RRCB113 Anything Goes Vintage Christmas

Happy Tuesday!  It's Retro Rubber time, where we give our older stamps some love!  Here's an easy one for you...Anything Goes!

I used several older stamps for my vintage Christmas card today...it uses the FMS sketch from last week, which is expired, but I loved it so much I used it again anyway!  So here we go:

I was in the mood for some vintage images, so I pulled out a couple of vintage-style stamps from my stash:  Christmas Background (Stampendous, not sure of date but I've had it a couple of years), and Paisley (2006).  I stamped the collage in Merry Merlot of some scrapbook paper in a warm vanilla hue, and sponged the edges with some Soft Suede ink.  To give a wee bit of added interest, I stamped a fir tree from Flourishes' Forest of Trees set (2012) directly over the collage in Sahara Sand; it's a little hard to see, but I like the subtle effect. 

  

It was then mounted on a Merry Merlot card base that was stamped with the Paisley background stamp, also in Merry Merlot ink.  I stamped some Christmas words from Sweet and Sassy (2009) in White Craft ink and heat set them with white embossing powder, then diecut them with a banner die and layered them on the left side:

Finally, I stamped a sentiment and another tree on the inside:

The name of the sentiment set is Handy Christmas Greetings, from Amy R, and I know I've had it for several years, but I can't find a date....I'll just say it's definitely older than a year!  And since this is definitely vintage, not just the stamps but the images too, I am entering this is the Christmas Card Throwdown challenge for June, where they are looking for shabby/vintage Christmas cards!

Hope you'll play along with our Anything Goes challenge!  Just be sure to use stamps over a year old, and be sure to tell us how old they are!  Can't wait to see your creation in the gallery!

SO...you might remember that Cassidy's dad rescued a little dog that had been abandoned at a truck stop; they named her Ginger.  Since Charlie is out on the road most of the time, his mom usually takes care of the family's dogs, and it's getting a little too much for her, so Cassidy asked Dana if they could "adopt" Ginger and bring her home to be Eden's playmate.  On weekends that Cass goes to her Daddy's, Ginger will go too!

We'll let you know how it all works out!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paisley Background (ret), Christmas Collage (Stampendous), Sweet and Sassy Holiday Greetings (2009), Forest of Trees (Flourishes), Handy Christmas Greetings (Amy R, C&C Stamps)
Card stock & Papers	Merry Merlot, Naturals White, Handmade Holiday DSP (Simple Stories 12x12)
Ink	Merry Merlot, Sahara Sand, Soft Suede
Accessories	White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Heat Tool, Sponges

CAS On Sunday Christmas Silhouette

Hi peeps!  I have a very quick, CAS Christmas card for you today....I had this sitting on my desk, thinking it needed something more, and when I saw the CAS On Sunday challenge of Christmas in July, I thought I would leave it as it is!  It is most definitely clean and simple!

I used a Night of Navy base and a little silhouette scene from Cottage Kutz and some gingham ribbon from SU.  The sentiment is from Sweet & Sassy's We Three Kings.  The inside sentiment is equally clean and simple, it's from W+9's Merry and Bright:

Dana snagged this while on vacation:

So sweet!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

FMS312, MM264 and CASology 274 Tiny Cardinal

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  A quick post today, I am running late!  I have a small 4.25" square Christmas card for you today, using three challenges:

• Merry Monday's Kraft and Red
• FMS sketch
• CASology's cue card of "tiny"

I just happened to have a piece of Kraft cardstock left in just the right size!  I stamped it with a retired Cornish Heritage Farm gingham stamp in the lower left corner, added a little scallop trim and a diecut cardinal on a simple little branch!  I hope it's CAS enough!

Sentiment is from Sweet N Sassy's Holiday Greetings stamped in Chocolate Chip; cardinal is Memory Box's Cheery Cardinals; branch is from Christmas Pines, stamped in Crumb Cake; stitched square is from Lil'Inker.  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy had off school yesterday so we squeaked in a trip to Longwood Gardens before it started raining!  Their chrysanthemum displays are incredible!  Unfortunately, she wanted to play in the kids' area more, so I only got a couple of pictures:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

AYSI155 Lost Mojo

Hi everyone!  Yay, it's Friday!  Hope you have something fun planned for the weekend....or quiet, if that's your choice!  It's time for another As You See It challenge....I just love these challenges, check this one out:

SO.....what do you do when your lose your mojo?  When I lose mine, I turn to pretty patterned paper and diecuts!  You can never go wrong with either of those, separately or together!  For my sympathy card today, I used some pretty vintage papers from My Mind's Eye called "Oliver" from their Lost and Found 3 series:

I just received these Sweet and Sassy stamps called Hymn Blocks, and I stamped the verse directly on to the DSP in Crumb Cake ink, then added some banners from the same paper pad, including a scrap from my Christmas card on Monday.  The tree branch is from SU's Seasonal Layers Thinlets, and the birds are from Poppy Stamps:

Inside sentiments are from SU's Better Together:

When you use pretty patterned papers, everything just seems to go together so nicely!  

Be sure to check out the AYSI blog so you can see what inspires the other designers when their mojo takes a hike!  And we hope you'll share your ideas as well!  Thanks for popping in today!

Another thrift shop find....an "I Spy" puzzle!  She did a great job putting it together!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together, Hymn Blocks (Sweet & Sassy)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Oliver DSP (MME), Home for Christmas DSP (Kaiser Craft)
Ink	Crumb Cake
Accessories	Linen Thread
Tools	Big Shot, Seasonal Layers Framelits, Chirping Birds Dies (Poppy Stamps)

GDP065 and MCC10 Cabin in the Woods

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Halfway through the week!  I was excited to see the color challenge at Global Design Project:

Of course, when I made my card, I used CHERRY COBBLER instead of Real Red....sigh.  I think I have Christmas overload brain!  But I like my card anyway, so I am entering it and that will be that! 

I have SO many Christmas stamps, sometimes I actually forget which ones I have!  This is one of them.....it's sort of a seasonal stamp that could be used for Christmas; it's from Inkadinkado, and I stamped it on Crumb Cake in Early Espresso and added some white watercolor pencil as well as white Craft ink in the snowy areas:

The background was stamped with a Stampendous Christmas background stamp in Tip Top Taupe, and I also stamped some pinecone images from an Artistic Outpost stamp set in Crumb Cake, then sponged the edges of everything!  I added some glitter to the snowy areas too:

For my glittery sprig, I diecut some Early Espresso cardstock with a Tim Holtz Greenery die, coated it with Versamark and Heat and Stick powder, heated it up,  then coated it with some Martha Stewart glitter:

Finally, I stamped a sentiment from Sweet & Sassy (Holiday Greetings) in the bottom corner!  

I am also entering this in the Merry Christmas Challenge, which is to make a snowy scene!  Thanks for popping in today!

Dana has been doing some part-time waitressing, and one of her customers gave her some money for Cassidy to spend, so she did some shopping at a craft show last weekend.  Of course, a cookie was high on the list, and it is a cute cookie, as far as cookies go:

Having no front teeth does not stop her from eating around it until she got to the most important part:

Yum!

 Enjoy your day & be blessed!

FMS215 & MM182 - Again

Yay, it’s Friday!  Time for the weekend!  I am trying to redeem myself with the girls at Merry Monday, so I’ve created another birdie card, much better than yesterday’s fiasco!  This uses a 3D sticker from K&Company; some recycled cardstock from a card I received last Christmas;  a couple of dies and a single sentiment from Waltzingmouse:

This is just a wee little card, about 3 1/8” x 4 1/4”, because that was the size of the stitched mat…I mounted it on a Crumb Cake card of the same size.  The Mossy Meadow pinked mat is from W+9, and it fit my sticker nicely:

Here's the inside too:

Both sentiments are stamped in Mossy Meadow and are from Waltzingmouse’s Compliments of the Season!  This is also for Christmas Cards All Year Round’s challenge of “Keeping it Simple”!

Now, on to my Freshly Made Sketches card, which is also a Christmas card! 

I found this scrapbook paper in my stash and I have absolutely no idea from whence it came!  I am not sure if I bought it or it was a gift…no manufacturer’s name on it either, but the little deer were already printed on it, so I just added the banner and the embossed piece, and it was done!  In order to make it fit the sketch, I had to make the card a little bigger…it’s 6 1/2” high!   The sentiments are from Sweet & Sassy, and the Old Olive embossing is from Tim Holtz….the twine is SU, as is the little pine bough, stamped in white craft ink:

Thanks for visiting today!

It’s Advent Calendar time!

Enjoy your day!

Two Cards…..

…for today, the first of October, because there are so many awesome challenges out in blogland, I can’t get them all done in time!  My first card is for the Paper Craft Crew sketch 164 and the Color Throwdown challenge 362 :

I pulled out an older SU stamp called Harvest Home and did some watercoloring:

The background is a piece of Color Me Irresistible embossed paper that I sponged with Chocolate Chip ink to give it a darker color…the embossed portion resists the ink and looks really cool!  The banner was stamped every which-way with the sketchy line stamp from Gorgeous Grunge; the sentiment, leaves & acorn are from September’s Paper Pumpkin..what a great kit!  This is also for the Stamplorations Project 40 challenge; I chose this card as my inspiration!

My next card is a little 3 1/4 x 4” card for a baby shower; it’s for the Kraft Journal’s CAS baby card challenge as well as the CAS On Sunday challenge to use polka dots:

I used Crumb Cake for my card base, embossing it with SU’s Large Dots EF and giving each dot a little highlight with some white craft ink and a sponge dauber.  The “stitched” panel is from Stitched Shapes by Simon Says Stamps, inked up in Lost Lagoon, and the heart and duck are from Sweet & Sassy, Polka Dot Silhouettes.  The duck was stamped in Crushed Curry; the smaller heart was actually a larger image;  I heat-embossed it in white on Mint Macaron, then punched it out with a smaller heart punch:

The sentiment is from A Dozen Thoughts, and I made a custom envelope for the card with some retired Christmas DSP from last year and my Envelope Punch Board!  This card is also for Little Red Wagon’s embossing folder challenge!  Phew!  I think I got them all in!  And here’s a little peek at something I made for the shower as well:

Cassidy is becoming quite the little chef; this child can break an egg on her own and not get any shell in it!  She prefers to mix her cake batter by hand, rather than use the mixer:

but she still does love to lick the bowl:

Enjoy your day!