Washi Tags

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Wow, it has only been a few days that I haven’t posted, but it feels like forever!  My sweet friend Linda at The Catered Crop chose this card to highlight earlier this week and asked me to participate in this week’s challenge, which is to use Washi Tape!   So I searched my stash and realized I had more than I thought!!!   I wanted to do something other than a card, so I looked through my “alterable” box and found these tags I bought a looooooong time ago at my local office supply store.  Once I got started, I couldn’t’ stop!!!

I don’t usually make tags for my Christmas gifts because we all know where they end up, but I felt that using up some of my stash of alterables was a good sign that I am working on not hoarding stuff, LOL!  Here are some closeups:

All the tags use the washi tape along the bottom edge; they are from various sources, including Stampin Up, Martha Stewart and another company that I can’t remember (because I threw out the packaging!).  The images are from various sources; if you want to know a specific image, send me an email (NOT a comment) and I’ll do my best to let you know the manufacturer.  As I said, I had a blast making these and will gladly embellish my gifts this year with them!  Be sure to pop over to The Catered Crop to see what else those clever stampers have come up with!

I know Halloween is over, but I wanted to share with you some cookie-making we did earlier in the week:

We rolled out the dough and cut it with Halloween cookie cutters:

After decorating them with sprinkles and baking them, we put them on a plate:

But the best part was giving Grampy a green bat-shaped cookie!  (He doesn’t look too sure of this, but he ate it!!!)

Thanks for visiting today!  Be sure to stop back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

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Happy Friday, peeps! Phew, what a long week this was!  I am happy to see the end of it and meet with my club girls tonight!  When I saw the Play Date Café challenge this week, I knew immediately what to submit!  Here’s the challenge:

I actually made this last month but never posted it.  My sister has bee hives and was giving a gift of honey to friends for their anniversary.  Since I love bees too (but not to the extent of having hives!!!!), I had plenty of bee-themed stamps and happily made her a sweet little tag for her honey:

I used a plethora of images here; the main beehive is from an old SU stamp set called Garden Pleasures; the bee is from Nature Walk; the sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes; the honey comb is from MFT and the frame is from Waltzingmouse.  I sponged the edges and shabbied up some Daffodil Delight ribbon to give it a more vintage look:

I loved it so much, I hated to give it away, so maybe I’ll make another!  If you have any questions about specifics on the project, just shoot me an email!  Remember, if you leave a question in the comment box, I can’t always access your email to answer you personally!   Thanks for visiting today!

Merry Monday July!

Happy July 1, peeps!  It’s Monday and that means Merry Monday!  Lesley is taking a wee bit of a break for July, and that means our challenge will be a wee bit different!  The linky will be open all month long for you to share your Christmas creations, and it’s “Anything Goes”!!! 

She’ll be showcasing some Guest Designers as well, so make sure you check out her blog, Always Playing with Paper!

For my card, I chose to use the Festive Friday challenge 11 as my starting point:

I had several ideas swirling around in my head, but in the end, went with the trees from the retired set, Patterned Pines:

I stamped my trees in Garden Green, Wild Wasabi and Pear Pizzazz, then cut them out and mounted them on a scrap of woodgrain paper and mounted it on a piece of white Woodgrain embossed cardstock.  The little sentiment flag is from Market Street Stamps, the snowflake is from Itty Bitties:

I hope you’ll take some time to play with us and make one more Christmas card!  You’ll be glad you did!  And be sure to check out the other designers fabulous creations as well at Always Playing with Paper!

Can’t remember if I shared this photo Dana snapped or not:

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Happy Monday, peeps!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend!  We’re back again with a lovely sketch from Lesley for our Merry Monday challenge:

I went super-duper easy on this one, letting my DP do most of the work:

I added a cute little sentiment flag and a matching gingham flag, both cut from the snowy bottom section of my DP, adding a little snowflake embellishment:

I carried through the snowflake theme on the inside, using another piece of the same paper:

The card base is Marina Mist, and all the edges were sponged with white craft ink for more snowy goodness!  Hope you’ll play along with us….I think this is one of the nicest sketches that Lesley has ever done!  Check out all the samples at her blog, Always Playing with Paper, and play along with us too!  You could be our guest designer or featured stamper!!!  As always, if you have any questions, please send me an email!

Just enjoying the sunshine with cousin Trent!

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Happy Monday, everyone!  Picking up from last week, we have another sketch from Lesley for the Merry Monday challenge:

 

 

And here we go:

 

 

I got this cute set last year and haven’t used it much, so I put it to work today!  Some masking, some sponging, some “primitive” papers and glittery star, and it’s good to go!  I did a bit of background stamping with a lovely little pine bough:

 

 

and repeated it on the inside:

 

I love this color combination:  Cherry Cobbler and Bordering Blue; I so wish that color hadn’t been retired, it’s such a great country color!  If you have any questions about what I’ve used here, shoot me an email!

I hope you will be able to use this sketch to make another Christmas card for your stash!  Share it with us over at Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper!  Have fun!

 

A little walk in the woods:

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Happy Sunday, peeps!  What a busy weekend!  One more day of our Live Nativity and I can rest my weary bones!  It’s fun seeing all the people come to experience what the real  meaning of Christmas is, though!  For now, though, we have a wonderful color challenge for the Paper Players, courtesy of the talented Nance:

Yummy colors!  And it was difficult not to be influenced by the images in the inspiration box, because I had these cool washi tapes sitting on my desk:

I think I probably went overboard on the neutrals:  vanilla, cream and kraft!  LOL!  I made little faux heart-shaped buttons by gluing together three layers of cardstock, punching the holes with a 1/16” hole punch and “sewing” them on with my white gel pen….the layout is a loose interpretation of the Fall to Layout #219 shown here. 

This is for a special friend who did something nice for me….she knows who she is!!!  

I loved this combo so much, I even made a second card using some fun Cosmo Cricket paper and a retired SU set:

This little Mr Twigster is so cute…..I especially love his little red boots!  I hope you’ll play along with us with this fun color combination!  It doesn’t even have to be a Christmas card…..use your imagination and share it with us at the Paper Players blog, where you can see ALL the creative goodies from our talented design team!!  If you have any questions about my cards….just shoot me an email!

I love this B&W shot of Cassidy with the Christmas tree….I have a similar one of Dana when she was about the same age!

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I hope everyone in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving day!  It was nice to spend time with my family.  I did have a little stamping time, and I got some new stampin’ goodies that were itching to get inky!  I was just playing around with some scraps when I stumbled on the Try Stampin on Tuesday sketch for this week:

And here we go:

Isn’t that the cutest little tree…..as well as the heart?  I probably should have reversed the colors, but as I said, I was just sort of playing around!

My next one uses a pretty reindeer image with some embossed backgrounds and a vintage newspaper designer paper:

I’m entering this one in The Kraft Journal’s Make It Monday: Holiday Cards!

I have an awesome stash of Christmas cards to send this year!  Remember, if you have any questions, just shoot me an email!

I don’t have any Thanksgiving pictures of Cassidy, but I do have a couple from last week, when she was nursing her sick baby doll:

Taking her temperature with an emery board “thermometer”:

Checking her ears with the nose syringe:

And making sure her teeth were very, very clean (note she has TWO toothbrushes!):

What a great imagination!  Have a great day!