Happy New Year

Hi there, everyone! I've been taking a stamping break, not intended, but life just got in the way!  We had a few friends over last night to ring in the new year; ate some snacks and played Mexican Train dominoes!  A great way to end the year!  

This little gnome was just so cute (courtesy of the Graphics Fairy), I just had to share him!  Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with something stamped!  Meanwhile, I pray that 2024 will be a happy, healthy and blessed one for us all!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Halloween Silhouettes

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  We had rain and rain and more rain yesterday, and you would think that would wash all the pollen away, but I was really feeling the effects of all my allergies...yuck!  I didn't feel like doing too much, but I did get a couple more Halloween cards made for a couple of challenges!  The Double D Challenge was to use a silhouette (I LOVE silhouettes); 

the Shopping Our Stash theme was Halloween, and the (PIN)spirational Challenge had a Halloween board too:

Isn't that a cute photo?  Anyway, I pulled out probably my all-time favorite Halloween image of these little silhouetted trick-or-treaters, put it in my Stamparatus and inked it up with Stazon ink, then stamped it on a piece of Halloween paper:

 

Aren't they so vintage-y cute?  

I added a couple of sentiments and a few light Halloween postmarks, which unfortunately can'be seen, but they add a little vintage interest as well.  

I added a Basic Black mat and mounted it all on a Crumb Cake base, then added this sentiment (another favorite!):

For my next card, I recently won some Bugaboo digital stamps; I haven't used anything digital for a long time, but I thought I would give one of their Halloween images a try; I printed this on another piece of printed paper, and didn't add one thing to it...totally clean and simple, LOL!  I really like that you can size the image, but I wish it had printed a little blacker!  The sentiment is a CTMH one:

And on the inside, a few more CTMH stamps and a Recollections "trick or treat" on Mango Melody:

That's it for today---thanks for popping in!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

You can't go to Disney without giving Micky a hug!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Vintage Halloween Silhouette (100 Proof Press), Halloween (Graphic 45), Halloween Poem (Lizzie Anne Designs), Daily Design Sentiments (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Nightfall DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Stazon Black, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Epoxy Drops
Tools	Stamparatus, Black Blend

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hello Pumpkin Scrapbooking (Close to My Heart), Halloween (Recollections), Bugaboo Digital Stamp Halloween Silhouette
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Mango Melody, Misc DSP
Ink	Pumpkin Pie, Memento Black, Printer
Accessories
Tools	Printer

Two Fifties Make a Hundred - SIP100

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's a special day for the Stamp Ink Paper team...it's our 100th challenge!  Justin is challenging us to make a card with our favorite products this week!  And to sweeten the week, there is blog candy!  Check it out HERE!

I can honestly say that I don't have a single "favorite" stamp...each catalog, each season, each mood brings a favorite for me!!  So I really had a dilemma as to how to choose my favorite!  But my friend asked me to create a 50th wedding anniversary card for her, so I pulled out a few of my "favorite" products to make my card:

I started with thick white cardstock...I can definitely say that is a favorite, because it accepts ink, embossing and watercoloring very well!  Then I found a retired embossing folder which is just lovely, called Elegant Lines, and embossed a white panel to sit atop my card.  I know that gold is the color of 50th wedding anniversaries, but I didn't want gold foil, so I still had a few pieces of retired Brushed Gold cardstock and I created a window and a frame for my gold-embossed sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes....another versatile, favorite set!  It was embossed on vellum, and although you can't see behind it, there is music stamped in gold.  My final touches were some gold diecuts from the Flourish Thinlets, numbers from the Timeless Type die, and I added pearl accents to them and the embossed panel as well:

The photos just don't do it justice!!  For the inside, I stamped a sentiment from Occasional Quotes in Gold Encore ink and added another gold diecut down the left side:

For even more shimmer, I stamped the flourish from Flourishing Phrases on the envelope in Gold Encore ink...so elegant!

Now just in case you were wondering about "two fifties make a hundred" from the title of my post...my friend also asked me to make a 50th birthday card with a bowling theme, so I printed a computer-generated image a couple of times, fussy-cut some of the pins, colored them and popped them up, to create this card!

I used the Large Numbers die, Labeler Alphabet for the sentiment and the Zig Zag embossing folder for the background!  SO...50 plus 50 equals 100, and it's the 100th challenge for Stamp Ink Paper!!!  And before I forget, let me show you my blog candy, which is winging its way to Justin to go to some lucky recipient!

A few little SU goodies all tucked away in a wee little package!  Hope you play along with us this week!  You could be a lucky winner!!

Each child in Cassidy's class made a video of themselves, telling what they liked about their teacher. One parent will put them all together to present to the teacher as a gift at the end of the school year. Cassidy wanted to get dressed up, and she was so wound up, I could barely get her to stand still to take a photo!  

But the star of the show was the sandals....sparkly!  Too bad they won't make it into the video, LOL!

It's been rainy, so no work done on the addition!  But I'll keep you posted!  Have a wonderful day and be blessed!

Anniversary Card Project Details--All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes, Flourishing Phrases, Music Note Wheel (ret), Occasional Quotes (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Brushed Gold (ret), Vellum
Ink	Gold Encore
Accessories	Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Elegant Lines EF, Large Oval Punch, Scallop Oval Die (Nestabilities), Foam Adhesive Strips, Flourish Die, Timeless Type Die, Dimensionals

Bowling Card Project Details--All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Labeler Alphabet, computer-generated image
Card stock & Papers	White, Basic Black, Real Red
Ink	Basic Black
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Real Red Marker, Copic Markers, Zig Zag EF, Dimensionals

Retro Mom's Day

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I made a big deal last week about not making Mother's Day cards, and here I am with a Mother's Day card!  I saw the sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches, but I sorta forgot about the clean and simple part, so I used the sketch anyway, but I won't submit it.  I saw that the Graphics Fairy was looking for samples using their vintage images, of which I have LOTS, so I pulled out this retro mom in the kitchen....well, I guess she's a mom--anyway, on my card, she's a mom:

I actually dusted off my Copics and colored her in!  Gasp!  It was a simple image, so it didn't take too long and I didn't do a lot of shading because I'm really not that good at Copic shading, LOL!  I used some really cute BoBunny papers called Kiss the Cook and added some stitched die embellishments, as well as a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes;

and a sentiment from Perfect Mix on the inside....these are so fun for Mother's Day!

Enjoy your day!

We had to take the sliding board down to make way for the equipment, but Cassidy still found a way to play on it:

Be blessed!

Recycled Christmas

Happy Monday, peeps!  I trust you had a good Easter....it was a glorious day here in SE PA, warm temps, a wonderful church service, great lunch with old and new friends....and now I am going to zip right into Christmas!!!  

I have been neglecting my Christmas cards lately, and the Jingle Belles have a "Peace on Earth Day" challenge, which is to recycle or upcycle something into a Christmas card!  I have had this digital image/sentiment sitting in my scrap pile for probably two or three years....no kidding. Maybe even longer!  I just couldn't throw it out!  I also found some ribbon from a package that was so pretty, I couldn't toss it, as well as a Cherry Cobbler textured cardstock diecut that I hadn't used, so I layered them all together with some coordinating DSP from Simple Stories' Handmade Holiday line, and this is what I came up with:

This is a pretty large card; I loved the patterned paper and I had some larger envelopes I found at a yard sale, so I thought I would just make it big and bold!  Here's a closeup up the digital image...and honestly, I cannot even remember from where it came!

Since almost everything was already cut, this took no time at all!  So hopefully I can get back on track with my holiday creations!  

I have lots of photos to show you from Easter, but this early morning one just tugged at my heart...not sure how many more years she will be excited like this!

Enjoy your day, be blessed, and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Stamp Ink Paper challenge!

MM240 Vintage Bells

Hi peeps, just a quick Christmas card today using a vintage postcard image for the Merry Monday's challenge of bells:

After printing the postcard on some cardstock, I matted it with a piece of Soft Sky and added some Pool Party stitched ribbon.  My background paper was also printed from a past Crafty Secrets Vintage Christmas download; sentiment is from Verve's Unto Us, which was stamped with Chocolate Chip ink and diecut with a Stitched Shape, and accented with a little champagne glimmer paper diecut bell:

Of course, the pups are pulling on some vintage bells in the postcard:

Aren't they sweet?

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

I forgot to share this photo of Cassidy's "Thing 1" from her Dr Seuss day!!  It cracked me up....a white plastic spoon, pipe cleaners and some blue shreddie!  TOO funny!  Those library ladies are so creative!

Project Details--All Products SU Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Unto Us (Verve), Images Digitally Reproduced
Card stock & Papers	Champagne Glimmer (ret), Naturals White (ret), Soft Sky, Computer Paper
Ink	Chocolate Chip, Delightful Dijon, Sahara Sand (for shading)
Accessories	Gold Brad, Pool Party Stitched Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Die220Q (Impression Obsession Christmas Shapes), Dimensionals

Easy Christmas Card

Hi peeps!  I am still cranking out Christmas cards....I still have time, right?!  Next week, they'll go in the mail!  I made this card last week but never posted it....it is so easy!  The image was printed from a Crafty Secrets CD; the ticking part was actually at the bottom of the image, and I cut it off and layered it on top with some black cardstock; added a sentiment (retired Cornish Heritage Farms Vintage Christmas Expressions); some burlap ribbon and a glittery snowflake; and finally, some DD glitter and called it a day:

I just think this little boy looking out the window (waiting for Santa on Christmas eve day?) is so precious!

And this year's Advent Calendar openings have been too funny!  On this particular day, Santa's elf could not fit her gift into the box, so he gave her a note (typewritten--you can imagine how OLD that typewriter is!).  She was a wee bit puzzled: 

She sits down to read the note, which tells her the gift is under the snowman on the piano:

Needless to say, she was excited when she found it!

Just some more wooden ornaments and a set of markers....this child loves to craft!  

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

TSOT300 Vintage Santa

Hi everyone!  It's Tuesday and it's time for Try Stampin' on Tuesday!  This week I created the sketch for the challenge:

and I think this might be my one of my favorite cards ever!  I found this music and vintage Santa in my "vintage" file...I had printed it out for another project but never used it....and now I can't find the source, so I can't even re-create it!  Maybe a reader can help me out!  Anyway, here we go:

  

I do know the plaid background is from a Crafty Secrets CD that I purchased several years ago; I mounted everything on a Crumb Cake card base; added some Garden Green pinked edges and some greenery diecut from a Tim Holtz die:

I thought they complemented the holly in Santa's beard!  And I added a couple more berries on the inside, along with a sentiment from Stitched with Cheer:

I hope you'll play with us this week....I am sure some of you still need to create some Christmas cards!  Share your creation with us at the blog or on our FB page!

Some silliness from my little pumpkin:

Have a blessed day!