FMS622 Lavender Love

Happy Friday, everyone!  We have a special weekend planned, so this will be quick! Jen has a nice sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches, so I had to play along:

Since I was playing with stencils for yesterday's card, I got out some retired SU masks and decided to use them to make another Valentine's card:

I used Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather and Garden Green inks for my floral, and the sentiment was stamped in Gorgeous Grape.  I also added a little floral from Country Bouquet to match, and embossed the bottom portion with a polka-dot embossing folder:

After adhering a couple of sequins, I added more sentiments from Country Bouquet on the inside of the Fresh Freesia card:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Country Bouquet
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Fresh Freesia, Garden Green
Ink	Fresh Freesia, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Sequins, Dimensionals, Butterflies & Flowers Decorative Masks (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Blending Brushes, Checks & Dots Embossing Folder (ret), Stitched Be Mine Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

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

JAI594 Masked Bouquet

Hello stampers!  Hope you have a fun weekend planned!  We are supposed to see a school play of Shrek this afternoon, but the forecast isn't looking too good!  Crazy weather!  Well, I have a spring-like card for you today, (inspired by my friend Joanne) for the Just Add Ink challenge of masking!  

And here we go:

First, you can see Joanne's card HERE.  I was inspired by the way she used multiple colors with her stencil but I couldn't seem to create the same effect without getting ink where I didn't want it!  So I traced the smaller flowers as well as the center flowers (as a pair) onto some scrap paper, then snipped them out to create a mask. I placed the masks on top of my stencil, covering the areas I didn't want to get ink, and although it was a little tricky, it worked!  I used Daffodil Delight and Mango Melody for the larger flowers and Blushing Bride and Poppy Parade for the smaller ones.  The leaves are all Pear Pizzaz, I just used a heavier hand on the one set:

I added a Poppy Parade mat, and stamped a sentiment from Easter Friends in Poppy Parade too.  It all went on a card that I covered with a pretty print from Sweet Symmetry, and finally, added some red sequins and Frayed White ribbon banners.  Thanks for popping in today!

"Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this:  He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun." Isaiah 37:5-6

Enjoy your day and be blessed, and continue to pray for Ukraine!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Easter Friends
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Poppy Parade, Sweet Symmetry DSP
Ink	Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, Pear Pizzazz
Accessories	Sequins from my stash, Frayed White Ribbon
Tools	Butterflies & Flowers Layering Masks (stencils), Blending Brushes

CH35 Stenciled Florals

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend!  My friend Michele inspired me to try the Color Hues challenge this week:

Michele is a whiz at making stupendous floral cards, so I can't even begin to compete with hers.  But I did give it a go with SU's new stencils (ie: masks), and I really liked how this came out:

I am still struggling to get my photos to the way I like them--hopefully by Thursday I will have my own computer back---but I am hoping you can get the picture, LOL!  I stenciled the lighter layer in Blushing Bride, then added Polished Pink on top.  I used Misty Moonlight as my "navy", stenciling the leaves in that shade:

I added some pink speckles and a sentiment from Flowering Rain Boots.  And while I had my blending brushes handy, I added another little flower on the inside of my Misty Moonlight card:

I must tell you that the samples in the Color Hues gallery are stunning!  So creative!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

"All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord stands forever." 1 Peter 1:24-25

Stamps:  Flowering Rain Boots, Friendly Hello

Paper:  Basic White, Misty Moonlight

Ink:  Blushing Bride, Polished Pink, Misty Moonlight

Accessories:  Sequins from my stash

Tools:  Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Butterflies & Flowers Decorative Masks, Blending Brushes

PP576 Butterfly Birthday

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess today and since it's the fifth Sunday, we have a fun tic-tac-toe grid!  Check it out:

I chose the bottom row across (although I could use the right column too!), so here we go:

I am still on a bit of a vintage kick.  I saw this card that my friend Bonnie created recently and I remembered that I had that butterfly image, although smaller, as well, so thanks, Bonnie, for the inspiration!  I started with a piece of Crumb Cake and stenciled a pattern from the new Butterflies and Flowers Decorative Masks with some white craft ink, then heat-set it and diecut it with a Stitched Rectangle Die.  I stamped the butterflies in Stazon Black ink, then stamped a scripty stamp on top with some Crumb Cake ink, diecut it as well, then added a Basic Black mat.  The sentiment from Friends are Like Seashells was stamped, diecut and embellished with a little piece of Basic Black, diecut with a Basic Borders die:

Before mounting it on a Very Vanilla card front, I dyed some Gingham ribbon with the leftover reinkers I had from this card, then tied it around the panel:

This will go in my birthday card stash!  

I hope you'll play along with our fun grid this week....check out the DT created on the Paper Players blog, then share you creation with us too!  Thanks for visiting today!

A little bowling fun with some friends from church:

She even beat her mom, her dad and her stepdad!!  Beginner's luck, I think!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friends are Like Seashells, Papillon (Tim Holtz), Outpost (Artistic Outpost)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Black
Ink	Stazon Black, Crumb Cake, Craft White
Accessories	Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Butterflies & Flowers Decorative Masks, Blending Brushes, Basic Borders Dies

CAS in Blue

Happy Monday, peeps!  I gave my blue-hued ink pads a workout yesterday, as I needed two sympathy cards and I found a couple of CAS challenges that fit their bill.  The first uses another one of the masks (stencils) that I've been playing with lately; this time I used the butterfly one:

After stenciling in Balmy Blue, Misty Moonlight and Pacific Point, I added a sentiment from Eden's Garden and some speckles from Color and Contour:

I added a blue rhinestone and mounted everything on a Balmy Blue base.  It fits the bill for the SUO CAS challenge as well as the Krafty Secrets CAS challenge!

My second card uses a Hero Arts stamp that I normally think of as a Christmas image, but I thought it would work well for a wintery sympathy card:

The image was stamped in Misty Moonlight, as was the sentiment from Special Moments:

I popped up the panel on dimensionals and it's ready to go.  It fits the Double D challenge for this week of blue and white winter:

I used the upper left photo as my inspiration!  Thanks to Diane, I am also entering it at Colorful Options  challenge:

Thanks so much for popping in today!  

My pancake-making helper!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips." Proverbs22:17-18

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Eden's Garden, Color and Contour
Card stock & Papers	Balmy Blue, Basic White
Ink	Balmy Blue, Misty Moonlight, Pacific Point
Accessories	Pretty Peacock Rhinestones (ret)
Tools	Blending Brushes, Butterflies and Flowers Decorative Masks

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Special Moments, Winter Trees (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools

PP575 Just a Little Note

Hello, peeps!  Happy Sunday!  It's time for a new Paper Players challenge, with Jaydee as our hostess!  She has a wonderful sketch for us...this sketch is probably my all-time favorite one to use, it's a real "go-to" when I want to make a card in a hurry, LOL!  Here's the sketch:

I wanted to revisit some of the pretty papers that are in the main SU catalog...they sort of get short shrift when the minis come rolling around, and I thought the Pansy Petals DSP would be perfect for a fun, springy creation:

The DSP did most of the work!  I used a Pale Papaya plaid for the bottom section and did some more stencilling for the polka-dotted top.  I fussy-cut two pansies to match and added some diecut leaves:

The "seamline" looked a little plain, so I added a scalloped border, then sponged a wee skinny strip of Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper with some Pale Papaya ink and adhered it on top for a bit of snazz!  Finally, some In Color jewels were popped into the center of the flowers, and a sweet little sentiment from Special Moments was stamped directly on the DSP in Calypso Coral ink!  It all resides on a Pale Papaya card.

I hope you'll play along with the Players and use this versatile sketch to make a special card for a special someone!  Share it with us at the Players' blog and check out what the DT made a swell!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy had a sleepover this weekend and we watched Encanto...unusual but cute!  She was quite absorbed (and knew the Bruno song by heart!):

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Special Moments
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pale Papaya, Calypso Coral, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer (ret), Pansy Petals DSP
Ink	Pale Papaya, Calypso Coral
Accessories	In Color Jewels, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Scalloped Contours Dies, Forever Flourishing Dies, Basic Patterns Decorative Masks, Blending Brushes

Paper Players 191

Hello peeps!  Happy Palm Sunday to everyone!  Ann is our fabulous hostess for today’s Paper Players challenge!  Check out these wonderful colors:

I was sort of whining to myself lately because I was seeing all these cool stencilled designs, some with stencilling paste, and I was thinking “Poor me” because I didn’t have any stencils….then a light bulb went on in my head and I remembered that I DO have some stencils!  I had the wonderful Build a Banner Simply Created set from last year’s Holiday mini, so I pulled it out and went to work:

I used the chevron and dotted stencils with the Calypso Coral ink, then stencilled the “h” in Artichoke and cut it out. 

I then realized that any Framelit can also be used as a stencil!!!  Just leave the diecut IN the Framelit….don’t pop it out quite yet…..then use a dauber to color in the center.  Pop it out and you have a cool stencilled element!  Just be sure to clean off the Framelit between colors!

I hope you find this color combo fun to use too, and be sure to share what you do with it at the Paper Players blog!  And check out the others’ samples as well!

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Jaydee
• Nance
• Sandy

We did a wee bit of chalk drawing on the sidewalks this week!  (And don’t mind the outfit…she insists on wearing this hoodie which is waaaay too small for her, LOL!)  She wanted me to draw five people (I just do stick figures), all holding hands.  Then she added her own at the very end:

It’s a man holding the baby’s hand, and he has a MOUSTACHE, LOL!:

Enjoy your day!

Love U Stencils

This month’s club members got to use SU’s Love U stencil set. I wasn’t real excited about them when I saw them in the Definitely Decorative catalog, but I got a set and they sat on my shelf until I was cleaning one day and remembered I had them! They ended being real fun to use! Perfect timing for Valentine’s! Here’s the card they made, along with two mini cards I demo’ed for the hostesses:

The stencil was sponged with Regal Rose ink, then again with a dauber dipped in Frost Vanilla shimmery paint. It gave a nice little shine to it; then we stamped the x-o-x-o definition from Define Your Life over top in Stazon—good practice with the Stamp-a-ma-jig! The mini card on the left was sponged with Melon Mambo, and a flourish from Style Beautiful was stamped in Rich Razzleberry. The mini card on the right was sponged with Pretty in Pink and Pear Pizzazz, and a simple pearl was placed in the center.

Here are two other samples using the same stencil set:

and in keeping with my one-a-week Christmas card challenge to myself:

I am not feeling too spiffy today, so I’ll sign off here---email me if you have any questions!