IB60 Sending Letters

Happy Thursday, peeps!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge...boy, the week flies by, doesn't it?  Anyway, after checking out Laurel's inspiration photo, I was inspired to do a vintage/eclectic card...I haven't done one of them for a while!  So here we go:

And here is the prompt:

I searched for some papers that I knew had lots of little letters on it like this...but of course, I couldn't find it!  So I went instead for some papers by Photo Play and My Mind's Eye, stamped some vintage images from various sets and embellished it with a shabby seam-binding bow.  (You can see directions on how to create shabby seam-binding HERE).

And I think my favorite stamped image is this row of vintage pencils:

Do you still write letters?  I have to admit, I send out lots of cards but don't write letters much any more!  It is definitely a dying art!  But I still love pens, pencils and paper!  I hope this will inspire you to create something for our Inspired By challenge this week...can't wait to see it!

 Sledding in the snow one week, riding bikes the next...Pennsylvania weather is CRAZY!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Vintage Postcard (ret), Established Elegance (ret), Vignette: Old Type (Stamplorations), Vintage Pencils (unknown maker)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, French Flea Market DSP (Photo Play), Blush DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Memento Black, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Pleated Ribbon (ret), Very Vanilla Seam Binding (ret), Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools	Label Punch (ret), Sponge Daubers

RRCB94 Consider Yourself Vintage

Hi peeps!  It's Tuesday and that means Retro Rubber time!  We've got an easy one for you this week:

Yep, it's an Anything Goes challenge...you just need to use stamps at least a year old (and tell us how old they are!)!!!  For today's card I used an Artistic Outpost stamp set called Route 66 and a Unity set called Consider Yourself Vintage...these both happen to be from 2012!  I stamped some of the images on the DSP in Granite Gray ink, collage-style, then stamped some more on my main panel.  I matted the main panel with an Early Espresso mat, which I distressed with an acrylic ruler:

I stamped the sentiment on a little banner/tag and overstamped it with a checkerboard image (My Favorite Things Distressed Background Blocks, probably from around the same time):

and just for fun, I added a couple of pieces of the new Chicken Wire Elements from the upcoming Mini Catalog!  They look like metal, but they're paper and they cut very easily!  I added a metallic brad in one corner as well!

I am always short of masculine birthday cards, so this will bulk up my stash...I certainly have enough "vintage" friends that would appreciate my sense of humor!  

What will you come up with...the possibilities are limitless!  Share your creation at the Retro Rubber blog, we can't wait to see it!

You never know what you'll find at Walmart!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

SIP130 Say No to Christmas Baby Card

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  It's time for another Stamp Ink Paper challenge, and this week, it's "Say No to Christmas"!

I needed a special baby card for a friend, so it was a perfect challenge for me!  I used the CAS(E) This Sketch sketch as well:

I had some pretty vintage papers from Graphic 45, so I chose a warm gold color and stamped a baby buggy from a "no-name" stamp company (my label says C9 but I can't find it on line anywhere!) in Delightful Dijon ink and partially diecut it with a stitched circle die:

I mounted it on a Very Vanilla panel that had been embossed with SU's Falling Petals embossing folder, and then added a little seam binding bow and a banner that reads It's a Boy and It's a Girl, because, yes, she is grandmother to twins!

Simple, easy and fun!  Now I know there are other occasions you might need for a card beside Christmas, so take a few minutes from your holiday chores to stamp something and share it with us at SIP!  We can't wait to see what you create!

Cassidy, Dana and I took a few minutes on Sunday afternoon to play with November's Paper Pumpkin:

We thought it was funny that the leaves on my stocking created a shadow on Cassidy's cheek!  It's also funny that I made my stocking go one way and they made theirs go the other!!  Oh well, that's the fun of it!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

AYSI161 Vintage Scary!

Happy Friday, everyone!  It's time for another As You See It challenge.....and it's a Halloween "scary" challenge!

I love Halloween but I'm not a big fan of the scary stuff!  Then I remembered I had a whole tablet of Tim Holtz vintage Halloween images and some of them are a bit scary, in a fun way, so I sliced off a big piece featuring several images and made a larger-than-normal (5 1/4 x 6 1/4") card:

I found a piece of textured Sahara Sand 12x12" cardstock in my stash that matched my images pretty well, so I used that for my base; I did a couple of rows of zig zag stitching around the edges of the Halloween paper and then attached it to my card. 

I found this seam binding at a yard sale a long time ago; it's rayon and I think that made a difference when I shabbied it up for my bow!  It's very soft and it crinkled up a lot when I added a little So Saffron ink to dye it and then scrunched it up and heat-set it in my microwave!

But I love the effect it created when I made it into a bow:

I also had some Tim Holtz Seasonal Stickers that I adhered to scraps of the textured cardstock and sponged with different colors, then cut them into banners and tied them to the center of the bow!  They are my favorites!  And here are some closeups of some of the images from the TH papers:

I had to laugh at this one; you can't see the words because of the stitches, but it says "Courage for Halloween"!!!!

 

I added some Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black and Champagne glimmer paper stars, and the front was done!  And here's a semi-scary image for the inside:

I hope you'll play along with our scary Halloween challenge!  Eeeek!  Halloween is only 11 days away!

Speaking of scary, Cassidy carved her jack-o-lantern a couple of days ago:

Yep, it's pretty scary!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happy Haunting (Graphic 45)
Card stock & Papers	Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black & Champagne Glimmer Paper (ret), Sahara Sand Textured (ret), Seasonal 12x12 (Tim Holtz)
Ink	Basic Gray
Accessories	Vintage Seam Binding, Linen Thread
Tools	Big Shot, Bitty Banners Dies (ret), Stars Die (Verve), Country Star Punch (ret), Sticky Strip, Sewing Machine

MTS184 Vintage Typewriter

Hi, peeps!  A lazy Saturday and I am moving in slo-mo today!  I needed some generic "Thinking of You" and "Hello" cards, and I thought I would use the Match the Sketch sketch this week to make a masculine one:

I used some new-to-me stuff that I've never taken out of the package!!!  So here we go:

All the stamped images are from a Stamplorations set called Old Type, along with a Tim Holtz embossing folder called Typewriter!  I colored the raised areas lightly with a sponge dauber to make them stand out:

And I stamped the typewriter image on an old piece of SU newspaper-style DSP.  The chevron piece was stamped with a Paper Pumpkin image.  I love this vintage look!

I got two nice cards in the mail this week, one from Martha and one from Vicki!  Here's Martha's pretty one with its inlaid sentiment:

And here's Vicki's; you can't see it well, but it's VERY sparkly!  SO pretty!

 

And another little project by Cassidy (please don't look at my messy craft area!) featuring the owl punch holding a little sign by his "wings"!  Sorry for the poor picture quality...I am lucky to get her to pose for anything these days!

Enjoy your day, be blessed and be sure to come back tomorrow when I am the hostess at the Paper Players!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Old Type (Stamplorations), Paper Pumpkin
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Newsprint (ret)
Ink	Basic Black, Crumb Cake
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Circle Thinlets, 3/4" Circle Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Typewriter EF (Tim Holtz)

PP337 More Birthday Birds

Hi peeps!  Sunday brings us another Paper Players challenge with Claire as our sketch hostess!  Wowza, I loved this one and I got a chance to play with lots of goodies to create my card today!

I seem to have birds on my mind lately!  I needed a birthday card for my SIL, and I felt like doing something vintage, so I pulled out some pretty neutral papers and a couple vintage sets:

The birds and the sentiment are from a Crafty Secrets set called Bird Lovers; they were stamped in Tip Top Taupe and Soft Suede, with sponging all around:

The background on the vertical panel is from an Artistic Outpost set called Birds of a Feather, and I don't normally put real buttons on my cards anymore as it costs more postage, but since this card is being hand-delivered, I added a vintage button and some velveteen ribbon as an accent:

 

And on the inside of the card (Tip Top Taupe), I added some sentiments from another Crafty Secrets set called Garden Girls; I thought the vintage font fit the theme of my card!

I hope you like the sketch as much as I do and play along with us!  You can see what the others created here:

• ·            Claire
• ·        Jaydee
• ·        Joanne
• ·        Laurie
• ·        Nance
• ·        Sandy
• ·        Crystal
• ·        Valentyna
• ·        Deanne

Finally....a nice day, a walk in the park, fun in the sun!

Project Details--All Supplies SU Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Garden Girls and For the Birds (Crafty Secrets ret), Birds of a Feather (Artistic Outpost)
Card stock & Papers	Tip Top Taupe, Very Vanilla, Autumn Day DSP (Photoplay); Grateful DSP (Authentique); Park Bench DSP (Fancy Pants)
Ink	Tip Top Taupe, Soft Suede
Accessories	Velveteen Ribbon (ret), Linen Thread, Vintage Button
Tools	Big Shot, Circle Dies (Nestabilities), Stitched Circle Dies (Lil'Inker), Stitched Rectangle Dies (Lil'Inker), Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits, Scallop Borders Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers

MM240 Vintage Bells

Hi peeps, just a quick Christmas card today using a vintage postcard image for the Merry Monday's challenge of bells:

After printing the postcard on some cardstock, I matted it with a piece of Soft Sky and added some Pool Party stitched ribbon.  My background paper was also printed from a past Crafty Secrets Vintage Christmas download; sentiment is from Verve's Unto Us, which was stamped with Chocolate Chip ink and diecut with a Stitched Shape, and accented with a little champagne glimmer paper diecut bell:

Of course, the pups are pulling on some vintage bells in the postcard:

Aren't they sweet?

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

I forgot to share this photo of Cassidy's "Thing 1" from her Dr Seuss day!!  It cracked me up....a white plastic spoon, pipe cleaners and some blue shreddie!  TOO funny!  Those library ladies are so creative!

Project Details--All Products SU Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Unto Us (Verve), Images Digitally Reproduced
Card stock & Papers	Champagne Glimmer (ret), Naturals White (ret), Soft Sky, Computer Paper
Ink	Chocolate Chip, Delightful Dijon, Sahara Sand (for shading)
Accessories	Gold Brad, Pool Party Stitched Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Die220Q (Impression Obsession Christmas Shapes), Dimensionals