RRCB131 Eggs Eggs Eggs

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Time for another Retro Rubber challenge, and we have a fun tic-tac-toe grid this week!  Check it out:

I chose to do the left diagonal down:  eggs, diecut and patterned paper!  So here we go!  I used a set from 2000 called Soft as a Feather!  It was one of my favorite sets long ago, but I sold it!  Luckily, I found it online and bought it again!  I paired it with Nature Walk from 2011:

I stamped the nest and eggs from Soft as a Feather on Very Vanilla cardstock with Early Espresso ink and colored them with Blends and Copics, then fussy cut the eggs and popped them up on mini dimensionals:

I used the Stitched Shapes circle die to cut it out.  I then stamped two rows of eggs from Nature walk and colored them as well, did a row of double stitched embossing on them and mounted the panel on a piece of retired DSP (can't remember the name!!!) and ran the whole panel through the Big Shot with the largest Stitched Rectangle die:

I used my Stamparatus to stamp the sentiment, mounted everything on a Soft Sky card base and added a linen thread bow. Finally I popped up the nest image and added a birthday sentiment on the inside.  I love the soft look of these eggs....and it's not an Easter card, LOL!

I hope you'll play with our Retro Rubber challenge this week...remember that your stamps have to be at least a year old, and you must tell us their approximate age!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Soft as a Feather, Nature Walk (both ret), Stitched All Around
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Soft Sky (ret), DSP ???
Ink	Early Espresso
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	BIg Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson), Blends

PP474 CAS Fashion Fun

Happy Sunday, stampers!  This will be short and sweet, as I am having my Hostess Appreciation party today!  Can't wait to see my stamping friends!  Luckily, Laurie is our Paper Players hostess and she has a fun clean and simple challenge for us that I know everyone is going to love:

I had all kinds of ideas swirling around in my head for this, but the light bulb moment came when I remembered this fabulous DSP that SU has in the current mini catalog, Best Dressed, which features all kinds of fashionista stuff!  Woohoo, perfect for my CAS creation!  I used the FMS sketch:

and went to work, letting the paper do most of the work:

I used a plate to trace a partial circle on the back of my DSP panel, then "oblonged" it a little.  I had a scrap of some Valentine DSP from a few years back poking around on my desk, and I thought the two patterns looked good together, so I added a little strip!  The sentiment is from Stitched All Around; I stamped it in Lovely Lipstick, cut it with my cutter just so that it would fit inside my Mint Macaron diecut panel from Stitched So Sweetly:

A little pop of Mint Macaron ribbon and my CAS creation is done!  I imagine that this DSP will be making an appearance on a lot of cards this week, LOL!  And since the Krafty Chicks Challenge this week is CAS, I am sending it on over there as well!

So now what will YOU create?  There are so many fun options with this, just remember to make it CAS!  You can see what all the designers created by popping over to the Paper Players blog...you'll get lots of inspiration!  Share yours too!  And thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy loves playing with her Play Doh Drill and Fill dentist set...yuck.  What is the fascination of making play-doh teeth?????  Creativity comes in all forms, I guess! 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched All Around
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Best Dressed DSP, Sending Love DSP (ret)
Ink	Lovely Lipstick
Accessories	Mint Macaron Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies

More Monochromatic

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Yesterday was, without a doubt, one of the most depressing, rainy days I ever experienced.  It just rained and rained and rained.  I only got a little stamping time last night so I broke into the new color, Pretty Peacock, which is very pretty...reminds me of Tranquil Tide but darker!  I haven't played with the Mojo Monday sketch since Julie brought it back, so I thought I would give it a whirl:

I used the pretty sentiment from Stitched All Around along with one of the birds from the May Paper Pumpkin, stamping them both in Pretty Peacock.  I layered some of the In Color DSPs, some Dotted Tulle ribbon, and finally, a little diecut border:

The Stitched Nested Labels fit the sentiment perfectly:

And I just love this DSP....especially those scripty words!

And since I had some leftover scraps, I made another card, same papers, dies and stamps, just a different layout, and this time, I added a couple of faceted dots:

I can't wait to pair up this pretty hue with some other colors!  

Cassidy got a little steppingstone kit for her birthday last year, and Dana helped her mix up the ingredients to create it:

She enjoyed putting the little glass pieces around in a pattern:

And the final result looks very sweet in their little flower bed, along with the doggie statue, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched All Around, Paper Pumpkin (May2019)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, 2019-2021 In Color DSP
Ink	Pretty Peacock
Accessories	In Color Faceted Dots, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Arts and Crafts Dies, Stitched Nested Labels Dies

Paper Players 440 Best Friends

Hi stampers!  Yay, it's Sunday and time for another Paper Players challenge where the talented Jaydee is our hostess with a wonderful theme:

At first, I thought I didn't have many "friends" stamps, but as I looked, I realized I had several sentiments...not so many images, but these little buddies from the retiring Bella and Friends were perfect:

I stamped them on thick Very Vanilla cardstock and colored them with SU Blends, then die-cut them with the Stitched Rectangle die.  My sentiment is from Apron of Love, and I added a few little hearts from the Be Mine dies:

I stamped some additional sentiments (Stitched All Around) on the inside, and added a few more hearts:

My layout is very loosely based on this week's Freshly Made Sketches sketch; my image was pretty big, so the sketch sort of got lost in the interpretation, but it is there!  I used some retired Pretty Petals DSP for my background....love that stuff!

And I just realized that I didn't put the sentiment where it belonged...sigh.  That's what happens when you try to do something from memory!  Oh well!  I hope you'll play along with us at the Paper Players this week, and meanwhile, check out what the DT did as well:

Ann

Claire

Jaydee

Joanne

Laurie

Nance

Anne Marie

Su

Wanda

Windy

Cassidy recently got her green belt!!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Bella and Friends, Apron of Love, Stitched All Around
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla, Calypso Coral, Baja Breeze (ret), Pretty Petals DSP (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Calypso Coral
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Be Mine Dies, Blends

CTS319 Many Thanks

Hey peeps!  Happy Tuesday, and the last day of April!  I made a quick card yesterday for the CAS(E) this Sketch sketch:

Again, I am trying to use up some of my DSP, so I used some Animal Expedition for the lower corner, added some washi tape....stuff that I buy and rarely use, so I am trying to use it up, too... a few stamped sentiments, and a fun circular element from Stitched All Around:

Just for fun (and since I already had the stamp in the Stamparatus), I stamped the element again on a little scrap of DSP and fussy-cut it out to adhere to the top!  I also added a little black circle beneath the diecut!  It only takes a little bit of extra embellishment to step up your stamping!

And I promised to show our projects from Saturday's party...the hostess loves Halloween and wanted to do some watercolor techniques, so this is what we made:

We used some retiring stamps and dies, and learned about loose and controlled watercoloring with an aquapainter.  The wood crate contains a few Lindor chocolates wrapped in orange foil; when I went to buy the candies just before Easter, the clerk at the CVS said to me, "You know you have the wrong holiday, right?" I am sure she thought I was a bit batty!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy went to an overnight church camp....and they had her favorite for lunch:  mac and cheese!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

CAS(E) This Sketch Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched All Around, Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Animal Expedition DSP
Ink	Stazon Black
Accessories	Pick a Pattern Washi Tape, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Labels Dies, Layering Circles Dies

Halloween Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Seasonal Chums, Itty Bitty Greetings, Timeless Textures
Card stock & Papers	Lemon Lime Twist, Basic Black, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, Silver Glimmer, Shimmery White, Watercolor
Ink	Stazon Black, Granny Apple Green, Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Going Gray
Accessories	Pick a Pattern Washi Tape, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Seasonal Tags Dies, Aquapainter, Seaside EF, Wood Crate Die, Cat Punch

Paper Players 439 Sketch from Claire

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Hope you're having a good weekend so far!  It's time for another Paper Players challenge with Claire as our hostess, and she's given us a lovely sketch to work with:

Like everyone else, I still have a big stash of beautiful DSPs in my files, and the new catalog will be out soon with even more new patterns and colors coming, so I am trying to use some of it up!  The Share What You Love Specialty paper is so pretty, with all it's loose florals, so I chose these patterns and the Stitched All Around stamp set to make a birthday card:

The elements in Claire's sketch are pretty large, but I didn't want to hide that pretty background paper, so my vertical strip is made from vellum, embossed with the Subtle embossing folder.  I stamped the sentiment in Mint Macaron and diecut it with the gorgeous die from Stitched Labels; and can you see the Mint Macaron rhinestones?  I colored them with a SU blend!

My final additions were a little fussy-cut flower tucked down on the bottom portion of the panel, and the sentiment diecut with another die from the Stitched Labels set:

I also backed my horizontal panel with a Tranquil Tide base and added a little tiny strip of striped paper to tie all the colors together!  I wonder who will receive this card on their next birthday??

I hope you'll play along with the Players this week...this sketch is full of possibilities!  Check out what the DT created:

Ann

Claire

Jaydee

Joanne

Laurie

Nance

Anne Marie

Su

Wanda

Windy

Before I go, I wanted to share a photo of the some of the "girls" in my church small group; we got together and visited one of the girls who doesn't drive in the evening, so hasn't been able to come out to group.  She recently lost her husband as well, so to cheer her up, we brought lunch and created a card!  My friend Robyn is an experienced stamper, so she helped out as well!  They used the Big Shot, Wink of Stella, and the Stamparatus, as well as the Jar of Love set:

And here's the card we made!  They all did a fabulous job and had fun, too!

 Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched All Around
Card stock & Papers	Soft Seafoam, Whisper White, Tranquil Tide, Share What You Love Specialty DSP Vellum
Ink	Mint Macaron, Tranquil Tide
Accessories	Rhinestones, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Labels Dies, Mint Macaron Blends, Subtle EF

IB56 Your Special Day

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Hope your week is going by nicely!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge, and I chose to make one with some eclectic elements in unusual colors, for me, at least:

And here is Laurel's prompt:

So I would say this is more of a masculine-themed prompt, but I turned it into more a feminine creation!  I focused on the blackboard image for my sentiment; in trying to use all my current SU stamps backwards from the end of the alphabet, this is from Stitched All Around.  I stamped it on SU's (retired) blackboard paper in craft white ink, added some banners, hearts, twine, another sentiment from the same set and a "wooden" blackboard frame

It was fun adding all the little elements here and there...I jazzed it up with a silver glimmer heart and a few little epoxy dots as well:

Since there was a little greenery in the photo, I mounted it all on a Pear Pizzazz card, added a sentiment on the inside, and this will go in my birthday card stash!

The design team has some interesting takes on this challenge...be sure to check them out at the Inspired By blog, then share your creation with us as well!  Can't wait to see it!

Cassidy had been bugging me to make a backpack for her Ethan doll; my sewing area was buried under stamping stuff but I finally found a few minutes to clear off a space and dig out my sewing machine.  Originally she wanted one with a zipper, but I found a pattern that was a little simpler, so I went with that, using a pair of Grampy's old jeans for fabric:

I used the hem of the pant leg to make a pocket and some retired SU ribbon for the straps!  She quickly went to get a teddy bear on which to try it (Ethan was at home):

And it fit!  She told me she even put some sticks of gum in the pocket, LOL!  If you'd like to see the pattern, you can find it HERE!

Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched All Around
Card stock & Papers	Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White, Woodgrain DSP, Silver Glimmer, Blackboard (ret), Festive Farmhouse DSP (ret), Warmth & Cheer DSP (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Craft White
Accessories	Santa's Workshop Enamel Shapes (ret), Misc Twine,, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Labels Dies, Be Mine Dies, Tree Punch (ret), Rectangle Stitched Dies, Envelope Punch Board (to round edges of frame)

Fab Friday 151

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have a couple of cards today using the Fab Friday sketch:

They always have such great sketches, don't they?  I originally had embossed this Merry Merlot card base to make a Christmas card, but I needed a birthday card for my niece, so I changed gears and stamped the flower from Flourishing Phrases in Berry Burst, added some embossed stitched lines and a pretty sentiment from Stitched All Around:

I added a scallop of some retired Sweet Sugar Plum glimmer paper and a glimmer enamel dot for some sparkle:

and finished it off with some glimmer ribbon as well:

My second card is a thinking of you/get well card for a friend who's going through a rough patch with some health issues!  This went together quickly with some Bo Bunny Petal Lane papers and a heart die from the Sweetly Stitched Framelits:

 

The sentiments inside and out are from Treat Time; I did a little fussy cutting for the inside one:

Thanks for popping in today!

Yesterday was my dad's 89th birthday; he is still battling some health issues but he did have dinner with us! He also told me there wasn't room for all 89 candles on his cake, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Flourishing Phrases, Stitched All Around
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Merry Merlot, Sweet Sugar Plum Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Berry Burst
Accessories	Sweet Sugar Plum Glimmer Ribbon (ret), Glimmer Enamel Dot (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Quilt Top EF, Sweetly Stitched Framelits

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Treat Time
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Petal Lane DSP (Bo Bunny)
Ink	Memento Black, Blushing Bride
Accessories	Enamel Heart (ret)
Tools	Big SHot, Sweetly Stitched Framelits