FMS655 Candy Corn Lineup

Happy Monday, peeps! I am squeaking in a card for FMS today; I had lots of ideas for this card, but finally decided on another Halloween card, as my stash is low.  Here's the fun sketch:

Isn't that fun?  My first thought was buttons, but in the end, I went with candy corn!  Here we go:

These little cuties are from Lawn Fawn; I stamped, colored and fussy-cut them out, then mounted them on a simple card base of Pumpkin Pie on which I embossed a Stitched With Whimsy die.  The sentiment is from My Creative Time, diecut with a Stylish Shapes dies.  I did add a couple of wee little star sequins just for fun!

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

The Lord works out everything to its proper end--even the wicked for a day of disaster.  Proverbs 16:4

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Trick or Treat (Lawn Fawn), Mixed Holiday Messages (My Creative Time)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pumpkin Pie
Ink	Stazon Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Star Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Markers

PP709 Tic Tac Toe from Claire

Happy Sunday, peeps!  September has five Sundays, so that means the Paper Players get to have a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge, with Claire as our hostess!  Here's her board:

My original plan was the middle row across of orange, diecut and stencil, but I also managed to do the left column of leaves, orange, and monochromatic!  My friend Martha gave me a nice leafy stencil that I had never used, so I set it up on some Very Vanilla cardstock and gathered some Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze inks and went to work:

After stenciling, I added some Itty Bitty Background dots, then ran it through the Cut & Emboss machine with a Subtle embossing folder.  My sentiment is from Unbounded Love; I stamped it on a piece of Very Vanilla in Cajun Craze, then used a Stitched Leaf die to cut it out:

I found some Very Vanilla thick baker's twine in my stash, so I added it to the panel, then popped everything up on top of a Cajun Craze card base.  I left  the inside blank, so I can use it for whatever occasion might arise.  I forgot how much I love orange hues....when I was a senior, I remember under my picture in the yearbook, my favorite color  was.....orange! And since this week at Just Us Girls, they want us to use stencils, so I am entering it there as well!

I hope you'll find something in Claire's grid to tickle your fancy, so you can play with us over at the Players!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Unbounded Love, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze
Ink	Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals, Thick Very Vanilla Twine (ret), Big Leaves Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Leaves Dies (ret), Subtle Embossing Folder (ret), Blending Brush

RRCB240 Tree For All Seasons

Happy Friday, peeps! Hope you have a good weekend planned! I am going to put up my Halloween decorations! My card today uses the sketch from the girls are Retro Rubber:

How fun is that?!  Gave me a chance to use up some "retro" scraps as well as use a stamp set that debuted in 2006!  That's 18 years ago!  This was one of my favorites from way back when, too!  So here we go:

The stamp set is called A Tree for All Seasons, and of course, I used the fall image.  I stamped it in Stazon black ink, then watercolored those itty-bitty teeny-tiny leaves!  My only regret is that I think I should have used white cardstock instead of Basic Beige.  Anyway, I diecut it with a Stylish Shapes dies and added a sentiment from the retired Banner Year (2020), stamped in Old Olive:

I cut 1" strips of DSP from Orchard Harvest & Come to Gather DSPs, and added a scalloped mat of More Mustard.  It's a wee bit busy with all the prints, but it was fun to put them together like a quilt!  

Dana and I both had entries in the Solanco Fair this year;  I didn't take a picture of my cross stitch (it won a 2nd), but here's a picture of her winning kaleidoscope crochet blanket....she won a first in her division!

It's a wee bit hard to see as there is a heavy layer of clear plastic over it to keep the dust off!  But the whole blanket is just full of these "Rich Regal" hues! Thanks so much for popping in today! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Tree for All Seasons (2006), Banner Year (2020)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Beige, More Mustard (ret), Orchard Harvest DSP (ret), Come to Gather DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Old Olive, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Aquapainter

TTTC257 Thinking of You

Happy Thursday, everyone! I was so happy to be chosen as a guest designer with my old friends at the Tic Tac Toe challenge recently!  Here's the board they've selected for this week:

I chose the right diagonal of die cut, embossing and twine for my fall card today:

I used my favorite fall embossing folder and embossed a piece of Crumb Cake with it.  The leaves are from Lawn Fawn, and I used Real Red, Terracotta Tile and a wee piece of Plaid Tidings to creat them.  A sentiment from Happiest Day on a Pretty Pink Posh diecut tag and some Copper Clay twine finished it off...and of course, a sequin!

I also added a Technique Tuesday sentiment on the inside, stamped in Copper Clay as well:

I think Felicita's board is a great one for some fall/seasonal stamping!  I hope you'll play along with us at Tic Tac Toe!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happiest Day, So Grateful (Technique Tuesday)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Real Red, Terracotta Tile (ret), Plaid Tidings (ret)
Ink	Copper Clay
Accessories	Dimensionals, Copper Clay Jute, Naturals Sequins
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Leaves Dies (Lawn Fawn), Stitched Banners (Pretty Pink Posh), Autumn Blessings EF (Cuttlebug)

AHSC596 Boo!

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Time for a new Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge!  I must warn you, my card today is BUSY!  Be prepared!  First, the sketch:

I've had these CTMH papers and stamps for a while, and as I was creating, I realized I covered up most of the background papers, LOL! Oh well!  Here we go:

The stamps are all from CTMH's Hello Pumpkin-Scrapbooking set; the ghost and spiderweb are stamped on vellum and fussy-cut.  The "BOO" was stamped on a scrap of the orange gingham from Sunday's card; I extended the letters top and bottom to give it a bit of interest.  The Pink Pirouette panel was embossed with the Fun Patterns embossing folder, and the Petunia Pop panel was stamped with some of the little fun elements in the set in Fresh Freesia:

The black ink and vellum gave me fits on this card and I had ink everywhere, so I needed to cover up a smudge (that never happens to you, right?) so I stamped a Stitched Rectangle panel with a sentiment from the retired Spooky Cat in Petunia Pop:

Thank goodness for extra cardstock!  So happy you popped in today!  Be sure to check out the AHSC blog to see what other inspiration you can find there, and share yours with us too! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Spooky Cat (ret), Hello Pumpkin-Scrapbooking (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Petunia Pop, Pink Pirouette (ret), Vellum (ret), Boo Crew (Close to My Heart)
Ink	Versafine Black, Petunia Pop, Fresh Freesia
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Fun Patterns Embossing Folder, Deckle Edge Rectangle Dies, Stitched Rectangle Die (ret)

IC177 Boo!

Happy gray Monday, peeps! Tonight is Christmas card stamp camp, so this will be quick, as was my card!  The Inspire.Create challenge is to CASE the designer with this card:

What a fun sketch! I have several Halloween stamps that I like to use at least once during the season, and this little vintage cat on a broom is one of them:

The papers were a gift from one of my stamping girls; I looked through several catalogs and I honestly cannot remember these papers from SU but I am sure they are!  My eyes must be really getting bad because I thought for sure there was some gray in them, hence the Basic Gray base, but obviously, the dots are Old Olive.....but hopefully it still looks okay!  I stamped the cat on Basic Beige and partially cut out the broom, then used a Stitched Shape circle die to cut it out:

I lightly stamped the grunge image from the retired Label Me Bold to give him a spooky background!  The sentiment is an old stamp from Recollections, diecut with a banner die and matted with another Basic Gray banner and some old enamel dots:

On the inside, some more grunge and a sentiment from the retired Little Delights:

Such a fun and easy card to make!  And speaking of fun cards, my friend Beth sent me this one; the front is a bookmark that can be removed!  So cute:

Thanks, Beth!  And here are a couple more pictures from the fair; I didn't get many but I always like to see the giant pumpkins! I wonder how they transported them?

Charlie Brown would be proud of both of these "great pumpkins"!!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold (ret), Halloween (Recollections), Vintage Cat on Broom (Victorian Greetings)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Basic Gray, Halloween DSP (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals, Enamel Dots (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Basic Borders Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret)

PP708 Gingham Fall Sketch from Joanne

Happy Sunday, peeps! Joanne is our Paper Players hostess this week and she has a very interesting sketch for us! I really had fun playing with it too!  Check it out:

When we were at Cape May, I saw a cute little wooden pumpkin in a gift shop and it was decorated in orange buffalo check:

I thought it would be fun to try to recreate it, although SU's retired Buffalo Check would have been a bit too large for this card, so I searched the internet and found some orange gingham and went to work:

My pumpkin is a diecut from Papertrey; I cut out all the panels and sponged the edges with some Peach Pie ink to give them a bit of contrast and cut the leaf and tendrils from Old Olive. I continued the plaid theme with my vertical panel and chose the unusual color of Pool Party for my base, which I embossed with a Darice embossing folder.  

I used a CTMH sentiment and I stamped and punched some leaves from the retired Beautiful Autumn bundle:

I stamped a sentiment from Beautiful Autumn on the inside as well!

I love the bright cheerful look of this card, and it was a lot of fun to figure out Joanne's sketch!  I hope you'll play along with us this week too!  Check out what the DT created with this fun sketch at the Paper Players to get some inspiration!  

Friday night we went to the Solanco (Southern Lancaster County) Fair....it was the most crowded I have ever seen it! The weather was mild and the people were MANY!  I took a video of one of the events---I am not even sure exactly what they call it, but you'll see in the video:

So much fun to watch!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Autumn (ret), Autumn Blessings (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pool Party, Old Olive, Wild Wheat, Pecan Pie, Tangelo Tango (ret), Bumblebee (ret), Trail Mix (Simple Stories), computer paper
Ink	Old Olive, Basic Beige, Peach Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Patterned Pumpkin Dies (ret), Autumn Punch Pack Punches (ret), Into the Blooms: Pumpkin Dies (Papertrey), Falling Leaf Embossing Folder (Darice), Sponge Daubers

FMS654 Peaceful Pines

Yay!  It's Friday!  My sweet friend Jen at Freshly Made Sketches has a fun sketch this week:

Normally I try to think outside the box with sketches, but this one just screamed "trees" so I went in search of a die that I got last year but I don't know that I ever used it!  So here we go:

I began with a Soft Succulent card base, then I diecut my Memory Box trees in Evening Evergreen and Thick Basic White cardstocks; I added an Adhesive sheet to the back of the white to make it easier to adhere.  I found some pretty "tree" paper from Tidings of Christmas in my retired stash, but it was too busy with the diecuts, so I added a layer of vellum to soften it.  Here's what it looks like under the vellum:

I adhered my trees to the vellum, added a silver sequin:

And added a couple of horizontal panels, one another piece of the Tidings of Christmas under the vellum, and Basic White on top.  The sentiment is from Impression Obsession, stamped in Evening Evergreen:

The die actually cuts three trees, so I adhered the last one to the inside, along with a sentiment from Flonzcraft, a company from New Zealand:

So happy you visited today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Words (Impression Obsession), Vintage Christmas (Flonzcraft)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Adhesive Sheet,  Evening Evergreen (ret), Soft Succulent (ret), Tidings of Christmas DSP (ret), Vellum (ret)
Ink	Evening Evergreen
Accessories	Silver Sequins (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layered Narrow Pines Dies (Memory Box)

CASC&S545 Celebrate

Happy Thursday, peeps! Gosh, this week has been busy! I feel like I am in a whirlwind!  Thankfully, my card today was quick and EASY!  I am giving Joanne at CAS Colours & Sketches a nod because she gave me the idea to use another image from my Joyful Images Ephemera pack, since I had it on my desk already from yesterday's card!  Here is their sketch:

I loved this little bell, and I already had a Very Vanilla circle diecut with the Spotlight on Nature dies, so I put them all together for this:

The red horizontal panel is also from the Ephemera pack; it's two piece adhered together.  I did add a little Garden Green circle behind the diecut circle; a partial sentiment from Simply Said, and I adhered it to a Very Vanilla card that was embossed with a retired embossing folder.  I cut the card down to 4" wide so that the piece hanging over the side would still fit in a standard envelope!  My final addition was a wee little sequin from my stash!  Easy peasy! And since this week's Krafty Chicks challenge is CAS, I am entering it there as well!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Garden Green, Joyful Images Ephemera Pack
Ink	Garden Green
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequin from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Boughs & Berries EF (ret)

AHSC595 Winter Scene

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  It's time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch: 

The Joyful Images Mix and Match ephemera pack has lots of fun precut images for Christmas, and I thought it would be fun to use some of them on today's sketch! So here we go:

I embossed a Pecan Pie card with a retired embossing folder, then adhered the ephemera pieces. The circle does have a scalloped mat from retired Brushed Gold cardstock to bring out the gold is the images. The sentiment was stamped in Mossy Meadow and backed with some Mossy Meadow DSP:

I added a few sequins as well as highlighting the pine boughs with some Craft White ink.  Finally, I stamped a retired sentiment from Greatest Part of Christmas on the inside....which looks like Crumb Cake, but it's just the way the photo was taken!

This is such a versatile sketch, so I hope you'll play along!  If you check out the others' designs over at the Atlantic Hearts you'll get lots of inspiration!  Thanks for visiting today!

My great-niece is growing like a weed:

As are her brothers:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Greatest Part of Christmas (ret), Merry Mantle (Concord & 9th)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pecan Pie, Joyful Images Mix & Match Ephemera, Mossy Meadow DSP (ret), Brushed Gold (ret)
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Craft White
Accessories	Natural Sequins, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Forget the maker), Sponge Dauber

Thankful Pumpkins

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I spent a wee bit of time in my craft room this morning and decided to make a fall-themed card for two challenges: As You See It has a nice sketch, and Hand-Stamped Sentiments has a lovely fall mood board:

I have been saving this pumpkin paper (well, hoarding it, really) for a long time, so I decided to finally break it out:

This is a larger card, 7.25" x 4.25", because I wanted to make sure I got all those pumpkins on it!  The papers are all from Recollections, called Thankful Heart.  I stamped the "thankful" in Mossy Meadow on some of the striped paper and matted it with a scalloped mat:

The floral image is from the same papers, diecut and matted with a Pistachio Pudding scalloped mat:

And although it's hard to see, I did add some speckled stamping around the pumpkins in Basic Beige, and added some Mossy Meadow twine and a few neutral sequins.  The inside is a sentiment from Simply Stamped, and I fussy-cut another pumpkin to add to the bottom. The vine stamp is from Close to My Heart:

I think this will make a nice Thanksgiving card!  

It's Solanco Fair week, so I am off to put in a blanket that Dana crocheted as well as a small cross stitch project that I did.  I did several projects this past year....getting them framed was another story!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Seaside Wishes, Blessed (Paper Sweeties), Farmhouse Scriptural Quotes (Stamp Simply), Autumn Blessings (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Pistachio Pudding (ret), Thankful Heart (Recollections)
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Basic Beige, Pistachio Pudding
Accessories	Dimensionals, Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), Mossy Meadow Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Layering Circles Dies (ret)