Another Christmas Card

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! Can you handle another Christmas card?  The sketch from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown was a fun one, and I combined it with the RetroRubber Tic-Tac-Toe grid:

I chose the middle column down:  Pines, Snow and My Choice, which was embossing!  Here we go:

(Sorry for the glare in the corner--not sure how that happened!)  My pines are from Rooted in Nature (2018) and the sentiment is from Itty Bitty Christmas (2019).  I embossed my banner with the Softly Falling embossing folder and made some "snowy" hills with the Stitched Hillside dies from Lawn Fawn.  I added a border of Cherry Cobbler and a faux bow and ribbon, embellished with a sequin:

Sentiment on the inside was from the same set, and I stamped a couple of trees inside as well.  The DSP is the retired Classic Christmas!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature (2018), Itty Bitty Christmas (2019)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Classic Christmas DSP (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequin from my Stash
Tools	Big SHot, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Pretty Bows 2 Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Softly Falling EF (ret), Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn)

TMS733 Give Thanks

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I spent most of yesterday cranking out Thanksgiving cards, and the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches provided a perfect one for using up some scraps in my bin!  Here's the sketch:

I had a bunch of strips cut from All About Autumn DSP for an earlier project, so I trimmed them a bit and created this card:

I stamped the Very Vanilla panel with a tree from the retired Rooted in Nature, stamped the sentiment from Courage and Faith over top, then embossed it with the retired Subtle embossing folder.  I love the effect it creates:

A couple of diecut leaves of Crushed Curry finished it off.  The inside sentiment is from the retired Day of Thanks:

I also made this card, after searching through some retired DSPs...I have been hoarding this pattern but thought it would make a fun Thanksgiving card:

I can't remember the name of the woodland DSP but I know it was a SAB from a few years back; the bottom piece is from Sweet Symmetry.  The sentiment is from Good Greetings, and the woodcut is from Truly Grateful.  It's fun to use some of these older stamps!  The inside is also from Day of Thanks, and it all went on a Poppy Parade card base!

Wayne is a fan of ANY Philadelphia sports team....here the family is at a 76ers game!  Wayne's brother Matt is also a fan...he's next to Cassidy, actually paying attention, LOL!

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

100th Birthday Cardinal

Happy Friday, peeps! I got a request to make a 100th birthday card for a Christian lady who loves cardinals!  It's a challenge, though, to get out of the mindset of using cardinals only for Christmas cards!  I looked through my plethora of various 12x12 scrapbook papers and came up with a pretty pattern that I thought would look good with a red cardinal, and since I wanted to make it extra special, did a fun fold on it as well!  Here we go:

I stamped the cardinal from Toile Christmas on Shimmery White cardstock in Stazon ink, then watercolored  and diecut it, adding a branch from the Seasonal Layers dies and greenery from Rooted in Nature:

My card base is Soft Sky, and it's a wee bit larger than a standard-sized card.  The DSP is from Recollections, called Floating Flower. I cut pieces to fit each panel and stamped sentiments from Friend to Friend on the front panels in Smoky Slate, adding foam-cut numbers for the 100:

The center panel has some background stamping with stamps from Graceful Words and Wonderful Words:

And on the back, a sentiment from an old Cornish Heritage Farm set, with room for a signature!

My customer loved it and hopefully the recipient will as well!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Toile Christmas, Rooted in Nature, Friend to Friend (ret), Graceful Words (ret), Wonderful Words (ret), Birthday Centers (Cornish Heritage Farms ret)
Card stock & Papers	Shimmery White, Whisper White, Early Espresso, Soft Sky (ret), Floating Flower DSP (Recollections)
Ink	Stazon Black, Real Red, Calypso Coral, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray
Accessories	Foam Adhesive Sheets
Tools	Big Shot, Christmas Cardinal Die, Seasonal Layers Die (ret), Little Letters Dies (ret), Aquapainter

IB149 Holly Jolly Wishes

Hello peeps!  Happy Thursday...it's time for a new Inspired By challenge!  Check out the fun photo for this week, along with the optional sketch:

Aren't they fun?  I didn't really have any dies that said "merry & bright", but I did have some that said "holly jolly", along with a woodcut stamp, so here we go:

The woodcut was stamped in Crumb Cake, and the sentiment in Real Red and Call Me Clover cardstocks.  I diecut some holly leaves from Shaded Spruce, and added a couple of banner sentiments from the retired Endless Wishes:

The background was embossed with the Dainty Diamonds embossing folder, and I added some Holiday Rhinestones as berries!  I didn't use the IB sketch this week, but used the Try Stampin on Tuesday sketch:

I hope you'll play along with our fun challenge this week...check out all the designs at the IB blog!  See you there!

And how about a wee bit of Halloween mayhem:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Endless Wishes (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Whisper White, Shaded Spruce, Real Red, Tis the Season DSP, Call Me Clover (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Holiday Rhinestones
Tools	Big Shot, Tasteful Label Dies, Dainty Diamonds EF, Greenery Dies (Tim Holtz), Christmas Dies (Peachy Cheap)

PP510 Sketch from Joanne

Hi peeps!  It's Sunday and that means a new challenge from the Paper Players!  Joanne is our amazing hostess this week with a lovely sketch!  Lately, I have been using very simple sketches, so this one was fun to use with its many layers!  So fun, I made TWO!  So on to the sketch:

I went through my stamps and DSP to find something I hadn't used for a while and came up with Rooted in Nature and the In Good Taste DSP.  The In Good Taste is one of those "photographed" DSPs and sometimes it is a challenge to match it up with stamped images!  But hopefully I mastered it with one stamped leaf and two embossed:

My Stitched Rectangle dies got a good workout on this card!  All the panels except for the Soft Suede mat were diecut and simply layered to follow the sketch.  I stamped one leaf in Cajun Craze and diecut and embossed one each in Cajun Craze and Early Espresso.  I just love the embossed look of these, not sure why I haven't used these more often!

My sentiment is from Itty Bitty Greetings, diecut with a retired Bitty Banners die.  And just for fun, let me show you my first photograph card, and see if you can see what I totally missed while taking the picture:

Ummm...how could I have missed that little glue dot chad that statically attached itself?!!  Silly me!  Anyway, I had so much fun with the sketch, I did another one using some Carta Bella Happy Halloween papers, simple cutting and adhering, no stamping, with one sparkly die from the retired Boo to You dies:

I didn't even do any stamping on the inside!!!:

So, I hope you'll find some inspiration with our sketch today and share it with us at the Players!  The DT has made some amazing creations....check them all out at the Paper Players blog!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Rooted In Nature
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla, In Good Taste DSP
Ink	Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Nature's Roots Dies, Itty Bitty Banners Dies (ret0

IB133 Beautiful Blooms

Hello and Happy Thursday, peeps!  Time for a new inspiration from Inspired By!  Here we go:

Aren't they gorgeous!? And here's the sketch...you can use one or the other, or both!  Your choice!

Peonies seem to be very popular right now....of course, I chose a different flower!  I liked the layering effect of this W+9 set called Freehand Florals, so I gathered up some inks and went to work.  And I managed to use the sketch even though I wasn't trying!!

These images are a little tricky to line up, but the name of the set is "Freehand", so I just went with it...I used Pink Pirouette, Blushing Bride and Rococo Rose for the pinks, and So Saffron and Bumblebee for the yellow; the greenery is Soft Seafoam and Pear Pizzazz:

I layered them on top of some rose-colored metallic thread into a pleasing arrangement....and I am always lamenting about the lack of stencils from SU, but I remembered I had hung on to an old kit called Build a Banner, and it had large stencils, so I put the polka-dotted one to work, stenciling a partial area on the background with some Blushing Bride ink and a stencil brush.  I LOVE that effect!  I added a sentiment at the bottom:

And as an afterthought, I added some Polka Dot Tulle ribbon for a little more frou-frou!

I love this girly card...such pretty colors and flowers!  I just know you'll come up with equally-beautiful

creations with your pretty colors and flowers as well!  Share them with us at Inspired By...can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy is on vacation this week, so I haven't seen her all week.  But here are a few florals from my road, captured on my early-morning walks:

Just some lowly clover and Queen Anne's lace:

But I managed a capture an extra little guest on this one:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Freehand Florals (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Blushing Bride, Whisper White
Ink	Blushing Bride, Rococo Rose, So Saffron, Bumblebee, Soft Seafoam, Pear Pizzazz, Pink Pirouette (ret)
Accessories	Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon, Rose Metallic Thread (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Freehand Florals Dies (W+9), Triple Corner Punch, Build a Banner Stencils (ret), Stencil Brush (Nellie's Choice)

Two Masculine Cards

Happy Monday, peeps, hope you all had a great weekend! And happy June!  I've got two masculine cards today for two friends at church who'll be celebrating birthdays real soon!  The first one uses the FMS sketch; at first I was totally at a loss as to how to use this sketch:

But one of the cards that I needed was for my cousin, who is a carpenter, and I remembered these little Tool Charm dies from MFT, and I went to work:

This is a notecard-sized card; each tool was diecut from Brushed Silver cardstock and diecut again (except for the wrench) with some colorful cardstock, trimmed and adhered:

I added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays, stamped in Call Me Clover, and mounted on a Pinewood Plank-embossed piece of Whisper White, then mounted on a Call Me Clover notecard.  I used a Cornish Heritage Farms sentiment on the inside, along with a stamped image from Totally Tool:

My second card uses the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

The stamps from Rooted in Nature both fit those squares on the sketch so nicely!  

I stamped them in Mossy Meadow, added a strip of DSP from Magnolia Lane, another Pinewood Plank embossed background and another sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays:

To add a little interest to the sentiment, I added a little burlap ribbon behind the Stitched Rectangle:

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!  And here's a little more critter action from our back yard:

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays, Totally Tool (ret), Birthday Centers (ret, Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Call Me Clover, Real Red, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, Whisper White
Ink	Call Me Clover, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pinewood Planks EF, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Tool Charm Dies (My Favorite Things)

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Itty Bitty Birthdays, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow, Magnolia Lane DSP
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Burlap Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Sponge Dauber

Two Cards for Fun

Happy Friday, peeps!  I have two simple cards today, made while it snowing yesterday!!  It was only flurries, but it was a wee bit of a surprise, considering it's mid-April!  The first one is for the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge; I was perusing my stamp sets, looking for one that hasn't been used in a while, and I came across Rooted in Nature.  I thought it would make a great masculine birthday card with their sketch:

And here we go:

I colored some watercolor paper with Granny Apple Green, Pear Pizzazz and Crushed Curry inks, then stamped the small leaf in Old Olive over top, and diecut them out with the Nature's Root dies. 

I mounted them on squares of Very Vanilla, then mounted the squares on a Crumb Cake card base on which I stamped the larger tree, and embossed it with the Pinewood Planks EF!  My final addition was a sentiment from Label Me Bold, stamped in Mossy Meadow!

My second card is a bit more whimsical; it uses the FMS sketch:

and I pulled out some fun papers featuring milk caps from Carta Bella called Country Kitchen, and made this simple card:

I stamped a sentiment from a much-neglected PTI set called Friends Til the End in Poppy Parade, then "stitched" the edges:

I punched out one of the milk caps and gave it a couple of diecut borders....don't you love how realistic this looks?!  Love it!

 

Thanks so much for popping in today!

My brother gave us some tulips and narcissus from Longwood Gardens, so I shared them with Dana, and Cassidy went to work planting them!  I always joke that my dad was a farmer and my grandfather was a florist, but those green thumb genes didn't pass down to me!  Luckily, they seemed to have gone to Cass and Dana!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Label Me Bold
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Watercolor
Ink	Pear Pizzazz, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pinewood Planks EF, Stitched Shapes Dies, Nature's Roots Framelits

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friends Til The End (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Country Kitchen DSP (Carta Bella), Misc Grid DSP
Ink	Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Dies, Stitched Circle Dies (Lil'Inker), Stitched Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)