TGIF306 Welcoming Window

 Hi peeps!  A quick post today as I have stampers coming to play!  YAY!  The color challenge at TGIF beckoned me to play along, especially since purple and yellow are probably my least utilized colors!  

So I struggled through and here's my card:

There are so many fun little pieces in this bundle, I really enjoyed playing with it!  In hindsight, I wish I had assembled this a wee bit differently, but we learn by doing!  I love the texture on the shutters and how pretty the two-step flowers turn out!  I used a piece of True Love DSP on which to stamp my window, and stamped a sentiment from Hot Dog to attach at the bottom.  It's hard to see, but the Whisper White panel is embossed with the Subtle EF too!

To make another sample for my stamp club girls, I did this one as well, using Mint Macaron, Misty Moonlight and Gray Granite as my colors:

I used a piece of Butterfly Bijou as a background for my window; but then I thought, well, if this is a scene of an outside wall looking in, I probably shouldn't have something that looks like a sky, right?  Oh well!  Another lesson learned!  We should have a curtain stamp, right?  I LOVE this color combination for the florals too!  

And I thought created the background would be time-consuming, but it went together in a flash!  Thanks for popping in today for a visit!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Just a note; I had a reader ask a question about something yesterday, but she commented as "anonymous" with no email address, so I could not answer her question! If you choose to do that, it's fine, but send me an email (my address is on the right sidebar) if you have a question; I hate to have someone feel like I am ignoring them!  Thanks!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Welcoming Window, Hot Dog
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, True Love DSP, In Colors DSP
Ink	Just Jade, Memento Black, Daffodil Delight, Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Dimensionals, Rhinestones
Tools	Big Shot, Window Flower Box Dies, Stitched Nested Label Dies

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Welcoming Window
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Mint Macaron, Misty Moonlight, Basic Black, Gray Granite,  Butterfly Bijou DSP
Ink	Gray Granite, Mint Macaron, Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big SHot, Window Flower Box 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

Chipmunk Thanks

Happy Saturday, stampers!  I have a quick masculine card for you today! My birthday is coming up and my sweet step-father-in-law is always very generous, so I wanted to send him a special thank you card.  He's a no-frills kinda guy, so it's a no-frills kinda card, but I did manage to incorporate three challenges!  But first, my card:

TGIF Challenges wants us to use our paper scraps; Color Dare is featuring shades of brown; and Daring Cardmakers, a new one to me, wants us to use three of something!

You know how you always have those little strips of leftover DSP when you cut a mat for the front of a standard-sized card?  I took some of those woodgrained-pattern strips from the Neutrals 6x6 pad in Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, and Cajun Craze (that's my "three") and cut them with a cool little die from Ornate Layers....it's 4" x 7/8" and has stitching all around.  I placed them on an angle on my Very Vanilla card, butting the edges together, to create a little patchwork panel:

For my focal panel, I stamped the chipmunk in Early Espresso on a scrap of Very Vanilla, then used a square Stitched Shape die to cut it out. I took a B acrylic block, stuck it on a Crumb Cake ink pad, then "stamped" once on scrap paper and again directly on top of my critter.  The sentiment was stamped in Cajun Craze:

That's a fun way to add color and texture in a snap!  Now to get this out in the mail!

We do have a chipmunk that scoots around our patio and under our porch, but he is way too shy and quick for me to get a photo of him.  Last Sunday morning, however, we did "capture" this little guy:

He (or she!) has been a naughty little character, stealing whole blocks of suet from my feeders, and climbing up to the top of the seed feeders, helping himself to anything available!  This day, he helped himself to an apple inside of John's Have-a-Heart trap, and he was not a happy camper.  HOWEVER..... a few minutes after we discovered him, when John came to take him to the wooded area down the road and release him, he had ESCAPED!  Apparently the door to the trap has a tiny bit of play in it and he managed to squeeze himself under it!  SO....no more bird seed or suet until John fixes the trap!  You can't fool with Mother Nature....or brother raccoon!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Field Journal
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Neutrals DSP
Ink	Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Ornate Layers Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Acrylic Block B

Thank You For Being My Friend

Hi peeps, happy Tuesday! I have a sweet little card using a stamp set called Field Journal; I bought it because I thought the images would be great for masculine cards, but today, it's definitely feminine:

I am using the sketch from Fab Friday and the color palette from TGIF:

I thought I'd try the "no-line" technique for my berries; I stamped them in Crumb Cake ink second generation (stamped first on scrap, then again on cardstock without reinking), and I colored the leaves with Blends, and the berries with Markers:

I almost gave up, but I worked at it and finally achieved the look I was aiming for!  After fussy-cutting them out, I mounted them on an embossed Whisper White panel and added a sentiment stamped in Flirty Flamingo.  I added some scalloped layers and some Mango Melody DSP and it was done!  I think these colors are very happy and cheerful and summery!  Thanks for popping by!

Cassidy did some playing around with some Granny Apple Green cardstock herself last week, she wanted to create a card for her friend Logan (she wouldn't let me take a picture of HER):

Logan loves tractors, so she stamped the image and diecut it out, then added his name using the Little Letters die, and I had a few extra orange stars from my PP project, so she added them:

And on the inside, a Robox meme and a little acrostic:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Field Journal, Here's A card
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Flirty Flamingo, Brights DSP
Ink	Flirty Flamingo
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Tasteful Labels Dies,  Greenery EF, Blends, Markers

Poinsettia CAS Christmas

 

Happy Friday, peeps!  Loll and Bonnie have a nice CAS Christmas challenge going on this month, TGIF166 has a glitter challenge:

and the City Crafter Challenge is Christmas in July with silver!  I have had this Deck the Halls Christmas paper pad from Melissa Frances for a long, long time, and I was thrilled to be able to use it:

There is NO stamping on the outside of the card, all the designs are from the paper itself!  I used a Concord and 9th die (Season of Cheer) to cut out my sentiment in silver glimmer paper, and I used an adhesive sheet on the back so it was easier to adhere:

I mounted it on a Mossy Meadow card, added a sentiment on the inside, and it was done!  That IS easy peasy!  Thanks for popping in today!

A sweet little Sawyer from the July 4th bash!

PP393 and TGIFC159 Thanks a Bunch

Hello everyone and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, grandmoms, stepmoms, pet moms, whatever!  Today the awesome Claire is our Paper Players hostess, and if you know anything about Claire, you know these bright colors are a perfect match to her outgoing personality!!  Check these out:

Strawberry Slush and Hello Honey are retired colors, so feel free to substitute something close if you need to!  For my card today, I chose the little birdhouse from Flying Home to stamp and color in with inks and an aquapainter:

I stamped my image in Stazon ink on Shimmery White cardstock; I wish we had Blends in all these colors, as my watercoloring is not as good as my "blending", LOL!  I did try to do a little shading, and I added a butterfly from the same set, popped up on a mini dimensional:

After diecutting it with the largest circular Stitched Shapes framelit, I used some retired DSP in Strawberry Slush on which to mount it:

I also used the retired Dotted Scalloped Ribbon punch to create a little border from the same Shimmery White cardstock because I used the sketch from TGIF Challenges:

and I thought it would add a nice little touch!  The final addition was a sentiment from Sprinkles of Life, stamped in Wild Wasabi!  

I hope you'll play along with us this week!  The DT has come up with some fabulous ways to use these fun colors as well!  Check them out here, or hop over to the Paper Players website:

·        Claire

·        Jaydee

·        Joanne

·        Laurie

·        Nance

·        Sandy

·        Elizabeth

·        Annie

·        Jan

Dana took me to a local nursery called Groff's...it was amazing!  Lots and lots of plants and flowers (and people!!!), and I picked out a few things for my Mother's Day gift.  It was almost overwhelming, so I will need to go back on a weekday when it is less crowded, to get a few more things to try to attract some hummers and butterflies!  My backyard has NO flowers right now, we are waiting on some patio proposals, so I will have to be happy with some planters and pots of flowers!  

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Paper Players 391 Tic Tac Toe Wreath

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Hope you're having a good weekend!  It's been a busy one in the Pugliese household, lots of people coming and going, activities, weddings, luncheons, dinners...phew, it's exhausting, but fun seeing family and friends!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess today with a Tic Tac Toe challenge!  They're always fun:

I have had this little "wreath" poking around on my desk for several days (and I apologize for the photo quality, just couldn't get a good one for some reason); it was made with a couple of dies I was just experimenting with, so I thought I would use it for Joanne's challenge, going down the middle column of diecut, ribbon and circle.  So here we go:

Again, it's pretty CAS because that's just where my brain has been going lately!  I wanted to use a small flower but not one that I would normally choose, so I went for the blossom in Hold on to Hope, stamping it three times in Sweet Sugarplum ink and trimming off the stem after diecutting it:

I had a little scrap of Primrose Petals stitched ribbon that I adhered under the flowers, then mounted it on an embossed panel, added a butterfly diecut from the same set and a few pearls:

I added a Primrose Petals mat and the sentiment from Colorful Seasons, also stamped in Primrose Petals:

I left the inside blank, and I'll add a sentiment when I decide what occasion it's for!  And since this card is pink, has flowers, and has pearls, I am entering it in the TGIF157 challenge, which is also a Tic-Tac-Toe:

So happy you popped in today!  I hope you'll visit the Paper Players blog to see what the others created, and play Tic Tac Toe with us as well!!

We visited Cassidy's school last week for Curriculum Night, which means each second-grade classroom shares an activity related to the topic about which they are learning.  Currently, they're learning about Native Americans and how the western US was settled.  She played a game on the floor, taking her on the Oregon Trail:

Made a wampum bead bracelet:

Panned for gold:

And piloted a keel ship!

We were very impressed with how detailed the projects were, and these were only a few of them!  Hands-on learning!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hold on to Hope, Colorful Seasons
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Primrose Petals (ret)
Ink	Sweet Sugarplum, Primrose Petals (ret)
Accessories	Primrose Petals Ribbon (ret), Pearls, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Circles Framelits, Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret)

TGIFC155 and CCS268 Cue the Confetti

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  I've got a bright springy card for you today, using my much-neglected Swirly Bird set, a sketch from TGIF Challenges, and the colors from CAS Colours and Sketches!  

Aren't these colors pretty?  They were fun to use...the sketch was a bit more of a challenge!  Here we go:

I stamped the circles, swirls and flowers in each of the challenge colors, stamping off first so I got a lighter image, then punching them with the 1 1/4" circle punch.  I stamped the speckles on the background in Flirty Flamingo and added a sentiment from Picture Perfect Birthday, matted with a piece of Flirty Flamingo as well:

On the inside, I stamped a sentiment from the Picture Perfect set as well as a few more speckles!

I added some retired Pool Party DSP and thick baker's twine to finish it off!  Thanks for popping in today!

Goofy girl, eating dinner in her pjs:

Her pajamas have a hood with a Santa hat...it's still cold so she's still wearing them!!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Swirly Bird, Picture Perfect Birthday
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, White, Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party Patterns DSP (ret)
Ink	Summer Sun, Pool Party, Flirty Flamingo
Accessories	Pool Party Thick Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	1 1/4" Circle Punch, Dimensionals