AHSC613 Celebrate

Hello, stampers!  The Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge for this week is a great, simple one:

I went pretty literal with it, and it gave me the chance to use the colors from the current Color Hues challenge:

I pulled out some Night of Navy, Granny Apple Green and Lemon Lime Twist products and went to work:

The Night of Navy card was embossed with a star embossing folder, and I diecut some stars from matching DSPs.  The "celebrate" and the smaller stars are diecut from Granny Apple Green foil, even though they look gold in the photo:

I also added a little line of embossing for fun!  The inside uses a sentiment from Hooray for Surprises:

I think this is a great sketch as well as a great color combo, especially for masculine cards!  I hope you'll play along with our Atlantic Hearts sketch this week too!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hooray for Surprises
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy, Granny Apple Green, Lemon Lime Twist, Lemon Lime Twist DSP (ret), Granny Apple Green Foil (ret)
Ink	Night of Navy, Lemon Lime Twist
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Wanted to Say Dies, Stitched Stars Dies (Paper Rose), Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson), Starry Embossing Folder (ret)

52CCT Love & Joy

Happy Monday, peeps! A cold, snowy morning here in SE PA and I have just the card to share with you!!  The 52 Christmas Card Throwdown wants to see a wild animal on our holiday cards!  

The Winter Meadow DSP has a deer featured on one of its patterns and although it's not a very interesting shade of gray, I do like the background trees!  So here we go:

For my sentiment, I used the new Bright Borders stamp, heat embossed with white ink on Basic Gray, and punched it out with the matching To The Point Label punch.  The sentiment inside is from Greetings of the Season, which fit nicely;

I added a few metallic pearls to the front, then stamped another sentiment from the Greetings of the Season set inside:

I've been pretty lax on starting my Christmas cards this year, so I am happy to finally begin to add to my stash!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Bright Borders, Greetings of the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Winter Meadow DSP
Ink	Basic Gray, Craft White
Accessories	Metallic Pearls (ret), Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	To the Point Label Punch, Heat Tool

PP721 CAS From Jaydee

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess this week, and she's got a Clean and Simple one for us:

 

How fun! I don't think we've ever had one of these challenge themes before! I admit that when I first started to create my card, I totally spaced on the "CAS" part!  So this may be a little more layered than I would normally make!  Anyway, here we go:

I pulled out the retired set Sealed with Love, along with the matching dies Love Notes, to create my card today. This set is one of my all-time favorite Valentine sets!  The new In Color of Petunia Pop seemed like a fun color to create my little love note:

I used the Petunia Pop DSP to create my envelope, added the little love note and the diecut hearts along the edge. I also embossed the white panel with the Fun Patterns EF.  A fun little sequin added some sparkle! On the inside a sentiment from Unity's November 24 Kit of the Month, along with a couple of other elements from the Sealed with Love set:

I hope you'll play along with our Paper Players challenge this week....remember to keep it clean and simple!  Check out what the DT created as well over at the PP blog!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sealed with Love (ret), Every Step of the Way (Unity KOTM 11-24)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Petunia Pop, Petunia Pop DSP
Ink	Petunia Pop, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Purple Sequins, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Fun Patterns EF, Love Notes Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pretty Pink Posh)

JAI734 New Little Birdie

Happy Saturday, peeps! Sitting here waiting for the impending snow---well, not until tomorrow but you know how it is....do we have enough bread? Milk? Books to read? Etc!  I think we're well-stocked!  I wanted to share a card I made recently which happens to fit the Just Add Ink challenge of something new: 

I've been hankering to use this fun little snowbird image ever since I got it a couple months ago and finally had a chance to ink her up:

I already had my Petunia Pop inkpad on my desk from another project, so I just went with it again; the little bird image is so detailed, you could stamp it in just about any color and it would look cute:

I added some DSP and a Spotlight on Nature circle die, along with the sentiment that also comes with the Unity set called Every Step of the Way, which is the November Kit of the Month.  

Thanks for stopping by today!  Be sure to stay warm and safe and blessed as well!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Every Step of the Way (Unity)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Petunia Pop, Petunia Pop DSP
Ink	Petunia Pop
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Banner Dies (Pretty Pink Posh)

FMS669 Be My Valentine

 Happy Friday, peeps! I have been MIA, just haven't felt much like posting lately!  This cold still has me down!  I was intrigued by the sketch from FMS though and just had to play along:

I pulled out an older SU set called PS: I Love You, and paired it with the Adoring Hearts hybrid folder & die, as well as an older embossing folder to create my Valentine card:

I diecut three hearts and backed them with three Real Red hearts to make them stand out a bit from the embossed background.  I stamped the punched the sentiment in Real Red as well:

And I jazzed up the inside a swell:

I am also entering this at Krafty Chicks, where their challenge is Clean and Simple:

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	PS: I Love You (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Real Red, Very Vanilla
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Adoring Hearts Dies, Falling Hearts Embossing Folder (ret), Modern Label Punch (ret)

AYSI339 To My Friend

Happy Tuesday, peeps! The As You See It challenge this week is quite interesting; I am sure I would never have thought to put these colors together, but since I love a challenge, I jumped on it!  Here's their prompt:

I've been playing with the Terrific Toadstools set, so I decided to try my hand at using the challenge colors with it:

I have resisted anything toadstool-related up until this point when I finally caved. It is a fun little set! The papers that coordinate with this set are bright and cheerful, but I used some Peach Parfait DSP for this one.  I stamped my toadstools in the challenge colors and added a sentiment in Basic Gray:

I did add some of my own dots to the little ladybug as well as to the stems of the toadstools, just to add some interest!  I used Spotlight on Nature dies for the circle and Perennial Postage dies for the mat and sentiment.  Certainly an interesting color combo for sure!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed...and warm, if it's as cold where you live as it is here in PA!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Terrific Toadstools, Best Family Ever
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Gray, Peach Parfait DSP
Ink	Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Peach Parfait, Berry Burst
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Perennial Postage Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Smoky Slate and Basic Black Markers

PP720 Color Challenge from Elizabeth

Happy Sunday, peeps! The Paper Players are back from the holiday break, with Elizabeth as our first hostess of 2025! She's chosen a fun, bright color combo for us today:

My niece is expecting a little girl next week, so I thought I'd use these colors to make a cute congrats card for her:

My colors are a little muted but I thought for a baby card, these ginghams would be a great match!  I diecut each color with a postage stamp die from Waffleflower and topped them with these images from Little Cuties (retired):

I mounted them on a piece of embossed Basic White to look like a quilt, then added the "blessed"from Paper Sweeties.  I did add a couple little sequins for fun!  The inside sentiment is an older from Papertrey:

I am also entering this at Inkspirational, where the challenge this week is Pretty Quilts.  I hope the embossed "quilt top" is sufficient!

I hope you'll get back into the crafting swing of things by playing with our first color challenge of 2025!  Check out what the Design Team crafted over at the Paper Players blog to get some inspiration! Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Little Cuties (ret), Blessed (Paper Sweeties), Daily Design Sentiments (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Gingham (misc DSPs)
Ink	Memento Black, Smoky Slate, Pecan Pie, Petunia Pop, Peach Parfait
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequins (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Quilt Top Embossing Folder (ret), Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Postage Collage Die (Waffleflower), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Aquapainter