PP513 Hey There Cupcake

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge!  Laurie is our hostess with this delicious CLEAN AND SIMPLE challenge:

I pulled out an old hostess set called The More The Merrier and stamped three of the cupcakes on some Shimmery White cardstock, cut them out with a Stitched So Sweetly die and lightly colored them with Mint Macaron and Balmy Blue Blends:

I added some chunky glitter to the frosting, then mounted them on a piece of Mint Macaron DSP and added a Papertrey sentiment from Cupcake Collection, stamped in Just Jade.  Simple and easy but so cute!

This will be a perfect birthday card for a child (or a child at heart)!  And since I can never seem to just make one card, I made another card with the same cupcakes, just a little more stepped up:

Bright, isn't it!?  Yikes!  I stamped these cupcakes with Stazon ink and colored them with various inks and an aquapainter.  The sentiment is from Little Treats and the border was diecut with a die from Spellbinders!

What will you create with cupcakes, cookies or cake for our CAS challenge?  Check out what the Design Team did at the Paper Players blog, and share yours with us too! Thanks for popping by....enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.  Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song." Psalm 95:1-2

 

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	The More The Merrier (ret), Cupcake Collection (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Shimmery White, Mint Macaron DSP
Ink	Memento, Just Jade
Accessories	Dimensionals, Chunky Glitter (Martha Stewart)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Blends

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	The More the Merrier (ret), Little Treats
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Shimmery White, Magenta Madness, Magenta Madness DSP
Ink	Stazon, Granny Apple Green, Highland Heather, Bermuda Bay, Magenta Madness, Balmy Blue
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Aquapainter, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Venice Lace Dies (Spellbinders)

Mad for Plaid

 Happy Saturday, peeps!  A couple of quick cards today, I have stampers coming!  The first one is for the current Freshly Made Sketches sketch, courtesy of my sweet, creative friend Linda, as well as the CAS On Sunday challenge, which is plaid:

And here we go, using some Plaid Tidings and a CTMH autumn set:

This plaid reminds me of candy corn...hmmmm, maybe I should do another one!  Anyway, I stamped and colored the pumpkins with Memento ink and blends, then added a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret):

I just love this little lineup of punkins!  And I made another plaid-themed card, although this one looked better in my head than in real life...I think all the different plaids are too jarring together, but I am sure I can find someone who will enjoy a plethora of plaids!

I always have all these little scraps of DSP lying about, so I cut a bunch to 3/4" wide and used my Banners Pick a Punch to punch them out, then layered them on top of a Crumb Cake base and added some ribbon and an embossed sentiment!

That's it for today!  Thanks for visiting--be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret), Autumn Blessings (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Plaid Tidings DSP
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Autumn Blessings Dies (CTMH), Blends

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lovely You
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Plaid Tidings DSP
Ink	Craft White
Accessories	Flowers for All Seasons Ribbon
Tools	Banners Pick a Punch, Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder

CAS Leafy Hello

Happy Friday, peeps!  Do you have something fun planned for the weekend?  Hope so!  I'll be seeing some stamping friends tomorrow and I am looking forward to that!  Today I have a really simple card using some "fall" products!  Here we go:

I love that the Stitched Leaves dies leave stitching around the outside diecut but I don't usually get to use that part of my cardstock, so I wanted to highlight that on my card today.  I backed it with some Plaid Tidings DSP, on which I embossed the inner leaf stitching part of the die as well.  To finish it off, I added some matching leaves (never have seen a blue leaf, but I'll say it's artistic license!)

 

The leaves are from the Beautiful Autumn bundle, stamped in Misty Midnight, Poppy Parade and Cinnamon Cider, and punched out with the matching punch.  The sentiment is from Life is Beautiful!  And since it's clean and simple, I am entering it at the Krafty Chicks and The Spot challenges:

 

And it also fits the Festive Friday challenge of plaid, ribbon and diecuts:

 

  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.  Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers." Galatians 6:9-10

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Autumn, Life is Beautiful
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Plaid Tidings, Misty Moonlight, Poppy Parade, Cinnamon Cider
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Poppy Parade, Cinnamon Cider
Accessories	Misty Moonlight Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Leaves Dies, Autumn Punch Pack

TTTC86 Elegant Gold and Merlot

Hello again, peeps!  Time for a new Tic Tac Toe challenge, with Team X at the helm!  Here's our lovely grid for your stamping pleasure: 

 

I chose the left column of Gold Foil/Glitter, Burgundy and Die Cut for my thank you card today: 

Merry Merlot is such a pretty fall color, and I used it and a foam brayer to cover one of the gold-embossed patterns from Gilded Autumn DSP, just brayering over the pattern until I got the coverage I wanted.  I stamped a few of the greenery images from Forever Fern in Merry Merlot and Delicata Gold ink (which is sadly retired), diecut them out and placed them against a Brushed Metallic Gold panel.  I added a sentiment from Beautiful Autumn and a few sequins from my stash, then adhered everything to a Merry Merlot card:

That gold ink is very sparkly....too bad you can't see it here!  I added a little extra foliage on my inside layer too, because stamping those little leaves is just too fun!

And the sketch I used is from Fab Friday:

Be sure to check out what the DT created with this tic-tac-toe challenge, and then share your creation with us as well at the Tic Tac Toe blog!  See you there!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Day, Forever Fern
Card stock & Papers	Merry Merlot, Very Vanilla, Brushed Gold Metallic, Gilded Autumn Specialty DSP
Ink	Merry Merlot, Delicata Gold (ret)
Accessories	Sequins from my stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Forever Flourishing Dies, Foam Brayer

IB146 Spooky

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Time for a new Inspired By challenge and it's a CUTE one!  Check it out (along with the optional sketch):

 

 

 

Isn't that an adorable pillow?!  SO fun!  I don't have many ghost stamps, but I did find one in a CTMH set from a couple years back....paired it with some fun black and white papers to come up with this:

All the images except for the little spider are from the same set....I stamped, cut and popped them up, then added a black glimmer border on each side of my striped panel and a few black glimmer stars as well:

The spider is from a real old SU set; I didn't think about how the words wouldn't show up on the striped paper (duh) so I stamped them again on some Naturals White cardstock, then cut and pasted on top!  And here's the inside:

I hope you'll play along with our challenge this week....be sure to check out what the other designers did at the Inspired By blog...they're AMAZING!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

 

Talk about spooky:

 

 

LOL!!!!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Eat, Drink and Be Scary (ret), Hello Pumpkin Scrapbooking (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Black Glimmer, Naturals White (ret), Gingham Farm DSP (My Mind's Eye), Wonderland DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Black Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Triangles Die, Star Die (Verve)

Pink and Silver Snowflakes

 Happy Wednesday, stampers!  I have a fun little Christmas card for you today....it was easy to make but a challenge to photograph!  Let me show you the challenges I used first!  Both Christmas Kickstart and Jingle Belles want a pink Christmas, and the Tuesday Morning Sketches has a sketch, obviously:

And so here we go:

I used some beautiful pink and silver foil paper that is so pretty, but hard to capture in a photograph, so I am showing you two angles!  The paper is simply adhered to a card front and silver diecut snowflakes are attached to vellum which is then attached to the card:

Here's a "flat" version...you can see the silver foil against the pink a little better. 

The uber-cool thing about this card is that when the vellum is adhered to the patterned paper, the foil snowflakes turn WHITE!!  Who knew?  It made a perfect background for my silver foil snowflakes!  So cool!  

I added some silver twine and a little sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas, stamped in Blushing Bride and diecut with a Tasteful Labels die to finish it off!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy created a pumpkin in art class...too bad it got folded in half, but it's still lovely:

I love the stem and the leaves!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Christmas
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Vellum, Silver Foil, Silver Bells DSP (Kaiser Craft)
Ink	Blushing Bride
Accessories	Silver Cord (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tasteful Label Dies, Make a Snowflake Dies (Taylored Expressions)

GDP262 Bloom and Grow Birthday

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have a pretty little slim-line birthday card for you today!  It uses (loosely) the sketch from Global Design Project:

I wanted to make something in non-fall colors, so I pulled out Bloom and Grow and stamped it and heat-embossed it in white, then watercolored it before diecutting out the pieces:

I used Marina Mist, Mint Macaron and So Saffron inks to color it and and I realized I used Pool Party DSP as the background....but I still think it coordinates nicely!  To create the sentiment piece, I stamped the birthday greeting on the white organdy ribbon from Flowers for Every Season pack and adhered it with some glue dots:

I also made a little envelope for it since it's a non-standard size!  This will be going out in the mail tomorrow!

Cassidy had off school yesterday and sent me this picture; it's a little faint, but I think you can read it!💗 (I love her too!)  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays, Bloom and Grow
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pool Party DSP
Ink	White Craft, Marina Mist, Mint Macaron, So Saffron
Accessories	Flowers for All Seasons White Ribbon, Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Budding Blooms Dies, Heat Tool, Aquapainter