AYSI260 Boo To You!

Hey peeps!  Time for another As You See It...as we turn the page to October, we've got a sketch for you:

 

Of course, my mind went to Halloween!  I just got some new papers from CTMH and I paired them with a really old Halloween stamp that I don't think I've ever even inked up:

I diecut the plaid piece with a Stitched Rectangle die, then cut another one and stamped my black cat on top and fussy-cut it out, popping it up and matching it with the plaid beneath it:

The sentiment strip and starry strip are both from the paper pack, and I added some faux stitching and two black glimmer stars for fun!

I inked up a couple more of my Halloween stamp stash for the inside:

I am also adding this to the challenge at Just Add Ink: Just Choose Two---I've got silhouettes and stars!

I love stamping Halloween cards!  But what will you create with our sketch this week?  The possibilities are endless!  Come play along with us!  And thanks for visiting today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitchery, Halloween (Graphic 45), Halloween Silhouettes (Crackerbox & Suzy), Halloween Set 1 (Rubbernecker)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Black Glimmer, Boo Crew DSP (Close to My Heart)
Ink	Stazon Black, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Black Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Die, Country Star Punch (ret), Stamparatus

IB189 with a Guest!

Hi stampers!  This is a very special Thursday at Inspired By!  Today we're having company!  Yep, we've each asked a guest stamper to stamp with us!  You can see all the DT and their friends over at the IB blog...be sure to pop over and give them some love!  But first, let's look at our inspiration photos...fall and the holidays, both gorgeous:

My guest is the oh-so-sweet Linda Callahan!  I have met Linda a couple of times at SU conventions and she is a delight!  She's fun to be around and an awesome stamper to boot!  She chose the first photo for her card and look at this stunner:

She nailed it!  I feel like I could reach right out and take a bite from one of those apples!  Yum!  I chose to use the second photo inspiration for my card; that little galvanized bucket with the Christmas trees on it was calling my name:

It's hard to tell, but the gray elements are my card are actually Brushed Silver cardstock; I stamped the (very old) Cornish Heritage Farms sentiment in Stazon ink and used elements from the Sparkle of the Season bundle to create my wreath:

The panel behind it was embossed with the Pinewood Planks EF, and the buffalo check is a digital paper!  I had an extra little leaf left over, so I added to the inside of my Old Olive card along with a sentiment from Christmas to Remember:

I am also entering this at the Make the Cards challenge this week, where they are looking for "Country Life & Buffalo Plaid"!

I hope you'll play along with us this week...lots of inspiration to get your creative juices flowing!  Linda and I are happy that you popped in!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sparkle of the Season, Christmas to Remember, Winter Vintage Signage (Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Brushed Silver (ret), Digital Paper
Ink	Stazon Black, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals, Black Gingham Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Pinewood Planks EF (ret), Ornate Frames Dies, Seasonal Swirls Dies

TSOT526 Simple Hello

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  We're on the downhill slide to the weekend!  I thought the sketch at Try Stampin' on Tuesday was a super one, so I made TWO!  

Here's my first one, uber-simple, great for a masculine birthday, and it uses Christmas papers for a non-Christmas theme!  

I used Tidings of Christmas DSPs, a Crumb Cake card base and Kraft for my stitched leaf.  The Ornate Frames tag features a sentiment from Best Year stamped in Evening Evergreen and embellished with a little Linen Thread bow:

To create the diagonal panel, I used the largest Stitched Rectangle die and angled it so that longest edge cut across the 4" DSP.  The second one is more feminine; it uses DSPs from Harvest Meadow, and a pretty flower from Color and Contour, stamped in Calypso Coral, Pale Papaya and Soft Succulent:

I used the label die from Pierced Blooms and a Tailor Made Tag with a sentiment from Celebrate Sunflowers; I also added a little smattering of Sequins for Everything:

Thanks for visiting today!

So remember the tree branch that broke off from a tree in our yard less than a week ago?  And I said I didn't see how the other branches could hold themselves up?

Pulled the topmost part of the tree off, and we didn't hear a thing!  John went down the driveway on an errand and noticed it!  We'll probably take the rest of it down...he had just gotten the first portion cleaned up!

More wood for our neighbor!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

RRCB168 Peaceful Tree

 Hi everyone!  Tuesday means Retro Rubber!  Yay!  This week we've got a tic-tac-toe grid for your inspiration:

I chose the middle row down:  greens, trees and die; it also fulfills the diagonal of one-word sentiment, trees and a bow!  Here we go:

This tree is image is from Flourishes from 2008, one of my first photopolymer sets!  I stamped it on a panel of Basic White with Soft Succulent ink and ran it through the Big Shot with a snowy embossing folder.  The "peace" diecut is from Papertrey, and it was diecut with some green glimmer paper from a few year back; it's mounted on a Tailor Made Tag and embellished with some ribbon and silver twine:

I must have used an older piece of Whisper White for my tag; it definitely has a different white tint than the new Basic White, and the ink stamped a bit differently on it!  I really didn't think there was much of a difference, but I can see it!  Not so much that the recipient will notice, but my eye did pick it up!  Anyway, I hope you'll find some ideas from our grid this week and share you retro creation with us!  Remember that your stamps have to be a least a year old, and you must tell us the approximate age!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for visiting---enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Trees (Flourishes, 2008)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Succulent, Mint Macaron Glimmer Paper (ret)
Ink	Soft Succulent
Accessories	Soft Succulent Sheer Ribbon, Silver Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Peace Die (Papertrey), Snowing Die (ret)

TTTC132 Spooky Halloween Card from Cassidy

 Happy Monday, peeps! We had a very busy weekend and I have stamp camp tonight, so I didn't get any stamping done!  However, Cassidy decided she wanted to enter a challenge and make a Halloween card, so I helped her out a wee bit!  She chose to do the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge for this week, opting for the right row down of embossing, patterned paper, and Halloween:

A few weeks ago we had gone to an Amish stamp store and she picked out some pretty "pour" papers from Paper Rose.  She chose to work with a purple and black one for her card today:

She stamped and fussy-cut some ghosts and a banner sentiment with a CTMH stamp, but before she adhered them, we had to figure out how to get the embossing in there!  I remembered I had a spider-web folder, so she embossed her paper with it, but it really didn't stand out.  So she took a sponge dauber and sponged white craft ink on it and it looked amazing!  Spooky and foggy!  She diecut a little spider from some black glimmer paper, then adhered everything with dimensionals:

We adhered everything to a Basic Black card.  She prefers to write personal messages on the inside of her cards, so she opted to write it in a glitter pen instead of stamping something, and I didn't share that.  But she DID insist on taking the photo of the card (and adding the watermark) herself, using my photo box and my faithful old camera:

She did a great job, too!  And here are a few more pictures of our day at the bay:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!  And thanks for visiting to see Cassidy's card!

"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hello Pumpkin (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Basic White, Black Glimmer, Paint Pour DSP (Paper Rose)
Ink	Memento Black, Blackberry Bliss, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Spiderweb EF (ret), Little Treats Dies (ret), Sponge Dauber

PP560 Peaceful Snowflakes

Hi stampers!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge....Joanne is our hostess with a fabulous sketch with THREES!  I love my threes!  (I just realized that I put my sentiment in the wrong place, but of course it's too late to make a new one, oops!)

I pulled out some Feels Like Frost DSP from last year along with some Balmy Blue glimmer paper to create three snowflakes from our newest Stitched Snowflake dies!  Here we go:

I used one die to cut the snowflakes, lining them up along the right edge, then I embossed the left edge with the embossed snowflake die from the same set (difficult to see in the photo).

To complement the snowy pinecone, I stamped a sentiment on Kraft cardstock in white and heat-embossed it , then diecut it and popped it up.  I also embossed a little Kraft strip with a little snowflake die and layered it along the edge of the DSP:

I am adding this to the Jingle Belles challenge as well, it's "Dashing Through the Snow"!  There are so many possibilities with this sketch, I can't wait to see what you all create!  Be sure to check out what the DT has created as well, hop on over to the Paper Players blog to check them all out!

We have had Cassidy all weekend, and yesterday we took a little day trip to Rock Hall, MD, which is on the Chesapeake Bay.  John wanted to look at some boats, so we went to a couple marinas, went to lunch at the "Admiral's Club" and also visited Chesapeake City.  It was a gorgeous day and although it wasn't real exciting for an 11-year-old, she was a good sport!  This was her favorite boat, or should I say, yacht! LOL!

I liked this vintage skipjack....check out the little star at the end of the prow!

And it had its own little matching dinghy...so cute!

And John just will not be serious for the camera!

More to come later!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Festive Silhouettes (Altenew)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Kraft, Balmy Blue Glimmer, Feels Like Frost DSP (ret)
Ink	Craft White
Accessories	White Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Snowflake Dies, Ornate Frames Dies, Heat Tool, Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)

Fusion Peach Birthday

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I somehow missed the Fusion challenge when it came up, and when I saw all that peachiness, I knew I had to squeeze in a card!  I actually used both the sketch and the photo inspiration: 

I loved the peach hues with the tans!  I pulled out Hand-Penned Petals, which I hadn't used for a while, along with Sunny Sentiments and some Pale Papaya and Crumb Cake inks and came up with this:

The bottom DSP is Hand-Penned, and I diecut the sentiment with a Tasteful Labels die and backed it with another Ornate Frames die cut from Crumb Cake cardstock.  After stamping and diecutting the florals, I added a couple of Crumb Cake "sprigs" from the Nature's Thoughts dies.  I embossed the top portion of the card with the Tasteful Textile EF.  My final addition was a couple of pieces of burlap ribbon:

Light and delicate but with a touch of fall!  Thanks for popping in today!

We had pizza with the kids last night and since it such a beautiful, cool fall evening, John put a fire in the chimeria and roasted some marshmallows!  Disclaimer:  this is an ember, not a burning marshmallow!

I was bundled up in a sweatshirt with my hood up and here's how Cassidy was dressed!  Kids!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sunny Sentiments, Hand-Penned Petals
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Hand-Penned DSP
Ink	Crumb Cake, Pale Papaya
Accessories	Dimensionals, Burlap Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Nature's Thoughts Dies, Penned Flowers Dies, Tasteful Label Dies, Ornate Frames Dies, Tasteful Textile EF