PP451 Masculine Clean and Simple

Hi everyone!  Sunday brings another Paper Players challenge...good thing it was a clean and simple one, my weekend has been a busy one, so it was perfect!  Ann is our hostess, and here's what she chose:

There was a super-fabby sketch at CAS(E) This Sketch this week, too; I flipped it to make it work better with my image:

And here we go:

I gave lots of stamps some love and ink on this one!!  My Chevy image (Unity) was stamped in Poppy Parade; the background (Gorgeous Grunge) was stamped repeatedly in Smoky Slate, and my sentiment (Hero Arts) was stamped in Memento Black.  I actually stamped the car image twice, once in Poppy and again in Slate and fussy cut them out, popping up the top one:

I used some scraps of Poppy Parade DSP for my vertical stripes, and some new CTMH sentiment for the inside; we have a friend who was just blindsided with a diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia, and has been in the hospital for about three weeks, so this is for him.

Remember, for our CAS challenges, less is better!  Simple images and lots of white space really make your CAS creation pop!  If you need a refresher on the CAS style, pop over to the Paper Players website! Meanwhile, you can check out what the DT made!  Hope to see you there!

Cooling off on a ride high in the sky!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For the Guys (Unity), Gorgeous Grunge (ret), CL342 Sentiments (Hero Arts), Get Well Soon and God is Good (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Poppy Parade DSP
Ink	Poppy Parade, Smoky Slate, Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools

Pink Snowflake Christmas

Happy hot Saturday, peeps!  I have another Christmas card today to try to cool us off, LOL!  It fulfills three challenges:  the FMS sketch, the CTD color palette and the CAS Christmas Card Challenge:

I found the FMS sketch a little tricky, hopefully it is CAS enough for the Christmas challenge, too!  So here we go:

I happened to have a few strips of this beautiful Photoplay DSP in my "hoard", and I backed them with some silver foil strips for the background.  Can you see the angels?  Aren't they pretty?  I then diecut three snowflakes from the Seasonal Layers dies using Rococo Rose cardstock.  They were a little too dark for my liking, so I used my aquapainter and some white craft ink to give them a white wash, then once they were dry, coated them with Wink of Stella:

I put a pretty SU Metallic Silver Pearl in the center of each one, then I did a little creative combining of some of the huge stash of Christmas sentiments I have to stamp the inside:

Thanks for popping in today--be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hand Lettered Holiday and Stitched Stockings (My Favorite Things), Joyous Noel (Verve)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Silver Foil, Rococo Rose, Luke 2 DSP (Photoplay)
Ink	Rococo Rose, Craft White
Accessories	Metallic Silver Pearls, Wink of Stella
Tools	Big Shot, Seasonal Layers Dies, Aquapainter

AYSI205 Symphony of the Sea

Hey everyone, we made it to Friday!  It's wicked hot here in PA!  Are you staying cool?  We've got a cool theme for you this week at As You See It:

I have LOTS of beach-themed stamps, so it was hard to choose which ones to use, but in the end, I went very, very simple and used a stamp from 100 Proof Press called Shell Plate 17. (My friend Colleen enabled me to get this, although she says I am her enabler, LOL!  You can see her card here.)  So here is mine:

 

I stamped my shell plate on a piece of Graphic 45 paper with Lost Lagoon ink and matted it with a piece of Pretty Peacock cardstock, sponging the edges for a more rustic look.  

For the card base, I chose another Graphic 45 paper and stamped some splatters from Gorgeous Grunge, a cheesecloth image from Cornish Heritage Farms, and a sentiment from Impression Obsession....isn't that a great sentiment?

This will be going to a special friend on her birthday, so I stamped some appropriate words from a Spellbinders stamp set on the inside; of course, I did not use my Stamparatus on the first go-round, so I messed it up and had to cover it with a stitched layer....lesson learned!  I also stamped a shell very lightly down in the corner.

Hope you'll play along with our beach-themed challenge this week!  It will make you feel like you're on vacation, even if you're not!

In keeping with the beaches theme, Cassidy and family are visiting Carolina Beach in NC...I just love this shot of her "riding the waves"!!!

Uh oh....do you see the shark?!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Shell Plate 17 (100 Proof Press), Gorgeous Grunge (ret), Cheesecloth (Cornish Heritage Farms, ret), Nautical (Impression Obsession, STP-002 Sentiments (Spellbinders)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Misc Graphic 45 DSP, Pretty Peacock
Ink	Lost Lagoon, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Pretty Peacock
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Sponges

IB81 Smore Gingerbread Men

Happy Thursday, everyone!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge, and you're gonna laugh when you see what the inspiration photo is today....it is NOT gingerbread men!  So here's my card:

And here's the inspiration photo Laurel chose for us:

Yum, don't they look like fun little treats?!  Just not gingerbread treats!  But I have a confession...I don't like s'mores.  I know, weird.  I like all the components individually, I just don't care for the combination! Way too messy for me!  BUT....I thought I could combine the elements....gingham, graham cracker tan, chocolate brown, marshmallow vanilla and silver---well, silver---together to create a little cookie sheet of gingerbread men:

The cookies from Scensational Season were stamped in Early Espresso on Crumb Cake--they look a little burnt, don't they?--and placed on a Silver Foil cookie sheet on which I embossed lines on the back to make it look like "sides".  I added some elements from the Apron Builder die set, as well as sentiments and stars from the Nothing Sweeter set from last Christmas:

For fun, I even die-cut a felt oven mitt...if I'd had more time, maybe I could have stitched a little design on it!  It was a fun card to put together!  Now, how will you be inspired by our photo?  I hope you'll share your creation with us too!  Can't wait to see what it is!

When you have a tornado warning, and you've got pizza, you eat it in the bathtub!!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nothing Sweeter (ret), Scensational Season (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, WHisper White, Silver Foil, Frontier DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Real Red, Early Espresso
Accessories	Felt, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Squares Die, Stitched Shapes Die, Apron Builder Die (ret), Holiday Collection Die (ret), Light Red SU Blend, Radiant Sunflower Die (for stitched circle, Simon Says Stamp)

Fab Friday 167

Hey, peeps, happy Wednesday!  Just a quick card for you today using the Fab Friday sketch for this week:

Nice and simple, perfect for what I needed...a fast card for an architect friend's birthday!  I dragged out some really old Basic Grey papers that had sort of an urban grunge feel, and pieced them together for my front panels:

I used a sentiment from a really versatile Unity stamp set called For the Guys, stamping it in Early Espresso and diecutting it with a MFT Stitched Sentiment Strip die:

To make the right vertical element a little easier, I diecut the Hello Honey card with a die from the retired Sweetly Stitched dies....it only embosses, doesn't cut, and it made this cool design:

Finally, a couple more sentiments from the same Unity set on the inside...I just love the fonts in this sentiment!  Thanks for popping in today!

The day we went to the farm to get eggs, we also stopped at the calf barn, where the farmer has at least thirty cats (at least that's how many I could count at the time!):

No mice on that farm!  Cassidy wanted one of the calves to lick her hand....and it did, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

RRCB115 Best Wishes

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Hope your week is starting off great!  It's time for another Retro Rubber challenge, and I kinda freaked out when I saw the colors:

I just love those little Johnny-jump-ups, but PURPLE is a challenge for me!  Everyone else seems to be able to work with it in such a lovely way...but I struggle with it!  But, that's why they call these challenges, so I put on my big-girl panties and went to work!  There was a lovely little set called Touch of Nature from the 2005-2006 Winter Mini catalog, and I felt the colors would work well with the colors.  I stamped the butterfly and flower in Stazon ink on watercolor paper, and colored each of them in:

The thicker watercolor paper really lends itself to fussy-cutting; it's a little more work than regular cardstock, but if your element has intricate pieces like these antennae, they hold up better than on lighter-weight paper.  I took a piece of Soft Seafoam gingham DSP and stamped the leaf image from the set all over in a random pattern, then cut both the floral piece and the gingham piece with Stitched Rectangle dies:

All the pieces went on a Very Vanilla card base and I added a few sequins for fun. On the inside, I stamped the leafy image again, and added a Paper Pumpkin sentiment on top.  I think my front sentiment is from a PP set, too!

And since these images were watercolored, I am entering this in the Festive Friday challenge this week:

Hopefully, my fear of purple turned out okay...what do you think?  And hopefully, you'll play along with us this week!  I've actually seen several purple and yellow creations out and about on blogs over the last couple of weeks, so I know there are crafters out there who aren't afraid of purple, LOL!  Share your creation with us at Retro Rubber!  Remember, you just have to use stamps that are at least a year old, and tell us how old they are!  See ya there!

A little beachy fun with Cass and her friend:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Touch of Nature, Paper Pumpkin (all retired)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Soft Seafoam, Watercolor, Soft Subtles DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Crushed Curry, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Seafoam
Accessories	Sequins (Sylvia's Etsy Shop), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Sentiment Strips Dies (My Favorite Things), Aquapainter

PP450 Season's Greetings

Happy Sunday, everyone!  It's my turn to host over at the Paper Players, and I have a color challenge for you today!  Check out these bright hues:

I really had no plan in mind when I chose these colors, so when it came time to create, I admit, I had to wrack my brain to come up with something!  I came across this piece of Blueberry Bushel polka-dotted paper in my stash and thought it looked like snow, so I took that idea and ran with it, creating another Christmas card for my stash:

I recently saw a card with this adorable row of houses, and when I saw the whole set, I knew I had to get it (it's from Lawn Fawn).  I stamped them in Stazon and colored them with a blender pen and ink, then cut them out with their matching dies.  I added some little trees, some stitched snowy hills and of course, some glitter on their snowy rooftops:

The set comes with a sentiment as well, and I added a couple of snowflakes from a past Paper Pumpkin kit:

and the inside sentiment is also from the Paper Pumpkin set, and I added some snowmen for fun!

I am also entering this in the Little Red Wagon challenge this week, which is Christmas!!

The design team has created some incredible cards with these colors....you can check them all out at the Paper Players blog right HERE!  Then you can get inspired and share your creations with us too!  Can't wait to see them!  Thanks for popping by!

Speaking of blues and greens, a recent trip to the farm where we get our eggs prompted Cassidy to go check out their peacocks:

There's a lot of foliage around the cage, so it's hard to get a good view of how beautiful they are....plus they don't like us very much, so they usually turn around and show us their backsides and shake ALL their feathers...quite impressive!   And have you ever heard a peacock?  They sound like a baby crying...sort of eerie!! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Celebrate Winter (Lawn Fawn), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Blueberry Bushel DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Dimensionals, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, Simply Celebrate Winter Die (LF), Stitched Hillsides Dies (LF), Blender Pen, SU Markers in Granny Apple Green, Sahara Sand and Balmy Blue