200th Merry Monday!

Happy Monday, everyone!  What a special day this is!  The Merry Monday challenge is celebrating its 200th challenge, and the talented Debbie Henderson asked me to help celebrate!  Merry Monday has a special place in my heart, as Lesley asked me to be on the DT at its inception!  Even though I am no longer on the team, I still love to participate as much as possible, building up my stash of Christmas cards throughout the year!  So I encourage you to do that too!  

For this special event, there are four challenges in which you can participate....pick one, two, three or all four!  Have fun!  I did choose three:  snowman, sketch and colors!

And here we go:

I used lots of fun polka-dotted papers from various sources in my stash, and the stitched snowman and tree are from W+9, called Stitched Holiday Icons.  Mr Snowman is sitting on some embossed snowy hills (Lawn Fawn's Stitched Hillside Borders and SU's Perfect Polka Dots EF) and the stitched stars are from Simon Says Stamp's Bundle of Stitched Shapes:

I made a little banner and stamped a sentiment from Anna Wight's Winter Schminter, and added a panel of Pear Pizzazz, embossed with a Tim Holtz EF called Deer Knit set:

It was all mounted on a Cherry Cobbler card.  So much fun to make!  I hope you'll play along with us and share it with us over at the MM blog!  Can't WAIT to see what you create!

Cassidy doing a little baby-washing...she's quite the mama, even if her baby is standing on her head!

SIP21 CAS Christmas

Happy Saturday, everyone!  I have a quick Christmas card to share today!  This was SO easy….only a wee bit of stamping and die-cutting.  Isn’t this cute?

The image is from a DCWV Christmas paper stack and I simply cut it out with a Simon Says Stamp stitched border die and mounted it on a Crumb Cake card base.  I used the same set of dies to cut out a little tag and stamped the sentiment from an older Anna Wight Whippersnapper set called Snowman for Peace, then added an SU enamel dot.  The final addition was a Cherry Cobbler stitched heart (same set), and stamped a little “string” from the AW set on which to hang it.  Easy peasy!  So easy, I am entering it in the Stamp, Ink Paper challenge for this week, which is Clean and Simple Christmas!  Thanks for visiting!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge, too!

Cassidy created her own game with a spoon and some Sorry pieces:

We had a few men catapulting across the table, too!  Enjoy your day!

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Yippee, it’s Wednesday…the week is almost half over!  I am squeaking in a card using the As You See It sketch; I turned it on its side:

After Sunday’s card, I was hankering for some more vintage stuff, and I have TONS of Halloween vintage stamps, so I pulled out this little cat on a broom from Victorian Greetings I got last year and some MME Happy Haunting DSP:

Everything was stamped in Basic Black or Smoky Slate on Naturals White and Cajun Craze, and I also used Gorgeous Grunge and retired Rubbernecker and MFT Halloween sets as well.  There’s a bit of ribbon, twine, sponging and sequins…I loaded it up!

And a bit of stamping on the inside:

Thanks for popping by!

RRBC06 for BW

Happy Friday, everyone!  I am a wee bit sad because earlier this week,  my sister had to say good-bye to her dog, BW.  BW stands for black and white!  She rescued him many years ago from the side of the road, so he was very blessed as a dog!  But he was old and sick, so this is for Gail and her family! 

This is a little busier than I normally do, but I just love these Max and Whiskers papers from Basic Grey; I’ve had them a long time, as I have the dog image and sentiment, both of which are from a Whippersnapper set called Good Dog!  I stamped BW in Memento black and colored him with some copics:

And I used the sketch from the new-to-me challenge, Retro Rubber:

The idea behind this challenge is to use stamps that are at least a year old…this one was probably from around 2008 or 2009!! Thanks for visiting today!

Check out this braid…no, I don’t do hair, this is courtesy of mommy!

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Hey, peeps!  Tuesday morning brings another ColourQ, and is it a cutie!  Check this out:

Wow, I would never have thought to put these colors together, but aren’t they striking?  I knew I wanted to mimic the plaid, but what to use with it?  No kidding, in the last few days of stamping, this is what my craft area looks like:

I counted them, and there are over 20 SU sets there….and I still couldn’t decide what to use!!!  Maybe I have TOO MANY stamps?  Nah!  In the end, I scrounged up an older Whippersnapper pup that hasn’t seen ink for a long time!  What do you think:

The plaid was created with the stripes stencil from the Build a Banner Simply Created kit and sponges;  I used the Hi There sentiment on a Word Bubble die, and stamped the dog in black Stazon and watercolored him with Summer Starfruit.  I wanted to dude it up some more, but in the end, I decided to leave it just as it was!  And here’s the inside:

That sentiment just cracks me up!

I hope you’ll play along with this striking color combo!  You can check out ALL the design team’s samples at the ColourQ…..and share yours too!  See ya there!

Not sure what this conversation was about while we were dining al fresco the other night, but it was quite animated!

Love that face!  Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Hi There (SU), Good Dog (Whippersnapper)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Summer Starfruit, Early Espresso
Ink	Tempting Turquoise, Summer Starfruit, Early Espresso, Island Indigo
Accessories
Tools	Bit Shot, Word Bubble Dies, Stitched Mat Dies (Lil Inker), Aquapainter, Dimensionals

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Happy Monday, everyone!  I hope you all weathered the weekend okay!  It’s time for another Merry Monday challenge!  Lesley has a sketch for us today:

A fun little sketch; I made a 4 1/4” square card for this one:

I don’t think I used this little silhouette image last Christmas, so I thought he would be perfect for the sketch as well as the Festive Friday challenge, which is an inspiration/color challenge of red, white and silver:

as well as the Jingle Belles challenge, which is “Ho Ho H2O”, or to use snow, sleet, ice, etc on your card!  I think my sledding boy fits that just fine:

I used some beautiful SU Silver glimmer paper, a glimmer brad,, some retired SU silver cord and a snowy embossing folder.  Of course, I added a little Dazzling Diamonds “snow” as well!  I hope you’ll be able to play along with us this week and get a good head-start on those Christmas cards for 2013!  You’ll be glad you did!  Be sure to scoot on over to Lesley’s blog, Always Playing with Paper, to see the wonderfully creative cards the DT made this week!

I don’t think I shared these photos….my friend Sandy gave Cassidy some washable markers for Christmas….they were a great hit!

Thanks for visiting---any questions, shoot me an email!  Stay warm!

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Happy, happy Tuesday, everyone!  ColourQ day!  Oooh, check out this pretty little apron:

Anybody could whip up a special batch of Christmas cookies while wearing this little number, right???  Love it!  I cheated a little and substituted Wild Wasabi and Pool Party (cuz I was just too lazy to pull out my old ink!!!) but I still think it’s a fun combo!  What do you think?

The images are all from Jolly BIngo Bits; the paper is from last year’s Domestic Goddess DP pack.  Each square, punched with the Postage Stamp punch, has been embossed, and each image is decorated with a pearl, which qualifies this for the 52 (Christmas) Card Pickup challenge for November, which is pearls!  I also stamped a narrow sentiment on a little flag of vellum, just for fun!

This also uses the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge sketch #172:

I hope you’ll play along with us with these fun, fun colors!  You can check out Arielle’s card, as well as the other designers’, at the ColourQ blog!  They’ll knock your socks off!

A budding artist!

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Merry Monday, everyone!  Lesley has a very pretty sketch for us today:

I dug into my old hoarded stash of DPs and came up with some pretty Basic Grey papers for my card today:

I glittered up a little chipboard snowflake which fit perfectly on top of the snowflake image, and added a glimmer brad:

I also folded my little banner for some interest:

and here’s the simple inside:

I sure hope you’ll play along with us this week!  Check out all the samples at Always Playing with Paper!  Can’t wait to see yours!

We went to the pumpkin farm last week:

She just wanted to play with them!  And here’s my own pumpkin----one of John’s Saturday morning pancakes just happened to look like a pumpkin!  Well, maybe it looks more like a leaf!  LOL!