JAI777 Something Seasonal

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  The Just Add Ink challenge this week is "Something Seasonal":

I have a class this week at the retirement community where Dana works, and they had requested winter birthdays, so one of the cards we'll be making just happened to fit JAI's challenge:

The skates are from Avery Elle and the sentiment is from SU's Greetings of the Season and Everyday Greetings (both from 2024).  Skates were stamped in Basic Gray, and then colored with Blends.  They're mounted on a pretty embossed panel of Coastal Cabana.  The inside sentiment is from Waffle Flower:

And since this Avery Elle set has been in my stash for at least five years, I am adding it to the Retro Rubber challenge of "Anything Goes"!

Lots of errands to run today, so I am "skating" off, saying thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed! And STAY WARM!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings (ret), Greetings of the Season (ret), Holiday Skates (Avery Elle 2020?)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Coastal Cabana
Ink	Basic Gray
Accessories	Ribbon from my stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Holiday Skates Dies (Avery Elle), Snowflakes Swirl embossing folder (Darice), Blends

AHSC663 Birthday for a Friend

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend! I am slowly getting back into the swing of things! It's time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I have a friend whose birthday is today, and she loves purple, so this one is for her!

I used some pretty (shiny!) papers from Gina K called Sending Love as well as the butterfly from Sketched Butterflies.  The horizontal panel is Granny Apple Green, diecut with the Be Mine Stitched Framelits die and accented with some white seam binding ribbon.  The butterfly was stamped with Gorgeous Grape ink on Highland Heather cardstock and diecut with the matching die.  Sentiment is from Everyday Greetings:

The inside sentiment is also from Everyday Greetings and Greetings of the Season:

I did add some Wink of Stella to the butterfly as well as some pretty pearls to my square piece!  I am hand-delivering this, so no worries about those big fat pearls, LOL!

I hope you'll play along with this fun sketch this week....lots of opportunities to use up some of your small scraps that I know you have in your stash!  Share it with us at the Atlantic Hearts blog!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings (ret), Greetings of the Season (ret), Sketched Butterflies (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Sending Love (Gina K)
Ink	Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Pearls, White Seam Binding (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Layering Squares Dies (ret), Sketched Butterflies Dies (ret), Be Mine Stitched Framelit Dies (ret), Wink of Stella

PP763 Color Challenge from Jan

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's Jan's turn to be the hostess at the Paper Players, and she has a nice fall-feeling color palette for us this week: 

My dad's cousin is turning 93 this month, so I took advantage of these colors to make him a fall-themed birthday card using some Autumn Toile DSP:

I used some Everyday Arch dies to create a tag with Basic White and Old Olive cardstocks, and used some Mossy Meadow baker's twine for the embellishment.  Sentiments are from Everyday Greetings and Greetings of the Season; the foliage is from Lasting Joy:

Here's the inisde:

Lots of fun ways to use these colors this week! Stop over at the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers did with them!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings, Greetings of the Season, Lasting Joy (ret), The Right Words, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Old Olive, Autumn Toile DSP
Ink	Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso
Accessories	Mossy Meadow Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Arches Dies, 1/8" Hole Punch

IB358 Modern Leaves

Happy Tuesday, all!  Wow, fall has fallen here in SE PA! The wind is blowin' and the leaves are goin'--right off the trees!  My card today features leaves, but in a bit of a mod way, taking a hint from the Inspired By challenge this week!  I used both the inspiration and the sketch:

 

I didn't have quite the exact colors of the inspiration photo, but I pulled out some that were similar, as well as a stamp & die set from The Stamp Market.  Here we go:

I diecut some strips from Basic Gray, Basic White, Basic  Beige, Cherry Cobbler and Blushing Bride, then diecut and stamped some leave as well.  I also diecut some leafy branches from the Dainty Delight dies as well as punched out a few 1/2" circles and arranged them all together:

Sentiments from Everyday Greetings went on the front and the inside, along with another stamped leaf:

This is defintely out of my comfort zone, style-wise, but I like the modern look to it!  

The kids went to Minnesota this past weekend with some of Wayne's family to watch the Vikings/Eagles game!  The Eagles won and I think they all had a great time!

That stadium is amazing!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings (ret), Lots of Leaves (The Stamp Market)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Beige, Basic Black, Basic Gray, Cherry Cobbler, Blushing Bride (ret)
Ink	Basic Beige, Cherry Cobbler, Versafine Black, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals, Candy Dots (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Dainty Designs Dies (ret), Lots of Leaves Dies (The Stamp Market), Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), 1/2" Circle Punch (ret)

PP755 Lovely Lemon Thank You

Hi, stamping friends! I am the hostess at the Paper Players this week, and it's color challenge week: 

I know most of us are thinking fall hues but I wanted to challenge you to use a more spring-like palette!  I needed a thank you card for my SIL since she took care of my flowers while we were on vacation, so what better stamp to use than Layers of Beauty?!  Here we go:

I stamped my florals in Soft Sea Foam, then stenciled in Lemon Lolly, Soft Sea Foam and Lost Lagoon on the petals and leaves.  I found a piece of Lost Lagoon bokeh print from some Christmas DSP we had a few years back and mounted it behind a Penny Black double scalloped fram.  The floral diecut extended beyond the edge of the card, so I just trimmed them off.  

A sentiment from Everyday Greetings was heat-embossed in white on a banner of Soft Sea Foam, distressed a wee bit, and then I added a little Lemon Lolly baker's twine behind it as well as a couple of pearls:

Edited to add:  I am also going to enter this over at the Flower Challenge, where their sketch this week is very similar to mine:

I hope you'll play along with our colors this week, too!  The design team came up with some very interesting designs as well!  Be sure to check them out over at the Paper Players blog! Can't wait to see what you come up with!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

AHSC640 Blue Florals

 Happy Monday, all!  I hope you had a good weekend!  We had sun, rain and HOT temps, LOL!  We have a new Atlantic Hearts sketch this week and I enjoyed this one a lot:

Dana gave me some GORGEOUS papers for my birthday and I just had to use some of them on my card today:

I used two of the patterns from the same sheet and I was hoping to be able to NOT cover up that little bird on the floral one, LOL!  I barely got him in there!  The flowers were stamped in Misty Moonlight; the sentiments were done in Night of Navy and Craft White.  I embossed the background with the Exposed Brick EF and added some Honey Bee navy sequins:

I have a couple of thank you cards to send out and this will be one of them!  I hope you'll play along with our interesting sketch this week....can't wait to see what you create!  Wednesday we will reveal what all the DT members created, so be sure to check back at the Atlantic Hearts blog then!

Cassidy asked me to help her cut down one of Wayne's shirts he wasn't wearing any more so she could wear it; we got out the ironing board and sewing machine and we learned about seam allowances, how to thread a bobbin and how to thread the machine. 

Here's the final product:

It's not perfect, but she learned a lot!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hand-penned Petals (ret), Everyday Greetings (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy, Navy Flowers (Viviquen)
Ink	Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight, Craft White
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder, Sequins (Honey Bee)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Exposed Brick EF, Penned Flowers Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

SOS542 One Layer Thinking of You

Happy mid-week, peeps!  The Shopping our Stash challenge is to make a one-layer card!  We all love layers and layers, don't we?  Using just one sheet of cardstock seems just minimalistic!!  But I gave it a go:

I used Thick Very Vanilla cardstock for my base and used an acrylic block to create my background; I simply plonked the block on to the Crushed Curry inkpad and then used it as a stamp!  I am thinking I should have "stamped off" once to get a lighter shade, but I went with it.  I overstamped it with one of the scripts from Elements of Text in Crumb Cake, then stamped the floral image and bee from Queen Bee in Stazon Saddle Brown. 

The sentiment is from Everyday Greetings.  I did add some speckles from the Elements of Text too:

I already have a recipient in mind for this card, so it will be in the mail tomorrow!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

I will remember your great deeds, Lord; I will recall the wonders you did in the past.  I will think about all that you have done; I will meditate of all your mighty acts.  Psalm 77:11-12

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings, Elements of Text, Queen Bee
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla
Ink	Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry, Stazon Saddle Brown
Accessories
Tools	Acrylic Block, Blender Pen

FMS674 Plaid Birthday

Happy Friday, everyone! Yay, the weekend is upon us!  Jen at FMS has a really cool sketch this week:

and it gave me a chance to use some masculine plaids for a birthday card:

I use the retired Best Borders die to cut my plaid and Cherry Cobbler panels, then used the Tailor Made Tags die to cut out a little tag on which to adhere my Copper letters:

I tied the tag with some retired Cinnamon Cider ribbon and added sentiments from Everyday Greetings in Cherry Cobbler ink:

And this one is in the mail, ready to go!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Copper Foil, Yuletide Plaid (Unity)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Foam Strips
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Tailor Made Tags Dies (ret), Best Borders Dies (ret), Oliver's Stitched Alphabet Dies (Lawn Fawn)

TGIF512 Serene Love Friend

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! I have a quick card using some very pretty Serene Love DSP that was on sale, along with the sketch from TGIF Challenges:

To be honest, on SU's webpage, these papers looked much brighter and lighter than they do in real life! In fact, I thought I had gotten a different DSP in error!  This pattern happens to be Night of Navy and I think I was expecting Blueberry Bushel.  Anyway, I decided to put it to use with this fun little sketch.  It's a little more busy than my usual style:

The card itself is 4 /14" square; I diecut a white square and used the outer edge as a frame for the inside embossed piece.  The large floral was fussy-cut from one of the papers, and the sentiment is from the Everyday Greetings set.  I used another piece of the DSP to pop behind it and added a pearl to dot the "i":

A simple sentiment on the inside from the same set!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy, Serene Love DSP
Ink	Night of Navy
Accessories	Pearl, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Dashing Designs Embossing Folder