TSOT282 and LRW352

Hi everyone!  Happy Tuesday, and time for another Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch!  The option this week is beading or holiday!  I was intimidated by the sketch at first, but found it easier to work with than I originally thought:

I am definitely not into beading, but I thought you could handle another Christmas card, especially featuring this handsome fellow:

He's from a retired Close to My Heart set (Santa Claus Holiday), and I used some retired SU paper as well as a retired SU gingham wheel that I unmounted from the wheel and mounted on some foam...much easier to use this way!

I used some stitched dies from Lil'Inker, and some thick baker's twine from SU.  Here's the inside...I love the country feel of the Real Red and Crumb Cake inks!

  

I am also entering this in the Little Red Wagon challenge this week, which is Christmas in July!

The design team has some lovely samples to show you...be sure to check them out at the TSOT blog!  And remember that we have a Facebook page on which you can share your creations too!

We took a little sail out of Rock Hall, MD on my birthday....although Cassidy looks at ease in these photos with me and Grampy, she was really hot, sweaty and crabby!

  

Even though it was hot and muggy, it was a nice little diversion....and on the way home, it POURED rain!  We got back just in time!  And now for some more birthday cards....this one is from my PP teamie, Colleen...it's pretty inside and out!

and from another teamie, the QUEEN of diecuts, Laurie:

So much creativity!!!  Thanks for popping by today!

SIP53 CASing Sandy!

Happy Friday, peeps!  I've got a sweet little card today for a sweet friend of mine...she IS amazing...she just sent me a whole gallon of homemade maple syrup from upstate New York!  What a friend!  And since Cassidy has had a taste of real maple syrup on her pancakes, she is now a syrup snob...she won't eat anything else and gets mad if any of us eat "her" syrup!  SO...we have lots of syrup that should last us for a while!  So my card today is for her!  I am playing with the Stamp Ink Paper challenge, which is to CASE the designer!

OF COURSE I had to CASE my sweet friend Sandy!  I swooned when I saw this card!  You can see  the details of it on her blog here!

I started out by diecutting some sunflowers I had but then I remembered this sweet Decorate A Daisy set that retired a couple of years ago, so I inked it up with Crushed Curry and Basic Black and added a sentiment from Watercolor Wishes:

I did save the leaves I had cut from the sunflower die (Simon Says Stamp Radiant Sunflower) because I love the stitching and the detail; they complemented my stitched panel (Lil'Inkers) so nicely!

The gingham was stamped with a retired SU wheel that I took off the wheel and mounted on some EZ mount....so much easier to use that way!  And finally, I added some pretty green sequins from my stash!

I loved Sandy's card and I hope she likes my CASE of it!

Cassidy loves my nephew's dog Remy...she was throwing him a stick in our front yard when the sun was going down...the light and glowing greenery was so pretty...it's really not captured in my photos as well as I would like!

  

 I am not sure who was more tired...Cassidy or the dog!  They both got a good workout!

TSOT271 and SIP48 So Sorry

Hi everyone!  Hope you're having a good week so far!  Today, I've got a card using the Stamp Ink Paper challenge colors:

and the Try Stampin on Tuesday sketch:

 A friend of mine recently had to put her little pup down, and I made this to say how sorry I was:

I used DSP from Pretty Petals in Cameo Coral and a retired DSP from a couple years ago, and I think it is actually Soft Sky, but hopefully it's close enough to get by!  The image is from Papertrey's Tiny Treats Valentine set from a few years back; sentiment is from SU's Teeny Tiny Wishes; the gingham is SU's retired Gingham wheel, and the alphabet is SU's retired A to Z.  The circles were all diecut with Lil'Inker stitched circle dies:

I embossed the Chocolate Chip panel with the Arrows EF and added a heart and some brown pearls as a final finish!

Cassidy took her Baby Alive dolls for a little walk:

Unfortunately, they look like they saw a ghost!  Maybe they're just surprised to see the sunshine!  She loves them anyway!

Enjoy your day!

FMS233 You're The Best

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Ah, the weekend is almost upon us!  I have a quick little card today using the FMS sketch:

 Friendly Phrases is one of those fun stamp sets that I just never got to use enough, and since it's retiring, I thought I'd ink it up for today's card.   I stamped a big flower from Flower Patch and trimmed it down, then positioned it behind a stamped gingham strip (retired wheel).  It all went atop an embossed piece, over which I placed my sentiment:

Both stitched elements are from Lil'Inkers; the smaller flower is also from Friendly Phrases!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy spent an hour or so in the craft room with me yesterday, making a birthday card for one of her dolls.  Now, at any given moment, her doll could be 3, 5, or as in this case, 12!  She stamped a little puppy dog, cut out the number 1 and 2 and adhered them on the card:

  

She even came up with her own sentiment, which I wrote out and she traced with a black marker:

I thought this was pretty clever!

 

The clincher was this one though....on the inside, she used a green glitter pen to write her sentiment, and after the first word, she looked at it longingly and said "I could just eat this up!  It's like there's a party going on here!"  LOL...I cracked up!  Who of us hasn't felt that way about something glittery!!!

Paper Players 264

Happy Sunday, everyone!  It’s time for another Paper Players challenge, and today, my sweet friend Claire has a boss sketch for us:

I couldn’t wait to play with this sketch!  And can you believe it?!  After I said I never use Rich Razzleberry, I have used it two times in a week!  Crazy!  I just got my Vintage Leaves stamp set and Leaflet Framelits, so I had to put them to use with some seasonal Farmer’s Market papers:

I used a retired Gingham wheel, stamped in Chocolate Chip, for my horizontal panel; the embossed panel was created with the new Softly Falling EF; and the tag was created with the Tags & Labels dies and stamped with a sentiment and “dots” from the current Paper Pumpkin kit:

Everything was sponged with Crumb Cake ink, and I wish I had done a better job with the leaf….it looks a bit splotchy!  Oh well!  I can’t wait to see what you all do with it…and be sure to check out the DT creations:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

Have a blessed day!

Two Squares and ATC38

Happy Friday, peeps!  The end of the work week and a holiday ahead for us Americans!  I am sharing a couple of 4 1/4” square cards today…these are a fun little change from the standard A2 size!  The first one uses a new In Color, Lost Lagoon, and I think it looks great with Soft Sky and Pistachio Pudding:

I stamped the flowers from Summer Silhouettes in Lost Lagoon; one was “full-strength” and the second was stamped again  without reinking.  I also stamped the gingham panel (from the Gingham wheel that I unmounted from the wheel and added to cling mount to make it into a stamp) in Soft Sky and added some Soft Sky seam binding.  The sentiment on the front is from Something to Say and on the inside, a fun little sentiment from Num Num:

My second card used a scrap of DP I had laying on my desk and the new Endless Birthday Wishes stamp along with the new File Tabs Edgelits. 

I wasn’t sure what I would use these File Tabs  for, but the “celebrate” sentiment fit on the tab perfectly:

I stamped the rest of the sentiment on a Chalk Talk diecut in Real Red and Pacific Point, and added some stars, glittered up as I did on the hearts from this post:

Since my diecut goes off the side of the card, I am entering this in the Addicted to CAS challenge 38, “Off the Edge”!

A little pudding enjoyment:

 

And our baby robins have hatched!  Not too attractive, but here they are:

Hopefully, they’ll be opening their eyes soon and mama will be busy feeding them!

Enjoy your day!

FMS124 & CTD280

Phew, it’s Friday!  YAY!  I am hoping this week is on its way to settling down!  I have had this card made for two days and haven’t had a chance to post it!  It uses the Color Throwdown colors for this week:

and the Freshly Made Sketches sketch from Karren:

Now, in my haste, I totally missed that the sentiment was supposed to be at the TOP LEFT…but I am submitting it anyway and since I love the three panels sketch, I may just do another one!  I need to bulk up my birthday card supply!  So here we go:

I stamped the three panels with the Gingham Wheel, and added an embossed background (which is difficult to see), a couple of stars and a little denim doodad, finished off with some candy dot brads.  I had most of these supplies already on my desk from my last card, LOL! 

I unmounted my Gingham Wheel and adhered it to some clear-mount cling foam (you can find this on page 197 of the current SU catalog) to make it a bit easier to use.  Now off to run some errands!  But first, a little Cassidy pic getting her creative on:

Spritzing:

sponging:

and cutting (we’re still working on scissors skills, LOL!):

Enjoy your day!