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

AYSI377 Recipe for Sunshine

Happy Friday, peeps! We are having a yard sale this weekend, so this will be short and sweet!  It's recipe time at As You See It:

Yellow is not a color that I normally gravitate to, but it was fun to stretch myself with some papers, stamps and dies from my collection!  Here we go:

I barely had time to use this SU Hope Joy & Love before they retired it, so I thought it would be good to get it inky!  I stamped the sentiment in Daffodil Delight on a panel of Basic White on which I added some diecut stitching.  I then added some diecut flowers using a little scrap of paper I found in my stash and some leaves from Soft Sea Foam:

I added a bit of ribbon and some enamel dots for the centers, then mounted it on a striped scrap from my stash and a Crushed Curry base.  I think the yellow is quite cheery!  I hope you'll play with our cheerful yellow recipe!  We can't wait to see what you create and share with us at As You See It!

"Ears that hear and eyes that see--the Lord has made them both." Proverbs 20:12

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hope, Joy & Love (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crushed Curry, Soft Sea Foam, Bee Happy (Honey Bee), Rustic Blooms (Not 2 Shabby)
Ink	Daffodil Delight
Accessories	Enamel Dots (ret), Gingham Ribbon from my stash, Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched FLowers Dies (My Favorite Things), Finishing Touches Dies (Kristina Werner)

RRCB276 Love the Beach

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Halfway through the week!  I keep alternating between summer cards and Christmas cards---both are fun to do!  Today it's a summer card, and I am using the sketch from Retro Rubber:

Of course, since there are three panels, I had to play along!  Only a wee bit of stamping on this one, it's mostly ink, paper and dies:

I have an old Cuttlebug die (2006) that I used with some Basic Beige cardstock, then colored the cutouts with SU blends.  I added some Itty Bitty Backgrounds (1997) to the square pieces and mounted them all on a piece of Vitamin Sea from Honey Bee:

I also tried my hand at "speckling" the diecuts with some white craft ink....I definitely need practice on that!  The sentiments are from Unity's All Smiles (2011) and The Paper Studio's Every Day Expressions (2009):

I stamped a sentiment from Charming Sentiments (2022) on the inside and added the little bonus diecuts that cut at the same time as the larger ones!

Everything was Wink of Stella-ed too, but of course, that never shows up!  Anyway, it was a fun card to make and it will go in my birthday stash!  And I didn't realize that my card is very similar to Jane's! Great minds think alike!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"The ocean depths raise their voice, O Lord; they raise their voice and roar.  The Lord rules supreme in heaven, greater than the roar of the ocean, more powerful than the waves of the sea."  Psalm 93:3-4

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Charming Sentiments (ret, 2022), All Smiles (Unity, 2011), Every Day Expressions (Paper Studio, 2009)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Beige, Vitamin Sea (Honey Bee)
Ink	Soft Sky (ret), Smoky Slate (ret), Crumb Cake (for sponging), Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Paint Brush
Tools	Big Shot, From the Sea Dies (Cuttlebug), Blends, Sponge Daubers, Wink of Stella, Stitched Banner Die (Nelly Snellen)

52CCT26 Merry Christmas

 Happy Tuesday, all!  My card today features an unusual color palette, coming from the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge:

I really had to put on my thinking cap for this one!  I recently got some new Unity stamps called Winter Foliage, so I did some creative stamping and fussy-cutting and came up with this simple card:

I cut and embossed a panel of Basic White, using a Taylored Expressions Cross-Stitch die, then stamped my foliage in Perfect Pine at the top, adding a sentiment from SU's retired Seasonal Tags in the same color.  On a scrap piece of white, I stamped the foliage again in Crisp Cantaloupe and fussy-cut it out, gluing it over the first image.  Finally, stamped the pine cone on a scrap of Kraft in Pecan Pie and added it:

I added a few peach-colored sequins just to jazz it up a bit, then added a Crisp Cantaloupe mat and some piney paper from an old Kaiser Craft pad called Home for Christmas.  It all went on a Perfect Pine card.  Unusual, but it's good to get out of our comfort zone occasionally, right?  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"To whom can the holy God be compared?  Is there anyone else like him?  Look up at the sky!  Who created the stars you see?  The one who leads them out like an army, he knows how many there are and calls each one by name!  His power is so great - not one of them is ever missing!"  Isaiah 40:25-26

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Seasonal Tags (ret), Winter Foliage (Unity)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crisp Cantaloupe, Perfect Pine, Kraft (ret), Home for Christmas (Kaiser Craft)
Ink	Perfect Pine, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Sequins from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Cross Stitched Stacked Dies (Taylored Expressions)

AHSC690 A Beautiful Day

Happy Monday, all!  Well, my company has all gone home and things are back to semi-normal!  We did have a lovely week, though!  Eating, thrift shopping, boating....lots of fun things!  I was able to get back into my stamp room for this week's Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I varied my card a wee bit from the sketch as I had a die that cuts out circles instead of squares, so I opted to use that!  Here we go:

My Close to My Heart die was used on SU's new Wood Grain Wonder DSP.  I then punched 1" circles from Honey Bee's Vitamin Sea papers in various prints and fit them inside the openings.  A shell and sentiment from Beautiful Beach were added as the focal points:

I added some sequins from my stash along with some braided trim:

You can be so creative with this sketch---there are endless possibilities! I hope you'll play along with us this week at Atlantic Hearts!

My sister is a great thrifter--she's sort of a "picker" for some friends who have antique booths, so she is always on the lookout for some thrifty finds!  Her hubby Russ was in charge of some of the items too large to fit in her basket at one shop:

And after a busy morning of thrifting, we had to stop to eat at a very tiny little restaurant that had amazing food:

John's burger looked delicious--I had to sneak some fries!

The burger Russ ordered was quite a handful!:

We didn't get any boat pictures, but that was a great day too!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Beach (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Wood Grain Wonders DSP, Vitamin Sea (Honey Bee)
Ink	Pool Party, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequins from my Stash, Wavy Trim (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Multi Circle Windows Die (Close to My Heart), Stitched Rounded Rectangle Dies (Impression Obsession), 1" Circle Punch (ret)

PP794 Color Challenge From Jaydee

Happy Sunday, all!  Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess, and she has a wonderfully happy color palette for us this week:

These just say "summer" to me, how about you?  I just got some new goodies from SU and The Greetery, so I combined them for my summy card today:

This will blind you with that bold background, don't you think?!  LOL!  Let me start with the stamped images; I had seen so many cute things made with the Summer Happiness bundle, I just had to get it, even though I was still busy playing with my Splash and Play bundle!  But there is enough difference between the two, I could justify getting them both!  I stamped my images in Daffodil Delight, Pretty in Pink and Granny Apple Green, then mounted it on this gingham scalloped panel that was stenciled with Calypso Coral.  The scallop and stencil are both from The Greetery; I didn't plan to make it that bright, but I forgot to "soften" my blending brush on my scrap paper first, and this is what happened! I was actually just sort of playing around with it, you know how you do when you get a new product, but other than the brightness, I thought it would work anyway!

I lightly colored in the flower with a Blender Pen and added an enamel center and some leaves; the sun has some Wink of Stella added:

And that little pop bottle has been "winked" too!  The sentiment is also from The Greetery, called Laid Back Basics.  I love the font!  The background embossing is the Lazy Daisy folder.

Another sentiment from the set went on the inside, along with a cute little pineapple!

I hope you'll check out the AMAZING samples from the Design Team--honestly, they just keep getting more and more awesome!  Share your amazing creation there as well!  Can't wait to see you at the Paper Players!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Summer Happiness, Laid Back Basics (The Greetery)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Granny Apple Green
Ink	Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Pretty in Pink
Accessories	Dimensionals, Glimmer Dot (ret),
Tools	Big Shot, Summer Happiness Dies, Lazy Daisy Embossing Folder, Laid Back Basics Dies (The Greetery), Stitched Scallop Dies (The Greetery), Scalloped Gingham Stencils (The Greetery), Blending Brushes, Blender Pen, Wink of Stella