Dies (Honeybee Stamps)

IB363 Here Comes Santa

 Happy Friday, peeps!  Hope you have a wonderful weekend planned! I have a sweet little Christmas card for you today; it happens to fit the Inspired By prompt this week!  Here's Laurel's inspiration:

I was inspired by the country colors as well as that wee, tiny little Santa hat that's on one of the napkin rings, LOL!  Here we go:

I started with a Mellow Moss card base, then added some pretty wreath-printed paper and a Crumb Cake banner.  I pulled out one of the stencils that I got last year and stenciled the Santa hat in Real Red and Craft White, and added a frayed burlap ribbon tie.  You can't see it, but I added some Wink of Stella to his hat as well!

A sentiment from Simon Says Stamp's Tiny Words Christmas fit on the banner perfectly!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tiny Words Christmas (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Mellow Moss (ret), Santa Claus Lane (Echo Park)
Ink	Real Red, Mossy Meadow, Craft White
Accessories	Burlap Twine (ret), Christmas Stencils (Amazon), Wink of Stella
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentials Dies, Blending Brushes

AHSC656 Noel

 Happy Monday, peeps! We have a lovely sketch for you at Atlantic Hearts this week:

Nice and easy!  I am working on increasing my Christmas card stash, so here we go:

I used some postage stampp images from Elizabeth Craft Designs, along with an oldie-but-goodie sentiment stamp from Many Merry Messages!   I stamped the images with Mossy Meadow ink on Mellow Moss and Basic Beige cardstocks:

I added some Cherry Cobbler layers as well as a single snowflake to give it a little contrast.  A sentiment from Christmas Labels and a little deer from the Elizabeth set went on the inside:

Simple and easy! I hope you'll play with our lovely sketch this week too! Share your creation with us at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge blog!

For John's birthday, we went to a local brew pub where he got a salad that came on the most enormous plate I've ever seen! (He also got some cheesesteak eggrolls!):

What made the meal extra special was that the restaurant used to be a garage---a garage owned by my uncle!  I can remember going there with my dad when I was a little girl....at least 60 years ago! It changed a wee bit!  The only downside was that it was extremely loud, but I guess that's because it was jam packed, so it must be popular!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Many Merry Messages (ret), Christmas Labels (ret), Planner Essentials (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Cherry Cobbler, Mellow Moss (ret), Christmas Salutations (Echo Park)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Rhinestone, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Make a Snowflake Dies (Taylored Expressions)

PP764 Challenge from Stef

Happy Sunday, peeps! Time for a new Paper Players challenge with Stef as our hostess!  It's Clean-and-Simple week too!  Here we go:

What a great theme!!  It had me conjuring up all kinds of ideas! I knew I wanted to do a vintage image, because I love vintage Christmas, and while going through my bulging folder of vintage Christmas ephemera, I came across a page of stickers from Current!  Remember them?  Santa is one of my favorite images for Christmas; he makes me think of my childhood Christmases!  I pulled out some DSP from a few years back and went to work:

I adhered my Santa to a little diecut circle and added a gold scalloped mat becase, as you can see, the Christmas-word DSP is printed in gold foil too!  I recently got this cute banner die, so I diecut it in Real Red, then added another banner of gold foil behind it to help it stand out:

On the inside, I added a Flonzcraft sentiment:

Not a lot of stamping, but a whole lot of cute!  And since Little Red Wagon is looking for gold or silver, I'm going to pop it in over there as well!

Now, what CAS creation will you create for our challenge?!  Remember to keep it simple!  Share it with us at the Paper Players blog! We can't wait to see it!  Thanks for visiting today, enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Sentiments (Flonzcraft)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Brushed Gold (ret), Wonder of the Season Specialty DSP (ret), Current Sticker
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machines, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Petite Scalloped Circle Dies (Nestabilities), Cutting Sentiments Dies (Spellbinders)

Christmas Wishes Quilted Star

Happy Tuesday, all! No challenges today, but I wanted to share one of the cards we made at stamp club last night, which was a quilted star card.  I originally saw this on Amanda Mertz's blog and she got the idea from Lorraine Tierney. You can see her card, as well as her YouTube video, HERE. It looks complicated, but it's really quite easy and she gives you some neat tricks!  So here are the versions we did, using the Christmas Greetings card pack along with the Christmas Tags & More DSP and ephemera:

We started with strips of the DSP; I confess that I resorted to using Taylored Expressions 1/2" Easy Strips dies to cut them out, because they cut four at a time, which made things quite a bit speedier!  After adhering them according to Lorraine's directions, we then embossed the panel with the Eyelet embossing folder and added an ephemera in the center:

The tag was stamped with a sentiment from Pine Tree Trimmings and diecut with a Stylish Shapes dies; the ribbon is a new Online Exclusive for November, called Chevron!  The club ladies seemed to like this card, and we all liked the pre-made cards in Crumb Cake and Garden Green, with gold accents, which are a little larger and come with matching envelopes!  I can't wait to play some more with the little punchouts from the DSP pack...so cute!

I hope you are staying warm because it's COLD and windy here today!  Thanks for popping in, enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pine Tree Trimmings
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Christmas Greetings Specialty  Cards, Christmas Tags & More DSP
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Green Chevron Ribbon, String
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Eyelet Embossing Folder, Stylish Shapes Dies, Easy Strips 1/2" Dies (Taylored Expressions)