Pink Poinsettia

Happy Tuesday, all! I have a Christmas card for you today, it fulfillls three challenges:  CAS on Sunday wants flowers; Sunday Stamps has a sketch; and 52 Christmas Card Throwdown wants stenciling:

I will admit that there is only a wee bit of stenciling on my card, but it IS there!  So here we go:

I wanted to use a poinsettia on my card, but in a non-traditional color! I already had this Blushing Bride scalloped piece diecut in my stash, so I pulled out some Barely Blush cardstock, which coordinates with it nicely, and diecut some poinsettia petals, along with the leaves (Soft Sea Foam) and a center (Lemon Lolly).  I sponged the edges and crimped the petals (remember your CRIMPER?) before assembling on to the scalloped piece, on which I stenciled a few polka dots with an Echo Park stencil and a blending brush:

My outside sentiment was from Simon Says Stamp, stamped and diecut into a little banner tag:

And the inside sentiment is from Taylored Expressions.  I don't use Very Vanilla too often, so it was a nice change from the white!

Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tiny Words Christmas (Simon Says Stamp), The Very Best Gift (Taylored Expressions)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Barely Blush, Soft Sea Foam, Lemon Lolly, Blushing Bride (ret)
Ink	Barely Blush, Soft Sea Foam
Accessories	Dimensionals, Very Vanilla Twine (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Poinsettia Die (Shady Lane Impressions), Small Tags Dies (Impression Obsession), Scalloped Contour Dies (ret), Blending Brushes, Baby Love Stencil (Echo Park), Crimper (ret)

AHSC692 Brighten up My Day

Happy Monday, peeps! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts Sketch:

I had an idea in my head which didn't quite turn out the way I'd hoped, but after spending time and energy on it, I just went with it!  Here we go:

After creating some layers with Perfect Pine, Bubble Bath and some florals from Craft Consortium's Bloom & Wild, I heat-embossed some butterflies from Sketched Butterflies on vellum, then colored them on the back with a Blend.  I did add a pink pearl for an embellishment.  Here's a better close-up so you can see the embossing:

Here's the inside:

 I hope you'll find some inspiration from our sketch and play along with us this week! You can find all the details on our Atlantic Hearts Sketch blog!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sketched Butterflies (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Bubble Bath, Peaceful Pine, Vellum (ret), Bloom & Wild (Craft Consortium)
Ink	Versamark, Pretty in Pink, Bubble Bath, Peaceful Pine
Accessories	Pink Pearls (my stash), Clear Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Sketched Butterflies Dies (ret), Heat Tool

PP796 A Sketch from Christy

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Christy has an awesome Paper Players sketch for us this week---it's got THREE elements!  Yippee!  Here we go:

I needed a birthday card for my brother-in-law, who has traveled all over the world as a pilot.  I hit upon an awesome yard sale last week with my sister and got several retired SU stamps (like I need more!) incuding one called Papa's Pocket, so I put it to use! Here we go:

I began by stamping three of the images in Versafine ink on Crumb Cake cardstock, then overstamping them with the retired Sanded background stamp.  I colored them in with markers. My images were just a wee bit too big to go side by side, so I overlapped them a bit after diecutting them with a stitched die:

Everything went on a piece of map DSP, and I stamped a sentiment from Label Me Bold above the images.  For the popped-up element, I stamped an image from Papertrey's Postmark and fussy-cut it out.  It all went on a Lost Lagoon card base.  Here's the inside:

I really love this sketch and I am going to save it for future use! So many possibilities! I hope you'll play along with it this week too!  Share it with us at the Players for sure!  Thanks for visiting today; enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Papa's Pocket (ret), Sanded (ret), Label Me Bold (ret), Postmark (Papertrey), Handmade Essentials (Scrapbook.com)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Lost Lagoon, The Collector (Craft Consortium)
Ink	Versafine Black, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Rounded Stitched Dies (Impression Obsession)

FMS746 You Make My Heart Smile

Happy Thursday, all!  The FMS sketch is a fun one this week...haven't used this type of sketch for a while and it gave me a chance to use some new goodies!  Here's the sketch:

I got a package of Meant for You Mix and Match Ephemera, which are nice and thick and even have adhesive on the back!   I chose a pretty little bouquet of flowers and matched it with some new Barely Blush Gingham DSP:

My Barely Blush card is 4 1/4" square, and I added the gingham, then a couple of diecut circles, then adhered my little bouquet.  You just have to make sure you don't place the circles any higher than 

5 1/2", so it will still fit in a standard-sized envelope!

I used a Taylored Expressions stitched strip die to cut a scrap of Lost Lagoon, then stamped a sentiment from Layers of Beauty in Misty Moonlight ink and added some pearls; I added a few pearls among the flowers in the bouquet too!  I left the inside blank and will add a sentiment when necessary!

These ephemera packs are loaded with fun images and make for a quick card or scrapbook page!  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Layers of Beauty (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Barely Blush, In Color Gingham DSP, Meant for You Mix & Match Ephemera
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Stitched Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions)

Let It Snow

Happy Wednesday, all!  The CAS Colours and Sketch challenge has an interesting color palette this week:

and the CAS Christmas challenge is looking for snowmen:

How about a little row of snowmen?  I pulled out a really old SU set called The More the Merrier, stamped it and colored it a wee bit and here we go:

I used the challenge colors to color in the snowmen, mounted the panel on a scalloped panel of Petal Pink and then mounted it all on an snowflake-embossed panel of Basic White.  The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted's In Stitches: Christmas:

The inside sentiment came from the same Clearly Besotted set:

It was fun getting this older stamp inky...but I think I might add some glitter for snow--REAL glitter, not just the Wink of Stella kind, LOL!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Seek good, not evil,
    that you may live.
Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you,
    just as you say he is. 
Hate evil, love good;
    maintain justice in the courts.
Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy
    on the remnant of Joseph."  Amos 5:14-15a

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	The More The Merrier (ret), In Stitches:Christmas (Clearly Besotted)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Petal Pink
Ink	Stazon Black, Lost Lagoon, Calypso Coral, Petal Pink
Accessories	Faceted Gem (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Scallop Dies (ret), Small Tags Dies (Impression Obsession), Aquapainter, Dashed Snowflake Plate (Waffleflower)

AHSC691 From Us

Happy Monday, all! Hope you had a great weekend!  Our Atlantic Hearts sketch this week is a fabulous one---such a great sketch to use up some scraps!  Here we go:

I needed a masculine birthday card, so I pulled out some scraps of Autumn Toile and Let's Go Fishing and came up with this:

I diecut some Early Espresso postage cuts, then simply adhered the DSP on top.  It all went on a panel of the new Wood Grain Wonders DSP, and I added a Waffle Flower sentiment.  The postage cuts are also from Waffle Flower:

A sentiment from the Greetery went on the inside!

This is such a fabulous sketch--you could use it with so many images or designs! I hope you'll play along with us this week! You can see all the details at Atlantic Hearts Sketch!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sentiment Additions (Waffle Flower), Laid Back Basics (The Greetery)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Autumn Toile (ret), Let's Go Fishing (ret)
Ink	Early Espresso
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Postage Die (Waffle Flower), Sentiment Additions Dies (Waffle Flower)

PP795 CAS Beach Babies

 Happy Sunday, peeps! It is my turn to be the hostess at the Paper Players, and it's CLEAN and SIMPLE week!  I hope you like my theme:

Oh, so many possibilities with this one!  I pulled out one of my old favorites and made a one-layer card! Can you believe it?  Here we go:

I stamped this 100 Proof Press image on Thick Basic White cardstock with Stazon ink, and loosely watercolored all these little beach babies, then added some sand and sky!

I do believe I got carried away with coloring their little cheeks---they are definitely looking a wee bit sunburnt!  I added a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes and that was it! No embellishments or anything!  And since Inspire.Create is looking for one-layer cards this week, I am entering it there as well!

I hope you'll play along with my clean-and-simple challenge---just remember to keep your layers and embellishments to a minimum!  We want to see your stamping shine through! Share your creation with us at the Paper Players!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret), Beach Babies (100 Proof Press)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White
Ink	Stazon Black, Seaside Spray, lots of others
Accessories
Tools	Aquapainter