PP618 Lucky Birthday

Happy Sunday, peeps! Hope your weekend is going by nicely!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess this week, and it's Clean and Simple week again!  Here's her fun theme:

I really don't have many "good luck" stamps, but I did find one, but you won't spot it right away on my CAS birthday card:

I stamped these cute Colorado Craft images on thick white cardstock and watercolored them in with ink and an aquapainter....at 4am, I might add, on a sleepless morning!  (Anyone else have any of those?)  

The person to whom this is going loves green, so I gave the bunny an Emerald Envy balloon, and stamped the sentiments, inside and out in green as well.  And here's my "lucky" sentiment:

My friend will totally get this sentiment, too!  It's from a retired SU called Afterthoughts!  

I hope you'll play along with our Clean and Simple challenge---remember to keep it CLEAN and SIMPLE, LOL!  Resist using all those layers and embellishments!  Check out what the DT created over at the Paper Players blog, then come play along!

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.  Proverbs 17:17

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Afterthoughts (ret), Birthday Wishing (Colorado Craft)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White
Ink	Versafine Black, Crumb Cake, Smoky Slate, Soft Sea Foarm, Blushing Bride (ret)
Accessories
Tools	Aquapainter

Paper Players 168

Howdy, partners!  Today’s Paper Players challenge is brought to you by me!  And here it is:

Yep, a CAS masculine birthday challenge!  I have several birthdays coming up, so this will help me get started!  I chose a Baked Brown Sugar base and added a stitched mat diecut from some Cosmo Cricket Wanted paper:

I just love those little cowboys bustin’ broncs on that paper!  I added a sentiment from a retired SU set called Afterthoughts, along with a diecut cowboy boot and a banner from SU’s burlap trim:

One little brad is my only other embellishment!  Sometimes it takes discipline not to add a bunch of other stuff to one’s card, right?! 

Now, let’s see what you can come up with for this challenge—we all need masculine cards, so let this be your starting point!  Share it with us and be sure to check out the other designers’ creations as well:

•  Anne Marie
•  Jaydee
•  Nance
•  Sandy
•  Ann

DH is slowly working on his garage…and Cassidy turned it into her own little playroom; she made a (wooden) cake and put it in the “oven”:

Then she took it out and laid it on the “counter”:

And served a piece to Grampy!

Yum!  The power of imagination!  Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Afterthoughts (ret SU)
Card stock & Papers	Baked Brown Sugar, Early Espresso,  Cosmo Cricket Wanted DP
Ink	Early Espresso
Accessories	Burlap Ribbon, Brad
Tools	Big Shot, Lil Inker Stitched Mat Die, My Favorite Things Cowboy Boot Die, Dimensionals

Kitty Birthday

Happy Thursday!  What  a glorious day it is here in PA---all that humidity blown away, and a cool refreshing temperature has replaced it!  Delightful!  Today’s card is for a man in our church, which fits the Pals Paper Arts masculine color challenge:

I also used the sketch from Create with Connie & Mary:

And here’s my card:

John is our small group leader, a very wise man, lots of fun, and is known throughout the community for his kitty rescues!!!  He has taken in hundreds of stray cats that people drop off by his house; he feeds them, takes them to the vet for shots & neutering, and then finds homes for them.  If he can’t find a home, he has a “Cat House” in his back yard with lots of nooks and crannies, food and soft blankets for the kitties to cuddle up on!  What a soft heart he has!  So this card is for him! 

It is also for today’s SCS WT 325 challenge, which is to use Diecuts.  I didn’t actually use a die; I used a punch, so I hope they don’t throw me out!

Miss Cassidy, although not crawling yet, finds ways to get into Grammie’s stuff:

Oh well, what’s a few tissues?  Thanks for visiting today!

• Stamps:  Bring on the Cake, Long Fellows, Four Frames, Afterthoughts
• Paper:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Patterns DP in Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard & Night of Navy
• Ink:  Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard , Crumb Cake
• Acc:  Decorative Label Punch, Dimensionals, Hemp Twine, Word Window Punch, Neutral Brads, Night of Navy Marker