IB121 Jewel Colors

Hi peeps, and happy Thursday!  Brr, we're having a cold spell here in PA....crazy weather!  I thought spring was here!  Anyway, it's Inspired By time and when I saw the inspiration photo, I admit, I was thinking to myself, "What in the world am I going to do with that?"!!!  Check it out, and the optional sketch:

When I saw the sketch, a simple idea began to form, and then I really had some fun!  Easy and simple, here we go:

I took four colors of cardstock that sort of match the colors in the photo and cut some scallops along the edge; then I embossed each panel with a different embossing folder:

 

I already had this double diecut black and gold sentiment hanging around my desk, unused from another project and thought it would be perfect! I thought I would add a little trim and I remembered this gold braid that my friend Mary Rose sent me, so I just adhered a strip to the edge.  What a fun, easy card!!

What will inspire you from our photo this week?  Be sure to check out the samples the design team created...you can use just the Inspired By photo or throw in the sketch as well!  Can't wait to see what you create!  We have had some awesome submissions and have loved seeing them!  Thanks for popping in today!

Thought I'd share a photo of Jameson - his birthday party was a drive-by, and here he is, playing his new guitar!!  Aunt Kelly (his daddy's sister) is in the car, with Winston peeking out of the window!!  Jameson's family is quite musical (not our side, his mom's side!) so I have no doubt that someday it might be a real guitar he'll be playing!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	None
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Gold Foil, Melon Mambo, Primrose Petals (ret), Crushed Curry, Coastal Cabana
Ink	None
Accessories	Dimensionals, Gold Trim (unknown)
Tools	Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots EF (ret), Elegant Dots EF (ret), Tufted EF, Pinewood Planks EF, Scallop Border Die (CTMH), Little Halo Hello Die (Poppystamps)

TS107 and CASCSC367 Inlaid Roses

Hi folks, happy Wednesday!  You must be gentle with me today....I attempted an inlaid card with the rose border die from the new Ornate Borders set....it is certainly a test of one's patience!  So here we go:

The CAS Colours & Sketches challenge this week is to use some soon-to-be-retiring In Colors:

I had the white outline die already cut out, so I thought I would try to fill it in with the Pineapple Punch and Call Me Clover pieces....the leaves were easy to match up; the little rose pieces, not so much!  I will keep at it, though!  This was just my first attempt!  I ran two lines of Sticky Strip down the Blueberry Bushel DSP, laid the white piece on top, then fit the smaller pieces in.  I did have to add some glue on a few of them to keep them in place!

And since The Spot's challenge this week is birthdays:

I added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays along with my last little piece of Call Me Clover ribbon:

I will be sad to see Blueberry Bushel and Call Me Clover retire....Pineapple Punch, not so much!  LOL, I had ONE piece of cardstock left and I had to use part of it to just cut out these little pieces!!!  Yellow is just not one of my go-to colors!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Pandemic?  What pandemic?!  Oh, to be like a pup!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pineapple Punch, Call Me Clover, Blueberry Bushel DSP (ret)
Ink	Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Call Me Clover Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Ornate Borders Dies, Stitched Rectangle Diecs

RRCT133 Martha Stewart Inspired Anything Goes

Hey peeps!  It's Tuesday, and that means a new Retro Rubber Challenge!  This week is "Anything Goes"!  We just need to make sure our stamps are at least a year old!

In my latest issue of Martha Stewart, I saw this pretty purse, and of course, like any good stamper, I immediately began thinking about how I could interpret this into a card!!  So I perused my stamps and went to work!

I found some Altenew and Avery Elle two-step stamps that had similar features to the florals.  I did have to stamp the background "blobs" multiple times to get the shape I wanted, and I didn't do so well with the white embossing (forgot to use my embossing buddy), but all in all, I was happy with the final effort:

The Altenew Painted Flower set is one I purchased at a stamp show about four years ago, and the Avery Elle Peonies set was gifted to me about the same time.  I stamped the background flowers in Blushing Bride, Flirty Flamingo and Night of Navy repeatedly on a Very Vanilla background, then added Night of Navy and Craft White (embossed with White embossing powder) outlines on top:

I added a square stitched scalloped mat, and mounted it on a panel of Very Vanilla embossed with the new Ornate Floral embossing folder, which is very sweet!  My one concession was to use a current set for my sentiment, also embossed in White.  My final addition were some sequins that matched the flowers nicely!  It all went on a Flirty Flamingo card base.  I had a lot of fun creating this from my own inspiration photo!  I hope you'll play along with our "Anything Goes" challenge this week too!  See you in the Retro Rubber gallery!  Thanks for popping in today!

Most of you who normally attend church are watching services online, as our church family does.  Our praise team, of which Dana is a part, still provides music during the service, so she still goes on to our physical church on Sunday mornings.  We have one couple who do a lot for our church, and are a lot of fun to be around; they thought it would cheer up our pastor to provide a "Flat Stanley" type of set up for him when he arrived on Sunday morning:

Everyone got a good chuckle out of it!  If you'd like to listen to our pastor's sermons, you can find them at our church's website, Manor Presbyterian.  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Painted Flowers (Altenew), Peonies (Avery Elle), Honey Bee
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Flirty Flamingo, Night of Navy
Ink	Night of Navy, Blushing Bride, Flirty Flamingo, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder, Sequins from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Heat Tool,  Ornate Floral EF

GDP237 Guest Designer

Happy Monday, peeps!  I was happy to be chosen as the guest designer for the Global Design  Project Challenge recently!  

Their challenge for this week is a vivid color palette:

Aren't these pretty together?  I searched my stamps for something that hadn't been used lately, and came up with For the Love of Felt and Sweetly Swirled; they both have bold floral images that I thought would work well for these bold colors!  So here we go:

I started with a Night of Navy DSP panel, then added a Whisper White panel diecut with the new Ornate Layers die.  I stamped some of the leaves from For the Love of Felt along the panel, then added some flowers from each set, stamped in Melon Mambo and fussy-cut out.  They were mounted on the panel with dimensionals:

I stamped "thank you" from the Sweetly Swirled set and fussy-cut it out, then mounted it on a little white banner cut with a Stitched Rectangle die.  My final touches were a border of Mint Macaron diecut with the Ornate Borders die and a Night of Navy gingham bow attached to the upper left.

I am sure you will be able to come up with some amazing cards featuring these colors!  I hope you'll share them at the Global Design Project as well!  Thanks for popping in today!

Dana sent me this photo of Eden...the window was open and people were talking outside....she hates social distancing, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	For the Love of Felt, Sweetly Swirled
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Mint Macaron, Night of Navy DSP
Ink	Mint Macaron, Night of Navy, Melon Mambo
Accessories	Navy Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Ornate Layers Dies, Ornate Borders Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies

PP487 CAS Holly Jolly Christmas

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Time for another Paper Players challenge with Anne Marie as our hostess!  It's Clean and Simple week!

Woo hoo!  We can all use some sparkle, right?!  And sparkle always makes me think of Christmas!  So here's my (almost) CAS card....I usually make mine one-layer, but went a little more overboard, or maybe I should say underboard, in the CAS department this week!  

I had this Glimmer paper left on my desk from my card for Thursday's post, so I thought I would cut some more sparkly holly leaves and add some rhinestones that I colored with a Cherry Cobbler Blend and a little wisp of shabby seam binding:

And here's a tip about cutting intricate designs from Glimmer paper:  peel off the white backing from behind the paper before diecutting!  It is thinner, obviously, and makes it much easier to get out the smaller edges from those intricate dies!  And instead of gluing the leaves down, I used glue dots..much less messy!  I added a sentiment in Cherry Cobbler, and mounted my panel on an embossed Mint Macaron card base:

then added another sentiment in Garden Green on the inside:

I am also entering this into the CAS Christmas Card challenge, which is to use a Christmas song, and the Krafty Chicks Challenge, which is Clean and Simple:

I can't wait to see what sparkly creations you share with us at the Paper Players blog!  Be sure to stop by and see what the entire Design Team has come up with as well!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched With Cheer (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Mint Macaron, Mint Macaron and Shaded Spruce Glimmer Papers (ret)
Ink	Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Rhinestones, Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Holiday Greens Dies (Tim Holtz), Holly EF (ret), Dark Cherry Cobbler Blend

You Made My Day

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I am running a little later than normal today...just a lazy Saturday morning after watching too much Britbox last night!!  I have been hoarding these lovely birdhouse images my friend Lisa sent me long ago, and thought it would be nice to actually color one in and USE it on something!  Once I started to put things together, I realized that the FMS sketch, that I already used once this week, would be good for this card as well!  So here we go:

And as a refresher, here's the FMS sketch:

I watercolored the image with various inks and an aquapainter, then fussy-cut it out; the background paper is French Flea Market by Photo Play; it matches perfectly with the Blushing Bride mat I used, diecut with the Ornate Layers die:

My sentiment, stamped in Blushing Bride, is from Ornate Thanks....I made a little fishtail banner and popped it up over the edge of the birdhouse.  I needed a very special thank you card, so this will be going out in the mail soon!

My nephew is a contractor (he put our addition on), and since he has two boys, it's natural that they would want to be in the shop with him, learning the trade!  Jameson built his first bird feeder recently (and yes, he's a leftie!):

Not bad for someone who just turned five this week....and with a little help from a very talented daddy!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!  Thanks for popping in today!

Two Cards for Fun

Happy Friday, peeps!  I have two simple cards today, made while it snowing yesterday!!  It was only flurries, but it was a wee bit of a surprise, considering it's mid-April!  The first one is for the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge; I was perusing my stamp sets, looking for one that hasn't been used in a while, and I came across Rooted in Nature.  I thought it would make a great masculine birthday card with their sketch:

And here we go:

I colored some watercolor paper with Granny Apple Green, Pear Pizzazz and Crushed Curry inks, then stamped the small leaf in Old Olive over top, and diecut them out with the Nature's Root dies. 

I mounted them on squares of Very Vanilla, then mounted the squares on a Crumb Cake card base on which I stamped the larger tree, and embossed it with the Pinewood Planks EF!  My final addition was a sentiment from Label Me Bold, stamped in Mossy Meadow!

My second card is a bit more whimsical; it uses the FMS sketch:

and I pulled out some fun papers featuring milk caps from Carta Bella called Country Kitchen, and made this simple card:

I stamped a sentiment from a much-neglected PTI set called Friends Til the End in Poppy Parade, then "stitched" the edges:

I punched out one of the milk caps and gave it a couple of diecut borders....don't you love how realistic this looks?!  Love it!

 

Thanks so much for popping in today!

My brother gave us some tulips and narcissus from Longwood Gardens, so I shared them with Dana, and Cassidy went to work planting them!  I always joke that my dad was a farmer and my grandfather was a florist, but those green thumb genes didn't pass down to me!  Luckily, they seemed to have gone to Cass and Dana!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Label Me Bold
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Watercolor
Ink	Pear Pizzazz, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pinewood Planks EF, Stitched Shapes Dies, Nature's Roots Framelits

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friends Til The End (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Country Kitchen DSP (Carta Bella), Misc Grid DSP
Ink	Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Dies, Stitched Circle Dies (Lil'Inker), Stitched Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)