PP781 Extreme Dirt Bike Birthday

 Happy Sunday, all!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge and Jan is our hostess with an interesting color challenge:

I confess that my first thought when seeing these colors was to use them with my beloved bumblebees---perfect colors, don't you think?  BUT I needed a birthday card for my nephew Jameson, and he loves dirt bikes, so I switched gears (no pun intended) and went in a different direction:

I started by stamping some grunge elements in Smoky Slate and Daffodil Delight, then stamped the biker with Stazaon Black ink.  I added some stitched lines to look like tracks, then a simple birthday sentiment and some gray metal embellishments.  

It went on a Smoky Slate card base with this sentiment on the inside:

I may have used this same stamp on his card last year (can't remember) but I hope he doesn't mind!  Here's a photo of Jameson (on the right) with Maven and Sawyer at Christmas!  They're all getting so big!  

I hope you'll create something with these great colors this week!  Not only are they good bee colors, they're probably good for some other cool subjects as well!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Share them with us at the Players!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Extreme Dirt Bike, Gorgeous Grunge, Label Me Bold (all retired),Inside Birthday Sentiments (Waffle Flower)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Smoky Slate
Ink	Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight, Stazon Black
Accessories	Metal Brads (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Kristina's Finishing Touches Dies (Kristina Werner)

AYSI369 Happy Birthday Sundae

Happy Friday, everyone! Hope you have some fun plans this weekend!  It's time for a new As You See It Challenge, and it's a lovely color challenge:

I love the Easter egg cookies in this basket, but I am pretty much done my Easter cards, so I chose another bunny to go with my pastel colors!  Here we go:

 

Since the Just Add Ink challenge this week is to add stripes, I stamped the bottom left corner with the Painted Stripes stamp in Soft Sea Foam, then added a little Soft Sea Foam strip, diecut with a Wonky Stitched Frame die from My Favorite Things.  Then I stamped my little ice-cream-sundae-eating bunny in Versafine ink and watercolored him in with Pretty in Pink and Pool Party inks:

The sentiment is from the new Notes of Spring stamp set, available only in March!  Love that font!  A little Waffleflower birthday sentiment went on the inside, with a little background stamping from Label Me Bold:

These colors are sweet for any spring occasion!  I hope you'll be inspired by them and come create with us at As You See It!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Notes of Spring, Painted Stripes (ret),  Label Me Bold (ret), Sundae Funday (Colorado Craft), Inside Sentiments Birthday (Waffle Flower)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Sea Foam
Ink	Versafine Black, Soft Sea Foam, Pretty in Pink, Pool Party, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Wonky Rectangle Dies (My Favorite Things), Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret), Rounded Rectangle Layers DIes (Impression Obsession), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Aquapainter

AHSC643 New House Congrats

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch: 

Fun and easy! A great way to use up some scraps!  The TGIF challenge this week is to use DSP from the Country Woods group, which is one of my favorites! I love the rustic quality and lovely colors:

And since I needed a congratulations card for my nephew, who just closed on his new-to-him house on Friday, it all seemed to work together!  Here we go:

I cut the panels of the DSP and adhered them to a Basic Beige card base, then added a little Crumb Cake house diecut from PTI that I have had forever!  I cut the heart from one of the pink pieces of the DSP and added a Candy Dot:

The outside sentiment is from Label Me Bold, stamped in Misty Moonlight ink, and the inside is from Paper Sweeties; it's called Blessed:

Since Brad lives right behind me, and his dog Remy comes often to visit and get treats, I am going to miss them both! Luckily, they're only a few minutes away, but I guess I won't need to buy dog treats any more!  

I hope you'll play along with our sketch this week...really, it's such a great way to use up some scraps that we all accumulate!  Share it with us at the Atlantic Hearts blog!  

Cassidy loved her card and appreciated all the birthday wishes!

Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold (ret), Blessed (Paper Sweeties)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Country Woods DSP
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals, Candy Dot (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Heart in Hand Dies (Papertrey)

AHSC637 Floral Birthday

 Happy Monday, peeps! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge!  Here we go:

I just got the Floral Charm DSP and although it's a bit of a cheat, I had to use this floral pattern because it was so pretty:

I thought the Blushing Bride cardstock matched the lighter florals, but in hindsight, I would probably use a different color background.  I place the panel in the Mini Corrugated embossing folder (had to run it through once and a little bit more!), then rubbed my Craft White ink pad over the raised ridges. It's hard to see, but it added a nice little contrast.  The Mossy Meadow scalloped panel seemed a little stark, so I stamped some smudes around the edges with the same Craft white ink, then added a simple white ribbon and a sentiment from The Right Words:

This is a really nice, simple, easy sketch, and I hope you'll play along with us as well!  The possibilities are endless!  Check out the other samples at the Atlantic Hearts blog and play along! Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	The Right Words, Label Me Bold (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Blushing Bride (ret), Floral Charm DSP
Ink	Craft White, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	White Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Mini Corrugated Embossing Folder

PP733 Color Challenge from Stef

Happy Sunday, peeps! Wow, I haven't posted in several days--it was just one of those weeks, you know?  The creative Stef is our Paper Players hostess this week with a cute color palette for us:

Initially I thought "Easter" for these colors, but I already had all my Easter cards finished!  I recently got a little freebie die in my Simon Says Stamp order and it was still laying on my desk, so I thought I'd put it to use! I pulled out some Highland Heather DSP, some Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green and Pool Party cardstocks and went to work:

I used an Adhesive sheet behind the outline portion of the die to make it easier to stick down, then just filled in the balloon with the cardstocks in the challenge colors.  

I did add a Basic Black mat beneath my scalloped panel, added a black and white gingham bow and a little black and white sentiment from Label Me Bold:

Best Year provided the inside sentiment, stamped in Granny Apple Green:

I hope you'll play along with our fun colors this week!  You can still go Easter, or baby, or floral, or anything! Just be sure to share it with us over at the Paper Players blog!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold (ret), Best Year (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Pool Party, Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather DSP, Adhesive Sheets
Ink	Granny Apple Green, Versafine Black
Accessories	Black & White Gingham Ribbon
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contour Dies (ret), Balloon Bouquet Die (Simon Says Stamp)

Minimalist Purple Thanks

Happy Wednesday, peeps! Yay, the middle of the week is here!  I have a zippity-quick CAS card that took longer to look up the age of the stamps than it did to actually stamp them!  Yes, it's for the Retro Rubber challenge, which is a color palette, as well as the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch:

So here we go:

My foliage is from Little Delights (2021), stamped in Blackberry Bliss and Highland Heather, with the little spots from Label Me Bold (2020), stamped in Purple Posey:

The sentiment is also from Label Me Bold, (which I now realize is in the wrong spot!), and fussy cut.  It went on a Purple Posey card base, and a sentiment from Little Delights was stamped inside as well! I was going to add a sequin but decided to keep it really clean and simple!

I really like the simplicity of this!  

An out-of-town friend came and spent the night last week and when she got in her car early Saturday morning, found these on her window:

Aren't they pretty?  These beautiful crystals reminded me of something I read in my Bible study yesterday:  "So, enjoy the art around you, but as you do, may your heart run to the artist behind the art." Paul David Tripp

Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Little Delights (ret), Label Me Bold (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Purple Posy (ret)
Ink	Blackberry Bliss, Highland Heather, Purple Posy (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools

IC177 Boo!

Happy gray Monday, peeps! Tonight is Christmas card stamp camp, so this will be quick, as was my card!  The Inspire.Create challenge is to CASE the designer with this card:

What a fun sketch! I have several Halloween stamps that I like to use at least once during the season, and this little vintage cat on a broom is one of them:

The papers were a gift from one of my stamping girls; I looked through several catalogs and I honestly cannot remember these papers from SU but I am sure they are!  My eyes must be really getting bad because I thought for sure there was some gray in them, hence the Basic Gray base, but obviously, the dots are Old Olive.....but hopefully it still looks okay!  I stamped the cat on Basic Beige and partially cut out the broom, then used a Stitched Shape circle die to cut it out:

I lightly stamped the grunge image from the retired Label Me Bold to give him a spooky background!  The sentiment is an old stamp from Recollections, diecut with a banner die and matted with another Basic Gray banner and some old enamel dots:

On the inside, some more grunge and a sentiment from the retired Little Delights:

Such a fun and easy card to make!  And speaking of fun cards, my friend Beth sent me this one; the front is a bookmark that can be removed!  So cute:

Thanks, Beth!  And here are a couple more pictures from the fair; I didn't get many but I always like to see the giant pumpkins! I wonder how they transported them?

Charlie Brown would be proud of both of these "great pumpkins"!!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold (ret), Halloween (Recollections), Vintage Cat on Broom (Victorian Greetings)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Basic Gray, Halloween DSP (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals, Enamel Dots (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Basic Borders Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret)

FMS648 Shabby Patriotic Birthday

Happy Friday, peeps! Yay, the weekend is upon us!  I need several masculine birthday cards this month, which can always be a challenge, but I remembered some vintage-style patriotic paper I had gotten a couple of months ago and hadn't even opened yet! Yikes! I used the FMS sketch, which I love because I love THREES:

So here we go:

I used a punch to punch out the center panels, then the Layering Squares dies to make the scalloped mats.  I happened to have this piece of Country Woods DSP laying on my desk and thought it made a great background!  A little sentiment from the retired Label Me Bold, stamped in Cherry Cobbler, was popped up in the center:

One of the grungy stamps from Label Me Bold was also stamped on all the Crumb Cake mats to give it an even more vintage look!  Here's the inside:

One for my masculine stack...I need a few more, though!  Thanks for visiting today!

A few more Longwood pictures:

And these little guys were attached to the railing along the pond:

So cute! Too bad they don't croak!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold (ret), Perennial Birthday (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Country Woods, Americana (Honey Bee)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Squares Dies (ret), Layered Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen), 1 3/8" Square Punch (ret), Sponge Dauber

SS322 Sailing Birthday

 Happy Friday, peeps! Happy to see the weekend arrive!  Yesterday was John's birthday, so we'll be going out with friends and family tonight to celebrate. One of the first things he said yesterday was "I wish I was going sailing today!"  He hasn't had a sailboat for several years, so I did the next best thing for him, even though it was made a few days earlier, LOL!

I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

as well as papers from Come Sail Away and the sailboat from Sailing Home.  Because some of the paper had a linen print on it, I over-stamped the sailboat with the Linen background stamp, then colored it with a marker:

I also used a scribbly stamp from Label Me Bold for the background circular diecut, then added some Brushed Metallic embellishments.  The largest mat also was embossed with Stitched With Whimsy.  On the inside, I added a sentiment from Label Me Bold as well as Throughout the Year:

He loved it!  Thanks so much for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped.  Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion.  The disciples woke him and said to him, "Teacher, don't you care if we drown?" He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet!  Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.  He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?" They were terrified and asked each other, "Who is this?  Even the wind and the waves obey him!"  Mark 4:37-41

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Throughout The Year, Label Me Bold (ret), Sailing Home (ret), Linen (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Come Sail Away DSP (ret)
Ink	Night of Navy, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand (ret)
Accessories	Brushed Metallic Brads (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Smooth Sailing Dies (ret)