A Note of Thanks

 Happy Thursday, peeps!  Today I get my other cataract done---I am really looking forward to having this procedure over with, LOL!  Meanwhile, I have a card to share for two challenges:  Hand Stamped Sentiments has a sketch, and Retro Rubber has a Tic-Tac-Toe board.  Here we go:

I chose the middle row across of splatter/leaves/kraft!  So here we go:

I was going through some of my DSPs and came across this splatter pattern, and I thought it would make an interesting fall card since the colors are not traditionally used for fall!  I diecut a circle and stitched leaves from Pool Party, Basic Beige and Pecan Pie, piecing everything together, then added a sentiment from the Thank You Kindly set (2008), diecut with a banner die.  A wee bit of Coastal Cabana twine was separated, then made into a bow for a little accent:

I think this is a fun, non-traditional way to use these leaves!  

I wanted to give a shout out to my friends Kathy and Michele for sending me these cute cards as I was "recovering" from my cataract surgery:

First, Kathy's:

I love the colors and the glasses!  And here's Michele's, in her own inimitable style:

I think I could probably see this one WITHOUT glasses or surgery!  Fun colors and I love all the fonts against that cute embossing!  Thanks, ladies!  I appreciate the thoughts!

And I appreciate all of your visits! Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Thank You Kindly (2008, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Pool Party, Hobby Haven DSP
Ink	Pecan Pie
Accessories	Cool Caribbean Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Stitched Leaves Dies (ret)

AHSC699 Autumn Wishes

Happy Tuesday, peeps! Another fall card today, since I still had this CTMH stamp set out on my desk and had actually stamped a few images that were sitting there unused!  It's for our latest Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge:

I had already stamped my pumpkin in Baked Brown Sugar, so after fussy-cutting it out, I stamped four more pumpkins in different fall colors, cut out each panel and glued them together:

I added some Crumb Cake leaves that were sponged and speckled, and a sentiment from the same set, stamped in Cajun Craze.  Everything went on a Very Vanilla panel embossed with the Stone and Vine embossing folder; I like how it complements the diecut leaves as well as the leaves on the strip of DSP:

After adding some sequins, I stamped the pumpkin again on the inside using Timid Tiger ink:

This will probably be another fall birthday card!  

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret), Autumn Wishes (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze DSP (ret)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Calypso Coral, Golden Glow, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Baked Brown Sugar (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sunset Sparkle Sequins (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stone & Vine Embossing Folder, Patterned Pumpkins Dies (ret), Ornate Layers Dies (ret), Blending Brushes

Copper Pumpkin

 Happy Saturday, everyone! Hope you're having a good weekend so far!  I have a card to share for the FMS challenge as well as the Seize the Birthday challenge of having a sentiment strip.  

I pulled out an older CTMH stamp set, got it inky, and here we go:

The pumpkin is stamped in Baked Brown Sugar, and although the circle behind it looks black, it's actually copper foil!  It looks great with the Brown Sugar and I added a copper cord bow as well:

You also can't tell but I heat embossed the sentiment from Lily of the Valley in Copper embossing powder.  The background panels are Baked Brown Sugar, embossed with the Wrapped in Texture embossing folder and sponged with Brown Sugar ink, and Woodgrain Wonder DSP.  Another sentiment from the Lily set went on the inside:

I had cataract surgery on Thursday and I didn't really know if I'd be able to stamp for a few days or not, but it seems to be okay.  I am still blurry on the distance vision, but my doctor said that was normal!  Keeping my fingers crossed!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lily of the Valley, Autumn Wishes (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Woodgrain Wonder DSP, Baked Brown Sugar (ret), Copper Foil (ret)
Ink	Baked Brown Sugar (ret), Copper Encore (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Copper Cording (ret), Copper Embossing Powder (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Wrapped in Texture Embossing Folder (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Heat Tool

RRCB280 Happy Fall

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! I pulled out a real oldie for today's card, which is for the Retro Rubber sketch:

I came across this set from 1999 called Fall For All, which features those sweet little line art images I loved so much when I first started stamping:

I stamped my little sweetie in Stazon ink on watercolor paper and colored her in with an aquapainter and reinkers:

I added a few punched out leaves from the Beautiful Autumn stamp set (2020) to scatter around the outside of my image.  The papers are retired Crushed Curry and Garden Green DSPs, and I diecut around the outer edge of my Very Vanilla card with the Stitched With Whimsy die!  The sentiment on the banner is from Close to My Heart's Autumn Blessings, which I know I have had for several years!

I left the inside blank but I'll probably make this a birthday card!  I just love her little face!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Fall for You (1999), Beautiful Autumn (2020), Autumn Blessings (Close to My Heart 2022?)
Card stock & Papers	Watercolor, Very Vanilla, Real Red, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie,  Garden Green DSP (ret), Crushed Curry DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pecan Pie, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Old Olive, Gray Granite
Accessories	Painted Patch Dots, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies (ret), Stitched With Whimsy Dies (ret), Leaf Punch (ret), Banner Punch (Pink & Main)

Fall is My Favorite Color

Happy Tuesday, peeps! Hope you had a lovely holiday weekend! It certainly had a nip of fall in the air, but I know that September can have some warm days, so I'm not putting away my shorts quite yet!!  I did make a fall card for you today; I recently purchased some pretty digital papers and just had to put them to use!  I matched them with the Honey Bee Blessings of Fall stamp set:

I stamped the sentiment in Pecan Pie on Crumb Cake cardstock, then mounted it on a diecut Pale Payap panel that was blended with Cajun Craze ink, then overstamped with a script stamp from Elements of Text:

I added some sequins along with a couple of punched glimmer paper leaves!  It all went on a card base of Copper Clay; I left the inside plain for whatever occasion may arise!

Thanks so much for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Elements of Text (ret), Blessings of Fall (Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Copper Clay (ret), Pale Papaya (ret), Fall Pumpkins Digital (My Porch Prints on Etsy), Glimmer Paper (Recollections)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Sequins (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Blessings of Fall Dies (Honey Bee), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession), Leaf Trio Punches (ret)

JUGS 838 & RRCB279 Happy Fall Stenciled Pumpkins

Happy Tuesday, all!  Happy September!  The JUGS stencil challenge this week is "anything goes"!  

I got this pumpkin stencil last year and couldn't wait to play with it again!  It's from Spellbinders, and it's an easy peasy one! Here we go:

I stenciled the pumpkins on a panel of Golden Glow cardstock in Timid Tiger, Golden Glow, Cajun Craze and a combination of Granny Apple Green and Balmy Blue; stems were in Pecan Pie.  I embossed it with the Subtle embossing folder and gave it a whirl with the Stitched with Whimsy die to give it a little oomph.  A Honey Bee sentiment was stamped and diecut, mounted on a couple of oval dies and embellished with a wee bit of Cajun Craze Linen Thread.  

A simple birthday sentiment went on the inside!  I am nudging myself into my fall stamping! And since this stamp and stencil are both a year old, I am entering my card into the Retro Rubber challenge, which is "anything goes" as well!

And speaking of fall, I finished this little cross stitch project yesterday too:

Stitched on linen and mounted on two felt scallops, sewn together with French knots! 

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Blessings of Fall (2025 Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze, Golden Glow
Ink	Golden Glow, Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, Timid Tiger, Granny Apple Green, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Cajun Craze Linen Thread (ret), Dimensionals, Colorful Pumpkin Stencil (Spellbinders)
Tools	Big Shot, Blessings of Fall Dies (Honey Bee), Subtle Embossing Folder (ret), Stitched With Whimsy Die (ret), Small Tags Dies (Impression Obsession) Scalloped Oval Punch (ret), Blending Brushes

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)

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

PP760 CAS Foliage

Happy Sunday, all! Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess with a lovely autumn-themed CAS challenge for us:

 I had so much fun creating my vivid leaves for a card last week, I decided to do some again, this time using some different dies and a leafy embossing folder as a background.  I know this isn't my usual CAS style, but it really came together quickly:

My dies are from Impression Obsession, and I diecut them from textured paper, then used a blending brush to add color.  I must say, those brushes are amazing for coloring an image quickly!  I ran a piece of Basic Beige through the embossing folder, then added a wee bit of shading around the edge and a little spritz of watery Pecan Pie ink for that "cinnamon" look (at least that's what it looks like to me!):

I stamped a sentiment in Poppy Parade (and I see I got a little too close with my spritzing--I'll have to fix that!) and added some maroon gingham that I colored with a Crumb Cake blend to make it a little more rustic!

I hope you'll play with our CAS challenge this week!  Just remember to keep your stamping and embellishments to a minimum!  Check out what the DT created as well over at the Paper Players blog!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Blessings of Fall (Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Cherry Cobbler, Basic Beige, Whispers of Texture Specialty Paper
Ink	Poppy Parade, Timid Tiger, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Pecan Pie, Cinnamon Cider
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Patchwork Leaves Dies (Impression Obsession), Blessings of Fall Dies (Honey Bee), Blending Brushes, Fall Leaf Background Embossing Folder (Darice), Crumb Cake Blend

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

LRW829 Vivid Leaves

Happy Wednesday, peeps! I am way late today!  But I've been experimenting in my craft room and having some fun with some old products and new products!  I was totally enamored by THIS CARD created by my PP teammate, Stef.  Wowza, it is amazing! 

I remembered that I had some retired dies from SU called Stitched Leaves, and I thought I'd  experiment with them to see if I could come up with something similar.  I used blending brushes and ink instead of alcohol inks to color mine, but I was happy with the vivid colors I was able to achieve:

Stef's challenge was to only use rust and yellow, but I went with all the fall colors!  The yellow leaf is diecut from some watercolor paper, but the other leaves were diecut with some new paper that will be coming out soon called Whispers of Texture.  If you look closely, you can see a wee bit of a woven texture on them:

I also added some new embellishments called Pearls of Beauty, and I unraveled some burlap ribbon to create a rustic bow.  Everything went on a panel of Country Woods DSP, and I stamped a sentiment from Simply Said.  I am going to enter this at the Little Red Wagon challenge because they're looking for a Captain's "log"...anything woodgrain!

The leaves outside my window don't look quite this bright, but they are beginning to turn!  Fall is definitely in the air!  Thanks so much for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Watercolor, Whispers of Texture (OE-Nov), Country Woods DSP
Ink	Crushsed Curry, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Pearls of Beauty (OE-Nov), Burlap Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Leaves Dies (ret)

AHSC651 Hey There, Pumpkin

Happy Monday, all!  Time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch:

and since I had a "pumpkin" class on Saturday--we stamped pumpkin-themed cards--I pulled out another pumpkin stamp I had in my stash!!  Here we go:

This went together pretty quickly; I already had the plaid paper cut but unused for another project; it went on a panel of Calypso Coral and on top went a panel of Cajun Craze.  It was diecut and embossed with the Gathering Leaves embossing folder.  The patchwork pumpkin was stamped in Calypso Coral as well, fussy cut and popped up with a little seam binding embellishment:

The sentiment is from the same set; I had a narrow scrap of Basic White that wasn't quite wide enough to fit the sentiment, so I re-stamped the top portion and fussy cut it out.  I embossed it with a polka-dot embossing folder and added some little orange dots, which in hindsight look a little too pale.  Maybe I'll fix that later!  I left the inside blank so I can add an appropriate sentiment when I need to!

This is a great sketch, I love it! I hope you'll play with it as well, and share your creation with us at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge blog!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge.  I say to the Lord, "You are my Lord; apart from you

I have no good thing."  Psalm 16:1-2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Autumn Wishes (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cajun Craze, Calypso Coral, Timeless Plaid DSP
Ink	Calypso Coral, Cazun Craze
Accessories	Enamel Dots (ret), Seam Binding Ribbon (ret), DImensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gathering Leaves Embossing Folder, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret)

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)