PP732 Challenge from Jan

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Jan is our Paper Players hostess this week with a great theme...it's perfect for all types of cards, but I chose to make a masculine one, because I never seem to have enough of them!

I pulled out an old Artistic Outpost set called Route 66 and did some collage-style stamping: 

My card base is Basic Beige, and I used the same ink to stamp all the images in the background, adding some shading around the edges.  I stamped the motorcycle in Versafine Black:

I used an old Paper Pumpkin set to add the embossed sentiment on a Tailor Made tag and embellished it with some Brushed Gold stitched stars from the retired Give it a Whirl dies; I felt like they matched the background pretty well!

Finally, a sentiment from Best Year and the third little leftover star to embellish it!

I hope you can play along with our "travel" theme this week!  Be sure to share your card with us at the Players blog!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Year (ret), Route 66 (Artistic Outpost)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Basic Beige, Brushed Gold (ret)
Ink	Basic Beige, Versafine Black
Accessories	Twine from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Tailor Made Tags Dies (ret), Give It A Whirl Dies (ret)

PP725 CAS Masculine from Jan

Happy Sunday, all!  Jan is our Paper Players hostess today and she has a fun clean-and-simple challenge for us!!  She wants us to make a masculine card---that can definitely be a challenge at some times!

I saw a card on Facebook and sadly, didn't keep the source, so if anyone knows who came up with this idea, let me know!  I took the largest die from the Everyday Arches dies, laid the straight edge just a wee bit above the fold of my Crumb Cake card and here's what I came up with:

The die cuts easily through the two layers of cardstock!  These images and sentiments are all from Unity, and they were stamped in Versafine Black ink:

I did add a couple of Basic Black diecuts for a little visual interest; I used Basic Borders and All That Dies (trimmed down).  And I gave my delivery van a little grounding with a swash of Pecan Pie with my aquapainter!

Hope you'll play along with our masculine clean-and-simple challenge at the Paper Players this week!  Pull out your masculine stamps and show us what you come up with!  

The kids went to the Super Bowl parade on Friday---I watched some on TV---lots of noise and excitement!  Wayne is a diehard Philadelphia sports fan, as is his brother, so I think although it was very cold, they had a great time!

The cheerleaders are important, too, right?!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For the Guys (Unity), Consider Yourself Vintage (Unity)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Crumb Cake
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Arches Dies, All That Dies (ret), Basic Border Dies (ret)

FMS648 Shabby Patriotic Birthday

Happy Friday, peeps! Yay, the weekend is upon us!  I need several masculine birthday cards this month, which can always be a challenge, but I remembered some vintage-style patriotic paper I had gotten a couple of months ago and hadn't even opened yet! Yikes! I used the FMS sketch, which I love because I love THREES:

So here we go:

I used a punch to punch out the center panels, then the Layering Squares dies to make the scalloped mats.  I happened to have this piece of Country Woods DSP laying on my desk and thought it made a great background!  A little sentiment from the retired Label Me Bold, stamped in Cherry Cobbler, was popped up in the center:

One of the grungy stamps from Label Me Bold was also stamped on all the Crumb Cake mats to give it an even more vintage look!  Here's the inside:

One for my masculine stack...I need a few more, though!  Thanks for visiting today!

A few more Longwood pictures:

And these little guys were attached to the railing along the pond:

So cute! Too bad they don't croak!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold (ret), Perennial Birthday (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Country Woods, Americana (Honey Bee)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Squares Dies (ret), Layered Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen), 1 3/8" Square Punch (ret), Sponge Dauber

SSC308 Camper Birthday

Happy Tuesday, peeps! We have a friend who just purchased a little camper, and his birthday is coming up, so I thought it would be fun to use the Tree Lot dies along with the He's The Man DSP to create a special card for him:

I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

I diecut the camper from Basic White, Mint Macaron and Early Espresso cardstocks, even giving it a little acetate window and curtain!!

I pulled out the retired Rev Up The Fun for the tire tracks, and Circle Sayings provided the birthday sentiment.  I used the Countryside Corners dies to shape it, cutting the DSP panel a second time to make it smaller:

The retired Adventure Awaits seemed appropriate for the inside:

Thanks for stopping by today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Circle Sayings, Adventure Awaits (ret), Rev Up the Fun (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Early Espresso, Mint Macaron (ret), Crumb Cake, Mint Macaron DSP (ret), Acetate Sheet, He's the Man DSP (ret)
Ink	Early Espresso
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Countryside Corners Dies, Tree Lot Dies (ret), Black Marker, Silver Zig Painty Marker (ret)

FMS583 To A Classic

Happy Monday, everyone! And Happy May! Hope you had a good weekend! I am squeaking in my submission for the FMS sketch by the skin of my teeth, but I really wanted to play, and I also wanted to play with the Less Is More challenge of "A for Automobile"!

And here we go:

The DSP is Ready to Ride, and the image is from He's All That, stamped in Pumpkin Pie.  I cut it out with one of the new Countryside Corners dies, cropping the bottom to square it off and adding a little mat behind it. The "No. 1" and photo corners are also from the same set. Everything is on Very Vanilla!

The inside sentiment is from Zany Zoo!!  Works great with this set, don't you think?

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.  The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made. Psalm 145:8-9

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	He's All That, Zany Zoo
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Ready to Ride DSP
Ink	Pumpkin Pie, Memento Black, Basic Gray
Accessories	Black Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Countryside Corners Dies, 1/2" Circle Punch (ret)

TCC177 You're Awesome

Hello stampers, happy Wednesday!  Time for a new Card Concept challenge, where we use different concepts to create our cards!  Here's our timely prompt for this week:

What a great inspiration for Father's Day or any masculine birthday or anniversary, right?  Except I have NOTHING that vaguely resembles anything on the prompt, except perhaps some leaves!!!  So I went with the plaid theme, grabbing some of the Plaid Tidings DSP from a couple of years ago and an element from the new He's the Man DSP to create my clean and layered card for today:

I took a piece of Mango Melody, diecut it with a die from the All That set, and then ran it through the Timber embossing folder.  Before running it through, I inked one side of it with Soft Suede ink to give it the two-tone effect.  I then cut it in half and layered it behind the grilling element and added a couple of stamped stars and some Rustic Metallic Dots:

Since the plaid had stripes of Merry Merlot in it, I chose to mount it on a card base of that color.  On the inside, I will add a sentiment when the time comes!  It's always a challenge to have masculine cards around, so I was happy to add this one to my stash!  I hope you'll be inspired to create a masculine card using our prompt too!  Check out all the "concepts" on the Card Concept blog, then share your creation with us too.  Meanwhile, check out all the fun cards our design team has come up with as well!  See you there!

Here's another project I recently finished for my July 4th decor:

And here are a couple of cuties....patriotic Raggedy Ann & Andy!  I found them at a yard sale for 50 cents apiece!  They're sitting in my tiered tray on my kitchen table:

Thanks for popping by...enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Background Blocks (on the small stars, Concord & 9th)
Card stock & Papers	Mango Melody, Merry Merlot, Cajun Craze, He's the Man Specialty DSP
Ink	Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals, Rustic Metallic Dots
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, All That Dies, Timber EF, Small Star Punch (ret)

PP580 Sailing Wishes

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge, and Anne Marie has a wonderful sketch for us this week! So many fun layers, I really enjoyed this one, as I usually do!  Here we go:

Continuing in a masculine theme, since my guy cards are few, I pulled out some DSPs in Misty Moonlight, an image from Sailing Home and some fun dies and went to work:

My papers are from Heart and Home and the retired Harvest Meadow.  I added two little diecut borders to the Harvest Meadow piece, then heat-embossed the sentiment in white on a Stitched Labels diecut.  The sailboat was accented with a piece of diecut "rope" from the Smooth Sailing dies, and of course, I had to stamp some seagulls!

I really like how this came out and I can't wait to use this sketch again!  Although I used a lot of retired dies on this one, you can use any shape or image!  Be sure to stop by the Paper Players blog to see how the other designers interpreted it, then share your creation with us too!  Thanks for visiting today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sailing Home, Special Moments
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Heart and Home DSP, Harvest Meadow DSP (ret)
Ink	Craft White, Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Smooth Sailing Dies, Stitched Labels Dies (ret), Heat Tool, Embossing Buddy (ret)

In(k)spire Me Celebrate You

I hadn't played with the In(k)spire Me challenge for a while, so I thought I'd give it a go!  It's got colors and/or sketches, so I decided to use both...and the colors were a challenge:

I searched my stash for some DSPs, took Sailing Home off the shelf and went to work:

I stamped the lighthouse in Pretty Peacock and added some "light" with some Crushed Curry ink, and colored in the water with Seaside Spray.  The sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays was also stamped with Crushed Curry ink.  I added some "rope" embellishment from the matching die set too:

The colors were a challenge, but I loved the sketch!  I am also entering this in a new-to-me Make The Cards challenge, which is Masculine!   

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sailing Home, Itty Bitty Birthdays
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pretty Peacock, Crushed Curry DSP, Plaid Tidings DSP (ret), Seaside Spray DSP (ret)
Ink	Crushed Curry, Pretty Peacock, Seaside Spray
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Smooth Sailing Dies

AYSI245 Stampede Birthday

Happy Friday, peeps!  It's my turn to create a "recipe" for you at As You See It!  I always struggle with creating masculine cards, so here's a recipe to get you started:

And even though this was my own challenge, I struggled with it as well!  This is the third card I created for the challenge...the other two were not so great, LOL!  So here we go:

I started with a 100 Proof Press image, stamped in Soft Suede on Very Vanilla cardstock, then diecut with a Stitched Shapes die. The papers are from Photo Play's Autumn Day.  I embossed the rust-colored piece with the retired Basketweave EF, then added some stitched embossing on a Soft Suede strip as well.  For some added interest, I stamped some barbed wire (retired Yee-Haw) along the edge, and added a twine "lasso" behind the cowboy image:

The sentiment, stamped in Terracotta Tile, is from the retired Picture Perfect birthday:

My sketch is from Try Stampin on Tuesday:

I am also adding this to Just Add Ink this week, which is to "add L"!  My "L" is a lasso!

I hope you'll play along with my recipe this week...be sure to check out what the designers created, and share yours as well at As You See It!

So let's see Cassidy's final result!  She really liked doing the splatter work, so this time, we watered down some white craft paint and she splattered that on her finished card:

After we dried it, she peeled off the letters:

Much better results!

She added a white heat-embossed sentiment at the bottom (the same as my card above), then added some numbers and a little hand-written sentiment on the inside!

She was happy with the end results, learned some new techniques and we had fun!  Thanks for indulging me!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Picture Perfect Birthday (ret), Yee-Haw (ret), Stampede (100 Proof Press)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Autumn Day DSP (Photo Play)
Ink	Soft Suede, Terracotta Tile
Accessories	Very Vanilla Twine, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Basketweave EF (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)