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

IB165 Lucky Day

Hi everyone!  What a fun Inspired By challenge we have for you today!  Check this out: 

I was gifted a cute little rainbow die a LONG time ago when my CTD teammate Laura started Lil'Inkers!  I don't think I have ever used it!  I cut it out using Soft Seafoam, Granny Apple Green and Garden Green cardstocks and this is what I came up with:

I didn't use our optional sketch but instead went with one from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

I mounted my lucky green rainbow on a piece of Whisper White cardstock that was embossed with the Stitched With Whimsy die, and added a little shamrock from a retired SU set:

The rainbow dies also have a couple of cloud dies, so I used them as well, adding a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings and a couple more shamrocks from Itty Bitties:

I used a piece of Soft Seafoam DSP for my background, and the final addition was a little Soft Seafoam "ribbon" of cardstock that I embossed with a cute pattern!  I don't make "lucky" cards as a rule but this was a fun one!  

Hopefully you'll find some lucky inspiration with our challenge this week and you'll come play along with us!  Meanwhile, check out what all the DT created over at the Inspired By blog!  Thanks for popping in today!

Think this dog loves her human?!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Holiday Blitz (ret), Itty Bitties (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Soft Seafoam, Garden Green, Granny Apple Green, Soft Seafoam DSP
Ink	Garden Green, Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson), Rainbow Dies (Lil'Inker)

RRCB153 Easter Blessings Tic Tac Toe

Hey there everyone!  It's time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we show some love to our older stamps!  Today we have a fun Tic-Tac-Toe grid:

I chose the right column going down: rhinestones, coloring and blue, and I used the sketch from Try Stampin on Tuesday:

 

And here we go:

This adorable Gift Givers stamp is from 2011, and I had never even used this one from the set--it still had the backing on it!  I stamped it in Memento ink and colored it with Blends, then fussy cut it out and popped it up on some MFT Homespun Gingham DSP:

I added a diecut bow from the Stitched Blooms dies and accented it with a blue rhinestone.  The scalloped trims were diecut with the Stitched Be Mine dies, and the lower layer is from Carta Bella's Soak up the Sun.  I used a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings as well.  It all went on a Crumb Cake card base and on the inside, I stamped a few more Easter sentiments from Close To My Heart's Easter Animals (at least 2019)

Our grid this week offers lots of possibilities, so I hope you'll play along!  Just make sure your stamps are at least a year old and tell us how old they are!  Meanwhile, check out what the DT created over at the Retro Rubber blog!  Thanks for popping in today!

First time for Chinese food!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous.  Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord You God will be with you wherever you go."  Joshua 1:9

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gift Givers (ret), Itty Bitty Greetings, Easter Animals (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Homespun Gingham DSP (My Favorite Things), Soak up the Sun DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Rhinestone (from my stash), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Be Mine Dies, Pierced Blooms Dies, Blends

RRCB152 Happy Easter Day

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we give some of our older stamps some love!  We have a sketch for you this week...love sketches!

This may be one of the busiest cards I've made in a while!!!  Once I got started, I couldn't stop adding more little bits and pieces to it!  Here we go:

Remember this cute set?  Basket Bunch came out in 2017, and again, I barely had time to play with it before it retired!  I might have made up for it on this one card, LOL!  The DSPs are several from a few years ago; the card base is Very Vanilla with a Balmy Blue mat (although I should have used Soft Sky), and the bunny and all the accoutrements are stamped on Whisper White, colored with Blends and die cut with the matching Basket Builder Framelets!

The sentiment banner is from last year's Itty Bitty Greetings.  Aren't all the eggs so cute?

I used a sentiment from Suite Sayings (2016) for the inside:

The design team has come up with a lot of fun ideas for this sketch and we hope you'll play along at Retro Rubber!  Just be sure to share the age of the stamps that you use...they must be at least a year old!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for popping in today!

Today is Dana's birthday and we had a little get-together on Sunday!  Happy Birthday, Dana!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Basket Bunch, Suite Sayings (both ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Balmy Blue, Crumb Cake, Misc retired DSPs
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Basket Builder Dies (ret), Blends

PP523 Here For You

Hi stampers!  Happy Sunday!  It's Paper Players time and the lovely Ann is our hostess with a fabulous color challenge:

 

These are beautiful colors together, but sometimes, I just don't have papers or elements combining all three, so when I am faced with that dilemma, I choose one main element and reproduce it in all three colors!  In this case, I diecut the little embossed feather from the Nature's Thoughts dies in each of the challenge colors:

I kept the rest of the card really simple, mounting each feather on a stitched scallop panel, mounting them on a Coastal Weave embossed and stitched panel, and mounting all of that on a simple white card base.  For my neutral, other than white, I stamped a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings in Blackberry Bliss on a scrap of Crumb Cake and added some Linen Thread to each of the feathers' stems:

This could be used as a get well or sympathy card, or just for someone who's going through a rough patch!  

How will you use these colors?  Be sure to stop by the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers did with these colors, and share your creation with us as well!  Can't wait to see it!!

Just for fun, John left three ears of really old cow corn on our patio table....this is the only one left, we think a raccoon got the other ones.  Every morning this little squirrel comes to visit:

He just cracks us up with his quick little chewing motions!

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

"He whose walk is upright fears the Lord, but he whose ways are devious despises him." 

 Proverbs 14:2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Bumblebee, Misty Moonlight, Blackberry Bliss
Ink	Blackberry Bliss
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nature's Thoughts Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Basket Weave EF (ret), Word Window Punch (ret)

The Spot 143 Sympathy

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Unfortunately, the holidays are no respecter of persons and sadly, I find I still need sympathy cards.  I used the sketch from The Spot along with some pretty Peony Garden papers for my card today; first, the sketch:

And here we go:

The color in my photo doesn't quite match the colors in real life, so you'll just have to imagine that the peony, colored with Blushing Bride ink and an aquapainter matches the DSP nicely!  I added a diecut sentiment, stamped in Smoky Slate, along with a strip of the gorgeous new Blushing Bride Metallic Ribbon (satin on one side, metallic on the other--so pretty!), and a few sequins:

The inside is stamped with a sentiment from Woven Heirlooms:

I hope it brings comfort to the family! 

From Christmas evening, my niece gave Jameson and Sawyer personalized chef aprons and hats:

Cooking and baking are VERY important to these boys' family, and all the grandparents, aunts and uncles are passing down their culinary love and talents to them and their cousins!  Here's a picture of the boys making cookies at the Christmas cookie baking session their maternal grandmom has every year:

They do a better job decorating than I do!  Enjoy your day and thanks for popping in...be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Woven Heirlooms
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Peony Garden DSP
Ink	Smoky Slate, Blushing Bride
Accessories	Sequins, Blushing Bride Metallic Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Layering Circle Dies, Aquapainter, Tasteful Label Dies

IB153 Poinsettia Sympathy

Hello, stampers and happy Thursday!  Time for a new Inspired By challenge...isn't this a cute one?  So clever!   

And here's the optional sketch to use..or not!

All the makin's for some fun snowman goodies!  I went in a bit of a different direction, however; I found out earlier in the week that my cousin Michael lost his battle with a rare form of cancer.  We found out only weeks ago that it was terminal, but it was still a shock when we got the news.  Our grandfather started a florist business back in the 1920s; his son, my uncle Kenny, took over it and then Michael after my uncle went into semi-retirement. Now Michael's brother Brian is running the business.  Why am I telling you all of this?  Going to the "greenhouse" and its particularly wonderful smell, is a part of my childhood that is very special to me, especially at Christmas.  There would be hundreds of poinsettias and other amazing holiday creations (along with that wonderful smell), and so I thought it would be fitting to use poinsettias on a sympathy card for Michael's family.  I chose to pull the Seaside Spray and Basic Gray from the challenge photo for my colors:

The Spot has a "CASE the Designer" challenge this week, so I chose this card and sketch of Andrea's, turning mine in the landscape orientation:

Poinsettias come in so many colors nowadays; I used the smallest one from Poinsettia Petals, stamping it in my Stamparatus twice with Seaside Spray ink to get a darker color, then filling in with the "fill" stamp:

I diecut them with the matching die; added a piece of white organdy ribbon on top of the Basic Gray DSP from last year, then finished them with silver metallic pearls.  After stamping the sentiment in Memento Black, I ran the top layer through the Pinewood Planks EF.  One of my favorite verses from an old Daily Bread Designs set was stamped on the inside:

I hope it brings some comfort to Michael's family.  And I hope you'll find some inspiration in our Inspired By photo too...the DT made some really fun cards; their creativity continues to amaze me!  

Thanks so much for popping in today!  And here's a picture from around 1962 of Michael, my sister Joyce and me at my grandmother's house on Christmas day! I particularly remember that Christmas because I wanted drum majorette boots, which I got; however as I trudged around in them all day long, the tassels began to fall out one by one, much to my dismay--and my mom and grandmother's! We were still finding them weeks later! 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Poinsettia Petals, Scripture Collection 2 (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Seaside Spray, Basic Gray DSP (ret)
Ink	Seaside Spray, Memento Black
Accessories	Silver Metallic Pearls, Flowers for Every Season Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pinewood Planks EF, Poinsettia Dies

PP510 Sketch from Joanne

Hi peeps!  It's Sunday and that means a new challenge from the Paper Players!  Joanne is our amazing hostess this week with a lovely sketch!  Lately, I have been using very simple sketches, so this one was fun to use with its many layers!  So fun, I made TWO!  So on to the sketch:

I went through my stamps and DSP to find something I hadn't used for a while and came up with Rooted in Nature and the In Good Taste DSP.  The In Good Taste is one of those "photographed" DSPs and sometimes it is a challenge to match it up with stamped images!  But hopefully I mastered it with one stamped leaf and two embossed:

My Stitched Rectangle dies got a good workout on this card!  All the panels except for the Soft Suede mat were diecut and simply layered to follow the sketch.  I stamped one leaf in Cajun Craze and diecut and embossed one each in Cajun Craze and Early Espresso.  I just love the embossed look of these, not sure why I haven't used these more often!

My sentiment is from Itty Bitty Greetings, diecut with a retired Bitty Banners die.  And just for fun, let me show you my first photograph card, and see if you can see what I totally missed while taking the picture:

Ummm...how could I have missed that little glue dot chad that statically attached itself?!!  Silly me!  Anyway, I had so much fun with the sketch, I did another one using some Carta Bella Happy Halloween papers, simple cutting and adhering, no stamping, with one sparkly die from the retired Boo to You dies:

I didn't even do any stamping on the inside!!!:

So, I hope you'll find some inspiration with our sketch today and share it with us at the Players!  The DT has made some amazing creations....check them all out at the Paper Players blog!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Rooted In Nature
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla, In Good Taste DSP
Ink	Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Nature's Roots Dies, Itty Bitty Banners Dies (ret0

IB141 Tweet Tea

Hello stampers!  Thursday brings us a new Inspired By challenge....look at this sweet image and optional sketch!

 

I think I must be the only stamper in the world who doesn't own a teacup stamp or die...well, I own one little one, but it wasn't going to work with the bird that I wanted!  I remembered getting a gift of these pretty papers from my friend Mary Rose, and lo and behold, there was a tea container....no teacups, but I thought I could make this work!  So here we go:

I don't remember the name of this SU DSP, sorry, but I thought the colors and patterns replicated the designs on the teacup in the inspiration.  I cut out the tea container and popped it up on a quilt pattern DSP, matted with Bashful Blue cardstock.  My bird is from the retired Birds and Blooms die; it was cut from some watercolor paper and colored with inks and markers:

I made a couple little banners with another piece of the DSP and stamped a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings. 

I mounted it all on a Very Vanilla card base and left the inside blank for a little note!  

I hope you'll play along with our challenge; the design team has a plethora of teacups to make up for the ones that I didn't have, so I hope you'll pop over to the Inspired By blog to see what they created! Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy likes her glow-in-the-dark shark shirt from the beach!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." Proverbs 9:10