TGIF237 Thanksgiving

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I have a quick card today, using a great easy sketch from TGIF:

I gave myself a break from Christmas cards and used some Magnolia Lane DSP to create a Thanksgiving card:

I accented the striped piece with a torn piece of Mossy Meadow, then stamped three leaves from Rooted in Nature and layered them under some soft Mossy Meadow baker's twine.  I stamped one leaf in Mossy Meadow, but I really like the Old Olive ones better...what do you think?

I diecut a sentiment from Day of Thanks with a Stitched Rectangle die:

and added the sentiment inside, along with the obligatory turkey, stamped very lightly in Sahara Sand!

Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy likes to send me pictures of the sunrise from her deck; I think she does a good job!  Look at that sun!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

TGIFC228 Spooky Coffin

Happy Monday, peeps!  This will be a quick post, it's Stamp Club day and I am busy getting ready for my stampers!  I saw this color challenge at TGIF and I thought it would be fun to use on a Halloween project:

I only bought one Halloween set this year (because I already have SO MANY!!!) but I did get these fun little coffin treat boxes....I am not usually into the scary, creepy Halloween stuff, I am more into fun little punkins and cute witches.....but these looked like they would be fun to put together and they were!  So here we go, using the new Wonderfully Wicked stamp set:

I fussy-cut the spider and bat out and adhered them with mini dimensionals on to the sentiment diecut, but before I adhered it to the coffin lid, I stamped the lid (unassembled) with Versamark ink and the Birch background stamp, then heat-embossed it with black embossing powder.  It came out really cool-looking, although it's tough to see here:

 

I finished gluing it together, put the lid on and added some Basic Black Scalloped Edge Ribbon for fun!  Now, my only dilemma is what candy to put inside!  Thanks for popping in today!

Over the weekend, we had a Fish Fry and a church picnic to attend.  I was too busy to take any pictures at the picnic, but I did get a few from the Fish Fry....Cassidy and her little cousin Jameson were quite the pair!  Jameson wrestled her to the ground (he doesn't know his own strength):

Then they both pretended to be asleep:

Isn't he the picture of orneryness?!!  Proud "Pop" (my BIL) looks on from the background:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wonderfully Wicked, Birch
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Coffin Treat Boxes
Ink	Memento Black, Merry Merlot, Smoky Slate, Versamark
Accessories	Basic Black Scalloped Edge Ribbon, Black Dimensionals, Mini Dimensionals, Black Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Nesting Labels Dies, Heat Tool

TGIFC218 Sympathy Bella

Hi peeps!  A late, late start today...I was sad to hear that a stamping friend lost her beloved pet, and since the TGIF challenge this week is sympathy, I decided to send her a note of encouragement!

I mixed two sets for my card:  the retired Bella and Friends, and Happy Tails.  So here we go:

I found some pretty muted plaid DSP (Authentique Grateful) in my stash, so I used that as my color palette; I stamped Bella in Early Espresso and colored him in with SU Blends, the added the sentiment in Terracotta Tile and a little heart in Rococo Rose and Terracotta Tile, embellished with a little button die from Arts and Crafts:

And here's the inside:

I hope it brings some comfort to her!

I have to scoot, so I will post one last photo; this is a sweet card I got from my friend Wendy, who used some "vintage" SU stamps to create this patriotic treat!  This card just makes me SMILE because it reminds me of the images that were popular when I first started stamping!  I love how she created the background as well as the main image...I love it all!  Thanks, Wendy!

Off to karate!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Paper Players 421 Theme Challenge

Hello stampers!  Sunday means another Paper Players challenge, and Jaydee has a beautiful theme challenge for us all:

True to form, I have two projects to show you; my first one turned into something totally different than I had anticipated, so I started over with another one, LOL!  I haven't used my Gift Bag Punch Board in ages and I thought it would be fun to make a gift bag with some DSP, glimmer paper and some diecuts:

I used some sturdy Graphic 45 paper to create the bag, then added my last piece of black glimmer paper on the front.  I cut images from Very Vanilla thick cardstock using the Hometown Greetings and retired Sleigh Ride Thinlits, layering them on top of the glimmer paper:

I heat-embossed a sentiment in gold on a stitched tag, and added a gold foil star and some gold ribbon:

And here's the back view of the bag; the gold ribbon and bells complement the front image nicely, I think!

The challenge at TGIF this week is Anything But a Card, so I am entering this there as well!

My second project is a card, sort of a silly one, and I rarely do silly ones, so I feel a little silly sharing it but someone might like it!  Here we go:

I used SU's Cat and Santa Hat punches to create my sassy feline, who seems to be waiting for Santa to arrive...or maybe Santa's leaving, and she kept his hat behind just for orneryness!  She is looking out a wreath-embellished Small Madison Arched Window onto a snowy sky and a glittery tree

And here's Santa's hat, being twirled on her tail!!

And finally, a tongue-in-cheek sentiment:

Silly as it is, I have just the friend who will appreciate this card!!  So thanks for bearing with me!  And since the Stamp Ink Paper challenge this week is to use punches, I am going to enter this there as well!

SO......I hope you'll find some inspiration in Jaydee's pretty photo and will share your creation with us at the Paper Players!  Meanwhile, check out what all the DT created:

·        Claire

·        Jaydee

·        Joanne

·        Laurie

·        Nance

·        Anne Marie

·        Sandy

·        Elizabeth

·        Annie - on break

·        Jan

·        Ann

And here's some more holiday fun; the family went out to get their tree over the weekend:

Such a pretty tree! No snow in sight...but maybe next weekend! Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Gift Bag Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Signature Christmas (Papertrey Ink)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla, Black Glimmer (ret), Gold Foil, Carol of the Bells DSP (Graphic 45)
Ink	Gold Encore (ret)
Accessories	Gold Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Hometown Greetings Framelits, Sleigh Ride Edgelits (ret), Star Punch (ret), Stitched Label Dies (Reverse Confetti), Gift Box Punch Board

Cat Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Alpine Adventure, Joyful Christmas, Signature Christmas (both Papertrey Ink)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Whisper White, Basic Gray, Real Red, Dazzling Diamond Glimmer, Misc Glimmer Papers (ret), Winterberry DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Real Red, Craft White, Mint Macaron
Accessories	White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals
Tools	Cat Punch, Santa Hat Punch (ret), Big Shot, Alpine Sports Thinlets, Small Madison Arched Window Die (Memory Box), 1/8" Circle Punch, Red Marker

FMS364 Vintage Santas

Happy Black Friday, peeps!  Are you a BF shopper?!  Not I!  Maybe online but I will stay in the cozy warmth of my craft room today, too cold out there!!  The FMS sketch today fit (sorta) with a vintage Santa image I have had in my scrap bin since last year when my friend Peggy lent him to me!  So here's the sketch:

And although my Santa is a rectangle, hopefully they won't toss him out:

He's stamped in Garden Green and I did some brayering with Hello Honey ink to give him a vintage feel to complement these pretty Graphic 45 papers.  I added a gold glimmer paper snowflake and a little "ho ho ho" sentiment:

I went ahead and made another one with a different vintage Santa; this one is from a retired Crafty Secrets set:

I stamped a silhouette image at the bottom and added some more sponging to the image and sentiment:

And since the TGIF challenge this week is sponging, I am entering this card!  

That's it for today, two easy peasy cards!

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving!  Armed with apples and carrots, we took a walk on Wednesday in the brisk temps to feed the horses down the road:

This poor guy had only one eye...it freaked out the kids a little bit, but eventually they were less afraid.  I think he might have been a rescue horse...the next time I see the owner, we'll ask him!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Santa Face (unknown), Vintage Christmas (Crafty Secrets ret), Night Before Christmas (Cornish Heritage Farms ret), Santa (Katy Sue Designs), Stitched Stockings (My Favorite Things ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Garden Green, Gold Glimmer, St Nicholas DSP (Graphic 45)
Ink	Garden Green, Shaded Spruce, Hello Honey (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Layering Circles Framelits, Itty Bitty Banners Framelits (ret), Snowflake Die (Taylored Expressions), Stitched Banner Die (My Favorite Things), Scalloped Rectangle Dies (Nestabilities)

PP417 Gather Together

Hi everyone!  Happy Sunday!  Hope your weekend has been wonderful so far!  Claire is our hostess at the Paper Players this week and she has a lovely theme challenge for us:

I am afraid my mojo has gone into hiding lately and my other activities are sucking the life out of it!  I just didn't do this lovely photo justice with my little card, but hopefully Claire will forgive me!  And really, this card looks better in real life than it does here!! So here we are:

My Thanksgiving stamp selection is a little sparse, so I went with the wheat spray from Wishing You Well and a sentiment from Painted Harvest!  I used the color challenge from TGIF:

I first embossed my base with the Quilt Top embossing folder; the image was stamped in Crumb Cake and Cajun Craze, and I added the sentiment and bow in Merry Merlot.  I distressed the Merry Merlot mat as well, and also sent the stamped panel through the Subtle embossing folder for a little interest.  I colored some pearls with a Bronze Blend and added them to the spray:

I pulled out some vintage goodies; the striped Cajun Craze is from many years ago, as is this sweet little sentiment from Falling Leaves:

I know I have more Thanksgiving stamps around, I just need to root around to find them, LOL!  Meanwhile, I hope you will get a head start on your Thanksgiving cards and play with us at the Players!  Can't wait to see you there.  Check out the DT to get more inspiration:

·        Claire

·        Jaydee

·        Joanne

·        Laurie

·        Nance

·        Anne Marie - on break

·        Sandy

·        Elizabeth

·        Annie - on break

·        Jan

·        Ann

Yesterday our church had its annual Operation Christmas Child shoebox packing party!  The kids LOVE this!  We have a small church, but we collect items all year long and we were able to pack 118 boxes!  

We are blessed to have a Dansko shoe outlet right in my little town and they very graciously donate empty shoeboxes that would normally be bound for recycling:

After setting out all the school supplies, hygiene items, toys, shoes and whatever else collected, each person gets a shoebox and packs it up according to age and gender!  Sometimes the wee ones need a little help, but most of them are old pros at it!

Cassidy is one of the old pros, LOL!

Luke is one of our new pastor's children, and he was quite serious about his selections:

And when they're all done and stacked up, the boxes make a great place to take a picture, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!