PP810 Theme Challenge from Claire

Happy Sunday, peeps! Happy November!  Phew, the year is almost over!  Did you enjoy your extra hour of sleep today?!  Claire is our Paper Players hostess this week with a FUN theme challenge!  I took advantage of it to use up some retired designer papers and stamps! Here we go:

And here's our prompt--PLAID!!!:

I love plaids!  I used the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments for my layout:

and gathered up some plaid papers from Timeless Plaid, along with some images from the retired Sailing Home:

My sailboat is stamped in Lost Lagoon and colored with Basic Beige, and the compass is also Basic Beige.  Sentiment is from Poppy Whittles.  John has a power boat now instead of a sailboat, but this will probably be his birthday card for his big day coming up in a couple of week!

SO....there are so many ways to use plaid, it was hard to come up with just one idea! What's your idea for plaids?  I hope you'll share your creation with us at the Paper Players this week!  Can't wait to see it!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sailing Home (ret), Poppy Whittles Sayings (Poppystamps)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Beige, Lost Lagoon, Timeless Plaids DSP (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black, Lost Lagoon, Basic Beige
Accessories	Dimensionals, Candy Dot (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Smooth Sailing Dies (ret), Circles Dies (ret), Scalloped Rectangle Dies (Nestabilities)

CAS on Sunday 346 Autumn Get Well

Hello, all!  Happy last day of October, Happy Halloween!  I couldn't let the month go by without using one of my favorite fall embossing folders!  Here we go:

I used the same mottled green DSP that I used on this card, only this time I embossed it with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and lightly swiped a Mossy Meadow ink pad over the raised portions.  I already had this Pumpkin Pie diecut leaf sitting on my desk left over from another project, and since I needed a get-well card for a lady from my church, I stamped the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes, punching it out with the Word Window punch, and it was done.

The challenge at CAS on Sunday is to use an embossed background; I hope this one is okay since it's not white or vanilla, but it definitely is CAS and was quick to throw together!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, Floral Charm DSP (ret)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Autumn Blessings Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug), Stitched Leaf Die (Lawn Fawn), Word Window Punch (ret)

Grateful

Happy Friday, peeps!  My card today uses an older SU image from Basket of Wishes and even older sentiments from a set called Falling Leaves. I love these outline images that give me a chance to watercolor:

I stamped the basket and pumpkins on watercolor paper with Stazon ink, then used reinkers to color them in.  The mottled green paper was also stamped three times down the left side with some autumn words from Impression Obsession.  I added some stitched elements in Cajun Craze, trimmed down, and the "grateful" embellished with a wee bit of gingham ribbon:

I think this is such a cute Thanksgiving sentiment, I had to put it on the inside:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Basket of Wishes (ret), Falling Leaves (ret), 100% Autumn (Impression Obsession)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Watercolor, Cajun Craze, Floral Charm DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Real Red, Old Olive, Lemon Lime Twist, Daffodil Delight, Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Mossy Meadow Gingham Ribbon, DImensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession), Aquapainter

Gingerbread Reindeer

Happy Thursday, peeps!  My Christmas card today uses an image that I've been shuffling around on my desk for a while; it felt good to finally get it used, LOL!  Here we go:

I had stamped this little reindeer from Unity on a stitched circle of Kraft cardstock and colored it in; I can't even remember if I used reinkers or markers, that's how long ago I did it!  He looks like a gingerbread cookie to me!  When I saw the FMS sketch for this week, I thought I could use it; it's a little off from the sketch since I only have one element instead of three, but I used it anyway:

I used some plaid paper from an Echo Park Magic of Christmas pad, added a scalloped mat and a little bow:

And I put two phrases from two different sets for the punny sentiment:

And since the Jingle Belles want to see animals this week, I am entering it there as well!

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

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Holly Jolly Holiday (Unity), Poppy Whittle Sayings (Poppy), Tiny Word Christmas (SImon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Kraft, Magic Of Christmas (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black, Real Red, Emerald Envy (ret)
Accessories	Red Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Layering Ovals Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Aquapainter

CASC&S597 Tool Box Birthday

 Happy Wednesday, all!  I have a fun masculine birthday card today:

It uses the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches:

I diecut the tools from an older My Favorite Things set of dies, using silver foil and cardstock; the background is embossed with an embossing folder I bought at a yard sale, and the sentiment is from Poppy Whittles:

I backed each tool with an oval punchout of some woodgrain paper!  I need lots of masculine birthday cards this month, so I guess I'd better get busy and make some more!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Whittle Sayings (Poppy Stamps)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Hydrangea Hue, Crushed Curry, Basic Black, Real Red, Call Me Clover (ret), Silver Foil, Country Woods (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tool Embossing Folder (unknown), Oval Punch (ret), Tool Dies (My Favorite Things), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

AHSC705 To You & Yours

 Happy Tuesday, everyone! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!  I used the sketch today for a pretty Christmas card:

And here's our sketch:

As was the case in yesterday's card, one of the Christmas cards we made at my stamp camp used the papers from A Stitched Season, which has rows of fun little "quilt" designs.  I trimmed down one panel of three quilts to create my card! I mounted it on a Basic Beige card base, added a fun little rickrack trim panel of Peaceful Pine and Real Red, then a sentiment from the retired Brightest Glow:

And here is the card we made at the stamp camp:

Similar, just a wee bit different layout!  I hope you can play with our fun sketch this week...obviously, you don't have to use pumpkins on your card!  Share it with us at Atlantic Hearts! We can't wait to see what you create!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Brightest Glow (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Real Red, Peaceful Pine, A Stitched Season, Gold paper from my stash, Red Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Peaceful Pine, Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Brightest Glow Dies (ret), Star punch (ret), Mini Stocking Punch (ret), Cross Stitch Dies (Taylored Expressions), Borders Punch (Sissix)

52CCTD Nativity Scene

Happy Monday, all! The 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge this month is to create a mini scene with shaped dies:

I had a Christmas card stamp camp on Saturday and we just happened to make a card that fit the challenge!  Here we go:

We diecut a nativity scene from Impression Obsession using Secret Sea cardstock and placed it on a woodgrain Stitched Triangle diecut, adding the little glimmer star at the point:

The background is embossed with a Tim Holtz Brick embossing folder, and the inside sentiment is from an older wooden set called Star Studded Season:

I love the blues together on this card!  And I have another for my holiday stash!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Star Studded Season (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Secret Sea, Misty Moonlight, Silver Glimmer, Woodgrain Paper (Echo Park)
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals, Mini Black Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nativity Dies (Impression Obsession), Brick Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz), Stitched Triangle Dies (ret)