FMS762 Thanksgiving Squares

Happy Thursday, peeps! A quick post today, I am stamping with my retirement home ladies today!  The Freshly Made Sketches sketch is a fun one, and I happened to have the Autumn Squares stamp from Impression Obsession on my desk, so I made another Thanksgiving card:

and here's the sketch:

I stamped each image on Basic Beige in different fall colors, then punched them out with a 1 1/4" square punch:

They all went on a Stitched Rectangle panel of Crumb Cake, matted with Cherry Cobbler and embellished with a wee Linen Thread bow!  To give a little extra interest, I added another mat of Crumb Cake, embossed with the Basket Weave EF.  The inside sentiments came from the retired Day of Thanks:

And I am thankful for your popping in!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Day of Thanks (ret), Autumn Squares (Impression Obsession)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler
Ink	Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Soft Suede (ret), Early Espresso
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), 1 1/4" Square Punch (ret), Basketweave Embossing Folder (ret)

FMS761 Hope & Joy

Happy Thursday, peeps! Another Christmas card, since I already had this little paper pad from Scrapbook.com still on my desk!  Here we go:

I loosely used the sketch from FMS:

The scenery on these papers is so cute....and all the color coordinate with each other! Not sure what to call this pinky-gray color, but it's pretty.  I just love this wee tiny little snowman:

I added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp on a skinny banner as well as some glittery snowflakes.  Another sentiment from SSS went on the inside:

So happy you popped in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tiny Words Christmas (Simon Says Stamp), Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Glimmer White (ret), Christmas (Scrapbook.com)
Ink	Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Every Day Arches Dies, Snowman Dies (ret), Stitched Snowflakes Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

Gingerbread Reindeer

Happy Thursday, peeps!  My Christmas card today uses an image that I've been shuffling around on my desk for a while; it felt good to finally get it used, LOL!  Here we go:

I had stamped this little reindeer from Unity on a stitched circle of Kraft cardstock and colored it in; I can't even remember if I used reinkers or markers, that's how long ago I did it!  He looks like a gingerbread cookie to me!  When I saw the FMS sketch for this week, I thought I could use it; it's a little off from the sketch since I only have one element instead of three, but I used it anyway:

I used some plaid paper from an Echo Park Magic of Christmas pad, added a scalloped mat and a little bow:

And I put two phrases from two different sets for the punny sentiment:

And since the Jingle Belles want to see animals this week, I am entering it there as well!

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

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Holly Jolly Holiday (Unity), Poppy Whittle Sayings (Poppy), Tiny Word Christmas (SImon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Kraft, Magic Of Christmas (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black, Real Red, Emerald Envy (ret)
Accessories	Red Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Layering Ovals Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Aquapainter

FMS759 FaBOOlous

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I do not need another Halloween card, but as I was looking through some of my papers, I came across these cute ones from Unity that I had barely used!  That never happens to you, does it?  I thought they worked well with the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches too.  Here we go:

And here's the sketch I used:

I would say that this is a wee bit out of my norm for Halloween cards; I usually go for cute and spooky and fun, but these papers were intriguing!  This one actually had a bit of bronze glimmer (which unfortunately got covered up by the sentiment!) so I diecut a bronze moon and some bronze stars to accent the little witches' skirts and hats!  

I added a punched bat and a banner with a sentiment from Six Sayings.  I stamped the sentiment on Basic White cardstock, then added some speckles of black and copper and a little bit of Pecan Pie splooshed on to mimic the background paper.  It all went on a Crumb Cake card base.  The inside features a cute little Halloween sentiment:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Six Sayings (ret), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret), Spooky Street (Newton's Nook)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Brushed Copper (ret), Hocus Pocus Palette (Unity)
Ink	Versafine Black, Pecan Pie, Encore Bronze (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Black Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Sports Event Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Bat Punch (ret)

FMS758 Uber Simple Masculine Birthday

Happy Thursday, peeps! Ick, I have a dentist appointment today, so I'll make this quick! I needed another birthday card for a young man and it needed to be pretty simple because he is just not a fussy guy!  I pulled out some masculine papers and came up with this:

He's not a carpenter, but he is a handyman, so hopefully he'll appreciate the woodgrain and that wee little saw, LOL!

Sentiment is from Simply Said; the saw die is an oldie from My Favorite Things.  I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

And since the Krafty Chicks have a CAS challenge this week, I am entering it there as well!

That's it for today!  Off to sit in the dentist's chair!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Real Red, Silver Foil, Nestled (Authentique)
Ink	Macchiato (Catherine Pooler)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Tool Dies (My Favorite Things)

FMS757 Pumpkin Spice Season

Happy Monday to everyone!  I bought the More Than Autumn bundle last year before it retired and I think I've only used it once! And since it's that time of the year, I needed to get it inky:

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

along with some pretty fall prints and gingham (although it's hard to see).  And here's the inside:

I do like pumpkin spice things, as long as they're not TOO sweet--usually pumpkin spice coffee is too cloying for me.  I would eat the whipped cream and cinnamon off the top though--for sure!

All the images are from More Than Autumn; the cup was watercolored with Soft Sea Foam on Basic White cardstock; the printed paper is from Craft Consortium's Little Fawn & Friends, and I don't have a label for the gingham.  The "cinnamon" is from Itty Bitty Backgrounds and everything was mounted on a layer embossed with Honey Bee's Burlap embossing folder.  This will make a fun card in which to enclose a coffee gift card!! 

We went to a local nursing home last week to visit a church friend and we came upon these little guys who were visiting the staff and residents:

They were quite comfy in their little pounches! I can't remember how old the larger one was, but the wee one was six months old! SO soft and adorable.  Dana actually had these folks visit at her nursing home a couple of years ago and she wanted to bring one home!  I am sure Eden (and Wayne) would have put the nix on that! 

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	More Than Autumn, Itty Bitty Backgrounds
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Basic White, Cajun Craze, Little Fawn & Friends (Craft Consortium) Gingham (??)
Ink	Versafine Black, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Beige, Soft Sea Foam, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, More Than Autumn Dies, Burlap Embossing Folder (Honey Bee), Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Aquapainter

Fall Collage

Happy Thursday, everyone! And happy October!  After a few false starts, I finally stamped a card yesterday that I was happy with! I really didn't have anything special in mind when I started it but then I realized I needed a sympathy card, so sympathy it was:

I've really enjoyed revisiting some of my older stamps; this one, Thoroughly Thankful, is from way back in 2006!!! I stamped the image in Stazon on watercolor paper, colored it in with reinkers and an aquapainter, then diecut it and mounted on a Basic Beige panel embossed with the Gathering Leaves embossing folder:

A sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes was added, and I colored a gold brad with a Cajun Craze blend to make it look more coppery!  Here's the simple inside with a sentiment from Hero Arts:

I've got three challenges I want to enter this in:  Hand Stamped Sentiments' mood board; Freshly Made Sketches' sketch, and the Little Red Wagon challenge of Fall Colors:

I took my inspiration from all the colors and fall images on the mood board! So pretty for the season!

And even though I don't have a mouse on my card, here's a chipmunk from Dana:

You can just barely see him peeking out of the rainspout! Thanks so much for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!  

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Thoroughly Thankful (ret), Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret), Sentiments CL340 (Hero Arts), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Watercolor, Basic Beige, Crumb Cake
Ink	Stazon Black, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Calypso Coral, Timid Tiger, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals, Gold Brad
Tools	Big Shot, Gathering Leaves Embossing Folder, Stitched Square Die (Lil'Inker), Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Banner Dies (Impression Obsession), Aquapainter

FMS755 Boo!

 Happy Monday, all! Hope you had a good weekend, weathered the storm if you're on the east coast! We just got rain and wind, nothing drastic! Thanks to all of those who asked about my cataract surgery; it went well, now I just need to adjust to wearing glasses for all my close-up work!  Change is challenging sometimes, but it is amazing what modern medicine has achieved to help our vision!!!

I am squeaking in a little Halloween card for the FMS sketch this week:

My first thought was a Christmas tree, but I have been going through my old fall and Halloween sets and thought I could make a fun one with this spooky cat sitting atop his jack-o-lantern:

I made this card at 11:30 last night, so it may be less-than-perfect, LOL!  I stamped my cat on a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock and fussy-cut him out, then popped him up on a Stitched Triangle of polka-dotted paper from Unity. I added a spooky background panel and some webby ribbon for the horizontal element and a tag embellished with some Halloween brads that I have had FOREVER!

It all went on a Smoky Slate card base, and since I made it so late, I've not put a sentiment on the inside yet! I'll remedy that today!  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Cat & Jack (100 Proof Press), Halloween (Recollections)
Card stock & Papers	Smoky Slate, Haunted Hues (Unity), Spooky (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Metallic Mesh Ribbon (ret), Halloween Brads (From my Stash)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Triangle Dies (ret), Small Tag Dies (Impression Obsession)

FMS754 Deepest Sympathy

 Happy Thursday, all!  Unfortunately, we needed a sympathy card as our neighbor passed away. I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

I used a couple of digital papers, a sentiment from Hero Arts, and a wee bit of twine:

I diecut the gingham with a scalloped die; the sympathy sentiment was diecut with a banner die, and I also embossed around the outer edge with a cross-stitch die:

The inside used a sentiment from Prayers & Promises:

Since it's pretty clean & simple, I'm also going to enter it at the Krafty Chicks this week:

Thanks for popping in today!

Dana, my friend and I had a wee bit of success at our local fair; Dana won a first prize for her crocheted top; I won a first for my cross stitch and a third for my shadowbox, and Claudia won a third for her flag afghan:

So many talented crafters out there!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Prayers & Promises, Sentiments 342 (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze, Fall Scrappy Papers (Etsy Digital), Tiny Gingham Papers (Etsy Digital)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Natural Tones Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Cross Stitch Die (Taylored Expressions), Be Mine Stitched Dies (ret)

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