St Patrick's Day Card--Sorta

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have a fun, simple little card for you today; it's sort of a St Patrick's Day card, although I don't normally send out cards for that holiday, I do have a couple of friends whose birthdays are close, so I thought it would be fun to combine them!  I saw a very sweet card on Dawn Olchefske's blog (it was a swap from Deb Snyder, and you can see it here) so I thought I would CASE it in some Garden Green papers and ink:

I warned you...super simple!  I embossed a piece of Basic White with the Stitched With Whimsy die, then mounted it on a card of Garden Green.  I had a piece of Garden Green DSP left over from another project, so I folded it on the diagonal and adhered it. I then created my shamrock by stamping and punching three of the smaller hearts from the Country Bouquet stamp and punch:

I added the "luv ya" from Conversation Bubbles and a birthday sentiment on the inside from A Grand Kid, also embossed with the Stitched With Whimsy die:

I am also entering this at the AAA Birthday Challenge, where they're looking for Stripes and/or Dots, and I have both!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Country Bouquet, A Grand Kid, Conversation Bubbles
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Garden Green, Garden Green DSP
Ink	Garden Green
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Country Bouquet Punch

Country Floral Lane Hello

Hello friends!  No challenges today, just a cute little card made with the pretty Country Floral Lane DSP!  I just love the colors in this bicycle-print paper and I matched it up with some Balmy Blue stripes:

(I made this card last month, so hopefully I haven't posted it before!)  I used the Scalloped Contour dies to cut the stitched scallops and fussy-cut a litlte sentiment from Conversation Bubbles and popped it up on a Stylish Shapes circle:

While I'm at it, I'll show you this one too!  Same papers, but I simply stamped a Valentine's sentiment directly on the DSP; you can get much easier than this!

Thanks for popping in today!

My little great-nephew Sawyer had a birthday a couple of days ago:

A special whoopie pie "cake" for a special five-year-old!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Conversation Bubbles
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Country Floral Lane DSP
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Scalloped Contour Dies

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Country Bouquet
Card stock & Papers	Petal Pink, Country Floral Lane DSP
Ink	Sweet Sorbet
Accessories
Tools

378 Moo Birthday

Happy Monday, peeps!  Boy, I have been a LAZY stamper lately!  I think it's the holiday let-down!  How about you?  Are you in a stamping funk?  Anyway, I managed to squeak out a very simple card for my great-nephew Sawyer!  He's that red-headed imp I sometimes show you pictures of!  I think he's going to be five---it's hard for me to keep track of their ages!  Anyway, since his family lives in farm country, the On the Farm series was a natural choice to use!  I made use of the Global Design Project sketch for this week:

and here we go:

Since this card is for a little one, and a little boy at that, I didn't put a lot of doodads on it!  The DSP is the SAB Day at the Farm. I dusted off Labeler Alphabet to make the "moo" (wouldn't it have been nice if this farm set had some "moo"s and "oink"s and "cluck"s in it?), punching out the letters with a 1/4" square punch and mounting them on a Conversation Bubble diecut.  Since it looked a little bare, I mounted the bubble on a piece of Soft Suede and fussy cut around it to make a border, then mounted it on a diecut banner:

I couldn't wait to use the new Best Family Ever set for the inside; I added the "luv ya" from Conversation Bubbles and a couple more images from On the Farm.  

Thanks for popping in today!

This is my surprise for today; my phone says that it is RAINING but as I look out my window, this is what I see:

Hopefully it will subside by this afternoon...I am taking a little cupcake-decorating class at our senior center! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	On the Farm, Conversation Bubbles, Best Family Ever
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Day at the Farm DSP, Old Olive DSP
Ink	Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Conversation Bubbles Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stamparatus, Gingham EF, 1/4" Square Punch (ret)

Club Treats

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  My hostesses and I had a fun time on Sunday at my appreciation lunch, and I even had a helper!  Cassidy told me she wanted to go home with me after church and when I told her I had stampers coming and I was going to put her to work, she said okay!  I can't show you all the projects we made, but I will show you a couple of treat things we stamped; one at the luncheon, and one at my latest club!  We made this one at club; it uses the little mini treat boxes that were on the Clearance Rack along with some Country Floral Lane bundle goodies:

Images were stamped in Sweet Sorbet and Mint Macaron and punched with the punch; a layer of Petal Pink helped tie everything together.  The back featured Country Gingham DSP in Mint Macaron, a heart in Petal Pink and a little "sweet" from Conversation Bubbles:

And the sweet treat inside was M&Ms!!!  

We made this chocolate bar cover at the hostess party; these are no-sugar bars from Russell Stover, but any chocolate bar would work!  We stamped a little design from the On the Farm on a piece of Granny Apple Green cardstock to wrap around the bar, then added some Dandy Designs DSP.  

The cow was diecut from A Day at the Farm DSP and the "yum" is from Conversation Bubbles as well.  

The girls actually used the burlap ribbon from the Country Floral Lane bundle for their ribbon (when you pull on it, the candy bar comes up) but I ran out for my sample!  Tying the ribbon at the top keeps the bar in place within the sleeve until you're ready to pull it out.

  

Cassidy actually stamped both projects we made, but we can't share the other one for a wee bit (wink wink).  She is quite absorbed in making her candy sleeve here:

After all my guests went home, she went back into the craft room and made another card for her friend:

I don't think that dirt bike stamp was ever inked up, glad it got some use!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Conversation Bubbles, Country Bouquet
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Petal Pink, Mint Macaron,  Country Floral Lane DSP, Country Gingham DSP,
Ink	Sweet Sorbet, Mint Macaron, Petal Pink,
Accessories	Dimensionals, Treat Boxes
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Country Bouquet Punch

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Conversation Bubbles
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Dandy Designs SAB DSP, Day at the Farm SAB DSP
Ink	Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Burlap Ribbon, Narrow Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, On the Farm Dies, Conversation Bubbles Dies

FMS567 Hello from the Farm

Happy Thursday, stamping friends!  As soon as I saw the FMS sketch for this week, I knew that I wanted to play (it has THREE circles!) and I knew what images I wanted to use!  Here's the sketch first:

I don't have my On the Farm bundle yet, but I know how to fussy cut some Day at the Farm DSP!  So here we go:

The burlap paper is from the same DSP; the plaid is Early Espresso, and the little word bubble is Kraft.  Each animal was fussy cut and mounted on some stitched circles of Basic White:

The grass was colored with a Soft Seafoam marker, and I even gave the sheep a little snack to eat, LOL!  And here's the Conversation Bubble I used on the inside:

Fun!  

Every year I make Cassidy a hand-made ornament!  This year I took a class wtih some friends and we made a chenille snowman ornament.  I think his nose should have been repositioned a bit, LOL!  Hopefully she'll appreciate them when she gets older! Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Conversation Bubbles
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic White, Early Espresso, Kraft, Early Espresso DSP, Day at the Farm DSP
Ink	Early Espresso, Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Conversation Bubbles Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Stitched So Sweetly Dies (ret), Soft Seafoam Marker

AHSC506 Whimsical Thanks

Happy New Year to everyone!  I am having serious problems getting back into my routine, how about you?  Even with new goodies to play with, the stamping mojo is slow to start!  I decided to use the sketch from Atlantic Hearts to make a thank you card for one of my customers; it uses the new upcoming Conversation Bubbles along with some pretty little patterns from Awash With Beauty DSP.  Here's the sketch:

And here's the card:

All the paper elements are from the Awash With Beauty DSP; I stamped the sentiment in Old Olive, and after diecutting it, popped it up so I could tuck the little banners under it.  The set also comes with those little tulips and hearts; I stamped the tulips in Mossy Meadow and colored them with Blends, then tucked them atop the banners.  The little heart dies are so cute, don't you think?  

This will be whisked into the mail ASAP!  Thanks for visiting today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!  May there be grace among your chaos! (Borrowed from my Daily Bread devotional!)

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Conversation Bubbles (upcoming mini)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Awash With Beauty DSP
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Embossing Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Conversation Bubbles Dies, Blends

AHSC505 Thanks a Bunch

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I hope your holidays went well!  We had a lovely Christmas, COLD but no bad weather for the big day!  I do feel a bit rusty in the stamping department, though....too many other distractions!  I did get in there yesterday to play with some new upcoming SAB and Mini Catalog goodies!  I used the Atlantic Hearts sketch for my layout:

and I used the Conversation Bubbles and Thanks a Bunch stamp sets, along with some Regency Park DSP:

It's a wee bit weird stamping a bunch of carrots but it is a cute set!  I hope that SU surprises us with some dies in the upcoming months, because it would be a lot easier to diecut the shapes than fussy-cut them out, LOL!

The conversation bubbles are fun too!  And the paper has lots of cute flowery prints!  Of course I chose these little calico-like flowers because that's what I love! 

On Christmas eve eve, I had some family members over for dinner; it had rained on Thursday and the temps were in the 50s; by Friday afternoon, it was in the single digits, so I was worried about the roads being icy.  The winds were so strong however, they blew the roads dry and no one had a problem!  Food and conversations were plentiful:

My great-nephew Jameson regaled us with Carol of the Bells; let me tell you (wish I had recorded it), this kid can PLAY!  John's been taking lessons for five years and Jameson can play better than he can.  He has strong fingers and he uses them!  His mom's side of the family is very musically talented and he definitely got those genes!  The look on my brother's face when he started to play was priceless!

Of course, with two growing brothers, there is always mayhem.  They were wrestling each other on the floor before they kindly posed for this one, LOL!  Cassidy was constantly refereeing them!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Thanks a Bunch (new SAB), Conversation Bubbles (new Mini)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Balmy Blue, Regency Park DSP (new Mini)
Ink	Mango Melody, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Succulent, Shaded Spruce, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Fan Twine, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contour Dies, Conversation Bubbles Dies (new Mini)