PPA164 & CC1

Ah, it’s Friday---finally!  I spent yesterday chasing after the wee one, swimming in the kiddie pool, and making pickles!  I barely got in enough time to stamp, but I did manage to make one card!  It’s for the Pals Paper Arts sketch challenge 164:

as well as the new inspiration challenge from Stacey’s Curtain Call:

There was so much to choose from in the inspiration photo, but I stuck to a “natural” nautical theme and I got to use some new diecuts!!!

The sentiment is from a retired SU set called Winds of Grace; the DP is retired from last year.  I hope it’s okay that I used the knot on the paper as my third banner!!!  

This will be a great masculine birthday card and I know just to whom it will go!

This week Cassidy had her first dental appointment!  A wee bit apprehensive at first:

She smiled for the camera:

So far so good…having Lambie is helpful (but the shades didn’t last!):

Not liking the taste of the fluoride:

Happiness is when it’s all over:

But THIS is really what she was looking forward to!!!

Thanks for popping by!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Winds of Grace (ret SU)
Card stock & Papers	Text Sahara Sand, Naturals Ivory, Midnight Muse, Baked Brown Sugar, Nautical Expedition DP (ret)
Ink	Midnight Muse, Sahara Sand
Accessories	MFT Sea Charms Dies, Woodgrain EF, Burlap, Twine, Candy Dots, Nestie Petite Scallop Circle, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
Tools	Big SHot

Polka Dotted PP153

Hey peeps!  We’re half-way through the week!  I know lots of you are going to the SU Convention….can’t wait to see all the fun stuff that will be happening!!!  I’ll be back here in PA, holding down the fort……LOL!

Anyway, in my Paper Players post on Sunday, I showed you how you could use the Six-Sided Sampler polka dot image and a circle punch to create a….polka dotted circle!  There was a polka dot challenge out in the blog world somewhere, and that was my original intent for making this card, but I didn’t write it down and can’t find it now.  But the card is still cute…kinda silly, but I wanted to use up all the circles I had punched out:

Cassidy has a Baby Einstein DVD she used to watch all the time, and there was a little puppy who could hear a rumbling sound in the background….he cocked his ear and waited….and bam!  I whole load of multi-colored balls fell on his head!  Cassidy knew what was coming and she would get so excited because she knew that little pup was going to be conked on the head!  Anyway, that’s what this card reminds me of…..a puppy so excited he can’t figure out which ball to play with first!  I stamped him in Baked Brown Sugar and then colored him in with a blender pen and popped him up:

And of course, I had to add some bouncing balls on the inside too:

Like I said, a silly card, but kids love silly cards, so this will probably go to one of my nephews!

Project Details
Stamps	Six-Sided Sampler, Animal Talk
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White
Ink	Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Baked Brown Sugar
Accessories	Blender Pen, Dimensionals
Tools	Assorted Circle Punches

Cassidy was trying her hand (or should I say "feet") at climbing!

Enjoy your day!!!

RS72 & DD61 and Finally Some Sequins

Happy Thursday everyone!  I wanted to play with two challenges before the week was out, and I managed to squeak in some stamping time yesterday!  The Dynamic Duos challenge was Pink Pirouette and Sahara Sand, and the RetroSketches sketch was by my sweet friend Lisa:

Rarely do I put 3D items on my cards, as they make it difficult to mail, but I threw caution to the wind and pulled out a flower from my Artisan Embellishments kit from the last mini, along with some other sweet goodies:

I sponged the white doily with Very Vanilla ink to match better, and grunged up the card base with some Gorgeous Grunge (love that name!) and stamped the sentiment from A Dozen Thoughts in Smoky Gray….it works great on the Sahara Sand …not too dark and not too light!  Here’s a closeup of the elements:

And finally……SEQUINS!!!  Tada!  I kept forgetting a had a little stash, and these worked perfectly for the colors:

So cute!  I loved making this, even though at first the sketch intimidated me!  Glad I persevered!

Some pensive shots:

Thanks for visiting today!

Wee  Details
Stamps	Everything Eleanor, Gorgeous Grunge, A Dozen Thoughts
Card stock & Papers	Sahara Sand, Pink Pirouette, Patterns Sahara Sand
Ink	Sahara Sand, Pink Pirouette, Smoky Gray, Very Vanilla
Accessories	Artisan Embellishments (ret), Crochet Trim, Sequins, Very Vintage Designer Buttons, Flower Trim (ret), Doily, Linen Thread
Tools	Apothecary Accents Framelits, Big Shot, Sponge

ColourQ198

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Are you staying cool?  Wow, it’s really hot here in PA!  Even Cassidy’s kiddie pool water is too warm!   Well, here are some colors from Arielle that should cool you off:

I have to tell you, even though we’ve had similar color combinations, this one threw me for a loop.  I made a TERRIBLE card before deciding on going really, really simple:

I stamped the shells in each of the three cool challenge colors, cut them out and popped them up on an embossed panel,  then added the little museum number (what do you call that thing?) in Raspberry Ripple.

I added a mat in each of the colors and added a cheesecloth image (stamped off once) on the background.   I left it sentiment-less and will add it when I decide for what occasion I will be using this!

Soooo….what will you make with these colors?  Hop on over to the ColourQ blog to be inspired by the others’ creations as well! 

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Nature Walk, ret SU; Cheesecloth, Cornish Heritage Farms; Boardwalk, Artistic Outpost
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Raspberry Ripple, Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade
Ink	Raspberry Ripple, Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade
Accessories	SU Scorer, Dimensionals
Tools

DH is doing some construction, and Cassidy looked at those pieces of  wood  as gigantic building blocks:

Her imagination never stops!

Merry Monday July Anything Goes

Happy Monday, peeps….Merry Monday, that is!  Another week for the “Anything Goes” challenge over at Lesley’s Always Playing with Paper blog!  I had a limited amount of stamping time this weekend, so I let my DP from MME do all the work:

Okay, I did a little work!  I added a doily, a banner, some felt snowflakes and a glittery diecut snowflake:

Stuck them on and I was done!  Easy peasy!  Check out the other designers’ creations, as well as all the amazing entries, at Always Playing with Paper!  Jingle jingle!!!

Enjoy your day!!

Wee Details
Stamps	None
Card stock & Papers	Marina Mist, All is Bright DP, MME
Ink	None
Accessories	Doily, Felt Snowflakes, Adhesive Sheet (SU), TE Snowflake Die, MS Glitter
Tools	Big Shot

And thanks to my blog friend Judy, who helped me set up this nice little table!!!  ♥

Paper Players 154

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Hope your weekend has been swell so far!  Today the lovely, talented Nance is our hostess with an awesome color challenge for us:

Aren’t they fun?  I had all sorts of ideas in my head, but I had one stamp set I hadn’t inked up yet, Around the World, so I got to stamping, stamping, stamping, as my friend Linda says, and made my own designer paper since I didn’t have any in the challenge colors!  No problem!

Because of the size of the images, I had some white space between them, so I filled them in with some little images from the Itty Bitties set, sort of keeping with the traveling theme!  I used some elements from the Tag a Bag Accessority kit---the label and the twine---to add some interest:

And did you know that the 1” circle punch fits the hexagons from the Six-Sided Sampler set?  How cool is that?  In fact, that made me so excited, I came up with another card just using those polka dots…but you’ll have to come back later for that!  I also added some chevron embossing and a little zigzag trim!  And since this will be for my BIL, who is a pilot, I am entering this in the ART challenge 5, which is for masculine birthdays!

How about “traveling” on over to the Paper Players blog so you can see what the others came up with?  And share your project with us too!  Can’t wait to see it!

Having some fun in the sun (what little we had this week) with cousin Trent:

Enjoy your day!

CTS 36

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Just a quick card this morning, CAS it is, for the (CAS)E This Sketch challenge this week:

I went a bit literal here; I had this gorgeous piece of Epic Day This & That paper, and I wanted to use it for something that wouldn’t hide the pretty pattern.  I stamped the larger image from Everything Eleanor in white and added the bird in Stazon along with a sentiment from my new favorite set, A Dozen Thoughts:

I did a little shadow around the outside of the panel to make it stand out a bit and then added a few random pearls and it’s done!

Easy peasy!  Be sure to come back tomorrow to see what the Paper Players have come up with for their next challenge, too!

I am blessed to have a haircutting friend who comes to my door, so Dana asked her if she would trim Cassidy’s hair a bit. 

Cassidy sat very, very still (amazing):

But she wasn’t real happy about the squirt of water on her hair:

But Mommy was there to hug her when it was all over:

And she got to help clean up!  (Can  you see how much she took off?  Not much!)

And for being a good girl, she got to run in the puddles!

Thanks for visiting today!