PP777 CAS Challenge from Jaydee

Happy Sunday, all!  Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess this week with a timely, fun Clean-and-Simple challenge: 

There are always lots of options for florals, right?!  For my card, I also chose to use the color challenge from Retro Rubber as well:

So here we go:

I am really trying to use some of my older stamps; these florals happen to come from a Paper Pumpkin kit; I would say it's at least five or six years old, perhaps older, because I haven't done Paper Pumpkin for a while!  I stamped the flowers and leaves on a piece of Basic White cardstock and watercolored them with Bubble Bank, Strawberry Slush, Granny Apple Green and Mossy Meadow inks.  I then fussy-cut them out and mounted them on a Bubble Bath frame on top of a Basic White card base.

 I also diecut a little cross-stitch pattern around the edge of the card--still keeps it clean and simple, but adds some interest!  Finally my sentiment is from Suite Sayings (2016), stamped in Strawberry Slush.  It is always fun to use some older stuff!  

I hope you'll play with our challenge this week!  Remember to keep it CLEAN and SIMPLE--minimal stamps, layers and embellishments!  Share it with us over at the blog!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

AYSI368 Happy Easter

 Hello again, peeps! Another post today, because it's As You See It time!  This week we have a lovely sketch:

Because I was really short on time, I let the papers from SU's Easter Joy do all the heavy lifting on my card:

I used a full 4"x6" panel from one of the sheets, diecut a striped egg from another and added a banner sentiment from the retired Easter Friends.  My little bunny is actually diecut from velveteen paper--so soft and fuzzy! Isn't he cute, hopping along?

And a sweet little sentiment on the inside:

I hope you'll find something in your array of stamping supplies to use on our sketch this week!  We can't wait to see what you create! See what the Design Team did with it as well, at the As You See It blog! Thanks for visiting again today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Easter Friends (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Easter Joy DSP, Velvet Paper (ret)
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Excellent Eggs Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Winter Elements Dies (Sissix)

FMS727 Pink Butterflies

Happy Friday, peeps! What a crazy day we had yesterday; we lost our electricity yesterday morning after several hours of flickering lights---crazy flickering, like strobe lights!  It triggered our GFI outlets, so we thought our refrigerator died, but blessedly John remembered the GFI.  Same thing happened when we went to make coffee....again, the GFI!!!  It took several hours for the electric company to come to make the repair (a transformer) but they had it fixed in minutes!  We went from 80 degree temps one day to snow and 30 degree temps the next!  Then the sun came out and melted it all!  March has been crazy!  I did finally get a few minutes to make a card for my college roommate, who fell and broke her ankle!  I already had the pieces on my desk for another project, so it came together fairly quickly.  I used the FMS sketch:

and here we go:

I embossed the Bubble Bath panel with an embossing folder called Butterfly Burst, then added a stitched frame, a stitched and embossed arch, and some pretty diecut butterflies.  The Bubble Bath shimmer cardstock is pretty in real life, but it's a challenge to see the shimmer here! Plus I wish it matched a little better. Oh well.

A sentiment from the retired Teeny Tiny Wishes was stamped in Pretty in Pink, and I stamped an encouraging get well message on the inside:

Getting ready for a card class tomorrow, so I'm outta here! Thanks for popping in; enjoy your day and be blessed! 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret), Get Well Soon (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Bubble Bath, Bubble Bath Shimmer
Ink	Pretty in Pink, Versafine Black
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machione, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Sketched Butterfly Dies (ret), Perfect Polka Dots EF (ret), Butterfly Burst EF (Simon Says Stamp), Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

Masculine Tag Birthday

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I have a fun birthday card I made for our nephew; it's always a challenge for me to make masculine cards, but I recently got a fun Tim Holtz die, so I pulled out some cardstock, printed paper and went to work:

I diecut a piece of Early Espresso with the die, then backed it with a stripey piece of some scrap DSP from my stash.  Of course, after I adhered the background paper, I decided to stamp the front with some script from Elements of Text in the same color.  I cut a tag with a die I've had for years and don't think I ever used, then stamped a birthday sentiment on it, and added a diecut star and some fun twine.

A simple sentiment went on the inside.  I can't wait to play with these dies some more!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said, Elements of Text (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crunb Cake, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard (ret), Scrap DSP
Ink	Early Espresso
Accessories	Linen Thread, Natural Trim (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Mixed Media #1 Dies (Tim Holtz), Blueprints 6 Dies (My Favorite Things), Country Stars Dies (Shady Lane)

More Embossed Postage

Hey, peeps!  No challenges today, I just made a quick little card using some leftover pieces of the embossed postage panel I did earlier in the week (you can see my first card HERE).  I trimmed some of them down and made this:

I used SU's Perennial Postage die to diecut a panel from a piece of Soft Sea Foam cardstock and embossed it with the Gathering Leaves embossing folder.  I then mounted the three embossed "stamps" on the panel, and added a Hero Arts sentiment.  I then popped up the whole panel inside the outer portion of the frame to give it added dimension.

Such pretty images!  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sentiments CL342 (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Soft Sea Foam
Ink	Soft Sea Foam
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Perennial Postage Dies, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Gathering Leaves Embossing Folder, Postage Mosaic Embossing Folder (Spellbinders)

CAS on Sunday 329 Aspen Birthday

Happy Tuesday, all!  Have you gotten any recent SU sets in the new packaging?  Although I like the slim design, I find that while they're stored sideways on my shelf, I can't see the names of the sets, so I forget that I have them!  That's what happened with the new set called Aspen Grove!!  As I was going through them anew, I thought the images would be great for the sketch at CAS on Sunday:

I needed a quick masculine birthday card, so here's what I came up with:

The trees were stamped in Gray Granite and Garden Green; the sentiment from the retired Suite Sayings, also stamped in Garden Green.  I used two circle dies to cut it out:

This whipped up quickly! I love this sketch as it's quite versatile, too!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart!  I have overcome the world."  John 16:33

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Aspen Grove, Suite Sayings (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Garden Green
Ink	Garden Green, Gray Granite
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, ZigZag Edge Dies (unknown maker)

AHSC672 Monochromatic Postage

Happy Monday, everyone! Hope you had a nice weekend! Dana & I went to see a musical production of Little Women on Friday night, produced by a local theater group! It was fun! I never thought of it being set to music, but it worked!

Today it's time for a new sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

I had several ideas for this sketch, but I recently got an interesting embossing folder called Postage Mosaic--it's a big one and it has several postage-stamp images on it, so I thought I'd give it a go.  I embossed a half sheet of Very Vanilla and fussy-cut some of the images out to create my card today:

I added some embossed stitching around the edges as well as on the horitzontal panel, and mounted it all on a Basic Beige card.  I stamped a scalloped border image from the new SU Scalloped Wishes, along with a Papertrey sentiment, using Basic Beige (which really looks green to me) and Versamark, then heat-embossed it all with clear embossing powder.  Here's a closeup of the embossing (and I have more images with which to make additional cards!):

I added a simple birthday sentiment on the inside from the same PTI set:

And since the Double D Challenge this week is books or postage, I am going to enter it there as well!

I was definitely inspired by the lower right image--look at all those beautiful stamps!  

I hope you'll play along with our Atlantic Hearts sketch this week....you can see all the details over at our blog!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Scalloped Wishes, Botanical Silhouettes (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Beige
Ink	Basic Beige, Versamark
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pearls, Clear Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Wishes Dies, Cross Stitched Rectangle Stacklet Dies (Taylored Expressions), 1/2" Easy Strips Dies (Taylored Expressions), Postage Mosaic Embossing Folder (Spellbinders)