SSC226 and FF0054 Easter Bunnies

Happy Monday, peeps!  I have stamp clubs meeting today, so I'll make this quick!  I wanted to make one more card highlighting the pretty So Very Vellum, and since Festive Friday had a "First Day of Spring" challenge board, I jumped on it:

 I chose flowers, green, pastel colors and cute animals!  I used the green vellum on a Soft Sea Foam base, some pink plaid paper and a little pink flower from the Pleased as Punch DSP set, and the cute little bunnies from Wildly Happy:

I stamped the bunnies in Smoky Slate, gave them a little shading with some Blends, and stamped an Easter sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings below.  I diecut both elements with some stitched dies (oooh...stitching is on the Inspo board too!) and "tied" it all together with a retired Pretty in Pink ribbon:

I also used the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

Easy peasy...and another Easter card for my stash!  Thanks for popping in today---it is definitely feeling like spring here in PA....we didn't really have much of a winter!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Retro Rubber challenge!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Wildly Happy
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Soft Sea Foam, So Very Vellum, Pleased as Punch DSP
Ink	Smoky Slate
Accessories	Pearl, Pretty in Pink Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Small Flower Punch

SSC224 Delightful Birthday

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  This will be a quick post today, it's a busy day for me!  The Sunday Stamps challenge this week is a sweet little sketch:

and I needed a few more birthday cards for my February birthdays, so I pulled out some of the beautiful florals from the Well Dressed DSP and went to work!  Delightful Day is an under-rated stamp set, in my thinking....it's a fun little set that's great for treats, but it also has a nice birthday sentiment and a pretty little flower:

I diecut a tag from Whisper White cardstock using the Bonanza Dies, then used my Stamparatus to stamp the sentiment in Lovely Lipstick, the flowers in Blushing Bride, and the stems in Mint Macaron:

Before taking off the flower stamp, I added a little "swoosh" with a Melon Mambo marker and stamped over the first stamping....I like that effect!  I also colored in the leaves with a Blender Pen and some Mossy Meadow ink:

A few tiny sequins and some Mint Macaron ribbon finished it off!  I mounted the floral DSP on a panel of Lovely Lipstick to really bring out those rosy hues, and added it all to a white card base!  It's in the mail and ready to go!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy your day and be blessed!  

Be Merry

Happy Monday, peeps!  I have a Christmas card to share today!  I am usually very diligent about making holiday cards all year long, but I had quite a few left from last year, so I have been a bit of a slacker!  But the Jingle Belles challenge is to use something new that Santa might have brought you, and Sunday Stamps had a pretty floral color challenge that I thought I could translate into Chrismas:

I used a new Stamp Market stamp set called Candy Cane Christmas, along with the matching dies and a SU punch to create this:

I used Cherry Cobbler ink for the candy cane, Pool Party for the greenery, and Flirty Flamingo for the bow:

 I used the Timeless Label punch to punch out some Pool Party pieces, then embossed them with Pretty Polka Dots EF (ret).  I used the new Stitched So Sweetly dies to diecut the sentiment:

I used my Stamparatus to get good coverage with the large sentiment on the inside, and I added another little sprig of greenery too:

 A few sequins and it was done--it was fun creating with some new stuff!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy saw something online and since I had all the ingredients, she decided to create it the other day---an apple owl!  I believe it didn't turn out quite the way she envisioned it, but she did it all by herself...even using the knife (yikes!)!

Oops, his wing slid a little!  He is cute, though...and she ate him afterwards, LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

IB99 Christmas Welcome

Hi peeps!  Thursday brings us another Inspired By challenge!  Boy, this one threw me for a loop!  Before I show you the prompt, here's my card...big and bold!

And here is the photo inspiration Laurel chose for us this week:

Wow, what great decorations!  This looks like the fun house of the neighborhood, doesn't it? But I just wasn't sure which to use for my inspiration!  I just got this Stamp Market set called No Peeking, and it has a great ornament die, so I decided to use it, cutting out three ornaments and a couple of embellishments and layering them on some stitched snowbanks!  The first one features a white reindeer in some snow:

and the second uses Wrapped in Plaid DSP, with a Stamp Market "sprig" and the third, some Lovely Lipstick striped DSP; they all have Gold Glimmer hangers too:

Everything is on a Shaded Spruce card base, and the Shaded Spruce Stitched Rectangle sentiment is heat embossed in white; it is also from a Stamp Market set called Candy Cane Christmas.  For my layout, I roughly used the Sunday Stamps sketch:

My circles are all the same size, so I hope they accept it!  And I hope you'll play along with this fun challenge...the design team did an amazing job with the elements from this photo, and we want to see what you create as well!  Share it with us at Inspired By!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Candy Cane Christmas (The Stamp Market)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Shaded Spruce, Gold Glimmer, Lovely Lipstick DSP (ret), Wrapped in Plaid DSP, Winter Wonderland DSP (Simple Stories)
Ink	Shaded Spruce, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Ice Stampin Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, No Peeking and Candy Cane Christmas Dies (The Stamp Market), Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn), Winter Wonderland Deer Die (Cottage Cutz), White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool

SSC214 Fall Thanks

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a great weekend...I know I had one busy day and then one relaxing day...a great weekend!  I got in a wee bit of stamping time between reading, cross-stitching and cooking, and was able to create a thank-you card for a customer using the Sunday Stamps sketch:

 

Normally, with a large open area like this, I would be tempted to let some beautiful DSP do all the work (and I may do that yet, LOL!) but I decided to go a little more detailed with the Sweetly Swirled set:

 

Unfortunately, there is no die to match this set, but the elements are fairly easy to fussy cut!  I stamped some leaves in Terracotta Tile, Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody and Pumpkin Pie, then some greenery in Old Olive, and finally some flowers in Cajun Craze, Real Red and Terracotta Tile, then cut them all out.  I stamped the wreath with Crumb Cake on a Very Vanilla panel and went to work assembling it all:

I did stamp some "berries" in Terracotta Tile (my new favorite color) before adhering everything down!  My sentiment was from Itty Bitty Greetings, and I already had this Old Olive Linen Thread bow sitting in my unused box, so I adhered it to the banner.  I mounted it all on a piece of Old Olive gingahm DSP....I love the country feel of this!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweetly Swirled, Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Terracotta Tile, Old Olive DSP
Ink	Crumb Cake, Terracotta Tile, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Mango Melody, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Old Olive Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools

AYSI206 Speedy Boo

Hi everybody!  Woohoo, it's Friday, so happy to have the weekend ahead!  It's also As You See It challenge time, and here's one we haven't had for a while...SPEED stamping!  

The goal is to create a card in ten minutes, once you've gathered your supplies! I like that part of the challenge because I really tend to dawdle on my cards and it forces me to CONCENTRATE.  But....shades of purple, oh my goodness!!  The first thing that came to my mind was Halloween, so I pulled out Spooky Bingo Bits and SU's Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape and went to work:

I started out with a sketch from Sunday Stamps:

I used Gorgeous Grape DSP for my layers, and stamped my images with Highland Heather, punching them out with a circle punch.  The "BOO!" is from the Boo to You Framelits from a few years ago, and I accented it quickly with a single rhinestone.

At this point, I was at 7 minutes and 26 seconds, so I took another minute to stamp some sentiments from last year's Spooky Cat!  So I made it under the 10-minute mark!!

Phew!  I hope you'll challenge yourself to do some speed stamping in shades of purple and share your creation with us at At You See It!!  C'mon, you can do it!  Thanks for popping in today!

These silly pups Eden and Ginger are all decked out in their Eagle's outfits, ready for some fall football!  I just bought Cassidy an Eagles shirt.....but it's at my house, LOL!  She'll have to wear it the next time they get dressed up!  Enjoy your day nad be blessed!

SSC208 God Bless America

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  It's gonna be a hot one today in SE PA!!  We are running errands early so we can swim this afternoon; hopefully we won't get a storm like we did last night, where we lost power for five hours!  

I was inspired by my friend Wendy to finally use this patriotic stamp that SU offered in 2001!  Yikes!  That was even before I became a demonstrator.  I always regretted not getting it at the time, and they are expensive on ebay, but my sister had a yard sale last year, and much to my surprise, she had it for sale!  So I snagged it up and am finally using it today!  I stamped the image twice, once in Real Red and again in Blueberry Bushel, and just fussy-cut around the heart image and adhered it on:

I could have used markers to color each section, but this was faster!!  My papers are from the Frontier collection by Authentique; I love the rustic look they give!  I used a die from Close to My Heart for the scalloped edge and a little seam binding ribbon that is retired from SU:

I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps, although I don't have the sentiment in the correct place, hopefully they won't throw me out!

Thanks for popping in today!

It's been a challenge to keep Cassidy busy this summer.  I babysat Jackie while her momma did some errands and Lee was at summer school, and we decided to make slime from a kit.  First, let me tell you that we are slime failures.  We have tried to make slime a couple of times with NO SUCCESS.  So, I thought...well, here's a kit, it must be successful, I have all the ingredients, what can go wrong?  Well, the recipes in the book that comes with the kit require 150ml of clear glue (with other ingredients)....the kit comes with 100 ml of clear glue.  So you can't even make the recipe with the supplies that come in the kit.  Talk about frustration!  So we tried a different recipe....again, it was a failure.  It came out more like play doh, which I ALREADY know how to make.  If anyone out there has a reliable slime recipe, let me know.  So far, we are 0-3 in the slime game; the look on Jackie's face pretty much says it all:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

SSC207 Red White and Blue Celebrate

Happy Monday, peeps!  It's a laid-back day today, Cass is still with her daddy, so I had a little time this morning to stamp!  I used the top three colors from the Sunday Stamps challenge, and the 4th of July challenge from Festive Friday:

I don't normally send out July 4th cards, but I thought I could use this as a birthday card with a patriotic feel!  Here we go:

I used the colors of Night of Navy, Real Red and Seaside Spray, stamping the stripes from Woven Heirlooms and the stars from Country Road.  I backed each one with a 1" circle of matching cardstock, popped up the stars, and fussy-cut a sentiment from Picture Perfect Birthday:

I added a layer of Seaside Spray In Color DSP, and it was done!  All in all, a pretty easy and simple card!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy wanted to make a card for her daddy for Father's Day (which she never finished, so we'll work on it this week...better late than never!).  The stamp image was a little larger than what she usually uses, so I showed her how to use the Misti!  First, she set up the stamp and got her ink pad ready:

Inked it up:

Carefully closed the panel:

And gave it some hefty pressure!!!  This kid!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Woven Heirlooms, Country Road, Picture Perfect Birthday
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Night of Navy, Seaside Spray, In Colors DSP
Ink	Real Red, Night of Navy, Seaside Spray
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	1" Circle Punch