AHSC652 Christmas Gnome

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend!  It's time for a new sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

Since the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown Challenge this week was gnomes:

I pulled out an old stamp from Fun Stampers Journey and went to work:

I stamped Mr. Gnome in Stazon black and watercolored him, then gave him a tree and little heart, stamped in Soft Succulent on some retired CTMH papers:

I added a gingham border, a cute diecut sentiment and some glimmer glue dots; everything went on a sweet soft gray birch tree panel from Spellbinders:

A coordinating sentiment on the inside:

I hope you'll play with our AHSC sketch this week!  It's a fun one!  Check out what the designers did on our blog...it will feature them on Wednesday, but you can play now!  Thanks for visiting! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gnome for the Holidays (Fun Stampers Journey), Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp), Background Basics Gingham (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Smoky Slate, Sage (Close to My Heart), Winter (Scrapbook.com)
Ink	Stazon, Black, Mossy Meadow, Smoky Slate, Petal Pink, Soft Succulent (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Traditional Sparkling Sequins
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gnome for the Holidays Dies (Fun Stampers Journey), Christmas Blessings Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Aquapainter

PP750 Color Challenge from Claire

Happy Sunday, peeps! Hope your weekend is going well so far!  Claire is our Paper Players hostess this weekand she is definitely challenging us to think "FALL" with these beautiful colors! Check these out:

Now I have a really busy week ahead, so I opted to let my papers do most of the work, LOL!  Here we go:

These beautiful papers are from Studio Light, called Wonderful Autumn, and I believe just about every color in Claire's challenge is featured here!  I did add a pretty diecut sentiment, stamped on Kraft cardstock in Blackberry Bliss ink, and I added a Blackberry Bliss shadow behind it along with some Blackberry Bliss ribbon I found in my stash:

For some added interest, I stamped some text from Elements on Text along the left edge, then mounted it on a Cherry Cobbler card base:

An older W+9 set provided the inside sentiment, along with a Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment (that I stamped crookedly and had to "repair"):

I think these are such beautiful colors together for any fall stamping, I hope you'll play along with us at the Players this week!  Of course, if you think out of the box and have another occasion for which to use them, that's great too!  Can't wait to see what you create!  

Are you tired of birthday cards yet? I have more! This gorgeous vintage creation is from Fran; so much goodness to look at:

This fun, sparkly one is from my sweet friend Sandy:

And this sunshiney, cheerful card is from Karen in sunny Florida:

Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Elements of Text, Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret), Pretty Patches Pumpkin (W+9), Harvest Wreath (Fun Stampers Journey)
Card stock & Papers	Cherry Cobbler, Blackberry Bliss, Kraft (Close to My Heart), Wonderful Autumn (Studio Light)
Ink	Blackberry Bliss, Cherry Cobbler, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Blackberry Bliss Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Harvest Wreath Die (Fun Stampers Journey), Word Window Punch (ret)

Christmas Gnome

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend!  I am really late today but after our Easter celebrations yesterday, I just relaxed and didn't stamp a thing!  But I did get a little card made this morning for the Just Us Girls color challenge as well as the Addicted to CAS one-layer challenge (although it may not be quite CAS enough!):

So here we go:

I used my Stamparatus to first stamp the Nordic snowflakes along the edge, then stamped my gnome and after masking him off, stamped the trees behind him.  I colored him with Blends:

then added the sentiment and hearts:

Then finally, the sentiment on the inside!

Thanks for popping in today!

The temperature was 22 degrees this morning when I woke up and our yard and fields were covered with frost, so it felt appropriate to be stamping a Christmas card!  Hopefully it will warm up!  It was a wee bit warmer yesterday as we went to my nephew's house for lunch:

Jameson and Sawyer were happy to see their cousin, and Grammy was happy because she wore a pretty DRESS!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."  Matthew 7:13-14

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gnome for the Holidays (Fun Stampers Journey), Seasonal Sentiments (My Favorite Things), In Stitches Christmas (Clearly Besotted), Stitched Stockings (My Favorite Things)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White
Ink	Real Red, Memento Black
Accessories
Tools	Stamparatus, Blends

PP531 Hello Spring

Hi stampers!  Happy Sunday!  It's time for a new Paper Players challenge; Claire is our hostess with this lovely theme challenge:

 

Oh my, so many choices!  In the end I opted to use that little bunny in the corner as my inspiration!  I pulled out one of my favorite old SU sets called Hello Spring!  And here we go:

I had this piece of retired magnolia paper on my desk for another project and although Petal Pink is a hard color for me to work with, I thought it would make a nice spring card!  I had an idea to make a wreath, but most of the wreath stamps I had were too "flimsy".  Then I remembered a fall wreath stamp that I had from Fun Stampers Journey, so after adhering my DSP to my cardstock, I stamped it in Soft Suede, then embellished it with a few little springy flowers and twigs...and of course, a bunny:

The sentiment is from the same set, although I cut it apart so that I could create a linear sentiment on a banner; I added a little Pierced Bloom diecut flower too:

I just love that little bunny!  What will inspire you from our photo?  Spring is definitely in the air, so get out your stamps, ink and paper and create something springy, then share it with us at the Paper Players blog!  Check out what the design team did as well!  Thanks for popping in today!

Dana spent a few minutes trying to teach Cassidy to crochet....not sure how long it will last, neither of them have a lot of patience, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come."  Song of Songs 2:12

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Autumn Wreath (Fun Stampers Journey), Hello Spring (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Petal Pink, Soft Suede,  Crumb Cake, Magnolia Lane DSP (ret)
Ink	Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pierced Blooms Dies, Forever Flourishing Dies, Markers

RRCB143 Fall Blessings

 Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we give our older stamps some love!  We've got a color challenge today:

I pulled out a Fun Stamper's Journey set from 2017 called Harvest Wreath to create a pretty little wreath for my card today, although looking at it here, it looks a wee bit lopsided, LOL!:

I stamped the wreath in Old Olive ink and added some berries in Crushed Curry, then cut several leaves from various shades of yellow cardstock using my favorite (and old!) stitched leaves dies from Lawn Fawn.  I embellished the wreath with some Daffodil Delight ruched ribbon and Old Olive linen thread:

I stamped "fall" in Pear Pizzazz on Pear Pizzazz cardstock and diecut it with the matching die; the "blessings" was isolated from a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings:

It all went on an Old Olive card with a Pear Pizzazz mat!  I left the inside blank for a future occasion!  It was fun to use Old Olive and Pear Pizzazz....I haven't used them for a while and it was nice to ease into fall cardmaking with them!  I hope you'll play along with our color challenge this week at Retro Rubber!  Just remember to use stamps at least a year old and tell us how old they are!  Can't wait to see what you create!  

And I just found a new challenge called Color Hues, and their first color combo is also yellow and green, so I am entering it there as well!

Thanks for popping in today!

"Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.  If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.  Each one should test his own actions.  Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load."

Galatians 6:2-3

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Harvest Wreath (Fun Stampers Journey)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Old Olive Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Bumblebee
Ink	Old Olive, Pear Pizzazz, Crushed Curry
Accessories	Daffodil Delight Ruched Ribbon, Old Olive Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Leaves Dies (Lawn Fawn), Harvest Wreath Dies (Fun Stampers Journey)

PP460 Tall Skinny Gnome

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Wow, summer is back again...it's been hot this weekend!  Hopefully we can cool off looking at my latest Paper Players card!  The amazingly-talented Claire came up with a fun new challenge...a tall and skinny sketch!!  How fun is that?!

My card is definitely skinny....2 1/2" across and 6" tall!!  This little gnome (Fun Stampers Journey) was calling my name, he hadn't been inked up for a while, so I stamped him twice, once in Real Red and again in Smoky Slate, and did a little cutting and pasting:

After coloring in his nose and beard with Blends, I stamped a Real Red heart, some trees in Smoky Slate to create a backdrop, and they were all mounted on a piece of Whisper White cardstock embossed with a Nordic pattern.  It's too bad you can't see the Wink of Stella on his beard, it's quite sparkly!   A piece of retired SU DSP worked perfectly for my vertical panel!

A couple more images on the inside and a fun Christmas sentiment from Paper Smooches, and my card was done:

And since the Christmas Kickstart Challenge is featuring Scandinavian designs this week, I am entering it there as well!

I hope you'll play with our sketch this week...there is lots of room for creativity, and the tall and skinny feature will challenge you to do something different!  Be sure to check out what the Design Team did at the Paper Players blog!  See you there!

Talk about a dog just enjoying the day:

I am sure Eden is thinking "Wayne, you've got a nice drink....where's mine?"  LOL  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	All Yule Need (Paper Smooches), Gnome for the Holidays (Fun Stampers Journey)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Sending Love DSP (ret)
Ink	Real Red, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Rhinestones, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Gnome for the Holidays Dies (FSJ), Deer Knit EF (Tim Holtz), Blends, WInk of Stella

Twofer Wreath Challenge #11

Hi peeps! I am running very late today...I have my last stamp club of 2018 tonight so I spent the morning getting ready, and this colder weather has my allergies acting up!!  Anyone else "suffering" the same way?  I think it's all those yucky wet leaves!  Anyway, I got a very little bit of stamping time in over the weekend and made a couple cards for the Twofer Card Challenge, in which I have never participated!  My friend Carol is a guest designer there, so I decided to give it a try!  They're extremely CAS because that's all the energy I had, LOL!  So here we go:

I used Fun Stampers Journey's Harvest Wreath for the wreath; the wreath on the Thanksgiving card was stamped with Soft Suede ink and embellished with some faceted gems from Amber Moon; sadly, the photo just doesn't capture how pretty they are here:

My diecut sentiment was from the same set, stamped in Cajun Craze and overstamped with a stamp from Timeless Textures; the together was from The Paper Studio:

I finished it off with a Braided Linen Twine bow:

My second card is a Christmas card; the wreath was stamped in Soft Sea Foam, and the sentiment was stamped in Balmy Blue:

I colored some pearls with a Pink Pirouette Blend and added a Powder Pink bow:

And since the Christmas Card Throwdown's challenge is to use pink, green and blue, I am entering this one in their challenge as well!

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

Cassidy snagged another sunrise photo from her kitchen deck this morning:

And here is a sunrise photo my brother took very early one morning over the fountains of Longwood Gardens:

God's glory!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Timeless Textures, Christmas Pines, Harvest Wreath (Fun Stampers Journey), Everyday Expressions (The Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Powder Pink, Naturals Ivory (ret)
Ink	Soft Sea Foam, Soft Suede, Balmy Blue, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Pearls, Satin Pink Powder Ribbon, Braided Linen Trim, Faceted Embellishments (Amber Moon), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Harvest Wreath Dies (Fun Stampers Journey)

Gnome for the Holidays

Hi all!  Happy Saturday!  We are off today to take my dad and another friend to the local senior center for a free Veteran's Day breakfast!  We had to tell my dad that we were just "taking him out for breakfast" because he would probably balk if he knew he was going to a senior center!!!!  At any rate, amidst all the rain yesterday I had time to make a quick little card for two challenges:  CAS(E) This Sketch and the "Home Sweet Home" Time Out Challenge:

           

I often see gnome stamps on other people's cards but never saw any that really appealed to me until recently, so I took the plunge and bought a set!  So here is my "gnome for the holidays" creation:

Isn't he a cutie?  I colored him with Blends and fussy-cut him out and mounted him on a card that was diecut with stitching around the edge:

He was quick and easy to do, too!  Thanks for popping in today--be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

A little jump-rope action!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gnome for the Holidays (Fun Stampers Journey)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White
Ink	Basic Gray
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies (Lil'Inkers), SU Blends