AHSC677 Birthday in Pink

 Happy Monday, everyone!  Our Atlantic Hearts Sketch this week is one I really like!  I've done cards similar to this before, but not with the semi-circle element!  Take a look:

I also decided to use hues of pink for my card so I could play along with the Color My Heart Color Dare challenge; my second color is white!

I punched out 1 1/4" squares of various pink cardstocks, then ran them through embossing folders and dabbed on a bit of pink ink to show the detail a bit better!  Adhered them to a card front and added a birthday sentiment and some diecuts and it was good to go:

Aren't those embossed panels pretty?

Another sentiment and flowers from the same set went on the inside:

I like pink, but it's not a color I normally gravitate to, so this was fun! I enjoyed pulling out some retired goodies as well! I hope you'll play with us at Atlantic Hearts this week too!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Strawberry Slush, Rococco Rose (ret), Bubble Gum,, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Blushing Bride
Ink	Cotton Candy (Catherine Pooler)
Accessories	Mini Pearls (Want 2 Scrap), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Unbounded Love Dies (ret), Embossing Folders:  Starstruck (ret), Eyelet, Countryside Blossoms (ret), Elegant Dots (ret), Distressed Tile (ret), Mandela Blooms (Spellbinders), 1 1/4" Square Punch (ret)

AYSI3701 Birthday Dogs

Happy Friday, all!  The As You See It challenge this week is the fun "Fill in the Blank"!  This month's challenge is HERE:

 

This was an easy one for me, and even easier because I was just on a roll making some really fun BIRTHDAY cards with some new papers I just got!  Masculine birthday cards are always a challenge and these papers from Craft Consortium are called The Collector, and they have a plethora of marvelous assorted vintage images.  They are SO amazing, all I did for this card was to add a sentiment tag; I let the paper do all the work!  Here we go:

Since the papers are 6x6, and I didn't want to cut off any of these cute pups, I made my Basic Beige card 4 1/4" x 6 1/4", then just added a panel of the paper on top.  I diecut a Basic Beige tag, stamped a sentiment from Lasting Joy in Early Espresso, gave it a little sponging to mimic the vintage look and tied it with some Linen Thread:

I added another sentiment to match on the inside and called it all good!  Easy peasy!  I am sure a lot of you send out many birthday cards as well as Christmas, but you may have another occasion that you send out lots of cards for as well.  Halloween comes to my mind, as I have TONS of Halloween stamps, LOL, and I love to use them all!  

I hope you'll share your creation with us at As You See It this week  Thanks for visiting my blog, enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, The Collector (Craft Consortium)
Ink	Early Espresso, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tag Dies (ret), Sponge Dauber

PP763 Color Challenge from Jan

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's Jan's turn to be the hostess at the Paper Players, and she has a nice fall-feeling color palette for us this week: 

My dad's cousin is turning 93 this month, so I took advantage of these colors to make him a fall-themed birthday card using some Autumn Toile DSP:

I used some Everyday Arch dies to create a tag with Basic White and Old Olive cardstocks, and used some Mossy Meadow baker's twine for the embellishment.  Sentiments are from Everyday Greetings and Greetings of the Season; the foliage is from Lasting Joy:

Here's the inisde:

Lots of fun ways to use these colors this week! Stop over at the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers did with them!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Greetings, Greetings of the Season, Lasting Joy (ret), The Right Words, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Old Olive, Autumn Toile DSP
Ink	Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso
Accessories	Mossy Meadow Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Arches Dies, 1/8" Hole Punch

FMS627 Boho Butterfly Sympathy

Happy Thursday, peeps! My allergies got me down and out these last few days but I was finally able to get some stamping in last night! Sadly, I needed two more sympathy cards, and the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches worked perfectly!  Here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

I used some Poetic Expressions DSP and Boho Blue cardstock, then used a Paper Butterfly accented with an Iridescent gem. The sentiment is from Lasting Joy, stamped on a diecut from Timeless Arrangements.  I did add a little scallop diecut from the retired Be Mine Stitched framelits:

I flipped the sketch and the butterfly for the second card:

I just love this blue!  I am just sad I need the cards!

Dana and Wayne got me a bird cam for Christmas and I finally got it set up.  Take a look at this pretty guy (sorry, he doesn't seem to show up on my phone, but he does on the computer!!):

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Boho Blue, Poetic Expressions DSP
Ink	Boho Blue
Accessories	Iridescent Gem, Dimensionals, Paper Butterfly
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine Every Day Essentials Dies, Stitched Be Mine Dies (ret)

FMS678 Sketch By Anne Marie

Happy Sunday, peeps! Hope your weekend is going by nicely!  Anne Marie is our Paper Players hostess this week with an awesome sketch! Love all these layers--check it out:

The hardest part was choosing which papers to use, LOL!  I chose to use some Boho Blue-themed papers from Countryside Inn and Poetic Expressions, and a little sprig from Dainty Delight!  Here we go:

Each panel is matted with cardstock to coordinate; I stamped the flowers in Night of Navy and lightly watercolored them with Boho Blue ink.  If you use a light touch, the outlines won't bleed!  I mounted them on two circles; both were was diecut with the Everyday Details dies, and I embossed the white one with the Timeworn Type embossing folder, and added some pearls:

The sentiment from Lasting Joy was heat-embossed in white on another piece of Countryside Inn DSP.  Since the embossing tends to warp DSP, I backed it with a piece of cardstock before embossing to give it some stability:

Everything was mounted on a Basic White card base; I think this could be used for any number of occasions, so I left the inside blank.

The design team at the Paper Players blog has come up with some fun, amazing samples, so I hope you'll head over there to see them! Be sure to share your creativity with us as well!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy, Dainty Delight
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Boho Blue, Night of Navy, Countryside Inn DSP, Poetic Expressions DSP
Ink	Night of Navy, Boho Blue, Craft White
Accessories	Pearls, Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Details Dies, Dainty Delight Dies, Timeworn Type Embossing Folder, Heat Tool

Most Adored in Color

Happy Friday, peeps! I have a pretty little card today which uses some of the SAB Most Adored DSP!  I fussy-cut one of the smaller gold-outlined rose images and colored it with some Blends...here we go:

I popped it up on a diecut panel, added a gold heat-embossed sentiment from Lasting Joy, and embellished it with two little Bubble Bath diecut banners:

All of that went on a Soft Seafoam panel, embossed with the Countryside Blossoms embossing folder.  This is such a soft, pretty color combo, don't you think?  I am entering this at the Seize the Birthday challenge; they are looking for dry or wet embossing...and this fits both bills!  

Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Seafoam, Bubble Bath, Most Adored DSP
Ink	Versamark, Soft Seafoam
Accessories	Dimensionals, Gold Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentials Dies, Countryside Blossoms Embossing Folder, Heat Tool, Blends

AHSC557 Sympathy

Happy Wednesday, peeps! Hope you had a good Christmas holiday! The days feel weird, I am all messed up, LOL! I did manage to clean a little space on my stamp table (which looks like a tornado hit it) to make, sadly, a sympathy card.  I used the Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I just got some Fitting Florets DSP from the Clearance Rack, and I paired it with the florals from Fruitful Blessings....trying to get some more use from it before it retires!  So here we go:

After diecutting my circle, I mounted it on a scallop of Smoky Slate and added a sentiment from Lasting Joy and a black gingham bow.  The DSP panel was diecut with the Basic Borders die, and to complement the black & white, I added a smaller diecut panel of Basic Black.  I admit that the little smaller circle beneath the main image threw me a bit! I ended up diecutting a vellum circle, then adding some bluish pearls round the edge, and one on the floral image as well:

I added a little panel of the same DSP on the inside and a sentiment from Courage and Faith:

It's sad any time to need sympathy card, but it's worse at the holidays.  Hope this brings some comfort.

So we got to meet our new great-nephew Coby over Christmas:

He's so tiny and sweet!  And of course, we can't forget big brother Cole:

Cassidy was in her glory...she's going to be a great babysitting some day soon!

Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Fruitful Blessings, Lasting Joy, Courage & Faith
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Smoky Slate, Fitting Florets DSP
Ink	Balmy Blue, Memento Black
Accessories	Black & White Gingham, Red & Green Pearls (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Basic Borders Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies

Fruitful Blessings Sympathy

Happy Tuesday, stamping friends! Sadly, I needed a sympathy card this week and the Color Hues challenge was yellow and kraft:

I still had Fruitful Blessings on my desk from yesterday's card and I had some stamped images unused, so I put them together:

I used the sketch only from Try Stampin On Tuesday:

My image was stamped in Stazon Black and watercolored with Crumb Cake ink. I then added some retired DSP for the panels, added a diecut circle that was embossed with the Timeworn Type EF and a little linen thread bow.  The sentiment is from  Lasting Joy:

I added two sentiments from Special Moments on the inside:

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

God blesses the soil which drinks in the rain that often falls on it and which grows plants that are useful to those for whim it is cultivated.  But if it grows thorns and weeds, it is worth nothing; it is in danger of being cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire. Hebrews 6:7-8

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Fruitful Blessings, Lasting Joy, Special Moments (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Basic White, Hello Honey (ret), Harvest Meadow DSP (ret), Crumb Cake DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Linen Thread from my stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Fruitful Blessings Dies, Timeworn Type Embossing Folder

PP659 Sketch from Anne Marie

Hello, stampers!  Sunday brings us another challenge from the Paper Players, and Anne Marie is our hostess this week with a wonderful sketch! Sketches are my favorite!  So here we go:

I have not used the Countryside Inn DSP for a while, and one of my customers just purchased some,  so I decided to use one of the darker pieces for my background. However, the white diecuts kind of got lost against the patterns, so I added a vellum layer to soften it a bit.  Here we go:

It really looks nicer in real life than in this photo, LOL!  The opposite side of the DSP was diecut with a Stylish Shapes die to create my background for the white Dainty Design and Timeless Arrangements dies. The sentiment, from Lasting Joy, was stamped in Night of Navy ink and diecut with a Stitched Rectangle die:

This could be used for any number of occasions, so I left the inside blank!  I am also going to enter this at the Alphabet Challenge, which is monochromatic!

Make sure you pop onl over to the Paper Players blog to see what the amazing designers created with this equally-amazing sketch!  Then be sure to share your inspiration with us as well!  Thanks for visiting today; enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy, Vellum, Countryside Inn DSP
Ink	Night of Navy
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Timeless Arrangements Dies, Dainty Delight Dies

Stamp Club Projects

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Yesterday was stamp club and I thought I'd share the projects that we made.  First, I want to say that the stamping community is an awesome one, where creative people share their cards freely on their blogs and social media!  That means people like MOI can CASE them (Copy And Share Everything)!  These two cards are a perfect example!  I borrowed ideas from two of my favorite stampers and made them my own!  So thanks, Amanda and Beth!  So here we go!   

The first card was a CASE from Amanda Mertz.  You can see her original card here.  For our card, we used Thick Very Vanilla cardstock, embossed it with the Leaf Fall embossing folder, then layered three strips of All About Autumn DSP, cut with the Rectangle Stitched dies, then added a copper-embossed sentiment from Fruitful Blessings:

The Countryside Corners die was a perfect fit for this pretty sentiment:

And we stamped this sentiment from Lasting Joy in Copper Clay ink on the inside:

Our second project featured a Faux Side Step Card from Beth McCullough.  You can see her original card here.  We used the cute Pick of the Patch set with its matching punch, along with some Pumpkin Pie and Granny Apple Green inks and cardstock:

Here's the inside too:

The girls seemed to love them!  Again, thanks to Amanda and Beth for their creativity!  Thanks for popping in today!

Sawyer caught a fish while on vacation...look at the expression on that face!  Priceless!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy, Fruitful Blessings
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla, All About Autumn DSP
Ink	Versamark, Copper Clay
Accessories	Copper Embossing Powder, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Leaf Fall EF, Rectangle Stitched Dies, Countryside Corner Dies, Heat Tool

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pick of the Patch
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green DSP
Ink	Versamark, Pumpkin Pie, Memento Black, Granny Apple Green, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Pick of the Patch Builder Punch

AHSC541 Birthday Wishes

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  I missed playing with the Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenges the last couple of weeks, so I am remedying that today!  Here's the current sketch:

I had the Lasting Joy set still on my desk and while I have used many of the sentiments, I had not used any of the little floral images yet.  I had a scrap of Crumb Cake cardstock from another project, so I just started stamping in some fall colors, and decided it would work for the AHSC challenge!  Here we go:

The florals were stamped in Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze and Crushed Curry; I stamped the foliage on the Pecan Pie card front with Versamark ink.  I added some Very Vanilla scallops, and a sentiment was stamped on a VV banner.  I added a narrower banner behind it (just cut one banner in half) and added a few diecut leaves from Fruitful Blessings for interest.  

A few little rhinestones colored with a Cajun Craze blend finished it off!  In hindsight, I wish I had used a different scallop for the sides, but you know how it is....once you've got them adhered, you don't really feel like ripping them off, LOL!  Anyway, I love that little banner, hope you do too!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze
Ink	Pecan Pie, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Versamark
Accessories	Rhinestones, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Scalloped Contour Dies, Fruitful Blessings Dies, Cajun Craze Blend,

SSC316 Thankful

Happy Monday, peeps, and Happy Labor Day!  I have a sweet little card today and it uses the color palette from Sunday Stamps:

I have been dying to use the corn dies from the new Fruitful Blessings set; there is no coordinating stamp, so the dies do all the work! Here we go:

This was inspired by the card shown in the SU catalog, but I chose to use the bottom three hues of the color palette instead...and what do you know....I used Wild Wheat!!!  The top layer of the corn was cut using Wild Wheat, the bottom was Crumb Cake.  I used Very Vanilla for the husks and Mossy Meadow for the leaves.  I love how detailed they are!  The background DSP is from One Horse Open Sleigh, cut with a Stitched Rectangle die:

I added some Wild Wheat Jute Trim for an embellishment, and I inked up a portion of a sentiment from Lasting Joy with my Mossy Meadow marker, then diecut it with a Timeless Arrangements die:

I stamped a sentiment from Fruitful Blessings on the inside and accented it with a little stamped leaf from Lasting Joy as well:

I look forward to playing with this bundle a lot more!  I just need more hours in my days!  Thanks for popping in today...enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy, Frutiful Blessings
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Wild Wheat, Crumb Cake, One Horse Open Sleigh DSP
Ink	Wild Wheat, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	In Color Jute Trim, Dimeensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Fruitful Blessings Dies, Timeless Arrangements Dies