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Ah, Monday morning!  I have another masculine card today; after my Paper Players card yesterday, I am on a roll!  I took this wonderful color combo from As You See It:

and paired it up with the Match the Sketch challenge:

and I came up with this:

I used some retired Soft Suede DSP along with a Soft Sky banner stamped with Chalk Lines, then added the globe from The Open Sea, an embossed banner and a diecut anchor from My Favorite Things:

This will be John's Father's Day card...he is my anchor!

Cassidy went fishing with her daddy over the weekend and landed this BIG fish!

Is there such a thing as a fishing princess?!  Enjoy your day!

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Happy Sunday and Happy Mother’s Day to all!  I am the hostess at the Paper Players this week and I’ve got a color challenge for you:

I think these colors are sweet enough together to be used for a feminine creation, but they could be used just as well for a masculine creation, and that’s just what I did:

I am kind of stuck on Guy Greetings lately…there are so many great masculine images as well as sentiments, and I remembered that I had these cool dies from My Favorite Things (although I believe they are retired) that would work perfectly with the nautical theme I was going for!  They were also perfect for the Match The Sketch sketch this week too:

First, I stamped my sentiment in Lost Lagoon, along with some “rope” from Sea Street in Sahara Sand, and cut it out with a circle die:

 

stamped the logbook from The Open Sea in Pistachio Pudding, diecut another circle and added an anchor diecut:

and repeated that with the world map image and the wheel diecut:

I added some Candy Dots and Linen thread for rope and mounted them on some stitched circles from Lil’Inkers in Lost Lagoon.  Finally, I stamped the inside:

I thoroughly enjoyed creating this card and I now need to hide it away so DH doesn’t see his own Father’s Day card, LOL!  I hope you’ll play with the Players this week with my color combination!  You can see what the other designers created right here:

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Claire
• Debbie
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Karren
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Shannon

John was burning some pallets at the burn barrel on Friday and found a little red toad.  I am so thankful that Cassidy is not afraid of “critters”!  She held it willingly, although at one point, I thought she might squeeze it to death, but she let it go into the yard and then encouraged him to hop into the flower bed!

I can honestly say that in 60 years, I have never seen a red toad!  Upon doing some research, I am pretty sure it was a Fowler’s toad!  And a few minutes later we found a normal toad…not sure what its name was….and he got released down by the creek:

It’s fun to share nature with her!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

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Happy Sunday, everyone!  Hope your weekend is moving along in a dandy way!  My sweet friend Sandy has our theme challenge today at the Paper Players, and I just love it!  I had a bunch of ideas for this one!

In the end, I decided to use Lesley’s Fusion challenge as a starting point for my card:

I used both the sketch and the colors for my card, so it is a bit busier than my usual style, but I had fun creating it!  Here we go!

I didn’t use kitchen images for my card, obviously, but I have a lot of vintage-style travel images, so I pulled them all out!  My images are from Traveler, The Open Sea and Postage Due, and the sentiment is from Project Life’s Remember This.  I stamped the images on DSP and did some distressing along the edges.  The map background is some Typeset paper that I brayered with Crushed Curry ink.  I also hand-painted the stripes on my sentiment circle to imitate the striped can in the challenge photo:

I added some ribbon, linen thread, twine and candy dots as well.  On the inside, I combined sentiments Num Num and Adventure Awaits, which has such cool fonts, I just loved how it turned out!  I think this will be great for a masculine birthday or maybe a retirement card!

The design team has come up with some fabulous creations using the Transportation theme, so share yours with us as well at the Paper Players blog!  You can also check them out here:

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Claire
• Debbie
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Karren
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Shannon

Speaking of transportation, Cassidy enjoyed her own form of transportation yesterday:

Enjoy your day!

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Happy Sunday, peeps!  I have missed you all! I am feeling a little better, but the pollen is really wreaking havoc with my allergies this spring!  I was happy to do some stamping to take my mind off of them.   Ann has a lovely sketch for us today over at the Paper Players!  Let’s take a look at it:

I was able to move some of my stamping stuff back into my “remodeled” craft room but before I did, I broke out my new This and That Epic Day DP to make a vintage-looking Father’s Day card:

Wow, this paper is fabulous for someone who loves vintage-y stuff like ME!  I added some collage stamping from The Open Sea, although you wouldn’t need to----it’s rustic-looking just as it is! I even stamped the ship and anchor images on some of it, both in Basic Gray:

The sentiment is from Delightful Dozen, and I colored it in with a marker:

I cut some strips to make my banners and mounted the whole card on a Basic Gray card base.  This sketch is so much fun….and you can make the focal point any shape at all!  Be sure to check out the Paper Players blog to see how the other designers interpreted it, and play along with us!!'

Enjoying a little outdoor snack!

Have a blessed day!

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Happy Sunday, peeps!  I hope you are ready to have fun with our latest Paper Players challenge:  Tac Tac Toe!  Choose any three of these techniques going across, up & down or diagonally, to make your creation! 

For my card today, I chose to go straight across the middle with blue, dry embossing and masculine!  I also used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

I have to admit that I was inspired by Carol’s card that I chose as my Top Pick yesterday.  You can see it here.  However, I wish I had used Midnight Muse just as she did, because this Pacific Point is just a tad too bright for me.  However, my mojo has sailed off to sea along with this ship, due to a nasty chest cold that is plaguing my entire family, so I just didn’t have the oomph to do it over! 

I really wanted to shabby everything up since this is sort of a vintage-style image from The Open Sea, but I resisted so it would qualify for the FMS; the only thing I succumbed to was to add the water spot image from French Foliage to the anchors on the background!!  I stamped the ship’s log image on the new wide cotton ribbon that will be available August 1 and added a neutral button with some twine.  The Woodgrain embossing folder is also new and available on August 1!  I heat embossed the ship, which you might be able to see here, but probably not; you’ll just have to take my word for it!

All in all, the man in my life to whom this will go will not be concerned that I used Pacific Point instead of another blue, so I won’t be either!  I hope you can play with this fun challenge as well and show us your stuff over at the Paper Players blog!
How fun it is to sit in the rocks and throw them in Grampy’s watering cans!

Catered Crop Banners for Father’s Day

 

I got  a happy little email from Linda at Catered Crop telling me that this card snagged me a little guest shout-out for the current challenge, which you can see here.  The theme is Baby Bunting, or banners, and the inspiration photos Linda has posted are divine.  I just couldn’t decide which one I liked best!  In fact, I think I made three cards before I settled on one that I was happy with; and even that one is questionable!  But life and toddlers must go on, so this is the card I finally decided on; it is my Father’s Day card for DH:

I have really been mixing up old & new this week; although it’s fairly CAS, this features current sets Word Play, Pennant Parade, French Foliage, The Open Sea and Woodgrain; and a new set called  Postage Due (LOVE THIS SET) as well as some new paper called Fan Fair---just gorgeous!  Love it too!  After collage-stamping the background, I punched the banners from the DP and shabbied them up a bit, then zigzag stitched some linen thread atop them:

I added my sentiment, stamped in Island Indigo and overstamped the world image from the The Open Sea and popped it up in the corner.  My DH would love nothing more than to jump on a sailboat and sail the world.  He would have to do it alone, however!!!  I am staying right here with my feet planted firmly on the ground!

 

I hope you will check out the Catered Crop and play along with Linda’s banner & bunting challenge!!!  Hope to see you there!
Cassidy had a very fun time yesterday playing in Grampy’s garden and mulch; look closely at her face:

 

 

A little dirt never hurt anyone!