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)

PP809 Sweet Friend

Hello, stamping friends! Happy Sunday! It's time for a new Paper Players challenge, and Christy has a lovely sketch for us! I couldn't wait to use one of SU's new upcoming sets called Time to Unwind! I belong to a craft group at my church and we have LOTS of knitters and crocheters!  So I was happy to get this set.  Here we go:

And here is Christy's sketch:

Love it! I just happened to have this scrap of printed paper on my desk that fell out of my plethora of other scraps of printed paper, and it fit perfect for the sketch!

I stamped the knitted image in Real Red, then did some masking and stamped the yarn ball in Pool Party.  The scissors were stamped on top.  I added a Basic Black diecut border and a Poppy Whittles sentiment. A little black & white baker's twine bow finished it off.  I left the inside blank so I can use it for most any occasion!

I will be saving this sketch for future use for sure, and I hope you'll play along with us this week!  Share your creation over at the Paper Players blog so we can all see it!  

So this happened last week:

Cassidy was inducted into the National Honor Society! We are so proud of her!

This picture just makes me tear up!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Time to Unwind, Whittle Sayings (Poppystamps)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Masking Paper, Roll With It (Carta Bella)
Ink	Real Red, Pool Party, Versafine Black
Accessories	Baker's Twine (Doodlebug), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Borders Dies (Sissix)

AYSI384 Hope is a Feather

Happy Friday, everyone! Hope you have a nice weekend planned!  It's time for the latest As You See It challenge, and our theme is "Feathers"!  I pulled out an old Papertrey stamp for my card today:

And here's our prompt:

I will admit that this didn't come out quite the way I had planned, but what can I say! I stamped the image in Lost Lagoon on some pretty grungy-look papers, left the stamp in my stamp positioner and stamped it again in Versamark, then heat-embossed it with clear embossing powder.  It was easy to fill in the spaces with some matching Copics. I chose lighter colors as I was afraid the darker ones would be too harsh:

The sentiment is a really old SU one called Friend to Friend; I also added a little linen "bow" at the top of the feather!  A get well sentiment from Technique Tuesday went on the inside, and I added a little Cloud Cover feather on top!  The base is Cloud Cover as well:

I hope you'll play along with our challenge this week....you'd be surprised how many ways you can use a feather (gobble gobble)!!!  Share it with us at As You See It!  And thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction."  Proverbs 1:7

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Friend to Friend (ret), What the Doodle: Feather (Papertrey), So Grateful (Technique Tuesday)
Card stock & Papers	Cloud Cover, Vintage Floral (Art Collage)
Ink	Basic Gray, Cloud Cover, Lost Lagoon, Versamark
Accessories	Linen Thread, Linen Trim Ribbon (ret), Clear Embossing Powder
Tools	Heat Tool, Misc Copics

FMS759 FaBOOlous

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I do not need another Halloween card, but as I was looking through some of my papers, I came across these cute ones from Unity that I had barely used!  That never happens to you, does it?  I thought they worked well with the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches too.  Here we go:

And here's the sketch I used:

I would say that this is a wee bit out of my norm for Halloween cards; I usually go for cute and spooky and fun, but these papers were intriguing!  This one actually had a bit of bronze glimmer (which unfortunately got covered up by the sentiment!) so I diecut a bronze moon and some bronze stars to accent the little witches' skirts and hats!  

I added a punched bat and a banner with a sentiment from Six Sayings.  I stamped the sentiment on Basic White cardstock, then added some speckles of black and copper and a little bit of Pecan Pie splooshed on to mimic the background paper.  It all went on a Crumb Cake card base.  The inside features a cute little Halloween sentiment:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Six Sayings (ret), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret), Spooky Street (Newton's Nook)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Brushed Copper (ret), Hocus Pocus Palette (Unity)
Ink	Versafine Black, Pecan Pie, Encore Bronze (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Black Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Sports Event Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Bat Punch (ret)

Merry Christmas Bear

Happy Wednesday, everyone! I have a sweet Christmas card today that I hope will bring a smile to the recipient's face:

I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

and some stamps from Unity's Holly Jolly Holiday' sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Tiny Words Christmas. I just love the expression on that bear's face:

I used the color palette from Clean & Simple Colours & Sketches (Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow and Golden Glow), but I am thinking it's not quite CAS enough!  I used the retired Buffalo Check for the background and added another Unity sentiment on the inside:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Buffalo Check (ret), Holly Jolly Holiday (Unity), Tiny Words Christmas (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Golden Glow
Accessories	Candy Dot, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Scalloped Oval Dies (Nestabilities), Banner Dies (Impression Obsession)

AHSC704 Merry Christmas

Happy Tuesday, all!  I am gearing up for Christmas, since I have a lot of Halloween cards left from last year!  I used the Atlantic Hearts sketch for this one, using some pretty Unity papers:

And here's the sketch for this week:

These papers from Unity are called Quiet Christmas Morning, and in hindsight, I wish I had used Basic Beige instead of Very Vanilla for the banners and sentiment; I think they would have matched the papers better! BUT it is what it is, and since the papers did most of the work, it went together pretty quickly.  I backed my Very Vanilla panel with a dimensional sheet before diecutting it, so the whole sentiment from Peaceful Seasons is popped up.  The "merry" is from Greetings of the Season, stamped in Soft Succulent ink:

My star banner was a freebie from Scrapbook.com, and to be they look a little awkward because they're not succumbing to gravity and are hanging sideways!!!  But again, it is what it is! My final addition was a wee little linen thread bow:

My inside sentiment is also from Peaceful Wishes:

Adding this one to my stash! I hope you'll see some potential for a card in our sketch this week, and I hope you'll share it with us at Atlantic Hearts sketch challenge!  Thanks for visiting, and may your day be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peaceful Season (ret), Greetings of the Season (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Adhesive Sheet, Quiet Christmas Morning (Unity)
Ink	Soft Succulent
Accessories	Linen Thread (from my stash)
Tools	Big Shot, Peaceful Seasons Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Scrapbook.com), Scalloped Contour Dies (ret),

Pillow-Inspired Thanksgiving Card

 Happy Monday, all! Hope you had a good weekend!  Fall was definitely in the air!  

I have a real simple card today, and wait until you see how I was inspired!  Here we go:

We went out for dinner Friday night and as I was leaving, I saw this adorable pillow on the bench by the door:

(Now I would have cut off that icky tag sticking out, but that's just me, LOL!)  I thought it was adorable, so I pulled out a couple of dies, some retired Tangelo Twist and Very Vanilla cardstocks and went to work!  The thankful die is from Papertrey; the pumpkin is from Impression Obsession, and the tendril and leaf are from SU's Patterned Pumpkins.  I also embossed the background with Waffle Flower's Sweet Plaid Texture die to mimic the pattern on the background of the pillow:

Some Honeybee Blessings of Fall sentiments went on the inside:

The Addicted to CAS challenge this week is "pumpkin"; they're pretty strict on their guidelines, so I am not sure it will cut the mustard, but I did have fun recreating the pillow into a card!  

Thanks for visiting today; enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Blessings of Fall (Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Tangelo Twist (ret)
Ink	Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Thankful Die (Papertrey), Seasonal Cupcake Topper Die (Impression Obsession), Patterned Pumpkin Die (ret), Sweet Plaid Texture Die (Waffle FLower)