GDP201 and TSOT420 Peaceful Deer

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Hope your week is going well!  I have a Christmas card to share today using the Global Design Project colors as well as the latest Try Stampin On Tuesday sketch:

I've been using mostly white card bases, so I thought I would use a colored one this time, Pretty Peacock.  I used a piece of Pretty Peacock DSP for my banner, and a Dashing Deer stamped in Merry Merlot for my circular focal point:

I used some Mossy Meadow cardstock for a few pine sprigs from the retired Pretty Pines dies, and "tied" them with some Cherry Cobbler thick baker's twine.  The sentiment is from Merry Christmas to all; I taped off most of the sentiment, inked up "peace" then pulled off the tape and stamped it on a tiny piece of Whisper White that was left over from some stitched diecutting! 

I did use a Tim Holtz embossing folder called Deer Knit because it looked so pretty with my deer and evergreens!

I added a white mat on the inside and stamped another sentiment and swirl from Merry Christmas to All:

Hope you enjoyed it!  And from Christmas to summer; remember my almost-blooming sunflowers?  Check these out, all courtesy of my birds at my bird feeder, LOL!

Don't they just make you SMILE!?  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Dashing Deer, Merry Christmas to All
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Merry Merlot, Mossy Meadow, Pretty Peacock, Pretty Peacock DSP
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Merry Merlot
Accessories	Cherry Cobbler Thick Baker's Twine (ret), Mini Dimensionals, Glue Dots
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Pretty Pines Dies (ret), Detailed Deer Dies, Deer Knit Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz)

FF169 Celebrate You

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have a decidedly masculine card for you today, but first I must whine a little....I made this card last night in my craft room which is like a cave sometimes, despite all my attempts at lighting!  This Magnolia Lane DSP is Early Espresso, which is a nice, dark brown, but when I stamped the wood image from Rooted in Nature in Early Espresso ink, it looked almost black, and I didn't like it, so I stamped it in Soft Suede.  In my nighttime-cave-craftroom lighting, they looked pretty good together, so on I continued, adding my sentiment and little leaf and went on my merry way.  This morning, when I photographed it in natural light, I was aghast...it looks terrible.  The two browns just don't work together very well...and yet, I am not going to toss it, since men don't really look at that kind of stuff anyway.  BUT....my whining is that I wish SU would come back with Chocolate Chip or some sort of other brown that is not so greenish (Soft Suede) or not so dark (Early Espresso).  Is that so much to ask?  Okay, done with my rant and you can judge for yourself:

My sentiment is from Itty Bitty Birthdays, which has some great little ones that fit nicely in the Stitched Rectangle dies.  I stamped the leaf image in Pear Pizzazz and diecut it with the matching die.

I contined with Pear Pizzazz on the inside, stamping my leaves again, this time second and third-generation so they were very light.

My lovely sketch is from Fab Friday:

And so there it is, in all its "unattractiveness"!!  What can I say?  And since I have no Cassidy pix this week, I thought I'd share some of the beautiful birthday cards that I received a few weeks ago:

These two are from Kathy and Laurie, my PP teammate:

And these two Magnolia Lane beauties are from Teri and Sandy:

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Itty Bitty Birthdays
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Early Espresso, Magnolia Lane DSP
Ink	Soft Suede, Pear Pizzazz
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Nature's Roots Die

Summery Thanks

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you all had a fabulous weekend!  My only complaint is that it went by too quickly!  I did get in a wee bit of stamping time, and found a few challenges that piqued my interest: the Just Us Girls summer challenge; the Less Is More color challenge of Tangerine, Aqua and White; and the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch:

A Day at the Beach is a great summery set, and since it was in the Occasions catalog from a couple of years ago, I never got to use it that much!  So I inked up a couple images and colored them with some Blends, then heat-embossed a sentiment on some Pumpkin Pie DSP and put them all together to create this:

You can't see it here, but there is Wink of Stella on each of the elements, and I added some Iridescent Sequins for some extra shine!  Such happy colors!  Thanks for popping in today!

And speaking of summer, Wayne helped Cassidy enjoy the pool this weekend:

What a great step-daddy he is!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Day at the Beach, Perfectly Wrapped (both ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie and Pool Party DSP
Ink	Bermuda Bay, Pumpkin Pie, Craft White
Accessories	Iridescent Sequins, Dimensionals
Tools	Wink of Stella, White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Stamparatus

PP453 Back to School

Hi everyone!  It's time for another Paper Players sketch, and Claire is our hostess today!  If any of you know Claire, she used to be a teacher, so this is quite apropos for her as well as this time of the year!!  And I am willing to bet that her students LOVED her--she has the perfect personality to teach those little ones!

I was pretty excited about this challenge too, because it gave me a chance to break out my new set, Check You Out!  It's perfect for the challenge!  I paired it with some school-themed papers from a few years back:

I started with the sketch from Try Stampin On Tuesday:

My bottom mat was some computer paper I stamped with the Writing Notes stamp in Balmy Blue and diecut with a Stitched Shapes square; the other elements were simply stamped in primary colors and fussy-cut:

The sentiment was punched out with a circle punch and backed with a scalloped circle mat.  On the inside, I stamped a sentiment from Seaside Notions, which has a really nice variety, the heart from the Check You Out set, and a pencil from It Starts With Art, stamped in Crumb Cake and colored with SU markers:

Cassidy will be nine in a couple of weeks, and will start fourth grade at a new-to-her school closer to home, so I will not be getting her on and off the bus any longer.  Although it's sad for me, because I won't see her as much, I know it will be good for her.  So this will be for her on her first day school; she loves getting mail, and hopefully she'll enjoy opening it!

SO....what will you create for this challenge?  I hope you'll check out all the DT samples on the PP blog, or you can check them out here:

Ann

Claire

Jaydee

Joanne

Laurie

Nance

Anne Marie

Su

Wanda

Windy

Then share yours with us too!  Thanks for popping in today!

 Last week, Cassidy attended a small science camp at our library put on by Glaxo Smith Kline; I didn't get many pictures, but this particular experiment had the kids mushing up Rice Chex with water in a baggie (representing food in one's stomach):

 

Then putting it into a nylon stocking and squeezing it along the leg, watching what oozed out, (which represented the intestines and how your body gets its nutrients):

Her partner was a boy from karate, so they already knew each other....but it was interesting hearing all the comments, especially from the boys (as you can imagine!).  Next week she will be attending an animal science camp at the University of Delaware, so that should be fun as well!  Can't wait to hear what she has to say about that!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

FMS399 Autumn Mists

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Yesterday was SO dreary and foggy, I had a hard time getting any energy to create anything!  But I really wanted to play with the FMS sketch this week, because I love things in threes!  Isn't it a great one?

I decided to break into some "hoarded" items I've had for a while....these are puffy stickers from Prima's Amber Moon line; the papers are from Recollections and Amber Moon as well.  So here we go:

I started by diecutting stitched squares from the background paper, then added my stickers on each one:

One of the Amber Moon papers had this pretty design in the corner, which matched my stickers, so I stamped an autumn sentiment from Impression Obsession's Autumn Squares on top with Soft Suede ink:

I stamped another Impression Obsession word box stamp in Sahara Sand ink on the inside, then stamped a birthday sentiment from the current Seaside Notions on top.  I just love that effect!  

The whole card is 4 3/4" square, so I will probably make a custom envelope to fit, but I just haven't done that yet!  I really don't want to think about fall quite yet, as I am enjoying the summer, but I just couldn't resist using these new goodies!  Thanks for visiting today!

We had a horrendous downpour yesterday, just for about 30 minutes, but it decimated some of my huge marigolds; they grow to about 2' tall, and the rain was just too much for them, and some of the stems broke at the base.  

One plant was totally gone...every single branch broken off.  My SIL had given me a rose tree that was in pretty rough shape, so John planted it where the marigolds had been; we'll see if it takes, keeping my fingers crossed.  Even though my dad was a farmer and my grandfather was a florist, I always joke that the gardening gene did not pass down to me!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Seaside Notions, Autumn and Autumn Squares (Impression Obsession)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Early Espresso,  Amber Moon DSP (Prima), Thankful Heart (Recollections)
Ink	Sahara Sand, Soft Suede
Accessories	Amber Moon Puffy Stickers (Prima)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes

AYSI206 Speedy Boo

Hi everybody!  Woohoo, it's Friday, so happy to have the weekend ahead!  It's also As You See It challenge time, and here's one we haven't had for a while...SPEED stamping!  

The goal is to create a card in ten minutes, once you've gathered your supplies! I like that part of the challenge because I really tend to dawdle on my cards and it forces me to CONCENTRATE.  But....shades of purple, oh my goodness!!  The first thing that came to my mind was Halloween, so I pulled out Spooky Bingo Bits and SU's Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape and went to work:

I started out with a sketch from Sunday Stamps:

I used Gorgeous Grape DSP for my layers, and stamped my images with Highland Heather, punching them out with a circle punch.  The "BOO!" is from the Boo to You Framelits from a few years ago, and I accented it quickly with a single rhinestone.

At this point, I was at 7 minutes and 26 seconds, so I took another minute to stamp some sentiments from last year's Spooky Cat!  So I made it under the 10-minute mark!!

Phew!  I hope you'll challenge yourself to do some speed stamping in shades of purple and share your creation with us at At You See It!!  C'mon, you can do it!  Thanks for popping in today!

These silly pups Eden and Ginger are all decked out in their Eagle's outfits, ready for some fall football!  I just bought Cassidy an Eagles shirt.....but it's at my house, LOL!  She'll have to wear it the next time they get dressed up!  Enjoy your day nad be blessed!

IB83 At The Beach

Hi peeps!  Happy August!  Woohoo...vacation is only a few weeks away!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge, and Laurel has another beachy theme for us!  First, a disclaimer about the sequins on my card...they are NOT purple and green, as they look in the photograph!  Gee whizzies, I couldn't get them to photograph correctly for anything, so you'll just have to take my word for it!  And here we go:

And here is her pretty inspiration:

I wanted to use current SU products for my card, as I am sending this to a new recruit!  I stamped some images from Seaside Notions on Whisper White and Very Vanilla cardstocks in Gray Granite inks, then loosely colored them in with an aquapainter and fussy-cut them out.  I masked off the top and bottom parts of the sentiment from Rooted in Nature, and stamped it in Pool Party and strung it on some Linen Thread.  I mounted it on a Thick Very Vanilla card base that was embossed with the Subtle Embossing folder:

My sketch is from Hand-Stamped Sentiments, and I used some designer paper for my elements, adding the little "wave" diecut from Arts and Crafts:

As I said, I added some sequins, some Metallic Pearls, and I did stamp a few little speckles to imitate "sand"!!  On the inside, I added a fun sentiment from Here's a Card, along with another seashell:

Beautiful colors and a beautiful image!  I wish that Jar of Love was still current, it would have been fun to use that one....maybe someone will!  Can't wait to see what you come up with...share it with us at Inspired By!  Thanks for popping in today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Seaside Notions, Here's A Card, Rooted In Nature
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Designer DSP in Crumb Cake and Pool Party
Ink	Gray Granite, Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Linen Thread, Iridescent Sequins, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Arts and Crafts Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Aquapainter, Subtle Embossing Folder