MTS189 Three Wise Owls

Happy Monday, peeps!  I hope you had a good weekend....I know I did!  I have two stamp classes today so this will be short and sweet.....this is such a silly little card, I almost didn't post it, but I liked the Match the Sketch sketch this week (love my "threes"!!):

and I wanted to make a quick card as a sample for my class, highlighting the new Spooky Cat set which will be in the upcoming Holiday Catalog.  What a FUN set....I'll have more samples using it real soon!  So for my card today, I stamped two owls in Smoky Slate and one in Crumb Cake, then added the overlays in Soft Suede and Crushed Curry:

I added a tree limb from the Seasonal Layers Thinlets, a moon I punched from Crushed Curry cardstock and I stamped a few lines from the same set....that's what I wish I had left alone, but the Basic Gray mat looked a little plain.  Anyway, I love how the sentiment and eye rings fit right on top of the owl's body:

I mounted it on a Crushed Curry card base and stamped a simple "Trick or Treat" on the inside!  I know I'll be using this set a lot this fall!  Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for our next Stamp Ink Paper challenge too!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Spooky Cat, Carols of Christmas
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Basic Gray, Wood Textures DSP
Ink	Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Crushed Curry
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Seasonal Layers Thinlets, Sponge Dauber, Dimensionals, 1 3/4" Circle Punch

Paper Players 357 Bee Better Soon

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Sandy is our wonderful hostess at the Paper Players today and she has a fun, summery color palette for us:

I am always low on get-well cards, so I thought I would use these cheerful colors with a bee-themed stamp set from Darcie's Heart and Home called BEEutiful:

I used the CAS(E) This Sketch for this week as well:

I stamped my beehive in Calypso Coral on some DSP from the Petal Garden stack, then fussy-cut it out and mounted it on a white panel that had been embossed with the Softly Falling embossing folder; I also stamped a little bee in Smoky Slate:

For my vertical panel, I stamped the edge of my Pear Pizzazz card with a MFT stamp called Distressed Background Blocks in Versamark, then I dabbed on some green chalk...remember those pastels that SU used to sell....yep, I still have 'em!  I love the soft effect it gives.  I also added a stitched border and some Calypso Coral baker's twine:

Finally, I stamped my sentiment on a little banner and added a wee little piece of matching washi tape from several years back!!  Still have that too!

I hope you'll pop by the Paper Players blog to see all the other designers' creations as well, or check them out here:

Claire

Jaydee

Joanne

Laurie

Nance

Sandy

Deanne

Annie

Jan

 Cassidy will be home today, and although it has been quiet here and I've enjoyed it, I am anxious to see her!  She starts school in two weeks!!!  Here she is at Jellystone Park in Fremont, IN, relaxing with Yogi and eating her favorite mint chocolate chip ice cream!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	BEEutiful (Darcie's Heart and Home), Distressed Background Blocks (My Favorite Things)
Card stock & Papers	Pear Pizzazz, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Petal Garden Stack DSP
Ink	Versamark, Bermuda Bay, Calypso Coral, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Washi Tape (ret), Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Scallop Borders Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Pastels (ret), Dimensionals, Softly Falling EF

FMS300 and JAI372 Stitched Hi

 

Hi everyone!  Yay, it's Saturday...lazy, kickback kind of day today!  It's cloudy and dreary so I spent a little extra time in my stamp room this morning, making a card using the 300th FMS sketch and the pretty JAI colors:

 

 Thursday night I went to a craft night at my local library....people just bring projects that they're working on, so I brought a Paper Pumpkin kit and got caught up on a few projects.  A couple of women were working on sewing projects and one of them gave all of us some sewing-themed bandaids she got at a local fabric store.  Aren't these CUTE:

 Adorable!   I wanted to thank her, so I pulled out a Paper Smooches set that I just had to have and have barely inked up, called Needle Little Love, and here's what I came up with:

 I did a little paper piecing with some Pool Party DSP for the sewing machine, adding a little enamel dot, along with a "stitched" sentiment and little needle:

 

 I stamped both the Tranquil Tide and Powder Pink panels with images from the set and added a line of cross stitches along the outside edges of the thick white cardstock base, along with a little Powder Pink ribbon:

 And on the inside, I combined one of the sentiments with a past Paper Pumpkin sentiment and stamped it on a Stitched Shape square and added a little Pool Party button:

Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (not sure of the set), Needle Little Love (Paper Smooches)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Tranquil Tide, Powder Pink, Pool Party Patterns DSP (ret)
Ink	Tranquil Tide, Powder Pink, Smoky Slate, Basic Black
Accessories	Powder Pink Satin Ribbon, Enamel Dot (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Dimensionals

AYSI156 Poppy Sympathy

Hello everyone!  It's Friday....the end of the week, yippee!  And it's time for another As You See It challenge; this week it is a color challenge!  And it was a challenge for me!

You all know my feelings about Lemon Lime Twist (although I am getting a little more used to it), and I rarely use Elegant Eggplant.  So to match up these colors with Real Red was a real stretch for me.  Unfortunately, I needed another sympathy card, and I remembered this pretty PTI set called Botanical Silhouettes:

Because of the strong colors, I kept this card very clean and simple!  I stamped the stems along the side of the card, and since they didn't quite reach the edge, I filled them in with a Lemon Lime Twist marker.  I added the poppies in Real Red and the sentiment and border in Elegant Eggplant

I also used the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches:

The inside of the card used the dandelion image from the same set along with a diecut and sentiments from another PTI set, Inspired: Prayer.  I also stamped some speckles from Gorgeous Grunge.

It was interesting to see how the others on the DT used these colors...I hope you'll stop over to the AYSI blog, check them out, and be bold and share your creation with us too!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gorgeous Grunge (ret), Botanical Silhouettes and Inspired:Prayer (Papertrey Inc)
Card stock & Papers	Rustic White (Papertrey), Elegant Eggplant
Ink	Lemon Lime Twist, Elegant Eggplant, Real Red
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Prayer Die (Papertrey), Dimensionals, Lemon Lime Twist Marker, MISTI Tool

For Your Shower with Altenew

Happy Thursday, peeps!  My SIL wanted a bridal shower card, so I got up my courage to use my Altenew Painted Flowers stamps---for some reason, they intimidate me a little.  But I was happy with how this turned out....still experimenting with the placement, but I do like the colors!

This is a tall card, 7 x 3 1/2", so I did make a custom envelope which I forgot to photograph!  After stamping the flowers in Basic Black, Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral and Mint Macaron,  I filled in the smaller blooms with a white gel pen.  I added a black stitched scallop die trim, black gingham and a piece of burlap that was cut with a large scallop die:

And finally, a little banner with a SU sentiment at the bottom:

I really like the country feel to this!

So Cassidy is having a good time camping, but apparently she has to work to earn her keep!  Her daddy sent Dana this photograph, and it took me a few minutes to realize what exactly was going on...I thought she had some fur or feathers at her feet until I got a good look at her Pop Pop's head...she is giving him a hair cut!!!  You can just see the trimmer in her hand on the side of his head! And apparently she did Daddy's before she did his.  I particularly like the toes....so funny!  And remember, she's not even seven yet.  Not many people would let their six-year-old cut their hair, LOL!

I hope this give you as much of a chuckle as it did me!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes, Painted Flowers (Altenew)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake
Ink	Basic Black, Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral, Mint Macaron
Accessories	Black Gingham Ribbon (ret), Burlap (Michael's), Adhesive Sheets
Tools	Big Shot, Scallop Borders Die (Pretty Pink Posh), Stitched Labels 1 (Pretty Pink Posh), White Gel Pen, Dimensionals

Viva la Verve

Hi everyone!  Hope your week is going well so far!  I found a pretty sketch at the Viva la Verve blog:

I never realized how much I depend on sketches to get me "going"!!  I needed a special birthday card, so I put this sketch to good use, using some papers from Petal Garden DSP and a pretty verse and image from Inky Antics:

I used a doily from my stash for the horizontal panel, and added some glimmer and white ribbons to hide the cut edge.  I stamped the verse and bird directly on to the DSP with Tangerine Tango ink, and added a birthday sentiment from Beautiful Bouquet in Pool Party:

I added another strip of that pretty DSP on the inside and another sentiment from Colorful Seasons:

Thanks for visiting today!

SIP111 Beach and Boardwalk

 

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's time for another Stamp Ink Paper challenge!  Can you handle another beach-themed project?!  I hope so!

 

 I haven't done a vintage-style creation in a while, and I remembered I had this cool Artistic Outpost set called Boardwalk.  There are so many fun, vintage Atlantic City, NJ, boardwalk images in it, I had to make my card pretty large - it's 5 1/2" square - to fit in all the ones I wanted to use!  Check it out:

My base is Very Vanilla, and I stamped some of the images directly on a piece of last year's By the Shore DSP; the popped-up images were stamped on Very Vanilla and fussy cut.  Here's a line-up of bathing beauties and a ticket to Atlantic City's Steel Pier:

 

Another bathing beauty:

 

The Boardwalk's Steel Pier Pavilion:

 

and a little beach cabana and some other random stamped images:  

They were all stamped and sponged in various pastel shades, except the center emblem, which was stamped in Peekaboo Peach....that one came out rather bright, but I left it there!  The main panel is mounted on a Pool Party mat on which I stamped the Burlap background stamp.  I added some sequins, candy dots and a bit of ribbon just for fun!  Since it's so large, I will need to create its own special envelope with my Envelope Punch Board!  I hope you'll give summer and the beach a last fling with your beachy creation!  Share it with us at Stamp Ink Paper and check out what the others did as well!

Cassidy's daddy was kind enough to send us this shot of her at the campground in Indiana....I am willing to bet she is riding all over that place on her bike! She and her daddy have birthdays a week apart, so this is an extra-special trip for them!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Burlap, Boardwalk (Artistic Outpost)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pool Party, By the Shore DSP (ret)
Ink	Mint Macaron, Pool Party, Coastal Cabana, Sweet Sugarplum, Flirty Flamingo, Peekaboo Peach, Crumb Cake, Bermuda Bay, Powder Pink
Accessories	Ribbon (ret), Coastal Cabana Thick Baker's Twine (ret), Candy Dots (ret), Sequins from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Banners Die (Nestabilities), Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers