Just a Card For Fun

Happy Friday, everyone!  I have low mojo today....so you're getting a simple card, no challenges, just some paper, a diecut and a pretty little sentiment stamp:

This particular pattern from the Painted Seasons DSP was my absolute FAVORITE!  It just reminded me of fairy tales from when I was young...I love the colors and images, I just couldn't wait to get it!  I had diecut some rectangles from a scrap of white paper and had this frame left over, so I merely put the DSP behind it, stamped the word "friend" in Poppy Parade ink (from Botanical Bliss) and added a little vine diecut (Botanical Tags) I hadn't used from another project.  I adhered a narrow piece of the opposite side of the DSP along the left for a little colorful interest and adhered the whole thing to a Crumb Cake card:

Thanks for popping in today!

The snow is slowly disappearing, but only because of the sun....it is still very cold!  The shed roof has a long curl of it hanging down:

And one of Cassidy's favorite things to do is break icicles...she's not quite tall enough to reach them, though!

Maybe next year!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

IB62 Clean and Green

Happy Thursday, peeps!  It's been a very cold week...I am ready for some greenery and warmth!  Laurel's Inspired By prompt today features at least some of the greenery!  Here's my take on it:

And here's her prompt:

Aren't those herbs pretty?  I chose Shaded Spruce to randomly stamp images from the Painted Seasons set on a piece of Whisper White cardstock, then added the little sprinkles (when I took my glasses off, I realized they were little snowflakes...oops) in Lemon Lime Twist. The Botanical Bliss bundle had been on my wish list for a while, and I finally broke down and bought it, and the sentiments, greenery and birds were part of that.  I finished it off with some pearls and a shabby seam binding bow, and mounted it all on a Soft Seafoam card base:

Oh, and I did emboss the stamped panel with the Subtle embossing folder, then scored lines on it to kind of simulate a wood grain....it's hard to see in the photo but gives a nice texture to the finished card!  

I hope you'll play with our awesome challenge this week....I hope you create some spring-like things to hurry the season along!!  Check out all the samples at the Inspired By blog!

It was Wacky Day at school and Cassidy chose to have "wacky" hair (sorry the photos are bad, my phone just doesn't do a good job!):

It was wacky, all right!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Painted Seasons, Botanical Bliss
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Soft Sea Foam, Shaded Spruce, Under the Mistletoe DSP
Ink	Shaded Spruce, Lemon Lime Twist
Accessories	Pearls (ret), White Seam Binding, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Botanical Tags Thinlets, Subtle Embossing Folder, Simply Scored Tool

SIP189 Gingham Kittens

Hey, peeps, just a quick post today...feeling a little icky, just going to lay low today!  The Stamp Ink Paper challenge this week is gingham, plaid or stripes:

There will probably be a gazillion of entries using SU's Gingham Gala DSP and I will jump on that bandwagon too...I love it!  And now that SU has gotten the Organdy Ribbon back in stock (YAY), I had to use some of it too!  So here we go:

This was a pretty easy card to make as I had some of the elements already cut and laying on my desk; I used the Cat Punch to punch out my gingham kittens, then added a larger gingham background.  I stamped a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings on a piece of Whisper White, diecut with a Rectangle Stitched die and added some of the sweet little ribbon!  

  

My kitties looked a little plain (I guess I could have stamped on them, duh, but I liked that they looked like little stuffed animals!) so I gave them each a little bow in matching colors!

That's it! I will leave the inside plain until I decide what occasion it will be for!  Thanks for popping in today!  

No kitties, but sweet Eden wishing she could go outside and chase some, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

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CTS311 Birthdays

Happy Monday, peeps...another snowy, yucky day...at least we haven't gotten some of the atrocious weather that's affecting other parts of the country!  I hope you are all safe and sound! I got in a wee bit of stamping time between doing tax returns this weekend...blessedly, the CAS(E) This Sketch by Brian was a real easy one:

Since it's the beginning of the month, I am making cards for my church friends; this one has a decidedly "country" feel to it:

I used some papers from Carta Bella's Country Kitchen, matted in Poppy Parade, and stamped with a sentiment from Happy Birthday, Gorgeous:

I added a little grosgrain ribbon and floss trim for fun!  The second one is for a teenager, and I recently won a set from Paper Smooches called Teen Routine!  

I stamped the phone image on a piece of DSP from American Craft's Little by Little 6x6 pad, which is also the source of the background paper.  I mounted it on a white card base that had been embossed with a Large Polka Dot embossing folder:

After stamping the sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays on the inside, I added a few more images from the set:

Thanks for popping in today!

Our old swing set is getting rickety, but Lee and Cassidy found that if you put snow on the slide, you can still go pretty fast!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed--stay safe and warm!

Card One Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happy Birthday, Gorgeous
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Poppy Parade, Country Kitchen DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Poppy Parade
Accessories	Real Red Wide Grosgrain Ribbon (ret), embroidery floss, Dimensionals
Tools	Envelope Punch Board (to round edges)

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teen Routine, Itty Bitty Birthdays
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Shimelle's Little by Little DSP (American Crafts)
Ink	Mint Macaron, Poppy Parade, Berry Burst
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Large Polka Dot Embossing Folder, Envelope Punch Board (to round edges), Smoky Slate marker

PP431 Spring Fever

Hi everyone!  Happy Sunday to you!  Anne Marie is our Paper Players hostess today and she has a fun spring-themed challenge:

It's decidedly un-spring-like here this weekend...we have had snow, sleet, rain and now more snow predicted for this afternoon!  March is definitely coming in like a lion!  But we can have any season we want on our crafting creations, right?!  So here is my springy creation for this week:

Spring to me means Easter, cute little bunny images and some pretty spring colors!  I used this delightful sketch from Narelle at Freshly Made Sketches:

I just love this little bunny from a long-ago set called Hello Spring, but he was facing the wrong way, so I decided to try my hand at the "reflection" technique using my SU Silicone Mat.  I had found a really good tutorial (but can't put my finger on it now....I'll work on that....) but there are good ones on the internet, so feel free to look it up!  Anyway, I stamped my bunny, cut him out and colored him with some blends, then added some retired SAB DSP from a few years back, a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings, a few sequins, and some foliage from Jar of Love:

I cut out my mat with a Wonky Stitched die from My Favorite Things, then mounted it on a Soft Sky card base...I am still lamenting the retirement of Soft Sky, so this will go to a SPECIAL person for sure, LOL!  

I hope you'll play along with our challenge this week....everyone can use some spring in their day, or their step, or wherever!!!  Check out what the Paper Players design team did as well!

Here's what we've been doing this March:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Jar of Love, Hello Spring (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Soft Sky (ret), Sahara Sand, DSP (I forget the name!)
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Silicone Mat, Stamparatus, SU Blends, Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Wonky Stitched Die (My Favorite Things)

GDP178 Just A Note

Happy Saturday, peeps!  The Global Design Project has a pretty sketch this week:

And I made an uber-quick card using a pattern from the Animal Expedition DSP that I had never used before:

I let the paper do 90% of the work; I added a mat of Berry Burst to my Garden Green card, then stamped a little Lemon Lime Twist circular image on a stitched circle, and added my sentiment, heat-embossed in white:

I added a little glimmer banner and do you see it...a CRIMPED banner of Berry Burst!  When was the last time you used a crimper?!  I saw mine in the drawer and thought it should get some use!  My final addition was a little leaf I cut out from a scrap of DSP!  EASY!  That's it for today!  Come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

More snow fun--Cassidy had an inservice day yesterday, so no worries about a make-up day!!  She decided to go sledding down our hill with Lee backwards!  They had a good time!

And yours truly....bundled up! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together, Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Garden Green, Whisper White, Berry Burst, Mint Macaron Glimmer (ret), Animal Expedition DSP
Ink	Craft White, Lemon Lime Twist
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Rectangle Stitched Shapes, Crimper (ret), White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

AYSI195 Butterfly Thanks

Hi everyone!  It's Friday, yay!  It is also MARCH, how did that happen, and it's time for another As You See It challenge, and it's a sketch!  Check it out:

I am enamored with this beautiful Botanical Butterfly DSP, all the designs coordinate so nicely together! I simply cut some rectangles, matted them in matching colors and then cut out one of the large butterflies to embellish my card today:

The butterfly was mounted on a stitched oval, on which I added some sequins, then I added a Paper Pumpkin sentiment stamped in Grapefruit Grove:

I took some of the Gingham Gala ribbon and zapped it with my heat tool to make it crinkly, then mounted everything on a Whisper White card base that was embossed with the Elegant Lines (ret) emobssing folder!  So easy!  This sketch is a great way to use up smaller pieces of DSP...I am sure you have plenty of those lying around!  Be sure to share your pretty creation with us at the As You See It blog!

I was on Facebook a couple of days ago and an elementary school friend posted this picture:

I thought to myself, "Wow, those little girls have short skirts on for Conestoga Wagon times"....then I looked a little closer and I thought, "Wait a minute...I think that's ME!"  And sure enough, it was me, and my best friend Lynne from elementary school.  We were visiting Landis Valley Museum , I think it was probably in 1964 or 1965!!  I didn't have my braces yet, and my dress had a crinoline under it!  Can you imagine girls these days, all dressed up like this to visit a farm museum!  But that's what we did back in the day! What a fun walk down memory lane!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Balmy Blue, Grapefruit Grove, Botanical Butterfly DSP
Ink	Grapefruit Grove
Accessories	Gala Gingham Ribbon (ret), Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Rectangle Stitched Framelits, Elegant Lines Embossing Folder, Heat Tool