PP766 Tic Tac Toe from Claire

Happy Sunday, peeps! Claire is our Paper Players hostess this week, and since it's the fifth Sunday, it's a Tic-Tac-Toe!  She has some wonderful choices for us!  She must have known how much I love vintage, so my automatic choice was the right column of Vintage, Patterned Paper and Sparkle!  Let's go!

 

I had a couple of pieces of some lovely vintage papers from Simple Stories left from a pad I got several years ago....they're almost all gone, but I salvaged one piece with this wonderful Santa against a collage of vintage prints.  I didn't want to cut it down, so I made it into a large slimline card measuring 4" x 8"...here we go:

I did have to make the paper a bit narrower, so I trimmed it down and cut out the holly leaves, then added a strip of red glimmer paper and re-attached the remaining paper behind it to fit my card.  I stamped a vintage sentiment in Cherry Cobbler on some of the same paper and diecut it, then adhered it to the front:

Another vintage sentiment on the inside, along with some plaid paper to accent the bottom:

I do love my vintage images and this was a treasure to create! I hope you'll find some good inspiration using Claire's grid for your own card.  Share it with us at the Paper Players blog! Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Vintage Christmas (Flonzcraft)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals Ivory (ret), Cherry Cobbler, Simple Vintage Christmas (Simple Stories), Red Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret)

AYSI362 Birthday Sketch

Happy Friday, all! Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving!! My Black Friday plans are to do nothing, LOL!  We do have a new challenge for you at As You See It, and it's a lovely sketch:

I needed a birthday card so I pulled out some Peaceful Garden DSP---it's not just for Christmas--and cut some of the coordinating patterns to fit the sketch:

I layered everything on a Basic White panel that was embossed with the Gathering Leaves embossing folder, then added some leafy diecuts cut from some Peaceful Garden Glimmer paper, along with some white Pearls of Beauty:

The sentiment is from Simply Said, stamped in Secret Sea ink.  

I hope you'll play along with our lovely sketch this week!  It's a great way to use up some of those leftover DSP pieces we can't seem to toss---I am sure you all know what I'm talking about!  We hope you'll share your creation with us at the As You See It blog!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cloud Cover, Secret Sea, Peaceful Garden DSP, Peaceful Garden Glimmer
Ink	Secret Sea
Accessories	Pearls of Beauty, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gathering Leaves Embossing Folder, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Squares Dies (ret), Timeless Arrangements Dies (ret), Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions)

Thanksgiving Blessings

 Happy Thursday, peeps, and Happy Thanksgiving, if you're in the US!

Here is the chorus of a hymn called "Count Your Blessings": 

• Count your blessings, name them one by one,
  Count your blessings, see what God has done!
  Count your blessings, name them one by one,
  *Count your many blessings, see what God has done.
  [*And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.]

We all have blessings! Praise the Lord!  Enjoy your day and have a blessed Thanksgiving with your family and friends!

To a Deer Friend

 Happy Thanksgiving eve, everyone!  I have a fun little Christmas card today, a bit "punny", and it is for three challenges:  Color My Heart Color Dare wants shades of brown, plus two other colors; Christmas Kickstart wants to see antlers, and the CAS Colours & Sketches is a sketch:

I had not used the pretty little deer from Papertrey's Deer To Me for a long time, so I got to work:

My shades of brown are Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Pecan Pie and Early Espresso; I added Real Red and Shaded Spruce as my two additional colors.  I faintly stamped trees from Pine Tree Trimmings in the background, and the punny sentiment is from Poppy Stamps' Whittle Sayings:

A sentiment from Best Year went on the inside:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pine Tree Trimmings, Best Year (ret), Deer to Me (Papertrey), Whittle Sayings (PoppyStamps)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Sea Foam, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige, Real Red
Ink	Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Craft White
Accessories	Red Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn), Deer to Me Dies (Papertrey), 1/8" Hole Punch

AHSC657 Christmas Tufted Titmouses

Happy Tuesday, all!  Time for a new Atlantic Heart Sketch challenge, here we go:

Since I am kind of done with fall cards, I chose to make another Christmas card, albeit in rather non-traditional Christmas colors!  I chose to use the little tufted titmouses (or is it titmice?!) from Winterly Tree Tops, along with some Nests of Winter DSP:

I used a postage die to cut out the striped paper, then stamped, diecut and watercolored those cute little birds:

I added some berries in Cajun Craze, a little Copper Clay baker's twine bow, and a sentiment from the retired More Merry Messages:

Some sequins finished it off! I'd like to make another card with this sketch, this time using embossed panels behind my main image!  What will you create with it?  I hope you'll play along with our sketch and share your final creation with us at Atlantic Hearts!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winterly Tree Tops (ret), More Merry Messages (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Smoky Slate, Basic White, Nests of Winter DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Smokky Slate, Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze, Garden Green
Accessories	Copper Clay Baker's Twine (ret), Dimensionals, Sequins from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Winterly Tree Tops Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

PP765 A Sketch from Ann

Happy Sunday, peeps! Time for a new challenge from the Players! Ann is our hostess with a really lovely sketch for us:

I had some of the papers from the Christmas Tags & More DSP on my desk and I thought one of the designs might make for good elements for this sketch! So here we go:

I started with a Soft Sea Foam card base, then added a mistletoe mat.  The half-wreath image was cut down to size, mounted on a panel of Real Red and a sentiment from Wishing You Joy.  I diecut a bell and bow (Honeybee) from some Champagne Foil, Real Red and Cherry Cobbler cardstocks, then "hung" it from some silver thread:

I just realized I forgot the clapper! Oops!  Oh well!  This sketch is really lovely; I love things in threes, and you could use different papers or images for the three panels, or just cut one apart as I did! So versatile!  I can't wait to see what you do with it! Hop on over to the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers did as well!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wishing You Joy
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler, Christmas Tags & More DSP, Champagne Foil (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Thread (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Bell Dies (Honeybee Stamps)

IB363 Here Comes Santa

 Happy Friday, peeps!  Hope you have a wonderful weekend planned! I have a sweet little Christmas card for you today; it happens to fit the Inspired By prompt this week!  Here's Laurel's inspiration:

I was inspired by the country colors as well as that wee, tiny little Santa hat that's on one of the napkin rings, LOL!  Here we go:

I started with a Mellow Moss card base, then added some pretty wreath-printed paper and a Crumb Cake banner.  I pulled out one of the stencils that I got last year and stenciled the Santa hat in Real Red and Craft White, and added a frayed burlap ribbon tie.  You can't see it, but I added some Wink of Stella to his hat as well!

A sentiment from Simon Says Stamp's Tiny Words Christmas fit on the banner perfectly!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tiny Words Christmas (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Mellow Moss (ret), Santa Claus Lane (Echo Park)
Ink	Real Red, Mossy Meadow, Craft White
Accessories	Burlap Twine (ret), Christmas Stencils (Amazon), Wink of Stella
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentials Dies, Blending Brushes

52CCT2025-43 Winter Scene

Happy Thursday, all! I have a cute little winter-scened card for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge this week:

SU's Winter Scenes have some sweet little scenes, and I chose this one:

I started with a Cloud Cover card base, then added a woodgrain print from Country Woods. I stamped my image in Black Stazon and used inks to watercolor it.  I added a little bit of twine to accent:

A wee bit of Wink of Stella adding some glitter to the snow!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winter Scenes, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Cloud Cover, Thick Basic White, Country Woods DSP
Ink	Black Stazon, Pecan Pie, Cloud Cover, Mossy Green, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals, Red Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Every Day Arches Dies, Aquapainter

CTD845 Farewell to Color Throwdown

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! I have a bittersweet post today!  The long-standing Color Throwdown blog is ending and today is the last post, and the team has asked some of the original members to participate! Our first post was in July of 2008 and I remember the excitement I felt when Tammy asked me to be on the team! I'll share that first card in a moment, but let's see what the CTD Design Team has picked for us this week:

A lovely seasonal palette for sure!  Here is another quilted card, similar to the one I made earlier  (HERE is the link to the original designer) and I wanted to recreate it using the challenge colors! So here we go:

This quilted card is such a great way to use up some scraps!  I used my Taylored Expressions Easy Strips 1/2" dies to cut out some fall patterned paper, then layered it on a piece of Very Vanilla, , added some Quilt Top embossing, then adhered it to a piece of Crushed Curry cardstock that had been embossed with a leafy embossing folder:

I did a little faux button and some twine, and then around my Honey Bee sentiment, I added some punched leaves and dotty embellishments:

And a lovely Bible verse for the inside:

Now, for a walk down memory lane; here is the first color challenge CTD had, as well as the card that I created for it:

I still love those colors!!  My photography skills were not too good then; in fact, it was pretty funny looking back at some of my posts!  We all have learned and honed our skills along the way, haven't we?  Anyway, I hope you'll go play with the last Color Throwdown challenge, give the ladies' cards some love and perhaps walk down your CTD memory lane as well!  Thanks for popping in! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Blessings of Fall (Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Timid Tiger, Misc DSPs from my stash
Ink	Cajun Craze
Accessories	Mossy Meadow Thick Twine (ret), Dimensionals, Matte Dots (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession), Button Die (Papertrey), Leaf Punch (ret), Quilt Top Embossing Folder (ret), Fall Leaf Background Embossing Folder (Darice)

AHSC656 Noel

 Happy Monday, peeps! We have a lovely sketch for you at Atlantic Hearts this week:

Nice and easy!  I am working on increasing my Christmas card stash, so here we go:

I used some postage stampp images from Elizabeth Craft Designs, along with an oldie-but-goodie sentiment stamp from Many Merry Messages!   I stamped the images with Mossy Meadow ink on Mellow Moss and Basic Beige cardstocks:

I added some Cherry Cobbler layers as well as a single snowflake to give it a little contrast.  A sentiment from Christmas Labels and a little deer from the Elizabeth set went on the inside:

Simple and easy! I hope you'll play with our lovely sketch this week too! Share your creation with us at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge blog!

For John's birthday, we went to a local brew pub where he got a salad that came on the most enormous plate I've ever seen! (He also got some cheesesteak eggrolls!):

What made the meal extra special was that the restaurant used to be a garage---a garage owned by my uncle!  I can remember going there with my dad when I was a little girl....at least 60 years ago! It changed a wee bit!  The only downside was that it was extremely loud, but I guess that's because it was jam packed, so it must be popular!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Many Merry Messages (ret), Christmas Labels (ret), Planner Essentials (Elizabeth Craft Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Cherry Cobbler, Mellow Moss (ret), Christmas Salutations (Echo Park)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Rhinestone, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Make a Snowflake Dies (Taylored Expressions)

PP764 Challenge from Stef

Happy Sunday, peeps! Time for a new Paper Players challenge with Stef as our hostess!  It's Clean-and-Simple week too!  Here we go:

What a great theme!!  It had me conjuring up all kinds of ideas! I knew I wanted to do a vintage image, because I love vintage Christmas, and while going through my bulging folder of vintage Christmas ephemera, I came across a page of stickers from Current!  Remember them?  Santa is one of my favorite images for Christmas; he makes me think of my childhood Christmases!  I pulled out some DSP from a few years back and went to work:

I adhered my Santa to a little diecut circle and added a gold scalloped mat becase, as you can see, the Christmas-word DSP is printed in gold foil too!  I recently got this cute banner die, so I diecut it in Real Red, then added another banner of gold foil behind it to help it stand out:

On the inside, I added a Flonzcraft sentiment:

Not a lot of stamping, but a whole lot of cute!  And since Little Red Wagon is looking for gold or silver, I'm going to pop it in over there as well!

Now, what CAS creation will you create for our challenge?!  Remember to keep it simple!  Share it with us at the Paper Players blog! We can't wait to see it!  Thanks for visiting today, enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Sentiments (Flonzcraft)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Brushed Gold (ret), Wonder of the Season Specialty DSP (ret), Current Sticker
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machines, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Petite Scalloped Circle Dies (Nestabilities), Cutting Sentiments Dies (Spellbinders)

AYSI 361 Speed Stamping Apples

Happy Friday, peeps! It's time for the oh-so-fun Speed Stamping challenge at As You See It!  A little tongue-in-cheek, but I do enjoy challenging myself to get all my products lined up and ready to go!  And this week our theme is "Apples", so it's an easy one!  Yum!

So, the idea is to stamp a card in 10 minutes or less--get your idea finalized in your head,  your supplies at the ready, then go!  I created this fun little 4 1/4" square card in 6 minutes and 32 seconds!

I've had this Papertrey paper and stamp set for a long time, but I never get tired of using them!   I mounted the apple paper on a Basic White mat, then on the Poppy Parade card, and I stamped the apple in Poppy Parade and Old Olive before cutting it out with circle and scallop dies.  The sentiment from Timeless Arrangements was stamped in Early Espresso and diecut with a banner die.  The final addition was a little baker's twine bow and it was done!

So put on your thinking caps, clean off your stamp table, gather your supplies and get crafting!  Show us what you can create in ten minutes or less (and be sure to tell us your time), then share it with us at the As You See It blog! Can't wait to see what you create!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Timeless Arrangements, Apple of My Eye (Papertrey),
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Poppy Parade, Fruiti Tutti (Papertrey)
Ink	Poppy Parade, Old Olive, Early Espresso
Accessories	Dimensionals, Thick Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Give It A Whirl Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main),

FMS712 John's 70th Birthday

Happy Thursday, peeps!  John has a "big" birthday coming up on Sunday!  He'll be retiring at the end of the year as well! Lots of milestones!  I used the FMS sketch this week to make his card! Here's the sketch:

And here we go:

I used several retired products on my card; the Large Numbers dies, an image from Sailing Home, and a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  I also embossed a portion of the card front with the Cast Away embossing folder from Spellbinders:

Inside, the sentiment from Best Year was stamped in Cherry Cobbler:

We don't have anything big planned for his "big" day, but we'll go out to dinner!  Thanks for popping in today, enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sailing Home (ret), Best Year (ret), Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight, Plaid from Amazon
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Large Numbers Die (ret), Smooth Sailing Home Dies (ret), Cast Away Embossing Folder (Spellbinders), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

Christmas Wishes Quilted Star

Happy Tuesday, all! No challenges today, but I wanted to share one of the cards we made at stamp club last night, which was a quilted star card.  I originally saw this on Amanda Mertz's blog and she got the idea from Lorraine Tierney. You can see her card, as well as her YouTube video, HERE. It looks complicated, but it's really quite easy and she gives you some neat tricks!  So here are the versions we did, using the Christmas Greetings card pack along with the Christmas Tags & More DSP and ephemera:

We started with strips of the DSP; I confess that I resorted to using Taylored Expressions 1/2" Easy Strips dies to cut them out, because they cut four at a time, which made things quite a bit speedier!  After adhering them according to Lorraine's directions, we then embossed the panel with the Eyelet embossing folder and added an ephemera in the center:

The tag was stamped with a sentiment from Pine Tree Trimmings and diecut with a Stylish Shapes dies; the ribbon is a new Online Exclusive for November, called Chevron!  The club ladies seemed to like this card, and we all liked the pre-made cards in Crumb Cake and Garden Green, with gold accents, which are a little larger and come with matching envelopes!  I can't wait to play some more with the little punchouts from the DSP pack...so cute!

I hope you are staying warm because it's COLD and windy here today!  Thanks for popping in, enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pine Tree Trimmings
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Christmas Greetings Specialty  Cards, Christmas Tags & More DSP
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Green Chevron Ribbon, String
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Eyelet Embossing Folder, Stylish Shapes Dies, Easy Strips 1/2" Dies (Taylored Expressions)