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)

FMS757 Pumpkin Spice Season

Happy Monday to everyone!  I bought the More Than Autumn bundle last year before it retired and I think I've only used it once! And since it's that time of the year, I needed to get it inky:

I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

along with some pretty fall prints and gingham (although it's hard to see).  And here's the inside:

I do like pumpkin spice things, as long as they're not TOO sweet--usually pumpkin spice coffee is too cloying for me.  I would eat the whipped cream and cinnamon off the top though--for sure!

All the images are from More Than Autumn; the cup was watercolored with Soft Sea Foam on Basic White cardstock; the printed paper is from Craft Consortium's Little Fawn & Friends, and I don't have a label for the gingham.  The "cinnamon" is from Itty Bitty Backgrounds and everything was mounted on a layer embossed with Honey Bee's Burlap embossing folder.  This will make a fun card in which to enclose a coffee gift card!! 

We went to a local nursing home last week to visit a church friend and we came upon these little guys who were visiting the staff and residents:

They were quite comfy in their little pounches! I can't remember how old the larger one was, but the wee one was six months old! SO soft and adorable.  Dana actually had these folks visit at her nursing home a couple of years ago and she wanted to bring one home!  I am sure Eden (and Wayne) would have put the nix on that! 

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	More Than Autumn, Itty Bitty Backgrounds
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Basic White, Cajun Craze, Little Fawn & Friends (Craft Consortium) Gingham (??)
Ink	Versafine Black, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Beige, Soft Sea Foam, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, More Than Autumn Dies, Burlap Embossing Folder (Honey Bee), Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Aquapainter

PP807 Color Challenge from Jan

Happy Sunday, all!  Hope you're having a great weekend!  Jan is our Paper Players hostess with a fun color challenge this week!  Can you figure out what colors she chose?

So here we go:

I loved this challenge because I haven't used either Azure Afternoon or Granny Apple Green in a long time!  They worked perfectly with this lakeside cabin image I had!!  I stamped it in Stazon Black on a piece of watercolor paper, colored it with reinkers, then diecut it with the Stitched Rectangle die.  I mounted it on a piece of woodgrain paper from Echo Park.  Sentiment was from Simply Said, and I did add a couple of ancient Candy Dots for a wee bit of interest.  This will be going to Dana's half-brother, who is an avid outdoorsman, so he won't care for a fussy card, LOL!

I hope you'll play along with these lovely colors--there are lots of ways these could be used! Check out the DT samples at the Paper Players to get some inspiration, then share yours with us too!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said, Lakeside Cabin (Stampscapes)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Watercolor, Azure Afternoon, WoodGrain (Echo Park)
Ink	Stazon Black, Granny Apple Green, Crumb Cake, Azure Afternoon
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Aquapainter

AYSI383 Autumn Wishes Recipe

 Happy Friday, peeps! Time for a new As You See It challenge and it's Recipe time!  Here's my take on our "recipe" for this week:

And here's our prompt:

As you can see, I chose a non-traditional color theme for my pumpkin-y card!  I just love this gingham from Everyday Happiness, so I decided to use an openwork pumpkin from the retired Detailed Pumpkins dies, cutting it from Lost Lagoon cardstock and adhering it to a white background.  That looked a little stark, so I added a Pecan Pie stem and I did a light color wash in the openings of the pumpkin:

I added a diecut "Autumn" in Mossy Meadow, along with some matching leaves, and a sentiment from a sentiment set.  It is stamped in Mossy Meadow too but looks black here!! The final addition was some smoky blue sequins from my stash!  Everything went on a Crumb Cake base.

This recipe has all things that I love and I hope you will love them too! Can't wait to see your card in our As You See It gallery too!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic White, Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, Everyday Happines DSP (ret)
Ink	Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash, Lost Lagoon Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Detailed Pumpkin Dies (ret), Words For the Season Dies (ret)

52CCT2026-37 Christmas Bunny

Happy Thursday, everyone! Hope you're having a good week so far!  The weather has been fabulous here in PA....enjoying these fall days immensely!  But I am shifting from fall cards to Christmas today!  Here we go:

I am using the sketch from 52 Christmas Card Throwdown, flipping the sketch so my bunny wasn't looking off the edge of the card!

I am going through my older stamps, and this little bunny is from a Artistic Outpost set called Midwinter,  I stamped him in Smoky Slate, diecut him with a circle die, then created a couple of masks to create a snowy field and sky:

I added a mini sentiment from Simon Says Stamp and a glimmer snowflake, then layered it all on a Cloud Cover mat embossed with a Snowflake Swirls folder.  I also added a mat of Smoky Slate.  A sentiment from W+9 went on the inside:

I know I need to make some Halloween cards, but it was nice to make a calm, soothing Christmas card today!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Midwinter (Artistic Outpost), Tiny Words Christmas (Simon Says Stamp), Pretty Patches:Tree (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cloud Cover, Smoky Slate, Masking Paper, White Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Smoky Slate, Cloud Cover
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Snowman Dies (ret), Snowflake Swirls Embossing Folder (Darice)

RRCB282 Best Wishes

Hello everyone and happy Wednesday!  The Retro Rubber challenge this week is "Feels Like Fall"!  Coming right up!

And here's their prompt:

I had some digital papers printed out, so I mounted them on a Baked Brown Sugar card base, added a Very Vanilla Tailor Made Tag and some watercolored leaves:

The sentiment is actually from a Close to My Heart Christmas set called Wonderland (2022 approx), and the speckles are from Itty Bitty Backgrounds (2001?). I spritzed some ink in fall colors on a piece of wet watercolor paper, mooshed it around, dried it, then diecut some HoneyBee leaves to add around my tag.  The inside sentiment is from Sunny Sentiments (2022):

It is definitely beginning to feel like fall around here, and the leaves are beginning to turn!  But I heard temps back in the 80s next week, so I'm not getting out my winter clothes just yet!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sunny Sentiments (2022), Wonderland (CTMH, 2022), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (2001)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Watercolor, Baked Brown Sugar (ret), Fall Pumpkin Digital (MyPorchPrints Fall Pumpkin Scrappy Papers - Etsy)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry
Accessories	Crushed Curry Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies (ret), Fall Bounty Dies (Honey Bee), Aquapainter, Sponge Dauber

AHSC702 God Bless America

 Happy Tuesday, peeps! I have a patriotic card for you today, and it is for the current sketch at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!  Here we go:

And here's our sketch:

Our church recently hosted a 250th celebration put on by our township's Historical Committee.  Unfortunately, it rained, plus there were many other activities going on that day, so the attendance was sparse.  But the Committee did a wonderful job; we had the Brandywine Harps do a concert of patriotic songs; Charlie Zahm and friend supplied songs of the era and lots of historical tidbits about the first 250 years of our country, and we heard from another historian about several different Revolutionary War veterans buried in our cemetery!  (BTW, Charlie plays all over the country, so if you ever get a chance to see and hear him, you won't be disappointed!  He looks good in a kilt, too!)  So this is to be a thank-you card to the committee for doing such a great job!

I started my card by cutting some strips from Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy and Basic Beige with a Taylored Expression die, then simply adhering them to a piece of scrap paper, then to a Basic Beige card.  I stamped this little flag from the retired Star-Spangled Banner in both the Cherry and Navy colors, did a bit of fussy-cutting, then added a wee tiny glimmery star and plopped it on top:

At first, I was a bit intimidated by the sketch, but being able to diecut four strips at a time with the die made everything go quickly!  I hope you won't be intimidated by it, and that you'll play along with us at Atlantic Hearts!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Star-Spangled Banner (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, White Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Sports Event Dies (ret), 1/2" Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions)

PP806 Theme Challenge from Ann

Happy Sunday, all! Hope you're having a good weekend! Ann is our Paper Players hostess with a fabulous theme challenge this week! 

Can you guess what it is?  Here we go:

I have had this landscape silhouette stamp set for a long while and I don't think I've ever used it!  It's from what used to be Sweet & Sassy stamps;  here's the whole card:

I began by blending colors of the sunset on a piece of Basic White, then added the verse and the deer image in Versafine Black ink. I am still "practicing" with blending, LOL!  I experimented on scrap paper with a couple of colors for the mountain range and believe it or not, ended up with Berry Burst! Who knew that would work?! I then mounted it on a Basic Black mat and added it to a Cajun Craze card base.  For a wee bit of interest, I diecut some stars, then added them around the verse.

I think Ann has chosen a lovely theme and I hope you'll play along with us.  Check out the fabulous ideas the rest of the Design Team came up with at the Paper Players blog!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Landscape Silhouettes (Sweet & Sassy), Psalm 150:6 (Verve)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Cajun Craze
Ink	Versafine Black, Berry Burst, Crushed Curry, Timid Tiger, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Real Red, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Sports Event Dies, Blending Brushes

Fall Collage

Happy Thursday, everyone! And happy October!  After a few false starts, I finally stamped a card yesterday that I was happy with! I really didn't have anything special in mind when I started it but then I realized I needed a sympathy card, so sympathy it was:

I've really enjoyed revisiting some of my older stamps; this one, Thoroughly Thankful, is from way back in 2006!!! I stamped the image in Stazon on watercolor paper, colored it in with reinkers and an aquapainter, then diecut it and mounted on a Basic Beige panel embossed with the Gathering Leaves embossing folder:

A sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes was added, and I colored a gold brad with a Cajun Craze blend to make it look more coppery!  Here's the simple inside with a sentiment from Hero Arts:

I've got three challenges I want to enter this in:  Hand Stamped Sentiments' mood board; Freshly Made Sketches' sketch, and the Little Red Wagon challenge of Fall Colors:

I took my inspiration from all the colors and fall images on the mood board! So pretty for the season!

And even though I don't have a mouse on my card, here's a chipmunk from Dana:

You can just barely see him peeking out of the rainspout! Thanks so much for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!  

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Thoroughly Thankful (ret), Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret), Sentiments CL340 (Hero Arts), Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Watercolor, Basic Beige, Crumb Cake
Ink	Stazon Black, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Calypso Coral, Timid Tiger, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals, Gold Brad
Tools	Big Shot, Gathering Leaves Embossing Folder, Stitched Square Die (Lil'Inker), Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Banner Dies (Impression Obsession), Aquapainter

AHSC706 Simple Halloween

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch; it's a long, skinny one:

Yikes! I wasn't quite sure what to do, so I just took the easy way and scored some 1" squares on a panel of Basic Beige and added some fall pumpkins!!  Here we go:

Since the sketch was pretty wide open, I turned it on its side to accomodate my punkins, which were stamped in Versafine Black and colored with various reinkers.  Before mounting them, I stamped some scratchy lines from the Sanded background stamp in Crumb Cake, just to give it a wee bit of interest.  Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black mats were added, then a sentiment with a wee bit of gingham:

And I couldn't resist adding one of my favorite Halloween sentiments on the inside:

I may give this sketch another whirl with a different technique that I've been seeing around lately; I just was too lazy to give it a go this time, LOL!  I hope you'll be inspired and less lazy than I was and give this fun sketch a try!  Share your creation with us at Atlantic Hearts so we can all see it!

Here are a couple pix of my great-nephew Jameson and great-niece Maven at a recent bike event; I have a feeling she herself may be entering one of those races!

No worries....her bike is a Fred Flintstone style---no motor! And her outfit is certainly one for the books!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sanded (ret), Autumn Blessings (Close to My Heart), Mixed Holiday Sentiments (My Creative Time)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Beige, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie
Ink	Versafine Black, Pumpkin Pie, Timid Tiger, Golden Glow, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Black & White Gingham Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Autumn Blessings Dies (Close to My Heart), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Scoring Tool

CASC&S595 Vintage Postage

Happy Tuesday, all! I needed several masculine birthday cards this month, and when I saw the sketch at Clean And Simple Colours and Sketches, I knew what I wanted to do!  Here it is:

I got a great paper pad a few months ago that has a great vintage feel to it, so I pulled out some masculine patterns and came up with this uber-simple card:

The paper is called The Collector, and it's from the Craft Consortium.  After diecutting the circles, I sponged the edges, added a fussy-cut sentiment from Label Me Bold, stamped in Basic Gray, and adhered everything to a Very Vanilla card base.  It IS rather CAS but I don't think the guys will care!  I do love Mr Lincoln down there though!! 

Since I needed four, I added a little extra oomph to one of the others, using Crumb Cake cardstock and adding a Perennial Postage diecut mat on the card:

Again the stamps are so interesting! Love that little zebra!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, The Collector (Craft Consortium)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Basic Gray
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Sponge Daubers, Perennial Postage Dies

FMS755 Boo!

 Happy Monday, all! Hope you had a good weekend, weathered the storm if you're on the east coast! We just got rain and wind, nothing drastic! Thanks to all of those who asked about my cataract surgery; it went well, now I just need to adjust to wearing glasses for all my close-up work!  Change is challenging sometimes, but it is amazing what modern medicine has achieved to help our vision!!!

I am squeaking in a little Halloween card for the FMS sketch this week:

My first thought was a Christmas tree, but I have been going through my old fall and Halloween sets and thought I could make a fun one with this spooky cat sitting atop his jack-o-lantern:

I made this card at 11:30 last night, so it may be less-than-perfect, LOL!  I stamped my cat on a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock and fussy-cut him out, then popped him up on a Stitched Triangle of polka-dotted paper from Unity. I added a spooky background panel and some webby ribbon for the horizontal element and a tag embellished with some Halloween brads that I have had FOREVER!

It all went on a Smoky Slate card base, and since I made it so late, I've not put a sentiment on the inside yet! I'll remedy that today!  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Cat & Jack (100 Proof Press), Halloween (Recollections)
Card stock & Papers	Smoky Slate, Haunted Hues (Unity), Spooky (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Metallic Mesh Ribbon (ret), Halloween Brads (From my Stash)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Triangle Dies (ret), Small Tag Dies (Impression Obsession)