AHSC624 Funny Bunny

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you had a fabulous weekend!  We have another fun sketch from Atlantic Hearts this week:

Look at all those fun elements!  I pulled out some gingham and my little Tim Holtz bunny, which has to make at least one appearance during the Easter season!  Here we go:

I managed to get enough gingham scraps for my vertical strips, then assembled Mr Bunny and his carrot and put him next to an embossed circle with an older Paper Pumpkin sentiment:

I added some "carrot tops" behind him and sprinkled on a few sequins from my stash. Here's the inside, using my new Simon Says Stamp set called Happy Eggs:

This bunny just makes me smile!  I hope you'll play along with our sketch too!  It's a great one to use up some of those DSP strips we have in our stash!  Share your creation with us over at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch blog!  See you there!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happy Eggs (Simon Says Stamp) Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Peach Pie, Basic Black, Pink Pirouette (ret), Ginghams in Lemon Lime Twist, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie and Highland Heather (all retired)
Ink	Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Dotted Circles Embossing Folder,  Layering Circles Dies (ret), Carrot Bunny Dies (Tim Holtz)

PP732 Challenge from Jan

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Jan is our Paper Players hostess this week with a great theme...it's perfect for all types of cards, but I chose to make a masculine one, because I never seem to have enough of them!

I pulled out an old Artistic Outpost set called Route 66 and did some collage-style stamping: 

My card base is Basic Beige, and I used the same ink to stamp all the images in the background, adding some shading around the edges.  I stamped the motorcycle in Versafine Black:

I used an old Paper Pumpkin set to add the embossed sentiment on a Tailor Made tag and embellished it with some Brushed Gold stitched stars from the retired Give it a Whirl dies; I felt like they matched the background pretty well!

Finally, a sentiment from Best Year and the third little leftover star to embellish it!

I hope you can play along with our "travel" theme this week!  Be sure to share your card with us at the Players blog!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Year (ret), Route 66 (Artistic Outpost)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Basic Beige, Brushed Gold (ret)
Ink	Basic Beige, Versafine Black
Accessories	Twine from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Tailor Made Tags Dies (ret), Give It A Whirl Dies (ret)

AYSI345 Happy Easter

Happy Friday, peeps! I am thrilled to be asked to return to the design team of one of my favorite  challenges, As You See It!  This week we have a fun color challenge for you:

I have been wanting to try my hand at a shaped card, using the Every Day Arches dies.  I combined it with the You Are Remarkable stamp set and came up with this:

I embossed the top panel with the Starstuck embossing folder, then stamped the flower on a smaller arch and added some ribbon and sequins:

I made a little "hinge" with another piece of cardstock to attach the back layer to the front, and added a white panel with my sentiment and another flower:

I can't wait to try another one of these cards, now that I have the first on eunder my belt!  I hope you'll play along with our colors this week, and share your creation with us at As You See It!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	You Are Remarkable, Throughout the Year (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Peach Pie, Fresh Freesia
Ink	Garden Green, Peach Pie, Fresh Freesia, Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Fresh Freesia Ribbon (ret), Purple Adhesive-backed Sequins (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Every Day Arches Dies, Starstruck Embossing Folder (ret)

One Layer Poinsettia

 Happy Thursday, all!  The Jingle Belles challenge this week is to make a one-layer card, and the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge is an interesting color palette:

And the Christmas Kickstart challenge is poinsettias:

so I pulled out an old SU favorite, Poinsettia Petals, and went to work:

At first glance, this seems to be rather a not-very-cheery Christmas card, but the photo really doesn't do it justice!  I heat-embossed the poinsettia with Pebble Path and Versamark inks and clear embossing powder, and colored it with the Moody Mauve and Blackberry Bliss inks.  In hindsight, I would not add the shading around the outer edges, but you know how it does....once you start, you gotta keep going! I added some speckles and a pretty sentiment, all on a Basic Beige card base:

The embossing really gives it a nice touch!  I added a sentiment from the same poinsettia set as well as some stamped berries:

One-layer cards can be a challenge, but it can be done!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Greetings of the Season, Country Birdhouse (speckles), Poinsettia Petals (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige
Ink	Versamark, Pebbled Path, Moody Mauve, Blackberry Bliss
Accessories	Clear Embossing Powder
Tools	Heat Tool, Aquaapainter

RRCB251 Little Cuties Birthday

Happy Wednesday, peeps! My pastor's daughter is having a birthday, so this card is for her! Since the Retro Rubber challenge is "Anything Goes", I decided to go with that, using a set from 2017 called Little Cuties...it's a favorite go-to stamp for children and Easter! 

So here we go:

I know my pastor's children always wanted pets, but alas, the only pets they have are hamsters! I don't have any hamster stamps, so this was the next best thing!  I stamped each animal in Smoky Slate ink, then colored them in with Blends. 

 I added a Fresh Freesia scalloped mat, a few sequins and some sequined ribbon and mounted it all on a panel of Fresh Freesia DSP and matching card:

Another retired stamp called Little Delights (2021) had the perfect sentiment for the inside:

Hope she likes it!  And just as an aside....if you need to know the date of any stamp, you can go on Splitcoaststampers.com and look in the galleries.  The Stampin' Up one has all their stamps and the date they came out!  Very helpful!  

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Little Cuties (2017, ret), Little Delights (2021, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Fresh Freesia, Fresh Freesia DSP (ret)
Ink	Smoky Slate, Fresh Freesia
Accessories	Sequins (ret), Dimensionals, Sequined Ribbon
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Blends

Inspire.Create #189 Easter Wishes

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Happy April!  Glad to turn a new page on my calendar!  I have a fun Easter card today; it uses some old and new stuff!  Here we go:

The new stuff (sentiment dies) comes from Simon Says Stamp's Happy Eggs, and it was stamped in Fresh Freesia!  The old stuff is the eggs, diecut with the retired Excellent Eggs Dies, as well as the Altenew cover plate background:

I diecut the eggs from Pretty in Pink, Lemon Lolly, Soft Sea Foam and Soft Sky cardstocks, then re-assembled them and added some My Favorite Things stitched flowers---another oldie!  Everything went on a Purple Posy card base, and another oldie was stamped on the inside; it's from CTMH's Easter Animals!

I am entering this in the Inspire.Create spring/Easter challenge:

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

"This is a true saying, to be completely accepted and believed: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am the worst of them, but God was merciful to me in order that Christ Jesus might show his full patience in dealing with me, the worst of sinners, as an example for all those would later believe in him and receive eternal life.  To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the only God--to him be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen." 1 Timothy 1:15-17

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happy Eggs (Simon Says Stamp), Easter Animals (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Purple Posy, Pretty in Pink, Lemon Lolly, Soft Sky (ret), Soft Sea Foam, Fresh Freesia
Ink	Fresh Freesia
Accessories	Silver Pearls, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Excellent Eggs Dies (ret), Happy Eggs Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Dotted Swirls Cover Plate Die (Altenew), Stitched Flowers Dies (My Favorite Things)