As You See It 371 Recipe in Pink

Hello all!  Happy Friday! It's time for a new As You See It challenge, and this week, it's Recipe time!  Here we go:

My friend Colleen recently made a gorgeous postage-style card (you can see it HERE) and she inspired me to get out my postage dies and stamps and put them to use! I only used hers as a starting point, as she did neutrals and vintage.  Mine is decidedly PINK and floral:

I already had this Pink Pirouette diecut "frame" in my Pink Pirouette folder, so I used that as my starting point. I stamped images from the retired Hand-Penned Petals on the frame as well as on one of the postage stamps, and used the dies from the same set to create some detailed flowers.  The little seed packet image is from the retired Flowering Rain Boots.  I added a sentiment from Hero Arts as well as some postage stamp elements from Waffle Flower:

My final addition was a wee little bit of grosgrain ribbon for accent.  It was fun to mix and match these images and sets, do some stamping and sponging, then put it all together! I hope you'll find something to create using our "recipe" this week at As You See It!  Can't wait to see what comes of it!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Flowering Rain Boots (ret), Hand-Penned Petals (ret), Postage Collage (Waffle FLower), CL342 Sentiments (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pink Pirouette (ret), Bloom & Wild (Craft Consortium)
Ink	Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Strawberry Slush, Cotton Candy (Catherine Pooler), Distress Worn Lipstick (Tim Holtz)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pink Grosgrain from my stash, Mini Pearls (Want 2 Scrap)
Tools	Big Shot, Postage Die (Waffle FLower), Penned FLowers Dies (ret), Triple Flower Punch, Reverse Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Windows Die (Lawn Fawn)

AYSI3701 Birthday Dogs

Happy Friday, all!  The As You See It challenge this week is the fun "Fill in the Blank"!  This month's challenge is HERE:

 

This was an easy one for me, and even easier because I was just on a roll making some really fun BIRTHDAY cards with some new papers I just got!  Masculine birthday cards are always a challenge and these papers from Craft Consortium are called The Collector, and they have a plethora of marvelous assorted vintage images.  They are SO amazing, all I did for this card was to add a sentiment tag; I let the paper do all the work!  Here we go:

Since the papers are 6x6, and I didn't want to cut off any of these cute pups, I made my Basic Beige card 4 1/4" x 6 1/4", then just added a panel of the paper on top.  I diecut a Basic Beige tag, stamped a sentiment from Lasting Joy in Early Espresso, gave it a little sponging to mimic the vintage look and tied it with some Linen Thread:

I added another sentiment to match on the inside and called it all good!  Easy peasy!  I am sure a lot of you send out many birthday cards as well as Christmas, but you may have another occasion that you send out lots of cards for as well.  Halloween comes to my mind, as I have TONS of Halloween stamps, LOL, and I love to use them all!  

I hope you'll share your creation with us at As You See It this week  Thanks for visiting my blog, enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, The Collector (Craft Consortium)
Ink	Early Espresso, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tag Dies (ret), Sponge Dauber

AYSI369 Happy Birthday Sundae

Happy Friday, everyone! Hope you have some fun plans this weekend!  It's time for a new As You See It Challenge, and it's a lovely color challenge:

I love the Easter egg cookies in this basket, but I am pretty much done my Easter cards, so I chose another bunny to go with my pastel colors!  Here we go:

 

Since the Just Add Ink challenge this week is to add stripes, I stamped the bottom left corner with the Painted Stripes stamp in Soft Sea Foam, then added a little Soft Sea Foam strip, diecut with a Wonky Stitched Frame die from My Favorite Things.  Then I stamped my little ice-cream-sundae-eating bunny in Versafine ink and watercolored him in with Pretty in Pink and Pool Party inks:

The sentiment is from the new Notes of Spring stamp set, available only in March!  Love that font!  A little Waffleflower birthday sentiment went on the inside, with a little background stamping from Label Me Bold:

These colors are sweet for any spring occasion!  I hope you'll be inspired by them and come create 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	Notes of Spring, Painted Stripes (ret),  Label Me Bold (ret), Sundae Funday (Colorado Craft), Inside Sentiments Birthday (Waffle Flower)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Sea Foam
Ink	Versafine Black, Soft Sea Foam, Pretty in Pink, Pool Party, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Wonky Rectangle Dies (My Favorite Things), Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret), Rounded Rectangle Layers DIes (Impression Obsession), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Aquapainter

AYSI368 Happy Easter

 Hello again, peeps! Another post today, because it's As You See It time!  This week we have a lovely sketch:

Because I was really short on time, I let the papers from SU's Easter Joy do all the heavy lifting on my card:

I used a full 4"x6" panel from one of the sheets, diecut a striped egg from another and added a banner sentiment from the retired Easter Friends.  My little bunny is actually diecut from velveteen paper--so soft and fuzzy! Isn't he cute, hopping along?

And a sweet little sentiment on the inside:

I hope you'll find something in your array of stamping supplies to use on our sketch this week!  We can't wait to see what you create! See what the Design Team did with it as well, at the As You See It blog! Thanks for visiting again today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Easter Friends (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Easter Joy DSP, Velvet Paper (ret)
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Excellent Eggs Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Winter Elements Dies (Sissix)

AYSI367 Purple Speed Stamping

Happy Friday, all!  It's time for a new challenge from As You See It, and it's the exciting SPEED challenge, LOL!  This month, we're looking for purple!!! 

The trick here is to assemble all your supplies, as well as the idea in your head, and make your card in ten minutes or less---and tell us how long it DID take you!  Here's my card, coming in at 9 minutes and 30 seconds:

Truthfully, I had to go back and reglue a couple pieces so I was really over the ten minute mark, but it was assembled in less than!  I created my window with the Everyday Arches dies and some Gorgeous Grape cardstock, then added the Perennial Lavender "scene" behind it!  The strips were diecut with a strip die from Taylored Expressions, and the sentiment is from W+9's Spring Blessings:

I think the Crumb Cake background is a little plain but didn't have enough time to do anything fancy with it...maybe I could do another with some embossing or stamping?  At any rate, purple is not one of my go-to colors, so I am proud of myself for actually using it!!!  

There are any number of ways you could go with this challenge....there are all sorts of shades and hues ot purple, from light to dark!  We hope you will choose at least one and play along with us at As You See It!  Remember to time yourself and share your time with us as well!  See you there!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Spring Blessings (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Gorgeous Grape, Perennial Lavender DSP
Ink	Petunia Pop
Accessories	Dimensional Strips
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Arches Dies, 1/4" Easy Strip Dies (Taylored Expressions), Spring Blessings Dies (W+9), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

AYSI366 Peppermint Wishes

Happy Friday, all!  It's time for a new As You See It challenge, and we have a theme:

Yummy!  Look at all those goodies! I got a sweet little peppermint candy die just after Christmas, so this challenge gave me the perfect opportunity to put it to use:

My candies are made with Basic White, Real Red, Strawberry Slush and Granny Apple Green.  The peppermint sentiment is from More Than Autumn, and the diecut sentiments are from the Words for the Season dies.  All went on a gingham background from Scrapbook.com, diecut with the Perennial Postage die.  I added a Stitched With Whimsy doodle around the edges as well as some Peppermint candy embellishments!

I added a Colorado Craft sentiment on the inside:

In the stamping world, it's never too early to start making Christmas cards!  And since the Krafty Chicks are asking for Christmas cards this week, I am entering it there as well!  

What will inspire you from this fun challenge?! Hope to see your sweet confection over at the As You See It blog!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	More Than Autumn, Merry Merry Mini (Colorado Craft Co)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Strawberry Slush, Adhesive Sheet, Ginghams (Scrapbook.com)
Ink	Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Peppermint Embellishments, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Perennial Postage Dies, Stitched With Whimsy Dies (ret), Peppermint Die (Simon Says Stamp), Banner Dies (Pink & Main, Balmy Blue Blend

AYSI365 Celebrate in Red

 Happy Friday, all!  Time for a new As You See It challenge, and it's a recipe!  Here we go:

My first thought was Valentine's, what with the shades of red, but in the end, I went with Christmas!!  Here we go:

I combined a lot of retired products for this card; some Cherry Cobbler DSP; a pine tree diecut; a Cherry Cobbler glimmer "celebrate" and some scalloped die-cut vellum.  And who doesn't love a couple of cardinals?:

I used an adhesive sheet behind the "celebrate" diecut to make it adhere more easily!

The inside features a sentiment from Christmas labels, and I added another little cardinal for fun:

I hope that you'll mix all these ingredients together and create something wonderful as well!  We can't wait to see what that is! Share it with us at As You See It!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Labels (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Adhesive Sheets, Vellum (ret), Cherry Cobbler Glimmer (ret), White Glimmer (ret), Classic Christmas DSP (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Celebrate You Thinlets (ret), In the Woods Framelits (ret), Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Cheery Cardinals Dies (Poppy), Star Punch (ret)

AYSI364 Another Beer

Happy Friday, all!  It's time for a new As You See It challenge of 2026 and it's a fun one!  It's a fill-in-the-blank, and we want you to use your newest craft purchase!

My newest craft purchase is some Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol!  This technique of blending colored pencils with Gamsol has been around for a long time, but I never jumped on that bandwagon, so "Santa" very nicely gave some to me for Christmas (thanks, John!)!  And since Wayne's birthday is today, I decided to use this technique on a Unity stamp set---a mug of beer!  So here we go with my CAS creation:

I stamped the beer mug with Versafine ink, diecut it out, then colored the beer with Goldenrod and Spanish Orange Prismacolor pencils, adding a little Light Cerulean Blue to the mug itself and Black on the suds:

I added the sentiment to a Very Vanilla card and popped up the beer, adding some shading to the bottom with Pecan Pie ink.  My Wink of Stella kind of "exploded" while I was trying to add some sparkle, so it is VERY sparkly, LOL!  Here's the inside, using another sentiment from the same Unity set along with a Waffleflower Inside Sentiments Birthday set:

I am also entering this at the Addicted to CAS challenge, where they are looking for "glass"!

SO....what new goodies did you get for Christmas or just recently?  We'd love to see what you create with them!  Share them with us over at the As You See It blog!  Can't wait!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friends are Like Seashells (for the bubbles; ret), A Cold One (Unity), Inside Sentiments Birthday (Waffle Flower)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla, Thick Basic White
Ink	Versafine Black, Basic Beige, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, A Cold One Dies (Unity), Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, Blending Stumps, Wink of Stella, Aquapainter

AYSI363 Peace Love Joy

Happy Friday, all!  Time for a new As You See It challenge, and it's an interesting color palette!  Here we go:

I am way behind on everything this Christmas!!!  But I did manage to make one more card using the colors and new die (Merry Christmas to me!)! What do you think? (Sorry for the poor picture quality---too many gray clouds these days!)

I used Michele's sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

I cut the Spellbinders Barn Star from Mossy Meadow cardstock and added Pecan Pie pine cones and Mossy Meadow foliage (sponged with MM ink to make them darker).  It was mounted on a circle embossed with the Dotted Circles embossing folder.  Sentiment on the banner is from Simon Says Stamp's Tiny Words Christmas:

The inside sentiment is also from Simon Says Stamp, Christmas Blessings, stamped in Night of Navy:

I think these colors would be great for a masculine card as well!  I hope you'll play along with us at As You See It this week!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp), Tiny Words Christmas (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Pecan Pie
Ink	Night of Navy, Mossy Meadow, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals, Navy Stitched Ribbon (ret), Rhinestones (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Dotted Circles Embossing Folder, Nested Essentials Dies, Barn Star Dies (Spellbinders), Blending Brushes

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)

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),

AYSI360 You're the Micest!

Happy Friday, all! Happy Halloween! And time for a new As You See It challenge:

What a great theme! So many possibilitiees, right?!  I haven't played with my wee little Harvest Mice from My Favorite Things this season yet, so I got them out and got inky with them:

I stamped this little mouse and his harvest of apples on some watercolor paper and colored them with inks and an aquapainter, them added a diecut fence and some falling leaves, all on a background of some Thoughful Journey DSP:

I added the sentiment and mounted everything on a Cloud Cover card base.  Our local state representative's office recently notarized fourteen documents for me--no charge--so this is going to them along with some fall goodies!  

I hope you'll play along with our "harvest" theme too!  Hop on over to the As You See It blog to see what everyone else came up with!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Harvest Mice (My Favorite Things)
Card stock & Papers	Watercolor, Cloud Cover, Basic White, Thoughtful Journey DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Pecan Pie, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Poppy Parade, Smoky Slate, Petal Pink, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Thankful Mice Dies (Lawn Fawn), Fence Dies (Gina Marie), Aquapainter

AYSI359 You Make Me Smile

 Happy Friday, everyone! Hope you have something fun planned for the weekend!  It's recipe time at As You See It, and we have some fun "ingredients" for you to play with!  Here we go:

I remembered this fun Impression Obsession image I got a couple of years ago and thought it would work well for the challenge:

I stamped the image on some thick Basic White cardstock using Stazon ink, diecut it with the retired Ornate Frames dies, then watercolored everything in with reinkers:

I did use some shades of green, as one of the elements was flowers, so hopefully that was okay!  My sentiment is from Timeless Arrangements, and I made a frame with two different-sized banner dies.  The background paper is from an Echo Park Spooky Halloween pad!  I love those little swirly designs!

Hope you'll cook up something fun with our recipe this week and share it with us at As You See It!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Timeless Arrangements, Fall Array G12370 (Impression Obsession)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Grain and Grunge (Honey Bee), Spooky (Echo Park)
Ink	Stazon Black, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Timid Tiger, Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry
Accessories	Metallic Copper Dots (ret), Dimensionals, Copper Thread (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Christmas Cardinal Dies (ret), Ornate Frames Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Aquapainter, Wink of Stella

AYSI358 What I Like About Fall

Happy Friday, all!  Time for a new As You See It challenge, and it's a great one:

 

I pretty much like EVERYTHING about fall, but I would have to say my favorite things are PUMPKINS!!!  Any shape, size or color!  I have so many pumpkin stamps in my repetoire, it would be next to impossible to pick out my favorite!  But I do love this rustic pumpkin-themed paper from Studio Light, so it is the focus of my card today:

Aren't those pumpkins gorgeous?  And I had to use one of my new Honey Bee stamps called Blessings of Fall; I stamped it on a piece of the leftover pumpkin paper,, then backed with with another diecut of Mellow Moss and Mossy Meadow:

It went on another piece of paper from the same pad, trimmed to a banner and "stitched" with a Concord & 9th die.  The paper is so pretty, it doesn't need another thing! 

 And here's a second card; I was playing around with some pumpkin stencils for an upcoming class, and this piece was a "leftover", so I made it into a card as well:

The stencil is from Spellbinders; cardstock is Basic Beige and Lost Lagoon; stamps are from CTMH, Fun Stamper's Journey and Pretty Pink Posh---a mishmash, if I do say so!

I could go on and on with pumpkins---but I like fall leaves too!  I hope that you'll share your fall creations with us---we're getting ready for full swing here in North America, but maybe your fall is different where you live! Can't wait to see what you come up with!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

"Blessed is he who is not offended of Me."  Matthew 11:6

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Blessings of Fall (Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Mellow Moss (ret), Wonderful Autumn (Studio Light)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Blessings of Fall Dies (Honey Bee), Kristina's Finishing Touches Dies (Concord & 9th)