FMS252 Thinking of You

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I seem to be drawn to unusual color combos this week, not sure what's going on!  When I saw the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

I just knew I wanted to use some of the pretty papers from Floral Boutique and a die from Swirly Scribbles....but I just couldn't make it work with any of the blue hues I was searching for.  So I went in a totally opposite direction and chose a white diecut on top of a Melon Mambo circle on which I stamped one of the Swirly Bird images in Craft White:

I added some Wild Wasabi leaves, and a little strip of Melon Mambo, stamped in white with a grid from Timeless Textures....and a couple of sequins for fun:

My final addition was a little sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes, stamped in Night of Navy.  A little unusual, but I think it is cheerful and I hope the recipient will like it!

Cassidy asked me for some vegetable seeds because she wanted to plant something in the garden...and John just happened to be ready to plant some fall spinach, so off they went:

Hopefully we'll have a nice row of spinach in a few weeks!  Enjoy your day!

TGIF71, SIP64 and CASology 214 Seashells

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I am switching gears, going back to summery stamping, when I saw the CASology challenge of Beach!  It was too good to pass up!  I combined it with the Less is More challenge from Stamp, Ink, Paper and the TGIF color challenge:

The colors in the TGIF challenge were unique together so I used them sparingly, stamping the large and small shell from the retired set Stipple Shells in Sweet Sugarplum, and another small one in Rich Razzleberry.  The speckles (Gorgeous Grunge) were stamped in Blushing Bride and the sentiment (ret. Beautiful Beach) was stamped in Rich Razzleberry.  I added a few sequins, mounted it on a Very Vanilla card base and called it a day at the beach!

 

I did pop up two of the small shells just for fun!  Thanks for visiting today!  

I neglected to share a pretty card Cassidy got for her birthday that my friend Doris made; it's a shaker card with birdseed in it!  So fun!  She gave Cassidy some stickers too!

 And here's a closeup of the card:

I love the shading on the bird....so realistic!  Thanks, Doris!

TO65 Falling Leaves

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have been loving the weather this week, but summer isn't ready to say adios quite yet!  But I am in the fall stamping mood for sure!  The Time Out challenge this week is about leaves and fall, a perfect one for this time of the year.  On my Pinterest board, I saw this stunning card from Julie Beech  (scroll down to the fifth card) and knew I just had to recreate it with Vintage Leaves:

I stamped the leaves on the front of a Very Vanilla card, masking and sponging them; I used Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Delightful Dijon, Crumb Cake and Cajun Craze inks, then added some spatters with Soft Suede.  I added a little strip of Chocolate Chip to each side of the side panels (they look uneven in the photo, but they're not!!!) and used lots of dimensionals to attach it to the front of the card.  Of course, I forgot to stamp the sentiment (a past Paper Pumpkin) so I carefully did that, then added another leaf on front, stamped in Tangerine Tango:

 

When it was all finished, I realized the fold was on the bottom and I stamped and assembled everything upside down!  A little more cutting and gluing and it was all good!  But I am sure you have never had to do that!!!

I forgot to share how Cassidy laid out her clothes for the first day of school:

Of course, she spilled something on her shirt at breakfast time, so we had to resort to shirt "B"!

Enjoy your day!

The Challenge 76 Basket of Wishes

Hi everyone! Happy Labor Day to those in the States! I had a quiet Sunday and did a little stamping and watercoloring with SU's new Basket of Wishes and the sketch from Lesley's The Challenge:

This card features a side fold, only because I already had a piece of Crumb Cake folded this way and I was too lazy to cut another one!  I stamped my image in Stazon ink on Shimmery White cardstock and used inks and an aquapainter to color it in:

I just love fall images, don't you?  And these are very easy to line up as they are photopolymer!  I used a pretty piece of Moroccan DSP for my horizontal piece and stamped the sentiment in Cajun Craze!  Easy peasy!  I stamped the pumpkins on the back of the Crumb Cake envelope too, just for a little extra pizzazz!  Thanks for popping in today!

We were finally able to have a little get-together for Cassidy and the cousins and neighbor children.  After slip-n-sliding, swimming in the kiddie pool, riding bikes and cavorting on the swings, someone got the great idea of chasing butterflies with a net, which then turned into chasing each other!  I love their imaginations!

Needless to say, they ALL slept very well that night!  Enjoy your day!

Paper Players 311 Birthday Balloons

Happy Sunday, all!  If you're on the east coast, I pray that the hurricane hasn't affected you too much!  Jaydee is our hostess today at the Paper Players and she has a fun challenge:

I remember being SO excited the first time I purchased some circle dies.....it opened up a whole new creative world!  But since my mojo has been hiding lately, instead of the circular card I wanted to make, I opted to use this new balloon die my friend Martha gave me a wee bit ago.  I am not quite sure what I was thinking when I chose this color combination of Peekaboo Peach, Calypso Coral and Flirty Flamingo, but I guess I thought it would look pretty together.....not too sure about it though.  But here it is:

I used the sketch from this week's Match the Sketch as a starting point:

I used a Very Vanilla card base, with Playful Palette and By the Shore DSPs; the balloons were cut from Calypso Coral, and the sentiment from the hostess set Time of Year was stamped with Basic Black and fussy-cut.  My horizontal panel is Flirty Flamingo and it is stamped with a little border from Christmas Pines...so many fun things in that set!  The "wishes" is from a stamp set from The Paper Studio.  I added some black ribbon and a few black sequins:

I hope that you'll play along with our circle challenge this week!  I am looking forward to seeing some fun creations!  Check out what the DT made as well:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance 
• Sandy
• Linda
• Hannelie
• Colleen

A little coloring time with Grampy:

Enjoy your day!

FF95 Bear Hugs

Happy Friday, peeps!  A quick post and a quick card for today using Fab Friday's sketch:

Going through some of my old SU stuff, I found a card kit from a couple years back that had these fun little notecards, so I thought I would use this one for a birthday card for my nephew:

I paired it with some retired DSP that had a grunge look to it; a bear from last year's Thankful Forest Friends and a sentiment from The Paper Studio.  I added a couple of circle mats, a tag from Simon Says Stamp and some candy dots too!  The elements were stamped with Timeless Textures, and the bear was stamped with Soft Suede.  I added some shadowing to give him a little depth using ink and a blender pen:

He kinda makes me smile!  And so does this wee one, on a rainy trip to the bus stop.  Check out those socks!

  

Enjoy your day!

Chicken Wings!

Happy September, everyone!  Hope you're having a great week so far!  My card today is for three challenges:  Stamp Ink Paper's Wonderful Wings; Freshly Made Sketches' sketch; and Retro Rubber's Critter Time:

Now, don't laugh, but chickens DO have wings, so my critter is a chicken, from a set called Countryside, which is from 2010.  I pulled out some scraps from my bin, punched some circles, did a wee bit of stamping, and this is what I ended up with:

I always wanted a chicken wire stamp, but I never did get one! I did remember that I had a Crafty Secrets digital image, so I printed it out on some Naturals White cardstock;  the chicken is stamped in Cherry Cobbler, and each circle is sponged with a little Sahara Sand ink to give it a vintage look:

I stamped a "hello" (Papertrey's What the Doodle Feather) in Delightful Dijon, added some thick baker's twine and my country creation was done!

Pix from the last hurrah of summer at Dutch Wonderland:

Have a blessed day and thank you for visiting!