Playing Cards with Friends

Hello again, peeps! Back for a second post today, and it's a special one!  My sweet friend Michele at I Card Everyone has asked me to play "cards" with her!  (Be sure to check out HER card!) Here are her rules:

• Christmas Decor: baubles, wreathes, florals, trees
• Untraditional colors: anything besides pine green and red, though untraditional shades of greens and reds are allowed
• Background die

So here we go!  I've used some shades of Sweet Sugar Plum and Mint Macaron for my sparkly creation today:

I diecut some ornaments using an Impression Obsession set of dies, and the wreath is from Seasonal Swirls dies.  My bow is from the Pierced Blooms dies, and the sentiment is from a really old SU set called Christmas Classics that I stamped, fussy cut, then backed with a mat of Sweet Sugar Plum:

I backed the ornaments with a piece of Dazzling Diamond glimmer paper to make them stand out even more, and I adhered them to a sheet of Basic White, embossed with Altenew's Dotted Swirls cover die.

I really like using non-traditional colors! Now, do you want to see Michele's card? You can find it HERE!  Thanks for popping in, and thanks, Michele, for asking me to play CARDS with us!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Classics (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Rose, Dazzling Diamonds and Mint Glimmer Papers (ret), Sweet Sugar Plum (ret)
Ink	Sweet Sugar Plum (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Seasonal Swirls Dies, Pierced Blooms Dies, Ornament Dies 220Q (Impression Obsession), Dotted Swirls Cover Die (Altenew)

RRCB173

Hi peeps!  Time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, and it's quite a pretty seasonal one!  Check it out:

What a sweet country Christmas image!  I have been finding myself a bit stretched for time lately, so I went very easy, creating some tags with a tag die and adding a sentiment from Merry Christmas to All (2018):

I used an alphabet die I got as a gift from Susan Branch a couple years ago, and added a snowflake stamp and some twine:

It all went on a lovely piece of Winter Wonderland DSP from Simple Stories!  And I did add a few snowflake sequins for fun!   Now, what will you create?  Just remember that your stamps must be at least a year old and you must give the approximate age of them!  We want to give our older stamps some love!  Can't wait to see what you create...share it with us at the Retro Rubber blog!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Merry Christmas to All (2018, ret), Letters & Numbers (Susan Branch, 2018), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Kraft, Winter Wonderland DSP (Simple Stories)
Ink	Evening Evergreen, Chocolate Chip (ret), Craft White
Accessories	Thick Baker's Twine (ret), Dimensionals, Snowflake Sequins (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Tag Dies (Cuttlebug)

PP570 Winter Wonderland

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Hope your weekend is going well!  Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess this week and she has a wonderful theme board for us:

 

Boy, I had a tough time deciding in which direction to go this week....so many gorgeous choices!  In the end, I went kind of clean-and-simple, using that wintery scene on the top right as my inspiration. I had been playing around with this CTMH image earlier in the week and this just sort of fell together:

(I guess I could even have used the deer and the cabin inspiration as well!)  I stamped the snowglobe in Misty Moonlight ink and diecut it out. I then took a piece of Misty Moonlight cardstock and ran it through a snowflake embossing folder and sponged the flakes with white craft ink.  My sweet friend Danni from Inspired By recently gave me a gift wrapped in this awesome lightweight silver paper....I could NOT throw it away, so I used it as a mat for my snowflake base as well as the snowglobe!

And finally, just a simple sentiment banner and snowflake to finish it off:

I am also going to enter this at the Little Red Wagon, where their challenge this week is "let it snow"!

Now, what will inspire you?  Snowflakes and mittens?  Deer in the woods? A warm cabin?  Or maybe a cardinal and some snowy pines!  Can't wait to see what you create this week!  Please share it with us at the Paper Players and be sure to check out what the designers created as well!  Thanks for popping in today!

It's tree-cutting time!  Santa Wayne is on the job!

That Eden...she's such a ham!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wonderland Cardmaking (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Silver Wrapping Paper (unknown maker)
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Wonderland Dies (Close to My Heart), Circle Punch (ret), Snowflakes EF (Cuttlebug), Sponge Dauber

JAI583 Joy to All

Hi stampers!  I am gearing up making Christmas cards...it always seems like I need one or two more!  This one uses the sketch from Just Add Ink:

And here we go:

I happened to have a half-circle of Kraft cardstock already diecut, so I used that as my starting point, matching it up with some Close to My Heart DSP and stamps.  I stamped the horse and sleigh on Crumb Cake with Early Espresso ink, then mounted it on top of a little white stitched panel that was stamped with a sentiment from the retired Shine Bright:

My final addition was a couple of vertical borders, a Stitched Snowflake and a scattering of Poppy Parade stars:

I love the warmth of these colors together!  Thanks for popping in today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wonderland (Close to My Heart), Shine Bright (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Poppy Parade, Kraft, Early Espresso, White Pines DSP (Close to My Heart)
Ink	Craft White, Early Espresso, Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Snowflakes Dies, Pierced Blooms Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Wonderland Dies (Close to My Heart), Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)

TTT142 Peace

 Hi there, peeps!  Time for a new Tic Tac Toe challenge!  Here's our grid:

I chose the right column of die cuts, Christmas, and white on white.  And I will tell you that photographing a white-on-white card is a challenge!  Here we go:

I heat embossed the retired Christmas Collage background stamp in Craft White ink and white embossing powder, then mounted it on a piece of silver paper I had in my stash.  I diecut the word "peace" from the same silver paper and mounted it in the open panel at the top right; you can see the embossing a wee bit better here:

On the lower left, I embossed and diecut some white holly leaves and berries and popped them up:

And on the inside, I stamped a sentiment in Silver Encore ink to go with the silver accents on the front.  I really wanted to add some embellishments, but I liked the simplicity of the white, so I left it as it was!

I am also going to enter this at Try Stampin' on Tuesday, which wants us to "Keep it Off Center":

This is such a nice board full of pretty possibilities!  Be sure to check out the Tic Tac Toe blog to see what the other members of Team X came up with, then share yours with us too!  Thanks for popping by today!

My great-nephew Zion (on John's side) was quite proud of the Lego T-Rex he made on Thanksgiving day!  He's quite a clever little guy:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Collage (ret), Candy Cane Christmas (The Stamp Market)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Metalo Silver Dust Paper (Neenah)
Ink	Craft White, Silver Encore (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Detail White Embossing Powder (Stampendous)
Tools	Big Shot, Heat Tool, Candy Cane Christmas Dies (The Stamp Market), Christmas Greetings Dies (ret)

IB198C Marshmallow Friends

Hi stampers!  Time for a new Inspired By challenge...check out these fun photos!  You can choose either one, and use the optional sketch alone or with one of the photos!  The choice is up to you!

 

I remembered this sweet older SU set called Winter Wilma, and it had this cute mug, marshmallows and fun sentiment!!  I found some complimentary DSP and here's my card:

And here's the optional sketch, which I did use:

I stamped the mug twice on watercolor paper, loosely watercolored and snipped out one, then mounted the other on top.  I used a couple of dies to cut some circles and snowflakes and embellished them with some enamel dots and Wink of Stella:

Aren't those marshmallows the cutest?

I combined a couple of sentiments for the inside, and it all went on an Early Espresso card base:

This card just makes me smile! I am also going to enter it at the Krafty Chicks for this week...they want something stamped!

I hope you'll play along with our challenge this week....I can't wait to see what you create!  Share it with us at Inspired By!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winter Wilma (ret), Just Treats (Close to My Heart), Christmas Silhouettes (Sweet & Sassy)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Early Espresso, Real Red, Watercolor, Candy Cane Lane DSP (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Real Red, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Enamel Dots (W+9), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Snowflakes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Aquapainter, Wink of Stella, Stitched Chevron Dies (Sissix)

TCC165 Tis the Season for Peace

Hi there, stamping friends!  Happy December!!  It's time for a brand-new Card Concept challenge, where we create a card with a certain concept! (If you need help on what the concepts are, check out the CC blog!)  Here's the inspiration photo that Julie has for us this week:

Gosh, what a beautiful mantle!  So much to inspire us, too! For my clean and layered card, I took inspiration from the greenery, the plaids, and the candles (although mine is red!):

Several years ago, I bought a W+9 set from a fellow stamper and I don't think I've used it but a couple of times, and I know I never used the candle image!  So I set about to remedy that, stamping it in Real Red, then adding different greenery and pine cones from the same set.  I mounted everything on a whitewashed woodgrain panel of DSP, added a sentiment from another of my plethora of Christmas sets, then added a plaid diecut ribbon:

I didn't have any tiny bell dies, so I added some silver metallic pearls, and mounted everything on a panel of the same red plaid!  I just love the traditional seasonal colors together!  I am also entering it at Inkspirational, which is looking for plaid!

I hope you'll come play along with us and show us how this gorgeous photo inspires you!  It may be just what you need to finish up those last-minute Christmas cards!  Check out what all the designers created and see what their "concepts" are at The Card Concept blog!  Thanks for popping in today!

Remember the baby shower that Dana planned a couple of months ago?  Here's the guest of honor!!  Her name is Isla (pronounced "Eye-lah") and she is so tiny!!!  But what a cutie!  Cassidy was thrilled!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Merry & Bright (W+9), Vintage Christmas Sayings (unknown)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Warmth & Cheer DSP (ret), Wonderland DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Garden Green, Mossy Meadow, Evening Evergreen, Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Suede, Real Red, Crushed Curry, Merry Merlot
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Metallic Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Scalloped Contour Dies, Pierced Blooms Die (bow), Merry & Bright Dies (W+9), Blending Brush