Inkspirational Welcome Baby

Happy Tuesday, all! I have a quick little card today for a friend who became a great-grandmother recently!  I was going to use my little peekaboo bunny die, but opted for this sweet little baby shoe image instead:

The Inkspirational challenge this week is to use stencils with the option of plaid:

so I used a Kristina Warner Layering Plaid Stencil to create a background; I used Pretty in Pink and Strawberry Slush for my simple plaid.  The baby shoes are a Susan Branch design; I stamped them in Versafine Black and watercolored some shading:

I added a pale gray mat, a little sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs, and a gingham bow.  The inside features sentiments from Hero Arts and Technique Tuesday:

I'll pop this in the mail today!  Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	So Blessed (Technique Tuesday), Sentiments CL342 (Hero Arts), Baby Shoes (Susan Branch, All Night Media)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Stone (Papertrey)
Ink	Versafine Black, Pretty in Pink, Strawberry Slush, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pink Gingham Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), 3/4" Circle Punch (ret), 7/8" Scalloped Punch (ret), Layerinng Plaid Stencils (Kristina Werner), Blending Brushes

AHSC671 Peek-a-boo Bunny

Happy Monday, all!  Hope you had a great weekend! Our Atlantic Hearts sketch this week allowed me to use this sweet little Peek-a-boo Bunny die that is just the cutest!  Here's the sketch:

And here we go:

I used some Easter Joy Specialty DSP along with some Lemon Lolly Shimmer Pastel paper, embossed with the Gathering Leaves embossing folder, for my cute Easter card!  I added the Pretty in Pink diecut bunny on a Nested Essentials die and stamped an Easter sentiment from a long-retired SU set:

I embellished the front with a strip of Shy Shamrock and some little enamel flowers.  The inside sentiment came from Close to My Heart:

I just love this little bunny, and I need a baby card in the next day or so, and I think it might be perfect for that as well...we'll see!

I hope you'll play along with our sketch this week at Atlantic Hearts,  we always love to see what you create and enter in our gallery! 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Easter Blossoms (ret), Picture Perfect Birthday (ret), Easter Animals (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pretty in Pink, Peach Pie, Shy Shamrock, Easter Joy DSP, Shimmer Pastel Lemon Lolly
Ink	Peach Pie, Balmy BLue
Accessories	Resin Flowers (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentials Dies, Gathering Leaves Embossing Folder, Peek-a-boo Bunny Die (Poppy), Stitched 1/4" Strip Dies (Taylored Expressions), Black marker

PP775 Theme Challenge from Christy

Hello, stamping friends! Happy March!  Christy is our Paper Players hostess this week with a theme challenge I don't think we've ever had before:

I realized I do NOT have any "mythical creature" stamps, but I did have one leprechaun stamp from an older SU set called Gift Givers (2011), so I decided to get him inky.  Later on, I thought about the fact that I have some gnome stamps, and they would probably be okay too, in case you share the same dilemma as I do!  So here we go:

I inked up this little guy and did some coloring with Prismacolor pencils and gamsol....still practicing that technique!  I diecut him with a Stylish Shapes die and added a scalloped mat of Lemon Lime Twist and mounted that all on a couple of panels diecut with the Everyday Arches dies.  I stamped a few random little clovers from Itty Bitties (2013) and that all went on a piece of green madras plaid DSP from Memory Box:

My sentiment is from a REALLY old Purple Onion set (probably 2010 or so) and the diecut shamrocks are from Impression Obsession.  On the inside, I added another strip of the same plaid paper, a sentiment from Our Daily Bread Designs and a few more stamped and diecut shamrocks!

And since I am using several older sets, I am entering this in the RetroRubber challenge, where they're looking for the Luck of the Irish:

as well as the Card Concept, where they're looking for shades of green:

I would say that my card concept is "clean and layered", and I was inspired by the green plaid and the lovely colors!

I hope you'll be able to play along with us at the Players this week, it's such a fun challenge!  We can't wait to see what you come up with!  Thanks so much for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gift Givers (ret), Itty Bitties (ret), Seasonal Sayings (Purple Onion), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lemon Lime Twist, Granny APple Green, Garden Green, Madras Plaid (Memory Box)
Ink	Garden Green, Lemon Lime Twist, Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Everyday Arches Dies, Be Mine Dies (ret), Petite Scalloped Circle Dies (Nestabilities), Sharmock Die (Impression Obsession), Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol

AYSI367 Purple Speed Stamping

Happy Friday, all!  It's time for a new challenge from As You See It, and it's the exciting SPEED challenge, LOL!  This month, we're looking for purple!!! 

The trick here is to assemble all your supplies, as well as the idea in your head, and make your card in ten minutes or less---and tell us how long it DID take you!  Here's my card, coming in at 9 minutes and 30 seconds:

Truthfully, I had to go back and reglue a couple pieces so I was really over the ten minute mark, but it was assembled in less than!  I created my window with the Everyday Arches dies and some Gorgeous Grape cardstock, then added the Perennial Lavender "scene" behind it!  The strips were diecut with a strip die from Taylored Expressions, and the sentiment is from W+9's Spring Blessings:

I think the Crumb Cake background is a little plain but didn't have enough time to do anything fancy with it...maybe I could do another with some embossing or stamping?  At any rate, purple is not one of my go-to colors, so I am proud of myself for actually using it!!!  

There are any number of ways you could go with this challenge....there are all sorts of shades and hues ot purple, from light to dark!  We hope you will choose at least one and play along with us at As You See It!  Remember to time yourself and share your time with us as well!  See you there!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Spring Blessings (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Gorgeous Grape, Perennial Lavender DSP
Ink	Petunia Pop
Accessories	Dimensional Strips
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Arches Dies, 1/4" Easy Strip Dies (Taylored Expressions), Spring Blessings Dies (W+9), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

A Really Big Card!

Happy Thursday, peeps! My day is all mixed up today and I got a late start!  I did get in some stamping time this morning and my card fulfills three challenges:  JUGS (stencils); JAI (stencils & diecut) and Krafty Chicks (masculine):  

My friend Martha recently gave me a stencil called Listen to the Sea, from Hero Arts.  It is a BIG stencil!!!  I didn't want to lose any part of it, so this is a big card!!  It's 5 1/4 x 6 1/2"!!!  So here we go:

I stenciled in the different "waves" with variou blue inks, then added a little sailboat that I heat embossed on vellum with black embossing powder and diecut with a Stylish Shapes dies.  It was colored in with Blends:

Since the card base was Secret Sea, I added a white panel on the inside and stamped my birthday sentiment from Sweet Ice Cream:

I just love this stencil---it's big but really has a lovely message!  Perfect for a guy card! And I had to make a special envelope for it because it was so big!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Choose Happy, Sweet Ice Cream (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Vellum (ret), Secret Sea
Ink	Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight, Azure Afternoon, Balmy Blue, Versamark, Versafine Black
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals, Black Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Heat Tool, Blends, Blending Brush, Listen to the Sea Stencil (Hero Arts), White Gel Pen (Posca)

Two Cards Just for Fun

 Happy Wednesday, all!  I have two cards to post today, no challenges, just cards I made for fun!  The first one is a CASE of something I saw recently; unfortunately, I did not save the crafter's name, but I will give them all the credit.  I am calling it a picture frame card because the image is stamped, then a rectangle is cut from the center and the outside portion is popped up!  Here we go: I used Layers of Beauty for mine:

After stenciling and diecutting, I adhered the frame to a Pink Pirouette card with dimensionals, then dropped in the center portion:

I added a birthday sentiment to the inside.  The next one is a wee little card, 4" x 3", made with a scrap I found in my scrap folder.  I embossed a mat with the All In a Row embossing folder, then created a frame with a Scrapbook.com postage stamp die. I backed it with some pretty floral paper, then diecut a bunny with some velveteen paper; I wish you could feel the fuzziness!  A sentiment from Our Daily Bread went on the frame.

A fun sentiment from And Many More went on the inside!

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

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Layers of Beauty, Whittle Sayings (Poppy Stamps)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Pink Pirouette (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black, Pretty in Pink, Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral, Soft Sea Foam
Accessories	Dimensional Strips
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Rectangle Stitched Dies (Ret)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	And Many More (ret), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Balmy Blue, Basic White, Velveteen (ret), Basic Black, Pretty in Pink, Rustic Blooms (Not2Shabby)
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, All In A Row Embossing Folder, Bunny Buddies Dies (Impression Obsession), Mini Stamp Polaroid Die,  (Scrapbook.com), Banner Punch (ret)

IB376 & SS380 Tea Time

Happy Tuesday, peeps! If you're on the east coast, did you get plowed out yet? Another load of snow for the winter of 2026!  At least this one didn't have single-digit temps!!!  The sketch from Sunday Stamps and the inspiration from Inspired By was my basis for today's card! 

I had gotten a cute little tea-time stamp set recently from Colorado Craft, and this was the first time inking it up! I pulled out some softly-hued DSP and stamped my little tea-drinking mice directly on it:

I did some paper-piecing of the cups, using some scraps of DSP from various pads, then colored the images with Copics.  I did add a wee bit of "sugar" to the teaspoon!

The vertical strips were embossed with a cross-stitch die and I added some little pink flower sequins and a diecut sentiment; another CCC sentiment went on the inside:

I saw another card today from MarDi using these mice, and I must say, after seeing hers, I was almost ashamed to post this one. Her card is AMAZING!  You can see it here!  I PROMISE I did not copy her card, but we both must have thought these little mice fit that challenge perfectly, LOL!  All the samples from Inspired By were really amazing this week!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tea Time Fun (Colorado Craft Company), Birthday Wishing (Colorado Craft Company)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blushing Bride DSP (ret), Rustic Blooms (Not2Shabby), Sending Love (Gina K)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pink Floral Gems (from my stash)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession), Copics