AHSC486 Cheers to All Your Years

Happy Friday, peeps!  Hope you have something fun planned for the weekend!  My card today is for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge: 

which is really an interesting one!  I had to put on my thinking cap for sure!  I needed a card for my nephew, so I pulled out some elements and papers from He's the Man and went to work:

I began by cutting a tag from some of the DSP; I actually adhered part of a journaling cutout to a piece of DSP, then diecut the whole thing with a Tailor Made Tag, adding a reinforcement of Basic Black and a little Mango Melody "ribbon".  I used a sentiment from A Grand Kid, stamping it several times on Very Vanilla cardstock, then cutting it out with a Stylish Shapes die.  They were a bit too big to fit five banners on my tag, so I only used four---hope that's still okay!

I finished it off with another element from the scrapping portion of the DSP--Cheers to All Your Years--then mounted it on a panel of Very Vanilla that was embossed with the retired Dainty Dots folder. (I won't tell him the name of that folder...it's not too masculine, but it's still a great background, LOL!)  Drew always tells me how much he enjoys getting my hand-made cards, so I hope he likes this one too!  Thanks for popping in today!

So the trip down the Brandywine was...well, let's just say that the girls weren't prepared for how s-l-o-w the tubing would be.  Boredom and crabbiness set in and at the very end, Grammy got in one of the tubes and Grampy paddled the canoe and two tweens the last few hundred yards.  Truthfully, the two of them could have maneuvered a canoe by themselves but the rental facility said they each had to be with an adult.  And they thought they would like the tubes, but their short attention spans got the better of them!  The water is very shallow, in fact, the young man who was giving us instructions before we left the banks of the river said "If you feel like you're drowning, stand up!"  It was a bit deeper in some sections but some places it was only a few inches deep...and cold but very, very clear.  It was gorgeous!

 Anyway, we made it back safe & sound and went to Perkins for a birthday lunch, where the staff sang Happy Birthday to Cassidy and all was well.

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Grand Kid
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Mango Melody, He's the Man DSP
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Rustic Metallic Dots
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Delicate Dots Embossing Folder (ret)

CTD706 Happy Birthday

Hi peeps!  A quick card today since we are taking Cassidy and her friend Gia canoeing and tubing down the Brandywine river!  We canoed last year and it was fun, so before they go back to school we wanted to do it again!

I haven't played with the Color Throwdown challenge for a long time!  These colors reminded me of our new In Colors Parakeet Party and Tahitian Tide. 

I pulled out an Altenew stamp that I haven't used for a while called Dot Botanicals.  I stamped the images in both colors, then added a diecut flower and a simple birthday sentiment.  So here we go:

The flower is from the retired Pierced Blooms dies; sentiment is from Colorado Craft Company's Wishing:

I added a Stitched With Whimsy die around the edge, mounted it on a Tahitian Tide card and it was done!

I had to laugh when I saw the card and boxes of Cassidy's birthday gifts...they match the challenge colors!

Crocs and Cons!  She'll be well-shod this school year, LOL!  Thanks for visiting today, enjoy it and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Dot Botanicals (Altenew), Wishing (Colorado Craft Company)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Tahitian Tide
Ink	Tahitian Tide, Parakeet Party
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Pierced Blooms Dies (ret)

CTC382 Thanks

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  There's a FB challenge called CASEing the Catty and they have a sketch challenge this week:

 

I think this is the first time I've ever played!  I needed a customer thank you card, so I pulled out the fall pattern of Rings of Love DSP, some Fall Harvest DSP,  a couple of dies and the Biggest Wish stamp set:

It's all pretty straight-forward; I backed the Rustic Harvest DSP with a panel of Crumb Cake after diecutting the tag from it.  I diecut another tag from Very Vanilla, embossed it with the retired Tasteful Textile embossing folder, then added the sentiment, a fussy-cut leaf sprig and some sequins.  A couple of Linen Thread embellishments and I was done!

This is a great sketch and I'm saving it for the future!  You should play along...the challenge is sponsored by demos but open to any crafter!  Thanks for popping in today!

After our little stamping session last week, I took the girls to the local ice cream shop!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Biggest Wish
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Rustic Harvest DSP, Rings of Love DSP
Ink	Soft Succulent
Accessories	Linen Thread, Sequins for Everything (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Tasteful Textile Embossing Folder (ret)

RRCB189

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we use our older stamps, and it's a fun one:

I was a little stumped on this one, but ended up pulling out my retired Stitched Triangle dies and cutting out some triangles from a few of the challenge colors!  So here we go:

I used Crumb Cake, Soft Sky, Rococo Rose, Misty Moonlight and Smoky Slate, then mounted them all on a panel of Basic White embossing with the retired Coastal Weave embossing folder!  The outside sentiment is from Suite Sentiments, diecut with an Ornate Frame die and embellished with some Pierced Blooms flowers and a wee little rhinestone!  The inside features stamps from Perfectly Wrapped, all stamped in colors of the triangles on the front:

I hope you'll find some inspiration from our photo---will it be colors?  Shapes?  Images?  Can't wait to see what you create!  Share it with us at Retro Rubber so we all can see it! 

My great-nieces Emma and Lucy came over last week and to keep them busy, I got out some small stamps and spots along with some scrap paper and they had a lot of fun....for at least fifteen minutes, anyway!  Cassidy chose to eat!

Their techniques were pretty good! Start them early, right?!  Thanks for visiting today---enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Suite Sentiments (2017, ret), Perfectly Wrapped (2016, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate, Rococo Rose (ret), Soft Sky (ret), Misty Moonlight (ret)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate, Rococo Rose (ret), Soft Sky (ret), Misty Moonlight (ret)
Accessories	Rhinestone from my stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pierced Blooms Dies (ret), Ornate Frames Dies (ret), Pierced Triangle Dies (ret), Coastal Weave EF (ret)

In(k)spire Me You're So Cool

 Happy (rainy) Monday, peeps!  I can't complain about the rain after the gorgeous weekend we had!  And we needed some rain anyway!  I did some quick stamping this morning, always needing birthday cards, so I used the sketch only from In(k)spire Me:

I pulled out a retired set call Sweet Ice Cream because I had some fun ice cream cone papers I wanted to use:

This is one of those sets I will never part with...such fun images and sentiments!  I stamped the cone in Baked Brown Sugar and the ice cream in Polished Pink, then added some In Color glimmer paper accents for the vertical portion of the sketch.  

The sentiment is from the same set, and also has a glimmer paper mat:

The sentiment on the inside was stamped with Sweet Sorbet along with some Flirty Flamingo "sprinkles"!  

Added to my slim pile of b-day cards!

The queen of Sheba:

Or perhaps I should say the "queens" of Sheba:

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

"Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth, sing praise to the Lord, to him who rides the ancient skies above, who thunders with mightly voice.  Proclaim the power of God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose power is in the skies.  You are awesome, O God, in your sanctuary; the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people.  Praise be to God!" Psalm 68:32-35

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweet Ice Cream (ret)
Card stock & Papers	In Color Glimmer, Basic White, Grapefruit Grove (ret), Naturals White (ret), Fun in the Sun DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Polished Pink, Soft Suede, Baked Brown Sugar (ret), Flirty Flamingo, Sweet Sorbet
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies, Ice Cream Builder Punch (ret), Wink of Stella

PP604 Here For You Now

Hello, peeps!  Happy Sunday and time for a new Paper Players challenge!  Anne Marie has a fun color challenge for us all:

Sadly, I needed a sympathy card for a sweet friend from church who just lost her second daughter in the last three years.  The black and white prints from the retired True Love DSP was perfect for a simple (that's my key word lately) sympathy card:

I used a Daffodil Delight marker to color in just three of the flowers for Anne Marie's "pop" of color, then added a diecut banner with a sentiment from Color & Contour, and another wee little Daffodil Delight banner to tuck underneath.  I added a yellow rhinestone for a pop of bling!

 

And I added the second portion of the sentiment, along with another sweet sentiment from Eden's Garden, on the inside:

My heart breaks for her and I hope this brings her comfort!  

Now, I hope you'll play along with us too...black, white and a pop of any color!  Check out what the DT did over at the Paper Players blog and get some inspiration!  

So here are the three amigos (John's nephew Phil, John, and John's brother-in-law Charlie) on their fishing trip on the Chesapeake yesterday....Wayne took the photo!  What a gorgeous day to be on the water!

And this is what's left of the striper....leftovers for tonight!  It was delicious!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Eden's Garden, Color & Contour
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Basic White, Daffodil Delight, True Love DSP (ret)
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Rhinestone
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Daffodil Delight Marker

TGIFC381 A Certain Someone's Birthday

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Wow, the weather has cooled off and the weekend is fabulous!  Hubby went fishing with a bunch of friends and relatives down in Maryland, so I have the whole day to do whatever I want!  Which is mostly stamp, LOL!  After picking beans!  Anyway, a certain someone is having a 12th birthday next week so I thought I'd get her card made and out of the way because we have some busy days coming up!  I used the sketch from TGIF:

and here we go!  Now, a disclaimer:  she doesn't like girly girly stuff and she prefers neutral colors and she LOVES playing on her XBox.  I have a set from Paper Smooches that features some computer-y stuff and there was a little controller in it, so that's where I started:

I stamped the controller in Memento Black and colored it in with some Copics, along with a silver gel pen, which you can't see!  I diecut it and popped it up on another circle of Papertrey's Honey Nut cardstock.  The background papers are from my stash and I have had them for ages!  And the letters are from a really, really old Sissix/Stampin Up die set called Timeless Type Alphabet Junior!  Anyone remember them?  I diecut them from Basic Black and adhered them to the banner.

I had some fun with the inside; I stamped a sentiment from a Spellbinder sentiment collection, then added the "12" in Bumblebee ink right over top:

Goodness, it's hard to believe she's going to be twelve!  We plan to go canoeing and/or tubing sometime next week for her birthday.  We did it last year and we really enjoyed it...hoping the day is clear and sunny!  Thanks for popping in today!

We've had lots of nature sightings around our home lately!  Here's a little chipmunk that lives under our shed and comes out to nibble on the birdseed that falls from the feeder above:

This little toad gave me a jump as I was picking beans!  He almost blended in with the dirt, but I spied him!

This little skipper decided he might want to go for a ride to the mailbox:

And Cassidy and her two little cousins came across this box turtle on Aunt Louise's driveway!  We haven't seen a box turtle in years!  Cassidy kindly helped it to the woods!

I just love nature!  Thanks for popping in today, enjoy it and be blessed!

"So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind.  And God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:21

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Number of Years (ret), Teen Routine (Paper Smooches), STP-2 Sentiments (Spellbinders)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Naturals White (ret), Honey Nut (Papertrey), Misc patterned papers from my stash
Ink	Memento Black, Bumblebee
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies