SIP96 CAS Wedding

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  It's time for another Stamp Ink Paper challenge....CAS wedding!

Wedding season is coming up!  Sadly, I have very few stamps that would be considered "wedding" stamps, but I did find a couple images from the retiring Every Occasion that worked!  I used the sketch from last week's Freshly Made Sketches; even though it's too late to submit, I thought the sketch was fun and worked well with my images and papers:

I just got some pretty springy papers from Bo Bunny's Petal Lane Collection and I picked out a simple stripe that would complement my heart and wedding bells:

I used a tiny bit of black for accent and used another banner from Time of Year (it was already sitting on my desk from yesterday's card!) and added some elements from The Paper Studio to complete my sentiment!  Easy and quick!  I hope you'll share your CAS wedding creations with us...be sure to check out what the other DT did as well!  

Saturday was room clean-up time!  Of course, there had to be some hijinks before she got down to serious work, although she did put the clothes away that were in the basket before she got into it!  Silly girl!

And she proudly showed Grampy her room once it was done...not perfect, but we're "in training"!  

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details--All Products SU Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Every Occasion, Time of Year, Everyday Expressions (The Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Watercolor, Basic Black, Petal Lane Collection DSP (Bo Bunny)
Ink	Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Regal Rose (ret)
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Scallop Circle Dies (Nestabilties), Dimensionals

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

Paper Players 326 Recycled Thanks

Happy Sunday, peeps!  The Paper Players are back after a holiday break, and I am the first hostess of the year!  I've chosen a "recycling" theme...recycle something on your project--maybe an embellishment, a ribbon or tag!  It could even be something from the mail or an old book!  Use your imagination!

My recycled item was a note card sent home by Cassidy's teacher....I just could not let that gorgeous glittery gold sentiment go to waste!  I trimmed the card down, mounted it on a piece of gold foil cardstock (cut the center of it out to use for another project) and put it on a Dapper Denim card:

I had just received this pretty gold ribbon available through Sale-a-bration, so I cut a slit under the "t" and at the fold in the card and slid it through.  My final embellishment was to add two stars from Every Occasion, stamped in Dapper Denim also, and embellished with a tiny dot of champagne glimmer paper:

I hope you'll find something to recycle on a card, and that you'll share it with us at the Players!  Meanwhile, check out what the others did...and we have new guest designers, so you'll want to say hi to them as well!

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance 
•  Sandy
•   Crystal
• Valentyna
•  Deanne

A little snow, a two-hour school delay, cold temps but no wind=sledding fun!

Enjoy your day!

Project Details
Stamps	Every Occasion
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Dapper Denim, Gold Foil, Champagne Glimmer Paper
Ink	Dapper Denim
Accessories	3/8" Gold Metallic Ribbon (2017 SAB)
Tools	1/8" Hold Punch, Dimensionals

GDP061 and 52 CCTD Another Christmas Card

Happy Friday, peeps, and Happy Veterans Day to any of you who have served in our Armed Forces! Another Christmas card today....and I need your help!  But more on that later!  First,  I've got the color challenge from Global Design Project:

And a sweet sketch from 52 (Christmas) Card Throwdown:

Phew, this color combo WAS a challenge....I like both of these colors individually, but together, I was a bit stumped.  Every Occasion is a sweet little set that seems to have fallen in the stamping cracks; I used it when it first came out in the catalog but haven't inked it up lately, and I don't see it out in blogland too often.  So I checked out the holiday images in it and thought I might be able to come up with something!  My only issue was that I didn't have any DSP that worked with the challenge, so I took out a panel of Irresistably Floral Specialty DSP....it has embossed designs that resist ink....and I sponged it with Sweet Sugarplum ink and made my own matching DSP:

Of course, I had to use my new stitched dies, and added some bling and pretty ribbon:

The outside sentiment is from Good Greetings (retired SU); the inside sentiment is from Oh What Fun.  And HERE is my problem.  Check out all the "fuzzies" that came along for the ride when I stamped this sentiment on the inside!  GRRRR!  I used SU's Basic Black this time, but it happens with the Memento pad as well.  And if you look at the other images, stamped in colored ink, there aren't any fuzzies at all.  SO what is it with black ink pads and photopolymer stamps?  

I clean my stamps EVERY time with cleaner on SU's Stamp 'n Scrub and I still cannot get a clear image.  So any help would be appreciated from anyone else who's had this issue!  I am thinking of trying Lawn Fawn's Stamp Shammy....it has gotten rave reviews and I am hoping it might help!

On a brighter note, I got Cassidy some fall clings and she put them on her bedroom window, which looks out on a very fall-ish scene!  

Makes me want to go stamp a blue owl!  Enjoy your day!

MTS132 and CCC32

Hi everyone!  I have two cards today for you...both using the Match The Sketch sketch; the first one also is for the Christmas Card challenge, which is "snowman":

    

I loved the set Jingle All The Way when it came out, and I just didn't have a chance to use it enough!  I bought some cute Christmas DSP on ebay but there is no manufacturer's name on it, so I can't tell you who makes it...but I thought the colors were fun to make a cheerful little Christmas card with the little snowman silhouette image:

I stamped the sentiment in Watermelon Wonder and the snowmen in Mint Macaron, then added some retired SU sequins.  This was a really easy card to put together...punch, punch, adhere!

While I was making the Christmas card, I saw these papers that I had been pushing around on my desk for a while; the corrugated paper is from a Paper Pumpkin kit a couple months ago; the Baked Brown Sugar strip and the plaid were just hanging out (because I am too lazy to put them away) and I thought they looked nice together!  What do you think:

The leafy images are from Every Occasion - is it too early to start thinking fall?- stamped in Tangelo Twist, again punched out with a 1" circle punch.  I embossed a little piece of Soft Suede with a leafy embossing folder, then added a scallop of Early Espresso.  I also stamped the sentiment (Watercolor Wishes) in EE as well:

These warm fall colors make me happy!

We are blessed to have lightning bugs (or fireflies) in our area, and Cassidy spent a couple nights in the yard trying to catch them.  My photography skills are basic at best, so if anyone knows how to take photos in the dark, let me know.  See that little thing that looks like a moon above her head?  That's a lightning bug!!!

   

Here, she actually caught one...you can see it in her hand...and we put it in a little jar.....and a few minutes later, we let them all go!

Enjoy your day!

CYCI128 Patriotic Clean and Simple

Happy glorious Monday, peeps!  The sun is shining, the air is cool and it's a beautiful day!  I made a very quick card today using the Can You Case It sketch:

 John's nephew is in the Navy reserves and is at Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virigina.  I totally forgot that I bought these Our Daily Bread Patriotic Collection papers, so I thought these would be appropriate for a card for a guy:

I hope he's not offput by the swirls and the little enamel star, LOL!  

The sentiment is from Paper Pumpkin; the stamped star is from Every Occasion, and the stitched circle is Lil'Inker!  I lined the inside with white cardstock so John & I can each write a little something to Phil to let him know we are praying for him!

The wee one is back from vacation, fresh and ready to show us her confident bike-riding abilities!  I know...no helmet, no sneakers, and she's riding one-handed!  But just look at that smug look on her face!  And NO training wheels!  I think a bigger bike might be in order come birthday time!

Enjoy your day!

MTS128

Hi everyone!  Monday mornings are a challenge aren't they?!  But it's a new day, a new set of possibilities! John & I want to thank everyone who offered condolences on the passing of his dad...they are very much appreciated!

I had a few minutes yesterday to play with the Match the Sketch sketch..they always have such nice ones:

I am loving the papers in the Serene Scenery tablet, but sometimes they can be a bit challenging!  I have found that stamping a big honkin' sentiment right on the paper works great!  This time I used one from Friendly Wishes and stamped it in Chocolate Chip...haven't used that one for a while! Check it out:

Isn't that dandelion paper the sweetest?  I cut out a scalloped square of Chocolate Chip cardstock with SU's new Layered Scallop Squares and used the crosshatch image from Best Birds to stamp on it. You all probably know this, but if you want a subtle color on your background, use Versamark ink....it doesn't overpower the cardstock like it might if you used a regular ink pad! It's not just for embossing!  I stamped the sunflower from Every Occasion (let's pretend that it's a dandelion) in Basic Black ink on watercolor paper, then colored it with an aquapainter and Crushed Curry and Delightful Dijon inks:

I added a little tiny shadow around the image with a Sahara Sand marker, some speckles, and mounted it on a Crushed Curry circle mat; the ribbon is some retired chevron that worked well with my color theme!  Hope you like it!

Speaking of pretending, my friend Claudia snapped this photo yesterday on the playground at church:

Cassidy is playing school with Claudia's grandkids...she is telling them to "line up"...sound familiar?!  LOL!  You can see that they're way up high, too....school in the sky!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Paper Players 299 Patriotic Hi!

Hi stampers!  It's Sunday, and that means another Paper Players challenge....this is our 299th challenge...so what do you think that means for next week?!  You'll have to wait and see!  Anyway, this week I am the hostess and I chose these colors for our challenge:

I just love that new Dapper Denim and can't wait to see it paired with Cherry Cobbler---yum!  You could go patriotic....or not!  My card also features the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch:

So here we go!

I have a little cross stitch picture in my kitchen of an apple with rustic red and white stripes and a blue star....and that was my inspiration for today's card! 

I stamped Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler and Dapper Denim cardstocks with the Hardwood background stamp, then formed my tag by cutting the "boards" apart and adhering them to a plain piece of paper and cutting them out with a tag die (My Favorite Things Blueprints 6).  I added some thick baker's twine, then I diecut the blue piece with a Nestie star die and added a couple of stamped stars from the new SU set Every Occasion. 

I also stamped the word "hi!" and the star with the Labeler Alphabet:

And I snuck in some of those cool enamel embellishments too!  It all went on a Very Vanilla cardbase embossed with the Lucky Stars embossing folder!  A sweet patriotic little note to send to someone!  Now, what will you create with these colors?  Share it with us over at the Paper Players, and check out the DT's samples as well:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance 
• Sandy
• Linda
• Hannelie
• Colleen

On a personal note, I am sad to tell you that John's father Bill passed away Friday afternoon.  He had been battling lung cancer since the beginning of the year, so it was not unexpected.  He was a unique character...he regaled us (and anyone within hearing distance) with goofy stories, corny jokes and really awful magic tricks!  He loved to be the center of attention!  He will be missed!