Gnomie Halloween

Happy Monday!!  My card today was so fun to create, and it was a CASE of this card by Denita Wright-Smee, and I fell in love with it!  So here we go:

I wasn't going to get the Gnome for the Holidays set, but it seemed like a cute set to color in so I did, and I'm glad!  I colored this wee little gnome with some Halloween colors and added a tiny pumpkin from the Trio of Tags die, backed with some golden glimmer paper!  I wanted to add a little more depth to the Woodland embossing, so after embossing a piece of Basic Black with my folder, I sponged on some Craft White ink, highlighting the trees.  I added a little path with some Smoky Slate cardstock, cut with the hill die from In the Woods and stamped the circles and shadow from Life is Beautiful:

I added a crescent moon from the same gold glimmer paper:

And I added the second pumpkin to the top of one of the tags from Tags Tags Tags for the inside sentiment, along with a sentiment from Banner Year:

This card makes me smile, and I had fun making it!  And because it's a wee bit spooky, I am squeaking it in to the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge:

Thanks for visiting today!

The family went to Hershey Park this weekend--the Sweetest Place on Earth! Cassidy took her karate  friend Avery, who is a daredevil and loves roller coasters!  Cassidy.....not so much, so Avery went with Wayne!  But they all had a blast!

Of course this picture cracks me up....Dana is not a fan of roller coasters either!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gnome for the Holidays, Tags Tags Tags, Banner Year, Life is Beautiful
Card stock & Papers	Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Gold Glimmer Paper (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate, Gray Granite, Craft White
Accessories	Black Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Trio of Tags Dies, In The Woods Dies, Blends, Woodland Embossing Folder, Sponge Daubers, Verve Star Die

PP512 Colors by Ann

Hello, stampers!  Ann is our Paper Players hostess this week with a lovely fall palette: 

I knew I wanted to create something with some fall leaves, and since I've been happily perusing my older stamps lately, I pulled out French Foliage...one of my favorites...along with French Script, and went to work:

I started with a Naturals White square card base, added a layer of Cajun Craze and a layer of Cinnamon Cider, stamped with the French Script stamp and shaded with a sponge.  The skeleton leaf panel is a new one to me; it's from Sweet n Sassy and I sponged several colors on it before inking it up.  Finally, I stamped the leaves in Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze and Crushed Curry, fussy-cutting them out and layering them in the corner.  The sentiment was also fussy-cut and popped up, and I added some enamel dots for embellishment:

The sketch I used is from Inkspire Me:

And since it's a large square card, I also made my own envelope using some retired DSP and the retired Envelope Punch Board!  I hope you'll play along with our pretty fall colors this week!  Be sure to check out what the Design Team has created with them as well...you'll find them all at the Paper Players!  Thanks for popping in today!

Here's a lone little leaf I found on one of my walks:

The leaves are finally beginning to turn!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Rich and poor have this in common; The Lord is the Maker of them all."  Proverbs 22:2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Life is Beautiful, French Foliage (ret), French Script Background (ret), Skeleton Leaf (Sweet n Sassy)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow, Cinnamon Cider
Ink	Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow, Cinnamon Cider, Crushed Curry
Accessories	Enamel Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Sponges

Shades of Green

 Happy Saturday, peeps!  Hope your weekend has some fun plans!  I have a couple of cards to share today, both featuring shades of green!  The first one is for the FMS sketch and uses some retired items:

The set I used is called Harvest Home, and it was stamped on some Naturals White cardstock with Stazon and watercolored with various inks.  I overstamped it with the Linen background stamp because I just love the effect that it gives!  The leaf is from the same set, fussy-cut, and the sentiment is from a Paper Pumpkin kit from a few years back.  The papers are from Orchard Harvest, also a few years back. I love the line-drawing detail in these types of stamps:

My next card uses the sketch from Try Stamping on Tuesday:

I had these three little strips of Forever Greenery floating around on my desk for several weeks and when I saw the sketch, I knew they would be perfect!  I diecut them with a narrow Stitched Rectangle die; they weren't quite long enough to go all the way across the card, so I cut and separated them and just layered my Pretty Peacock banner on top:

The sentiment is from Comfort and Hope, and I overstamped it with an image from the same set, stamped off with Old Olive.  I used the Stitched Shapes dies to cut it out, then backed it with another diecut from Tasteful Labels.  It was finished off with some retired Old Olive Linen thread:

That's it for today!  So happy you popped in!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!  And, someone asked me for my daughter's Spaghetti Squash Lasagna recipe; unfortunately, it does use marinara sauce, but I am sure you could substitute alfredo if you didn't like tomatoes.  Also, I am pretty sure she used ground turkey instead of sausage!  You can find the recipe HERE.

And here are a few more natures pictures from my walks this week:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

AYSI236 Speedy Butterfly

Happy Friday, everyone!  It's time for the weekend, and time for a new As You See It challenge!  Here's our theme for this week:

I totally missed the SPEED STAMPING part of this challenge when I first looked at it, so my first card was "disqualified"!!!  I'll show it to you later in the post! So I got out my supplies, set my timer and went to work, and came up with this:

I used a thick white cardstock base, added a strip of Ornate Garden Specialty Paper at an angle, stamped the butterfly from Positive Thoughts on some watercolor paper with Stazon ink and diecut it out:

I watercolored it with Flirty Flamingo ink, then stamped a sentiment from Beautiful Day at an angle as well, so it fits with the Inkspirational Challenge this week of Angle It!

 

I also added a rhinestone to the top of the butterfly, which added about a minute to my time, since I couldn't decide which color to use!  Altogether, my time was 4:45!  Not bad!  I did have everything ready to go so, and it was a very simple layout...but it just goes to show that you don't need a lot of time and supplies to make an awesome card!  Now here's the "disqualified" card which definitely took more than 10 minutes to create:

Same stamp set, but I did a watercolor background, added some ribbon and gold trim, and a sentiment from Life is Beautiful.  The colors I used were Mint Macaron, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze, so I am entering this one in the Global Design Project's challenge as well!

Be sure to check out what the other designers did with their speed stamping!  Then get out your supplies and do some speedy stamping of your own and share it with us as well on the As You See It blog!  Thanks for popping in today! 

It's been sunny but cool here in the mornings in SE PA; I took this picture the other morning as I sat on the porch to read my Bible and drink my coffee:

I love how you can see the steam rising!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Card One Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Day, Positive Thoughts
Card stock & Papers	Thick Whisper White, Watercolor, Ornate Garden Specialty DSP
Ink	Flirty Flamingo, Stazon Black
Accessories	Holiday Rhinestones, Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nature's Thoughts Dies, Aquapainter

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Positive Thoughts, Life is Beautiful
Card stock & Papers	Brushed Metallic, Watercolor, Very Vanilla, Gilded Autumn Specialty DSP
Ink	Mint Macaron, Stazon Black, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Gold Metallic Pearls, Mint Macaron Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nature's Thoughts Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Aquapainter

IB145 Pumpkin Spice

Hello stampers!  Thursday brings us around to a new Inspired By challenge!  Here's our new photo inspiration and optional sketch:

I was inspired by the colors, the woodgrain, the jar and the little pumpkins to create my almost-no-stamping card today:

All my pumpkins were die cut with the retired Patterned Pumpkins die using Whisper White, Soft Suede, Bumblebee and Smoky Slate gingham papers;  I adhered the outline diecut to a piece of scrap paper and then filled it in with the inside pieces and trimmed it to the shape of the pumpkin.  My jar from Jar of Flowers was stamped on an Acetate sheet and hand-cut because it was too thick for the matching punch!!  I added some leaves, tendrils and foliage, and put it all on a soft gray woodgrain background:

The sentiment from Beautiful Day is stamped in Smoky Slate directly on to the DSP:

And since the Always Fun Challenge is about pumpkins this week, I am entering there too!  

I have to admit that the DT knocked this one out of the park...be sure to hop on over to the IB blog to see what they created...then share yours with us too!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for popping by today!

I try to send Cassidy some word puzzles or some activity in a card occasionally, as she loves to get mail!  She was excited to do a Halloween crossword!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Day, Jar of Flowers
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Smoky Slate, Bumblebee, Soft Suede, Gingham (ret), Gingham Farm (My Mind's Eye), Acetate Sheet
Ink	Smoky Slate, Stazon Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Patterned Pumpkins Dies (ret)

The Card Concept 141

Happy Wednesday, all!  It's time for another Card Concept challenge; here is the prompt Julie has given us this week

Yikeys!  This one really threw me for a loop, as I do not travel and don't have ANY globe or suitcase stamps, LOL!  I did remember an older SU set that had a globe in one of the sentiments, and I searched through my vast array of printed papers and came up with some that had some geographical images, so here we go:

This is an uber-simple card, so I would classify it as Clean and Layered.  I stamped the image in Garden Green and colored in the "world" with a Balmy Blue blend. I diecut it with a Stitched Nested Labels die and added a mat of Balmy Blue to back it:

For a little added interest, I added another Stitched Nested Label layer and some glimmer dots before adhering the whole thing to a Very Vanilla card base with a mat of Mint Macaron and the unknown-maker printed paper!  I can only think of a couple people that I would send this card to, so I guess I'd better save it for a very special occasion!  

I hope that our photo inspiration prompts you to create something fun!  Be sure to check out the Card Concept blog and see what the DT has created, then share yours as well.  Just be sure to tell us what your "style" is when making your creation!  Can't wait to see it!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed! 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Word Play (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Garden Green, Balmy Blue, Misc DSP
Ink	Garden Green
Accessories	Glimmer Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nested Labels Dies, Balmy Blue Blend

RR145 Tic Tac Toe A Big Thanks

 Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we give our older stamps some attention!  This week we have a Tic-tac-toe grid for you!  I chose the right column of metallics, masculine, and embossing for my card today:

Each week at church we pray for people in our community; it might be another church, our government leaders, that kind of thing.  Last week we prayed for our police chiefs, and the police chief in my community happened to grow up right across from us and went to school with my brother.  He and his brothers (who were an ornery bunch, LOL!!!!) are also big motorcycle fans!  So I made this card to encourage him and his force and let him know we appreciate them and are praying for them:

I used a sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches (which is over) but I still liked it and found that the  retired Urban Underground DSP was a perfect background for my heat-embossed motorcycle from Rev Up the Fun (2013):  

I even added some orange "flame" to the embossing as well as some silver Painty ink to the "chrome" parts!  The paper has some silver embossing on it as well, and I backed with with some silver foil!  The sentiment is from Perfectly Wrapped (2016) and it was diecut with the Stitched Rectangle die:

I mounted everything on a Whisper White card base that had been embossed with the retired Coastal Weave embossing folder!  I sure hope he liked it! And since the Just Add Ink  challenge is "Thank You", I am entering it there as well!

And now, what will you create with our fun grid?  LOTS of possibilities!  We hope you'll share yours with us at Retro Rubber; just make sure you use stamps that are at least a year old, and tell us the age!  Can't wait to see them!

I admire Dana; she is always trying to introduce some healthy recipes into their diet, but Cassidy gets in a rut sometimes and doesn't always want to try new things!  However, Dana made spaghetti squash "lasagne" a couple days ago and Cass actually liked it....she liked how the "spaghetti" came out of the squash, LOL!  She gave it a thumbs-up!  I think I might have to try this myself!  Thanks for popping by--enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Perfectly Wrapped (ret 2016), Rev Up the Fun (ret 2013)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Silver Foil, Urban Underground DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Versamark, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Triangle Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Zig Painty Pen (ret), Pumpkin Pie and Smoky Slate Blends, Heat Tool, Black Embossing Powder