LRW855 Happy Earth Day

Happy Saturday, everyone! Even before this challenge popped up at Little Red Wagon, I had saved this pretty lavender envelope from my mail, because I knew I wanted to create something with it!  So it worked perfectly for the "Earth Day" challenge, which was to use something recycled on your creation! So here we go; simple and easy:

I cut the envelope to fit my card front and adhered it; I diecut a vellum circle and sponged some Gorgeous Grape ink on the back of it, then added a scalloped border around it.  The floral diecut was a leftover from yesterday's project, unused, and I thought it worked well with the outline images on the envelope:

I added some Smoky Slate pearls and a sentiment from Lily of the Valley.  I left the inside blank, and will add a sentiment when I send it out!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lily of the Valley
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Vellum (ret), Envelope from the mail
Ink	Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Smoky Slate Pearls (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big SHot, Penned FLowers Dies (ret), Layering Circles Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

As You See It 371 Recipe in Pink

Hello all!  Happy Friday! It's time for a new As You See It challenge, and this week, it's Recipe time!  Here we go:

My friend Colleen recently made a gorgeous postage-style card (you can see it HERE) and she inspired me to get out my postage dies and stamps and put them to use! I only used hers as a starting point, as she did neutrals and vintage.  Mine is decidedly PINK and floral:

I already had this Pink Pirouette diecut "frame" in my Pink Pirouette folder, so I used that as my starting point. I stamped images from the retired Hand-Penned Petals on the frame as well as on one of the postage stamps, and used the dies from the same set to create some detailed flowers.  The little seed packet image is from the retired Flowering Rain Boots.  I added a sentiment from Hero Arts as well as some postage stamp elements from Waffle Flower:

My final addition was a wee little bit of grosgrain ribbon for accent.  It was fun to mix and match these images and sets, do some stamping and sponging, then put it all together! I hope you'll find something to create using our "recipe" this week at As You See It!  Can't wait to see what comes of it!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Flowering Rain Boots (ret), Hand-Penned Petals (ret), Postage Collage (Waffle FLower), CL342 Sentiments (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pink Pirouette (ret), Bloom & Wild (Craft Consortium)
Ink	Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Strawberry Slush, Cotton Candy (Catherine Pooler), Distress Worn Lipstick (Tim Holtz)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pink Grosgrain from my stash, Mini Pearls (Want 2 Scrap)
Tools	Big Shot, Postage Die (Waffle FLower), Penned FLowers Dies (ret), Triple Flower Punch, Reverse Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Windows Die (Lawn Fawn)

Addicted to CAS Postage Christmas

 Happy Wednesday, everyone! I have a quick little clean and simple card today--another Christmas one--for the Addicted to CAS challenge of "postage"!

Last year I got some vintage Christmas postage stamp images from Elizabeth Crafts, so I thought they would be great for the challenge:

Using a Waffle Flower postage die, I cut out two stamps from Basic Beige cardstock and stamped my images in Cherry Cobbler and Shaded Spruce inks, then added some register stamps on a Crumb Cake card behind them:

I have been longing to try to "speckles" on my card to give it a more vintage look, so I watered down some Craft White ink and using my aquapainter, tapped it on the handle of another paintbrush and it didn't turn out too badly.  Looks like snow, although some of them have a more of a raindrop look! I need practice! And just to show you that even after 25 years of stamping, there are still things to learn:

Be sure your Cherry Cobbler ink is fully dry on your Crumb Cake card BEFORE you add your speckles.  Better yet, speckle first, THEN stamp!  I hope the recipient won't mind the blurry sentiment, LOL!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	December Postage Stamps (Elizabeth Craft Designs), Vintage Christmas (Flonzcraft)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Crumb Cake
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Shaded Spruce,  Crumb Cake, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Postage Stamp Die (Waffle Flower), Aquapainter

Vintage Fa La La Christmas

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I am squeaking in a sweet little vintage Christmas card for the "belles" at Jingle Belles, where their theme is "Walking in a Vintage Wonderland"!  I love Christmas and I love vintage!  So I searched in my stash of papers and found a few that worked for my collage-style card today!  I did some trimming and sponging and diecutting and did not do a bit of stamping, at least on the front! Here we go:

I cannot begin to tell you who makes these papers; I bought just a few pieces loose from an online seller and there is no name associated with them, but they are all from the same package.  You may be able to see the background print peeking out from the elements that I cut apart and mounted on top.  Before mounting, I sponged each edge and roughed them up with the edge of my ruler.  I also added some glittery holly leaves (white glimmer paper with some Soft Sky ink sponged on them) and a little diecut bow (Real Red with some white ink sponged on it),  Here are some closeups of these delightful little scenes:

Everything went on a Naturals Ivory card; I stamped a sentiment from Flonzcraft on the inside with Crumb Cake ink.

These images all just remind me of Christmases from when I was a little girl!  And I  promise, one of these days, I'll do some actual stamping on a card! It's just so fun to pull out some neat papers and let them do the work though!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Vintage Christmas (Flonzcraft)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals Ivory (ret), Real Red, White Glimmer (ret), Unknown Christmas paper
Ink	Crumb Cake, Basic Beige (for sponging), Soft Sky (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Cottage Wreath Dies (ret), Greenery Dies (Tim Holtz), Sponge Daubers

AHSC678 Just a Note

 Happy Monday, everyone!  I love today's Atlantic Hearts sketch:

                                                      

I found these gorgeous florals in some Craft Corsortium papers and although I hated cutting into them, I just had to showcase them on my card today:

I've been a lazy stamper lately and let the paper do most of the work, and I admit that I did it again here!  I even cut out a larger flower for my central image, adhering it to an oval of Soft Succulent that was softened with a layer of vellum!  I did do a wee bit of stamping for my little slider tag, which was threaded throught some Pink Pirouette seam binding:

I even adhered a scrap strip to the inside because it's just too pretty not to!

I had bunches of ideas swirling around in my head for this sketch, so you may see it again!  I hope you'll have some ideas about how to use it as well, and share it with us at Atlantic Hearts!  Thanks for visiting; enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	CL342 Sentiments (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Vellum (ret), Soft Succulent (ret), Bloom & Wild (Craft Consortium)
Ink	Strawberry Slush
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequins from my stash, Pink Pirouette Seam Binding (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Rectangle Stitched Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Tag Slider Dies (Nestabilities)

PP782 Fawned of You

Happy Sunday, all!  Hope you're having a good weekend so far!  It's Christy's turn to be the hostess at the Paper Players, and it's clean-and-simple week! She has a sweet theme for it, too! Check it out:

What a fun theme!  Remember, it needs to be clean and simple!  Not a lot of embellishments or layers (although mine does have a couple of them!). I went searching through my plethora of paper and stamps and went a real easy route, letting the paper do most of the work!  Here we go:

I remembered I had some really cute papers from Craft Consortium with lots of woodland creatures and greenery on it, so I diecut a little fawn from one piece, added a scallop border and a couple more of the forest babies (massive fussy-cutting skills here!) along the edges:

And since those Poppy Whittle Sayings were still on my desk, I couldn't resist adding a punny sentiment!  Oh, and I did emboss my Natural White cardstock panel with a Burlap embossing folder before adhering it to a Basic Beige card base.  I wish SU still carried the Natural White cardstock; it's such a good fit with nature-themed cards!

The Design Team at the Players has really come up with some fun creations!  Be sure to pop on over to the Paper Players to give them some love, then share your clean-and-simple baby animal creativity with us as well!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Whittle Sayings (Poppy Stamps)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Naturals White (ret), Copper Clay (ret), Little Fawn & Friends (Craft Consortium)
Ink	Cinnamon Cider (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Give It A Whirl Dies (ret), 1 3/4" Circle Punch (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Burlap Embossing Folder (Honey Bee)

FMS732 Feel Better Dragonfly

Happy Friday, peeps! Yay, the weekend is here!  I was playing with the Scalloped Wishes set and realized I hadn't used that pretty little dragonfly die yet, so I remedied that with the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

I still had some Pool Party Shimmer cardstock on my desk from yesterday's card, so I thought it would be fun to use it for my dragonfly BUT I added a little something extra to it; I colored it with some Azure Afternoon reinker ink to give it a deeper hue!  Here we go:

After coloring it with the ink, I mounted it on several diecut circles of cardstock and added two more circles from Not 2 Shabby's Rustic Blooms paper.  I embossed the left from of the card with the Greenery embossing folder, then added some sequins and a get well sentiment:

I love blue but I haven't used any of these hues for a while!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Unbounded Love (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Azure Afternoon, Pool Party Shimmer, Rustic Blooms (Not 2 Shabby)
Ink	Azure Afternoon
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Greenery Embossing Folder (ret), Scalloped Wishes Dies, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Postage Collage Dies (Waffle Flower), Aquapainter, Word Window Punch (ret)