Time Out Guest Designer

Hello, stamping friends! I recently won a Time Out challenge and was asked to be a guest designer!  Yippee!  

Their theme this week is Friendship/Encouragement/Support:

and the challenge is sponsored by Claire from Waltzingmouse Stamps; here is the prize she is offering:

For my card today, I pulled out an oldie but goodie called Friendships Grow, and it happened to be given to me by a sweet friend, Teri!  I stamped this image in Stazon black ink and did my favorite technique, watercoloring, to color it in:

I chose some pink gingham and Bubble Bath cardstock for the background, as well as a scalloped mat, and some retired gingham ribbon added a bit of fun.  I stamped a sentiment from the Year of Flowers, which seemed appropriate for the image!

I hope you'll play along with our Friendship challenge at Time Out this week!  We all need some encouragement, and stampers give the best!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Year of Flowers, Friendships Grow (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Basic White, Gingham (Scrapbook.com)
Ink	Stazon Black, Misty Moonlight, Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Calpyso Coral, Soft Sea Foam, Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Pecan Pie, Soft Sky (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pink Gingham Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped  Contours Dies (ret), Stitched Rectangle Dies (Lil'Inker), Aquapainter, Sponge Dauber

PP729 CAS Challenge from Joanne

Happy Sunday, all!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess with a fun Clean-and-Simple challenge!  Remember, those CAS challenges are to keep things simple....a minimum of layers and doodads!  In fact, Joanne just wants us to use one stamped image!!

I received a lovely set of images from Unity back last March and had not used this particular one, so I thought it was a good time to get it inky:

I stamped the image in Real Red, and I did add a bit of blender-pen coloring to the geraniums, but really, the image is so detailed, it doesn't need it.  I added another Unity sentiment, "hello" as well as a few sequins:

And a sweet sentiment on the inside as well:

It is fun to do a CAS card like this occasionally, heaven knows I have enough stamps that would fit the bill!  How about you?  What can you do with just one stamped image?  I'll bet you can do more than you realize!  Show us your CAS creations over at the Paper Players blog and check out what the Design Team created as well!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Love & Good Vibes (Unity KOTM 3/24), Every Step of the Way (Unity KOTM 11/24)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Sequins from my stash
Tools	Blender Pen

PP692 Patriotic Friends

Happy Sunday, peeps! Time for a new Paper Players challenge with Jaydee as our hostess! It's theme week and what a fun one Jaydee has chosen:

Where would we be without our friends, right?!  So let's go!

I bought this Technique Tuesday stamp several years ago, just for this image, I loved it so much! I used it ONE TIME....and it went missing in my stamp room.  I tore everything apart and never found it.  Fast forward to about a year ago, I was looking through some vintage-type papers in one of my folders and lo and behold, stuck to the back of one of the pages was my stamp!  Phew!  I wanted to make a patriotic-themed card and this image seemed to fit the bill, along with the theme of friendship! I stamped the image in Real Red and fussy-cut it, then added a sentiment, some blue banners and some yummy blue gingham:

On the inside, a birthday sentiment, a little strip of the opposite side of the DSP and I'm ready to go for a July birthday!

And since the Color Throwdown challenge this week features my card's colors, I am going to enter it there as well!

Friendship is one of the best and easiest themes we could have, so I hope you'll take the challenge and make a friendship card, then share it with us at the  Players' blog!

Before I go, I am going to brag on Dana little....she always has to listen to me (and my two sisters) yak on and on about the birds we saw and/or heard, and when she sent me this video, I almost fell off my chair.  She took it through a window, so there's a glare and some background noise (you may want to hit the mute button to keep from hearing annoying commercials!), but she captured this female pileated woodpecker amazingly:

She's afraid she's becoming a bird nerd now, LOL!  Thanks for watching, thanks for visiting and be blessed today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Small Sayings (ret), Vintage Summer (Technique Tuesday), Birthday Centers (Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Blueberry Bushel, Blueberry Bushel Gingham DSP (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Star Punch (ret)

SIP87 A Little Kindness

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's time for another Stamp Ink Paper challenge!  And what a sweet challenge it is:  Kindness!

I haven't done a "vintage" card lately, and this set from Artistic Outpost has been sadly under-used, so I got it inky!  

The set is called Birds of a Feather, and it has a nice selections of vintage images!  I thought these little girls were sweet:

And it has a lovely German print background, interspersed with some egg images; I added the sentiment and the florals (same set), then stamped a couple of butterflies from Kinda Eclectic:

Because these little girls looked like best friends, I added a tag, some linen thread and a candy dot, then a layer of Graphic 45 DSP and some crochet trim and rickrack!

And finally, a sentiment also from Kinda Eclectic....because my sweet friend is indeed very kind!

This is also for the Sunday Stamps 146 sketch challenge, as well as the Double D Challenges, which is to use rickrack or zigzag!  Edited to add: This fits well for the Card Concept challenge this week, which is Vintage!

Edited to add: This fits well for the Card Concept challenge this week, which is Vintage!

I hope you will play along with the Stamp Ink Paper team and share your creations with us this week! Can't wait to spread some kindness around!

Cassidy and Lamby are having quite a phone conversation:

I wonder what their conversation was about?  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details--All Products Stampin' Up Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Kinda Eclectic, Birds of a Feather (Artistic Outpost), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Botanical Tea DSP (Graphic 45)
Ink	Chocolate Chip, Marina Mist, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Crochet Trim (ret), Rickrack (my stash), Candy Dots, Linen Thread
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Die, Cuttlebug Tag Die, Mini Glue Dots, Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers, Aquapainter