Paper Players 268

Hi everyone!  Happy Sunday!  Today, I am the hostess at the Paper Players with a sketch for you!  Here you go:

Today I veered away from fall and Halloween creations again, giving my beloved Mint Macaron a little love!  I needed a thank you card for someone who did me a big favor, so I cut some of the Color Collection DSP into strips, did a few layers of cardstock and added a sentiment from Friendly Phrases:

I rescued a Basic Black scallop that I had been chasing around my desk, unused from another project, added it beneath my circle, and stamped the “thank you” from the retired Itty Bitty Banners in Basic Black.  The flower embellishments are from Endless Thanks, stamped and fussy-cut; the larger ones have a candy dot center; the smaller ones, I simply filled in with a black marker!  Some narrow grosgrain ribbon finished it off!

I have to tell you, the designers outdid themselves with this sketch this week!  I hope you’ll visit them all, then use their ideas to inspire you as well!  Can’t wait to see what you create!

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

The one-cheek method of stamping!

MTS095, AYSI 109 and TSTR262

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Got anything fun planned this weekend?  I am going to stay home and clean my stamp room…..it is a disaster area!  I squeezed in some stamping time late, late last night for these three challenges:

Match the Sketch:

As You See It:

and The Shabby Tea Room:

I saw a card made with this CTMH stamp recently and was lucky enough to snag one online, and it arrived in the mail yesterday, so I quickly inked it up!  I love these colors together; a recent issue of Better Homes & Gardens used these colors too, and even though I’ll never see a Lost Lagoon leaf in real life, I think they’re pretty here!

My little pumpkin is from Recollections, and the sentiment is from My Creative Time’s Mixed Holiday Sentiments.  I almost forgot that I had this pretty Lost Lagoon baker’s twine from SAB, so I added a piece to complement the stitched leaves from Lawn Fawn!

Such a fun subway art-style image!

We took a last trip to the local farm to pick up a few more pumpkins!

“They’re too heavy, Grampy, YOU carry them!”

These looked like a wheelbarrow full of geese!!!

Enjoy the day!

SIP19 Boo Box

Happy Friday, peeps!  I have another little Halloween project for you today; it’s really quite easy and fun to do.  This was the “bonus” project for my Halloween Treat stamp camp, and they all enjoyed it!  It’s also perfect for Sandy’s Tic Tac Toe challenge at Stamp, Ink Paper:

I believe I got seven out of the nine, not too bad!   I took a Tiny Treat Box and covered the sides and top with some Happy Haunting DSP.  I stamped my kitty and pumpkin in Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black, then did some fussy cutting and adhered them together and put them on the front.  This is one of my favorite vintage Halloween stamps; I am pretty sure it came from 100 Proof Press:

On the top of the box, I added a black glimmer paper “boo” from Boo to You framelits along with some black and orange sequins:

And the surprise is this little bat that pops up out of the box when you open it!  It’s the bat from Cheer All Year, mounted on a thin strip of window sheet.  His wings are curled inward, and the window sheet strip is mounted to the center bottom with a glue dot:

After you put your candy inside, tuck the bat down on top of the candy, as shown; the wings need to be curled enough to fit inside (a bone folder works well, as one of my customers told me!!!), then just fold the lid down and it’s ready for trick-or-treat night!  I did trim the side flaps  of the lid, but that was just my choice….you don’t have to do it!

I also stamped the sentiment from Cheer All Year on the inside lid as shown.  These little 2” boxes are so much fun to make, I hope you’ll try one too!

We taught Cassidy how to play Sorry!, since I was a wee bit tired of Candyland!  She did really well….and Grampy lost!

Enjoy your day!

Kraft Journal 246

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  I hadn’t played too much with my Curvy Keepsake die lately, and when I saw this adorable creation by Rachel Tessman, I knew I had to make one of my own!  The Kraft Journal has a scarecrow challenge this week and since I don’t have any scarecrow stamps, I thought this would be perfect!

Mine’s a wee bit different from Rachel’s; I used Crumb Cake for my box, stamping the line image from Gorgeous Grunge in Sahara Sand (stamped off) in both directions on each portion of it, shading the edges as well. I used a few punches for the eyes, cut out the nose freehand, and drew on the mouth and added a wee bit of “rouge” with Watermelon Wonder and a sponge dauber!

His “hair” was created by using a crimper on Hello Honey, Crumb Cake and So Saffron scraps, then cutting them into strips, gathering them together and tying them with some linen thread and adhering them to the top of the box with Sticky Strip.  I diecut a black crow from an old Sizzlet (Birds & Blooms, I believe) and created a tag with the acorn from September’s Paper Pumpkin kit; I used a Cajun Craze marker to ink up a portion of a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes:

Hmmmm…..I might just fill him up with some candy and give him away as a door prize tonight at my Halloween treat class!  What do you think?

Cassidy wanted to make some Halloween cards for her friends on the bus…I’ll just show you one today!  She was fascinated by this black spiderweb paper, but I told her she could only stamp with white on it, so we picked out a little ghost stamp and I helped her stamp them all around the edge.  She then insisted on giving them smiles:

All of them….I guess she doesn’t realize ghosts are supposed to be spooky!  Lots of little Caspers here!

Don’t they make YOU want to smile?  Enjoy your day!

TSOT241 for Pastor Appreciation Month

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Wow, there has been some weird weather this week….floods and mudslides in California, snow in Canada and northern New York, and frosty temps here in Pennsylvania!  I hunkered down in my wooly sweater and fuzzy socks to make a fall-like card for my pastor, since October is Pastor Appreciation Month:

This uses the sweet sketch from Try Stampin’ On Tuesday for this week…even though it’s not my team’s week, I just couldn’t pass up making a card with it! 

I used a plethora of retired DSPs and even some of the bark-like paper from the holiday catalog a few years ago!  Remember that?  And this verse is from one of the very first SU stamps I ever purchased, Say it with Scriptures!  It’s pretty worn out but I won’t part with it!  I stamped it in Cajun Craze on Crumb Cake cardstock, then added some leaves and dots from the September Paper Pumpkin set:

It was punched with the Scalloped Tag Topper punch, then trimmed with a retired Edgelit (whose name I can’t remember!) in Early Espresso!  I pulled out some more retired stuff….a corduroy button and stitched ribbon….to finish it off!  I also got some inspiration from the Essentials by Ellen Pin-Sight Challenge, courtesy of Michele, shown here:

My pastor is an interim, and after a very rough time in our church, is filling in and trying to help us all heal and move forward with great anticipation as to what the Lord will be doing.  He’s doing a wonderful job, so I want to let him know! 

A little MegaBlock action!

A home for an elephant…..

and a dinosaur!

Enjoy your day!

Snow Place Like Home

Happy Monday, peeps!  I have a cute little Christmas card today, although I hesitate to share it because it features the Sleigh Ride framelits, and of course, they are on backorder at SU because of their popularity!  Hopefully everyone will get theirs before the holidays, because they do make super cute cards! 

I started with a Soft Sky base and embossed another SS panel with the Softly Falling EF, then added a line of diecut trees and a line of diecut houses:

I colored in the trees and houses with markers:

I even added some “snow” to the trees with a white gel pen:

I finished it with a sentiment from Snow Place, stamped in Rose Red….does anyone use Rose Red anymore?  Such a pretty color with Soft Sky!  And I resisted adding glitter, because I thought it looked pretty just the way it was!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy received a sweet little stuffed animal from our 8-year-old neighbor, Gloria, so I suggested that she stamp her a thank you card:

She stamped the scottie dog from Hey, Girl and colored it in with markers, adding a “thanks”, balloon and some grass (and a glimmer brad!):

Then I told her how to spell what she wanted to say!

We’re working on our letters and now she knows a wee bit of punctuation, too!
Enjoy your day!

Paper Players 267

Hello all!  It’s Sunday and Nance is our sweet hostess today for the Paper Players, and she has a sweet clean and simple challenge for us:

Oh, I had so many ideas in my head, and in the end, probably didn’t end up with a card as clean and simple as I could have!  That’s unusual, because I really like the CAS style, but I like my final result, and this looks more complex than it really is!  I used last week’s As You See It sketch (it’s closed now, though) because I really loved it, and it fit the look I was trying to achieve:

I love this Darice embossing folder but I only use it a few times each fall!  I chose Mossy Meadow as my top layer, a color that I like but sometimes forget about!  I took a page from an old house plant book and layered it behind my Lawn Fawn stitched leaf, then added a sentiment from Happy Scenes on an Itty Bitty Banner diecut:

Some sponging, linen thread and a couple of sequins finished it off.  I did add a little line of Crumb Cake-stamped acorns down the left side, which is from an older autumn Impression Obsession set.  This was a sympathy card for a fellow cardmaker and I hope it brought her a wee bit of comfort.

What CAS leafy creation will you share with us this week?  Check out the other designers’ cards…not all of them are fall leaves, either! Here are their links:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

Cassidy took her tall doll (from a friend in Australia) and dressed her in some of her own clothing…pants and hightops….. and a doll bathrobe!  Then she helped her “walk” down the hall!  And yes, there’s a half-naked baby laying on the bed too!

Later on, she changed her into her own jacket and then used the sleeves to tie her to the swing!  She has imagination!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!