Patriotic Shadow Box

Happy Wednesday, peeps! I had a little class yesterday where we made an 8"x8" patriotic shadow box.  It was a lot of fun and I got a chance to use an old Waltzingmouse stamp set that I got many, many years ago, along with some Honey Bee papers and stamps!  Here we go:

 

Each Basic Beige square was 2" with a 2 1/8" mat of Cherry Cobbler.  All the printed paper came from Honey Bee's Americana pad. Besides the WM stamp set called USA 1776, we also used the retired Star Spangled Banner from SU and a background stamp from Honey Bee called Land of the Free. Our colors were Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Real Red and Misty Moonlight.  We used some glimmer paper and various star punches and dies as well as the Alphabet Ala Mode for the letters.  I like to use patriotic decor throughout my house during the summer, so this will fit in nicely!

Thanks so much for stopping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Star Spangled Banner (ret), USA1776 (Waltzingmouse), Land of the Free (Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Beige, Americana (Honey Bee), White Glimmer Paper, Silver Glimmer Paper, Adhesive Sheets, Foam Adhesive Sheets
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy
Accessories	Metallic Gems, Rhinestones
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Alphabet Ala Mode, Stitched Star Die (Paper Rose), Small Star Punch (ret), Banner Die (Pink & Main), Sports Event Dies (ret)

AHSC635 Land of the Free

Happy HOT Monday, everyone! Phew, what a scorcher of a weekend! Hope you are all staying cool here in the US!  It's time for a new Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, and here's the sketch:

My card deviates a wee bit from the sketch but hopefully you can see it!  Here we go:

I have had these patriotic stamps from Waltzingmouse, which has sadly closed, for years and I think this might be the second time I've used them!  (I did do a shadow box recently with them, so stay tuned!)  I stamped the Statue of Liberty on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock, isolated the torch, then diecut the remaining image with the Everyday Arches dies.  I used my Sanded background stamp again to give it some "aging" like the Honey Bee paper I used for the background:

I stamped and diecut the sentiment on another piece of the Honey Bee paper, then added this on the inside of my Misty Moonlight card:

This is a lovely sketch and I hope you'll hop over to the AHSC blog to play along!

On a personal note, I don't normally send out July 4th cards, but I might just send this one to my second cousin's son  (I always jokingly tell my cousin, if I ever had a son, I would want him to be just like his son Jonathan)!  Jonathan is a godly young man who loves the Lord and is also a Civil War reenactor, along with his dad Steve, (my second cousin). Jonathan found out we have a relative who fought in the Pennsylvania 56st Regiment, so he asked several of our family members if we wanted to take a trip to Gettysburg, which is only a couple of hours from our home, so we finally made the trip on Saturday.  It was HOT, let me tell you! We had a tour guide who was extremely knowledgeable, and we visited various sites around the battlefield, most importantly the Pennsylvania Memorial where we found our relative's name listed under the 56th! Coincidentally, John found one of his relatives listed under the 121st!  Here's Jonathan with the flag he made (or maybe his mom made it), replicating the original flag of the 56th:

Here's my cousin Steve, his grandson Oliver, and Dana, listening to the tour guide:

Some of the info went over Jameson & Sawyer's heads, but they will grow to learn more about it as they get older.  I believe they've been to Gettysburg before, so I am sure they'll be back!

Maven was interested in the cannons!

She was also fascinated by my water bottle and the cookies I brought! Jameson was being funny, wearing her hat:

Cassidy was a great help with the kids too!

Thanks for indulging me!!  Although it was a hot day, it was great to get together with our family, even though the solemnity of the battlefield was constantly on my mind. To have a country divided is a sad thing.  And I cannot imagine how hot those soldiers were in those woolen uniforms!  God bless America and those who fight for our freedoms!

Thanks for visiting today, enjoy it and be blessed.

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sanded (ret), USA1776 (Waltzingmouse, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Real Red, Misty Moonlight, Americana (Honey Bee)
Ink	Night of Navy, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Arches Dies, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Iconic Imagery Dies, 1" Circle Punch (ret)

FF0162 God Bless the USA

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I have a fun card that I made with some new goodies, as well as some old ones! I recently got this patriotic background stamp and couldn't wait to ink it up!  Here we go:

I stamped it in Early Espresso on a Basic Beige card, then did some blending with Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake and Pecan Pie inks to give it a vintage look.  I diecut two stars and layered them together, then created the "USA" with Cherry Cobbler, Basic Beige and Misty Moonlight cardstock and the Mini Alphabet dies:

On the inside, I stamped two sentiments from a really old Waltzingmouse set called USA 1776 in Real Red and Misty Moonlight, then added the fireworks in Sahara Sand:

In hindsight, I wish I had shabbied up the "USA" a little bit!  But it will have to do for now!  And I think this fits the bill at Festive Friday; I've got red, white, blue, and fireworks!

Thanks so much for visiting today!

Eden is doing a little birdwatching.....can you see the bird out in the yard?

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Land of the Free (Honey Bee), USA 1776 (Waltzingmouse)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Misty Moonlight, Cherry Cobbler, Basic White
Ink	Early Espresso, Misty Moonlight, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Sahara Sand (ret)
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Mini Alphabet Dies, Blending Brushes, Stitched Star Die (Paper Rose), Star Punch (ret), Sponge Daubers

PP595 Graduation Congrats

Happy Sunday, peeps, time for a new Paper Players challenge with Claire as our hostess! She's got a fabulous color challenge, and it couldn't have come at a better time for me!  Check it out:

We're headed to a graduation party for a young man in our church, and he is going into the army!  So this patriotic color challenge was perfect for what I had in mind!  Here we go:

I loosely used the sketch only from Fusion:

I used the star as my circular focal point, and the little bursts in the background are from the Sentiment Silhouettes dies, which coordinate with the Charming Sentiments, which I also used for my sentiment.  This is such a great bundle!!!  The star is from a really old Waltzingmouse set called USA1776.  It has great patriotic images in it and I simply stamped the diamond shapes in the challenge colors, cut them out and pieced them together to form the star:

Since it's for a young man, I didn't put a lot of fussy embellishments on it, just added some Pacific Point DSP and a wee little resin star to the center.  Here's the inside, again using sentiments from Charming Sentiments:

Of course, he'll be mostly interested in what's INSIDE the card, right?!  LOL!  I hope you'll find some inspiration from our color challenge...check out what the DT created at the Paper Players blog...they're not ALL patriotic!  You can use these colors in lots of ways!  Share yours with us there too!

Cassidy participated in a big karate shindig yesterday.....she said she "sort of" had a good time.  I don't know...kind of looks like a fun time to me:

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Charming Sentiments, USA1776 (Waltzingmouse Stamps, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pacific Point, Real Red, Pacific Point DSP
Ink	Pacific Point, Real Red
Accessories	Resin Star, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Sentiment Silhouettes

AHSC 449 Peace Shaker Card

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have a fun shaker card for you today and it uses the sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

And here we go:

I started by making the shaker portion, using one side of a SU clear envelope as the front of the shaker, adhering it to a piece of printed paper on three sides of the back, filling with glitter and sequins, and then adhering the fourth side closed. I diecut three funky trees and adhered to the front, then attached the whole thing to a scalloped piece of Crumb Cake:

I embossed a piece of white cardstock with a Darice snowflake embossing folder, then adhered it to a Merry Merlot card base.  A wee bit of grosgrain ribbon and Linen thread formed a bow for the top. I stamped a really old Sweet & Sassy sentiment for the front and an equally old Waltzingmouse sentiment went on the inside:

This card really is prettier in real life than it shows in the photos!  You'll have to take my word for it!  Thanks for visiting today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Holiday Greetings (Sweet & Sassy), Compliments of the Season (Waltzingmouse)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Thick Basic White, Crumb Cake, Merry Merlot, Wonderland DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Merry Merlot
Accessories	Linen Thread, Grosgrain Ribbon (Papertrey), Ice Glitter (ret), Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Alpine Dies (Tim Holtz), Snowflake Swirl EF (Darice), Bitty Banners Dies (ret)

Retro Rubber 159

Hey everyone!  Tuesday brings us a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we use stamps that are at least a year old!  This week is Anything Goes! 

I have a binder box of stamps that are too big to fit into standard size clear cases, so I tend to "forget" about them since they are not in full view!  I pulled out a really old Waltzingmouse stamp set (probably from around 2010) called Country Labels 4 to create my card today:

I began with three of the colors from Sunday Stamps as well as the sketch from Try Stampin on Tuesday, although I chose not to make a see-through panel:

I found some pretty peach-colored DSP for my top layer, then stamped the sentiment and border in Strawberry Slush ink; I knew I had matching dies and after much searching, tracked them down in one of my drawers, LOL!

The horizontal panel, which was a small piece of striped DSP I salvaged from my scrap bin, was stamped with some tiny flowers from a past Paper Pumpkin set, and embellished with some Crinkled Seam Binding as well as a Strawberry Slush scalloped border:

The inside was stamped with another set of images from the same Waltzingmouse set, then I added a couple more branches from the Paper Pumpkin set:

I hope you'll play along with our Anything Goes challenge this week at Retro Rubber!  Just remember to use older stamps and tell us their approximate age!  Can't wait to see what you create! Thanks for popping in today!

A visitor to my back yard bird feeder....she came by several times, in fact! She is probably the same one who walked up our driveway a couple of weeks ago!

We just never know what we'll see when we look out our door!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps."  Proverbs 16:9

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Country Labels 4 (Waltzingmouse), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Strawberry Slush (ret), Felicity DSP (BoBunny), I Am DSP (Simple Stories)
Ink	Strawberry Slush, Blushing Bride
Accessories	Crinkled Seam Binder
Tools	Big Shot, Labels Dies (Nestabilities), Stamparatus

Snowmen Melt Your Heart

 Happy Monday, peeps!  I have a fun little Christmas card using a really old Lizzie Anne stamp:

The Inkspirational and Little Red Wagon challenges both feature snow, and Hand Stamped Sentiments has a color challenge:

I stamped the snowmen in Misty Moonlight and colored them in with Blends, then added some glitter:

After diecutting it with the Nested Stitched Label dies, I mounted it on a Misty Moonlight cardbase which was stamped with some snowflakes from a retired SU set, and embellished it with some Old Olive ribbon and glimmer snowflakes.  Here's the inside:

I'll add it to my stash for next year!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Punch (ret), Snowmen (Lizzie Anne), Compliments of the Season (Waltzingmouse)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Misty Moonlight, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Craft White
Accessories	Old Olive Ribbon, Dimenisonals, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Nested Stitched Labels Dies, Blends, Snowflake Dies (Shady Lane)