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

RRCB282 Best Wishes

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday!  The Retro Rubber challenge this week is "Feels Like Fall"!  Coming right up!

And here's their prompt:

I had some digital papers printed out, so I mounted them on a Baked Brown Sugar card base, added a Very Vanilla Tailor Made Tag and some watercolored leaves:

The sentiment is actually from a Close to My Heart Christmas set called Wonderland (2022 approx), and the speckles are from Itty Bitty Backgrounds (2001?). I spritzed some ink in fall colors on a piece of wet watercolor paper, mooshed it around, dried it, then diecut some HoneyBee leaves to add around my tag.  The inside sentiment is from Sunny Sentiments (2022):

It is definitely beginning to feel like fall around here, and the leaves are beginning to turn!  But I heard temps back in the 80s next week, so I'm not getting out my winter clothes just yet!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sunny Sentiments (2022), Wonderland (CTMH, 2022), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (2001)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Watercolor, Baked Brown Sugar (ret), Fall Pumpkin Digital (MyPorchPrints Fall Pumpkin Scrappy Papers - Etsy)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry
Accessories	Crushed Curry Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies (ret), Fall Bounty Dies (Honey Bee), Aquapainter, Sponge Dauber

CAS on Sunday #336 Birds

 Happy Friday, peeps! I have the honor of being the guest designer for CAS on Sunday this week, where the challenge is birds!  I love birds! It was hard to choose which one I was going to use, but I decided to go for a vintage feel, so here we go:

My robin is from a set by Artistic Outpost called Birds of a Feather, and the sentiment is from Flourishes' Sweet Violets.  I stamped him in Black Stazon ink, watercolored him in, then added some speckles and a bit of embossing around the edge.  On hindsight, that embossing reminds me of bird tracks, LOL!  Maybe that was a subconscious thought of mine!!!

I left the inside blank, so it could be used for most any occasion!

Now, how about you?  Do you have some bird stamps you could use to create a clean-and-simple card?  We would love to see them at CAS on Sunday!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret), Birds of a Feather (Artistic Outpost), Sweet Violets (Flourishes)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla
Ink	Stazon Black, Really Rust (ret), Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Smoky Slate, Crushed Curry, Basic Beige,, Crumb Cake
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched with Whimsy Dies (ret), Aquapainter

52CCT2025-43 Winter Scene

Happy Thursday, all! I have a cute little winter-scened card for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge this week:

SU's Winter Scenes have some sweet little scenes, and I chose this one:

I started with a Cloud Cover card base, then added a woodgrain print from Country Woods. I stamped my image in Black Stazon and used inks to watercolor it.  I added a little bit of twine to accent:

A wee bit of Wink of Stella adding some glitter to the snow!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winter Scenes, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Cloud Cover, Thick Basic White, Country Woods DSP
Ink	Black Stazon, Pecan Pie, Cloud Cover, Mossy Green, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals, Red Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Every Day Arches Dies, Aquapainter

TSOT676 Rustic Centerpiece

Happy Thursday, peeps! My card today uses a partial image from the Online Exclusive Rustic Centerpiece along with the sketch from Try a Sketch On Tuesday:

So here we go:

I stamped a partial image on watercolor paper in Stazon ink, then did some creative diecutting with an Everyday Arches die. I colored the image with some reinkers and an aquapainter, and added a wee bit of Linen Thread for an embellishment.  I snagged a piece of plaid DSP that matched my fall colors and ran it through the upcoming Gathering Leaves embossing folder and sanded it with a sanding block:

I added a little sentiment with an enamel dot from Layers of Beauty, and put everything on a Cajun Craze card base:

I know my image is a wee bit larger than the one in the sketch but hopefully it's okay!  I really love this centerpiece set and hope to use it some more!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Layers of Beauty, Rustic Centerpiece, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Watercolor, Cajun Craze, Timeless Plaid DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Cajun Craze, Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Gray Granite, Basic Beige
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals, Enamel Dot (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Everyday Arches Dies, Aquapainter, Sanding Block (ret)

Happy Halloween Fun Fold for Creative Creases

Happy Friday, peeps! Yay, it's the weekend!  I was asked to be a guest designer at Creative Creases this week; it's always interesting to come up with some creative "fun folds" to kick up our stamping!  I recently saw this card on Pinterest and thought I'd re-create it!  Thanks to Laura for her video!  So here we go:

There are four inside panels to the card; I used some Grapefruit Grove (and for the life of me, I don't know why I didn't use Pumpkin Pie!!!) for the base, and some Haunted Hues papers from Unity for the patterns.  I will write my greeting on the back!   Here's what it looks like unfolded:

I used an older stamp from Recollections for the two stamped panels; they were stamped with Black Memento ink and colored with SU Blends:

And it was fun to highlight some of these spooky papers too!

To keep the bulk together, I added a Black & Vanilla check ribbon!  

I hope you'll play along with the Creative Creases challenge this week too! Maybe you'll be a guest designer as well!  Thanks for visiting today!  

We were at a meeting last night and missed the show, but Dana took this picture of the northern lights; I am so bummed, but at least she and her family got to see them!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Halloween (Recollections), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret), Spooky Street (Newton's Nook)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basici Black, Grapefruit Grove (ret), Haunted Hues (Unity)
Ink	Memento Black, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Black & Vanilla Gingham Ribbon
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen), Various Blends

PP709 Tic Tac Toe from Claire

Happy Sunday, peeps!  September has five Sundays, so that means the Paper Players get to have a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge, with Claire as our hostess!  Here's her board:

My original plan was the middle row across of orange, diecut and stencil, but I also managed to do the left column of leaves, orange, and monochromatic!  My friend Martha gave me a nice leafy stencil that I had never used, so I set it up on some Very Vanilla cardstock and gathered some Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze inks and went to work:

After stenciling, I added some Itty Bitty Background dots, then ran it through the Cut & Emboss machine with a Subtle embossing folder.  My sentiment is from Unbounded Love; I stamped it on a piece of Very Vanilla in Cajun Craze, then used a Stitched Leaf die to cut it out:

I found some Very Vanilla thick baker's twine in my stash, so I added it to the panel, then popped everything up on top of a Cajun Craze card base.  I left  the inside blank, so I can use it for whatever occasion might arise.  I forgot how much I love orange hues....when I was a senior, I remember under my picture in the yearbook, my favorite color  was.....orange! And since this week at Just Us Girls, they want us to use stencils, so I am entering it there as well!

I hope you'll find something in Claire's grid to tickle your fancy, so you can play with us over at the Players!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Unbounded Love, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze
Ink	Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals, Thick Very Vanilla Twine (ret), Big Leaves Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Leaves Dies (ret), Subtle Embossing Folder (ret), Blending Brush

LIM489 A Little Hi From Me

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you had a good weekend!  I have an uber-easy, CAS note card today for the Less Is More one-layer photo challenge:

Isn't that a sweet inspiration photo?  It made me instantly think of one of my favorite SU stamps called Garden Pleasures....it has a sweet little straw hat and some wee little birdies!  So here we go:

I warned you it was uber-easy and CAS!  I stamped each image in Saddle Brown Stazon, then watercolored them with ink and an aquapainter.  I added a wee little bit of shading using an oval stencil and a blending brush.  I added some speckles too, very lightly stamped in Lemon Lolly ink:

Finally, I stamped a sentiment from Special Moments next to a little bird at the bottom of the card:

Cutie patootie!  Thanks for popping in today!

Saturday night ice cream night---even for the pups!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Garden Pleasures (ret), Special Moments (ret), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla
Ink	Saddle Brown Stazon, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Lemon Lolly, Hello Honey (ret)
Accessories
Tools	Aquapainter, Blending Brush

PP645 CAS One-Layer Father's Day

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's Father's Day here in the US, and also time for a new Paper Players challenge with Jaydee as our hostess!  And it's Clean-and-Simple time!  Here's her CAS theme:

ONE LAYER!  That means just one piece of cardstock, folded in half, then stamped!!  I had lots of ideas but one-layer is challenging, isn't it? I kept wanting to add more stuff!  In the end, this is the one-layer notecard I created:

I hadn't broken into my Gone Fishing set yet, and Wayne is an avid fisherman, so I thought it would be a perfect way to create a Father's Day card for him.  I originally started on a regular-sized card, but the images looked a little dwarfed, so I trimmed it down to a note card.  Before stamping each set of images, I used the retired Watercolor Shapes and stamped a rectangle in Antique Linen Distress ink. I don't often use Distress inks, but I feel like they made my other inks bleed a little bit; I'll have to do some further experimenting with them!  I just love these little lures and fishy:

I added some speckles to the rainbow trout with a Blushing Bride marker, too....I am not sure if that's what a rainbow trout looks like in real life, but it's gonna do for my card!  I added another lure and a sentiment from the same set on the inside:

My last part was to stamp "For You" from Country Bouquet, then add a little Linen Thread to the card front....it helped to offset the rectangles that I didn't stamp quite in the center!  I am going to enter this over at the Krafty Chicks as well, as their challenge this week is Clean and Simple too!

I hope that our one-layer Clean-and-Simple challenge doesn't challenge you too much, because we'd love to see how creative you can be with it!  Be sure to check out the Design Team's samples over at the Paper Players blog....then share yours with us too!

The kids went to the Delaware shore yesterday, leaving early in the morning in Wayne's jeep....with no sides or roof!  Brrrr!  Both Cassidy and her friend Gia were well bundled-up!

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

"The father of a righteous child has great joy; a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him."  

Proverbs 23:24

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gone Fishing, Country Bouquet, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret), Watercolor Shapes (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla
Ink	Basic Gray, Crushed Curry, Azure Afternoon, Shaded Spruce, Old Olive, Real Red, Blueberry Bushel, Antique Linen Distress (Tim Holtz)
Accessories	Linen Thread
Tools

RRCB157 Vintage Sketch

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  It's time for a new RetroRubber challenge, where we encourage you to use your older stamps!  We have a sketch for you today:

What a great sketch...lots of layers to play with!  As I was trying to "clean" my craft room, I remembered I hadn't played with these two sets from 2010 and 2011:  French Foliage and Nature Walk.  I also haven't done a vintage-style card for a while, so here we go:

I started with some vintage ephemera background papers, probably from My Mind's Eye, but they were in my scrap bin, so I don't know the maker for sure; I stamped images on a Naturals White panel in Stazon Black, Crumb Cake and Sahara Sand, and lightly stenciled a pattern over them:

I added some "splatters", a couple of honeycomb diecuts in silver glimmer paper and a tattered organdy rose, which also had some glitter adhered to it.  I stamped the bird once on the panel and again on a scrap, then watercolored and fussy-cut him out:

The sentiment is from Itty Bitty Greetings; I did a bit of sponging as well to add to the shabby, vintage look.  It felt good to use all these sweet images and I always love a vintage-styled creation!  

I hope you'll play along with our RetroRubber sketch this week; just remember to use stamps at least a year old, and tell us the approximate age!  Thanks for popping in today!  

Three fun-lovin' girls!!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Nature Walk (2011, ret), French Foliage (2010 ret), Gorgeous Grunge (2013, ret), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (2006, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Misc DSPs, Silver Glimmer Paper
Ink	Stazon Black, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals, Organdy Rose (ret), Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Detailed Bee Dies (ret), Sponge Daubers, Aquapainter, Basic Pattern Decorative Mask, Blending Brushes