RRCB231 Lavender Love

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Feels like Monday, doesn't it? We had a nice rainy Memorial Day....a good day to stay inside and stamp!  The Retro Rubber challenge is a color challenge this go-round and since it uses lavender shades, which are a struggle for me, I thought I'd challenge myself to create something! Here's the pretty prompt:

I had not used Painted Harvest (2017)  for a long time, so I pulled it out, along with Wishing You Well (2018) and some papers in the challenge colors:

I enjoy all these colors, but these are not ones I would necessarily think to put together! I stamped the flower petals in Gorgeous Grape and Berry Burst, then the center with Fresh Freesia.  It was diecut with the new Spotlight on Nature die.  I added a layer of Berry Burst gingham to a Gorgeous Grape panel that was cut with the Radiating Stitches die.  Each leaf was stamped with Shaded Spruce, then fussy-cut.  I added the sentiment, cut with the Countryside Corners die, and popped everything on a card which had the lower portion embossed with the Wrapped in Texture embossing folder.  I left the inside blank, and I'll add a sentiment when I decide the occasion!

If any of you are creeped out by creepy crawly things, just move past this part, LOL!  My sister is visiting her daughter outside of Chicago and they're in the path of the emerging cicadas (we are not!)!!  She took some pictures after it rained a couple of days ago:

I think this one is the most interesting! We used to collect these little shells all over the trees (and my grandma's clothesline prop!) on our farm.  Who knew that what came out of them looked like THIS:

Isn't nature amazing?!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Painted Harvest (2017), Wishing You Well (2018), both retired
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Gorgeous Grape, Berry Burst Gingham DSP (ret)
Ink	Gorgeous Grape, Berry Burst, Fresh Freesia, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Countryside Corners Dies, Radiating Stitches Dies, Wrapped in Texture Embossing Folder (ret)

AYSI273 Sympathy in Blue

Hi stampers!  Time for a new As You See It challenge, and it's a color challenge, chosen by me!  I just love blues!  So here we go:

 

Unfortunately, I needed a sympathy card, so I chose to use my blue hues with the Butterflies & Flowers mask (stencil), using my Blending Brush with each of the three colors on a Basic White panel:

I heat-embossed a retired sentiment in white on Pacific Point for my sentiment, then cut it out with the new Stylish Shapes dies; it went on the panel which was also diecut and mounted on a scalloped panel of Night of Navy:

I used a card base of Balmy Blue and a white mat, embossed with the Ornate Flowers embossing folder...sadly retiring.  It makes such a lovely floral background!  My final addition was some pale blue sequins from my stash and a white baker's twine bow!  My sketch came from FMS:

I hope you'll play along with us.  The design team has outdone themselves with this color palette...they've used them in some surprising ways!  Be sure to check them out at the As You See It blog!  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wishing You Well (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pacific Point, Night of Navy, Balmy Blue
Ink	Pacific Point, Night of Navy, Balmy Blue
Accessories	White Embossing Powder, Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Dimensionals, Butterflies & Flowers Masks, Baker's Twine (from my stash)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Scalloped Contour Dies, Heat Tool, Ornate Flowers Embossing Folder, Blending Brushes

FMS523 Sympathy Butterflies

 Happy Friday, peeps!  First, I must apologize for my photos in my next few blog posts.  My computer is being upgraded and having some repairs done, so I am using John's laptop for posting and my phone for photos, neither of which I am real familiar with!  So please bear with me!  My card today is for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge:

A long-time member of our church passed away recently so I used the sketch to create a sympathy card for the family.  I used papers from You're A Peach along with butterflies from Positive Thoughts:

The butterflies were stamped lightly with Misty Moonlight and diecut, then mounted on circles of Soft Succulent.  I added some In Color rhinestones and embossed the Thick Basic White card base with the Ornate Floral embossing folder.  The sentiment is from a retired set called Wishing You Well. I added a Our Daily Bread Bible verse on the inside, along with a couple more butterflies:

As I said, the colors really aren't very true to life, bear with me as I play with adjusting them on my phone!  Thanks for visiting...enjoy your day and be blessed!

Stamps:  Positive Thoughts, Wishing You Well, (ret), Scripture 1 (Our Daily Bread)

Paper:  Basic White, Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent, You're A Peach DSP

Ink:  Misty Moonlight, Evening Evergreen

Accessories:  Dimensionals, In Color Rhinestones

Tools:  Big Shot, Nature's Thoughts Dies, Tasteful Labels Dies, Ornate Floral EF, Banner Dies (Nestabilities)

RRCB167 Thoughts and Prayers

Hey all, happy Tuesday, and time for another Retro Rubber challenge, where we show some love to our older stamps!  We've got an awesome sketch for you....here we go:

For my card, I only used one stamp from 2018, Wishing You Well, paired with some gorgeous fall papers that I've been hoarding:

I snipped out part of an image from the paper pack and diecut the remaining with a circle die, then backed it with some Crisp Cantaloupe cardstock that I sponged with some Crumb Cake ink:

I stamped the sentiment in Pear Pizzazz and diecut it into a banner:

The other layers are all from the paper pad, and I did add a wee strip of rose-colored glimmer paper to complement that little rosy leaf, but in hindsight, wish I hadn't added it....but it is what it is!

So, I hope that this sketch inspires you to pull out some of your older stamps....remember, they need to be at least a year old, and tell us the approximate age in your post!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Share it with us at Retro Rubber!

Wayne is on the tech team at our church and he helps project the songs, Bible verses and prayers on to the screen at the front.  His "office" is in the balcony of our church, and since the other tech guy was on vacation, he recruited Cassidy to help...and she did a pretty good job!  Sometimes the worship leader wants to sing a chorus again, and you have to be on your toes to make sure the right words stay on the screen, and she was right on cue!  

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

"The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it on the seas and established it on the waters."  Psalm 24:1

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wishing You Well (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Sahara Sand, Basic White, Crisp Cantaloupe (ret), Rose Glimmer Paper (ret), Thankful Heart DSP (Recollections)
Ink	Pear Pizzazz
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Dies, Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Adorning Accents Dies (ret)

PP536 Thoughts and Prayers

 Happy Sunday, everyone!  I am the hostess this week at the Paper Players and I have a color challenge for you:

I think this is a nice color combo for masculine cards, or vintage patriotic cards, or anything else that appeals to you!  Unfortunately, I needed another sympathy card, my third for the week, (why do they always come in threes?) for a gentleman who used to attend our church:

I have been wanting to use these Stitched Leaves dies for a while; once autumn turned to winter, I kind of forgot all about them!  I cut one from Merry Merlot and used various DSPs for the rest of the card:

My neutral is Very Vanilla, and the sentiment is from the retired Wishing You Well.  The inside sentiment is from Woven Heirlooms:

And the sketch is from a new-to-me challenge, Stamping Pals:

The design team has come up with some fun samples using these colors!  Be sure to stop by the Paper Players blog to check them all out.  Then put on your creative thinking cap and show us your artistry as well!  Can't wait to see you there!

A couple more Easter cards, this one is from Danni:

and from Teri:

These girls make me feel so special!  Thanks!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Woven Heirlooms, Wishing You Well (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Merry Merlot, Misty Moonlight DSP, Plaid Tidings DSP (ret)
Ink	Merry Merlot
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangles Dies, Stitched Leaves Dies

HSS324 and CAS341 Just A Note

Happy Monday, peeps!  It's a lazy day today; the weather here has been fabulous, but today it's cloudy and gray, but it's kind of nice for a change...it would be nice to actually get some rain!  But I digress....it's time for a quick card, using the Hand Stamped Sentiments color palette and a sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch:

I had this retired set, Wishing You Well, with the thoughts of making a different card with it, so I challenged myself to use it with these colors:

I stamped the sheaf with Grapefruit Grove and the florals on top with Terracotta Tile, then added some tiny Mint Macaron berries and a Terracotta Tile bow.  I also stamped a sentiment in Pretty Peacock.  Before adhering the bow, I ran it through the Big Shot with the Subtle embossing folder:

Just to bring in a wee bit more of the Pretty Peacock, I took a strip of cardstock and embossed it with the stitched die from Nesting Labels and ran it behind the area where the sentiment would be:

Finally, a birthday greeting from Picture Perfect Birthday on the inside, because I am notorious for forgetting the inside sentiment and then when I go to mail out the card, it's not ready!  So a little Pretty Peacock and Mint Macaron, and it's good to go:

 So happy you popped in today!

A little farming activity from last week:

I get a little sad when I see the farmer that rents my dad's land....it reminds me of my own dad, when I was little, out doing the same thing.  Only, he didn't have a big fancy tractor like this one, LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Joyful for Inspire Create

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I have a busy day so this will be short and sweet!  The Inspire.Create.Challenge this week is veeeery interesting:

So the idea is to create your own sketch!!  I made one sketch, two cards with matching color combinations:

Both cards use Mint Macaron and Blushing Bride ink, using one color for the card base.  It's a really simple design; the wreath from Wishing You Well was stamped in Mint Macaron, the bow and "berries" were stamped in Blushing Bride:

The berries are from Many Blessings, but you could use little dots from any set, or even just the tip of a marker or blender pen!

The final touch was an embossed sentiment using a Tim Holtz EF:

These are quick and easy enough to make several for your Christmas card stash!  Thanks for popping in today!  

Another program that Cassidy uses on the computer allows her to put words into this collage:

The computer sorts it and she chooses the colors in which to print it; some of the words are a wee bit "misspelled" but it's a treasure to me!  Enjoy you day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wishing You Well, Many Blessings
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron
Ink	Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Christmas A2 Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz)

PP417 Gather Together

Hi everyone!  Happy Sunday!  Hope your weekend has been wonderful so far!  Claire is our hostess at the Paper Players this week and she has a lovely theme challenge for us:

I am afraid my mojo has gone into hiding lately and my other activities are sucking the life out of it!  I just didn't do this lovely photo justice with my little card, but hopefully Claire will forgive me!  And really, this card looks better in real life than it does here!! So here we are:

My Thanksgiving stamp selection is a little sparse, so I went with the wheat spray from Wishing You Well and a sentiment from Painted Harvest!  I used the color challenge from TGIF:

I first embossed my base with the Quilt Top embossing folder; the image was stamped in Crumb Cake and Cajun Craze, and I added the sentiment and bow in Merry Merlot.  I distressed the Merry Merlot mat as well, and also sent the stamped panel through the Subtle embossing folder for a little interest.  I colored some pearls with a Bronze Blend and added them to the spray:

I pulled out some vintage goodies; the striped Cajun Craze is from many years ago, as is this sweet little sentiment from Falling Leaves:

I know I have more Thanksgiving stamps around, I just need to root around to find them, LOL!  Meanwhile, I hope you will get a head start on your Thanksgiving cards and play with us at the Players!  Can't wait to see you there.  Check out the DT to get more inspiration:

·        Claire

·        Jaydee

·        Joanne

·        Laurie

·        Nance

·        Anne Marie - on break

·        Sandy

·        Elizabeth

·        Annie - on break

·        Jan

·        Ann

Yesterday our church had its annual Operation Christmas Child shoebox packing party!  The kids LOVE this!  We have a small church, but we collect items all year long and we were able to pack 118 boxes!  

We are blessed to have a Dansko shoe outlet right in my little town and they very graciously donate empty shoeboxes that would normally be bound for recycling:

After setting out all the school supplies, hygiene items, toys, shoes and whatever else collected, each person gets a shoebox and packs it up according to age and gender!  Sometimes the wee ones need a little help, but most of them are old pros at it!

Cassidy is one of the old pros, LOL!

Luke is one of our new pastor's children, and he was quite serious about his selections:

And when they're all done and stacked up, the boxes make a great place to take a picture, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!