RRCB123 Anything Goes

Hey friends!  It's Tuesday and time for another Retro Rubber challenge, where we give our older stamps some love!  Today we have an "Anything Goes" challenge...we're leaving it up to your imagination, just make sure your stamps are at least a year old!

I needed a few more boy birthday cards for my church family, so I pulled out Rev up the Fun (2013) and inked it up to make my card today:

These older Basic Grey papers were perfect for my motorcyle image!  I stamped it in Pretty Peacock on Rustic White cardstock and diecut it with a stitched circle die.  I added some retired Candy Dots for fun:

The sentiment was stamped in Cajun Craze, and I added a little scrap of the DSP on the banner, then embellished with a dot too:

I even stamped some tire tracks on the vertical piece!  This card is 5" square, so I will have to check my yard sale stash of envelopes for one big enough!  

I hope you'll play along with our Anything Goes challenge this week!  Just be sure to tell us how old your stamps are!  See you there! And thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy started playing the drums last week!  I am glad they are at her house and not ours, LOL!  But I am happy she's interested in it!  (And just so you know, the item behind her is a doggie toy box, shaped like a bone....had to clarify what exactly that was, LOL!)

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rev Up The Fun (2013)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Cajun Craze, Wander DSP (Basic Grey)
Ink	Pretty Peacock, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies

PP434 Rev Up the Fun

Hi everyone!  Happy Sunday, and welcome to another Paper Players challenge, where Joanne has a nice sketch for us!  Here we go:

I am always in need of masculine birthday cards, so I pulled out a retired set and went to work!  I did orient the sentiment panel to the other side to make it work better with the motorcycle!!

I used some older SU Brights DSP for my simple panels, stamped the sentiment and tire tracks,  then stamped the motorcycle in Pacific Point and colored it with some Old Olive Blends.  I fussy-cut it out and popped it up so it was doing a wheelie!!!:

There were a couple of other challenges that this fit as well:  the Clean and Simple Colours and Sketches challenge wanted Pacific Point, Old Olive and Sahara Sand:

and the Festive Friday challenge wants handmade and/or dots!  I think my card qualifies for both!

So what will you create with this sketch?!  I hope you will share it with us at the Paper Players this week!  Meanwhile, check out what the others created!  

·         Ann

·         Claire

·         Jaydee

·         Joanne

·         Laurie

·         Nance

·         Anne Marie

·         Su

·         Wanda

·         Windy

      

       Thanks for popping in today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rev Up the Fun (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Sahara Sand, Whisper White, Brights DSP (ret)
Ink	Sahara Sand, Pacific Point
Accessories	Halloween Enamel Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	SU Blends

We are almost finished cleaning out my dad's tools....we went from this:

To a much smaller pile in the kitchen:

John, my brother and brother-in-law loaded stuff into the utility trailer:

And we have almost all the stuff out of the garage....besides all the tools and other stuff he "collected", he had about 100 fishing poles hanging from the rafters:

Not to mention bobbers, minnow buckets, lead weights, reels, lures, tackle boxes....the list goes on and on!  But at least we can walk through the house without stepping over tools! 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

FF0018 and IMC371 30th Birthday

Happy Monday, peeps!  Today is our friends' son's 30th birthday, so we'll be going out with them to celebrate, and a card was definitely in order!  I used the Festive Friday challenge of "stripes" as well as the In(k)Spire Me sketch:

        

Since this is a card that is going to be hand-delivered, I made it 5" square, using Gray Granite as my base:

I used the retired set called Rev Up the Fun to stamp the car in Poppy Parade; I found this striped paper in my stash, and I also stamped the tire treads on a circle of Confetti White cardstock to make another striped element:

I cut the numbers with the Large Number die, and although you can't tell, the little "exhaust" is silver foil!  I stamped the sentiment from the same set on the inside, and it's ready to go!

So a few more photos from our little jaunt to National Harbor in DC!  This is the entryway to our Wyndham hotel; these lights are shaped like lamps, and they are heaters as well:

We had breakfast at the Westin Hotel; from the window you can see the Capital Wheel that sits in the marina, and of course....more gray, gloomy skies!  But the breakfast was excellent!

The Gaylord Hotel was immense;  there are actual houses built in the atrium that enclose shops!

And fall was definitely in the air; it was CHILLY!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Seize the Birthday Wish Big

Hi everyone!  We made it to Wednesday!  I have a very simple card today, a birthday card for my nephew and I am using the Seize the Birthday challenge of using chevrons.  This is a unabashed CASE of this card by Brenda, which I absolutely adored!!!  I found some chevron paper in the Fresh Prints pack, and I used a retired SU set called Word Play, along with the car from Rev up the Fun:

I added a little additional chevron from the Tasteful Trim die, and it was done!  Nice and easy!!! 

Some snow time:

Enjoy your day!

ColourQ 224

Howdy, peeps!  How is this Tuesday treating you?  Arielle has a fun color combo for us today at the ColourQ, but I am telling you, my mojo has headed south!  I made two projects with these colors and neither one really makes me happy.  And I love the colors….well, that’s how it goes some days!  Here ya go:

I’ll show you my second project first; I am always needing masculine birthday cards, and I made this real simple one with SU’s Rev Up the Fun:

I used the sketch 297 from Technostamper for this week as well:

This card will be for our friend Mark, who is not a bells-and-whistles kind of guy, so I kept the card simple….the most exciting thing was ripping the Island Indigo cardstock!!!  And it’s already been delivered with a little loaf of pumpkin-craisin bread, so I know he’ll enjoy it!

My original project was three little 3x4” thank you cards; my sweet friend Ellen gave me a Technique Tuesday set of stamps so I embossed the circular elements, then colored in the rest with a blender pen and markers:

They’re cute and I’ll use them, but they just didn’t make me jump up & down!  I hope that you can create something with them that will make YOU jump up & down….and share it with us over at the ColourQ blog!

Playing in the button can!

DD59 & CCMC

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  I have a quick card for you today using two challenges, Dynamic Duos 59 and Create with Connie & Mary SUM1301:

I cheated a bit on the DD colors---I hope they don’t throw me out!  I used Basic Gray and Smoky Slate along with Midnight Muse!  I never have enough masculine birthday cards, so I inked up my new Rev Up the Fun set:

To make the sentiment stand out a bit more, I heat embossed it on top of the tire track!  I doubled up some Epic Day Washi tape for my striped banner…so easy to use!  And what a fun sentiment for the inside:

Good for any male, young or old!
I have a couple of little bird figurines on my porch, along with a candle lantern.  Cassidy thought it would be fun to give the birds a new home!

That girl is always thinking!!!