AHSC551 Lots of Pink

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Hope your week is going well so far!  I just adore the sketch from Atlantic Hearts this week!  I love things in threes and it just seems like such a fun sketch:

I had a myriad of ideas rolling around in my head, and I am sure my Christmas card stamp camp girls will be seeing this one!  But today, I am in a pink mood, so I am doing Christmas but it's a Berry Burst Christmas:

While searching through my stash for some DSP, I found this pretty flocked poinsettia paper from a few years ago; isn't it pretty against the bright berry shade?  I've also had this Lovely Letters set for a long time and haven't used it much, so I thought it would be a good time to get it inky!  I stamped each letter in Berry Burst then used a 1 1/4" square punch to punch them out.  A 1 3/8" square punch made punching out the Soft Shimmer DSP a piece of cake, and I combined them all together with a sentiment from For Unto Us:

Another sentiment from the same set went inside.  

And since I was in a pink mood, I made another one; this one is a Valentine, since the Throughout the Year set will be carrying over into the spring catalog, I combined it with some hearts from Country Bouquet, stamped in Melon Mambo, and popped on top of some Melon Mambo DSP:

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

 

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lovely Letters (ret), For Unto Us (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Berry Burst, Berry Burst Soft Shimmer, Plush Poinsettia DSP (ret)
Ink	Berry Burst
Accessories	Dimensionals, Rhinestones (colored with a Blend)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Large Sentiment Dies (Pink & Main), 1 1/4" Square Punch (ret), 1 3/8" Square Punch (ret)

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Country Bouquet, Throughout The Year
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Melon Mambo, Melon Mambo DSP
Ink	Melon Mambo
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Country Heart Punch, 1 1/4" Square Punch (ret), 1 3/8" Square Punch (ret)

AHSC548 Navy & Gold Christmas

Hey there, everyone! Happy Tuesday! I have delayed using these beautiful Shining Brightly DSPs...I guess I would have to admit that I am hoarding them!  But I broke into the package for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week:

And here we go:

I cut a panel of the DSP and added a gold foil diecut border (which in hindsight, wish I had left off), then added a couple of leafy diecuts and a gold bow:

A sentiment from For Unto Us was stamped and heat-embossed in gold, and I stamped another sentiment from the same set on the inside in Night of Navy:

A really easy sketch and quite intriguing! I'll be using this one again, I know!  Thanks for popping in today!

As promised, a quick little video of Wayne and Josh making cider at the Harvest party:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For Unto Us (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Night of Navy, Gold Foil, Shining Brightly DSP
Ink	Night of Navy, Encore Gold (ret)
Accessories	Gold Cord (ret), Dimensionals, Gold Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentials Die, Scalloped Contour Dies, Cardinal Dies (ret), Heat Tool

SSC272 Rejoice

Hi everyone! Happy Monday!  Hope you had a good weekend! I saw a nice sketch at Sunday Stamps:

as well as a lovely inspiration photo at Inkspirational:

I was inspired by the neutral colors and the greenery on the packages and tree!  And here we go, using some papers from Photoplay and an older Unity stamp:

The image was stamped in Close to Cocoa ink and matted with some Kraft paper; I added some Linen Thread and Gilded Gems for embellishment:

The inside sentiment is from For Unto Us:

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.  And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For Unto Us, Rejoice for our Silent Night (Unity)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Evening Evergreen, Basic White, Kraft, Luke 2 DSP (Photoplay), Home for Christmas DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Close to Cocoa (ret)
Accessories	Gilded Gems, Dimensionals, Linen Thread
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Squares Dies (ret)

Shake, Shake, Shake Your Shaker Card

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  At our clubs this month, one of our projects was to create an easy shaker card using a cello sheet to create a pocket for the shaker elements.  For our card, we used a SU clear envelope, but you certainly recycle any of the clear acetate pockets that most of our craft supplies are packaged in!  This is what we made using the Merry Snowflakes bundle and lots of sequins and glitter:

We stamped the snowflakes randomly on a piece of Basic White, then cut apart a clear envelope and adhered the edges to the back of the stamped piece with Sticky Strip on three sides to create a pocket.  After filling the pocket up with sequins and glitter, we adhered the open edge with a final strip of Sticky Strip. Just look at all those fun sequins!  We added a sentiment from Christmas to Remember as well as a diecut snowflake from the Stitched Snowflakes dies.

Here's another one I made as a sample; the pocket is a little smaller and I used a piece of Painted Christmas DSP as the background, filling it with gold, silver, maroon, green and white sequins.  The Evening Evergreen card base was embossed with the Wintry embossing folder and sponged with matching ink, and the gold-embossed sentiment from For Unto Us was diecut with a Tasteful Labels die:

Of course, it's difficult to see all the sequins when it's propped up!  But I love this color combination of Evening Evergreen and Merry Merlot....so elegant!  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ." Galatians 6:2

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Merry Snowflakes, A Christmas to Remember, Sparkle of the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Coastal Cabana, Pool Party
Ink	Coastal Cabana, Pool Party, Balmy Blue, Mint Macaron
Accessories	Clear Envelope, Sequins (retired SU and Pretty Pink Posh), Glitter (Walmart), Tear N Tape, Sticky Strip
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Snowflake Dies

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For Unto Us
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Merry Merlot, Evening Evergreen, Painted Christmas DSP
Ink	Evening Evergreen, Gold Encore (ret)
Accessories	Red Rhinestone, Clear Envelope, Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh and my stash), Glitter (Walmart), Tear N Tape, Gold Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Scalloped Contour Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Tasteful Label Dies, Heat Tool, Sponge Dauber

FMS507 Peaceful Snowflakes

Happy Monday, peeps!  I have a simple card today using the FMS sketch and the challenge board for the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge:

My original intent was to replicate those gorgeous blue pinecones, but my attempt at diecutting them ended up with some akin to glittery Easter eggs, so I scrapped that and went with this, still using some of the blues as my inspiration:

I used the new Stitched Snowflake dies to cut out some glittery snowflakes and the retired Christmas Greetings thinlets to cut out the "peace" sentiment.  It all went on a piece of music background paper and matted with a Baja Breeze mat.  The larger snowflake got a blue gem in the center:

And the smaller one got a simple rhinestone:

I stamped the inside with a sentiment from For Unto Us!  Another one for my stash!

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For Unto Us
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Baja Breeze (ret), Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper, Balmy Blue Glimmer Paper, Silver Glimmer Paper (all ret), Silver Bells DSP (KaiserCraft)
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Blue Adhesive Gems, Rhinestones
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Snowflake Dies, Christmas Greetings Dies (ret)

Pink Poinsettias

 Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend! I've been falling behind on my Christmas card making, so I added one card to my stash this weekend!  It fulfills three challenges:  Inkspirational's sketch, Christmas 24's challenge to add glitter, and the Merry Little Christmas challenge is Anything Goes:

I really love things in threes, so I diecut three small poinsettias from some rose glimmer paper and heat-embossed a sentiment from For Unto Us:

Each flower was mounted on some pink DSP:

And my heat-embossed sentiment was done in silver to match the silver centers of the flowers:

The sentiment inside was stamped in Merry Merlot ink:

Another to add to my stash!

To add to our "interesting birds of the spring of 2021" theme, John looked out our window yesterday morning before church and said "There's a turkey walking up our driveway!".  I believe it was a hen (not sure, though) and when I opened the door for a picture, she turned and went across the yard, around the side of the house and into our back yard all the way to the field:

And sorry, this is such a bad picture, I had a glare, but here she is, walking across the little bridge that goes over our creek....and she continued on into the woods!

It's been such a fun spring for birdwatching!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For Unto Him
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Silver Foil, Rose Glimmer (ret), Silver Bells DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Silver Encore (ret), Merry Merlot
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Squares Dies, Poinsettia Dies, Heat Tool

PP521 Peace Wreath

Happy Sunday, peeps, and time for our last Paper Players challenge of 2020!  Claire is our hostess and we are closing out the year with a bang!  Check out these colors:

Such an elegant combination!  For a last-minute Christmas card, this is what I came up with:

I used some of the Feels Like Frost DSP on the silver side (which is so hard to photograph), and a silver-embossed wreath, embellished with some silver and black pearls and a little gingham ribbon:

I added a diecut sentiment on a black stitched banner, and a lovely sentiment for the inside:

This uses the sketch from Fab Friday:

And here's true confession time; I actually made a different card for this challenge LAST WEEK because I looked at the wrong date on the calendar!  So here's my original card, using the FMS sketch, which obviously is over, but I thought I would share it anyway:

Same line of DSP, different pattern, different sentiment:

So I hope you'll be able to squeeze in some time to play along this week...I know it's getting down to the wire and time is tight, but if you do have some, we'd love to see what you come up with! Check out what the other team created at the Paper Players while you're there!  Thanks for popping in today -- enjoy it and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For Unto Us, Beary Christmas (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Silver Foil, Basic Black, Feels Like Frost DSP
Ink	Silver Encore (ret), Memento Black
Accessories	Metallic Pearls, Gingham Ribbon (ret), Silver Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Christmas Greetings Dies (ret), Beary Christmas Dies (CTMH), Star Punch, Heat Tool

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For Unto Us, Joyous Noel (Verve)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Silver Foil, CHRISTmas DSP (Illustrated Faith), Basic Black
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Frosted Embellishments
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Star Dies (Paper Rose), Stitched Rectangle Dies, Banner Dies (My Favorite Things)

TCC145 Elegant Christmas

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  A new Card Concept Challenge is upon us...check out this beauty:

 

I have to admit that I struggled a wee bit with this challenge...these are just not colors that I normally gravitate to, but as I said, I have been having fun perusing my older stamps, and this Christmas Collage set came to mind, with its scrolls and elaborate designs, so I thought to emboss it in gold on black for a Classy and Elegant card:

I wanted to add some Very Vanilla to lighten it up a bit; I just got the For Unto Us set, so I stamped one of the smaller sentiments and diecut it with a Stitched Rectangle die, adding a layer of Gold Glimmer paper behind it along with some retired velveteen ribbon:

Although you can't tell here, the gold embossed poinsettia from Poinsettia Petals is actually two layers: Vellum and Very Vanilla.  I tucked it down into the corner, then layered everything on a Very Vanilla card:

Finally, I added another sentiment to the inside:

That's it for today!  I hope you'll play along with our challenge this week; you could use any of the elements, colors or theme for your creation!  Share it with us over at The Card Challenge blog!

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." 

Isaiah 9:6

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For Unto Use, Poinsettia Petals, Christmas Collage (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Vellum, Basic Black, Gold Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Versamark, Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Gold Embossing Powder, Velveteen Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big SHot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Poinsettia Dies, Heat Tool, Stamparatus