RRCB256 Hello Sunshine

Happy Thursday, peeps! I have a fun little card today using the sketch from RetroRubber:

I confess that this sketch did stump me for a while, and I confess that one of the dies I used is new, but my sentiment is from 2022 and all the papers are retired as well!  So here we go:

I've been hoarding this bird paper from Rings of Love (a few years back) so I matched it up with a few patterned DSPs.  I used the Notes & Totes die to create the slats, and the sentiment, stamped on a piece of Country Woods DSP, is from Special Moments (2022).  

I like how all the colors work together!  

And since I have a bird card, check out what I found in one of my hanging baskets on my porch:

I had seen a couple of purple finches flying around it, so I am assuming they're the ones who built it, but no eggs! I just love how they wound the hanging stuff (I am so bad with plant names) around the outside of the nest!!!  I'll keep you posted if anything else happens!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Speical Moments (ret, 2022)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Country Woods DSP (ret), So Saffron DSP (ret), Soft Sea Foam DSP (ret), Rings of Love DSP (ret), Americana (Honey Bee)
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Notes & Totes Dies

Butterfly Sympathy

Happy Wednesday, peeps! Yay, we are mid-week!  My friend asked me if I had any sympathy cards she could buy, and my supply was pretty low so I spent a day stocking up! (John told me at our age, I should have a large supply on hand, LOL!  Cheeky guy!)  Anyway, this is one that she didn't take and I was my favorite one, so I thought I'd share it:

This butterfly paper is from Kaiser Craft, and the butterflies have a nice sheen to them.  I just love the vintage look of this particular pattern from the Pen & Ink pad!  I mounted the paper on a mat of Basic Beige on which I had embossed a line of stitching, then adhered it to a Crumb Cake card base.  The little black scallop had been floating around on my craft table, unused from another project, so I added a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes and popped it up on top:

On the inside, a simple sympathy sentiment from the retired Special Moments:

And speaking of a special moment, on the way home from church on Sunday, this little baby ran out in front of us (John had to beep his horn to get her on her way back to momma, who had been right in front of her):

It was certainly the tiniest fawn I have ever seen!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"Praise the Lord, who carries our burdens day after day; he is the God who saves us.  Our God is a God who saves; he is the Lord, our Lord, who rescues us from death." Psalm 68:19-20

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret), Special Moments (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Pen & Ink (Kaiser Craft)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Black Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Unbounded Love Dies, Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)

SSC350 Sympathy

Happy Thursday, peeps! Sadly, I needed a sympathy card this week.  They're never easy, but even more challenging around the holidays.  I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

along with some warm plaid papers I recently got from Unity.  Here we go:

I stamped one of the trees from the long-retired Happy Scenes set, along with a sentiment from Special Moments, both on Crumb Cake cardstock, and diecut them with circle dies:

I added a single leaf from an older Paper Pumpkin set, and since there's a wee bit of red in the plaids that I used, I colored in the bird with a blender pen and some Real Red ink.  The inside verse is from Stamp Simply:

Thanks for visiting today!  

I had my visitor again yesterday:

You can really see his moustache here!  He's so BIG!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happy Scenes (ret), Paper Pumpkin (ret), Special Moments (ret), Farmhouse Scriptural Quotes (Stamp Simply)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Yuletide Plaid (Unity)
Ink	Real Red, Versafine Black, Versamark
Accessories	Rustic Metallic Dots, Dimensionals, Blender Pen
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Circles Dies (ret)

JAI703 Happy Fiftieth

Happy Saturday, peeps! We have our town's Memorial Day parade today, so this will be quick!  The Just Add Ink challenge this week wants us to choose two:

The Senior Center where my TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) group meets is celebrating their 50th anniversary and my group wanted to give them a card!  What I came up with just happened to meet this challenge!  Here we go:

My two elements are balloons and bright colors, obviously!  My papers are from Die Cuts With a View, and I used a SU punch for the balloons!  Spotlight of Nature dies provided the circle background and the "Yay!" is from Simply Said.  Some cheapo glimmer paper from a craft store provided the number 50, diecut with the Little Numbers dies.  I added some baker's twine string and some fun little sequins!  

The inside sentiment came from the retired Special Moments:

The Senior Center is a great place for our area seniors and I hope they can celebrate another 50 years! 

My niece sent me this picture of her youngest, Coby, wearing a onesie that I bought for him for Christmas!  He's such a little bruiser but oh-so-sweet!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said, Special Moments (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Birthday Wishes Stack (DCWV), Blue Glimmer (Artskills)
Ink	Rea; Red, Tahitian Tide (ret)
Accessories	Silver & White Baker's Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Balloon Punch (ret), Little Numbers Dies (ret)

RRCB230 Set Sail

 Happy rainy Wednesday, peeps! I have another nautical card for you today using a really, really old stamp for the Retro Rubber challenge! Here's their theme

It also uses the FMS sketch:

And here we go:

This card turned out nothing like I imagined it would.  First, I wanted to use gingham, so I printed out some computer-generated gingham, and I thought it would match Azure Afternoon, but I really wanted to use Misty Moonlight.  In hindsight, perhaps the Azure would have matched better.  The stamped image of the sailboat from Set Sail (2004) was larger than I thought so it went over the edge of the panel.  Grrr.  

The sentiment from Special Events (2022) was also larger than I thought, but by this time, I wasn't going to do it over, it is what it is! At least I liked the little rope trim, LOL!

This will go in my masculine birthday card stash---I never seem to have enough!  Thanks for visiting today!

Big day yesterday--Cassidy got her braces off! Now a retainer!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Set Sail (ret, 2004), Special Events (ret, 2022)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Home Again (Carta Bella), Gingham (Computer-generated)
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Smooth Sailing Dies (ret)

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

PP662 CAS Happy Fall Y'All

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's time for another Paper Players challenge, with Joanne as our hostess, and she has a Clean-and-Simple one for us:

Remember, CAS means limited layers and we like to see some open space!  I combined the challenge with the gorgeous color palette over at As You See It:

So here we go:

I do have a few layers on my card, but they're pretty plain, so I am hoping Joanne won't disqualify me!  I diecut a layer of Basic White cardstock and embossed it with the retired Gingham EF, then diecut a pumpkin from a piece of Copper Clay that had piece of Adhesive Sheet adhered to the back.  Once I did the diecut, I peeled off the adhesive sheet from the back and stuck it to another piece of Copper Clay and fussy-cut it out to create the base for my pumpkin.  Although you can't see it here, I coated each portion of the diecut with Wink of Stella...it looks amazing in real life!  A few Crumb Cake leaves and a sentiment from the retired Banner Year finished it off, all on a base of Misty Moonlight:

I recently won a gift certificate to Pink & Main, and I sent this as a thank you; here's the inside, because they did certainly brighten up my day!

Thanks to my friend Lisa, I am entering this over at the JUGS challenge this week, which is "pumpkins"!

I love the rich colors on this card, thanks to AYSI!  I hope you'll play along with our CAS challenge too...the signs of autumn are certainly visible in my neck of the woods!  Be sure to pop over to the Players to see what everyone else created, then share yours with us too!

A few signs of fall around the farm:

The berries are some sort of holly and elderberry; the maple trees are just starting to turn:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Banner Year (ret), Special Moments (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Copper Clay, Misty Moonlight, Crumb Cake
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gingham EF (ret), Detailed Pumpkins Dies (ret), Patterned Pumpkins Dies, 1/2" Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Wink of Stella Pen

LIM489 A Little Hi From Me

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you had a good weekend!  I have an uber-easy, CAS note card today for the Less Is More one-layer photo challenge:

Isn't that a sweet inspiration photo?  It made me instantly think of one of my favorite SU stamps called Garden Pleasures....it has a sweet little straw hat and some wee little birdies!  So here we go:

I warned you it was uber-easy and CAS!  I stamped each image in Saddle Brown Stazon, then watercolored them with ink and an aquapainter.  I added a wee little bit of shading using an oval stencil and a blending brush.  I added some speckles too, very lightly stamped in Lemon Lolly ink:

Finally, I stamped a sentiment from Special Moments next to a little bird at the bottom of the card:

Cutie patootie!  Thanks for popping in today!

Saturday night ice cream night---even for the pups!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Garden Pleasures (ret), Special Moments (ret), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla
Ink	Saddle Brown Stazon, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Lemon Lolly, Hello Honey (ret)
Accessories
Tools	Aquapainter, Blending Brush

Floral Sympathy

 Happy Saturday, peeps! Sadly, I needed a sympathy card this week, so I went looking for some challenges that would give me some inspiration! I took the sketch from TGIF and paired it with the Double D challenge of Anything Goes.  They are collaborating with Altenew and their stencils, which are optional, but since the images that I used just happened to be Altenew, I decided to add a little stenciling too!

And here's my card:

My florals are from Garden Treasure, and I used some retired DSP for the bottom panel.  The sentiment was stamped in Memento Black, then diecut with a Stitched Labels die.  I very lightly stenciled some Bubble Bath polka dots on the card base around the flower:

and added a little banner of the new Grosgrain Ribbon:

A Stamp Simply verse was stamped on the inside:

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

Cassidy did a little fishing with Wayne last week and had some success:

Hard to believe she'll be thirteen next week!  

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Special Moments (ret), Garden Treasure (Altenew), Farmhouse Scriptural Thoughts (Stamp Simply)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Garden Green DSP (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Bubble Bath, Flirty Flamingo, Poppy Parade, Soft Seafoam, Garden Green, Mint Macaron (ret)
Accessories	White Grograin Ribbon, Dimensionals, Basic Pattern Decorative Masks (Stencils, ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Labels Dies, Blending Brush