JUGS800 O Ribbon Tree

Happy Friday! Yay, the weekend is upon us!  The sweet team over at Just Us Girls is celebrating an amazing milestone--800 challenges!  Woohoo! Congratulations, Girls!

Their theme this week is "Anything Goes", so I am sharing a card I made a couple of days ago.  It actually came out the way I envisioned it--amazing! SU has some beautiful silver and blue ribbon right now and I thought it would make a pretty Christmas tree.  Here we go:

I first cut out a panel of thick Basic White with the Textured Notes dies, then cut out a tree using the new Pine Tree Trimmings die.  I backed the opening with the Misty Moonlight Silver-edged ribbon, added a silver diecut star and a sentiment from Pine Tree Trimmings set:

I popped it up on a white card base, added a sentiment from Words for the Season, and it's finished! CAS and cute!

Be sure to stop over at the JUGS blog--some of the designers have giveaways!  That's always fun!  

Just have to brag on Cassidy a wee little bit--check out this report card! Woohoo!!

And thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words for the Season, Pine Tree Trimmings
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Silver Foil
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Misty Moonlight Silver-edged Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Pine Tree Trimmings Dies

HSS472 Thankful

 Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I was definitely challenged by the colors at Hand Stamped Sentiments this week:

I admit that Darling Duckling is not one of my favorite colors....I might have used it one time since it came out!  But a challenge is a challenge, so here we go:

I pulled out some older plaid DSP; truthfully, the color in it is Island Indigo, but I thought it was close enough to Pretty Peacock to work!  I diecut some Impression Obsession wheat sheaves in Darling Duckling and Timid Tiger, sponging a little ink on each one to give it a little more depth.  They went on an Everyday Arch diecut that was embossing with the Burlap embossing folder from Honey Bee.  The sentiment was an old Hostess set called Six Sayings, and it was fussy cut and popped up, and I did add a few sequins as well:

The inside sentiment is from the new set called Words for the Season:

And speaking of seasons, it's the season for the Solanco Fair!  Dana and I were amazed at this amazing 530-lb pumpkin!!!  It won, obviously!

There was also a big cow (just an advertisement):

And this was my favorite submission in the photo contest; sadly, it didn't win any ribbons, but it was a winner in my book:

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"For the Lord will vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants."  Psalm 135:14

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words For the Season, Six Sayings (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Darling Duckling, Timid Tiger, Pretty Peacock, Autumn Harvest DSP (ret)
Ink	Darling Duckling, Timid Tiger, Pretty Peacock
Accessories	Sequins from my stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Arches Dies, Burlap Embossing Folder (Honey Bee), Wheat Dies (Impression Obsession)

Autumn Toile Trio

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I confess that when crafting or sewing, I tend to gravitate towards tiny prints and wee little designs! However, SU has some lovely larger designs in a fall DSP package called Autumn Toile, and I just love the prints they have designed!  I made some samples for my stamp clubs last week and thought I'd share three of my favorites!  Here we go:

I love pumpkins, so this may be my favorite pattern in the whole bunch! I created a tag using some CTMH Kraft paper and the Nested Essentials dies, adhering a Metallic Rub-on and some sequins, then stamping a sentiment using words from the new Seasonal Tags and Choose Happy:

This pattern is great for a masculine card:

I used a sentiment from Simply Said along with a diecut from the new Words for the Season;  Very Vanilla cardstock was adhered to a piece of Adhesive foam and diecut...it really pops against the tattersall pattern:

And finally, this little foxy print is just so fun as well:

I distressed the Early Espresso mat with the edge of an acrylic ruler, then cut a Crumb Cake partial arch with the Everyday Arches die, added a pine bough from Seasonal Tags, the Thanksgiving from Choose Happy, and the diecut greeting is from Words for the Season:

I hope you love all of these patterns as much as I do! Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

AHSC646 Christmas Patchwork

Hello, stamping friends! We have a fun Atlantic Hearts sketch for you this week:

I recently got these stitched strip dies from Taylored Expressions, and they were perfect for this sketch!  I had lots of scraps left from my Echo Park Christmas papers, so I just cut a bunch of them in coordinating colors.  Here's the end result:

To make adhering the strips easier, I put a piece of adhesive sheet on a piece of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" scrap paper, then placed them down on the adhesive, butting each edge up against the others.  Piece of cake!  I added a tag with a sentiment from the new set Pine Tree Trimmings, and a glimmer "bow" that will make it easy to mail!

I added a sentiment from Words for the Season, along with another stitched strip:

This may look like a challenging sketch, but once you get started, it's not hard at all!  Great to use up all those scrappy strips we all have hanging around!  I hope you'll play with us at Atlantic Hearts this week! And I am going to pop this in over at Inspire.Create as well, as they're looking for Christmas! 

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words for the Season, Pine Tree Trimmings
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Ruby Glimmer Paper (CTMH), Christmas Salutations & Santa Claus Lane (Echo Park)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Pierced Blooms Dies (ret), Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession)

PP752 Happy Autumn

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess this week with a wonderful sketch, I just love it:

I turned the sketch on its side, because I wanted to highlight one of the lovely little scenes on the new papers from the upcoing Holiday catalog; it's called Autumn Toile:

I paired it up with a Pecan Pie scalloped border and some Timeless Plaid papers.  In addition, I brought back an old favorite cardstock color--remember Mellow Moss?! It seemed to match those leaves perfectly, so you can see a wee bit of it behind the plaid layer!  I also used a new sentiment bundle called Words for the Season:

I stamped the "happy" on another scrap of Timeless Plaid, and the "Autumn" is cut from Cajun Craze.  Here's the sentiment I chose for the inside:

I am thrilled with this sketch using these pretty fall papers, and I hope you'll play along with us at the Players as well!  Fall is probably my favorite season, so you'll be seeing more of these papers in the future!   Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed! And this week, I'll be spending some time with the family so I'll be taking a wee bit of a blog vacation!  

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words for the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, Mellow Moss (ret), Autumn Toile DSP, Timeless Plaid DSP, Adhesive Sheet
Ink	Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Words for the Season Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Layering Ovals Dies (ret)