AYSI367 Purple Speed Stamping

Happy Friday, all!  It's time for a new challenge from As You See It, and it's the exciting SPEED challenge, LOL!  This month, we're looking for purple!!! 

The trick here is to assemble all your supplies, as well as the idea in your head, and make your card in ten minutes or less---and tell us how long it DID take you!  Here's my card, coming in at 9 minutes and 30 seconds:

Truthfully, I had to go back and reglue a couple pieces so I was really over the ten minute mark, but it was assembled in less than!  I created my window with the Everyday Arches dies and some Gorgeous Grape cardstock, then added the Perennial Lavender "scene" behind it!  The strips were diecut with a strip die from Taylored Expressions, and the sentiment is from W+9's Spring Blessings:

I think the Crumb Cake background is a little plain but didn't have enough time to do anything fancy with it...maybe I could do another with some embossing or stamping?  At any rate, purple is not one of my go-to colors, so I am proud of myself for actually using it!!!  

There are any number of ways you could go with this challenge....there are all sorts of shades and hues ot purple, from light to dark!  We hope you will choose at least one and play along with us at As You See It!  Remember to time yourself and share your time with us as well!  See you there!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Spring Blessings (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Gorgeous Grape, Perennial Lavender DSP
Ink	Petunia Pop
Accessories	Dimensional Strips
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Everyday Arches Dies, 1/4" Easy Strip Dies (Taylored Expressions), Spring Blessings Dies (W+9), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

A Really Big Card!

Happy Thursday, peeps! My day is all mixed up today and I got a late start!  I did get in some stamping time this morning and my card fulfills three challenges:  JUGS (stencils); JAI (stencils & diecut) and Krafty Chicks (masculine):  

My friend Martha recently gave me a stencil called Listen to the Sea, from Hero Arts.  It is a BIG stencil!!!  I didn't want to lose any part of it, so this is a big card!!  It's 5 1/4 x 6 1/2"!!!  So here we go:

I stenciled in the different "waves" with variou blue inks, then added a little sailboat that I heat embossed on vellum with black embossing powder and diecut with a Stylish Shapes dies.  It was colored in with Blends:

Since the card base was Secret Sea, I added a white panel on the inside and stamped my birthday sentiment from Sweet Ice Cream:

I just love this stencil---it's big but really has a lovely message!  Perfect for a guy card! And I had to make a special envelope for it because it was so big!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Choose Happy, Sweet Ice Cream (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Vellum (ret), Secret Sea
Ink	Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight, Azure Afternoon, Balmy Blue, Versamark, Versafine Black
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals, Black Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Heat Tool, Blends, Blending Brush, Listen to the Sea Stencil (Hero Arts), White Gel Pen (Posca)

Two Cards Just for Fun

 Happy Wednesday, all!  I have two cards to post today, no challenges, just cards I made for fun!  The first one is a CASE of something I saw recently; unfortunately, I did not save the crafter's name, but I will give them all the credit.  I am calling it a picture frame card because the image is stamped, then a rectangle is cut from the center and the outside portion is popped up!  Here we go: I used Layers of Beauty for mine:

After stenciling and diecutting, I adhered the frame to a Pink Pirouette card with dimensionals, then dropped in the center portion:

I added a birthday sentiment to the inside.  The next one is a wee little card, 4" x 3", made with a scrap I found in my scrap folder.  I embossed a mat with the All In a Row embossing folder, then created a frame with a Scrapbook.com postage stamp die. I backed it with some pretty floral paper, then diecut a bunny with some velveteen paper; I wish you could feel the fuzziness!  A sentiment from Our Daily Bread went on the frame.

A fun sentiment from And Many More went on the inside!

Thanks so much for hopping by today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Layers of Beauty, Whittle Sayings (Poppy Stamps)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Pink Pirouette (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black, Pretty in Pink, Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral, Soft Sea Foam
Accessories	Dimensional Strips
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Rectangle Stitched Dies (Ret)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	And Many More (ret), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Balmy Blue, Basic White, Velveteen (ret), Basic Black, Pretty in Pink, Rustic Blooms (Not2Shabby)
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, All In A Row Embossing Folder, Bunny Buddies Dies (Impression Obsession), Mini Stamp Polaroid Die,  (Scrapbook.com), Banner Punch (ret)

IB376 & SS380 Tea Time

Happy Tuesday, peeps! If you're on the east coast, did you get plowed out yet? Another load of snow for the winter of 2026!  At least this one didn't have single-digit temps!!!  The sketch from Sunday Stamps and the inspiration from Inspired By was my basis for today's card! 

I had gotten a cute little tea-time stamp set recently from Colorado Craft, and this was the first time inking it up! I pulled out some softly-hued DSP and stamped my little tea-drinking mice directly on it:

I did some paper-piecing of the cups, using some scraps of DSP from various pads, then colored the images with Copics.  I did add a wee bit of "sugar" to the teaspoon!

The vertical strips were embossed with a cross-stitch die and I added some little pink flower sequins and a diecut sentiment; another CCC sentiment went on the inside:

I saw another card today from MarDi using these mice, and I must say, after seeing hers, I was almost ashamed to post this one. Her card is AMAZING!  You can see it here!  I PROMISE I did not copy her card, but we both must have thought these little mice fit that challenge perfectly, LOL!  All the samples from Inspired By were really amazing this week!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tea Time Fun (Colorado Craft Company), Birthday Wishing (Colorado Craft Company)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Blushing Bride DSP (ret), Rustic Blooms (Not2Shabby), Sending Love (Gina K)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pink Floral Gems (from my stash)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession), Copics

AHSC670 A Little Thank You

Hello everyone, and happy Monday! Another Atlantic Hearts sketch is live for us, here you go:

 I needed a thank you card for a customer, so I pulled out some Cute as a Bug DSP, along with the Lovely Stripes embossing folder, and went to work:

I isolated these cute little lady bugs before adhering my vertical panel, which was mounted on a mat of Crushed Curry, then added a tag punched from some Toadstool Garden DSP and a sentiment from Terrific Toadstools:

Some orange gingham and some Poppy Parade enamel dots finished it off!  It all went on a Timid Tiger card base---haven't used that color for a while, so it was nice to use some bright colors!

We hope you'll play along with our fun sketch this week!  Good way to use up some of those scraps!  Can't wait to see what you share with us at the Atlantic Hearts blog!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Terrific Toadstools
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry, Timid Tiger, Toadstool Garden DSP, Cute as a Bug DSP
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Enamel Dots (ret), Orange Gingham (Etsy), White Thread
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Ovals Dies (ret), Tag Punch (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), 1/8" Circle Punch (ret)

PP774 Sketch from Jan

Happy Sunday, all!  It's Jan's turn to be our Paper Players hostess and she has a sketch for us! Boy, I love a good sketch, and this one definitely fits the bill:

I haven't done a vintage-style card for a while, so I searched through some of my papers and found this pretty paper pad from Kaiser Kraft called Pen & Ink.  So here we go:

All these papers except for the Basic Gray panel, including the sentiment, come from the Pen & Ink pad.  The butterflies are embossed, so there's some pretty shine to that panel!  I added some embossed stitching to the gray panel as well as some Black & Vanilla gingham ribbon:

I did something a little different by adding another piece of paper from the same pad to the inside; the sentiment is an old Waltzingmouse stamp, and I added some subtle stamping with a Tim Holtz butterfly stamp:

This is such a great sketch--I am sure I'll be using it again! I hope you'll check out what the design team did with it as well, over at the Paper Players blog!  And we hope you'll share your creation with us as well!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Butterfly Melange (Tim Holtz), Grateful (Waltzingmouse)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Basic Gray, Pen & Ink (Kaiser Kraft)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Black & Vanilla Gingham Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitching Labels Dies (Ellen Hutson)

Valentines from Friends

Happy Saturday, all!  I got some beautiful Valentine cards this year and thought I'd share them with you:

This pretty one is from my friend Shawn.

This is from my friend Kathy; I love that sentiment!

This is from my friend Wendy; that big foil heart is stunning!  She has a great blog, too, you should check it out!

My friend Teri knows just how much I love vintage Valentines, so she sent me this cutie!

And my friend Karen sent me this amazing card with a surprise:

Look at all those chocolates!  Don't they look good enough to eat?! Yum!

Thanks so much, ladies! I felt special receiving these in the mail!  Enjoy your day today and be blessed!

CASC&S579 Spring Blessings

 Happy Friday, peeps! I have an uber-quick card today for the challenge over at CAS Colour & Sketches:

I've been having lots of fun revisiting stamps that have been in my stash for a while, and only got minimal use!  Today's Altenew set has probably only been used once or twice, so I dusted it off and went to work:

I stamped the Dot Botanicals in Pistacho Pudding and Soft Succulent inks, then added a sentiment from W+9 in Garden Green and added a few sequins.  I haven't used Very Vanilla much lately, so it was nice to use that for a change!

A simple sentiment from PTI's Wreath for All Seasons went on the inside! I need to bulk up my birthday cards, so this will be perfect for those spring birthdays!

And since the Krafty Chicks challenge this week is CAS, I am going to pop it in over there as well!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wreath for All Seasons (Papertrey), Dot Botanicals (Altenew), Spring Blessings (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla
Ink	Garden Green, Pistachio Pudding (ret), Soft Succulent (ret)
Accessories	Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools

FMS724 Happy Easter

Happy gray, cloudy, foggy Thursday!  I have a cheerful little Easter card for you today, although I may have "overdone" the gingham part!  It uses the FMS sketch:

and some cute little Easter images from Pretty Pink Posh!  Here we go:

My images were stamped in Versafine black ink and colored with Blends and Copics, then diecut and mounted on some papers from Honey Bee and backed with a scalloped mat of Timid Tiger:

My sentiment is an oldie from Teeny Tiny Wishes, stamped on a Nestabilities banner die and threaded with some orange gingham ribbon!  I think these little images are so cute!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret), Easter Circles (Pretty Pink Posh)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Timid Tiger, Bee Happy (Honey Bee)
Ink	Versafine Black, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals, Gingham Ribbon
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Labels Dies (ret), Stitched Scalloped Dies (unknown maker), Label Dies (Nestabilities), Blends, Copics

JAI779 Simple Birthday

Happy Tuesday, all!  Yesterday was Dana's birthday,so I made a very simple card for her using the Just Add Ink sketch:

I've not used the Perennial Lavender papers for a while, and she likes purple, so that's what I went with:

I added a little charm from my stash, tied to a white grosgrain ribbon; the sentiment below is from Prayers & Promises:

The inside sentiments are from Pinkfresh and Waffle Flower:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Prayers & Promises, Scripted Bold Sentiments (Pinkfresh), Inside Sentiments Birthday (Waffle Flower)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Gorgeous Grape, Perennial Lavender
Ink	Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Linen Thread, Playful Pets Trinkets (ret), White Grosgrain Ribbon (my stash)
Tools

AHSC669 Happy Birthday

 Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a nice weekend!  Time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I deviated a wee bit from the sketch because I wanted to use my Taylored Expressions 1/2" strip dies, so I have no spaces between my strips!  Hopefully that's still okay!  So here we go:

I wanted to do something "springy" and these Sending Love papers from Gina K are so pretty, although the colors really do not photograph very well, sadly!  I simply cut strips from each pattern and adhered them to a Basic White panel which was then adhered to a Soft Sea Foam card front.  The sentiment is from the Picture Perfect Birthday set.  I created some "heart" flowers to mimic the ones on the paper using the heart from Give It A Whirl and the leaves from Pierced Blooms dies:

I originally was going to use a tulip die from Concord & Ninth, but I like the hearts better, so I put the tulip one on the inside, LOL!

I hope you'll play along with our interesting sketch this week!  You can find all the details at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch blog!  See you there!  Thanks for visiting! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Picture Perfect Birthday (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Sea Foam, Granny Apple Green, Gorgeous Grape, Sending Love (Gina K)
Ink	Pool Party, Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, 1/2" Stitched Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Pierced Blooms Dies (ret), Give It A Whirl Dies (ret), Tulip Frame Die (Concord & 9th)