FMS187 and CCMC356 Wedding

Happy Friday, peeps!  Yay, the holiday weekend is here!  Tomorrow should be a nice day for the annual Memorial Day parade in which John always participates!  Can’t wait!  Meanwhile, I have a wedding card for you today, using the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

as well as the colors from Create with Connie & Mary’s challenge this week:

And here we go:

I stamped the big flower from Flower Patch and cut the outer petals off, then used the matching die to cut out a flower from Soft Sky cardstock and embossed it with the Decorative Dots EF.  I heat embossed a sentiment from Remember This on a scrap of vellum in Rich Razzleberry (because I got my colors mixed up) and made it into a little banner.  The Moonlight DSP was perfect for my little panel which was diecut with the Apothecary Accents dies; I used some Neutral glimmer brads and silver glimmer paper as well:

And MDS downloads will be ending soon, I made a couple of purchases yesterday and used this for the inside…again, I used Rich Razzleberry because I have a sieve brain and can’t remember what color I am supposed to use….but it’s still pretty:

And I totally forgot that I wanted to submit this to CASology's Wedding challenge # 147!
Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy with Daddy and Mom Mom:

She was SO excited that they came, and she brought all her peer tutors over to introduce them to her daddy!  It was so sweet!

St Patrick’s Day Projects

Phew, happy Friday, everyone!  This week needs to be OVER!  I am looking forward to some warmer temps this weekend!  Since my sister already received her little St Pat’s gift, I can share it with you now:

This is another little altered Altoids tin, decorated with some vintage St Pat’s images I gathered from around blogland!  I have to admit that the inside of this one is not as well-done as I would have liked.  I need to color the edge of my cut images so they don’t show white; I really dislike that and I didn’t realize how bad it looked until I saw the photos.  Better next time!  Anyway, here is the inside:

I used some generic DP I had in my stash for the backgrounds, along with some green clover metallic decorations I had hanging around.  Since I had a dearth of St Patrick’s Day sentiments, I was wondering what to do….then I remembered I had a nice set on My Digital Studio, so I printed a few out and added them to the inside!  I had so much fun with them, I did a miniature collage and printed that out for the back of the tin:

I added some gold hearts and green rhinestones, just for fun, as well as overstamped it with the Linen background stamp (ret), just to give it some texture.  Then, I added a few more sentiments and enlarged it, printing it out on a standard piece of cardstock, and made a little collage poster to hang on my wall (well, it’s not hung, it’s actually tacked up with a couple of cheapie thumb tacks I had hanging around!!!):

DH actually commented on this….and he never notices ANYTHING like this!  I haven’t used MDS for a while, so it was fun to play around!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy:  “DON’T TAKE MY PICTURE, GRAMMY!”

Paper Players 151

Hey, peeps!  Its Sunday---and what a glorious weekend we’ve been having!  Nance is our hostess today and she has a fun sketch for us all:

This is my third card for my weekend party, the anniversary card I gave DH’s sister and BIL:

I feel a wee bit bad that I haven’t been playing around with my new SU goodies too much, although this card does have a brand-new stamp image on it!  But I have so much fun stuff left from last year’s catalog, I felt I had to use some up!  These papers are from Birds of a Feather, and I thought the two little “love birds” were appropriate for my anniversary card!  I stamped the “love” from Tiny Tags; the sentiment was done in My Digital Studio, and the little hearts were punched from the new Kind & Cozy set!  I was thrilled that the hearts fit the small heart punch perfectly!

They were stamped in Primrose Petals and Raspberry Ripple, then adhered and popped up on my focal panel!

What fun creation can you come up with using Nance’s cool sketch?  Can’t wait for you to share it with us at the Paper Players!  Be sure to come play along and check out what the other designers made with this sketch as well!

Having a tea party is serious business:

Enjoy your day!

HSS162 Graduation

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Yay, we made it to the weekend!  Continuing on with my supposedly easy cards, here’s the graduation card I made for my nephew, using the Hand Stamped Sentiments sketch #162:

Now, I say “supposedly” easy cards, because I must have re-done this one four or more times…..most of it was done in MDS, and I am still learning how to print whole cards…..I am not sure if it is my printer or user error!  I finally got one done to my satisfaction!  Here ya go:

My nephew’s school colors are black, red and gray (thank you, Carol!) so I printed the background words in MDS in Basic Gray on Basic Gray cardstock, added the Alphabet Press embossed panel, then did the sentiment in MDS as well.   I love the inside….that came together in a flash:

I really enjoy layering sentiments and images….it’s very, very easy to do in MDS and they can be resized in a jiffy!  And just to brag on my nephew---he got a full ROTC scholarship to his college…an answer to prayer!  Plus he’s pretty much one of the smartest kids I know!

The easiest way to wash your grassy feet:

Paper Players 149

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Ann is our Paper Players hostess today with a fresh color challenge for you all:

Even though these colors are bright and pretty, I went in a wee bit different direction with my project today, as I wanted to play with some new goodies I just received!  On pages 158-159 of the new catalog are the Tag a Bag Gift Boxes and Accessory Kit….very cool products!  The boxes are made of a sturdy kraft with a heavy acetate sleeve that fits over it like a glove!  You can put cookies, candy, any sort of goodies inside, then decorate it to your heart’s content!  Since Father’s Day is coming up, I thought I would decorate mine in some Epic Day This & That papers and an MDS tag:

Here it is with the sleeve on, “tied” with some Pool Party ribbon:

And here is the tag, created in MDS; the top tag is the one I created, the bottom striped tag is from the Accessory kit; I just layered the two:

Here’s an end view.  And here’s a little tip: I wanted to make sure the designer paper stayed on completely, so that the sleeve would not rip up the edges, so I first adhered a piece of Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet to the back of my DP, peeled it off and stuck it on to the box before assembling!  What a cool product and no need for messy glue or worrying about the tape not adhering all the way to the edges!

My dad has a love of antiques (and has passed down that love to all of his kids!), so I know he’ll like this “antique” box, especially when I put some of his favorite goodies inside!

Now, what can you create with these colors?  You can see that they can be used for all sorts of projects!  Check out the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers created and share your beautiful creation with us as well!

We had some serious rain here at the end of the week….but we got out our boots and umbrellas and ventured outside anyway:

ColourQ191

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Feels like Monday, or Sunday or some other day, to me!  Having a Monday holiday is fun but it sure messes up your internal clock!  Anyhoo, it’s time for the ColourQ challenge, and here is the fun inspiration Arielle has come up with for this week:

What a fun purse!  I had a bunch of ideas spinning around in my head!  In fact…see that turquoise typewriter on the front?  I HAVE ONE OF THOSE!!!  In fact, my sister Gail just sold one at her store, Charleston Fynd!!!  I was going to let her sell mine too but she encouraged me to find a ribbon for it and keep it….she said every kid that came into her store made a beeline for the typewriter!!!  Vintage is in!  So I went sort of literal for my “vintage” card too:

Oh, I had fun making this card although it took an inordinate amount of time!  I played with old images, new “old” images, new papers, dry embossing, heat embossing, and best of all….I was able to download a free “typewriter” font to make my typewriter key-style letters in MDS!  Woohoo!  I was excited that I could print them on a Real Red background in white, and then just punch out the letters!  And since the purse had so many random patterns, I used my own Paper Players sketch from this week’s challenge!!!

Anyone remember what that little doodad is?  Sure ya do!  (If you don’t, email me and I’ll tell you!)  I was also able to use a little diecut I’ve been saving from my friend Linda, on which I embossed a retired SU sentiment:

The birthday sentiments inside and out are also computer-generated!!!  I am saving this for one of my “vintage” friends!

Now…..what inspires you in this photo?  I hope you will play along with us over at the ColourQ blog and be sure to check out what the other designers made with these bold colors and retro graphics!  Can’t wait to see it!  And if you have any questions about anything I used here, please send me an email!  Don’t leave your question in the comment box because I can’t always answer it there!

Dana & friends went to the train musem near the Strasburg Railroad this weekend…..Cassidy did NOT want to smile for the camera!

Cracks me up!

DS102 & IB76

Happy Friday!!  I am looking forward to a great weekend—how about you?  Have some fun plans?  Here’s a cute inspiration photo from Inspired By that will put you in the traveling mood, along with a fun sketch from the Deconstructed Sketch :

And here’s my take on both:

I never have enough masculine cards, so I used an image from MDS for the vintage car, and the moustache is from A Fitting Occasion, mounted on a small bottle cap that was flattened in the Bit Shot!  I used MDS again for the sentiment on the inside:

Now I’ve got a great masculine card for my stash!

Blowing bubbles!  Sorry, she didn’t arrive with that clashing jacket on…just the only one we had in the house!!!

And remember, if you have questions, please shoot me an email!  If you ask me a question in the comment box without a corresponding email address, I have no way to respond!!!!