PP763 Tic Tac Toe Be Merry

 Happy Sunday, peeps! Wow, the last Sunday of August, and that means that Joanne has a fun  Paper Players Tic-Tac-Toe grid for us:

I chose the diagonal of stencil, free and animal!  So here we go:

I recently got some plaid-making stencils, and I learned that I definitely need some more practice on them, LOL!  This particular plaid used Old Olive and Soft Sea Foam Inks, and I added a thin line with a Mossy Meadow marker.  I was using Blending Brushes but I am think the little foam daubers might be a better choice for the narrow openings---anyone have any tips?!  Anyway, after doing the plaid, I added a stitched border of Mossy Meadow, then stamped the deer image from Rustic Centerpiece on a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock.  I think this image is detailed enough that it can shine on its own without being colored in:

Finally, I added a tag and a sentiment from the Christmas Labels stamp set and added some ribbon and floss:

Another sentiment went on the inside:

I hope you'll play along with Joanne's Tic-Tac-Toe grid this week!  So many possibilities! Share your creation with us at the Paper Players blog! We can't wait to see what you come up with!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rustic Centerpiece, Christmas Labels (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive
Ink	Old Olive, Soft Sea Foam, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Green Twill Ribbon & Floss from My Stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Tailor Made Tags Dies (ret), Kristina's Finishing Touches Dies (Kristina Werner), Shifter Stencils (Tim Holtz), Blending Brushes, Mossy Meadow Marker

Time Out Guest Designer

Hello, stamping friends! I recently won a Time Out challenge and was asked to be a guest designer!  Yippee!  

Their theme this week is Friendship/Encouragement/Support:

and the challenge is sponsored by Claire from Waltzingmouse Stamps; here is the prize she is offering:

For my card today, I pulled out an oldie but goodie called Friendships Grow, and it happened to be given to me by a sweet friend, Teri!  I stamped this image in Stazon black ink and did my favorite technique, watercoloring, to color it in:

I chose some pink gingham and Bubble Bath cardstock for the background, as well as a scalloped mat, and some retired gingham ribbon added a bit of fun.  I stamped a sentiment from the Year of Flowers, which seemed appropriate for the image!

I hope you'll play along with our Friendship challenge at Time Out this week!  We all need some encouragement, and stampers give the best!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Year of Flowers, Friendships Grow (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Basic White, Gingham (Scrapbook.com)
Ink	Stazon Black, Misty Moonlight, Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Calpyso Coral, Soft Sea Foam, Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Pecan Pie, Soft Sky (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pink Gingham Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped  Contours Dies (ret), Stitched Rectangle Dies (Lil'Inker), Aquapainter, Sponge Dauber

AHSC644 Boo!

Happy Monday, everyone!  Time for a new sketch challenge from Atlantic Hearts:

I went in a very non-floral direction for my card today, and decided to make a Halloween card! Here we go:

My Halloween cards are usually non-scary and kind of cute, but this ghost definitely has a scary vibe to him! I think the cute little ghosts in the background, as well as my gingham strip, soften his spookiness a bit!  My die is from Tim Holtz and the papers are from Scrapbook.com.  The little sequins add some fun too:

My "boo" is from an older CTMH set and was stamped in Stazon ink on vellum, fussy-cut, then attached to a little banner die:

and a few more of the images from the set were stamped on the inside of the Smoky Slate card:

 I hope that you'll have fun playing with our sketch this week....the sky's the limit with a sketch! You can make it for any occasion you want!  Check out what the DT creates on Wednesday's post at AHSC but you can play now!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hello Pumpkin Scrapbooking (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Willow Lane & Ginghams (both Scrapbook.com)
Ink	Stazon Black, Versamark
Accessories	Sequins from my stash, dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Retro Halloween Die (Tim Holtz), Black Marker, Wink of Stella

PP752 Happy Autumn

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess this week with a wonderful sketch, I just love it:

I turned the sketch on its side, because I wanted to highlight one of the lovely little scenes on the new papers from the upcoing Holiday catalog; it's called Autumn Toile:

I paired it up with a Pecan Pie scalloped border and some Timeless Plaid papers.  In addition, I brought back an old favorite cardstock color--remember Mellow Moss?! It seemed to match those leaves perfectly, so you can see a wee bit of it behind the plaid layer!  I also used a new sentiment bundle called Words for the Season:

I stamped the "happy" on another scrap of Timeless Plaid, and the "Autumn" is cut from Cajun Craze.  Here's the sentiment I chose for the inside:

I am thrilled with this sketch using these pretty fall papers, and I hope you'll play along with us at the Players as well!  Fall is probably my favorite season, so you'll be seeing more of these papers in the future!   Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed! And this week, I'll be spending some time with the family so I'll be taking a wee bit of a blog vacation!  

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words for the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, Mellow Moss (ret), Autumn Toile DSP, Timeless Plaid DSP, Adhesive Sheet
Ink	Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Words for the Season Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Layering Ovals Dies (ret)

AYSI355 Speed Stamping

Happy Friday, everyone!  Time for a new As You See It challenge, and its the "challenging" SPEED STAMPING!  Here we go, this should be an easy one: 

So for the speed stamping challenge, you need to get all your supplies together and ready, then make your card in ten minutes or less!  Here's my take on it:

I stamped the Skeleton Leaf stamp from Sweet & Sassy, using Garden Green ink on Soft Sky cardstock.  I matted it with Evening Evergreen and adhered it to a 4 1/4" square card.  The sentiment is from Stamp Simply, and I diecut it with a banner die, then added some silver pearls:

And here's my time!!!

What can you stamp in ten minutes or less?  Keeping it simple and gathering all your supplies beforehand is the key to success here!  Share your speedily-stamped creation over at As You See It! I anticipate seeing lots of fall leaves there!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Skeleton Leaf (Sweet & Sassy), Farmhouse Scriptural Thoughts (Stamp Simply)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Sky (ret), Evening Evergreen (ret)
Ink	Garden Green, Evening Evergreen (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Pearls (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

FMS700 A Wee Bit of Joy

Happy Thursday, peeps! The team over at Freshly Made Sketches is celebrating their 700th sketch! Wowza! That's 14 years of sketches!  I've had such a fun time playing along with them over the years!  Their sketch this week is a super fun one, and it gave me a chance to use some new products from the upcoming Holiday catalog!  Here's the sketch:

The papers I used are called Peaceful Garden, and my card is 4 1/4" square, and truthfully, this picture doesn't do the card justice:

After diecutting my squares and mounting them on my card, I used the new Metallic Textures rub-ons to create a pretty silver wreath; these are so  beautiful and EASY  to use---they just rub on with your fingernail!  I added a Night of Navy scalloped border along with a bow created with the new Silver-Edged Ribbon and a piece of wired tinsel I found in my stash:

The center sentiment, stamped in Cloud Cover, is from Choose Happy, and the inside sentiment is from another new set called Words of the Season, stamped in Misty Moonlight:

Can't wait to play with these products some more! And I just happened to find one of my first FMS creations, FMS14, which is the same sketch--what luck!

This card was considerably larger than my card today, but it was just as fun to create!!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Choose Happy, Words of the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy, Peaceful Garden DSP
Ink	Cloud Cover, Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Metallic Textures Rub-ons, Silver-Edged Ribbon, Dimensionals, Tinsel from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret)

AHSC643 New House Congrats

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch: 

Fun and easy! A great way to use up some scraps!  The TGIF challenge this week is to use DSP from the Country Woods group, which is one of my favorites! I love the rustic quality and lovely colors:

And since I needed a congratulations card for my nephew, who just closed on his new-to-him house on Friday, it all seemed to work together!  Here we go:

I cut the panels of the DSP and adhered them to a Basic Beige card base, then added a little Crumb Cake house diecut from PTI that I have had forever!  I cut the heart from one of the pink pieces of the DSP and added a Candy Dot:

The outside sentiment is from Label Me Bold, stamped in Misty Moonlight ink, and the inside is from Paper Sweeties; it's called Blessed:

Since Brad lives right behind me, and his dog Remy comes often to visit and get treats, I am going to miss them both! Luckily, they're only a few minutes away, but I guess I won't need to buy dog treats any more!  

I hope you'll play along with our sketch this week...really, it's such a great way to use up some scraps that we all accumulate!  Share it with us at the Atlantic Hearts blog!  

Cassidy loved her card and appreciated all the birthday wishes!

Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold (ret), Blessed (Paper Sweeties)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Country Woods DSP
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals, Candy Dot (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Heart in Hand Dies (Papertrey)

PP751 CAS Christmas Seal

 Happy Sunday, peeps!  Elizabeth is our Hostess for the Paper Players this week, and here's her CAS challenge for us:

This should be a fun one! Since I had a crazy busy few days last week, I went really easy and pulled out a sticker from the retired Beary Christmas Memories & More pack and made a sweet little CAS Christmas card:

I adhered my little Christmas seal to a piece of striped Poppy Parade DSP that I dicut with the Perennial Postage die, and mounted it on a panel embossed with the Snowflake Sky embossing folder:

Don't you just love the look at that little guy's face?!  I added some light blue gingham ribbon and a little banner with a sentiment from the retired Stitched With Cheer (2016), punched out with a wee banner punch that I don't think I ever used, LOL!

On the inside, a sentiment and snowflake from the same Stitched With Cheer set:

And since I've used some retired products here, I am entering this into the RetroRubber challenge as well, which is a Tic-Tac-Toe:

I followed the left column down of punch, stripes and ribbon!  Now I hope you'll play along with our CAS challenge at the Paper Players this week!  Be sure to keep things simple--not a lot of layers or embellishments.  My card is actually a bit less CAS than my usual, but hopefully Elizabeth will put her "seal" of approval on it!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched With Cheer (ret, 2016)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Balmy Blue, Poppy Parade DSP (ret), Beary Christmas Memories & More (ret)
Ink	Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals, Gingham Ribbon  (ret),
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Perennial Postage Dies, Snowflake Sky Embossing Folder, Small Banner Punch (ret)

AAA76 Cassidy's Birthday

 Happy Saturday, everyone! Tomorrow is Cassidy's 15th birthday--can you believe it?  We probably won't see them until later tomorrow, so I am going to go ahead and post the card that I made for her!  It just happens to work with the AAA Birthday Challenge, which is sports:

She still likes basketball, although she didn't play much this summer.  But I had gotten some fun b-ball papers from Echo Park and decided to make one of the pop-up fun fold cards I've been making!  Here we go:

No stamping on the front, just papers from the pad:

And here's the inside: I pieced together papers for the inside pop-up panel, then added sentiments from The Right Words:

Hope she likes it!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	The Right Words
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Basketball (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Scalloped Dies (Nestabilities), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

TSOT676 Rustic Centerpiece

Happy Thursday, peeps! My card today uses a partial image from the Online Exclusive Rustic Centerpiece along with the sketch from Try a Sketch On Tuesday:

So here we go:

I stamped a partial image on watercolor paper in Stazon ink, then did some creative diecutting with an Everyday Arches die. I colored the image with some reinkers and an aquapainter, and added a wee bit of Linen Thread for an embellishment.  I snagged a piece of plaid DSP that matched my fall colors and ran it through the upcoming Gathering Leaves embossing folder and sanded it with a sanding block:

I added a little sentiment with an enamel dot from Layers of Beauty, and put everything on a Cajun Craze card base:

I know my image is a wee bit larger than the one in the sketch but hopefully it's okay!  I really love this centerpiece set and hope to use it some more!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Layers of Beauty, Rustic Centerpiece, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Watercolor, Cajun Craze, Timeless Plaid DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Cajun Craze, Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Gray Granite, Basic Beige
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals, Enamel Dot (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Everyday Arches Dies, Aquapainter, Sanding Block (ret)

TGIF537 With Love

 Happy Wednesday, all! I recently got the Extraordinary Flora bundle, and although I have played with the matching washi tape, my card today simply uses the stamp set and die.  I was intrigued by the sketch at TGIF:

So here we go:

I do not have a hexagon die, but I do have a punch, so I punched out a hexagon from Garden Green  cardstock, then cut a 1/4" around the outer edge to create a window.  I stamped the florals in Stazon black ink, then watercolored and diecut them out.  I created my square with some Calypso Coral DSP, then layered some of the florals around the hexagon, and added a sentiment from the same set:

I mounted it on a panel of Basic White, embossed with the Exposed Brick embossing folder, which all went on a white card base.  I left the inside blank and will add a sentiment as I need it!

Here's my final array of b-day cards!  This beauty is from Peggy; the gold leaves and fun sentiment treatment really make this card stand out!

This fun lobster card is from my equally fun friend, Shawn! I love how she combined colors and patterns on this card as well as the SEQUINS!

Finally, this beauty (featuring some of my favorite colors!) from the creative Wendy! I just love this woodgrain pattern!

Again, thanks ladies! You helped me celebrate my birthday a wee bit longer!  And thank you for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Extraordinary Flora
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Garden Green, Calypso Coral DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Calypso Coral, Garden Green, Soft Sea Foam, Granny Apple Green, Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Extraordinary Flora Dies, Exposed Brick Embossing Folder, Textured Notes Dies, Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Aquapainter, Hexagon Punch (ret)