PP532 Ornate Colors

Hi peeps!  Happy Sunday!  Did you remember to turn your clocks ahead?  We turn ours ahead on Saturday afternoon so it's not quite such a shock on Sunday mornings, LOL!  It's Paper Players time, and Joanne is our hostess today with a gorgeous color palette! Check it out:

I had an urge to do some watercoloring, so I pulled out Ornate Style, which hasn't seen ink for a long time!  So here we go:

I didn't want to use black ink for the outline, so I used some Memento London Fog ink, which is a soft blue-gray, to stamp on some watercolor paper.  I colored the floral image with an aquapainter and ink, and then fussy-cut it out:

I embossed a piece of Seaside Spray with an Altenew cover plate, adhered the image, then added some sequins and a bit of rose metallic thread.  The sentiments, outside and ink, are from the retired Watercolor Wonder:

These colors are just beautiful together, and I am glad Joanne chose them!  I used the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch for my layout:

I hope you'll check out what the design team did over at the Paper Players blog, and share your creation with us too!  Thanks for popping in today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Ornate Style, Watercolor Wonder (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Seaside Spray, Watercolor
Ink	Old Olive, Seaside Spray, Highland Heather, Memento London Fog
Accessories	Dimensionals, Rose Metallic Thread (ret), Sequins (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Dotted Swirls Cover Plate (Altenew), Aquapainters

AYSI228 Pink Butterflies

 Happy Friday, peeps!  Time for another As You See It challenge, and it's a recipe!  Here we go:

My original card for this challenge was an epic FAIL. I just could not get my colors to work together well.  I have been disappointed in SU's selection of pinks in the last few years.  I loved Pink Pirouette, but they retired it; Blushing Bride is acceptable, and Rococo Rose is pretty, but a little too dark for what I wanted to create.  Petal Pink is just too orangey for me.  What to do, what to do?  In the end, I DID use Petal Pink, along with gold embossing, for my butterfly-accented card today; I ended up really liking these colors together:

I started by stamping my butterfly from Butterfly Gala on three different Petal Pink DSPs, but by the time I did the embossing, you couldn't see the patterns anyway!!!  But trust me, they're there!  I punched them out and layered them on a piece of Petal Pink DSP diecut with a Tasteful Labels die...LOVE those dies!!  My new favorites!  The "thanks" sentiment from the retired Watercolor Wonder set was also embossed with gold.  I added some gold thread, tied in a bow behind the panel, and some new Gilded Gold gems on each butterfly:

I put it all on a Stitched Rectangle panel that was embossed with the Subtle embossing folder, then mounted it on a Whisper White card. My sketch is from FMS for this week:

I hope you'll create something yummy with our recipe this week!  Be sure to check out all the designers' creations at the As You See It blog!

So yesterday, Cassidy and I are in the car, driving on the highway in light rain.

Me:  "Look at that crazy driver going past me...it's raining, and he doesn't have his lights on.  And the car behind him is tailgating!"

Cassidy:  "I don't know what that means."
Me:  "Tailgating is when the car behind you is too close; if you have to slam on your brakes, he might hit you because he doesn't have time to stop."

Cassidy:  "Ohhhh...so the cars aren't practicing social distancing!"
LOL!!!  Thanks for stopping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Butterfly Gala, Watercolor Wonder (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Petal Pink DSP
Ink	Petal Pink, Gold Encore (ret)
Accessories	Gilded Gold Gems, Dimensionals, Gold Thread (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Tasteful Labels Dies, Subtle Embossing Folder

One Layer Pink and Black

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Wow, it has been a beautiful week here in SE PA so far--a blessed relief from the rain and chilly temps we had last week!  I challenged myself to make a one-layer card yesterday for two challenges:  Addicted to CAS's prompt was "pink", and Less is More  wanted a one-layer card with stripes and spots!

I wanted to use the new In Color, Powder Pink, so I took a sheet of cardstock and stamped the floral image from Wood Words (in the upcoming catalog) in Basic Black ink, masking off one edge, and adding a stripe with my black marker:

I inked in a few of the flowers with a white gel pen, then added white "spots" with Timeless Textures, and lastly, a sentiment from Watercolor Wonder and a few flowers from a past Paper Pumpkin set:

I was amazed at how well the black stripe came out!  I used a ruler and just ran my marker down the edge, and it worked perfectly!  It really gives the effect of multiple layers, but it's just one!

A few days back, someone asked about how I catalogued my Paper Pumpkin kits but she didn't leave an email, so I couldn't answer her directly.  Unfortunately, I did not keep a log of what set was featured each month, but I did notice that on Splitcoaststampers, if you go to the Stampin' Up! gallery, there is a section that features My Paper Pumpkin and you can search through and perhaps find when the set came out. In the future, I'll be sure to note the month that it was released!!  Meanwhile, I just mounted all my sets on an individual piece of EZMount Stamp Storage Panel, cut to size, numbered them, and then made an Excel spread sheet listing all the images and sentiments.  Then I stored them in an old stamp case.  That way, if I want a certain sentiment or image, I search for it in my spreadsheet, find what number it is and locate it in my case.  Not the best system, but it seems to work for me.  And if any of my readers have any tips for how they store their PP kits, or how to go back to identify which month they came out, let me know!  And be sure to include your email so I can get in touch with you!

Thanks for popping in to check out my one-layer card!  Hope you have a blessed day!

Yesterday the big concrete truck arrived and my BIL and nephew went to work:

Then they started removing some of the siding and today they're working on floor joists!

  

And in all the excitement, I got no photos of Cassidy!  Sorry!

Project Details--All Products SU! Unless Noted
Stamps	Wood Words, Timeless Textures, Watercolor Wonder, Paper Pumpkin
Card stock & Papers	Powder Pink
Ink	Basic Black, Craft White
Accessories
Tools	Basic Black Marker

MTS103 Vintage Vick's

Happy Sunday, peeps!  I had some time yesterday to stamp just for fun.....and I still had vintage on my mind, so I pulled this pretty floral image from my digital stash and created a "thinking of you" card

I started with the Match the Sketch sketch:

Then I added some vintage stamped images from the Postmark set by Papertrey, stamped in Marina Mist on some parchment stationery:

along with some lace and burlap trims, buttons, and glimmery leaves.  The sentiment is from SU's Watercolor Wishes, which is a lovely kit with wonderful sentiments!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy had fun lining up my little bottlebrush trees...of course!