FMS592 Santa's Hat

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend! I am squeaking in my card by the skin of my teeth; it's for the FMS sketch as well as the Jingle Belles challenge of Santa's Hat!

I pulled out a retired SU Santa's Hat builder punch and went to work:

I punched the hat from red and white glimmer paper, then mounted it on a Stylish Shapes circle diecut and added a couple more circles of Real Red and Soft Succulent.  My horizontal piece was Evening Evergreen and the sentiment is from Impression Obsession.  Everything was mounted on a Tim Holtz Deer Knit embossed panel and I added some snowflake sequins for fun:

I found these inexpensive stamps at Goodwill a while back and they actually stamp pretty well!  I used this one for the inside:

Another card for my December stash!  Thanks for popping in today!

Our church softball league won their championship yesterday....they played from 9am to 8pm, and won all six games.  It was a looooong day!  Dana was the scorekeeper!  You can see her on the left...and well, she's the only girl, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Words (Impression Obsession), Christmas Sentiments (unknown)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Soft Succulent (ret), Evening Evergreen (ret), Red Glimmer, White Glimmer
Ink	Evening Evergreen (ret), Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Snowflake Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Word Window Punch (ret), Santa Hat Builder Punch (ret), Deer Knit Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz)

PP649 CAS Gingerbread Greetings

Happy Sunday, everyone!  It's time for a new Paper Players challenge!  Anne Marie is our hostess this week with a CAS challenge, and it's a fun one!  She wants to see something we can eat!

The Christmas Kickstart challenge this week happens to be gingerbread, so I decided to combine the two challenges and came up with this:

My Lawn Fawn gingerbread people were stamped on Cinnamon Cider cardstock, then colored with a Real Red blend.  The gingham piece was stamped in Real Red ink and I added a scalloped border of Shaded Spruce.  The sentiment was also stamped in Shaded Spruce:

I resisted the temptation to add any other embellishments since it is supposed to be clean-and-simple!  

I hope you'll find some inspiration at the Paper Players blog to create your own "foodie" CAS creation!  Can't wait to see what you come up with!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy your day and be blessed!

I am the Lord, your saviour; I am the one who created you.  I am the Lord, the Creator of all things.  I alone stretch out the heavens; when I made the earth, no one helped me. Isaiah 44:24

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Celebrate Winter (Lawn Fawn), Background Basics Gingham (Papertrey Ink)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Shaded Spruce
Ink	Versafine Black, Real Red, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Be Mine Dies (ret), Simply Celebrate Winter Dies (Lawn Fawn)

PCC526 Happiest of Birthdays

Happy Friday, peeps! Ever since I saw the Nested Essentials dies, I wanted to make a cake with the ones with the rounded edges!  Although I think they would make an awesome wedding cake, on this card today I just chose to make a regular layered birthday cake:

I used the sketch from the Papercraft Crew:

I cut three of the cake layers in Basic White cardstock and added a candle from the Charming Sentiments dies.  To make it stand out a little bit, I added a "halo" of Vellum using a circular die from the Radiating Stitches dies:

The sentiment is also from Charming Sentiments, and I added some sequins from my stash for sparkle!  The big polka dots on this Real Red DSP really makes this card pop!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Charming Sentiments
Card stock & Papers	Real Red, Basic White, Real Red DSP, Vellum, Crushed Curry
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequins from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Radiating Stitches Dies, Nested Essentials Dies, Charming Sentiments Dies

Color & Contour Thanks

Happy Thursday, all!  I needed a thank you card and put the sketch from Global Design Project as well as the colors from the Color Throwdown to work:

I decided to use the sketchy florals from Color & Contour along with Inked Botanicals DSP:

I stamped the florals in Lost Lagoon, Pool Party, Crushed Curry and Daffodil Delight, then added some buds in Crumb Cake:

I stamped a sentiment from Timeless Arrangements in Crumb Cake and added some Linen Thread as well as some gold metallic pearls.  Everything went on a frame of Inked Botanicals, diecut with the Stitched Rectangle dies.

I added the larger flower on the inside just for fun:

Thanks so much for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Color & Contour, Timeless Arrangements
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Inked Botanicals DSP
Ink	Lost Lagoon, Pool Party, Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals, Metallic Pearls (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Scalloped Contour Dies

SUO330 Zany Square Birthday

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Hope your week is going well so far!  I have a card that's a wee bit different; the challenge at SUO (Stampin Up Only) is "It's Hip to be Square"...they want to see a square on your card!

I am not quite sure why I decided to make the card base of my card black, unless I was thinking that I was going to use the black & white side of the Zoo Crew DSP, but I changed my mind about the patterns, but stayed with the black!  So here we go:

To create my card, I took a piece of Basic Black cardstock 8 1/2 x 4 1/4", folded it in half, then ran it through my Big Shot with the largest Radiating Stitches die; obviously, I left the folded edge intact so that just the sides were exposed to the die.  Although it was a double layer, the die still cut through pretty well...I only had to trim it with scissors in a tiny spot.  So my card wasn't quite square, but it left me with enough room to add a square mat and some of the fun figures from the Zoo Crew papers:

The matching ribbon fit perfectly in the little space above the figures, and I used a one-hole bow technique so the ribbon wouldn't slide around.  I stamped some confetti and a sentiment before adhering it to a Parakeet Party mat; then on the inside, added some more confetti and a sentiment from Charming Sentiments:

Embossing both front and back of the card made it a little wonky; it was an experiment and I may try it again with thicker cardstock!  But it will make a fun card for someone's birthday!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Zany Zoo, Charming Sentiments
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Basic White, Parakeet Party, Zoo Crew
Ink	Parakeet Party, Flirty Flamingo
Accessories	Ribbon Duo Combo Pack, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Radiating Stitches Dies, 1/8" Hole Punch (ret)

Ruff Ruff Birthday

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  The Atlantic Hearts Sketch this week was a bit of a puzzler, but once I began working with it, it turned out pretty well!  Here's the sketch:

I needed a birthday card for my niece and she loves dogs, so I decided to make another wobbler card using the same image as I did on this card that I made a couple of weeks ago.  She's not a little girl, but who wouldn't love to get a wobbly little pup on your birthday card?  So here we go:

I used the colors of Granny Apple Green, Balmy Blue and Daffodil Delight from the Sunday Stamps challenge:

I stamped my little puppy in Stazon Black ink, then watercolored him in (don't look too closely, it wasn't too good of a watercolor job!), then used Balmy Blue and Daffodil Delight DSPs in the background.  The lower panel was embossed with the Dotty Hearts embossing folder.

The "ruff ruff" is from the retired Happy Tails set, embossed in white and diecut with a small stitched heart die from Give It A Whirl to match the Dotty Hearts embossing!

And finally, on the inside, a birthday sentiment from Perennial Birthday and some hearts from Country Bouquet!

And it's off in the mail it goes, wagging its way to the Windy City of Chicago!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Country Bouquet, Happy Tails (ret), Perennial Birthday (ret), Paper Pal Pets (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Balmy Blue, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Balmy Blue DSP, Daffodil Delight DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Wobble Mechanism,White Embossing Powder, Enamel Dots from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Dotty Hearts EF (ret),  Heat Tool, Give it A Whirl Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies

Birthday Shells

 Happy Monday, peeps!  It's club day so I will make this quick!  My card is for two challenges:  the Just Us Girls challenge wants shells, and the Inspired By challenge is Sea Decor:

One of my favorite shell images is called Shell Plate 17 from 100 Proof Press; I combined it with a Cheesecloth stamp for my card today:

The shells were stamped in Baja Breeze on Mist cardstock from Close to My Heart and diecut with a Scalloped Contours die.  The cheesecloth was stamped in Crumb Cake and I added some "splashes" with a stamp from Nature's Prints, stamped in Craft White ink.  

I stamped a birthday sentiment from Lasting Joy and diecut it with a Nested Essentials die; beneath it I added a rope tied with a nautical-style knot:

The sentiment and shells on the inside are from an older Crafty Secrets set:

Thanks so much for dropping by today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Those who love your law have perfect security, and there is nothing that can make them fall.  

Psalm 119:165

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nature's Prints, Lasting Joy, Shell Plate 17 (100 Proof Press), Cheesecloth (Cornish Heritage Farms), Seaside (Crafty Secrets)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Mist (Close to My Heart)
Ink	Craft White, Pecan Pie, Baja Breeze (ret)
Accessories	Twine (from my stash), Metallic Pearls (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contours Dies, Nested Essentials Dies