CQC328 and CAS179 Ahoy!

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  My card today features the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches:

and the colors from ColourQ:

I have delayed using this cute little sailboat from Swirly Bird because it was everywhere in blogland and on Pinterest and I was just sort of "saving" it for the right time!  I thought these colors were really fun (although I did substitute more current ones) so here we go:

I started out by sponging some "clouds" on my Pool Party sky by punching out a scalloped circle and covering up the lower half with a post-it note, then sponging white ink through the upper portion (the birds were drawn with a marker):

I stamped the boat in Night of Navy, and the sails in Pear Pizzazz and Tangerine Tango, then cut them and popped them up on a "swell" of Whisper White cardstock cut with the Swirly Scribbles die.  The sentiment was made with the Labeler Alphabet....if you are fortunate enough to have the 1/4" square punch that SU used to sell, it is the perfect size to punch out these little letters!  A drop of Tombow glue and they line up so nicely! Finally I added some little banners from the retired Banner Blast and added some cute enamel accents in Night of Navy:

I just love these cheerful colors!

Enjoy your day!

AYSI137 Just A Note

Hi peeps!  Here's a fun little card using this cool sketch from As You See It:

I wanted to use DSPs for the stripes, although I also thought about using washi tape, but these patterns from Floral Boutique won out:

I cut the ends of the strips with the scallop oval punch, then added a sentiment from Flourishing Phrases.  I created a flower with the dies from the Flower Fair Framelits, and added two beautiful die-cut leaves from the Flourish Thinlets:

It's really a pretty simple card but striking with the navy and white!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy created a little Lego box (with help) using some Emerald Envy cardstock and a pattern we found on Pinterest here:

A little hint....use a 3/4" circle punch to make the "bumps"....we didn't make them very high because we were in a hurry, but it's easy to punch out lots of them quickly!  She filled it with some candy and gave it to Mommy....with the proviso that Mommy share her candy with her, LOL!

MTS130 and CCMC412

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you all had a great weekend!  I've got a pretty little birthday card for a sweet lady in my church who will be celebrating her 95th birthday!  I chose the sketch from Match the Sketch and the colors from Create with Connie & Mary:

I wanted to use the pretty By The Shore DSP because I just love that starfish pattern, so I pulled out an older retired set called Beautiful Beach and went to work:

 

I used the banner punch to create the banner; I stamped the horizontal pieces with the "grid" from Best Birds; I diecut a scalloped square of Pool Party with the new Layering Squares Framelits, and stamped some splatters from Gorgeous Grunge; and finally, I stamped the starfish in Blushing Bride:

I added a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes and a few sequins from a Paper Pumpkin kit!  Now it's ready to go in the mail!  Thanks for peeking in today!

We had the Life Celebration for my FIL on Saturday; it's always a sweet reminder that even though we are saying goodbye to a loved one, the future generations are there to help us wipe away our tears! Cassidy and our nephew's son Zion made us all laugh....Cassidy delighted in making Zion giggle and helped his mommy feed him...she'll be a good mommy someday herself!  And look at that...they even dressed alike!

Have a blessed day!

Paper Players 301 Toadally Awesome

Happy Sunday, peeps....the days are just flying by!  How can it be almost July already!  And it's time for another Paper Players challenge!  Joanne is our creative hostess this week with a great sketch for us:

Hmmm, lots and lots of possibilities here!  I wanted to use some neglected stamps in my stash and I had never inked up this little toad from You're Sublime:

I stamped him in Stazon and watercolored him with Cucumber Crush and Bermuda Bay inks, then mounted him on two Swirly Scribbles diecuts, one in Bermuda Bay and the other in Emerald Envy:

 

They went on a panel of Soft Sky which was embossed with the Softly Falling EF and lightly sponged with Mint Macaron, then the whole shebang was mounted on some Moroccan DSP!  I did add a few green pearls from a past Paper Pumpkin kit for fun.  Finally, I stamped the sentiment again, masking off the image, and diecut it with a Nestability banner die.  Sort of a silly card, but it will be cute for a little boy's birthday, I think!  You can check out what the rest of the DT did by clicking here:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance 
• Sandy
• Linda
• Hannelie
• Colleen

Grammy's (albeit dirty) garden card makes a fun ride!

 

Enjoy your day!

SIP53 CASing Sandy!

Happy Friday, peeps!  I've got a sweet little card today for a sweet friend of mine...she IS amazing...she just sent me a whole gallon of homemade maple syrup from upstate New York!  What a friend!  And since Cassidy has had a taste of real maple syrup on her pancakes, she is now a syrup snob...she won't eat anything else and gets mad if any of us eat "her" syrup!  SO...we have lots of syrup that should last us for a while!  So my card today is for her!  I am playing with the Stamp Ink Paper challenge, which is to CASE the designer!

OF COURSE I had to CASE my sweet friend Sandy!  I swooned when I saw this card!  You can see  the details of it on her blog here!

I started out by diecutting some sunflowers I had but then I remembered this sweet Decorate A Daisy set that retired a couple of years ago, so I inked it up with Crushed Curry and Basic Black and added a sentiment from Watercolor Wishes:

I did save the leaves I had cut from the sunflower die (Simon Says Stamp Radiant Sunflower) because I love the stitching and the detail; they complemented my stitched panel (Lil'Inkers) so nicely!

The gingham was stamped with a retired SU wheel that I took off the wheel and mounted on some EZ mount....so much easier to use that way!  And finally, I added some pretty green sequins from my stash!

I loved Sandy's card and I hope she likes my CASE of it!

Cassidy loves my nephew's dog Remy...she was throwing him a stick in our front yard when the sun was going down...the light and glowing greenery was so pretty...it's really not captured in my photos as well as I would like!

  

 I am not sure who was more tired...Cassidy or the dog!  They both got a good workout!

CAS for GDP41

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I was intrigued by the colors in the Global Design Project challenge this week:

I toyed around with several ideas, none of which worked for me and finally ended up with this very simple design using diecuts from three different sets!  In hindsight, I think I could have spaced the berries a little differently, but this one is what it is, as my boss used to say!:

I began by stamping the big splatter from Touches of Texture in Sweet Sugarplum ink on my card base (I stamped first on scrap paper so I could get a lighter effect), then added a swirly diecut from Swirly Scribbles thinlits in Sweet Sugarplum; then the berries using the Flourish thinlits and Night of Navy, and finally the little bird from Birds & Blooms thinlits:

 

The wee little bird was popped up with a sliver of a dimensional...isn't he sweet?  Finally, a sentiment from Watercolor Wishes:

I just love the fonts in these sentiments, and I think this sentiment in particular could be used for so many occasions!  Thanks for popping in today!

Ah, the giggles and laughter of two five-year-olds in a kiddie pool on a warm summer day!

Check out that hair!  Wheeeeee!

Sympathy

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  My card today is for a school friend who lost both her elderly mother and father within a day of each other...even when you know their end is near, it's never easy and I am not sure if losing both together is less stressful or more.  So I made a sympathy card using a past Paper Players sketch that I really liked.  For this card, I used new DSPs from Blooms and Bliss along with some florals from Swirly Bird:

I stamped the florals in Island Indigo, Mint Macaron and Crumb Cake; the open flowers were colored in with ink and a blender pen.  I added some scallop borders and mats, and a wee little linen thread bow!  I added some white sequins from my stash as well:

My outside sympathy sentiment is from an older Paper Pumpkin kit; the inside is from Flourishing Phrases along with a cross from All God's Grace:

Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy & Mommy went on a day trip to the Philadelphia Zoo!  

This photo cracks me up because she really looks like she knows what she's doing....even though she is just learning to read, she puts on a good show!

I'll bet these fountains were cool on a hot summer day!

And I would love to know what was going on in the handler's mind when she made THIS face, LOL!!  Hopefully it was just the sun in her eyes!

Enjoy your day!

TSOT 276 Foxy Christmas

Hi peeps!  Tuesday has rolled around, and with it another wonderful sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday, with the option of polka dots:

The set Foxy Friends has so many possibilities with all its fun elements, and yet, it seems the most I've done with it so far is make Christmas cards, LOL!  This one uses A Little Foxy DSP, because I thought the polka dots looked like snow:

The tree was embossed with white embossing powder and cut out, the "Christmas" sentiment is from Holly Jolly Greetings, also embossed.  I took a little liberty with the banner, creating a "Merry" banner with Labeler Alphabet:

You can't see it, but I added glitter to all the snowflakes as well!  I hope you'll play along with our sketch this week...you can submit your creation to the TSOT blog, or try our Facebook page as well!  Hope to see you in the gallery!

This will give you an idea of the patience my hubby has...here Cassidy is "doctoring" him with her Doc McStuffins ambulance.....can you see his bungee cord oxygen tube?

The man is a saint!