JUGS 838 & RRCB279 Happy Fall Stenciled Pumpkins

Happy Tuesday, all!  Happy September!  The JUGS stencil challenge this week is "anything goes"!  

I got this pumpkin stencil last year and couldn't wait to play with it again!  It's from Spellbinders, and it's an easy peasy one! Here we go:

I stenciled the pumpkins on a panel of Golden Glow cardstock in Timid Tiger, Golden Glow, Cajun Craze and a combination of Granny Apple Green and Balmy Blue; stems were in Pecan Pie.  I embossed it with the Subtle embossing folder and gave it a whirl with the Stitched with Whimsy die to give it a little oomph.  A Honey Bee sentiment was stamped and diecut, mounted on a couple of oval dies and embellished with a wee bit of Cajun Craze Linen Thread.  

A simple birthday sentiment went on the inside!  I am nudging myself into my fall stamping! And since this stamp and stencil are both a year old, I am entering my card into the Retro Rubber challenge, which is "anything goes" as well!

And speaking of fall, I finished this little cross stitch project yesterday too:

Stitched on linen and mounted on two felt scallops, sewn together with French knots! 

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Blessings of Fall (2025 Honey Bee)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze, Golden Glow
Ink	Golden Glow, Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, Timid Tiger, Granny Apple Green, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Cajun Craze Linen Thread (ret), Dimensionals, Colorful Pumpkin Stencil (Spellbinders)
Tools	Big Shot, Blessings of Fall Dies (Honey Bee), Subtle Embossing Folder (ret), Stitched With Whimsy Die (ret), Small Tags Dies (Impression Obsession) Scalloped Oval Punch (ret), Blending Brushes

Mini Treat Box Bunny Treats

Happy Friday, peeps!  On a whim, I decided to make some little treat boxes for some shut-ins from our church--a very sweet couple!  I had recently purchased some homemade buttercream eggs at a fundraiser and thought it would be nice to gift a couple to them, but of course, I had to make something in which to put them!  I pulled out my long-retired Curvy Keepsake Box dies and made some simple treat containers:

The Easter Joy Specialty DSP is quite sturdy, so they made great boxes!  I added a diecut bunny and bow from Lil'Inkers (sadly retired) along with some Easter tags:

I slipped the candy in, closed the box and added the tags---and they'll be delivered ASAP!  And since Just Us Girls is looking for spring/Easter diecuts this week, I am adding these!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Easter Cross (Divinity Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Balmy Blue, Fresh Freesia, Easter Joy DSP
Ink	Balmy Blue, Fresh Freesia
Accessories	Fresh Freesia Seam Binding (ret), Ribbon from my stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Curvy Keepsake Box Dies (ret), Bunny Dies (Lil'Inker), Rounded Rectangle Layers Dies (Impression Obsession), 1/8" Hole Punch, Pierced Blooms Dies (ret)

JUGS807 Love U Sew Much

 Happy Wednesday, everyone! Midweek is upon us!  I got a set of stencils before Christmas and I finally had a change to break them out, just in time for the latest JUGS challenge, which is stencils!

Since cross-stitching is right up there with stamping on my list of favorite hobbies, I couldn't resist getting this stencil from Spellbinders, and I matched them up with some sewing-related stamps I've had in my stash forEVER!  Here we go:

I am still learning about stenciling---what type of ink pads work better than others; what kind of blending tools to use, how much pressure is needed---it's definitely a learning experience.  For this card I used Pretty in Pink, Poppy Parade, Berry Burst, Basic Gray and Crushed Curry for my floss.  I stamped and diecut two hearts from Simon Says Stamp in Pretty in Pink and Strawberry Slush, then stamped a "hi" from Paper Smooches; that's where the button is from as well:

On the inside, some more images and a sentiment from the Paper Smooches set.  I thought this would make a fun Valentine!

I have vowed to NOT start any more cross-stitch projects this year until I actually finish some of the ones I've stitched over the last couple of years.  Framing is quite expensive and I find I don't really need any more little pillows, but that is probably what I'll end up doing with them!  Stay tuned! Hopefully I'll actually finish one and share it with you!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Needle Little Love (Paper Smooches), Stitched Shapes (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White
Ink	Pretty in Pink, Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry, Berry Burst, Basic Gray, Strawberry Slush, Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Outline Shapes Dies (Simon Says Stamp),  Rainbow Floss Stencil (Spellbinders), Blending Brushes, 1/2" Circle Punch (ret), Pretty in Pink Marker (ret)

JUGS800 O Ribbon Tree

Happy Friday! Yay, the weekend is upon us!  The sweet team over at Just Us Girls is celebrating an amazing milestone--800 challenges!  Woohoo! Congratulations, Girls!

Their theme this week is "Anything Goes", so I am sharing a card I made a couple of days ago.  It actually came out the way I envisioned it--amazing! SU has some beautiful silver and blue ribbon right now and I thought it would make a pretty Christmas tree.  Here we go:

I first cut out a panel of thick Basic White with the Textured Notes dies, then cut out a tree using the new Pine Tree Trimmings die.  I backed the opening with the Misty Moonlight Silver-edged ribbon, added a silver diecut star and a sentiment from Pine Tree Trimmings set:

I popped it up on a white card base, added a sentiment from Words for the Season, and it's finished! CAS and cute!

Be sure to stop over at the JUGS blog--some of the designers have giveaways!  That's always fun!  

Just have to brag on Cassidy a wee little bit--check out this report card! Woohoo!!

And thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words for the Season, Pine Tree Trimmings
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Silver Foil
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Misty Moonlight Silver-edged Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Pine Tree Trimmings Dies

JUGS779 Happy Third Birthday

Happy Thursday, peeps! The weekend is almost here! One of my great-nephews is turning three soon, so the JUGS challenge to use a number worked out perfectly:

I went with an old stand-by....Lego blocks!  Here we go:

I used 1 3/8" squares and 2 3/4" rectangles in Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Azure Afternoon and Daffodil Delight, along with a 1/2" circle punch to create my Legos.  I mounted them on an embossed panel of more Lego-like polka dots, and added a number and banner from the retired Number of Years:

An old Paper Pumpkin sentiment and some alphabet dies from Lawn Fawn finished the inside:

Thanks for popping in today! It's a gorgeous day here in SE PA, so I think I'll go outside for a bit! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as though you were working for the Lord and not for people.  Remember that the Lord will give you as a reward what he has kept for his people.  For Christ is the real Master you serve." Colossians 3:23-24

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Number of Years (ret), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Azure Afternoon, Daffodil Delight
Ink	Azure Afternoon, Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Large Numbers Dies (ret), Oliver's Stitched Alphabet Dies (Lawn Fawn), Sponge Daubers,Jumbo Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret)

JUGS772 God Bless

Happy FRIDAY, everyone! Woohoo, the weekend is here.  I had a wee bit of time to spend in my craft room yesterday and I was excited to see that the JUGS challenge for this week is to use stencils! Since I was playing with my Layers of Beauty bundle, along with the new Painted Stripes stamp, it fit right in!

So here we go....have you ever seen a flower this color?!

The whole inspiration for the card came about because I stamped the Painted Stripes stamp on a scrap of  Basic White cardstock with Coastal Cabana ink!  And since it looked pretty good, I just went from there....I stamped and stenciled the single flower in Coastal Cabana, Lost Lagoon, Soft Sea Foam and Granny Apple Green inks, then added a few of the greenery pieces around the edge.  The postage stamp piece was also stenciled with a rectangular stencil I created with a die and a piece of acetate, and the background was stenciled with the retired Basic Pattern Decorative Masks:

On the inside, I added a sentiment from Year of Flowers along with another little leafy diecut.  I did add a couple of white sequins on the front too!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed! And have a great weekend, too!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Year of Flowers, Layers of Beauty
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Coastal Cabana, Soft Sea Foam, Acetate Sheet
Ink	Smoky Slate, Coastal Cabana, Lost Lagoon, Soft Sea Foam, Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Sequins from my stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layers of Beauty Dies and Masks, Perennial Postage Dies, Textured Notes Dies, Blending Brushes, Basic Pattern Decorative Masks (ret)

Hello Love

 Happy Thursday, everyone!  I have a cute little Valentine card today; it uses the FMS sketch as well as the color palette from CAS Colours & Sketches:

What fun colors together!  So here we go:

My little hearts are from the retired Give It a Whirl, and they were "hung" on a little banner from Scrapbook.com:

I embossed the bottom portion of my white panel with the Dotty Hearts embosing folder, then added a sentiment from Good Greetings, punched out with an oval punch:

I am also going to enter this at the JUGS challenge for this week, which is to use a heart!

Thanks for visiting today!  

One of Cassidy's Christmas presents last year was to go to a University of Connecticut basketball game to watch her favorite player, Paige Bueckers.  She really enjoyed it!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Good Greetings (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Melon Mambo, Summer Splash, Real Red, Basic Black
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banner Dies (Scrapbook.com), Give It a Whirl Dies (ret), Dotty Hearts Embossing Folder (ret), Small Oval Punch (ret)

Copper Stenciled Roses

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Still playing with the Layers of Beauty bundle and since the JUGS challenge this week is stenciling, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring!

Inkspirational is also looking for stencils:

And I am also playing along with my old friends as Tic-Tac-Toe; I chose to use the elements from the left column:

I haven't done any heat embossing for a long time, so I pulled out my copper embossing powder, my Versamark ink pad and went to work:

It's fun to experiment with different colors on these roses; to go with the copper embossing, I chose Peach Pie, Copper Clay, Cajun Craze, Soft Sea Foam and Old Olive.  Even though we're in the midst of summer, I still enjoy these fall hues!  

I also heat-embossed a couple of sentiments from Unbounded Love and diecut them with the matching die, then everything got mounted on a panel of Basic White that was embossed with the Distressed Tile embossing folder and diecut with the Perennial Postage dies.  Around the edges of my Basic Beige card, since I already had my Versamark pad out, I stamped the smaller floral image from the same set; it gives a lovely tone-on-tone effect that doesn't detract from the main design.  I also added a Neutral sequin in copper as well!  You just cannot go wrong with this stamp, stencil and die bundle!    

Cassidy had a friend over last weekend and although our weather has been HOT, that particular evening it was quite chilly.  Wayne had set up a TV to watch on the patio, and the girls wanted to watch a spooky movie:

Sweatshirts, blankets, two bowls of popcorn and two DOGS to keep them warm!  Looks like fun! Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Layers Of Beauty, Unbounded Love
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Thick Basic White, Basic Beige
Ink	Versamark, Peach Pie, Copper Clay, Cajun Craze, Soft Sea Foam, Old Olive
Accessories	Dimensionals, Neutral Sequins, Copper Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layers of Beauty Dies & Masks, Unbounded Love Dies,, Heat Tool, Blending Brushes, Distress Tile Embossing Folder, Perennial Postage Dies

Wish Upon A Star Birthday

Happy Saturday, peeps!  My card today is a little out of my norm, but I needed a card quickly and just sort of threw this together!  A sweet church friend is a dog lover....I mean a REAL dog lover, and her birthday is coming up.  The challenge at JUGS is to use stencils, and the Seize the Birthday challenge is to use red as the main color:

I pulled out the retired Happy Tails and its matching punch, some star stencils I received as a gift, and here is my quick card:

I remember experimenting with red inks on red cardstocks but I forget what I ended up thinking was the best color...this was Cherry Cobbler, and I don't really like the muddy effect it created, but I needed to get this in the mail, so I'll have to experiment again!  Anyway, I stamped my pup on Crumb Cake and punched him out:

The sentiment on the front of the card is a from Lawn Fawn's Upon a Star:

and on the inside, the sentiment is from Spellbinders, along with some paw prints from Happy Tails:

I hope she likes it!  And just to show you how special my friend is, she volunteers for an organization called Canine Partners for Life.  They train service dogs for people with disabilities and are seizure-prone, and besides the regular trainers, they use people like Sue who raise and foster puppies to be service dogs. They also use prisoners who train them as well.  It's a pretty cool setup! She brings her dogs to church and sometimes we can hear them as they are napping and dreaming, LOL!  Check it out at their website!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happy Tails (ret), Upon a Star (Lawn Fawn), Greetings (Spellbinders)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Real Red
Ink	Real Red, Versafine Black, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentials Dies, Dog Punch (ret), Star Stencil (A Color Life Designs), Blending Brush

PP662 CAS Happy Fall Y'All

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's time for another Paper Players challenge, with Joanne as our hostess, and she has a Clean-and-Simple one for us:

Remember, CAS means limited layers and we like to see some open space!  I combined the challenge with the gorgeous color palette over at As You See It:

So here we go:

I do have a few layers on my card, but they're pretty plain, so I am hoping Joanne won't disqualify me!  I diecut a layer of Basic White cardstock and embossed it with the retired Gingham EF, then diecut a pumpkin from a piece of Copper Clay that had piece of Adhesive Sheet adhered to the back.  Once I did the diecut, I peeled off the adhesive sheet from the back and stuck it to another piece of Copper Clay and fussy-cut it out to create the base for my pumpkin.  Although you can't see it here, I coated each portion of the diecut with Wink of Stella...it looks amazing in real life!  A few Crumb Cake leaves and a sentiment from the retired Banner Year finished it off, all on a base of Misty Moonlight:

I recently won a gift certificate to Pink & Main, and I sent this as a thank you; here's the inside, because they did certainly brighten up my day!

Thanks to my friend Lisa, I am entering this over at the JUGS challenge this week, which is "pumpkins"!

I love the rich colors on this card, thanks to AYSI!  I hope you'll play along with our CAS challenge too...the signs of autumn are certainly visible in my neck of the woods!  Be sure to pop over to the Players to see what everyone else created, then share yours with us too!

A few signs of fall around the farm:

The berries are some sort of holly and elderberry; the maple trees are just starting to turn:

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Banner Year (ret), Special Moments (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Copper Clay, Misty Moonlight, Crumb Cake
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gingham EF (ret), Detailed Pumpkins Dies (ret), Patterned Pumpkins Dies, 1/2" Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Wink of Stella Pen