IB99 Christmas Welcome

Hi peeps!  Thursday brings us another Inspired By challenge!  Boy, this one threw me for a loop!  Before I show you the prompt, here's my card...big and bold!

And here is the photo inspiration Laurel chose for us this week:

Wow, what great decorations!  This looks like the fun house of the neighborhood, doesn't it? But I just wasn't sure which to use for my inspiration!  I just got this Stamp Market set called No Peeking, and it has a great ornament die, so I decided to use it, cutting out three ornaments and a couple of embellishments and layering them on some stitched snowbanks!  The first one features a white reindeer in some snow:

and the second uses Wrapped in Plaid DSP, with a Stamp Market "sprig" and the third, some Lovely Lipstick striped DSP; they all have Gold Glimmer hangers too:

Everything is on a Shaded Spruce card base, and the Shaded Spruce Stitched Rectangle sentiment is heat embossed in white; it is also from a Stamp Market set called Candy Cane Christmas.  For my layout, I roughly used the Sunday Stamps sketch:

My circles are all the same size, so I hope they accept it!  And I hope you'll play along with this fun challenge...the design team did an amazing job with the elements from this photo, and we want to see what you create as well!  Share it with us at Inspired By!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Candy Cane Christmas (The Stamp Market)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Shaded Spruce, Gold Glimmer, Lovely Lipstick DSP (ret), Wrapped in Plaid DSP, Winter Wonderland DSP (Simple Stories)
Ink	Shaded Spruce, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Ice Stampin Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, No Peeking and Candy Cane Christmas Dies (The Stamp Market), Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn), Winter Wonderland Deer Die (Cottage Cutz), White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

SSC214 Fall Thanks

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a great weekend...I know I had one busy day and then one relaxing day...a great weekend!  I got in a wee bit of stamping time between reading, cross-stitching and cooking, and was able to create a thank-you card for a customer using the Sunday Stamps sketch:

 

Normally, with a large open area like this, I would be tempted to let some beautiful DSP do all the work (and I may do that yet, LOL!) but I decided to go a little more detailed with the Sweetly Swirled set:

 

Unfortunately, there is no die to match this set, but the elements are fairly easy to fussy cut!  I stamped some leaves in Terracotta Tile, Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody and Pumpkin Pie, then some greenery in Old Olive, and finally some flowers in Cajun Craze, Real Red and Terracotta Tile, then cut them all out.  I stamped the wreath with Crumb Cake on a Very Vanilla panel and went to work assembling it all:

I did stamp some "berries" in Terracotta Tile (my new favorite color) before adhering everything down!  My sentiment was from Itty Bitty Greetings, and I already had this Old Olive Linen Thread bow sitting in my unused box, so I adhered it to the banner.  I mounted it all on a piece of Old Olive gingahm DSP....I love the country feel of this!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweetly Swirled, Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Terracotta Tile, Old Olive DSP
Ink	Crumb Cake, Terracotta Tile, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Mango Melody, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Old Olive Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools

AYSI206 Speedy Boo

Hi everybody!  Woohoo, it's Friday, so happy to have the weekend ahead!  It's also As You See It challenge time, and here's one we haven't had for a while...SPEED stamping!  

The goal is to create a card in ten minutes, once you've gathered your supplies! I like that part of the challenge because I really tend to dawdle on my cards and it forces me to CONCENTRATE.  But....shades of purple, oh my goodness!!  The first thing that came to my mind was Halloween, so I pulled out Spooky Bingo Bits and SU's Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape and went to work:

I started out with a sketch from Sunday Stamps:

I used Gorgeous Grape DSP for my layers, and stamped my images with Highland Heather, punching them out with a circle punch.  The "BOO!" is from the Boo to You Framelits from a few years ago, and I accented it quickly with a single rhinestone.

At this point, I was at 7 minutes and 26 seconds, so I took another minute to stamp some sentiments from last year's Spooky Cat!  So I made it under the 10-minute mark!!

Phew!  I hope you'll challenge yourself to do some speed stamping in shades of purple and share your creation with us at At You See It!!  C'mon, you can do it!  Thanks for popping in today!

These silly pups Eden and Ginger are all decked out in their Eagle's outfits, ready for some fall football!  I just bought Cassidy an Eagles shirt.....but it's at my house, LOL!  She'll have to wear it the next time they get dressed up!  Enjoy your day nad be blessed!

SSC208 God Bless America

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  It's gonna be a hot one today in SE PA!!  We are running errands early so we can swim this afternoon; hopefully we won't get a storm like we did last night, where we lost power for five hours!  

I was inspired by my friend Wendy to finally use this patriotic stamp that SU offered in 2001!  Yikes!  That was even before I became a demonstrator.  I always regretted not getting it at the time, and they are expensive on ebay, but my sister had a yard sale last year, and much to my surprise, she had it for sale!  So I snagged it up and am finally using it today!  I stamped the image twice, once in Real Red and again in Blueberry Bushel, and just fussy-cut around the heart image and adhered it on:

I could have used markers to color each section, but this was faster!!  My papers are from the Frontier collection by Authentique; I love the rustic look they give!  I used a die from Close to My Heart for the scalloped edge and a little seam binding ribbon that is retired from SU:

I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps, although I don't have the sentiment in the correct place, hopefully they won't throw me out!

Thanks for popping in today!

It's been a challenge to keep Cassidy busy this summer.  I babysat Jackie while her momma did some errands and Lee was at summer school, and we decided to make slime from a kit.  First, let me tell you that we are slime failures.  We have tried to make slime a couple of times with NO SUCCESS.  So, I thought...well, here's a kit, it must be successful, I have all the ingredients, what can go wrong?  Well, the recipes in the book that comes with the kit require 150ml of clear glue (with other ingredients)....the kit comes with 100 ml of clear glue.  So you can't even make the recipe with the supplies that come in the kit.  Talk about frustration!  So we tried a different recipe....again, it was a failure.  It came out more like play doh, which I ALREADY know how to make.  If anyone out there has a reliable slime recipe, let me know.  So far, we are 0-3 in the slime game; the look on Jackie's face pretty much says it all:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

SSC207 Red White and Blue Celebrate

Happy Monday, peeps!  It's a laid-back day today, Cass is still with her daddy, so I had a little time this morning to stamp!  I used the top three colors from the Sunday Stamps challenge, and the 4th of July challenge from Festive Friday:

I don't normally send out July 4th cards, but I thought I could use this as a birthday card with a patriotic feel!  Here we go:

I used the colors of Night of Navy, Real Red and Seaside Spray, stamping the stripes from Woven Heirlooms and the stars from Country Road.  I backed each one with a 1" circle of matching cardstock, popped up the stars, and fussy-cut a sentiment from Picture Perfect Birthday:

I added a layer of Seaside Spray In Color DSP, and it was done!  All in all, a pretty easy and simple card!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy wanted to make a card for her daddy for Father's Day (which she never finished, so we'll work on it this week...better late than never!).  The stamp image was a little larger than what she usually uses, so I showed her how to use the Misti!  First, she set up the stamp and got her ink pad ready:

Inked it up:

Carefully closed the panel:

And gave it some hefty pressure!!!  This kid!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Woven Heirlooms, Country Road, Picture Perfect Birthday
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Night of Navy, Seaside Spray, In Colors DSP
Ink	Real Red, Night of Navy, Seaside Spray
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	1" Circle Punch

SSC206 Two Sympathy Cards

 

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend!  We had a crafty yard sale on Saturday and it was crazy for an hour or so!  I can finally see the floor of my craftroom and got rid of some tubs of retired product I had been saving up!  

I needed sympathy cards this week; two brothers lost their mom, so I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps to make two easy cards.  Here's the sketch:

And here we go:

The first one uses a Paper Pumpkin card front that I cut down, then trimmed the back panel for the back layer:

I used a sentiment from Better Together (I cut it apart so that I could position it the way I wanted...fits the oval better!) and diecut it with a Stitched Shape oval, popped it up and it was done!!  

The second one is a little stepped-up; it uses the Graceful Glass DSP, which I totally forgot I had!  Turning the sketch on its side, I colored the back of the vellum with blends, backed it with a scrap of white cardstock, added a mat of Strawberry Slush and a panel of Basic Black:

I added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings, diecut with the Stitched Rectangle die and attached it with a dimensional!  Still very easy but quite pretty!

Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow where I'll have a new Retro Rubber challenge for you!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

No Cassidy pictures, but this picture of my great-nephew Sawyer was so cute, I just couldn't wait to share it:

Love that little ginger!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Paper Pumpkin May 2019
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Basic Black, Strawberry Slush (ret), Graceful Glass DSP
Ink	Stazon Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Blends in Various Colors

Botanical Sympathy

Happy Monday, peeps!  My family needs several sympathy cards this week as a sweet family member lost her battle with cancer.  Blessedly, she coped with it wonderfully for many years and we all know she is in heaven rejoicing with her Lord!  The challenge at Just Add Ink this week is to make a sympathy card, and the sketch at Sunday Stamps fit what I had in mind:

I've been playing with Botanical Bliss and the matching Botanical Tags dies, and thought a diecut floral would look nice with the sketch.  I cut out a floral from some watercolor paper and watercolored it with Crushed Curry, Mint Macaron and Garden Green inks:

I haven't used Pineapple Punch much, as it is a little paler than what I like, but I combined two of the In Color patterns as a background for my flower and I really like it!  

I finished it with a sympathy sentiment from Flourishing Phrases, stamped in Garden Green, and diecut it with a Stitched Labels die.  Easy and pretty!  Thanks for popping in today!

No Cassidy pix, but my backyard was very active this weekend, full of birds!  First, we have a nutso robin who has been sitting on our car mirrors (and making a big mess!), attaching himself to our screen door and throwing himself against the patio doors.  We think he is protecting a mama robin who is nesting on four little eggs under our shed roo!

Then we had a rose-breasted grosbeak who actually hung around ALL DAY!  He really liked the seed in my feeder and kept coming back again and again!

At the same time, we got an elusive indigo bunting--at least I think that's what he is.  There have been blue grosbeaks spotted in Delaware, but I am still thinking this is a bunting!  He was very skittish and I didn't get any close pictures, but was thrilled to see him nonetheless! 

Finally, we had a brown thrasher, which I see fairly often, but several people told me they've never seen them....their yellow eyes make them quite interesting!

It was an exciting day! The grosbeak and bunting will not hang around, they're just moving through, enjoying a snack, then off to their summer homes, LOL! 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!