One Last Easter Card

Happy Good Friday everyone!  We had a really meaningful Maundy Thursday service last night along with a delicious soup and salad meal!  But it's been a long week!  I did have some stamping/crafting time with Cassidy yesterday morning and was able to make one more Easter card while she colored....well, markered...some pages she printed out!  I loved the challenges at In(k)spire Me and Inspire.Create:

I had not played very much with my new Art ImpressionsEaster set that Claire gave me, so I thought I would ink up the mama bunny this time:

I watercolored the image after stamping her with Stazon ink on Shimmery White cardstock: 

I also stamped and colored the little chick, fussy-cut her out and popped her up alongside mama bunny:

Isn't she the cutest?  I diecut the Shimmery White panel with a Rectangle Stitched die, and mounted it on a Whisper White card base to which I added a panel of Gala Gingham DSP.  I also added a strip of Lemon Lime Twist which was diecut with a Rectangle Stitched die and trimmed to fit. 

I've already sent out all my Easter cards, but it's never too late to start for next year!  Thanks for popping in today!

We had a big Easter egg dying session on Wednesday; Cassidy and Lee dyed over two dozen eggs and they wished for more, LOL!  They had quite a set-up:

Cassidy experimented with two colors:

This one turned out really well...Bermuda Bay and Soft Seafoam, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Basket of Blessings (Art Impressions)
Card stock & Papers	Shimmery White, Whisper White, Lemon Lime Twist, Gala Gingham DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Soft Suede,  miscellaneous SU colors
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Aquapainter

IB68 Monochromatic Earth Day

Happy Thursday, peeps!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge!  Since the retired list came out, I thought it would be nice to highlight one of my favorite retiring In Colors, Tranquil Tide.  I will be sad to see it go!  So here we go:

And here is Laurel's prompt:

Usually I stick to the prompt photograph when creating my card. Bit since the name of the prompt is "Earth Day", I went more with a nature theme than the photo!  I stamped the trees from Winter Woods on a small panel of Very Vanilla, stamping off a few times (without reinking) to give a lighter look in the background.  I also stamped a partial sentiment from a retiring set, Wood Words, and diecut it with a Stitched Rectangle die:

I mounted it on a Thick Very Vanilla card base that I embossed with the Woodland embossing folder, and added some Tranquil Tide ribbon for the vertical elements.  This also fulfills a couple more challenges, the Global Design Project's monochromatic, and the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

Earth Day is always a good day to remember our natural resources....so what will you create this week?  Share it at Inspired By....can't wait to see what you make!  

A few pix from our church's Easter Egg hunt:

Blessedly, our Lord doesn't "hide" his treasures...they are open and free for all who seek him!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

SS559 Dump Trucks for Jamison

Happy Tuesday, all!  It was a busy day yesterday so I didn't get any stamping done, and it was my nephew's 4th birthday, so I made a belated card for him today.  At 4, I am sure he doesn't really know what belated means, so it's probably okay!  I used the sketch from Sketch Saturday:

I had ordered this dump truck die a long time ago and it finally arrived last week, so I put it to good use, since Jamison LOVES trucks, tractors and dirt!  So here we go:

I cut the trucks from Real Red, Call Me Clover and Daffodil Delight; the wheels and torn edges are Basic Black.  Sentiment is from Itty Bitty Birthdays and the Smoky Slate pattern is from an old Paper Pumpkin set.  It's all stamped on some miscellaneous scrapbook paper I had in my stash! 

I embossed the Smoky Slate card with a Cuttlebug Diamond Plate embossing folder, then stamped a sentiment on the inside (same Paper Pumpkin kit) and over-stamped the number four using a Tim Holtz stamp:

And here's a picture of the birthday boy; our church had an Easter Egg hunt (more pix on that later), and he was quite successful at his quest:

It is so cute to watch these little ones interact; they're so curious!:

And last but not least, I forgot one card that my sweet friend and teammate Claire sent me; she knows how much I love vintage/retro stuff!  I love it:

If you know Claire, you can just hear her saying this...it looks like her a bit too! 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Cards from Friends

Hi peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend...ours was very busy and so I got no stamping done, but I thought I would share some pretty cards that I've gotten in the mail over the last week or so!  

This one is from my upline Pennie:

She pieced together little strips of cardstock and cut them crosswise into a longer strip and put a piece of glimmer paper between!  Very clever!

This beauty is from my sweet Paper Player teammate from across the pond, Joanne:

Those orchids are beautiful! 

And this little Mouse House card is from my dear friend Martha:

We need these boots today...Cassidy is at a nature preserve, in the rain, and FORGOT hers!  I guess that's one way to learn!

This sweet floral is from my friend Doris:

Isn't that floral gorgeous?

And my friend Robyn made a perfectly adorable little Easter card with these sweet patterned chicks and that one friend who just has to think outside the box...the one wearing the bunny ears:

Finally from my up-upline, Denise, a pretty diagonal fold card:

So blessed to receive all these beautiful creations!  Enjoy your day and hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with something new!

Be blessed yourself!

PP437 Do Something Creative

Happy Palm Sunday, peeps!  It's time for another Paper Players challenge, where Ann has given us a  beautiful color challenge:

What beautiful spring colors!  My first thought was to do a floral, but I like to try to think out of the box a wee bit, so I pulled out Crafting Forever, which I haven't used in a long time, and went to work stamping, coloring and cutting:

And my sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches:  

This was a lot of fun to make!  First, I stamped all the pens in Memento ink, then colored them with SU Blends and fussy-cut them out.  To assemble the card, I used a piece of retired Daffodil Delight DSP for the top layer, then a piece of Balmy Blue, on which I stamped a floral image from an older Paper Pumpkin set.  I colored it in with the light shade of Balmy Blue Blend and added a few little speckles.  The little scallop of Calypso Coral finished the sketch!  My final addition was the sentiment panel, which was diecut with a Stitched Shapes Framelit and accented with a Grapefruit Grove faceted gem, which I colored with a Calypso Coral Blend:

I left the bottom portion plain to offset the busy upper portion!

I am willing to bet you could come up with some amazing projects with these colors...I hope you'll share yours at the Paper Players blog!  Meanwhile, check out what the DT did:

Ann

Claire

Jaydee

Joanne

Laurie

Anne Marie

Su

Wanda

Windy

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Crafting Forever, Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Balmy Blue, Daffodil Delight Patterns DSP (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals, Faceted Gems
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, SU Blends

AYSI198 Birthday Butterfly

Happy Friday, peeps!  It's time for another As You See It challenge, and we have a lovely sketch for you!

I went very literal with the sketch; as I was making this card earlier in the week, I was lamenting that I never use these beautiful retired butterfly dies, so when I saw the sketch, I knew what I wanted to use!

Once I cut out the butterfly from Early Espresso cardstock, the rest was easy to put together!  I used some Share What You Love Specialty DSP for my banner...it gives a nice shimmer that you can't see here.  I added some silver thread, a sentiment from Happy Birthday Gorgeous and some Nature's Twine in Grapefruit Grove:

I had a little doily already half-cut and I used some sequins from my stash on a  piece of Thick White cardstock I embossed with the Woodgrain embossing folder, then mounted it all on a Grapefruit Grove card.  And since it fulfills the bottom row across of Stamp Ink Paper's Tic-Tac-Toe challenge, I am entering there as well:

So happy you popped in today...I hope that you'll play with our beautiful sketch this week!  Show us what you create at the As You See It blog!

A few more pictures from my Longwood visit a couple of days ago:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happy Birthday Gorgeous
Card stock & Papers	Grapefruit Grove, Early Espresso, Thick White, Share What You Love DSP
Ink	Grapefruit Grove, Early Espresso
Accessories	Silver Thread, Nature's Twine, Doily, Sequins from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Butterflies Thinlet (ret), Woodgrain EF

IB67 Rainy Day Party

Hello peeps!  It's Thursday...yay, the week is almost over!  We are taking another load from my dad's house to the auction tomorrow and Saturday, so it's going to be a busy weekend, but we can see the light at the end of the tunnel! 

Laurel has a delightful Inspired By inspiration prompt for us today, and she convinced me to break into some "hoarded" papers from Simple Stories' I Am line!  So here we go:

And here is her pretty prompt:

I went with the colors more than the theme, but I did use some cloud dies to create my focal point:

I diecut them in Very Vanilla cardstock, then added some Dazzling Diamonds layers behind them (a wee bit hard to see), and stamped some sentiments on them.  I did add a few little sprigs behind them because the Sunday Stamps sketch was perfect for it:

They were diecut from the Flourish thinlets, colored with a Flirty Flamingo marker and accented with a bit of Wink of Stella!  I think I will send this card to my college roommate---she just had her hip replaced and could use some cheering up!

I hope you'll play with our fun challenge this week...proof that a party even on a rainy day can be fun!  Check out all the samples at the IB blog!

A warm day calls for a walk in the creek!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lil' Inker Cloud Nine??(ret), Mini Tag Sentiments (Divinity Designs, Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Dazzling Diamond Glimmer, Blushing Bride, I Am DSP (Simple Stories)
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Rainbow and Clouds Die Set (Lil'Inker Designs), Flourishes Thinlets, Flirty Flamingo Marker, Wink of Stella Marker