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

FMS688 Just a Note

 Happy Thursday, peeps! I am moving slowly this morning....rain and clouds make me feel like a sloth, LOL! I did find some time to create a couple of cards using the FMS sketch though! Here's the sketch:

I chose some florals from Florals in Bloom along with some Petal Pink DSP; I swear, sometimes I have the worst time matching colors.  The background of the floral looked like it matched the Petal Pink until I went to photograph it.  Now it doesn't look like it matches at all!  But I already put it together, so it is what it is!

I embossed the Petal Pink DSP with the Eyelet embossing folder to give it a bit more interest, then added a sentiment from Notes & Totes, stamped in Secret Sea and added some Cloud Cover ribbon and mat:

For fun, I created another card, which really has a fall vibe to it, using Timid Tiger inks and Pumpkin Pie DSP, as well as the retired Cottage Wreaths bundle:

The little sentiment is from Friends are Like Seashells:

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

"The Lord saves the righteous and protects them in times of trouble." Psalms 37:39

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Notes & Totes
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Florals In Bloom, Cloud Cover, Petal Pink DSP (ret)
Ink	Secret Sea
Accessories	Cloud Cover Ribbon, Dimensionals, Festive Pearls
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Eyelet Embossing Folder

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Cottage Wreaths (ret), Friends are Like Seashells (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Timid Tiger, Pumpkin Pie DSP
Ink	Timid Tiger, Peach Pie
Accessories	Iridescent Sequins (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Country Wreath Dies (ret)

AYSI296 Wishing You The Very Best

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Hope you have a nice Easter weekend planned!  I have a sweet card for you today using some soon-to-be-retiring products and featuring the sketch from As You See It:

I started with a Thick Basic White card base, and embossed it with the Seashells embossing folder; I used some Hues of Happiness DSP for the corner panels, then stamped and fussy cut some beachy elements from Friends are Like Seashells:

Each seashell was stamped, filled in with a Blending Brush, then sponged on the edges for more definition; I used Melon Mambo, Mango Melody and Blushing Bride inks:

I stamped the sentiment on a narrow strip of Basic White, added some sequins, then stamped the other sentiment on the inside:

I'll add this to my birthday stash!  Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.  As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.  1 Peter 1:13-14

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friends are Like Seashells
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Hues of Happiness DSP
Ink	Melon Mambo, Mango Melody, Blushing Bride
Accessories	Sequins for All Occasions (ret), Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Seashells EF, Blending Brushes, Sponge Daubers, Stitched Rectangle Dies

HSS410 Hand-Penned Petals

Happy Thursday, peeps!  The weekend is almost upon us....bringing rain, rain, rain!  Well, I guess it will be a good time to stay inside and stamp!  I had Hand Penned Petals on my desk from another project and thought it would be good to use with the color challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments this week as well as the sketch from FMS:

So here we go:

This is such a pretty image, I am not sure why I haven't used it more!  After stamping and diecutting the image, I mounted it on a Basic White panel diecut with the new Radiating Stitches die that was sponged with some Balmy Blue ink.  A wee bit of Fresh Freesia DSP formed a mat, and I did some paper piecing of various strips of Balmy Blue DSP to create the horizontal piece.

The sentiment is from Happiness Abounds.  I have another friend getting knee surgery today and I may send this to her as an encouragement card!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

The heavesn declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.  Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.  There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard.  Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.  Psalm 19:1-4

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happiness Abounds, Hand-Penned Petals, Friends are Like Seashells (speckles)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Fresh Freesia DSP, Balmy Blue DSP, Country Gingham DSP
Ink	Memento Black, Fresh Freesia, Balmy Blue, Pearl Pizzazz
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Penned Flowers Dies, Radiating Stitched Dies, Blending Brush

CAS Berry Christmas

Happy Friday, peeps!  Hope you have some fun plans for the weekend!  In an effort to replenish my Christmas card supply, here's my weekly holiday creation!  This is a CAS card--one layer---to fulfill the Christmas Craft Creations challenge, and I am also entering it at the Krafty Chicks monthly Christmas challenge and the Jingle Belles challenge, which wants only cardstock! 

So here we go:

This is uber-CAS!  Sentiment and images are from Papertrey; the speckle is from Friends are Like Seashells!  I used Shaded Spruce for the greenery and Sweet Sorbet and Cherry Cobbler for the berries.  Speckles were stamped in Soft Succulent; easy peasy!

While watching old episodes of Inspector Lynley yesterday, I made a little felt doodad to display with my St Patrick's Day decor:

Sadly, I had NO kelly green in my felt stash...I guess I need to remedy that!  So I had to pick this sort of bluish green as an alternative!  Still looks cute!  I diecut everything with my Big Shot and various dies, then did a blanket stitched with embroidery floss.  I love felt!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friends are Like Seashells, Beautiful Berries: Winter (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White
Ink	Shaded Spruce, Soft Succulent, Sweet Sorbet, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories
Tools	Corner Rounder Punch, Stamparatus, White Gel Pen

CASC&S502 Sunny Splash Birthday

Happy Friday, everyone! I have an uber-simple one-layer card today, a fun birthday card in a summer theme, designed to chase away the rainy-weather blues we're having right now!  It uses the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch:

I got this Summer Splash set a while ago but hadn't inked it up yet!  So here we go:

I stamped the bathing suits and speckles in Mango Melody, Coastal Cabana, and Poppy Parade, and the sentiment from Friends are Like Seashells, in Tahitian Tide:

I did round the corners and I added some shimmery sequins for fun!  Thanks for stopping by today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friends are Like Seashells, Sunny Splash
Card stock & Papers	Basic White
Ink	Mango Melody, Coastal Cabana, Poppy Parade, Tahitian Tide
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash
Tools	Corner Rounder Punch (ret)

AHSC499 So Thankful For You

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Hope your week is getting off to a good start...yesterday sort of got away from me, I had two stamp clubs, but we had a lot of fun!  The Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge always has great sketches, and since I still had the Rustic Harvest DSP on my desk, I decided to go for another Thanksgiving card.  Here's the sketch:

And here's the card:

I cut layers of the DSP to match the sketch, then diecut a Very Vanilla panel with the Scalloped Contours die.  The opposite side of the rust-colored DSP has a black background with white assorted leaves, so I fussy-cut several of them and used markers to color them, then created a spray with them:

I used a sentiment from last year's Pretty Pumpkins set, adding some sprinkles from Friends are Like Seashells, and I added a Linen Thread bow to my leaves to finish it off!

Our leaves are way past these colors, so it was fun to keep these leaves pretty for a wee bit longer!  Thanks for popping in today!

Dana's friend's little girl turned one over the weekend; you know Cassidy, she never turns down a chance to hold a baby!

What a cute little punkin!  Their outfits almost coordinate!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friends are Like Seashells, Pretty Pumpkins (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Rustic Harvest DSP
Ink	Cajun Craze, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Linen Thread
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contour Dies, Markers

FMS561 Christmas Pine Cones

Happy Thursday, everyone!  Gearing up for a very busy weekend, so I am getting all my stamping done today and tomorrow, LOL!  I love Linda's sketch for FMS this week:

and although I was very tempted to use my Postage Stamp punch, I opted for some Stitched Rectangle dies and some pretty DSPs:

I diecut the Painted Christmas pinecone paper with a rectangle die, then added a mat using the bark paper from Boughs of Holly.  I blended some Soft Succulent ink behind the panels before adhering them, and since I don't have any current pine branch stamps, I opted to use one of the Trees for Sale trees...works like a charm!  Isn't it fun when your stamps can be used for more than one option?!  I added a few "sprinkles" in Crumb Cake with a stamp from Friends are Like Seashells, and a wee bit of Linen Thread:

I distressed the edges a little bit and sponged some Crumb Cake ink, then stamped sentiments outside and in using the Brightest Glow stamp set!  Everything went on a Crumb Cake base.

I am also entering this at Krafty Chicks, since this is their Christmas week!  That's it for today! Oh, I did want to share a photo Dana's SIL posted; she is an excellent photographer and really has an eye for capturing the most awesome images:

This is the best and ONLY way I like cobwebs, LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed! 

"To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice." Proverbs 21:3

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Trees for Sale, Friends are Like Seashells, Brightest Glow
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Painted Christmas DSP, Boughs of Holly DSP
Ink	Soft Succulent, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede
Accessories	Linen Thread
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Sponge Dauber, Blending Brush

CTD715 Fall Forever Fern

Happy Friday, peeps!  Yay, it's the weekend!  I needed a thank you card, and when I saw the Color Throwdown palette, I thought I would start there!  The colors could be for Halloween but I chose instead to create a fall-ish card using Forever Fern.  Here's the palette:

And here's my card:

I stamped the images in Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive, diecutting some to put in the foreground.  I added some speckles and a sentiment from Friends are Like Seashells, and a bow from Cottage Wreaths:

I added two borders from some Old Olive DSP, one a stripe and one a polka dot which qualifies it (barely) for the Little Red Wagon challenge of dots/stripes!  And it's already out in the mail!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy came over for a couple of hours last weekend and I helped her make a cake for math class!  They are learning fractions, so she had to choose a recipe that had at least four ingredients that were fractions!  She chose Kim's Buttermilk Spice Cake and thankfully I had all the ingredients!  She's pretty good on the fractions, and even knew how to substitute when one of the measuring cups had already been used!  She did a great job but took the cake home before it was iced...Grampy was  upset because he wanted a piece, so maybe I'll make one today for him!

Thanks for stopping in today..enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Forever Fern, Friends are Like Seashells, Cottage Wreaths
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Old Olive DSP
Ink	Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Pale Papaya
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Basic Borders Dies, Forever Flourishing Dies, Tasteful Label Dies (ret)

Happy Fall to My Friend

 Happy Friday, peeps!  Wowza, fall has fallen in my neck of the woods....I know these temps and wind will go back to normal soon but right now it is definitely feeling "fallish"!  I thought I would visit my friends at As You See It because they have a really fun sketch this week and I wanted to incorporate the Just Add Ink challenge in there too! 

So I chose masking and friend as my two choices for my card today, and I pulled out a lot of different stamps to create it!  Here we go:

My Buffalo Check background stamp with inked with a combination of Sahara Sand and Tim Holtz's Antique Linen inks, then I stamped my pumpkins in Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizzaza, Antique Linen and Lost Lagoon inks, masking each one as I went along.  The sentiments are a combination of SU (Biggest Wish and Endless Birthday Greetings), Papertrey (Wreath for All Season) and Paper Studio (Everyday Expressions), all stamped in  Lost Lagoon:

I used some Burlap Ribbon on which to put my little circular sentiment and I also embossed the panel with the Subtle EF!

I enjoyed getting all my stamps inky for this fun card!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

I found a new bird on my walk yesterday morning...there were several of these flitting around my neighbor's tree and they actually didn't fly away as I took a picture!  My camera does not photograph very well, so they're not clear, and I still am not 100% sure as to what kind of bird it was!  The consensus on my birding FB page was a Tennessee Warbler, but whatever it was, it was fun to watch!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life."  Proverbs 4:23

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Biggest Wish, Friends are Like Seashells, Pick a Pumpkin (ret), Endless Birthday Wishes (ret), Buffalo Check (ret), Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio), Wreath for All Seasons (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Sahara Sand
Ink	Sahara Sand, Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizzazz, Lost Lagoon (ret), Antique Linen (Tim Holtz)
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals, Burlap Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Subtle EF (ret), Stamparatus

GDP361 Cottage Wreath

 Happy Monday, peeps!  A quick card today as I should be mopping my floor and getting ready for my stamp clubs today!  I just had to play with my Cottage Wreath set one more time and I incorporated the colors from the Global Design Project to make a non-fall birthday card!  Here's the palette:

And here's my card:

Very simple layout; some Parakeet Party DSP, a Flirty Flamingo mat and a diecut wreath of Shaded Spruce.  I added some greenery in PP, a bow in FF, and I colored some large pearls with a Blend for accents:

The circular opening was cut with the Stylish Shapes dies, and I used the cut out portion on which to stamp a sentiment from Friends are Like Seashells:

I like stamping on DSP, but sometimes the ink is a wee bit resistant, so I have found that if I ink my stamp in Versamark ink first, then in the colored ink, it works like a charm!  Thanks for popping in today!

The kids went to a Canine Partners for Life fundraiser on the weekend. CPL trains service and companion dogs using prisoners to begin their training, then other CPL volunteers to finalize their training, to help people with disabilities.  Some dogs can actually sense when someone will have a seizure!  It is right down the road from our church and several members are actively involved.  Here is our friend Sue with her dog and another puppy trainee, selling "puppy kisses" for $1!

And of course, there was FOOD!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Cottage Wreaths, Friends are Like Seashells
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Flirty Flamingo, Shaded Spruce, Flirty Flamingo DSP, Parakeet Party DSP
Ink	Shaded Spruce, Parakeet Party, Versamark
Accessories	Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Country Wreaths Dies, Blends