AYSI147 Swirly Bird Thanks

 Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I have a funeral luncheon to do today, so this will be short and sweet!  I am squeaking in a thank-you card for a customer using the As You See It sketch for this week:

Since my customer bought the Swirly Bird set, I wanted to use it for her card:

I masked and stamped the florals in Flirty Flamingo and Watermelon Wonder, then added the leaves in Wild Wasabi.  Sadly, Gorgeous Grunge is retiring (how can they DO that?), which supplied the horizontal stripes in Pirouette Pink, and since Endless Thanks is waving good-bye as well, I used it for the sentiments.   Quick, easy and fun!  I really need to play around some more with this set!

A little bird watcher!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

SIP 94 Tic Tac Toe

Hi stampers!  Hope your week is starting well...we had a perfectly HOT day yesterday, very odd for April; in fact, the whole spring has been crazy weather-wise!  But I'll take it!  Today, our Stamp Ink Paper challenge is a tic-tac-toe, just in time for those last-minute Easter cards!

For my card, I chose the left vertical column of pink, bunny and diecut!  And here we go:

I wanted to use the bunny from Every Occasion...I am so sad it is retiring, I barely had enough time to use it!  (Did you see the retired list?  I haven't had much time to look through it, but I did see a few favorites that are not returning!)  There are lots of fun little images in this set, and I thought this one was extra-sweet! I stamped the bunny image in Sweet Sugarplum, fussy-cut it out and mounted  it on a double wreath from Swirly Scribbles.  I added some flowers, a little sentiment and a linen thread bow!  To complement the little greenery on the bunny, I heat embossed the background panel with a retired Cornish Heritage Farms background stamp with white craft ink and white embossing powder.  I framed it all with a stitched frame from Pretty Pink Posh:

This color is really growing on me, I am loving it more and more!  

I hope you will stop by the SIP blog to see what the other designers did with the tic-tac-toe board, and then share your creation with us as well!  Can't wait to see what you come up with!

I took Cassidy to Longwood Gardens yesterday...actually, we did lots of stuff yesterday (and I was beat!), but I'll share more photos during the week!  Here are a couple from the treehouses:

I really love how this one looks like she is holding a ray of sun!!

And checking out some catfish in the lake:

It was a beautiful way to spend a beautiful day!  Be blessed!

Project Details--All Products SU Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Every Occasion, Endless Thanks, Foliage Background (ret, Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Sahara Sand, Sweet Sugarplum
Ink	Sweet Sugarplum, Craft White
Accessories	Linen Thread
Tools	Big Shot, Swirly Scribbles Die, Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Frames Dies, Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals

SIP 90 Smiling Shaker

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Hope you're snuggled in warm and tight!  We have had snow, sleet, freezing rain, lots of wind and COLD here in SE PA!  Justin has a great challenge for us at Stamp Ink Paper this week, a great one if you like shaker cards, LOL!

 

I've said before that I have a love/hate relationship with shakers....they look so cool but are a bit labor-intensive (at least for me) and something always goes wrong...this is my second attempt, the first was a total disaster:  warped acetate, smeared embossing, wonky card all-round.  So I ditched that one and went in another direction, totally based on the colors of these sequins I had in my stash:

I created a little shaker tag with a tag die from Poppy Stamps called Greeting Tags and backed it with another tag that I cut a little longer.  Inside I put my sequins, then added a diecut "a" and "for you" from Endless Thanks.  I can feel the pressure to use up some of my soon-to-be-retiring products, in this case, the Moroccan DSP...such pretty prints....and not retiring yet, but very unused by me, Dapper Denim!  The sequins colors sort of matched this particular pattern, and I used the Can You Case It sketch:

 

Here's a closeup of the shaker....I stuffed it pretty full of sequins, so it really doesn't shake too much, but I do love the colors!

 

Be sure to check out what the DT came up with for this challenge...they're amazing!

Another shot of Cassidy's breakfast at the library for Dr Seuss Day.....yep, GREEN EGGS! Amazingly, she never eats eggs at home, but she decided to try them and discovered that she likes them.  Now I can make them for her for breakfast, but she told me I'll need to make them green, LOL!  Of course, cake, graham bears and goldfish make even green eggs taste better!

Have a blessed day!

Project Details--All Products Stampin Up Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Endless Thanks
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Bermuda Bay, Moroccan DSP, Acetate Window Sheets
Ink	Bermuda Bay
Accessories	Pool Party Twine, Shakers (Verve)
Tools	Big Shot, Greetings Dies (Poppy Stamps), Small Alphabet Dies (Papertrey), Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits, Foam Adhesive Strips

Stamp Ink Paper 83 A True Friend

Hi peeps!  Tuesday and a new Stamp Ink Paper challenge---a great sketch!  I love a great sketch!

I am smitten with the Sealed with Love set, and I think it is suitable for cards other than Valentine's! 

I needed a thank you card, so I paired it with Endless Thanks for a sweet little confection:

I used Festive Birthday for my DSP choices, and you can see how I incorporated a couple of the thank you sentiments on my little notecard:

I tied up my little envelope with some white twine and added a few embellishments and sequins!  And finally, my inside sentiment is from Friendly Wishes:

I love these happy colors!  Be sure to check out what the other SIP designers did and share your creations with us too!

And speaking of happy, Cassidy got some happy mail a few days ago....a couple sets of wee little wooden stamps and a Hello Kitty stamp as well from a sweet blog reader:

I am sure these will be put to good use sometime soon!  Have a blessed day!

Project Details
Stamps	Sealed with Love, Endless Thanks, Friendly Wishes
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Bermuda Bay, Festive Birthday DSP
Ink	Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories	White floss, sequins
Tools	Big Shot, Love Notes Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Circle Dies

SR346 and MM213

Happy Saturday, peeps!  A couple cards today!  The first one was a happy coincidence; I'd had this cardinal image already cut out and assembled a few weeks ago after I received the stamp from my friend Martha, but I never finished into a card!  When I saw the inspiration photo at Merry Monday:

I thought I would complete the card, using the red and white colors as my inspiration!  So here we go:

The cardinal image was stamped in Real Red ink on white cardstock, then stamped again so the cardinal could be fussy-cut and popped up:

I had a red card base already cut and scored in my stash; I pulled out a piece of white cardstock that I had embossed a looooong time ago when my friend Carol lent me her embossing folder; I put it all together and added a little sentiment from Good Greetings, just masking off the "& joy" portion of the "peace & joy" and punching it out with a small oval punch.   Piece of cake!  

My next one is really simple...one layer, and I used the August Paper Pumpkin stamp called Bold Botanicals!  I have had this for a month and hadn't even opened it up yet, but when I saw this image, I squealed with delight!  I don't know why, just being able to stamp something in all four corners to create this delightful design just made me happy!

I was only sort of experimenting on this card, and it came out so nicely, I just went ahead and finished it!  It didn't hang around on my desk for long at all!  The design was stamped in Early Espresso ink on Naturals White cardstock, then I used my blender pen and some fall colors of Calypso Coral, Cajun Craze, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Delightful Dijon, Old Olive and Pear Pizazz inks to loosely color it in:

A simple thank you from Endless Thanks, stamped in Cajun Craze, fit the inside perfectly! Such a pretty design!  And nary an embellishment in sight!    And there are a couple of other similar images in the set; I used one to stamp on the back of my envelope, because this little sweetie is already in the mail!

I am entering this one in the Stampin Royalty challenge this week, which is a fall theme!

A vision in blue...an old Bilco door and my color-coordinated DGD!

Enjoy your day!

CCMC418 and FF93

Hi peeps!  It's Saturday!  Yay, the weekend is here and I have a quiet week ahead as Cassidy will be on vacation!  I think my stamp room needs a serious cleaning up, though...gotta work on that!  Today's card features LOTS of different products, some retired and some current!  It's so fun to mix stuff up!  I used the sketch from Fab Friday; not sure why I haven't played very much with this fun challenge; and the colors from Create with Connie and Mary:

   

I admit that I was having so much fun with this little sketch, I got carried away and added GOLD...hope that doesn't disqualify me with Connie and Mary, LOL!  So here we go:

 I used some Blooms and Bliss DSP for my left panel, which was diecut with an Adorning Accents (ret) Edgelit.  My Mint Macaron panel is some retired Birthday Bouquet DSP and is accented with some lace at the bottom.  My flourish is from Timeless Texture, as is the gold-embossed speckle; the  small flower is from Touches of Texture!  For my larger flower, I used a bloom from Array of Sunshine (ret hostess set) as well as a couple of flowers from Endless Thanks.  The bow is from the Mini Treat Bag Thinlet, and the gold swirl is from Swirly Scribbles.  I used a combination of two sentiments for my banner:  Teeny Tiny Wishes and Endless Thanks.  I told you I used a lot of stuff today!!

I have a special friend who will be receiving this in the mail very soon!  Thanks for popping in!  

The great-nephews, a neighbor of ours, and Cassidy had some pool fun earlier this week:

Cassidy was obsessed with the neighbor's little mohawk....look how patient he was to let her play hairdresser!  Even though he doesn't look it, he was a good sport about it!  He lets her be bossy, LOL!

I am almost at the end of my birthday cards....this happy creation is from my friend Debbie:

and this beauty is from my teamie, Nance:

Have a blessed day and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

Snappy Birthday!

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  My card today started to be a birthday card for a little boy, but somehow the colors just didn't jive with an active five-year-old!  SO it will be a card for one of Cassidy's friends...or maybe for her!  I used the sketch from Mojo Monday; the Nautical theme challenge from Global Design Project and happily, it qualifies for Stamp Ink Paper's Punny or Funny challenge:

So here we go!

Remember this set?  I was going through some of my really old stamps and thought this Crab & Company set would be cute for a child's birthday!  I stamped the crab in Watermelon Wonder and watercolored it loosely with WW and Soft Sky inks.  I stamped a few of the beachy elements and watercolored them as well and added some sweet little sequins and ruched ribbon!

I mounted it on a Soft Sky card base with some By The Shore DSP strips, and added a little banner and a "6" from the Numbers die set!  And here's the inside:

  

This just makes me smile!

Another thing that makes me smile....green pepper moustaches!

Oh that child!  And a couple more birthday cards (told you I got a lot!).  This pretty one is from Bonnie:

And this gorgeous  regal-toned one is from Alison:

Thanks for stopping by today!