PP658 CAS Sports x Two

Happy Sunday, everyone!  I hope your weekend is going well!  It's the fabulous Claire's turn to host our Paper Players challenge today and she has a great one!  So here we go:

I actually made two for this challenge; the first one I thought was not quite CAS enough!  So I just made another! I can always use them!  So, here we go with the first one:

In my search for some graphic-style paper, I found some in my stash that matched Starry Sky pretty well, and since that's a color I rarely use, I thought I would challenge myself! I pulled out a retired stamp, Exteme Skater, a Paper Pumpkin sentiment and some Gorgeous Grunge and did some simple stamping; I hope skateboarding is considered a sport, LOL:

Everything went on an Orchid Oasis card base and I added a strip of the same paper on the inside:

And here's my first card, I used retired sets called Have a Ball and Your Biggest Fan along with the FMS sketch for this week:

Here's the sketch:

And the inside:

I think this is a great opportunity to create some clean-and-simple masculine cards!  What sports fan do you know who would love a card featuring his (or her) favorite team or sport?  Put on your creative thinking caps and share your creation with us at the Paper Players! 

Here's something I made while pursuing one of my favorite "sports"--knitting!  I made up this pattern off the top of my head; in the future I'll make it less bulky at top and bottom!  The retired Stitched Leaves dies came in handy to create the felt leaves!

 Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gorgeous Grunge (ret), Extreme Skater (ret), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Orchid Oasis, Little by Little DSP (American Crafts)
Ink	Starry Sky, Orchid Oasis
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Rectangle Stitched Dies

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Have a Ball (ret), Your Biggest Fan (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Real Red, Cajun Craze, Real Red DSP
Ink	Real Red, Memento Black, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Circle Dies, 1" Circle Punch, 1 1/4"Circle Punch

Winter Scene for an 80th Birthday

Hi stampers!  Yay, it's Wednesday and I have a very special birthday card for a friend of ours who will soon be 80!  I combined the Atlantic Hearts Sketch and the Retro Rubber Winter Scene theme to create my card for him:

The sketch had some decidedly feminine aspects to it but I envisioned some masculine elements, even though I did sprinkle a few sequins on there....hope he doesn't mine too much!  So here we go:

My cabin image is from Reflected in Nature (2021), stamped in Misty Moonlight ink.  I just love the detail on this, and I didn't get hardly any use from it when it was current!  I diecut it with a circle die and added a mat from Kraft cardstock.  Instead of flowers, I used some Seaside Spray "greenery", accented with sequins, and I added a denim ribbon behind my sentiment:

I diecut a piece of brown and blue plaid paper with a Spellbinders rounded-edge die and mounted everything on a Early Espresso card base, on which I also rounded the edges. The sentiment on the inside was from A Dozen Thoughts (2013) and to get that 80 in there, I stamped the numbers from Number of Years (2016) behind the sentiment in Soft Seaspray.  The eagle was also from Reflected in Nature.  Hope he likes it!

Thank you for much for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Rich and poor have this in common: the Lord is the Maker of them all. Proverbs 22:2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Reflected in Nature (2021), Number of Years (2016), A Dozen Thoughts (2013), Your Biggest Fan (2022)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Kraft, Early Espresso, Seaside Spray (ret),  Woodsy Plaid DSP (Memory Box)
Ink	Seaside Spray (ret), Misty Moonlight (ret)
Accessories	Sequins from my stash, Denim Ribbon
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Circle Dies, Zigzag Circle Dies (Sizzix), Ornate Frames Dies (ret), Holiday Greens Dies (Tim Holtz), Curved Matting Basics A Dies (Spellbinders), Corner Rounder Punch (ret)

TSOT583 Deer John

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Popping in today with a special card for a special guy...today is hubby John's birthday!  I usually make him a sailboat card but since he is a hunter, I decided to make a "deer" John card, LOL:

Obviously, it's not THAT kind of Dear John card, and hopefully he'll like it!  I stamped the deer on Very Vanilla cardstock in Stazon Black and used Cinnamon Cider ink to color her in.  She was fussy-cut and mounted on another piece of Very Vanilla which was shaded with Misty Moonlight and Night of Navy inks.  The background panels are from some 6x6 pads in my stash, and the horizontal Mossy Meadow strip was distressed and stamped with Gorgeous Grunge.  Sentiment is from Your Biggest Fan!

My sketch came from Try Stampin' On Tuesday:

Thanks for visiting today!

In addition to all the other gazillion things I have going on this week, it's Operation Christmas Child shoebox packing time! We did shoeboxes on our own this year instead of at church, so Cassidy spent Sunday afternoon getting hers ready:

She did one for a boy and one for a girl and she had fun picking out all the goodies to put inside!  It's so fun to imagine the children opening them up!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Your Biggest Fan (ret), Nature's Beauty (ret), Gorgeous Grunge (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Cinnamon Cider (ret), Forest DSP (ScrapBerry), Wanted DSP (Cosmo Cricket)
Ink	Stazon Black, Mossy Meadow, Cinnamon Cider, Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret)

AHS489 Will's Birthday Hat

 Happy Tuesday, peeps! Doesn't it sort of feel like Monday?!  It will be a short work week, right?  I have a fun card using the Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge for this week:

This one was a bit of a puzzler for me!  Since I needed a birthday card for my nephew Will, who is in the army, instead of all different colors for the background, I chose red and blue and added a white banner and a tan hat:

I got this Hats Off set and die at the end of last year and of course, it retired!  So this is my first time using it!  Such a fun set too!  I used different DSPs, cutting them with the Stylish Shapes dies and adhering them to a 6" x 4 1/8" card, then added my hat and white mat on which I stamped some sentiments from Your Biggest Fan:

I added a couple of stars and adhesive metallic brads to the front of the hat, stamped a sentiment on the inside, and it's ready to go.  I might just have to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies to send along with it!

While on vacation, we took an evening cruise out through the bay to see some lighthouses.  We also saw dophins and a pelican!  The sunset and clouds were beautiful:

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

 "And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.  God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:9-10

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hats Off, Your Biggest Fan (both retired)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pacific Point, Real Red, Kraft, Pacific Point DSP, Real Red DSP, Celebrate Everything DSP
Ink	Real Red, Memento Black, Pacific Point
Accessories	Dimensionals, Adhesive Metallic Brads
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Hat Builder Dies (ret)

Babies are a Blessing

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  A wee bit late today...just haven't gotten into my summer stamping routine yet!  I needed a baby congratulations card, and the sketch from Atlantic Hearts worked great with the colors from Global Design Project:

I don't have many baby stamps but the retired Bonanza Buddies stamp set is one I usually go to when I need something along that line, so I pulled out the toucan and went to work!  So here we go:

I diecut three circles in the challenge colors using the Stylish Shapes dies, then added stars from Your Biggest Fan in matching inks.  I diecut the toucan and colored his beak in the challenge colors as well, then cut balloons from DSP in matching colors.  The sentiment is from Charming Sentiments. It all went on a Basic White card that had  been embossed with the Stitched with Whimsy die:

More Charming Sentiments, stamped in Tahitian Tide on the inside!

And here is little Cole, who made his appearance early last week, born at home, along with mommy Paige and daddy Drew!!!

I think he might look a wee bit like his cousin Sawyer!!  We'll have to see as he gets older!  Thanks for visiting today...enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Charming Sentiments, Your Biggest Fan, Bonanza Buddies (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Tahitian Tide, Parakeet Party, Daffodil Delight, DSPS in Tahitian Tide, Parakeet Party, Daffodil Delight
Ink	Memento Black, Tahitian Tide, Parakeet Party, Daffodil Delight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Bonanza Dies (ret), White Gel Pen, Black Marker, Blender Pen

TMS652 Happy Father's Day

Happy Friday, peeps, Happy GOOD Friday! I have a fun little card using the Tuesday Morning Sketches sketch:

I wanted to make a few more cards with the Your Biggest Fan stamp set and matching dies and DSP, so here we go:

I only had a couple scraps of paper left from the Hey Sports Fan collection, so I layered them on a Very Vanilla card base, stamped the pennant in Evening Evergreen, and did some diecuts of Bumblebee to embellish it.  I did a little ticket strip on the edge, and embellished it with some resin stars, and as an afterthought, added some Fan baker's twine:

The last couple of days have been very warm and summer-like, but it IS still April.  Cassidy jumped the gun a little as she was outside playing with her friend Ben by insisting she wear her bathing suit:

Kids!  What can you say?!  I know their pool isn't open yet!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Your Biggest Fan
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Bumblebee, Evening Evergreen, Hey Sports Fan DSP
Ink	Evening Evergreen
Accessories	Fan Baker's Twine, Resin Stars, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Sports Event Dies

FMS519 Stenciled Flowers

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Brrr, it's still pretty darn cold here!  Trying to conjure up some warmth by stamping and stenciling with the new layered stencils in the SU mini catalog...they're called Butterflies & Flowers Layering Decorative Masks....but I call them stencils!  This is my first attempt...I did do a little "oversponging" on one of the leaves but for my first try, it wasn't bad:

I used Blending Brushes with So Saffron and Bumblebee inks for my flowers, and Old Olive for the leaves.  I used the confetti image from Your Biggest Fan to add some interest in the white space, then added on a couple of Matte Decorative Dots:

It was matted with Old Olive cardstock and I used a piece of Sweet Symmetry on top of So Saffron cardstock as my base.  The sentiment, also stamped in Old Olive, is the SAB set, Special Moments:

Finally, the sketch I used is from Freshly Made Sketches:

There are lots of possibilities with these stencils...I can't wait to try out some of the other ones!  Thanks for visiting today, enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Special Moments, Your Biggest Fan
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Old Olive, So Saffron, Sweet Symmetry DSP
Ink	So Saffron, Bumblebee, Old Olive
Accessories	Matte Decorative Dots
Tools	Blending Brushes, Butterflies & Flowers Layering Masks