PP625 Love You More Than Cookies

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Our Paper Players challenge today features the amazing Joanne with an amazing sketch!  Here we go:

 

This year I have been trying to use more of the products I have from the regular catalog rather than focus on the mini catalog, so I went through what I had and realized the Nothing Better Than set, with its matching dies, would be perfect for a Valentine's card!  I did combine it with some newer products, so I gave some love to all!  So here we go:

In retrospect, I wish I had used a different background DSP for my card, but I had already started adhering stuff before I changed my mind!! It's from the Day at the Farm pack, which is available as a free SAB item!  Anyway, it's all pretty simple!  For the upper image, I diecut some hearts from Country Floral Lane DSP, and added a red glimmer heart as well.  It was punched from the back of the glimmer paper so that the heart would be facing in the opposite direction.  I added a little diecut arrow and a few sequins for sparkle:

The lower image was three chocolate chip cookies, along with some sequins too, and I stamped the little "sparkle" stamp from the stamp set randomly on the DSP as well.  The center diecut sentiments were cut from Real Red cardstock, and the "cookies" was stamped with Soft Suede ink.

Finally, on the inside, a sentiment and heart from the Country Bouquet set finished it off.

I think Cassidy might like this card, what do you think?  

I hope you'll find some inspiration from Joanne's sketch and play along with us this week!  The DT has come up with some amazing samples for additional inspiration!  Check them out at the Paper Players blog and play along with us!  You may be our Headliner next week!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

We love because He first loved us.  1 John 4:19

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nothing Better Than, Country Bouqet
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Early Espresso, Real Red, Red Glimmer, Country Floral Lane DSP, Day at the Farm DSP
Ink	Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Real Red
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Love You More Than Dies, Love Note Dies (ret, for the arrow), Country Bouquet Punch

FMS513 Happy Cocktails!

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I have a really quick, easy card today for a special friend's birthday; it's got a bit of sparkle and a lot of fun!  It uses the FMS sketch for this week:

and here we go:

This fun little cocktail glass from Nothing's Better Than was stamped with Memento Black ink and filled in with Positively Pink, Granny Apple Green and Crushed Curry, then mounted on a vellum circle and accented with some Be Dazzling glitter paper:

I added some stamped sparkles, some sequins, some Wink of Stealla and a rhinestone for even more bling!  A sentiment from the retired Picture Perfect Birthday was stamped on the inside of the Polished Pink card:

This is going in the mail as we speak!  Thanks for popping in today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nothing's Better Than, Picture Perfect Birthday (ret), Whittles Sentiments (Memory Box)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Vellum, Polished Pink, Be Dazzling Specialty Paper (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Positively Pink, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Rhinestone, Star Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools	Big Shot, Love You More Than Dies, 1 1/4" Circle Punch (ret)

FMS497 You're Like Cookies

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope your weekend was great!  Ours was quiet, just like we planned! I read a great book...The Girl from Berlin by Ronald Balson.  I normally don't like reading books about World War II, but this one was quite intriguing!  Anyway, I am squeaking in a couple of cards that use the FMS sketch for this week:

I wanted to make a whimsical card, so I pulled out Nothing Better Than and made a cookie card:

I used some DSP in Poppy Parade, Cinnamon Cider and Early Espresso for my strips and adhered them to my card front, which I partially embossed with the Dots embossing folder.  I stamped and diecut some cookies, then added a little tag with a foam diecut:

and here's the inside:

The second card uses the same layout, this time with a mat of Sweet Symmetry DSP and some flowers from Pierced Blooms:

I had been having some issues getting these flower diecuts with more stitching detail out of the die, but I used my waxed paper tip, layering it between the die and the cardstock, and they popped out like a dream.  I used Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight and Basic White for my strips, and Basic White and Soft Seafoam for my flowers.  I added some Blue Gems for the centers; the sentiment is from Little Delights:

I think I'll enter this one over at Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies challenge!

Thanks for stopping in for a visit today!

And here's Cassidy's final project reveal; she had a bit of a learning curve with allowing one color of paint to dry before adding another, but we'll work on that!

(And of course, Dana cried!)  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

IB172 Happy Retirement

Happy Thursday, everyone!  We have a new Inspired By challenge for you...check this one out: 

And here is the optional sketch, which I sort of followed!

And here we go:

I admit that this one threw me for a loop; I don't think I have ever made a retirement card, so I only had one little puny retirement sentiment, which I didn't really like.  I liked the sunglasses and flipflops, but couldn't come up with something that worked for that either!  So I chose to focus more on the green gem and silver bracelet, lol!  I stamped my Nothing Better Than cocktails in various shades of green, added some silver background stamping from an old Paper Pumpkin set, and mounted it on a green glimmer mat and a Just Jade card base!   

I used Just Jade and Granny Apple Green and a retired Silver Encore pad for my images; the sentiment is from Friends are Like Seashells.  My final addition were a few green and silver sequins and some dry embossing using the Elegant Dots EF.  

I hope you'll find some splashy inspiration from our cute little photo this week...be sure to check out what the other designers created as well.  You can see them all at Inspired By!  Thanks for popping in today!

While Wayne and Dana finished up the painting project at their home, Cassidy made them breakfast:

Looks pretty yummy, wish I had been there!  I love eggs and toast!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclesiastes 10:2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nothing Better Than, Friends are Like Seashells, Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Just Jade, Green Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Just Jade, Granny Apple Green, Silver Encore (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequins from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Love You More Than Dies, Elegant Dots EF (ret)

GDP282 Cookie Birthday

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I have a very quick birthday card today using the Global Design Project sketch: 

I needed a birthday card for an older man at our church and I thought a cookie card would be fun!  Everyone likes cookies, right?!  So here we go:

I used a piece of Cinnamon Cider DSP for the vertical piece and three cookies from Nothing Better Than, along with a sentiment from Pampered Pets, all on a Very Vanilla card base:

I added a few more "chocolate chips" (sprinkles from Sweet Ice Cream) to sweeten it up!  This was so fun, I might whip up another batch!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy is wearing a new hat Mommy crocheted for her!  Luckily the weather is warming up and hopefully she won't be needing to wear it!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"If the Lord delights in a man's way, he makes his steps firm; though he stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand."  Psalm 37:23-24

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pampered Pets, Nothing's Better Than, Sweet Ice Cream
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cinnamon Cider DSP
Ink	Cinnamon Cider, Early Espresso
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Love You More Than Dies

Love You

 Hey, peeps!  Squeaking in a second card today---just had to get it in before the deadline!  It's a Valentine card using the fun colors from CAS Colours & Sketches, and the sketch from TGIF:

And here we go:

My hearts are cut from Real Red, Whisper White and Bermuda Bay DSP using dies from the Stitched Be Mine dies.  I mounted them on a piece of Pool Party DSP, then added an embossed sentiment strip embellished with diecut words from Love You More:

I cut the words from Bermuda Bay cardstock three times, then layered them together, and added some assorted rhinestones in matching colors.  The inside sentiment is from Nothing's Better Than, with some stamped hearts:

I love these colors together!  Thanks for popping in (again) and enjoy your day!

"Seek good, not evil, that you may live.  Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.  Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph." Amos 5:14-15

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nothing's Better Than, Hot Dog (hearts)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Pool Party and Bermuda Bay DSP
Ink	Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Pool Party
Accessories	Rhinestones
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Be Mine Dies, Love You More Dies, Wrapped In Texture EF

Christmas Cookies

Hey everyone!  I have a fun card for you today which uses the Nothing Better Than set with some creative masking and stamping with my Stamparatus!  It's for two challenges:  The Spot's sketch and the Christmas Kickstart Festive Sweet Treats challenge!

     

I grabbed some Crumb Cake and Cherry Cobbler cardstocks, some Plaid Tidings DSP, my stamp sets and ink and went to work:

The Cherry Cobbler panel was first embossed with a Wrapped In Texture EF, then I diecut a Nested Label panel and began inking up my stamps.  To only use a portion of the sentiment, I lined the stamp up on the Stamparatus, put a wee little piece of Scotch tape on the word that I didn't want to show, inked my stamp, then pulled off the tape carefully so as not to get any stray ink anywhere...then stamped!  I used a portion of a sentiment from Banner Year for the "Christmas" and a portion of the Nothing Better Than for the "make everything better".  After that, it was easy peasy to stamp and diecut the cookies, add a banner from some Mossy Meadow DSP and as an afterthought (although it really doesn't match) I added a little green glimmer paper banner from some retired glimmer paper. 

And here's the inside, using a sentiment from Wrapped in Christmas, diecut with the scallop die from Little Treat Box:

Personally, chocolate chip cookies (no nuts, please) are my absolute favorite Christmas cookie....and they're acceptable at other times of the year as well!  

A few more pix from around the yard:

Some sedum, and then some mushrooms...not my favorite but they must serve a purpose for something!

And a busy little bee that thinks my salvia is the best thing ever!  Speaking of bees, we needed another visit from the bee man as the pesky yellowjackets didn't evacuate 100%!!!

       

Thanks for popping in today--enjoy your day and be blessed!