AYSI276 Sunny Lemonade

Happy Friday, peeps!  Happy weekend!  Time for a new As You See It challenge, and I love this one!  Check it out:

 

Normally, I would have gone for COFFEE, but that refreshing picture challenged me to go for something different!  Although I have lamented that I have almost NO fruit stamps, I did find a lemon one in the pile of stamps my friend gifted me!  So here we go:

I used the retired Jar of Love stamp set to create my "glass" and some vellum to create the lemonade.  You can't see it in the photo, but after coloring the back of the vellum with a Blend, I covered the front with Wink of Stella!  It looks so "refreshing"!  I added a straw from Jar of Flowers and the lemon is from an old SAB set called A Happy Thing.  I fussy cut it out after coloring it with some reinkers, then adhered it to a plaid DSP background:

And since nothing is sunnier than a pretty yellow lemon and some fresh lemonade, I added a sentiment from the retired Sunny Sentiments:

This was a fun card to create!  I am going to leave the inside blank and when the occasion arises to use it, I'll stamp something then!  And I am going to enter this in the current Krafty Chicks challenge, which is to stamp something!

I hope you'll find something that inspires you this week when you peruse our challenge photo!  Remember, it doesn't have to be lemonade, it can be any beverage!  The design team has some really fun, cute samples, so be sure to check them out at the AYSI blog, then share yours as well!  Thanks for visiting today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Flowers, Sunny Sentiments (ret), Jar of Love (ret), A Happy Thing (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Vellum, Chicken Scratch Gingham (Papertrey Ink)
Ink	Soft Suede, Mango Melody, Pool Party, Pear Pizzazz, Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Everyday Jar Dies, Aquapainter, Blends, Wink of Stella

The Card Concept 175 Jar of Flowers

Happy Wednesday, crafty friends!  It's time for a new Card Concept challenge, where we use different concepts to create our cards!  Today I have another clean and layered card (no surprise there!), but first, let's see the prompt that Julie has for us:

Isn't that so pretty!  What gorgeous colors!  I used the colors as my inspiration, along with the flowers and the jar!  Here we go:

I wish I had some pretty pale DSP in the pink shade that is in the photo, but I couldn't find anything that I liked, so I opted for the Pale Papaya paper from the Hand-Penned retired papers.  I pulled out my trusty Jar of Love and stamped some flowers in pretty colors and arranged them in my Pale Papaya jar:

I added a sentiment from Happiness Abounds, stamped on a Tailor Made Tag and added some Pale Papaya ribbon.  I also used the Stitched with Whimsy die around the outside edge of the DSP.  I'll add a sentiment on the inside when I'm ready to send this little pretty off!

I think this is such a gorgeous spring inspiration that I hope you'll play along with us at the Card Concept.  You can see all the "concepts" on the blog; be sure to tell us what concept you're using too!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy just loves babies and Dana's friend was happy to oblige her by letting her hold her wee one:

Dana calls her a little Cabbage Patch!  LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness." Colossians 2:6-7

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happiness Abounds, Jar of Love (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Hand-Penned DSP (ret)
Ink	Mint Macaron, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, Poppy Parade, Pale Papaya, Blushing Bride, Petal Pink
Accessories	Pale Papaya Sheer Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Stitched With Whimsy Dies,  Everyday Jar Dies (ret)

RRCB180 Hello

Hi there, everyone!  Tuesday means a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we show some love to our older stamps!  Heaven knows I have LOTS of them!  Today we have a fun sketch:

Love it!  I returned to one of my favorite 6x6 pads, Home Again by Carta Bella, and pulled out some coordinating papers:

I was late making my card, so I was trying to be quick, and my original one used a stamp that wasn't a year old! Yikes, I ripped off the tag and started anew; this time I used Jar of Love (2016) for my sentiment, stamping it on a Thick Basic White banner in Memento Black.  In hindsight, I should have added a little black doodad on the tag so it would coordinate with my paper! I can still add it on, right?

I also stamped a sprig from the same set and diecut it out, then added a bow of Linen thread to mimic the sprigs on the printed paper.  

All in all, for a quick card, I think it's pretty sweet!  I think I'll be playing with this sketch again, it's really fun to do, and I hope you'll play along too!  Just remember to use stamps that are at least a year old and tell us the approximate age!  You can see what the other design team members created at the Retro Rubber blog!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Love (2016, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Home Again DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Memento Black, Sage Shadow (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Linen Thread
Tools	Big Shot, Everyday Jar Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Nestabilities)

TCC167 Bring in the New Year

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  First, let me say thank you to all the sweet comments we got wishing Cassidy healing!  She's doing much better!  And now it's time to start The Card Concept challenges again...here's the pretty photo prompt Julie has to start us out for 2022!  I chose to be inspired by the colors, the stripes, the florals and the silverware:

I also used the sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

and here we go:

My card is a little slimline one....3"x 6", and when I started, I had something totally different in mind!  Does that ever happen to you?  I diecut stitched squares of some Honey patterned paper from My Mind's Eye that coordinated with the colors in the challenge photo, then added some silver diecut elements to create my first Valentine of the year!  I used Stitched Be Mine and Love Note dies to create my embellishments:

My diecut sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp; I added a wee bit of embossing at the top portion of the card itself, then a stitched scallop border of Crushed Curry and some striped DSP from last year's spring mini.  The inside was stamped with a sentiment from Jar of Love along with another row of hearts:

As far as the style, I would say it's my usual Clean and Layered!  You can see all the styles on the Card Concept blog, and we would love to have you play along and tell us what your style is!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Love (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Crushed Curry, True Love DSP (ret), Silver Glimmer (ret), Honey DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Polished Pink
Accessories	Rhinestones, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Hearts Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Love Notes Dies (ret), Small Love You Die (Simon Says Stamp), Tin Tile Embossing Folder (ret)

TCC137 Bottle Cap Hello

Hey there, stampers!  It's time for another Card Concept challenge, and our photo prompt is an awesome one, perfect for a masculine card!  Check it out:

I love the vintage, retro look of this hunting/fishing lakeside scene!  And although I didn't have any stamps that fit that particular fishing or hunting theme, I knew I had a retro-style stamp that would!  So here we go:

This Artistic Outpost Bottle Cap stamp is a full sheet stamp, and I stamped it in Soft Suede on some fabric-y looking DSP from SU that we had a few years back.  After cleaning my stamp, I stamped it again in Poppy Parade, Garden Green, Old Olive and Crushed Curry, then fussy cut some of the caps out and adhered them to the main layer.  I punched out another circle from the same DSP and stamped "Hello" from the retired Jar of Love in one of the spaces, then mounted it all on a Crumb Cake base.  And THEN it got lots of distressing and sponging to give it a real vintage look!  Here are closeups of the caps...aren't they cool? They almost look real!

Of course, at The Card Concept, we always like you to tell us what inspired you, as well as the style of card you've created (you can see the styles on the blog). For my card, I was inspired by the colors, the retro vibe, and the advertising signs in the photo, and my style is definitely Shabby Chic and Vintage!  I've left the inside blank, too, so I can add a sentiment later.  I just love these cool images!  They're so much more interesting than the soda logos out there now!

I hope you'll play along with The Card Concept this week, and be sure to stop over to see what the designers created as well!  

Cassidy saw somewhere on the computer how to make freeze pops with Capri Sun and Airheads candy (gross, but I gave her credit for wanting to try!). We searched for popsicle molds while shopping on Monday to no avail, so we decided to just freeze them in some plastic baby food containers we had saved:

We were going to put skewers in them when they were partially frozen but we FORGOT!  Cassidy took them to the neighbors when she went swimming yesterday and they just ate them with a spoon....or licked them, as you can see:

They ate them all so I guess they were good!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Love (ret), Bottle Caps (Artistic Outpost)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Serene Scenery DSP (ret)
Ink	Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Crushed Curry, Garden Green, Poppy Parade, Old Olive
Accessories
Tools	1 3/8" Circle Punch, Sponge Daubers, Acrylic Ruler (for distressing edges)

PP446 Pink Lemonade and a Visitor!

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's time for another Paper Players challenge, this week Claire has a clean-and-simple one for us:

Once again, like on Thursday with the lemony challenge, I find myself without any summer beverage-type stamps!  I must really live under a rock or something!  In my quest to figure out how to use what I have to create a card suitable for today, I totally spaced out on the CLEAN AND SIMPLE part....so I actually have two cards to show, the challenge one and the spaced-out not-clean-and-simple one!  So here we go for the challenge one:

This is not really as CAS as I would like because the elements are diecut and popped up, but I had the idea and I did it anyway!  I used a couple of retired sets, Coffee Cafe and Jar of Love, to create my pink lemonade cooler, straw and flowers! I just love these colors of Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo and Mango Melody!  I added a couple of words from different non-SU sets to create my sentiment, then plopped on three matching sequins and added some Wink of Stella to my lemonade:

And here is my stepped-up version:

Same basic idea, I just added the diecut stitched frames and more sequins, along with a different summery sentiment on a Word Bubble diecut!  I will probably send these out as summer birthday cards!  And I am entering this one in the Festive Friday challenge of "Summer"!!

The Design Team came up with some amazing cards this week as well...you need to check them out at the Players blog!  Then share your cool, refreshing CAS summer drink creation as well!

So about my visitor....it was my friend Wendy!  Hubby Shawn very kindly took this photo of us!

She doesn't live that far away, but she said she thought it was 2005 or 2006 that we last saw each other...crazy! AND she just happened to be the Paper Players headliner yesterday, woohoo!   She came for a little visit, and brought me a gorgeous framed piece:

This picture doesn't do it justice.....and I am thrilled because I don't have this stamp set and I can share this with all my customers to show them how beautiful it is!  Just gorgeous!  Thanks, Wendy!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Jar of Love (ret), Coffee Cafe (ret), Kinda Ecletic (ret),  Wreath for All Seasons (Papertrey), All Smiles (Unity)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, Mango Melody
Ink	Coastal Cabana, Pool Party, Flirty Flamingo, Mango Melody, Pineapple Punch
Accessories	Sequins (Sylvia's Etsy Shop), Dimensionals, Wink of Stella Pen
Tools	Big Shot, Everyday Jars Dies (ret), Stitched Rectangle Dies, Word Bubble Dies (ret), Stamparatus, Aquapainter

RRCB112 Buttons and Bows

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  It's time for another Retro Rubber challenge....we want to see buttons or bows on your card!

I do love putting bows on my cards, but I got out of the habit of adding buttons because of postage!  BUT....I saved this little button die SU had many years ago and it allows me to make paper buttons!  So here we go:

I thought it would be fun to create a jar of buttons using the Jar of Love (2017) set, but I really was resisting doing a shaker card....but in the end, I gave in because it just needed to be done! ((I really didn't even take into consideration that the challenge photo featured jars, LOL!)  I stamped the smallest jar in Pool Party, then added Balmy Blue and Poppy Parade buttons, a Poppy Parade bow and a Balmy Blue lid:

I used some thin strips of dimensionals and a window sheet to create the jar....since it's not sequins or beads, there's no danger of these buttons falling out the side!  This cute paper from my stash seemed to be a perfect match, and a sweet little sentiment from a Cornish Heritage Farms (maybe 2012?) set called Sew Special finished it off:

I am also using the sketch from Inspire.Create:

There are so many things you could do with our embellishment challenge!  Be sure to use older stamps (at least a year old) and tell us the age of them, as close as you can!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Share them with us at the RetroRubber blog!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Love (2017 ret), Sew Special (2012 Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Balmy Blue, Poppy Parade, Misc DSPs, Window Sheet
Ink	Balmy Blue, Poppy Parade, Pool Party
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Everyday Jars Dies, Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Button Die (ret)

PP431 Spring Fever

Hi everyone!  Happy Sunday to you!  Anne Marie is our Paper Players hostess today and she has a fun spring-themed challenge:

It's decidedly un-spring-like here this weekend...we have had snow, sleet, rain and now more snow predicted for this afternoon!  March is definitely coming in like a lion!  But we can have any season we want on our crafting creations, right?!  So here is my springy creation for this week:

Spring to me means Easter, cute little bunny images and some pretty spring colors!  I used this delightful sketch from Narelle at Freshly Made Sketches:

I just love this little bunny from a long-ago set called Hello Spring, but he was facing the wrong way, so I decided to try my hand at the "reflection" technique using my SU Silicone Mat.  I had found a really good tutorial (but can't put my finger on it now....I'll work on that....) but there are good ones on the internet, so feel free to look it up!  Anyway, I stamped my bunny, cut him out and colored him with some blends, then added some retired SAB DSP from a few years back, a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings, a few sequins, and some foliage from Jar of Love:

I cut out my mat with a Wonky Stitched die from My Favorite Things, then mounted it on a Soft Sky card base...I am still lamenting the retirement of Soft Sky, so this will go to a SPECIAL person for sure, LOL!  

I hope you'll play along with our challenge this week....everyone can use some spring in their day, or their step, or wherever!!!  Check out what the Paper Players design team did as well!

Here's what we've been doing this March:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Jar of Love, Hello Spring (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Soft Sky (ret), Sahara Sand, DSP (I forget the name!)
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Silicone Mat, Stamparatus, SU Blends, Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Wonky Stitched Die (My Favorite Things)

IB43 Mad for Plaid

Howdy, peeps!  Thursday....the week is winding down...and it's time for another Inspired By challenge!  I loved Laurel's photo prompt, but I admit it did challenge me a bit!  First, here's my card:

Now here's her cute prompt:

Aren't all those thermoses full of retro fun?!  I wanted to use the CAS Colours and Sketches sketch for this week:

and I was trying to keep it pretty clean and simple, so instead of incorporating all those gorgeous plaids, I just did a few!!  I used the Buffalo Check stamp and stamped it three different ways, then used the leaf dies from the Seasonal Layers Thinlets to cut them out:  I added some additional "plaid" with markers:

I adhered them to a panel of Very Vanilla that was embossed with the Cable Knit EF, then added a sentiment from A Big Thank You that I cut with a Stitched Shape Framelit:

 

Finally, I dusted off some washi tape to make my horizontal lines and added a little embroidery floss bow!  When I was cleaning up my desk (haha--sort of), I noticed the negative portion of the red Buffalo Check was a fairly good size, so I used it to make a second card; I used the same sketch, but made it into another shaker card:

I stamped the panel with the Burlap background stamp, adding a sentiment from Jar of Love, and the inside of the shaker was stamped with a crackle stamp from an old Paper Pumpkin set:

I found adding sequins to a shaped opening was a little more challenging than just a square or circle!  But in the end, I was happy with it!  I like the country feel of this one!  

Thanks for popping in today and I hope that you'll participate in the IB challenge this week...those plaid thermoses will give you lots of inspiration!

So we had about 45 minutes yesterday afternoon to make Halloween cookies...Cass invited Lee over and we went to work.  The cookie dough was already made, they just needed to roll it out, cut the cookies and we had some Halloween confetti candy, black and orange sprinkles and green icing with which to decorate.  I helped them with the rolling, but basically left them to their own devices for the rest!  

The rolling and cutting went very well!

Then the decorating began; they each had their own unique style!  You'll have to come back tomorrow to see how they ended up, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Buffalo Check, Burlap, A Big Thank You, Jar of Love, Crackle (past Paper Pumpkin)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Real Red, Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry
Ink	Real Red, Memento Black, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Pick a Pattern Washi Tape, Sequins (from my stash), Embroidery Floss, Fun Foam, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Squares Framelits, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Seasonal Layers Framelits, Cable Knit EF, Markers