TMS733 Give Thanks

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I spent most of yesterday cranking out Thanksgiving cards, and the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches provided a perfect one for using up some scraps in my bin!  Here's the sketch:

I had a bunch of strips cut from All About Autumn DSP for an earlier project, so I trimmed them a bit and created this card:

I stamped the Very Vanilla panel with a tree from the retired Rooted in Nature, stamped the sentiment from Courage and Faith over top, then embossed it with the retired Subtle embossing folder.  I love the effect it creates:

A couple of diecut leaves of Crushed Curry finished it off.  The inside sentiment is from the retired Day of Thanks:

I also made this card, after searching through some retired DSPs...I have been hoarding this pattern but thought it would make a fun Thanksgiving card:

I can't remember the name of the woodland DSP but I know it was a SAB from a few years back; the bottom piece is from Sweet Symmetry.  The sentiment is from Good Greetings, and the woodcut is from Truly Grateful.  It's fun to use some of these older stamps!  The inside is also from Day of Thanks, and it all went on a Poppy Parade card base!

Wayne is a fan of ANY Philadelphia sports team....here the family is at a 76ers game!  Wayne's brother Matt is also a fan...he's next to Cassidy, actually paying attention, LOL!

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

SOS479 Another Fall Card

Happy Wednesday, peeps! I have another fall card for you today!  Shopping our Stash has an "ombre" challenge this week, and I had already begun to apply some color to a black and white piece of DSP from the Rustic Harvest when I saw the challenge, so I finished it up and here it is:

I must admit that this photo doesn't really catch the full effect of the blending; I started with Crushed Curry in the upper right hand corner, then blended Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze and Real Red.  I created a banner with the Stylish Shapes dies and a sentiment from Eden's Garden, then embellished it with a little acorn from the retired Truly Grateful set, and a couple of copper Glimmer paper-punched oak leaves:

I added a birthday sentiment on the inside, so I'm all ready for my next fall birthday recipient!  Thanks for popping in today!

One of the activities that Dana & Wayne did while in Nashville was to create a poster at Hatch Show Print.  Hatch prints a lot of the posters for country western stars and other entertainment venues--how cool, right?!

So here's Dana beginning her poster:

And here's her finished product! 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Eden's Garden, Truly Grateful (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Rustic Harvest DSP, Copper Glimmer Paper (ret)
Ink	Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Real Red
Accessories	Amber Gem, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Blending Brushes, Leaf Punch (ret)

IB194 Thankful Wheat

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Time for a lovely new Inspired By challenge...I just love both of these prompts!  Check out these beautiful wreaths:

 

And here is our optional sketch:

As I said, I do love wreaths and I was tempted to do a wreath card, but I challenged myself to do something different, so I made a wheat sheaf using an Impression Obsession die, some woodgrain DSP and some seasonal hues:

I used cardstocks in Very Vanilla, Bumblebee, Soft Succulent and Soft Suede to create my wheat, then added some gold satin ribbon and a Linen Specialty Paper tag.  The sentiment, also stamped in Soft Succulent, is from a retired set called Truly Grateful.  I also added some gold metallic pearls:

On the inside, I stamped a sentiment from Pretty Pumpkins and another image from the retired Truly Grateful set...I love how this looks!

I am also entering this at Little Red Wagon, where their challenge this week is So Very Thankful!

I hope you'll play along with our challenge...those wreaths are bound to give you lots of inspiration, and you MUST check out what the DT has created....honestly, they are so talented, I am not sure why they keep me around, LOL!  You can see them all at Inspired By!  Thanks for popping in today!

Wayne is stuck in Bermuda (more about that later) and he sent me this photo from his hotel patio:

Not too shabby!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." 2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pretty Pumpkins, Truly Grateful (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Bumblebee, Soft Succulent, Soft Suede, Linen Specialty Paper, Woodgrain DSP(ret)
Ink	Soft Succulent
Accessories	Gold Metallic Pearls, Linen Thread, Gold Satin Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Wheat Dies (Impressions Obsession)

Truly Grateful

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I have a Thanksgiving card for you today, using a retired SU set that I just love!  Here we go:

The set is called Truly Grateful; I stamped the background and wheat sheaf on a piece of Very Vanilla and colored it in with ink and a Blender pen:

The sentiment was stamped on a piece of Gilded Autumn specialty paper, which also is used for all the other layers except for the gold foil.  I used Tear n Tape to adhere it to the front, creating a bit of a curve to it for interest:

If you can believe it, I've only used stamps, ink and paper on this...no embellishments, no diecuts, no embossing!  So here are the challenges in which it will be entered:

The Spot:  Plant Kindness, Harvest Love, Krafty Chicks Challenge-Stamp Act, Just Add Ink -Stamps, Ink, and Paper, and Fab Friday's sketch:

Thanks for popping in today!  I am truly grateful for all of YOU!  And for nature; check out this sunrise photo Dana sent to me:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Truly Grateful
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Gilded Autumn Specialty Paper, Gold Foil
Ink	Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze
Accessories
Tools	Blender Pen

PP462 Grateful

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Time for another Paper Players challenge, and Joanne has given us a wonderful theme this week:

Over the weekend, we went yard saling and I found an Eldreth pottery crock with a Noah's ark and rainbow on it.  In our area, Eldreth pottery is very popular, now even more so as the studio has recently gone out of business.  All the crocks and figurines were made locally, not only in the traditional salt glaze blue but other colors as well.  I have quite a few pieces but one of my friends at church is an avid collector...in fact, last weekend she found a little piece in a box lot I had purchased for a song, and I gave it to her!  Anyway, here's mine:

This one is from 1998, and I believe it's a second, because the images aren't real clear...but why I am going on and on about crocks?  Because this was the inspiration for my card today:

I used the In(k)spire Me sketch:

and pulled out a few old SU sets:  Truly Grateful, Sanded and Falling Leaves.  I started by inking the Sanded background stamp with Gray Granite ink and stamping on some Smoky Slate cardstock.  Then, I inked up the wheat and acorn stamps with Blueberry Bushel ink, lightly spritzed them with water to give it more of a blurry look, then stamped them and once dry, diecut them out:

I added some banners, one stamped with the honeycomb image from Butterfly Basics, one plain Blueberry Bushel, and the other, some BB DSP that I swiped with a Gray Granite ink pad to make it less bright.  My final additions were a sentiment punched with the Modern Label punch, a Linen thread bow, and this sentiment on the inside:

Oh, and you can't see it but I embossed the front of my card with the Subtle EF too...I wish it would show up better!  It's a nice touch!

I think this is a nice change from the traditional fall/Thanksgiving colors and it was fun to play around with the images!  I hope you'll find some grateful/thankful inspiration and play along with us!  Be sure to check out the Paper Players blog to see what the designers created, and share yours with us as well! Thanks for stopping by my blog today!

Nothing like a little Halloween mask shopping after karate practice!!!

Too funny!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Subtle EF, Truly Grateful (ret), Falling Leaves (ret), Sanded Background (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Blueberry Bushel, Smoky Slate, Blueberry Bushel DSP
Ink	Blueberry Bushel, Gray Granite
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Modern Label Punch (ret), Spritzer, Subtle EF

CTD462 and MTS196

Hi peeps!  Happy last day of September, and happy Saturday....brrrr, fall has really fallen in SE PA!  I will be attending a local apple festival today and I'll need something warm to wear!  Speaking of warm, the Color Throwdown has some warm fall colors in their palette this week and I matched them with the Match the Sketch sketch:

I managed to cram in a lot of products on this little note card I created....new SU, old SU, and non-SU!!!  So here we go:

I began by embossing my Very Vanilla note card with a Darice Fall Leaf Background embossing folder.  The Pool Party panel was stamped with the woodgrain image from Truly Grateful in Versamark ink and dusted lightly with some old SU pastel chalks to enhance the colors.  The Pick a Pumpkin images were ones I had stamped for an earlier project and were still hanging around on my desk, so I added them to a  vertical banner of Merry Little Christmas DSP, then stamped a horizontal banner with a "Hello" from last year's fall Paper Pumpkin kit.  I also added a little stitched scallop scrap that I had laying on my desk too!  Good to clean up and use up those pieces!

So happy that you popped in today!  Have a blessed day and be sure to stop back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

Cassidy was showing Grampy a tooth that is almost ready to come out...she is going to church camp this weekend, I hope it doesn't come out there!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pick a Pumpkin, Truly Grateful (ret), Paper Pumpkin Fall 2016
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pool Party, Old Olive, Merry Little Christmas DSP
Ink	Cajun Craze, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Versamark
Accessories	Pastel Chalks (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Patterned Pumpkins Framelit, Fall Leaf Background Embossing Folder (Darice), Scallop Borders Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Dimensionals

Stamp Ink Paper 73 Truly Grateful

Happy Tuesday, peeps! If you're looking for my Try Stampin on Tuesday post, it's here.   

It's my second week as guest designer for Stamp, Ink, Paper and the prompt this week is "grateful":

I had been looking through my fall/Thanksgiving stamps and came across a SU set called Truly Grateful, and thought the sentiment would work well with one of elements from this month's Paper Pumpkin kit:

You may know I have a love/hate relationship with shaker cards!  The concept is great, but sometimes the execution is more work than it is worth!  The PP kit actually has a row of three diecut leaves and a plethora of gorgeous sequins in three different sizes, plus their foam strips make it fairly easy to create the shaker.  But I didn't want three leaves, I only wanted one leaf because I wanted a square element to use with my Layering Squares die....(I did use a Stitched Square die too, but this one is not SU since I hadn't received them yet when I made this card, LOL!)

So I trimmed the panel down and used the extra piece to stamp the sentiment on, then carefully punched it with an oval punch and placed it above the leaf.  The stitched square is Top Top Taupe; the scalloped square is Cajun Craze.  I added a Delightful Dijon stitched leaf (Lawn Fawn) and mounted everything on a piece of Autumn Day paper by PhotoPlay.  I just love those little leaves!  And the sequins are so pretty inside and out!

I hope you'll check out the Stamp Ink Paper blog and see what the other designers have created using this theme....and share yours with us as well!

After-school pudding!

TSOT296 Give Thanks

 

Hi peeps!  Time for another Try Stampin' On Tuesday sketch!  This week our optional theme is Thanskgiving:

I had this cute background paper from BoBunny's Farmer's Market collection, and I thought it would make a great Thanksgiving card:

There was also some cute corn paper which coordinated with it, and I remember a corn image in SU's Perfected Preserved set from a couple years ago!  I had never even inked this image up!  I stamped it two times, once in Crushed Curry and again in Delightful Dijon, and use the coordinating die to cut it out, trimming the corn down a little and adhering it on top:

  

The Baja Breeze panel was stamped with the woodgrain from Truly Grateful (retired SU) and I mounted it on a Tip Top Taupe scalloped panel.  If you don't have rectangle scallop dies, you can always cut two square ones and piece them together....usually the seam is barely visible and it's a good way to stretch the use of your dies.  I stamped another image on the inside with So Saffron and stamped a sentiment (My Creative Time's Mixed Holiday Sentiments) on top.  The sentiment on the front is also from the same set.

We would love to have you play along with our sketch...you can share it with us on the TSOT blog, or visit our facebook page and share it there!

I don't have a Cassidy photo, but check out this appropriate vintage Thanksgiving postcard from my collection:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!