PP538 A Sketch from Claire

Happy Sunday, stampers!  I am back after my blog break, and I wish I could say that I got my entire craft room neat and tidy, but unfortunately, it's only a wee bit better!  I sure do have a lot of stamps!  I will keep chipping away at my stash and keep working on the "tidy" part though! 

Claire is our Paper Players hostess with week with a lovely sketch, and I pulled out a die I hadn't used for a while to bring it to life!  Here's the sketch:

I dusted off my Sunflower dies and some retired Flower and Field DSP for my bright and cheerful card:

I diecut the sunflower from some Whisper White and Bumblebee cardstocks, and colored the center with some Bumblebee ink:

I polka-dot stamped and diecut some Granny Apple Green leaves, then stamped a sentiment in Granny Apple Green and fussy-cut it to layer on top of a stitched banner:

I love how bright and sunny this card is!  Now be sure to check out all the samples at the Paper Players blog...then share yours with us as well!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy was invited to her friend's birthday party and they went ziplining!  COOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline."  

 2 Timothy 1:7 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hi There (ret), Dot Dot Dot (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Bumblebee, Granny Apple Green, Field and Flower DSP (ret)
Ink	Granny Apple Green, Bumblebee
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Sunflower Dies, Tasteful Labels Dies, Aquapainter

IB120 Cute Critters

Hey stampin' peeps!  It's Thursday already, and time for a new Inspired By challenge!!!  Eeeek, this picture is SO stinkin' cute!!  I realized that I don't have any hedgie stamps, and this kitchen set almost made me go out and buy some!  Check this out:

I remembered to use the optional sketch too--woohoo!

The only "cutesie" animal stamp that I could come up with right off the top of my head is my Woodland Greetings from CTMH.  I stamped three of them, colored them with Blends, diecut them out, and here we go:

I popped them up on a circle of Lemon Lime Twist, embossed with a Decorative Dots EF to mimic the texture on the cookie jar, and I used sentiments from a retired SU set called Hi There:

  

The gingham is some digital paper, and I added some Daffodil Delight scallops to add to the bright colors!  The inside was stamped with a past Paper Pumpkin birthday sentiment:

I think these little critters would bring a smile to someone's face, as they did mine!  I hope you'll play along with our FUN inspiration photo this week!  Be sure to stop by the Inspired By blog to see the cute creations the DT made as well!  Thanks for popping by!

Since we couldn't see Cassidy for Easter, I gathered up a couple of past projects I had made, tucked in a couple of pieces of candy and sent them off to her!!  I have been trying to mail her puzzles and jokes each week as well!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!  And if you're looking for my Tic Tac Toe post, you can find it here!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hi There (ret), Woodland Greetings (Close to My Heart), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist (ret), Digital Gingham
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Extra-Long Rectangle Dies (Nestabilties), Decorate Dots EF (ret), 3/4" Circle Punch, Blends in Pool Party, Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral

CTD358, SR293 and LRW305

Happy Friday, all!  A quick card today incorporating three challenges  Color Throwdown:

Little Red Wagon wants clean and simple, and Stampin’ Royalty wants us to use circles!  I need a birthday card for my nephew who is a senior in high school this year (how did THAT happen?) and he was a lifeguard this summer, so this retired SU Surfer image seemed appropriate!  I used some circle dies, the spatter from Gorgeous Grunge, and the circles were inked with various bottles on my desk…I just dipped them into the Daffodil Delight ink pad!  Fun, huh?!  The sentiment is from the retired Hi There:

And my inside sentiment is courtesy of a Paper Pumpkin kit from a couple months ago!

Thanks for popping by!

Cassidy went “mining” while she was camping (the gems are placed on little outcroppings of rock, so they’re easy to find)….this is her stash!  She’s looking a little tired….I think it was the end of a long, fun-filled day!

Paper Players 235

Hi, everyone!  I trust you’re having a great weekend!  It’s Paper Players time, with Anne Marie as our hostess!  She has a wonderful color challenge for us this week; check it out:

Seeing those colors together like that made me think of the current Create with Connie & Mary sketch 345:

so I went to work, pulling out some scraps to make my card for this week:

Since I had the Hi There set already out, I thought it would be fun to incorporate the sentiments into the circular elements; I added a “hello” from the So You photopolymer set, just isolating it from the “hello sunshine” sentiment:

I also stamped some faux washi from Tape It along the diagonal and added a wee bit of linen thread!  It feels good to use some of my older stamps along with the newer ones!

I think the DT did an awesome job with these colors!  Be sure to check out their samples, and show us yours as well!  Here’s their links, or you can just go to the Paper Players blog to see them all!

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Claire
• Debbie
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Karren
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Shannon

Enjoy your day, and thanks so much for visiting today!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Tape It, Hi There, So You
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Crisp Cantaloupe, Crumb Cake, DSP:  Story Time & Sweet Sorbet
Ink	Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Crisp Cantaloupe, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Linen Thread, Candy Dots
Tools	Big Shot, Fancy Fan EF, Perfect Polka Dots EF, Circle Thinlits, Punches:  Small Banner, 3/4" Circle, 1 1/4" Circle, 7/8" Scallop, 1 1/4" Scallop, Dimensionals

RS155 and CQC282 Funny Cats

Happy Thursday peeps!  I haven’t played much with the ColourQ challenges since I left, but when I saw this one, with the pretty blues and newsprint, I knew I had to play this week!

I paired it with Arielle’s RetroSketches sketch too:

So, this card is a little silly, but I just love these little cats in a row from 100 Proof Press!  I fussy cut them from some Very Vanilla cardstock and mounted them on a circle of Newsprint.  The card is a little shorter than average so that I could have the upper part of the circle extend beyond the edge, and still fit into a standard-sized envelope:

A couple of embossing folders and a trendy sentiment from Hi There, atop a Word Bubble diecut gives it a little bit of interest!

Do you think they’re expanding their kitty horizons by reading the newspaper?!  LOL!  Enjoy your day!

Playing with her foam shapes:

It’s a birthday cake!

Uh oh….not happy about me taking pictures!!!

ColourQ253

 

Hey, peeps!  Tuesday morning brings another ColourQ, and is it a cutie!  Check this out:

Wow, I would never have thought to put these colors together, but aren’t they striking?  I knew I wanted to mimic the plaid, but what to use with it?  No kidding, in the last few days of stamping, this is what my craft area looks like:

I counted them, and there are over 20 SU sets there….and I still couldn’t decide what to use!!!  Maybe I have TOO MANY stamps?  Nah!  In the end, I scrounged up an older Whippersnapper pup that hasn’t seen ink for a long time!  What do you think:

The plaid was created with the stripes stencil from the Build a Banner Simply Created kit and sponges;  I used the Hi There sentiment on a Word Bubble die, and stamped the dog in black Stazon and watercolored him with Summer Starfruit.  I wanted to dude it up some more, but in the end, I decided to leave it just as it was!  And here’s the inside:

That sentiment just cracks me up!

I hope you’ll play along with this striking color combo!  You can check out ALL the design team’s samples at the ColourQ…..and share yours too!  See ya there!

Not sure what this conversation was about while we were dining al fresco the other night, but it was quite animated!

Love that face!  Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Hi There (SU), Good Dog (Whippersnapper)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Summer Starfruit, Early Espresso
Ink	Tempting Turquoise, Summer Starfruit, Early Espresso, Island Indigo
Accessories
Tools	Bit Shot, Word Bubble Dies, Stitched Mat Dies (Lil Inker), Aquapainter, Dimensionals

ColourQ 250

Hi everyone!  Tuesday means ColourQ day!  Arielle has a fabulous challenge for us today:

I love this dress….the bold colors and design remind me of the Mondrian style from the 60s!  I knew right away how I was going to interpret this!  I pulled out some Back to Black DP and went to coloring in some of the florals with markers:

I added this great sentiment from Hi There, and since I already had some sequins out on my desk  from Monday’s card, I added a few to the Chalk Talk die panel…I think it adds a nice little sparkle!  Can’t wait to see how you interpret this cool design!

I’ll be taking a little bloggy break….after I get home from convention I have a few family obligations, so I am not committing to posting anything for the week!  But if I do have time, I might pop in…..you never know!

I caught Cassidy sitting on her bed, playing with an old FP carousel toy:

She loves to figure out how things work!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Hi There
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Back to Black DP
Ink	Stazon Black
Accessories	Coastal  Cabana Baker's Twine, In Color Sequins
Tools	Big Shot, Chalk Talk Dies, Markers in Coastal Cabana, Calypso Coral, So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz and Crisp Cantaloupe, Dimensionals

ColourQ249 and an Experiment

Hey peeps!  It’s Tuesday, and look at this cute pillow Arielle found as her inspiration this week for the ColourQ:

I’ve been on a pillow-making frenzy the last week myself, but mine aren’t as cute as these!  I really wanted to incorporate a bird into my card, but the only one I could come up with was the toucan from Zoo Babies!  So here we go:

I heat-embossed each bird in white ink and white EP on cardstock in the challenge colors, then popped them out with a 1 1/4” circle punch.  The new set, Hi There, had a perfect trendy sentiment, so I stamped it in Poppy Parade and popped it up on a white circle and added some thick twine in Coastal Cabana.

They’re on a diecut mat from Lil’Inkers and my Coastal Cabana panel is embossed with a Cuttlebug EF.  And those sassy chicks at Just Us Girls have changed things up a bit, so their challenge this week is a word challenge---BIRD!!  Woohoo!  So I am linking this up there as well!

I made a second card using the challenge colors…I kind of wanted to experiment with stamping on tissue paper to make faux washi tape, but Cassidy was napping in the room where the tissue paper was, and I didn’t dare want to disturb her, so I tried stamping on a napkin!  LOL!  It turns out to be a wee bit fragile, but sort of fun…I used the As You See It challenge sketch, turning it on its side:

and did some die-cutting:

The banners sort of flutter…I really didn’t want to try to tape them down!  This uses Tape It and dies from Chalk Talk and the Circle Card Thinlets on a notecard!  And here’s the inside, using the “yay” diecut with Endless Birthday Wishes:

Hope you can play along with us at the ColourQ!  I always love to see what the designers as well as the participants come up with!

Have a blessed day!