PP601 A Smile for a Sketch

Hi there, stampers!  It's Sunday and that means a new challenge from the Paper Players, where I am the hostess again!  This week I have a really versatile sketch....so many possibilities, I had a hard time choosing what I wanted to use!  But let's look at the sketch first:

Since my garden is taking up a lot of my time, I went uber-easy and used some of the pretty papers from Hues of Happiness to create my card:

Both the background and the vertical piece are from the DSP, diecut with Stitched Rectangle dies; I had some pre-cut florals on my desk left over from a previous project, so I tucked one behind my double-banner sentiment, which is from Lovely You, stamped in Pool Party:

I couldn't help adding a couple of the new Festive Pearls along the larger banner...so soft and pretty!  I left the inside blank so I can add a sentiment at the proper time, since this could be for any occasion!

I know you'll enjoy playing with our sketch...and I hope you'll check out what the DT did at the Paper Players blog.  Comments mean so much to us all...be sure to leave some love!  I cherish all the comments my regular readers leave! ♥  Thanks for popping in today!

The kids should be home by the time I post this, and it has been so fun seeing all their sightseeing expeditions!  My sister Gail lives in Charleston, so she showed them the amazing Angel Oak:

That is one magestic tree!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lovely You
Card stock & Papers	Pool Party, Basic White, Hues of Happiness DSP
Ink	Pool Party
Accessories	Dimensionals, Festive Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies

PP564 Cherished Friend

Hi everyone!  It's time for another Paper Players challenge and I am the hostess today!  I've got a three-paneled sketch for you--no surprise there, I love things in threes!  Here it is:

I decided to take a break from fall, Halloween and Christmas and go back to some of those pretty DSPs that I've been neglecting!  I picked out three from the You're A Peach pack and went to work:

Each panel was diecut with a Stitched Rectangle die, and I adhered them on top of a Stitched Nested Label die that I cut in half so that it would kind of stretch to the edges of my card!!  The peach was fussy cut and adhered to a Tasteful Labels circular diecut:

I stamped a sentiment from Lovely You in Calypso Coral, then mounted it on an Old Olive DSP banner, and added some sequins for fun!  This went together pretty quickly....I let the paper do most of the work!  And just for fun, I made another card...this one features the neutral papers from Harvest Meadow and a watercolored bird from Free as a Bird:

I used a diecut from Ornate Frames and some Braided Trim as well as the Tasteful Textile embossing folder.  I flipped the sketch as well so my bird wouldn't be looking off into space!

I hope you'll be able to play with us at the Players this week with my sketch, and while you're there, check out what the rest of the Design Team created!  Thanks for popping in today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lovely You, Free as a Bird
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, You're A Peach DSP, Old Olive DSP, Sahara Sand, Harvest Meadow DSP, Watercolor Paper
Ink	Calypso Coral, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals, Iridescent Sequins (ret), Braided Trim
Tools	Big Shot, Tasteful Labels Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Nested Label Dies (ret), Aquapainter, Ornate Frames Dies

CASC&S426 Smile

Hey there, peeps!  Wow, it's the last day of June!  That month whizzed by for sure!  My friend and I are hitting the pool this afternoon to try to stay cool, so this will be quick!  The CAS Colours and Sketches challenge has a color palette AND a sketch to use this week:

I am not sure just how clean my card is, but I did have fun creating it since these peachy hues are some of my favorites!!  Since all the colors are retired, I did use a little creative license and substituted a couple of them....I'll show you where:

My image is one of the florals from Jar of Flowers; I was going to add the jar below the image but in the end, just left it alone.  I stamped it in Sahara Sand, then colored it with Blends of Pink Pirouette, Pale Papaya, Ivory and Cajun Craze:

I added a little interest to the background by masking my image and stamping the word collage from Quiet Moments in Pink Pirouette ink, then added the "smile" from Lovely You.  I couldn't find any Tangerine Tango in my stash, so I substituted with Tangelo Twist.  I put it on a Pale Papaya card base (instead of Peach Parfait) which was embossed with Tasteful Textile embossing folder, and the banner was embossed with the Checks mini embossing folder.  I think this could be used for any number of occasions, so I left the inside blank!  Thanks for popping in today!

And since I was working with peachy hues, I thought I would share a shot of a rose that I saw at Longwood last week.  It was almost past its prime, but it was still beautiful!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Flowers, Lovely You, Quiet Meadow
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pale Papaya, Tangelo Twist (ret)
Ink	Sahara Sand, Tangelo Twist (ret), Pink Pirouette (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Checks & Dots Embossing Folder, Tasteful Textile Embossing Folder, Blends

SSC256 Wildly Grateful

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Just a quick little card using some new In Colors, available TODAY! Woohoo!  I chose Polished Pink and Soft Succulent, along with a sketch from Sunday Stamps:

And here we go:

The flowers and sentiment are from Lovely You, stamped and fussy cut atop a Stitched Rectangle.  The horizontal panel was stamped with some greenery from the same set, then wrapped with the new luscious Open Weave ribbon...love this!  The circle was made with the opposite pattern from the DSP, matted with a Soft Succulent scallop:

I normally don't gravitate towards bright pinks, but paired with the muted green, I think this turned out well!  Thanks for visiting today!

I hope you can indulge me with another bird picture, but I just happened to catch a new (to me) bird yesterday!  Waaaay out at the edge of our yard, past our bluebird houses, I spied a patch of blue in the grass.  I thought for sure it was just another bluebird, I had just been reading up on grosbeaks over the last couple days and I knew a blue grosbeak had a cinnamon-colored wing, so I was VERY excited as I looked at it through my binoculars!  Like the rose-breasted, I believe they are migrating through:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lovely You
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Polished Pink, Soft Succulent, In Color DSPs
Ink	Polished Pink, Soft Succulent
Accessories	Soft Succulent Open Weave Ribbon
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Layering Circle Dies

SSC250 in Purple

 Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Do you ever challenge yourself to use a color or pattern that might not be a favorite?  That's how I feel about purple hues...I don't dislike them necessarily, I just am not drawn to them as much as I am to other colors!  So I challenged myself to use some!  I even made two!  The first one uses the cool sketch from Sunday Stamps:

I was immediately drawn to this sketch because of the three panels, as I love things in threes!  So here we go, using some shades of Gorgeous Grape and Purple Posy:

I started with some Gorgeous Grape DSP, cutting the piece into three rectangles and adding a Purple Posy mat to each.  They went on top of a layer of Whisper White cardstock that had been embossed with the Ornate Garden embossing folder.  A couple of Pierced Blooms flowers were diecut from Purple Posy cardstock and layered on top of a panel that was embossed with the (ret) Wrapped in Texture embossing folder.  I stamped a sentiment from Lovely You and fussy cut it out to layer at the bottom:

The piece of cardstock I had diecut the larger flower from was actually a Stitched Nested Labels diecut I had in my stash, so I thought I'd go ahead and use it for another card, this time layering it on top of the remaining piece of Gorgeous Grape DSP:

This time I added a single Whisper White flower, tilted a bit to show the DSP through then opening, then stamped a sentiment from Sweet Ice Cream and a little flourish from Lovely You.  

I needed a customer thank you note, so this one is already out in the mail!  Thanks for popping by today, enjoy it and be blessed!

Have you ever heard of the "Pets Behaving Badly" version of Sorry?  It's probably apropos at Cassidy's house, LOL!  

"This is what the Lord says--Israel's King and Redeemer, the Lord Almighty:  I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God." Isaiah 44:6

 

TCC148 Sweet Valentine

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Time for a yummy new Card Concept challenge!  Look at this delicious prompt Julie has for us this week:

 

I was inspired by those incredible-looking cupcakes with the raspberry and chocolate doodads on top!  Yowza!!  So here we go with my Clean and Layered card:

I began with the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

And I pulled out my favorite cupcake set, Papertrey's Cupcake Collection, and stamped it in hues of pink and brown:

The raspberry is from SU's SAB Berry Blessings, and the leaves are from Lovely You.  I created my own  brown glimmer paper with a wee piece of adhesive sheet and some Martha Stewart glitter, then punched out my "chocolate" heart embellishment to pop on top!  The sentiment, stamped in Garden Green, matches the plaid paper from the SAB Berry Delightful DSP

To fulfill the sketch, I added a few more glimmer hearts and a sprinkling of sequins.  My papers are from Carta Bella and Graphic 45, and I used a Reverse Confetti die to create the scallop border!  I haven't decided whether this will be a sweet birthday card or a Valentine's card...it could fit the bill for either one!  

So now I hope you'll pop over to the Card Concept blog and see what gorgeous confections the other designers created...and then share yours with us too!  Just be sure to tell us what style your card is...you can find all the styles and their descriptions on the blog!  Thanks so much for visiting me today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

The project continues:

I love how she's created her palette!!  And I think Mommy is having as much fun as she is!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Berry Blessings, Lovely You, Cupcake Collection (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Berry Delightful DSP, Soak Up the Sun DSP (Carta Bella), Botanical Tea DSP (Graphic 45), Misc Glimmer Papers, Adhesive Sheet
Ink	Garden Green, Granny Apple Green, Strawberry Slush (ret), Pink Pirouette (ret), Chocolate Chip (ret)
Accessories	Sequins from my stash, Dimensionals, Martha Stewart Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, Lacy Scallop Frame Die (Reverse Confetti), Triple Heart Punch (ret)

IM440 Congratulations

 Hi peeps!  A quick post today as I have my favorite stampers coming over today!  I needed a baby girl congratulations card and rather than do the traditional pastel pink, I chose to use some of the new SAB Paper Blooms DSP along with the sketch from In(k)spire Me:

I chose to only use the sketch...and here we go:

The front of the card is slightly smaller than a normal card, and that allowed me to adhere a little piece of contrasting DSP to the inside so that it would show along the edge.  

The florals are from Lovely You, stamped in Rococo Rose and Night of Navy; the ribbon is NON gingham:

The outside sentiment is from Here's a Card, and the inside sentiment is from the retired God's Blessings!  Thanks for popping in today...if you have questions, shoot me an email!  Gotta go stamp!

AYSI 239 Purple Get Well

Happy Friday, peeps! Our As You See It challenge today WAS a challenge for me...we're to use a color that we most avoid!  Oh dear...for me, that would be purple!

Luckily, I remembered some pretty papers I bought this past spring, but never used, and there were some purple patterns in there...mixed with Soft Sky, so it wasn't so challenging for me!  Here we go:

My card base is Highland Heather, and my sentiment is from Many Mates.  I added some florals and greenery from Lovely You, stamped in Pear Pizzazz and Gorgeous Grape and fussy-cut:

On the inside, the other half of the Many Mates sentiment and a little leftover strip of the DSP:

My sketch is from Try Stampin' On Tuesday:

So....what color do YOU avoid, LOL?!  I can't wait to see what you choose....please push through your avoidance and share your creation with us at As You See It!  And be sure to check out what all the other designers' "avoidance" colors are as well!  You'll be surprised!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Many Mates, Lovely You
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Highland Heather, Soft Sky (ret), Sending Love DSP Gina K Designs)
Ink	Gorgeous Grape, Pear Pizzazz
Accessories	White Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched So Sweetly Dies

Fall Foliage

 Hi peeps!  I have a clean-and-simple card today, and it fulfills four challenges!  First, let's look at the card:

I used just the sketch from the Fusion Card Challenge, and the theme at Less Is More is to use more than one foliage:

I started out with a Very Vanilla card base,  some Bronze Brushed Metallic cardstock as well as some Crumb Cake and Cajun Craze to create the elements of the sketch.  The metallic was embossed with the Quilt Top (ret) embossing folder, and the colors were embossed with the Subtle embossing folder.  I stamped and diecut (or fussy-cut) foliage from Beautiful Autumn, Poinsettia Petals and Forever Fern. I did add a little extra coloring to the Crumb Cake petals with some Blends to give them a little more depth:

I fussy-cut the "smile" from Lovely You and mounted it on a piece of Cajun Craze diecut with a stitched banner from Tasteful Labels; the final touch was some sequins from my stash!  I used the colors from Color Throwdown, and the embossing fulfills the new Let's Squash It challenge!

The harvest party at church was a hit....it felt almost like "normal"!!!  The weather was gray and windy but it didn't rain!  Wayne and Josh manned the apple press to make fresh cider (which is delicious!):

Hot dogs and s'mores roasted over the fire was the menu:

Then a hay ride with a tractor breakdown (uh-oh!):

And everyone was having so much fun, they forgot to decorate their pumpkins!  Cellphone flashlights to the rescue:

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