Vintage Sympathy

Happy Saturday, everyone! Praise the Lord, the sun is shining here in Pennsylvania, and it's a Saturday!  Amazing! Unfortunately, I needed another sympathy card recently, and I used the sketch from As You See It and a few of the Earth Day prompts from Festive Friday for my (vintage again) card:

I pulled out some older nature-themed stamps and went to work:

The elements from the FF challenge that I chose were neutrals, woodgrain, twine and thinking of you.  I stamped the bird's nest in Pecan Pie on some Very Vanilla and colored in the eggs very lightly:

The sentiment from Hero Arts was stamped on a little banner and I added another wee little bird's egg.  The elements behind the nest were some retired stitched ribbon and Wavy Trim.

My woodgrain paper was originally white, so I used a blending brush to color it with Crumb Cake ink, then I stamped several images on it in Gray Granite to create my own collage-style background paper:

I added a Gray Granite mat as well as a Pecan Pie mat, on which I stamped a dictionary-style page around the edges.  I used a Stamp Simply sentiment on the inside, and added a few more feathers from Soft as a Feather, an older retired SU set:

The card is for John's brother-in-law who lost his father recently.  John's sister and BIL are great birders and we often swap bird sighting stories with them, so I hope they will find comfort in this card!  Thanks for popping in today!  

We made a little visit to my nephew's house yesterday to see this little peanut:

Cute as a button and good as gold!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Soft as a Feather (ret), Birds of a Feather (Artistic Outpost), Farmhouse All Occasion Greetings (Stamp Simply), Sentiment CL342 (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pecan Pie, Gray Granite, Heart & Home DSP (ret)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Gray Granite, Pecan Pie, Soft Sky (ret), Balmy Blue
Accessories	Wavy Trim, Soft Sky Stitched Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Oval Dies (Nestabilities), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Blending Brush

FF0153 Making Friends

Happy Tuesday, everyone! I have another "friendship" card today; while I was making my Paper Players card, I decided to just ink up another cute image from that Rare Images set. This one features a little girl with her kitten; so here we go:

This time I stamped my little girl on some watercolor paper with Stazon ink and colored her with inks and an aquapainter, leaving the little kitten's face white:

I found an older SU stamp that had this friendship sentiment, so I stamped it on watercolor paper as well, then diecut it with the Nested Essentials die.  I added some featherstitching to the side of the watercolor paper panel, as well as at the bottom of the Azure Afternoon card, and added some black and white gingham to coordinate:

I think I'll throw this in the ring over at Festive Friday; the blue and white colors and the "supportive statement" should fit the bill!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friends 24-7 (ret), Vintage Children (Rare Image Stamps)
Card stock & Papers	Watercolor, Azure Afternoon
Ink	Stazon, Azure Afternoon, Crushed Curry, Smoky Slate, Blushing Bride (ret)
Accessories	Black & White Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Perennial Postage Dies, Nested Essentials Dies, Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson), Aquapainter

FF0135 It's Your Day

Happy Thursday, peeps!  This will be short and sweet as my allergies are ROARING and I am miserable! Luckily, I have another masculine card from my recent stamp camp and it fits the challenge at Festive Friday:

I've got blue, brads, masculine, and sports on my sailboat card:

I used lots of oldie-but-goodie items for this card; the sailboat images are from a 2006 set called Set Sail; the sentiment is from the recently-retired Many Mates.  

I stamped the images in Blueberry Bushel and added a star and tag in Real Red.  The brads are adhesive, which make for easy placement.  I did emboss the front of the card with the Stitched With Whimsy die to give it some wavy "motion".  This is a great color and I am happy it returned!

Thanks for visiting today! 

When we were at Cassidy's school earlier this week, Dana told me they have a little fish pond right in the entryway!

In addition to the goldfish, they have a turtle...and her name is Michelle (Miss-Shell....get it?)  How fascinating!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Set Sail (ret), Many Mates (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blueberry Bushel, Real Red
Ink	Blueberry Bushel, Real Red
Accessories	Metallic Adhesive Brads
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Small Star Punch (ret), Small & Large Tag Punches (ret)

It's a Girl!

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I have a fun little card for you today, it's in anticipation of a new wee one due to be born very soon in John's family!  I incorporated the CAS on Sunday challenge of tags (hope it's CAS enough) and the Festive Friday challenge of International Children's Book Day:

I found some sweet Graphic 45 paper I've been "hoarding"  and combined a few papers for my square card that features alphabet letters, patterned paper and children for my card:

I stamped a sweet little baby and vintage carriage from Prima in Soft Suede on one tag, added a sentiment and pearl-embellished heart:

And a trio of alphabet dies on the second tag:

The tags were both cut using the Tailor Made Tag dies; the sentiments are from Our Daily Bread Designs; and the diecuts are all from Papertrey.  I just added a simple "congratulations" on the inside!  Thanks for popping in today!  

I haven't had many pictures of Cassidy lately...she's a busy girl!  Dana & Wayne went to her school yesterday to see the seventh grade history projects.  Each group of four students created a project; Cassidy's was on the explorer Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Bedtime Story (Prima), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla,  Precious Memories (Graphic 45)
Ink	Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals, Metallic Pearls, Thick Baker's Twine
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Alphabet Dies (Papertrey), Heart & Home Dies (Papertrey), Sponge Dauber

FF0114 From the Funny Farm

Happy Monday, peeps!  A little late this morning....have to get back into my "working" mode after having a couple weeks off from babysitting!  I thought I'd play with the Festive Friday challenge, since I had not played with it for a while:

I got this cute IO owl last year and I thought he would be fun to use as a non-Halloween card:

I chose from the inspo list owl, feather and brown, and I guess I could throw in woodland too!  Mr Owl was stamped in Soft Suede and blended with some Crumb Cake ink:

I added a Soft Suede mat, then used a sentiment from Charming Sentiments, diecut with the matching die, and an older Artistic Outpost sentiment because this lil dude definitely looks like he is from the funny farm!  A sentiment from Biggest Wish was stamped on the inside, along with some feathers from PTI:

I am sure I have some friends who would appreciate this card, LOL!  Thanks for popping in today!

While visiting Driftwood Beach, the kids found a rope swing.  Cassidy found out it's a little harder than it looks on TV!  She managed to get a foot in the loop:

Held on tight while Wayne spotted her:

Wheeeeee!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart!  I have overcome the world." John 16:33

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Charming Sentiments, Biggest Wish,  Home (Artistic Outpost), Owl Scruffy (Impression Obsession), What the Doodle: Feather (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Suede, Rings of Love DSP
Ink	Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Sentiment Silhouettes Dies,  Stitched Square Dies (Lil Inker), Blending Brush

AYSI263 A Recipe for Neutrals

Happy Friday, peeps!  Time for a new As You See It challenge, and it's "recipe" week!  Here are your ingredients:

I confess that mixing neutrals is a bit of a challenge for me, but I went full force today; I've used Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Kraft AND Sahara Sand on my Christmas card: 

The Kraft snowflake is comprised of three layers; I made little cardstock spacers to fit between each one to pop it up a bit without having the white dimensionals show through!  I adhered it to a Very Vanilla mat which was embossed with the Cable Knit embossing folder, then added a Basic White stitched mat to that!  The sentiment is a partially-stamped one from Christmas to Remember, tied with some Linen Thread and embellished with a Gold Metallic Pearl:

I happened to have three strips of the Tidings of Christmas already cut, so they went on the Crumb Cake card to tie it all together!  Again, my last year's favorite sentiment set was used for the inside: Wrapped in Christmas:

And since I've got brown, texture and ivory on my card, I'm going to pop it in over at Festive Friday!

I am pretty sure I got all my ingredients to whip up this fun holiday creation...now it's your turn to cook something up!  Make sure you share it with us at As You See It!  Thanks so much for visiting today!

Cassidy finally finished her London Lego kit that she got for her birthday!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas to Remember, Wrapped in Christmas (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Kraft, Tidings of Christmas DSP
Ink	Crumb Cake, Soft Suede
Accessories	Linen Thread, Gold Metallic Pearl, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Snowflakes Dies, Ornate Frames Dies, Cable Knit EF (ret), Stitched Square Dies (Lil'Inker)

Vintage Typewriter for FFC0091

Happy Saturday!  I have a quick little card today for a family friend who just had an operation; I used the sketch from In(k)spire Me and several items from Festive Friday:  alphabet, typewriter, layers, and patterned paper:

And here we go:

I went way back into the archives for a few of these items, LOL!  I began with a piece of Crumb Cake I embossed with a Tim Holtz embossing folder, and I gave it a bit of color with some Soft Suede ink.  The patterned papers are from Orchard Harvest, retired quite a few years ago, and the image is from Puns from the Past!  I did add a sentiment from Hero Arts, diecut with a Tasteful Labels die.

Hope he recuperates quickly!  Thanks for popping in today!

I realized I missed sharing a couple of birthday cards!  This one is from Karen:

And this beauty is from Michele:

Now we're off to do Cassidy's birthday party--a drive-through, since she can't do her regular party with all the activities!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Puns from the Past (ret), CL342 Sentiments (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Orchard Harvest DSP (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Stazon Black
Accessories	Candy Dot s (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Blending Brush, Tasteful Labels Die, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret)

PP551 Sketch from Ann

 Happy Sunday, peeps!  Hope your weekend is going well!  Ann is our Paper Players  hostess this week with a fun sketch...I was happy to see THREE banners on the sketch because I love things in threes! I needed a birthday card for my BIL, so I decided to use Sailing Home, which is a great masculine set!  So here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

I really struggle with "scenes", and this one was no exception!  I had to do some creative masking to get the ocean and the sky to look just right; the clouds that I wanted to add didn't look just right; the ocean color wasn't really what I wanted....well, I had spent enough time on it and just said the heck with it, it is what it is!  

I embossed my card front with the Seaside embossing folder and added some banners of Real Red DSP from last year's selection, and stamped a sentiment from Many Mates in Memento Black.  I used a sponge brayer for the ocean and a blending brush for the sky.  Hopefully he'll like it!  I am also entering it at Just Add Ink; they want two out of three:  Sky, Sea or Trees, as well as Festive Friday, where I've chosen water, blue and red:

I hope you'll play along with our pretty little sketch!  Check out what the DT created...there are some beauties there this week, lots of new products being highlighted...you need to see them at the Paper Players blog!  Thanks for popping in today!  

Dana, Wayne and Cassidy stopped on their way home from vacation to visit Dana's half-brother Kevin and his wife Kristy in North Carolina.  Dana is thirteen years younger than he is and they didn't spend much time together growing up but over the last several years have reconnected and they enjoy spending time together when they can.  I am very proud of my ex-stepson and his wife is a gem!  Looks like they had a great time!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sailing Home, Many Mates (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Real Red DSP (ret)
Ink	Pool Party, Balmy Blue, Smoky Slate, Stazon Black, Real Red, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Smooth Sailing Dies, Aquapainter, Brayer, Blending Brush, Seaside Embossing Folder (ret)

Wish Upon a Starfish

Hello peeps, and happy Monday!  It's Mulch Monday here at the Pugliese residence, so I am sure my muscles will be aching tomorrow!  Anyway, I did get in a little stamping over the weekend; my CAS card fulfills three challenges:  TGIF264 wants watercoloring; Festive Friday is celebrating World Reef Awareness, and CAS(E) This Sketch has a fun sketch:

So here we go:

This is a really CAS card!  My main panel is Shimmery White, and the stamp set is a really old one from Lizzie Anne called Shore Thoughts.  I stamped the starfish in Weathered Wood Distress ink, then watercolored it in and added some So Saffron at the center.  The "ocean" is just some Balmy Blue ink and water, and I stamped the waves on top in Balmy Blue as well.  The sentiment is stamped in Pretty Peacock and I mounted everything on a So Saffron base.  My inspo list includes water, starfish, pun sentiment and aqua!

I'll add a birthday sentiment on the inside!!  Thanks for popping in today!  

Dana and I both did some flower planting this weekend!

Dana plants lots of pots and puts them in her flowerbed and on shepherd's hooks....easier to plant and water that way!

Well, I guess I do too!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Shore Thoughts (Lizzie Anne), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	So Saffron, Shimmery White
Ink	So Saffron, Balmy Blue, Pretty Peacock, Weathered Wood (Tim Holtz)
Accessories
Tools	Aquapainter