Two Masculine Cards

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Another crazy busy day and not much time to stamp yesterday, but I needed a couple of masculine cards, so when I saw the Stamp Ink Paper challenge (cute graphic, too):

as well as the In(k)Spire Me sketch/color challenge:

I got right to work, and created two cards; one a birthday, and one a get-well:

The challenge colors are Mango Melody and Granny Apple Green, but I found these papers in an Echo Park Fall is in the Air 6x6 pad, so I decided to go with them, adding touches of Crumb Cake and Early Espresso.  The birthday one uses the soon-to-be-retiring-I-thought-it-would-be-around-forever Lovely as a Tree stamped lightly in the background, with a leaf from Rooted in Nature and a sentiment from Beautiful Bouquet:

It's hard to see, but the leaf is stamped on some printed paper as well:

The get-well card uses Happy Tails and the matching punch, including a little Early Espresso heart:

And the inside sentiments are from Happy Tails and Apron of Love:

Need to pop these in the mail ASAP!  Thanks for popping in today!

Last night was Cassidy's third grade curriculum night, where family members come and visit the classroom and see what their children are learning.  Cassidy's class is learning about the thirteen colonies, particularly Jamestown, and so they put on a game show called "Who Wants to Be a Colonist?", although it was more like Family Feud, LOL!  Cassidy had a main part; she was Fred the Colonist, and she played against Dr Joe Jackson.  My friend Sharon just happened to vacation in Jamestown last week and brought home a hat for Cassidy to wear, my SIL had some boots that looked the part, and Grampy made her a corncob pipe:

She nixed the pipe once she got to school...they did grow tobacco in Virginia but I guess she thought it might not be a good influence on the other students, LOL!  Here she is, answering questions about the early colonies, and soundly beating Dr Joe:

All the kids did a great job and we learned a lot about the colonies!!!

(I love the name tag!!!)

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

AYSI177 Best Wishes Deer

Happy Friday, peeps!  Another gray day here, I feel like I am getting moldy, LOL!  It's time for another As You See It challenge, and it's just in time for Father's Day:

I chose not to make mine a Father's Day card but a birthday card instead, as I send out birthday cards to all the adults in my church, and I am always needing masculine ones!  So here we go:

When I saw all the elements in the challenge, I felt a little panicky, but once I found this awesome deer in a package of Christmas diecuts from Simple Stories, it all fell together quickly!  The square card is Chocolate Chip and I added a layer of Dapper Denim Color Theory DSP, stamped with some pines from Lovely as a Tree.  I diecut the layer as well as my sentiment tag, with some MFT Wonky Stitched dies:

I also stamped the inside with the same fir tree image and added a birthday sentiment.  Both sentiments are from past Paper Pumpkin kits.  All in all, this card went together in a jiffy!

I hope you'll play along with us too!  Put on your creative thinking hat to see how you can incorporate all those elements into your card!  The DT has some amazing samples to show you as well!  Check them all out at the As You See It blog!

Last weekend the family went to a horse race...it was a sunny day with lots of activity...and Cassidy just couldn't stay awake for the ride home in the jeep:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin, Lovely as a Tree
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Color Theory DSP
Ink	Night of Navy, Chocolate Chip
Accessories	Burlap Ribbon, Deer Diecut (Simple Stories' Winter Wonderland), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Wonky Stitched Rectangle Dies (My Favorite Things)

Paper Players 319 Tic Tac Toe

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's my turn to host the Paper Players and this week, it's a Tic-Tac-Toe!  Wheee!  So many options!  Here's the grid:

For my card, I chose the left column:  red, Santa, and diecut, but it also fulfills the top row across, which is red, glitter and snowflakes!  I chose to make a little scene:

I used the Hearth & Home die along with Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillsides to create my scene.  My sentiment is from Cosmo Cricket; I sponged the "siding" on the Crumb Cake card, added a red window frame, complete with a gingham curtain, snow in the corners and heaps on snow at the top and bottom:

And ho, ho, ho, who is that we see inside?

Jolly Saint Nick himself (Katy Sue's Silhouette Santas), placing a gift under a Lovely as a Tree Christmas tree!  They're stamped on Always Artichoke, which for some reason, is difficult for me to photograph!  The sentiment is from Amy R Stamps' Handy Christmas Greetings.  I added a few stamped snowflakes on the outside; the "snow" glitter is from Martha Stewart!

Now, I hope you'll find some inspiration in my tac-tac-toe board and play along with us!  Check out the amazing samples from the DT:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance 
• Sandy
• Linda
• Hannelie
• Colleen

 Cassidy got another Halloween card in the mail; this one was from my very first Stampin' Up! customer, Maryanne!  She loves funny cards, especially interactive ones, and this one did not disappoint!  It featured a little scene with three spooky characters that move along the bottom of the card when you pull the ribbon:

She loved the vampire-looking dude the best!

And check out the cool stuff she put on the spiderweb inside!  Neat!

Hope you have a wonderful day full of blessings!

TSOT235, CYCI85 and KJ240

Hey peeps!  Another post for today; I rarely post twice in one day but somehow I missed this awesome color combo from Can You Case It, and it’s almost up:

So I am squeaking this one in by a hair!!!

I am also using the sketch from Try Stampin’ on Tuesday:

as well as the Kraft Journal’s Autumn Challenge 240.  I chose the colors of Soft Sky, So Saffron, Tip Top Taupe and Chocolate Chip.  I used Hardwood, Kinda Eclectic and Lovely as a Tree for my background stamping, and the new Cheer All Year for the sentiment and feather.  I cut the feather in half and placed it behind the sentiment to make it look a bit longer, then added a little linen thread to add some interest!  Thanks for visiting!

Today was a bit cooler than the past few days, thanks to our rain yesterday, but that meant a jacket and boots for a little jaunt this morning!

Enjoy the weekend!

FMS160 x Two

I have two very clean, simple and quick cards today, both using the Freshly Made Sketches sketch from this week:

I had this leaf image from Lovely as a Tree stamped, colored and sitting on my desk, discarded from another project, so I put it to use on this fall-themed card:

I used some scraps of DSP for the background; the sentiment is from Project Life Holiday Cheer, and the circle was stamped with the striped banner from Amazing Birthday, once going in one direction, and then stamped again going in the other direction, to make a gingham look.  I then punched it out with a 1” circle punch.

My next card is more whimsical; I used an Avery Elle stamp set called Thankful, and I am thankful, because I won it from my sweet friend Lisa! 

My card base is Pumpkin Pie; I stamped the acorn in Early Espresso (although it looks green here!) on a piece of gingham paper from Simple Stories’ Harvest Lane DSP and fussy-cut it out.  The other papers are from the same line.  I turned the sketch on its side so that the little bird would be facing the right way!!  The sentiment is from Good Greetings.  Thanks for visiting!

I tried hard to get a good photo of Cassidy’s cute outfit, but she was like the Energizer bunny yesterday….you’ll have to take my word for how cute this little skirt was!!

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Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Hope your week is going well!   Sadly, sympathy cards are a necessity of life, and I needed one this week.  I pulled out some Flowerpot DSP, which I don’t think I ever used, and the sketch from Mary Jo’s Technostamper challenge this week:

And here we go, using an oldie but goodie, Lovely as a Tree:

In order to make the tree a little more visible, I inked up my stamp first in Versamark, then in Early Espresso ink, stamped on the DSP and then heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I used an aquapainter to quickly fill in the tree’s trunk with EE ink, and sponge daubered the leaves:

My sentiments are from Thoughts & Prayers, and on the inside, I stamped the tree again in Sahara Sand….I really like the soft look it creates:

Thanks for visiting today!

We made a trip last week to the local farm for some pumpkins:

Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Lovely as a Tree, Thoughts and Prayers
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Flowerpot DSP
Ink	Versamark, Early Espresso, Garden Green, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Candy Dots, Burlap Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Woodgrain Embossing Folder, Circle Card Thinlits Banner Die, Sponge Dauber, Aquapainter

CCCB164 & MIM

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I love going away for a few days, but it really messes up one’s routine….I still feel like I am behind!  But it was nice to see my dad for Father’s Day.

My project today is for City Crafter Challenge blog, which is “Clean and Neutral”, based on this photo:

as well as The Kraft Journal’s Make it Monday, which is to use felt, twine or burlap.  I just received my new SU goodies, and these Tag a Bag gift bags were in there!  I used my new Chalk Talk stamp set and framelit to make a gift bag and tag, and I added some “felt” leaves cut with the Autumn Accents Bigz die:

The felt is actually a remnant piece of that vintage-y “warm” quilt batting (can’t remember the actual name of it) that I have been pushing around my craft room for a while!  I’ve tied the leaves with linen thread.  Now, remember this is to be clean and simple, so there’s not a lot of fuss to this project, but I did do a wee bit of stamping….can you see the tree line from Lovely as a Tree stamped along the bottom of the bag?

I also love that there are little “hole” dies to use to cut out, well, holes, in the top of the Chalk Talk tag….and in this case, the bag too.  I did find that they sort of jump around on my new magnetic plate (which is pretty awesome).  Apparently the plate is not a solid magnet, but pieces of magnet.  So the little itty bitty hole piece “jumps” until it is on top of a magnet.  It’s a little challenging, but I finally got it to stay still long enough to run it through the Big Shot!!!  I used the Natural burlap trim to tie the bag together:

I can’t wait to play around with this Chalk Talk set some more!

Here’s a pic of my dad and me:

He really does smile sometimes!!!!  And a sweet little photo of Miss Cassidy as well: