HSS467 Shabby Chic Wedding Congrats

Happy Tuesday, all! My niece recently surprised everyone and got married! They'd been engaged for a long time and just decided to get married without any big fuss! (Smart couple!)  Naturally, I had to make them a congratulations card, and the Hand Stamped Sentiments sketch was perfect for what I had in mind.  Here's the sketch:

I haven't done a shabby-chic card for a long time and I really wanted to use some of the pretty vintage papers I had in my stash.  I pulled out a retired SU stamp set called Nature's Prints and went to work:

My card base is Basic Beige, with Very Vanilla accents, and the papers are from PhotoPlay and Kaiser Craft.  (I admit, these are hard colors to photograph!)  I stamped a sentiment from Hero Arts on the scripty piece, then added a sprig from the Nature's Prints, stamped in Basic Beige, as well as some seam binding that I dyed with BB ink, crumpled up and heat set in my microwave!

A sentiment from the same SU set was stamped on the inside, and I also overstamped the same sprig on top of the sentiment, using Versmark ink:

And here's a photo of the couple---they look like they could be fashion models, don't they? We wish them lots of blessings!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nature's Prints (ret), CL342 Sentiments (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Very Vanilla, French Flea Market (PhotoPlay), Pen & Ink (KaiserCraft)
Ink	Basic Beige, Basic Gray, Versamark
Accessories	Vanilla Seam Binding, Basic Beige Reinker, Twine from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Scalloped Contour Dies (ret)

TO132 Wedding Card

Hello everyone!  Happy Monday!  A young couple from our church got married over the weekend and I made them a wedding card using the Time Out Challenge for my inspiration:

I still had some of this DSP from last year (can't remember the name--Floral Boutique, thanks Karen!), and I thought it would look lovely with some Blushing Bride accents:

I used some old and new dies for my butterfly and the trim, and a sentiment from Best Birds:

and again, some old and new stamps for the inside:

They are off honeymooning in England, I can't wait to hear about that trip!!!  

Saturday was church clean-up day; it started out a little cloudy but the sun came out and warmed everything up!  Cassidy was on wheelbarrow duty:

She probably took more breaks than wheeled the wheelbarrow, if I know her, LOL!

The pastor's kids got in on the action too!  Look at one-year-old Joshua with his little rake!

The team did an AMAZING job....there were lots and lots of leaves to be cleaned up...now we're ready for spring!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Birds, Better Together, Graceful Words (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Floral Boutique DSP (ret)
Ink	Night of Navy
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Be Mine Thinlets, Butterflies Thinlets (ret), Bold Butterfly Framelits (ret), Banner Die (Nestabilities)

FMS349 Wedding Congrats

Hi peeps!  Just a quick post today before heading off to the pool.  The FMS sketch is a nice simple one:

and it is perfect for showing off these gorgeous Petal Promenade DSPs!!!  I need a wedding card for the end of the month, so I thought this would be a great sketch for it:

The paper does most of the work; I did add a Congratulations sentiment (Flourishing Phrases) and some little vellum doodads.  I diecut them from the Flourishes die set, then colored them with Old Olive and Calypso Coral blends...the alcohol inks dry very quickly!  I adhered them under a little piece of Mossy Meadow ribbon:

A quick sentiment on the inside and it was done!!  Thanks for popping in today; enjoy your day and be blessed!  And here are a few more birthday cards:

This cheerful, colorful one is from my friend Joan:

And I've never been able to master a waterfall card, but Teri did an awesome job...so cool!

Another fun fold from my friend Kim:

And this beauty from my friend Sally...just love these colors!

Thanks, ladies!  You bright a smile to my face and make getting older a little easier!

We played "beauty salon" the other day and I gave Cassidy a manicure:

She saw a hack where you put your freshly-manicured fingers in an ice bath for a minute, and it cures them quickly....I think she forgot that putting your fingers in ice water for that length of time is pretty chilly!!!

That nail polish lasted less than a day, LOL!  So much for that hack!

IB21 Mr and Mrs

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I hope and pray you are having a good week so far!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge; I went clean and simple for a wedding card this week:

And here is Laurel's prompt for this week...SO cute:

My inspiration came from the leather suitcases, white letters and that pretty pink flower arrangement!!!  I have lots of scraps from my Wood Textures DSP pile, so I found a nice strip and adhered the Mr & Mrs diecut letters on top.  I used a piece of Adhesive Sheet on the back of white cardstock, so once they were cut out, it was really easy to adhere them...no messy glue smooshing out!  A sentiment from the new Stitched All Around fit perfectly (and rhymes, too) above the letters!

The pretty floral is (again) from Tim Holtz's Flower Garden; I inked it in Versamark and Melon Mambo, then heat embossed it with embossing powder, and used a Copic to color it in.  The leaves in the background are from a past Paper Pumpkin kit; they were supposed to be "clear", but my Versamark pad had a wee little bit of the Melon Mambo ink left on the surface, so the leaves came out a very pale pink....which looked kinda nice, so I left it as it was!  They were embossed with clear embossing powder as well:

There's another beautiful sentiment in the Stitched All Around set, so I stamped that on the inside:

I have a wedding to attend in August, so I am well ahead with this card!  I hope you'll play with our pretty inspiration challenge, and make sure you check out the IB blog to see what the DT came up with!

Cassidy and my two great-nieces....ornery, all three!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched All Around, Flower Garden (Tim Holtz), Paper Pumpkin
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Wood Textures DSP, Multipurpose Adhesive Sheet
Ink	Basic Black, Versamark, Melon Mambo
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Lower Case Alpha Dies (Papertrey), Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Copic Marker RV34

CASCSC269 Lilac Wedding

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  My sister needed a wedding card...'tis the season, I guess...and I am pretty sure the bride is a fan of lavender, so I used the CAS Colours and Sketches sketch:

and some pretty Graphics 45 papers to create a card for her:

I had to remind myself that the challenge is "clean and simple" so I didn't add a lot of embellishments!  The sentiment is from Suite Sayings (ret), stamped in Elegant Eggplant, and I added a little flower from W+9's Freehand Florals set, stamped in Almost Amethyst and Wisteria Wonder, with a leaf stamped in Wild Wasabi:

On the inside, I stamped a sentiment from Better Together and added another floral:

All the cardstock is Papertrey's Rustic White!  Thanks so much for stopping by today!

The family went on a little hike on Sunday:

 

Everyone's squinting!  What's that bright thing in the sky?  Oh, it's the SUN!  It made an appearance for a couple of days and now it's gone again!  Hopefully it will be back tomorrow!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together, Suite Sayings (ret), Freehand Florals (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Rustic White (Papertrey), Secret Garden DSP (Graphics 45)
Ink	Wild Wasabi, Wisteria Wonder, Almost Amethyst (ret)
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Freehand Florals Dies (W+9), Dimensionals

FMS333 and HOC April Wedding Love

Happy Saturday, peeps!  It's wedding day for John's nephew Philip, so my card today is a wedding card using the FMS sketch by Narelle and (again) the House of Cards challenge, this time the colors:

I remembered that her shower invite was florals in wine and pinks, so I found some papers from Authentique called Grateful, and went to work with my Altenew Painted Flowers set:

I stamped the flowers on some Rustic White (Papertrey) cardstock in Sweet Sugarplum, Berry Burst, Wild Wasabi and Basic Black nks; the sentiment is from an Avery Elle stamp called Peonies.  I added some scalloped mats and a few sequins:

On the inside, I stamped a sentiment from God's Blessings (ret) and added just the outline stamp of the flower in Sweet Sugarplum...I really like that effect!

Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to stop back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge too!

A little origami activity:

A penguin and a giraffe...not a good photo but you get the idea!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

FMS309 Getting Hitched

Hi everyone!  Thursday's here...the week is almost over and the weekend is near!  We have a wedding to go to on Friday afternoon....it's called an "I Do Barbecue"!!!  I used the Freshly Made Sketches sketch for the couple's card:

By stamping standards, this is probably a little odd for a wedding card, but the invitation featured a wood background, daisies and a little country thrown in:

I used some Wood Textures DSP for the background and Painted Autumn for the larger circular element, then cut out two cowboy boots in Dazzling Diamonds and Basic Black glimmer paper for the smaller circle.  Each circle has a stitched mat, as does the woodgrain and the horizontal panel:

I used a past Paper Pumpkin sentiment for the front, and a computer-generated sentiment on the inside:

I am looking forward to this "I Do Barbecue"!!!  Thanks for popping in today!

A little Mommy and Me manicure time!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Confetti White (ret), So Saffron, Soft Sky, Early Espresso, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, Basic Black Glimmer Paper (ret), Painted Autumn DSP, Wood Textures DSP
Ink	Early Espresso
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Borders Dies (Lawn Fawn), Stitched Circles and Stitched Rectangles Dies (Lil'Inkers), Boot Dies (MFT)