PP684 Count Your Rainbows

Happy Sunday, all!  Anne Marie is our Paper Players hostess this week with a fun theme challenge:

I also love using these Impression Obsession rain boot die cuts, and as I was going through my older stamps, I came across this Inkadinkado Kid Quotes stamp set and it seemed perfect for my little notecard:

My inspiration came from Inspired By for this week:

If you look closely, the center umbrella is actually colored like a watermelon! I couldn't make that work on my boots, but I did use sequins in the same colors to accent my little sentiment!

I added a layer of embossing, created by the Falling Hearts embossing folder.  I didn't put a sentiment on the inside...I'll save this for a "rainy day" occasion and add one then!  And I am also going to enter this at the Simply Clean & Simple challenge where they're looking for weather-related cards!

The theme is such an open-wide one---check out what all the design team players did at the Paper Players blog, then share yours with us too!  Can't wait to see it!  Thanks for popping in and enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friendly Advice Kid Quotes (Inkadinkado)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Melon Mambo, Garden Green, Basic Black, Adhesive Sheets
Ink	Garden Green
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Deckle Rectangle Dies, Falling Hearts Embossing Folder (ret), Rain Boots Die (Impression Obsession)

Three Vintage Christmas Cards

 Happy Monday, peeps!  Phew, I'm beat.  It was a crazy hectic day yesterday between church and our covered dish supper, then Christmas Carol hymn sing....but it really put me in the Christmas spirit!  Today is grocery shopping and laundry....so this will be quick!  The challenge from In(k)spire Me is Retro Christmas, and Inspire.Create also wants Christmas this week!  I have had this wood mounted stamp from Inkadinkado for a long time and have never inked it up!  I actually took it off the wood block so I could use it in my Stamparatus and while I was at it, I made three!  

So here we go:

I am not quite sure why the colors in my photo are really off; my images are stamped on Crumb Cake and the card bases are Cherry Cobbler, Misty Moonlight and Shaded Spruce, but it certainly doesn't look like those colors in real life, LOL!  Anyway, you get the gist.  I began by stamping them all in my Stamparatus:

Then I diecut them with a Deckled Edge Rectangle die and used a Blending Brush and Crumb Cake ink to give them a vintage look.  On the corners of each card, I stamped a holly image from the retired Bells & Boughs set, then mounted the image on top:

A vintage sentiment from Crafty Secrets was stamped and diecut, then added to the inside.  Simple & easy!

Thanks for popping in today..if you need any info on any of the products used, just shoot me an email!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

TCC158 Beachy Birthday

Hi there, everyone!  Today is the last Card Concept until the fall, as we'll be taking a summer break!  But look how fun this challenge is:

 

At the Card Concept, we like for you to tell us your style as well as what inspired you (you can see all the "styles" on the CC blog), and today, I made a clean-and-layered card inspired by the colors in the whale welcome sign, the braid around the display, the sand dollars and the skinny font on the mugs!  Here we go:

I found a small rectangle of "paneling" paper; it was actually white, so I gave it a wash with some weak Pool Party ink to color it to the shade I wanted.  Of course, I didn't let it dry all the way, so when I stamped my sentiment, it bled a little, and when I added some watery speckles, it bled a little more!

I guess that adds to the "seaside" theme, LOL!  I loosely used a sketch that I saw at Fusion, and stamped some sand dollars in Sahara Sand to tuck down on the lower right.  I added some thick white twine and then mounted it on a panel of ocean blue that was embossed with a Seaside embossing folder:

It all went on a Crumb Cake card base....really easy and really beachy!  I hope you'll play along with our last challenge of the season...be sure to tell us your style and inspiration too!  You can see all the details, as well as what the other designers created, at the Card Concept blog! 

Cassidy wanted to make silly putty yesterday, so we gathered up some glue, food coloring and Borax and started mixing:

Soon it began pulling together and looking more like silly putty...albeit green silly putty!

Then she had to knead it together....it turned from a squishy mess into a nice mound of putty!

Even Grampy was impressed!

 Thanks for stopping by--enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (ret), Seashells (Inkadinkado)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic White, Wonderland DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Twine from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangles Die, Seaside Embossing Folder, Aquapainter

KCC538 CAS Birthday Pup

 Hi everyone!  It's time for a new Krafty Chicks challenge!  This week Leanne is hosting a Clean and Simple challenge!

I went back to my new Rare Image stamps I got recently and picked out a cute little pup that looks like my sister's dog Daisy!  Daisy is a feisty little thing, although she has a penchant for provoking copperheads and getting bitten!  My sister's birthday is coming up, so I thought this little image and a fun sentiment from Inkadinkado worked together well:

I'd been hoarding this big gingham ribbon, so I tied it into a loose knot to accent the top, and rounded the corners at the bottom.  I punched out two hearts; one from Real Red cardstock and another smaller one, stamped in a small gingham check, and layered them below the sentiment!  I hope she likes it and I hope it will make becoming one year older a little easier, LOL!  

We invite you to play along in our CAS challenge...you can see what the other designers created this week at the Krafty Chicks blog!  Thanks for popping in today...enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pets (Rare Image), Friendly Advice Kid Quotes (Inkadinkado), Background Basics: Gingham (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red
Ink	Real Red, Memento Black
Accessories	Gingham Ribbon (from my stash)
Tools	Corner Rounder Punch (ret)

RRCB69 and Jingle Belles Spirit of Christmas Past

Happy Saturday, all!  I am late posting today....no excuse except that I couldn't get to sleep last night so I stayed up too late!  Anyway, I started this card at 1:30 in the morning and just finished it, LOL  It is for the RetroRubber sketch challenge as well as the Jingle Belles Spirits of Christmas Past challenge!

I couldn't pass up a vintage Christmas challenge, now could I?  I turned the sketch on its side so that I could use this Inkadinkado image; I have had this for over a year but never inked it up...so I guess I probably got it in 2015:

I stamped it in Cherry Cobbler on some My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Christmas 6x6 paper, trimming it by hand and mounting it on a panel of striped paper that was in my scrap pile!!!  The Pear Pizzazz mat was stamped with the holly image from Bells and Boughs (2010) and the "sending" is from Papertrey's Mistletoe and Holly, and I am not sure of the year of that one...maybe 2013?  I just love this sweet font:

  

as well as these sweet images:

and the inside features a sentiment and snowflakes from Jolly Christmas (2015):

Thanks for popping in today...be sure to come back tomorrow for a fun Paper Players challenge!

GDP065 and MCC10 Cabin in the Woods

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Halfway through the week!  I was excited to see the color challenge at Global Design Project:

Of course, when I made my card, I used CHERRY COBBLER instead of Real Red....sigh.  I think I have Christmas overload brain!  But I like my card anyway, so I am entering it and that will be that! 

I have SO many Christmas stamps, sometimes I actually forget which ones I have!  This is one of them.....it's sort of a seasonal stamp that could be used for Christmas; it's from Inkadinkado, and I stamped it on Crumb Cake in Early Espresso and added some white watercolor pencil as well as white Craft ink in the snowy areas:

The background was stamped with a Stampendous Christmas background stamp in Tip Top Taupe, and I also stamped some pinecone images from an Artistic Outpost stamp set in Crumb Cake, then sponged the edges of everything!  I added some glitter to the snowy areas too:

For my glittery sprig, I diecut some Early Espresso cardstock with a Tim Holtz Greenery die, coated it with Versamark and Heat and Stick powder, heated it up,  then coated it with some Martha Stewart glitter:

Finally, I stamped a sentiment from Sweet & Sassy (Holiday Greetings) in the bottom corner!  

I am also entering this in the Merry Christmas Challenge, which is to make a snowy scene!  Thanks for popping in today!

Dana has been doing some part-time waitressing, and one of her customers gave her some money for Cassidy to spend, so she did some shopping at a craft show last weekend.  Of course, a cookie was high on the list, and it is a cute cookie, as far as cookies go:

Having no front teeth does not stop her from eating around it until she got to the most important part:

Yum!

 Enjoy your day & be blessed!

ColourQ 107

Happy Tuesday, all you tricksters!  Check out this color combo from Arielle today:

Not quite sure what this is, but with all the buttons and glittery ribbon, I am sure it would be something my DGD would love!  I just got a fun new stamp and was trying to make it work for this challenge; not too sure of my final outcome (win some, lose some, right?) so here it is:

I do love the inside sentiment, though:

That just cracks me up, for some reason!  Anyway, I did make another quick little card for a quick little granddaughter:

A little simpler and more fun with all that glitter!!!  I hope you can find a creative spark to turn these colors into something fabulous!  Share it with us over at the ColourQ blog and while you’re there, check out what the other designers made as well! 

Sunday was Cassidy’s baptism; she almost fell out of the minister’s arms trying to play in the water in the baptismal font!!!  Afterwards we had lunch with family, and it was a beautiful day to RUN outside:

Thanks for visiting today!

Wee Details:

First Card:

• Stamps:  Spooky Bingo Bits, Trickster Cat, Inkadinkado
• Paper:  WW, Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie Patterns DP, K&Co DP
• Ink:  Versamark, White Craft, Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie
• Acc:  White & Clear Embossing Powders, Heat Tool, Nestie, Tasteful Trims Die, Dimensionals

Second Card:

• Stamps:  Spooky Bingo Bits
• Paper:  WW,  Lucky Limeade, Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie
• Ink:  Early Espresso
• Acc:  Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, 1” Circle Punch, 1 3/8” Square Punch, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, Glue Pen, Timeless Type Alphabet Die

FTL121

Just a quick little post today with a CAS thank you card for a little Scottish lady from our church who makes me shortbread cookies every year for Christmas!  Yum!  I used the Fall-to Layout #121 from Clean & Simple Stamping:

and a clear set from Inkadinkado (I think):

DP is from Crafty Secrets; sentiment is from SU’s Happy Moments.  TFL!