PP711 Grateful Hearts

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge, and the talented Joanne is our hostess with a seasonal color challenge for us:

Isn't that a lovely prompt?  One of the cards we made with the retirement ladies used a sweet little pumpkin image from Colorado Craft, so I decided to use that for my card, along with a couple of my favorite fall embossing folders!  Here we go:

I used the sketch from FMS:

My embossed panels of Crumb Cake and Pecan Pie were sponged with Pecan Pie ink and embellished with a Basic Beige ribbon.  The Basic Beige tag was embossed with a Fall Leaf Background embossing folder, then I added my Pumpkin Pie stamped and diecut image on top.  I added an orange glimmer bow and some orange sequins to jazz it up a bit:

I mounted everything on a Cajun Craze card base and stamped a sentiment from Thankful Forest Friends on the inside:

Orange is one of my favorite colors, so this challenge was right up my alley! I hope you'll play along with our fallish colors---and even if you don't choose a fall theme, I am sure you can come up with a creative alternative!  Share it with us at the Players and you may be our Headliner!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Thankful Forest Friends (ret), Gather Here (Colorado Craft Company)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Orange Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Basic Beige Ribbon, Orange Sequins (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Tailor Made Tags Dies (ret), Autumn Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Fall Leaf Background Embossing Folder (Darice), Gather Here Die (Colorado Craft Company), Markers

TGIF494 Spectacolar Birthday

Happy Saturday, peeps! Just a fun little card today for the TGIF sketch challenge:

I needed a birthday card for a friend from church who loves Mexican food; my mind immediately went to the retired Taco Fiesta set!  I turned the sketch on its side and here's what I came up with:

I stamped all the images in Memento black ink and colored them with Blends, then fussy-cut them and mounted them on white panels matted with Poppy Parade.  A retired piece of Granny Apple Green DSP worked for the background, and the sentiment was stamped in Poppy Parade as well!  

I love this sketch and I hope he loves his card!  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Taco Fiesta (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Poppy Parade, Granny Apple Green DSP (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (unbranded), Blends

Happy Halloween Fun Fold for Creative Creases

Happy Friday, peeps! Yay, it's the weekend!  I was asked to be a guest designer at Creative Creases this week; it's always interesting to come up with some creative "fun folds" to kick up our stamping!  I recently saw this card on Pinterest and thought I'd re-create it!  Thanks to Laura for her video!  So here we go:

There are four inside panels to the card; I used some Grapefruit Grove (and for the life of me, I don't know why I didn't use Pumpkin Pie!!!) for the base, and some Haunted Hues papers from Unity for the patterns.  I will write my greeting on the back!   Here's what it looks like unfolded:

I used an older stamp from Recollections for the two stamped panels; they were stamped with Black Memento ink and colored with SU Blends:

And it was fun to highlight some of these spooky papers too!

To keep the bulk together, I added a Black & Vanilla check ribbon!  

I hope you'll play along with the Creative Creases challenge this week too! Maybe you'll be a guest designer as well!  Thanks for visiting today!  

We were at a meeting last night and missed the show, but Dana took this picture of the northern lights; I am so bummed, but at least she and her family got to see them!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Halloween (Recollections), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret), Spooky Street (Newton's Nook)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basici Black, Grapefruit Grove (ret), Haunted Hues (Unity)
Ink	Memento Black, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Black & Vanilla Gingham Ribbon
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen), Various Blends

Five Easy (Halloween) Pieces

Hello stamping friends!  Five Easy Pieces was the movie I saw on my first date.  I remember NOTHING about the movie, probably because I was so nervous about the date!  (I do remember the date himself, LOL!)  Anyway, recently I bought some jewelry from a sweet little online shop called Chadds Ford Jewelry, and it's only a few miles from me, but when the order came in, the owner included five little Halloween elements to get creative with! Of course, I had to make five cards and they were so easy, hence the title of my post!  I just pulled out some Halloween papers and stamps and here they are:

I'm not going to list the recipes for them, but if you have any questions, shoot me an email!  I am also going to choose one of them for the Shopping Our Stash Halloween challenge as well!  Hmmm, which one should I pick?  Which is your favorite?  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

AHSC509 Many Fall Blessings

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Hope your week is going well so far! It's time to unveil a new Atlantic Hearts sketch, and here it is:

I was going through some of my older stamps and came across Many Blessings; I have used a few of the smaller images in this set, but I don't think I ever stamped the wreath!  It's not quite oval, but hopefully it's acceptable! I pulled out my inks and went to work:

After stamping and watercoloring the wreath on Thick Very Vanilla cardstock, I also stamped the little crate of pumpkins, colored it and fussy-cut it out.  After popping up the crate, I added a few bits of foliage from Timeless Arrangements to place behind it. I love those blue-hued Cinderella pumpkins, so I chose to place my Vanilla layer on a layer of Lost Lagoon which was embossed with the Dashing Designs EF, as well as stamp the sentiment in the center of the wreath in the same shade; a gingham bow finished it off:

I've left the inside "vacant" so I can add a sentiment when needed!  

I hope you'll play along with our sketch this week! It's always so fun to see what everyone comes up with! Check out the other DT samples as well as the AHSC blog!  

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Many Blessings (ret), Timeless Arrangements (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla, Lost Lagoon
Ink	Stazon Black, Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Real Red, Old Olive, Lost Lagoon, Granny Apple Green, Basic Beige
Accessories	Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals, Matte Dots (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Dashing Designs Embossing Folder, Aquapainter, Timeless Designs Die (ret), Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret)

Halloween Shadow Box

Hi peeps! Happy Monday! Just a quick post today as it's a busy one! I recently had a small class and we made this fun Halloween shadow box!  I have TONS of Halloween supplies, so one afternoon, I just gathered them all together and started playing!  My photo isn't the greatest, but hopefully you'll be able to see all the little squares!

I used a wide array of stamps, dies and papers and everyone seemed to love it! I got my 8x8 shadowbox frame from Amazon (Muzilife 8x8 Shadowbox Picture Frame with Linen Board) and it was very well-made, reasonably priced and I got them in one day!  AND it won a blue ribbon at our local fair as well!  If you have any questions about anything on it, just shoot me an email! 

Since Inspire.Create's theme this week is Halloween, I am going to enter it there!

Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

PP710 Harvest Love

Happy Sunday, all!  Jan is our Paper Players hostess and she's asking for a "love" theme this week...always a good choice!

I went in a different direction with my card, choosing a fall theme, but I still got some "love" in there!  Here we go:

I stamped and diecut these little My Favorite Things Harvest Mice, then colored them in with inks and an aquapainter and put them on a Real Red panel that I embossed with the retired Cable Knit embossing folder:

I added a sentiment, stamped in Pecan Pie, and added a Pecan Pie mat to my embossed panel.  Finally, on the Crumb Cake card base, I stamped the Buffalo Check stamp in white craft ink to add to the warm country feel! 

Please be sure to check out what the Design Team created over at the Paper Player blog...they're beautiful!  You'll get lots of inspiration so you can play along too!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Buffalo Check (ret), Harvest Mice (My Favorite Things)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Real Red
Ink	Stazon Black, Smoky Slate, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Old Olive, Azure Afternoon, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Bubble Bath, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Details Dies, Cable Knit EF (ret), Harvest Mice Dies (My Favorite Things), Aquapainter, White Gel Pen