AHSC648 Trick or Treat

Happy Monday, peeps! We've got a challenging sketch this week at Atlantic Hearts---at least it was for me, LOL!  But I still had fun with it; here we go:

I let my papers do most of the work on this card, they're just so darn cute:

The papers are all from Scrapbook.com and they're called Willow Lane.  Aren't those little guys adorable?

I added mats of Basic Black and Smoky Slate, then a bit of black and white twine and some gray sequins.  The sentiments inside and out are from My Creative Time called Mixed Holiday Sentiments, stamped in Versafine Black.

 This turned out to be a fun sketch after all!  I hope you'll play with us over at Atlantic Hearts!  Can't wait to see what you create!!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

PP756 Watercolored Pumpkins

 Happy Sunday, peeps! Time for a new Paper Players challenge from Jan!  Clean and Simple as well as watercoloring! Two of my favorites! Here we go:

I drew my inspiration from the sketch at CAS on Sunday as well as these adorable pumpkins from Inspired By:

        

I stamped and diecut a cute little array of pumpkins from an old Close to My Heart set and watercolored them in some fun colors:

The sentiment is from the same set, and I stamped a knit pattern on some Pecan Pie cardstock for the vertical piece, adding a piece of glimmer for fun, along with a little bronze sequin:

I really love watercoloring, and these were a blast to do! I hope you can get out your paintbrush and inks or paints and come play with us this week!  Remember to keep it CLEAN and SIMPLE, only using a minimum of produts!  See you at the Paper Players!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Knit Together (ret), August Blessings (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pecan Pie, Watercolor, Glimmer Paper from my stash
Ink	Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Memento Black, Soft Succulent (ret), Saddle Brown Stazon
Accessories	Neutrals Dimensionals, Sequin
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Be Mine Stitched Dies, Aquapainter

CH118 Blessings of Fall

Happy Saturday, peeps! A quick card today using the pretty hues from Color Hues:

I recently got some new fall dies and stamps, so I paired them with some vintage-looking papers that Dana gave me for my birthday! Here we go:

I diecut the pumpkins from Cloud Cover and Boho Blue, stems from Crumb Cake (with a little Pecan Pie watercoloring) and the leaf from Soft Succulent.  Sentiment was stamped in Secret Sea.  Such a pretty combination!

Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"The law of the Lord is perfect, refreshing the soul.  The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making the wise simple.  Psalm 19:7

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Blessings of Fall (Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Cloud Cover, Boho Blue (ret), Soft Succulent (ret), Navy Flower DSP (Viviquen)
Ink	Secret Sea, Misty Moonlight, Soft Succulent (ret), Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Sponge Daubers, Lovely Layers:Fall Bounty Dies (Honey Bee)

AYSI357 Happy Haunting

Hello,  stamping friends! Time for a new As You See It challenge and Heather has a spooky color palette for us this week--I love it! 

Even though I love it, I did struggle a wee bit with it! I finally went with some really old stamps to highlight these fun new (and almost-new) colors!  Here we go:

I started with a base of Secret Sea, and originally I was going to do a top-fold card, but then changed directions, and now it's a side-fold card!  I stamped the row of trees and pumpkins in Secret Sea ink; this was actually an old jumbo wheel stamp--remember them?  I took it off the wheel and just used it as a stamp in my Stamparatus.  The cat on the broom was stamped on a piece of Cloud Cover and fussy cut, then mounted on a Timid Tiger moon, embossed with the Softly Falling embossing folder, then sponged with Pumpkin Pie ink.  The sentiment is also stamped in Pumpkin Pie.  

The final touch was an array of orange glimmer stars, sprinkled across the sky!  Here's the inside, using another real oldie:

I love getting my older stamps inky! I hope you'll find some inspiration at the As You See It blog using our colors this week!  Check out what the other team members did, then go play along!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

"Blessed is the one who always trembles before God, but whoever hardens their heart 

falls into trouble."  Proverbs 28:14

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happy Haunting (unknown maker), Happy Haunting (Lizzie Anne), Halloween Jumbo Wheel (ret), Cat & Broom (Victorian Greeting)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cloud Cover, Secret Sea, Timid Tiger, Orange Glimmer Paper, Adhesive Sheet
Ink	Secret Sea, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Sports Event Dies (ret), Softly Falling Embossing Folder (ret), Sponge Daubers, Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

AHSC647 Blue Santa

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I should be working on Halloween cards, but I keep gravitating to Christmas, LOL!  The Atlantic Hearts sketch this week, along with the Christmas Kickstart challenge, had me thinking Santa!  First here's our sketch:

And the Kickstart challenge is "Santa in September":

I wanted to do something a wee bit untraditional, so I stamped this vintage Santa in some Boho Blue ink and mounted him on some blue snowflake paper:

The set also comes with this pretty sentiment; I embellished Santa with a star sequin and a silver pearl, and added some retired SU silver ribbon:

And I love the font on the sentiment I stamped on the inside:

This sketch is so versatile; you could use it with any style image and for any occasion!  I hope you'll play along with us over at the Atlantic Hearts blog! See you there!  Thank you for popping in today; enjoy it and be blessed!

"I thank the Lord for his justice; I sing praises to the Lord, the Most High." Psalms 7:17

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Vintage Christmas (Flonzcraft)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Christmas Blessings (Mintay)
Ink	Boho Blue (ret)
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals, Silver Pearl, Sequin (from my stash), Silver Woven Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Squares Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

PP755 Lovely Lemon Thank You

Hi, stamping friends! I am the hostess at the Paper Players this week, and it's color challenge week: 

I know most of us are thinking fall hues but I wanted to challenge you to use a more spring-like palette!  I needed a thank you card for my SIL since she took care of my flowers while we were on vacation, so what better stamp to use than Layers of Beauty?!  Here we go:

I stamped my florals in Soft Sea Foam, then stenciled in Lemon Lolly, Soft Sea Foam and Lost Lagoon on the petals and leaves.  I found a piece of Lost Lagoon bokeh print from some Christmas DSP we had a few years back and mounted it behind a Penny Black double scalloped fram.  The floral diecut extended beyond the edge of the card, so I just trimmed them off.  

A sentiment from Everyday Greetings was heat-embossed in white on a banner of Soft Sea Foam, distressed a wee bit, and then I added a little Lemon Lolly baker's twine behind it as well as a couple of pearls:

Edited to add:  I am also going to enter this over at the Flower Challenge, where their sketch this week is very similar to mine:

I hope you'll play along with our colors this week, too!  The design team came up with some very interesting designs as well!  Be sure to check them out over at the Paper Players blog! Can't wait to see what you come up with!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

FMS703 Patchwork Pumpkin

Happy Thursday, peeps! Recently on a quilting site, I saw some fun little patchwork pumpkins:

And when I saw the FMS sketch:

I thought it would be fun to recreate those pumpkins using paper and dies, similar to this card that I just did!  So here we go:

I used a few scraps from Carta Bella's Fall Break and some Taylored Expressions dies to create my pumpkin.  Then I mounted it on an Everyday Arch diecut from Very Vanilla and embossed with the Dainty Diamonds embossing folder:

I added a punched leaf and some linen thread; the outside sentiment is from Right at Home (and I know it's larger than what the sketch required, sorry) and the inside sentiment is from Lawn Fawn:

I have enough of my "patchwork" pieces to make a couple more pumpkins!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Grateful Heart (Right at Home), Thankful Mice (Lawn Fawn)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake, Terracotta Tile (ret), Adhesive Sheets, Fall Break (Carta Bella)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Early Espresso
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Every Day Arches Dies, Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Leaf Punch (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Dainty Diamonds Embossing Folder (ret)

Autumn Toile Trio

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I confess that when crafting or sewing, I tend to gravitate towards tiny prints and wee little designs! However, SU has some lovely larger designs in a fall DSP package called Autumn Toile, and I just love the prints they have designed!  I made some samples for my stamp clubs last week and thought I'd share three of my favorites!  Here we go:

I love pumpkins, so this may be my favorite pattern in the whole bunch! I created a tag using some CTMH Kraft paper and the Nested Essentials dies, adhering a Metallic Rub-on and some sequins, then stamping a sentiment using words from the new Seasonal Tags and Choose Happy:

This pattern is great for a masculine card:

I used a sentiment from Simply Said along with a diecut from the new Words for the Season;  Very Vanilla cardstock was adhered to a piece of Adhesive foam and diecut...it really pops against the tattersall pattern:

And finally, this little foxy print is just so fun as well:

I distressed the Early Espresso mat with the edge of an acrylic ruler, then cut a Crumb Cake partial arch with the Everyday Arches die, added a pine bough from Seasonal Tags, the Thanksgiving from Choose Happy, and the diecut greeting is from Words for the Season:

I hope you love all of these patterns as much as I do! Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

AHSC646 Christmas Patchwork

Hello, stamping friends! We have a fun Atlantic Hearts sketch for you this week:

I recently got these stitched strip dies from Taylored Expressions, and they were perfect for this sketch!  I had lots of scraps left from my Echo Park Christmas papers, so I just cut a bunch of them in coordinating colors.  Here's the end result:

To make adhering the strips easier, I put a piece of adhesive sheet on a piece of 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" scrap paper, then placed them down on the adhesive, butting each edge up against the others.  Piece of cake!  I added a tag with a sentiment from the new set Pine Tree Trimmings, and a glimmer "bow" that will make it easy to mail!

I added a sentiment from Words for the Season, along with another stitched strip:

This may look like a challenging sketch, but once you get started, it's not hard at all!  Great to use up all those scrappy strips we all have hanging around!  I hope you'll play with us at Atlantic Hearts this week! And I am going to pop this in over at Inspire.Create as well, as they're looking for Christmas! 

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words for the Season, Pine Tree Trimmings
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Ruby Glimmer Paper (CTMH), Christmas Salutations & Santa Claus Lane (Echo Park)
Ink	Mossy Meadow
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Pierced Blooms Dies (ret), Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession)

PP754 Sending You Cheer

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge with Ann as our hostess! And what a fun challenge she has for us:

Ann's challenge gave me the chance to use this cute new set called Jar of Joy!  Here we go:

I used the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches:

I stamped the jar, gingerbread and candy image and punched it out with the matching punch, then mounted it on a piece of Christmas Tags & More Specialty DSP.  The horizontal strip is the opposite side of the green paper.  I added some Peppermint embellishments for more candy fun!

The sentiment on the front is from another new set called Wishing You Joy:

I added a little piece of DSP on the inside, as well as another sentiment from Jar of Joy:

There are endless possibilities for our challenge this week! Be sure to hop over to the Paper Players and see what the other designers came up with! And while you're there, be sure to welcome our new team member, Christy!  She's been playing with us for a long time, and we're happy to have her on the team! Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Joy, Wishing You Joy
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Christmas Tags & More Specialty DSP
Ink	Garden Green, Real Red, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Peppermint Embellishments, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Sweet Jar Builder Punch, Cracker & Treat Bag Dies (ret), Blender Pen

AYSI356 Last Hurrah for Summer

Happy Friday, stampers! It's time for a new challenge from As You See It, and this is a lovely sketch--you know I love things in "threes", so this is right up my alley!  Here's the sketch:

I have been very neglectful of the pretty In Color Summer Splash, so I decided to give it a last summer hurrah, using some summery, beachy elements!  Here we go:

I diecut three banners from the Summer Splash DSP and added a wee bit of ribbon behind each one.  Then I embellished each one with some elements from the Notes & Totes dies, and put everything on a piece of Basic White cardstock embossed with the Seashells embossing folder:

I added a little sentiment from Choose Happy, and some more ribbon:

 We've had an exceptionally cool August and I feel like mother nature is going to come back with a warmer-than-normal September!  We'll see if my prediction comes true, LOL!  Meanwhile, I hope you'll play with our triple-banner sketch!  Share it over at As You See It and take a peek at what the other design team members created!  Thanks for visiting today!  And here are a couple more pictures from vacation:

Cassidy is burying her friend in the sand--she asked to be buried, crazy!

Dana, Wayne and Cassidy revisited the cute little gazebo where they got married---it will be eight years go next week!! Time flies!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Choose Happy
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Summer Splash, Summer Splash DSP
Ink	Summer Splash
Accessories	Summer Splash Stitched Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Notes & Totes Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Seaside Embossing Folder (ret)