TTTC96 Showers of Love

 Hi stampers!  My second post of the day, and it's the first challenge of the year for Team X at the Tic Tac Toe challenge!! It's my turn to choose the elements for the board, and here's what I came up with:

I chose the middle row across of red, dry embossing and designer paper, but it hits a few more squares as well!  So here we go!

I hadn't inked up the cute Under My Umbrella set for a while, and I thought a red plaid umbrella would make a fun Valentine card!  I stamped the umbrella on the SAB DSP Berry Delightful and added a floral accents, colored with Blends and fussy cut:

I realized that my reds don't really match, but hopefully the recipient won't notice too much!  I extended the umbrella handle a bit and added a little bow at the "junction", then mounted it all on a panel that had been embossed with the Falling Petals EF (which look like hearts to me!) and added a sentiment at the bottom, also embellished with some flowers and bling!  It all went on a Basic Black mat and a Real Red card base.  

And here's the inside:

It was a lot of fun to ink this set up again!  I hope you'll find some inspiration from our Tic Tac Toe board and play along this week!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Under My Umbrella, A Wish for Everything
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Basic Black, Granny Apple Green, Berry Delightful DSP
Ink	Memento Black, Real Red
Accessories	Red Rhinestones, Green Grosgrain Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Stitched Labels Dies (ret), Umbrella Punch

IB157 CAS Birthday

 Hi peeps!  Wow, this week is whizzing by!  It's already time for a new Inspired By challenge!  Here's our pretty prompt for today:

I just loved the colors in the prompt, so I pulled out a die that I hadn't used in a long time to create some simple flowers for a birthday card.  Here we go:

I had been pushing this little scrap of green gingham around my desk, so I was happy to put it to good use, adding a sentiment from a sweet retired set, stamped on vellum and adhered on top of the stems with a little gem embellishment:

And I used a sentiment from the same set for the inside:

Instead of using the Inspired By sketch this week, I chose to use the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches:

and since I used a "splashy" stamp from Gorgeous Grunge behind my flowers, I am entering this into the Splish Splash challenge at The Spot too!

I hope you'll get out some pretty stamps and ink and play with our challenge this week!  You can use the photo prompt, the sketch, or both!  Check out what all the designers did at Inspired By! And while you're there, welcome our two talented new designers, Silke Ledlow and Cindy Beach!  So happy to have them with us...I am going to have to "up" my game for sure! Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy got an interesting gift for Christmas from Wayne's parents....it's a kit to make your own markers!   Check it out:

Pick an ink color and fill the tube, then insert the wick:

Watch as the wick soaks up all the ink:

Assemble the rest of the marker...and try it out!  Cool!

Looks like there are lots of markers there to make lots of fun colors!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friend to Friend (ret), Gorgeous Grunge (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Vellum, Whisper White, Pear Pizzazz, Marina Mist (ret), Fall Break DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Soft Seafoam
Accessories	Blue Gems, Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Prim Poppy Die (Memory Box), Banner Die (Nestabilities)

IM440 Congratulations

 Hi peeps!  A quick post today as I have my favorite stampers coming over today!  I needed a baby girl congratulations card and rather than do the traditional pastel pink, I chose to use some of the new SAB Paper Blooms DSP along with the sketch from In(k)spire Me:

I chose to only use the sketch...and here we go:

The front of the card is slightly smaller than a normal card, and that allowed me to adhere a little piece of contrasting DSP to the inside so that it would show along the edge.  

The florals are from Lovely You, stamped in Rococo Rose and Night of Navy; the ribbon is NON gingham:

The outside sentiment is from Here's a Card, and the inside sentiment is from the retired God's Blessings!  Thanks for popping in today...if you have questions, shoot me an email!  Gotta go stamp!

PP523 Here For You

Hi stampers!  Happy Sunday!  It's Paper Players time and the lovely Ann is our hostess with a fabulous color challenge:

 

These are beautiful colors together, but sometimes, I just don't have papers or elements combining all three, so when I am faced with that dilemma, I choose one main element and reproduce it in all three colors!  In this case, I diecut the little embossed feather from the Nature's Thoughts dies in each of the challenge colors:

I kept the rest of the card really simple, mounting each feather on a stitched scallop panel, mounting them on a Coastal Weave embossed and stitched panel, and mounting all of that on a simple white card base.  For my neutral, other than white, I stamped a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings in Blackberry Bliss on a scrap of Crumb Cake and added some Linen Thread to each of the feathers' stems:

This could be used as a get well or sympathy card, or just for someone who's going through a rough patch!  

How will you use these colors?  Be sure to stop by the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers did with these colors, and share your creation with us as well!  Can't wait to see it!!

Just for fun, John left three ears of really old cow corn on our patio table....this is the only one left, we think a raccoon got the other ones.  Every morning this little squirrel comes to visit:

He just cracks us up with his quick little chewing motions!

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

"He whose walk is upright fears the Lord, but he whose ways are devious despises him." 

 Proverbs 14:2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Bumblebee, Misty Moonlight, Blackberry Bliss
Ink	Blackberry Bliss
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nature's Thoughts Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Basket Weave EF (ret), Word Window Punch (ret)

Quick Little Pup for FMS467

 Happy Saturday, peeps!  Ah, the weekend is finally here!  I have a very quick little card for the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches:

My card is not that "long"...I only made it 3"x 6" to use up some of the Plaid Tidings DSP I still have left!  But it does use the cute Hot Dog set that is in the current mini, so here we go:

This is an uber-simple card....the base is Pretty Peacock, I added the plaid layer, then stamped the dog on Cinnamon Cider cardstock, shaded him a bit with a Blend and fussy-cut him out.  I decided he needed a little snazzing up, so I stamped and fussy-cut his bow, then did the sentiment bubbles in Seaside Spray:

Isn't he a sweetie?  I always wanted a dachshund when I was a child, but it wasn't until I was grown that my sister got one and then my parents also got one!  I'm going to embarrass Dana by sharing a couple of  pictures of her and Roscoe, my sister's dog when Dana was just a toddler! Remember, this was before digital cameras and cell phones!

Anyone remember having a "Baby-tenda"?  This was mine and my siblings' and my Mom kept it for the grandkids as well!  Check out how shiny Dana's hair was:

Roscoe looks like he knows he could get a few crumbs from her!  And here we are, out in the yard on a summer afternoon, just playing in the clothes basket!!

Roscoe was a good dog, lots of fun and ornery!  He did get himself in a wee bit of trouble one day; he ate a tennis ball and had to have emergency surgery.  Silly pup!  Thanks for allowing me to walk down memory lane!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hot Dog
Card stock & Papers	Pretty Peacock, Cinnamon Cider, Seaside Spray, Plaid Tidings DSP (ret)
Ink	Soft Suede, Seaside Spray, Pretty Peacock
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Bronze Blend

Love You

 Hey, peeps!  Squeaking in a second card today---just had to get it in before the deadline!  It's a Valentine card using the fun colors from CAS Colours & Sketches, and the sketch from TGIF:

And here we go:

My hearts are cut from Real Red, Whisper White and Bermuda Bay DSP using dies from the Stitched Be Mine dies.  I mounted them on a piece of Pool Party DSP, then added an embossed sentiment strip embellished with diecut words from Love You More:

I cut the words from Bermuda Bay cardstock three times, then layered them together, and added some assorted rhinestones in matching colors.  The inside sentiment is from Nothing's Better Than, with some stamped hearts:

I love these colors together!  Thanks for popping in (again) and enjoy your day!

"Seek good, not evil, that you may live.  Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is.  Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph." Amos 5:14-15

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nothing's Better Than, Hot Dog (hearts)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Pool Party and Bermuda Bay DSP
Ink	Real Red, Bermuda Bay, Pool Party
Accessories	Rhinestones
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Be Mine Dies, Love You More Dies, Wrapped In Texture EF

AYSI242 Speedy Christmas

 Happy Friday, peeps!  It's time for a new As You See It Challenge, and we're starting the year off with a speed challenge!  Here you go:

We all have scraps decorating our desks, don't we?!  So gather them up, get your supplies, set your timer and see what you can create in ten minutes or less!

For my card, I had three Shaded Spruce stitched triangles left on my desk from this project, so I thought this would be a perfect time to use one of them to make a quick Christmas card:

I cut a smaller triangle from some Classic Christmas DSP in the same color and popped it up on a strip of DSP from some Wrapped in Plaid DSP from last Christmas.  The sentiment is from Wrapped in Christmas, stamped in Cherry Cobbler:

I colored a Real Red embellishment with a Cherry Cobbler Blend to make it a wee bit darker and adhered it to the top:

And my time was 5 minutes and 51 seconds!  

I hope you'll play along with our speed challenge this week and use up some of your scraps!  Check out what the DT created as well over at As You See It!

Ginger looks quite interested in Cassidy's gift!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wrapped in Christmas (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Shaded Spruce, Classic Christmas DSP (ret), Wrapped in Plaid DSP (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Enamel Dot (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Triangle Dies, Cherry Cobbler Blend