Retro Valentine Altoid Tin

Happy Tuesday, peeps! For a while, I have been wanting to make one of these little altered Altoid tins with a Valentine theme and I finally got some time to do it!  All the images were digital, mostly from the Graphics Fairy and the Old Design Shop websites.  They were printed out in multiples on white cardstock, then trimmed, fussy-cut and layered.  I added some older printed papers from my stash as backgrounds, along with a few other embellishments!  Here we go:

I know I have a red tin in my stash but I was too lazy to dig it out, so I went with a blue one since this little pair seemed to go very nicely with it!  If you're of a "certain age", these Valentine figures will bring back fond memories!  The back of the tin was embellished with some gems and a couple of Tim Holtz stickers:

The inside; again, images were trimmed, fussy-cut and popped up:

I ran a strip of Sticky Strip around the outer edge and added some Classic Weave ribbon and adhered the bow with some more Sticky Strip:

Hope you enjoyed this walk down memory lane!   Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

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!

Vintage Easter Card

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Bleahh...my spring allergies are kicking in and spring break starts today, so this will be short & sweet!  I found this darling image in my digital vintage image file...I think it is from Graphics Fairy....printed it out on some cream-colored stationery and mounted it on a mat of Lost Lagoon:

I scrounged around in my scraps of DSP and found some pretty complementary papers and snazzed it all together with some blue shabby seam binding I had made a while back.  He's a handsome fellow, don't you think?

Quick and easy and it's out in the mail!

Finally mastering those pesky scissors!

Enjoy your day and thanks for visiting!

Black and White Christmas

Happy Thursday, everyone!  I know today is St Patrick's Day, but I have a Christmas card for you, LOL!  I wasn't sure I would be able to pull off the Merry Monday's challenge of black, white and silver, but I persevered!  I also used the Jingle Belles challenge of Spirit of Christmas Past (Joy to the World music) and the Stamp, Ink, Paper sketch:

And here's my card:

I printed out some vintage sheet music from the Graphics Fairy in grayscale to use as my background.  The sentiment, stamped in Silver Encore ink, is from Papertrey's O Holy Night, and the silver glimmer paper bell is cut using a Lil'Inker die.  I used glimmer paper for my back panel and the banners are Basic Black and Silver Foil from SU:

And I love the inside too....another sentiment from O Holy Night, and I used the little silver stars that I popped out from the bell to accent it:

Cassidy had another birthday party for AJ; I didn't have the heart to tell her these were Christmas gift bags, LOL!  He is excited about his DVD!

Two of the guests (I dare you to keep a straight face!):

 

And she "helps" him push his new cart!

Enjoy your day!

Silhouette Birds

Sneaking in here on a Saturday afternoon; I rewarded myself with some stamping time after doing a little house cleaning…..do you do that?  Work some, play (read: stamp) some!  I wanted to play with the Kraft Journal’s Nature/Earth Day theme this week, but didn't get around to it, so here it is!  I used a Graphics Fairy image of some silhouetted birds, since Karen is looking for cards made with her graphics, and printed them on some parchment paper I snagged at a yard sale:

I mounted them on a panel of Crumb Cake with a retired Cornish Heritage Farms backgrounder that I stamped  in white craft ink and then I added a flower I created using tissue paper that was in my last Paper Pumpkin!  It is fun to recycle stuff!  You can’t see it too well, but the center is a brad topped with a little pearl; the sentiment is from Another Thank You.

Someone did something really nice  for me yesterday and this will be going to that certain someone!  I am truly blessed!  Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Color Throwdown Celebration!

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Today is a really, really special day!  The Color Throwdown is celebrating their 250th challenge!!  The uber-talented Tammy Hershberger contacted me five years ago and asked me if I wanted to participate in a new challenge she was starting….and as nervous as I was, I said yes!  I enjoyed working with the team and had fun “throwing down” their color combinations!!!  Although I am not on the team now, I still enjoy playing occasionally.  So let’s look at the palette they’ve chosen for us today:

What a fun beachy combination!  I just snagged this cute little sand pail image from the Graphics Fairy, so I printed it out on watercolor paper, colored it in and paired it with some beach-themed images and sentiment:

I added a sand castle punched border, sparkling with “sand”:

and I filled my pail with some shells and starfish from Crab & Co:

Of course, when there’s a celebration, there’s always prizes!  Be sure to check the Color Throwdown blog for all the details, rules and regs, and to see the humongous amount of goodies that they are giving away---like $400 worth!  Personally, I’ll be offering a brand-new wood-mount set called Raining Flowers:

And finally, since today’s challenge had some flip flops, I thought I’d share this photo of Cassidy wearing a really “well-loved” pair of flip flops that Grammy keeps by the door (since Grammy prefers going barefoot most of the summer!):

LRW153 & SCH31

Happy Friday!  Today’s creation is more than a card….it’s actually a little propped-up vintage doodad/decoration…not sure what to call it!  I printed out some vintage Halloween images from Graphics Fairy, did a tiny bit of stamping and a bunch of embellishing and here we go:

This fulfills two challenges; Little Red Wagon has a button challenge (at least three!) and Sugar Creek Hollow has a “Things with Wings” challenge….and I have an owl and two bats!

I even managed to sneak in a little ghost, wandering among the trees and pumpkins!

Hope it gives you a wee bit of a giggle!   And here’s what my wee one has been doing with HER broom:

Have a great day!

FMS47 and CCCB121

Happy Thursday, peeps! I am feeling near-human again thanks to my wonderful doctor and some good meds!  Thanks for all the well-wishes!   I actually did not feel like stamping the last few days but perked up enough yesterday to play with the Freshly Made Sketches sketch 47 from the talented Jen Timko:

I also used a Graphics Fairy image offered over at the City Crafter Challenge Blog…..you can see it here.  Now you know I am all over the Graphics Fairy, and I hadn’t played for a long time at the CCCB, so I combined the two!

My friend Linda was lamenting that she could not warm up to Summer Starfruit, so my original intent was to make a card using it with some other SU colors to see which ones complemented it the best.  These were not the colors I had in mind, but when I saw the colors in the butterfly, I just went with them!  Gumball Green, another In Color, just happened to be one of them

I found several scraps of DP that fit the colors, stamped the background with the French Script stamp, then tacked on a couple snippets of stitched ribbon.  Finally I added a little PTI sentiment stamped on vellum and punched with the Large Oval punch:

This is going to another friend who has been under the weather….what is it with this summer, everyone being sick?  I am ready for fall!
I ventured down to the creek that runs between my property and my brother’s; there is a low enough spot where Cassidy can play (I take off her shorts because I know she’s going to sit in wet grass!):

Did you see that awesome spider web?  And of course, she picks the biggest rock she can find to toss:

Thanks for visiting today!