AYSI383 Autumn Wishes Recipe

 Happy Friday, peeps! Time for a new As You See It challenge and it's Recipe time!  Here's my take on our "recipe" for this week:

And here's our prompt:

As you can see, I chose a non-traditional color theme for my pumpkin-y card!  I just love this gingham from Everyday Happiness, so I decided to use an openwork pumpkin from the retired Detailed Pumpkins dies, cutting it from Lost Lagoon cardstock and adhering it to a white background.  That looked a little stark, so I added a Pecan Pie stem and I did a light color wash in the openings of the pumpkin:

I added a diecut "Autumn" in Mossy Meadow, along with some matching leaves, and a sentiment from a sentiment set.  It is stamped in Mossy Meadow too but looks black here!! The final addition was some smoky blue sequins from my stash!  Everything went on a Crumb Cake base.

This recipe has all things that I love and I hope you will love them too! Can't wait to see your card in our As You See It gallery too!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, Everyday Happines DSP (ret)
Ink	Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash, Lost Lagoon Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Detailed Pumpkin Dies (ret), Words For the Season Dies (ret)

PP803 Colorful Crayons

Howdy, peeps!  I am the hostess this week at the Paper Players, and I am sure I had fall leaves on my mind when I set up this color challenge: 

But as usual, I veered off in another direction. Not sure if I am happy with the final outcome, but I think the child who receives my card won't really mind!  I am squeaking it in at the last minute for the fun CAS Colors & Sketches challenge from Amanda for this week:

So here we go:

I used the Spellbinders Crayon Creations set for my crayons, stamping and diecutting each one with the matching dies. They were backed with a stamped shape from Watercolor Shapes.  A sentiment from Simon Says Stamp created the sentiment panel, and I dotted the "i" with a little star embellishment and added some red ribbon:

I used the Swirls of Magic embossing folder again--really, it's good for so many occasions---and mounted it on a Real Red card base.  Here's the inside:

The Design Team has some awesome creations that are bound to give you lots of inspiration this week!  Pop over to the Paper Players blog to check them out, then come play along!

Thanks for visiting today, I enjoy your comments so much!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Watercolor Shapes (ret), Crayon Creations (Spellbinders), Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio), Birthday Celebration (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red
Ink	Real Red, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Versafine Black
Accessories	Resin Star (ret), Dimensionals, Red Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Swirls of Magic Embossing Folder, Crayon Creations Dies (Spellbinders), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

AHSC694 Patriotic Flag-Inspired

 Happy Monday, peeps! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I recently got a patriotic garden flag to celebrate the 250th birthday of the USA:

I decided to use it as inspiration for my card.  Here we go:

I diecut some flowers from Pierced Blooms, then watercolored them with Cherry Cobbler ink.  I layered on a Misty Moonlight center and diecut some stars from Give It A Whirl.  It all on went on a Basic Beige panel and some Honey Bee patriotic papers:

I left the inside blank and will add a sentiment when I need one!  

I hope you'll play along with our sketch this week!  Be sure to check out all the DT samples on Wednesday at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch blog!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Basic Beige, Cherry Cobbler, Americana (Honey Bee)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Braided Linen Cord, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pierced Blooms Dies (ret), Radiating Stitches Dies (ret), Give It A Whirl Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main),  Aquapainter

RRCB276 Love the Beach

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Halfway through the week!  I keep alternating between summer cards and Christmas cards---both are fun to do!  Today it's a summer card, and I am using the sketch from Retro Rubber:

Of course, since there are three panels, I had to play along!  Only a wee bit of stamping on this one, it's mostly ink, paper and dies:

I have an old Cuttlebug die (2006) that I used with some Basic Beige cardstock, then colored the cutouts with SU blends.  I added some Itty Bitty Backgrounds (1997) to the square pieces and mounted them all on a piece of Vitamin Sea from Honey Bee:

I also tried my hand at "speckling" the diecuts with some white craft ink....I definitely need practice on that!  The sentiments are from Unity's All Smiles (2011) and The Paper Studio's Every Day Expressions (2009):

I stamped a sentiment from Charming Sentiments (2022) on the inside and added the little bonus diecuts that cut at the same time as the larger ones!

Everything was Wink of Stella-ed too, but of course, that never shows up!  Anyway, it was a fun card to make and it will go in my birthday stash!  And I didn't realize that my card is very similar to Jane's! Great minds think alike!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"The ocean depths raise their voice, O Lord; they raise their voice and roar.  The Lord rules supreme in heaven, greater than the roar of the ocean, more powerful than the waves of the sea."  Psalm 93:3-4

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Charming Sentiments (ret, 2022), All Smiles (Unity, 2011), Every Day Expressions (Paper Studio, 2009)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Beige, Vitamin Sea (Honey Bee)
Ink	Soft Sky (ret), Smoky Slate (ret), Crumb Cake (for sponging), Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Paint Brush
Tools	Big Shot, From the Sea Dies (Cuttlebug), Blends, Sponge Daubers, Wink of Stella, Stitched Banner Die (Nelly Snellen)

In(k)spire Me #563 Way To Go

Happy Tuesday, all! My card today uses the sketch from In(k)spire Me, and it's a graduation card for a family friend!  First, the sketch:

Here we go:

I heat-embossed a sentiment from the new set called The Right Words, and I am a little disappointed in how it turned out; my embossing powder may be about 20 years old, so maybe I should invest in some new, LOL!  I diecut it and added a Pretty in Pink scallop to match these pretty florals from Wildflower Birthday DSP:

The gold-striped panel is from the same DSP, I just cut a strip and adhered it to the side. I added a few gold leaves and some sparkly ribbon too!  On the inside, I mixed and matched some sentiments:

The young lady graduate just finished nursing school, so she definitely will be on an adventure!

Thanks for visiting today!  And since I haven't posted a picture of Cassidy lately (she's mostly camera-shy these days), I was thrilled when Dana sent me these!  She and Wayne went fishing after youth group on Sunday evening:

A cute little sunnie!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	The Right Words, Adventure Awaits (ret), Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pretty in Pink, Wildflower Birthday DSP
Ink	Bashful Blue, Blueberry Bushel, Gold Encore (ret)
Accessories	Pool Party Glimmer Ribbon, Dimensionals, Gold Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Heat Tool

Ice Cream Birthday

Happy Tuesday, everyone! I needed a birthday card for a sweet little girl at church, so I combined three challenges to creat one for her!  It uses the sketch from Retro Rubber, the recipe from As You See It and the challenge to use three different DSPs at Shopping Our Stash:

I pulled out two retired sets, Sweet Ice Cream (2021) and Time of Year (2016):

It's hard to see here, but the ice cream, cone and sentiment are all embossed with clear embossing powder.  I used papers from Authentique for the ice cream and the background panel; the gingham tag is from Bo Bunny:

I added some sequins and a few glimmer paper stars for extra pop!  I wish you could see the shine on the embossed pieces, it looks really cool!  I hope she likes it!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweet Ice Cream (ret), Time of Year (ret), Everyday Expressions (2009, Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Glimmer Paper (ret), Meadow (Authentique), Pincushion (BoBunny)
Ink	Versamark, Balmy Blue, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Blushing Bride (ret), Wild Wasabi (ret)
Accessories	Clear Embossing Powder, Sequins from my stash, Dimensionals, Pistachio Pudding Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Give it a Whirl Dies (ret), Tailor Made Tag Dies (ret), Ice Cream Punch (ret), Banner Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Heat Tool

AHSC594 Happy Halloween Boo!

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Time for a new sketch from Atlantic Hearts, and here it is:

 

I went old-school here and pulled out some stamps and papers that I've had for a while to create a Halloween card:

The papers are from Carta Bella; I cut some Watermelon Wonder paper with a scallop-edged die and mounted it all on a card base of Basic Beige.  Before mounting, I stamped some little bats all along the edge! I believe the vintage Halloween sentiment is from an old Recollections set....can't be 100% sure!  The "boo" is from Scary Cute and the "happy" is from The Paper Studio.  I stamped it on a diecut banner and it just seemed too big, so I did some creative folding to make it stand up, but still lie flat in the envelope!

I added some big enamel dots, and a sentiment from Close To My Heart's Hello Pumpkin on the inside:

Fun sentiment, fun card, fun sketch!  I hope you'll play along with us at Atlantic Hearts!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Scary Cute (ret), Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio), Vintage Halloween (Recollections), Hello, Pumpkin (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Basic Beige, Watermelon Wonder (ret), Happy Halloween (Carta Bella)
Ink	Versafine Black, Basic Beige
Accessories	Enamel Dots (unknown)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen), Edgelit Dies (ret)

You Are My Sunshine

Happy Saturday, peeps! I have a quick card to post before my stampers get here this morning!  It fulfills three challenges: TGIF is looking for a pocket full of posies; As You See It wants to know what  color I use the least is; and CAS on Sunday wants sunshine!

So here we go:

I knew right away I would choose yellow as my least-used color! It's not that I dislike it, I just don't gravitate towards it very often.  And that fit in perfectly with a sunshine theme!  And I admit that when I looked at the TGIF challenge, I missed the "posies" part of it, but perhaps my little image on my tag could be a sunflower?!  The sentiment is from the retired Ridiculously Awesome set, stamped in Daffodil Delight on Lemon Lolly cardstock:

I created a pocket with one of the Timeless Tag dies, stamped a sentiment from a past Paper Pumpkin on the front and added some yellow embellishments:

I then added a tag to tuck into the pocket, using the same Paper Pumpkin set to stamp the sunshine-shaped flower and added a gingham center.  The sentiment is from a Paper Studio set.

I also embossed the front with the Stitched With Whimsy die for fun.  My friend just went through some surgery, so this is going to her to cheer her up!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Ridiculously Awesome (ret), Paper Pumpkin (ret), Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lemon Lolly, Yellow Gingham (ret)
Ink	Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lolly
Accessories	Lemon Lolly Twine, Matte Dots (ret), Dimensional Sheets
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched With Whimsy Die, Tailored Tags Dies

inspire.Create#162 Yee Haw!

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Today I'm playing with the Inspire.Create challenge to CASE their designer!  Here's the card they want us to CASE:

I've been trying to make some masculine birthday cards to have on hand, as well as use up some scraps of scrapbook paper I have, so I looked in my stash and decided to make a cowboy-themed card! Here we go:

This retired Yee Haw set is one I'll never part with! Such a fun array of images and sentiments!  I used some papers from Authentique's Frontier Collection, cutting out the circles with the Stylish Shapes dies and arranging them on some gingham paper.  I stamped, colored and fussy-cut the sentiment, the popped it on top of some leather-looking paper and added a rope embellishment:

I combined a sentiment from the set along with some words from Paper Studio's Everyday Expressions for the inside:

Another one to add to my b-day stash!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Yee Haw (ret), Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals Cream (ret), Cherry Cobbler, Frontier (Authentique)
Ink	Real Red, Versafine Black, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip (ret), Early Espresso
Accessories	Twine from my stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Red Marker, Blender Pen

KCC689 Velveteen Rabbit

Happy Thursday, stamping friends!  I recently got this stamp from Unity because The Velveteen Rabbit was one of my all-time favorite stories from my childhood!  Such fond memories! And yet I don't think I ever read it to Dana or Cassidy...sadly!  Anyway, it's a sweet little retro image, so I stamped it on some Crumb Cake cardstock, gave it a bit of vintage shabbiness, and here we go:

I watercolored him in with Cherry Cobbler and Sahara Sand inks, then added a little brightness with a white watercolor pencil.  I masked him off, then stamped various vintage holiday sentiments lightly in the background and then used some Pecan Pie ink to add shading:

The sentiment is from the same set, diecut with a Stylish Shapes die and shabbied up as well; the "hanger" is a stitched strip from Reverse Confetti, and it is hanging on a piece of Very Vanilla velveteen ribbon.  The card base is Cherry Cobbler which was embossed with the Quilt Top embossing folder:

The inside was stamped with an old Cornish Heritage Farms Christmas sentiment:

The Krafty Chicks' challenge this week is Christmas, so I am going to enter this there!  

Speaking of vintage, I follow Ms Bingle; she takes old pieces of jewelry and whatnot and creates new items from them; I happened to see this lovely mermaid and I know my sister likes kitschy, beachy retro stuff, so I checked out Ms Bingle's Etsy Shop thinking I might get it for her:

Yikes!  $300!  I told my sister I love her but not quite that much, LOL!  But while you're there, check out her items....it's a fun little trip!  Thanks for visiting today---enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Velveteen Noel (Unity), Vintage Christmas (Paper Studio), Christmas Expression (Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler
Ink	Stazon Black, Cherry Cobbler, Sahara Sand (ret), Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals, Velveteen Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Strips Dies (Reverse Confetti), Quilt Top Embossing Folder (Ret), Aquapainter, Blending Brush, White Watercolor Pencil

IB219 Mountains

Happy Friday, everyone!  I have another masculine card today---January just seems to be the month for them!  Laurel's Inspired By challenge is GORGEOUS...those big cables make me want to knit something...but I chose to use just the sketch for this particular card.  Here are the prompts:

I pulled out a couple of  Tim Holtz dies and went to work:

This is quite a change from my normal style of card, but I like the final result for a masculine birthday.  I created the mountains with Basic White, Basic Gray, Smoky Slate and Soft Stone (PTI) cardstocks; the trees are Mossy Meadow.  

I used some Smoky Slate DSP and some Tim Holtz letters for the "HB".  Words are from the Paper Studio.  Enamel dots were the final addition.  The inside will read "Mountains of blessings on your birthday!" 

 Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds his people now and forevermore.  

Psalm 125:2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Expressions (The Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Soft Stone (Papertrey), Smoky Slate DSP
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Enamel Dots (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Alpine Dies (Tim Holtz), Alphanumeric Upper Classic Alphabet Dies (Tim Holtz)