Paper Players 67

Happy Sunday—that means it’s another Paper Players challenge!  Today Jaydee is our hostess, and she’s got a color challenge for us:

Of course, these colors scream “fall” to me, and since I haven’t felt particularly creative lately, I just went with it…sometimes I do try to think outside the box!  But today wasn’t one of those days, so I pulled out an old standby, Lovely as a Tree, and did some brayering:

I loosely used Sketch #5 from Lesley’s Freshly Made Sketches, with a bit of modification:

My panel was brayered with More Mustard and Cajun Craze, and the trees were stamped with Bravo Burgundy.  The sentiment is a rub-on from Autumn Harvest, and I really thought it looked better at the top of the panel than at the bottom of the card.  I added some linen thread, a button from my stash and some crimped leaves in Bravo Burgundy:

To make the embellishment, I cut a leaf freehand from a piece of Bravo Burgundy.  I pulled the cardstock apart to get two layers.  I folded each leaf in half lengthwise, fuzzy side in and ran it through the crimper at an angle.  Open it up and you have a cool ribbed leaf! 

I hope that you will use these wonderful fall colors on a creation of yours as well!  Share it with us over at the Paper Players, and you just might become a Headliner or a Cut Above!!!  Can’t wait to see what you make!

This is the way Cassidy reads a newspaper:

 

  

Thanks for visiting today!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Lovely as a Tree
• Paper:  Very Vanilla, Bravo Burgundy, Cajun Craze, Autumn Vine DP
• Ink:  Cajun Craze, More Mustard
• Acc:  Rub Ons, Button, Crimper, Linen Thread, Brayer

Mojo 209

After a little outing with my DD and DGD this morning, then painting my bathroom, I rewarded myself this afternoon with some stamping time!  I haven’t done a Mojo Monday sketch for a long time!  Here’s this week’s:

And here’s my card:

I just love these Mischievous papers from My Mind’s Eye SO much---each and every one of them is a keeper!  So cute & shabby chic!  My howling cat image is stamped in Memento ink on Naturals Ivory cardstock and colored with Copics;

then I sponged him lightly and mounted him on a Cajun Craze scallop.  A corduroy button atop the little banner finished it off! 

We took a little trip this morning to Longwood Gardens;  Cassidy is getting harder & harder to photo; she is on the move!  Here are a couple shots:

This pumpkin weighs over 700 lbs!

Go, go, go, go…….to see the…….

Longwood kitty drinking from a pool!  And lots of squirty water things in the children’s garden:

And then time to go home!

Thanks for visiting!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Halloween Cat, 100 Proof Press; Crafty Secrets Spiderweb; SU A Haunting We Will Go
• Paper:  Naturals Ivory, Cajun Craze, MME Mischievous
• Ink:  Memento Black, Marina Mist
• Acc: Corduroy Button, Floss, Nestie, Sponge, Dimensionals, Scallop Border Punch

Merry Little Stocking

Happy Friday!  It’s been rather a whirlwind around our house; my DH had a medical emergency which prompted an overnight stay in the hospital, so I am feeling a bit weary.  He’s okay and home now…we appreciate all the prayers that went out.  I had stamped this sweet little Christmas card last week and this seems like a good time to pull it out:

I had purchased SU’s stocking punch but not the coordinating stamp set; even without that, you can make a cute card!  I had a scrap of Real Red already embossed, so I popped it in the punch, along with a piece of white and Garden Green Patterns DP for the coordinating pieces.  I ran a piece of GG cardstock through my Big Shot using the medium-sized Square Scallop die, then slid it over in the die and ran it through again to get the size of rectangle I wanted.  I stamped the Christmas Collage background stamp on it, sponged the edges, added a sentiment and a little baker’s twine hanger, and my stocking was ready to be the perfect little embellishment for this card!  Thanks for stopping by!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Tiny Tags, Christmas Collage, Four the Holidays
• Paper:  WW, Garden Green, Real Red, Garden Green Patterns DP
• Ink:  Real Red, Garden Green
• Acc:  Scallop Squares Duo, Stocking Punch, Bakers Twine, Dimensionals, Dauber

Sweet Little Pumpkin

Here’s a quick little post featuring a CAS card I did for Monday’s SCS CAS sketch challenge:

I stamped the pumpkin image on some watercolor paper and colored it an aquapainter and reinkers, then layered it on a Crumb Cake circle and a panel of retired Christmas DP, the name of which I cannot remember (and am too lazy to look up!).  I did some paper piercing on the layer, too:

Sweet!  This also qualifies for the Kraft Journal’s Make it Monday challenge of Lavish Layers—I count six!  Thanks for visiting today, too!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Window on the World, Linen (both retired)
• Paper:  Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Christmas DP
• Ink:  Stazon, Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard, Old Olive, Sahara Sand
• Acc:  Lots of Tags Die, Nestie, Circle Punch, Paper Piercer, Aquapainter, Sponge Dauber

ColourQ 105

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It’s ColourQ time!  Here’s today’s bold color palette:

And here’s my card, using a pretty silhouette image from There She Goes:

I stamped each image in the challenge colors and added a scalloped border and an embossed background.  And can you see my little bird hiding among the leaves??  I added a sweet little flower to my PTI sentiment:

and since it’s a thank you card, added a nice sentiment on the inside as well:

I hope you’ll play along with the fresh funky colors—stop on over at the CQC blog to see what the other designers made with these colors!  And we want to see your creation too!

Wee Details:

• Stamps:  Itty Bitty Bits, Act of Kindess, TSG; Friends to the End and Autumn Abundance, PTI
• Paper:  WW, Basic Black, Wisteria Wonder, Pear Pizzazz Patterns DP
• Ink:  Stazon, Chocolate Chip, Wisteria Wonder, Pear Pizzazz
• Acc:  Circle Punch, Polka Dot Ribbon, Scallop Border Punch (EKSuccess), Perfect Polka Dots EF, Itty Bitty Punch Pack flower Punch, Boho Blossom Punch, Pearl, Polka Dot Ribbon

Paper Players 66

Happy Sunday, everyone! Today I am the hostess for the Paper Players, and I’ve chosen a theme for you: music!

You can add music to your card, or let music or a song inspire your creation—any occasion will do!

When I chose this theme a while back, I had a totally different idea for my card….I’ll bet that never happens to you, does it? LOL! Anyway, as I was using the Jolly Jingles jumbo wheel last week, making lunch sacks for my Christmas card class, it occurred to me that there were lots of Christmas lyrics in there! So I was inspired to make my weekly Christmas card using that wheel, some fabulous red Glimmer paper and a few embellishments:

This is a whopping 5 1/2” square; I needed it that big to fit everything on! It is definitely going to be a card for someone real special! Here are some closeups:

This was a lot of fun to make! And taking a tip from Ann, I used a Sharpie marker to color my rhinestones!! Cool! And here’s the inside:

I hope that you’ll play along with us at the Paper Players with your musically-inspired creations! Waltz on over to the Paper Players blog to see all the other designers’ creations and to share yours as well! And here are a couple little musical inspirations for you that knocked my socks off!:

Sugar Plum Fairy

Toccata & Fugue in D Minor - Spooky Halloween Music

Wee Details:

• Stamps: Jolly Jingles jumbo wheel, Many Merry Messages
• Paper: WW, Old Olive, Real Red, Red Glimmer
• Ink: Real Red
• Acc: Circle Punches, Small Star Punch, Merry Details & Northern Frost Dies, Northern Flurry Embossing Folder, Mini Jingle Bells, Pearls, Rhinestones, Rhinestone Brads, Glimmer Brads, Dimensionals, Sharpie Marker

I Love October

Woohoo!  I don’t always post on Saturdays but since it is October 1, and I love October, I made a couple seasonal cards today!  They both use digital images and are colored with Copics, although I was doing them in front of the television last night and in broad daylight, I can see some glaring mishaps that I’ll need to “fix”!  But here they are, warts & all! The first is just an all-purpose card which I left blank; I’ll stamp a sentiment inside when I decide to use it:

The second is a little Halloween box from SU’s Box #2 diecut….my top little jacko is missing some blending on his nose!!!

This is also for Shirley’s Monster Mash Halloween Blog Hop (you can play along—see below) as well as the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge 86 for this week, which is also Halloween!    And the sentiment is a gift from my sweet friend Martha…..how convenient that I made this today, right?  Can you guess who might get this for Halloween?? 

We went to a local orchard this morning and I managed to snag a few pictures before she face-planted in the gravel and the morning went downhill from there!   As it was, the only way I could get her to smile here was to sing “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”….her current favorite song!

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for visiting!  If you have any questions about the projects, just shoot me an email!