CAS Happy Summer

Happy Monday, peeps! Stamp Camp tonight, so this is going to be quick and CAS!!  Three challenges:  Just Us Girls wants three of something; I chose the center column of summer and single layer for the Tic Tac Toe, and CAS on Sunday's theme is "Summer"!

I got this Pretty Pink Posh surfboard set a few years back and it's barely gotten inky, so I thought this would be a good time!  Here we go:

I stamped the images in Memento Black, then added color with Blends.  In hindsight, I wish I had added some pink to the board on the left...it looks a little lopsided, color-wise!  I added some "splashes" as well as some pale aqua sequins:

And on the inside, a sentiment from the retired Sweet Ice Cream:

This will make a great August birthday card for some youngster or young-at-heartster, LOL!  

Here's a little youngster I saw on my walk yesterday...and she had a twin but she was camera-shy, although I have seen them both popping in and out of my neighbor's cornfield!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweet Ice Cream (ret), Summer Surfboards (Pretty Pink Posh)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White
Ink	Memento Black, Pool Party, Bermuda Bay (ret), Soft Sky (ret)
Accessories	Sequins from my stash
Tools

PP650 Countryside Sympathy

Happy Sunday, all!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess for this week and she has a wonderful sketch! I just love sketches!  Check it out:

I needed a sympathy card, and I thought the patterns in the Countryside Inn papers would be beautiful used on Joanne's sketch, since there are several layers and that would give me a chance to play with several of them!  So here we go:

After choosing my papers, I simply layered them together and added a sentiment from Lasting Joy, diecutting it with a rectangular die from Timeless Arrangements, then adding some embellishments also diecut with dies from Timeless Arrangements as well as some little fussy-cut flowers:

On the inside, I stamped another sympathy sentiment (Hero Arts) and some little flowers from Lasting Joy:

And this is off in the mail! 

I hope that Joanne's sketch inspires you to create something wonderful...share it with us at the Paper Players blog and you might be our Headliner!  And while you're there, be sure to check out the amazing designs from the Design Team, they're sure to inspire you as well! 

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy, Sentiments CL342 (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Boho Blue, Balmy Blue, Countryside Inn DSP
Ink	Balmy Blue, Boho Blue, Night of Navy
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Timeless Arrangements Dies

52CCCTD28 Fussy Cut Vintage Christmas Deer

Hello everyone!  I was thrilled to be chosen as a 52 Christmas Card Throwdown winner recently, so I am guesting this week for their current challenge!  This week we're concentrating on fussy-cutting, where you cut out an image rather than use a die!  Here's the prompt:

I had several ideas for this challenge but in the end, I decided to use a little retro deer image because I found some retro deer papers that I thought would be fun to use!  So here we go:

These cute retro papers were some I got last year in a Simon Says Stamp kit.  I have no idea the name of the papers, though, sorry!  Anyway, the deer reminded me of a little deer stamp I got years ago from Artistic Outpost, so I stamped the image three times: once in Soft Sea Foam (for the trees), once in Pebbled Path (for the shadows), and once in Pecan Pie (for the deer).  After coloring in the deer with some ink and an aquapainter, and adding the spots with a white gel pen, I fussy-cut everything out and adhered the elements to the Pebbled Path image, which I had diecut with a Stylish Shapes die.  Before adhering, I did use a blending brush to add some Soft Sky to the background:

I added a glimmer paper scallop piece behind it, which is prettier in real life than shows here, and an Impression Obsession sentiment at the bottom:

For the corner embellishments, I added some subtle sequins so as not to detract too much from the central image.

Everything was mounted on a Pistachio Pudding card base, and I stamped this retro sentiment from Flonzcraft in Mint Macaron ink:

I love how this turned out, even though it took a little extra time for the fussy-cutting, it was still a fun card to create!  I hope you'll get out your sharp scissors and do a little fussy-cutting for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge!  Share it over at the blog, so we all can enjoy it!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Frosty & Friends (Artistic Outpost), Christmas Sentiments (Flonzcraft), Christmas Words (Impression Obsession)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pistachio Pudding (ret), Glimmer Specialty Paper (ret), Vintage Deer DSP (unknown)
Ink	Pebbled Path, Pecan Pie, Soft Sea Foam, Soft Sky (ret)
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Bitty Banner Dies (ret), Aquapainter, White Gel Pen (Posca), Wink of Stella, Real Red Marker

AHSC534 Life is Better

 Happy Friday, everyone!  Hope you have some fun plans for the weekend!  My friend Shawn lent me her Crafting With You bundle and I had some fun today playing with it!  I used the Atlantic Hearts sketch:

and I paired the set with some pretty Inked Botanicals DSP!  Here we go:

This is perhaps a little busier than my usual card, but there are so many fun dies in the set, I just felt I had to play with them!  After stamping the sentiment on a piece of Pool Party cardstock, I created the embroidery hoop image, stamping the flowers in Calypso Coral, then adding some extras in Pool Party and Petal Pink:

I diecut some spools and buttons, along with some of the other hearts and flowers to create all my little embellishments:

Eek! So fun to play with!  Thanks, Shawn!  And thank you for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.  Proverbs 15:1

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Crafting With You
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pool Party, Lost Lagoon, Crushed Curry, Calypso Curry, Petal Pink, Inked Botanicals DSP
Ink	Lost Lagoon
Accessories	Dimensionals, Bumblebee Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Crafting with You Dies

CAS Birthday Ice Cream

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Quick card today as we are having a big picnic tonight for our church small group! That's one thing our church does well---EAT!  And I have a card that would qualify for our own Paper Players challenge this week too...check it out:

I still have the Sweet Ice Cream bundle from last year, because it makes for a quick and easy card...just stamp, punch and adhere!  I used some Grapefruit Grove and Pumpkin Pie inks for the ice cream, and some Crumb Cake and Pecan Pie inks for the cone!  It all went on a strip of Dandy Designs DSP:

I had a stitched rectangle already cut, so I stamped my words in Calypso Coral, along with a sentiment on the inside:

This is going to a guy in my church, so I didn't put any glitter, sequins or Wink of Stella on it....other than the stamped sprinkles, his cone is PLAIN!  The sketch I used is from CAS Colours & Sketches:

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

There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan
    that can succeed against the Lord. Proverbs 21:30

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweet Ice Cream (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Calypso Coral, Dandy Designs DSP (ret)
Ink	Pumpkin Pie, Crumb Cake, Calypso Coral, Pecan Pie, Grapefruit Grove (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Ice Cream Builder Punch

ICC147 Floral Birthday

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  I have a pretty birthday card for you today; it uses some papers from Carta Bella called Gather at Home, and it uses the Inspire.Create sketch:

The only stamping is a birthday sentiment from Stamp Simply, and I embellished it with a floral image that I fussy-cut from a scrap of the same papers.  I embellished the circle diecut with a scallop of Pistacho Pudding as well as some enamel dots:

And here's the inside, with another Stamp Simply sentiment:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Farmhouse All Occasion Greetings (Stamp Simply), Farmhouse Scriptual Thoughts (Stamp Simply)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pistacho Pudding (ret), Gather at Home DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Versafine Black, Evening Evergreen (ret), Enamel Dots (unknown)
Accessories	Cut & Emboss, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret)
Tools

Epic Guitar Birthday

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I have a quick card today for two challenges:  a past sketch from In(k)spire Me, which is celebrating their 12th anniversary, and the Global Design Challenge, which is looking for stripes! I chose the past sketch # 470 from IM for my sketch:

and Best Family Ever and the retired set Epic Celebration to make a birthday card for John's guitar-playing nephew!

SU's DSPs this year have a nice bold stripe, so I chose the Blueberry Bushel one and accented it with a strip of Blueberry Bushel cardstock which I embossed with a Diamondplate embossing folder! The guitar was also stamped in Blueberry Bushel and colored with Blends:

I added a couple of sentiments on the inside, and it's stamped and on its way!  Josh plays the guitar and sings in his church's praise band, so I hope he likes it!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.  Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him 

with joyful songs.  Psalm 100:1-2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Family Ever, Epic Celebration (ret), Birthday Centers (Cornish Heritage Farms), Farmhouse Scriptural Thoughts (Stamp Simply)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blueberry Bushel, Blueberry Bushel DSP
Ink	Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Radiating Stitches Dies, Diamondplate Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Blends