Bold Peace

Happy Saturday, peeps!  We are shopping today to pack our Operation Christmas Child boxes!  Cassidy always likes to do that!  I squeezed in some time to create a Christmas card yesterday for a few challenges:  the gorgeous photo from The Card Concept, the FMS sketch, and the metallic Christmas from  In(k)spire Me!

The Card Concept always wants to know what style card you've created---I would say that this is "cleand and layered"!  I recently got a beautiful pad of patterned paper called Wonderland from KaiserCraft, and it had this gorgeous foiled paper with a funky tree design!  I matted it with a piece of Bermuda Bay foil; in order to save some of this gorgeous foil, after cutting the mat, I cut out the center of it so that I just had a "frame" on which I mounted the printed paper!  I then used part of the piece left from the inside of the frame to diecut the "peace" (Papertrey):

I also had some Bermuda Bay glimmer paper left from last Christmas, so I cut out a few little trees  (The Stamp Market) and topped them with some silver stars

On the inside, stamped with Bermuda Bay inked, I added a sentiment from a past Paper Pumpkin kit, along with some Stamp Market trees:

The card base is Naturals White...missing that nice paper from SU's lineup!  Glad I got some while it was on the Clearance Rack!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tiny Trees Two (The Stamp Market), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Pretty Peacock Foil in Bermuda Bay, Silver Foil, Wonderland 6x6 (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stars Die (Verve), Peace Die (Papertrey), Tiny Trees Two Dies (The Stamp Market)

Paper Players 459 CAS Snowflakes

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Anne Marie is our Paper Players hostess this week with an amazing clean-and-simple challenge!  Check it out:

I was really excited about this challenge, because I just bought the Noble Peacock Foil Sheets, and was pondering what to do with them!  SO...here we go:

I already had the Seasonal Layers die set on my desk for a past project, so I pulled out the snowflake dies and cut one of each from the darkest blue foil....soooo pretty, but so hard to capture in a photograph!

I layered the top one against a panel of Sparkle glimmer paper and placed the other two at the bottom right to fit the FMS sketch for this week:

My last addition was a wee little sentiment from a past Paper Pumpkin kit, stamped in Blueberry Bushel.  I resisted adding pearls or bling, as it is a clean-and-simple challenge, but it would look very pretty if I had!

I hope you'll play along with our current CAS challenge....remember to use minimal layers and embellishments...personally, I love lots of white space, so that's what I go for!  Share your creation with us at the Paper Players...can't wait to see it!  While you're there, check out what beauties the DT came up with as well!  Thanks for visiting today!

Friday night football!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Sparkle Glimmer Paper, Royal Peacock Foil Specialty DSP
Ink	Blueberry Bushel
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Seasonal Layers Dies

CTS339 Pumpkin Note

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Boy, it was decidedly fall-feeling yesterday, so I pulled out a few autumnal-hued papers and coordinating stamps (I have SO MANY!) and created a couple cards using the CAS(E) This Sketch sketch, which I just love:

The first one uses a pumpkin from Right at Home's Grateful Heart set; I stamped it on some watercolor paper and colored it with reinkers:

The sentiment is from Close to My Heart, and the plaid paper is from Carta Bella, the print paper is from Photoplay...I love how that little "pumpkin" is in orange, right above my stamped pumpkin!

I used a corner rounder to round all the corners, as well as the lower corners of my Very Vanilla card, which was embossed with the Subtle embossing folder!  For the next one, I used some more images from the same Right at Home set, mounting them on a piece of Authentique paper, then adding a tiny sentiment from a past Paper Pumpkin kit:

I used Blends to color these in; has anyone ever had a Blend come apart so that the wick comes out?  That happened to one of mine...a bit frustrating for sure!

Anyhoo, that's it for today...thank for popping in and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!  

This girl still loves her blankie....and her lambie...and Ginger!!  Although I am not quite sure why she's sleeping on the floor!

 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Grateful Heart (Right at Home), Paper Pumpkin (ret), Bunches of Joy (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Watercolor, Crumb Cake, Confetti Cream (ret), Autumn Day DSP (Photoplay), Fall Break DSP (Carta Bella), Nestled DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Stazon Black, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Grapefruit Grove, Pumpkin Pie, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Subtle EF, Aquapainter, Corner Rounder Punch (ret), Word Window Punch (ret), SU Blends

ICC050 Feathery Thanks

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Just a quick easy card today using a quick easy sketch from Inspire.Create:

And it's not a Christmas card!!   I needed a quick thank you card, so I used some of the new fall papers from the Holiday catalog, though; they're called Come to Gather, and this one features that pretty new In Color, Pretty Peacock:

I used a sentiment from A Big Thank You and the feather from the May Paper Pumpkin kit, stamped in Pool Party, then added a Mint Macaron ribbon.  For a little extra interest, I diecut a Nested Label from Pretty Peacock cardstock, cut it in half and layered it behind the diecut circle:

Before mounting it on my Thick White card, I embossed the front with the Subtle embossing folder...I love the effect that gives!

Cassidy spent some time yesterday drawing pictures for Jackie and Lee....after spending each morning and afternoon on the school bus with Lee, she was a little sad about not seeing him every day.  So she drew him a poster of an XBox 360:

and for Jackie, she drew something she called a Golden (uni)corn....she misspelled Golden, but the drawing is still pretty good!

I am going to miss these creative moments!  Thanks for popping today; enjoy it and be blessed!

CAS Kid's Cards Times Three

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Time for another Paper Players challenge, with Joanne as our hostess!  She's got a fun challenge for us all:

I actually made THREE cards before I was really happy, does that ever happen to you?  But I needed to do some other things this weekend, so it is what it is!!!  Here's my final one; it uses an old Cornish Heritage Farms set called Make the Grade along with a Paper Pumpkin sentiment:

I stamped each crayon using inks in Granny Apple Green, Real Red, Gorgeous Grape, Bermuda Bay, Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, Crushed Curry and Poppy Parade, then cut each one out and adhered them to a card that was embossed with a Jumbo Polka Dot embossing folder.  On the inside, I stamped a few more images from the same CHF set:

Another card I created (at least I'll have a few kid's birthday cards, right?!) was this one, using the FMS sketch and Just Add Ink challenge of no stamping:

I scrounged around my scrap bin and found some printed papers, added a little diecut dump truck, and then added some SRM stickers for my sentiments:

Easy peasy!  My only complaint about this one is that the edge of the stickers  are really visible on the printed paper.  Finally, since yesterday was Cassidy's birthday, and she was having a Minecraft birthday party (sigh), I made her a creeper notecard-sized birthday card.  NOT what I would choose for a 9YO little girl, but she has very definite likes and dislikes, and she does not like girly colors and she does like Minecraft, so Minecraft it is:

I created the creeper with Granny Apple Green and Basic Gray cardstocks, stamping the "HB2U" with the Labeler Alphabet (ret) and mounting it on a Chevron-embossed panel.  And here is her most recent fashion "accessory"....blue hair!!!

At least it's not neon....and really, it's kind of pretty!!  It will fade out eventually, but meanwhile, it's her signature style for now!

Anyway, thanks for popping in! I hope that you'll play along with the Paper Players this week...the DT has some really fun creations, you need to check them all out and share yours with us too!  See you at the Paper Players blog!

RRCB115 Best Wishes

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Hope your week is starting off great!  It's time for another Retro Rubber challenge, and I kinda freaked out when I saw the colors:

I just love those little Johnny-jump-ups, but PURPLE is a challenge for me!  Everyone else seems to be able to work with it in such a lovely way...but I struggle with it!  But, that's why they call these challenges, so I put on my big-girl panties and went to work!  There was a lovely little set called Touch of Nature from the 2005-2006 Winter Mini catalog, and I felt the colors would work well with the colors.  I stamped the butterfly and flower in Stazon ink on watercolor paper, and colored each of them in:

The thicker watercolor paper really lends itself to fussy-cutting; it's a little more work than regular cardstock, but if your element has intricate pieces like these antennae, they hold up better than on lighter-weight paper.  I took a piece of Soft Seafoam gingham DSP and stamped the leaf image from the set all over in a random pattern, then cut both the floral piece and the gingham piece with Stitched Rectangle dies:

All the pieces went on a Very Vanilla card base and I added a few sequins for fun. On the inside, I stamped the leafy image again, and added a Paper Pumpkin sentiment on top.  I think my front sentiment is from a PP set, too!

And since these images were watercolored, I am entering this in the Festive Friday challenge this week:

Hopefully, my fear of purple turned out okay...what do you think?  And hopefully, you'll play along with us this week!  I've actually seen several purple and yellow creations out and about on blogs over the last couple of weeks, so I know there are crafters out there who aren't afraid of purple, LOL!  Share your creation with us at Retro Rubber!  Remember, you just have to use stamps that are at least a year old, and tell us how old they are!  See ya there!

A little beachy fun with Cass and her friend:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Touch of Nature, Paper Pumpkin (all retired)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Soft Seafoam, Watercolor, Soft Subtles DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Crushed Curry, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Seafoam
Accessories	Sequins (Sylvia's Etsy Shop), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Sentiment Strips Dies (My Favorite Things), Aquapainter

PP450 Season's Greetings

Happy Sunday, everyone!  It's my turn to host over at the Paper Players, and I have a color challenge for you today!  Check out these bright hues:

I really had no plan in mind when I chose these colors, so when it came time to create, I admit, I had to wrack my brain to come up with something!  I came across this piece of Blueberry Bushel polka-dotted paper in my stash and thought it looked like snow, so I took that idea and ran with it, creating another Christmas card for my stash:

I recently saw a card with this adorable row of houses, and when I saw the whole set, I knew I had to get it (it's from Lawn Fawn).  I stamped them in Stazon and colored them with a blender pen and ink, then cut them out with their matching dies.  I added some little trees, some stitched snowy hills and of course, some glitter on their snowy rooftops:

The set comes with a sentiment as well, and I added a couple of snowflakes from a past Paper Pumpkin kit:

and the inside sentiment is also from the Paper Pumpkin set, and I added some snowmen for fun!

I am also entering this in the Little Red Wagon challenge this week, which is Christmas!!

The design team has created some incredible cards with these colors....you can check them all out at the Paper Players blog right HERE!  Then you can get inspired and share your creations with us too!  Can't wait to see them!  Thanks for popping by!

Speaking of blues and greens, a recent trip to the farm where we get our eggs prompted Cassidy to go check out their peacocks:

There's a lot of foliage around the cage, so it's hard to get a good view of how beautiful they are....plus they don't like us very much, so they usually turn around and show us their backsides and shake ALL their feathers...quite impressive!   And have you ever heard a peacock?  They sound like a baby crying...sort of eerie!! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Celebrate Winter (Lawn Fawn), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Blueberry Bushel DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Dimensionals, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, Simply Celebrate Winter Die (LF), Stitched Hillsides Dies (LF), Blender Pen, SU Markers in Granny Apple Green, Sahara Sand and Balmy Blue