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)

PP808 CAS Challenge from Stef

Happy Sunday, all!  It is definitely feeling fall-like here in SE PA this weekend!  Stef is our Paper Players hostess this week with a seasonal clean-and-simple challenge!!!  Here's my take on it:

And here's her prompt:

This was very quick to make, since I already had this Brushed Copper circle and leaf diecut sitting on my desk (probably since last year!!!) so I simply added some plaid DSP behind it and a wee little baker's twine bow:

And I confess that I totally CASEd the sentiment idea on the front from Joanne's cute card HERE!  I totally forgot that I had the Cheer All Year set myself--that's what happens when you have so many stamp sets--so I used just the "autumn" portion of the sentiment from that set and added a "happy" from a Paper Sweeties set!  The inside features a couple of sentiments and some Paper Pumpkin leaves:

The Inkspirational challenge this week is CAS with the option of plaid, so I am entering it there as well!

I have lots of fall stamp sets, and I am betting you do too!  Show us your Clean-And-Simple design---remember, keep your stamps and embellishments to a minimum!  Share it with us at the Paper Players!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Cheer All Year (ret), Paper Pumpkin (ret), Blessed (Paper Sweeties), Sentiments CL342 (Hero Arts), Camus Quote E550 (Great Impressions)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Brushed Copper (ret), Timeless Plaid DSP (ret)
Ink	Timid Tiger, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Vanilla Baker's Twine (Ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Leaves Dies (ret)

LRW880 Happy Halloween

Happy Friday, all! Yay, I get to stamp with my ladies at the local retirement community today; that's always fun!  First, I'll show you my CAS Halloween card created for the Little Red Wagon challenge!  Here we go:

Their challenge is to use a frame, and I remembered that I had this twiggy frame from Poppy Whittles that had barely ever been used!  I diecut it in Basic Black and added some Whittle punkins and a simple sentiment:

Do you like their "glowing" mouths?! LOL!  I used an older CTMH sentiment for the inside:

Since I had my Whittle dies out, I created a Christmas one, although I am not as happy with this one--I added an outer frame from Penny Black, and wish I had left it plain:

This one uses the same twiggy frame in Pecan Pie, a pair of trees in Pretty Peacock, a stitched snowbank and some wee little glimmery stars:

A couple of pretty little sentiments from past Paper Pumpkin sets were stamped in Real Red:

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

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	And Many More (ret), Hello Pumpkin (Close to My Heart ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Basic White, Timid Tiger, Gray Granite, Spooky (Echo Park), Orange Glimmer (ret), Gold Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Whittle Wood Picture Frame Dies, Whittle Pumpkin Dies (both PoppyStamps), Hello Pumpkin Dies (CTMH)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pecan Pie, Pretty Peacock, White Glimmer (ret), Soft Sky (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Sports Event Dies (ret), Whittle Wood Picture Frame Dies, Whittle Trees Dies (both PoppyStamps), Double Frame Dies (Penny Black)

FMS758 Uber Simple Masculine Birthday

Happy Thursday, peeps! Ick, I have a dentist appointment today, so I'll make this quick! I needed another birthday card for a young man and it needed to be pretty simple because he is just not a fussy guy!  I pulled out some masculine papers and came up with this:

He's not a carpenter, but he is a handyman, so hopefully he'll appreciate the woodgrain and that wee little saw, LOL!

Sentiment is from Simply Said; the saw die is an oldie from My Favorite Things.  I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

And since the Krafty Chicks have a CAS challenge this week, I am entering it there as well!

That's it for today!  Off to sit in the dentist's chair!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Real Red, Silver Foil, Nestled (Authentique)
Ink	Macchiato (Catherine Pooler)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Tool Dies (My Favorite Things)

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Wednesday, all!  There's a sweet little sketch over at TGIF and I am squeaking this one in just under the wire!

And here's the sketch:

This image is from an older SU set called Harvest Home.  I stamped it in Versafine Black on watercolor paper, then stamped just the crock on Smoky Slate cardstock with Misty Moonlight ink.  After watercoloring the Indian corn, I did some tricky fussy-cutting of the crock and glued it over the original image:

I used the colors from the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge of Timid Tiger, Cajun Craze & Misty Moonlight:

I hope using neutrals is okay!  I added a few more touches; I embossed the image with the Subtle embossing folder, and embossed a Basic Beige mat with the Hive embossing folder.  The Misty Moonlight bat was diecut with the new Tile Garden dies, then separated and mounted on another Basic Beige mat.  I added some candy dots to fill in the "gap"!  Finally, my sentiment came from the retired Banner Year!  I thought this was an unusal color combo, but I like it!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Banner Year (ret), Harvest Home (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Misty Moonlight, Watercolor, Smoky Slate
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Cajun Craze, Timid Tiger, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Subtle Embossing Folder (ret), Hive Embossing Folder (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Aquapainter

AHSC703 Hey Boo

Happy Tuesday, all! Time for another Atlantic Hearts Sketch to play with! I chose to go Halloween, because I need to amp up my supply!  Here we go:

This was a really fun sketch to use! At first I was a little intimidated by all the layers, but I pulled out a 6x6 Halloween pad from Echo Park called Spooky and found lots of little patterns and scrapbook elements that were easy to pull together for my card!

To extend the 2x2" squares, I mounted them on a piece of Basic Gray that was die cut with the Iconic Images dies and stamped with a swirly star stamp from CTMH.  Then I fussy cut a couple more images and layered them behind, then added some orange sequins:

Little Delights provided the sentiment and some spooky bats on the inside!

If you like layers, you'll love this sketch! Come show us your layers at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week!  Thanks for visiting! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Little Delights (ret), Swirly Stars (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Gray, Spooky (Echo Park)
Ink	Smoky Slate, Versafine Black
Accessories	Orange Sequins (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Bit Shot, Iconic Imagery Dies (ret)