IB 34 Rustic Summer

Howdy, peeps!  I can say "howdy" because our Inspired By Challenge today is called "Rustic Summer"!  Does this seem rustic to you?  Hope so!

And here is Laurel's lovely prompt:

I know her flowers are dandelions, but this Painted Harvest sunflower was the closest I could find!  I said earlier this week that yellow was not a color I was drawn to, and here I've used it twice so far!!  I stamped the flower in Pineapple Punch and Crushed Curry, fussy-cut it out and sponged the edges so the color went right to the very edge!  The leaves were stamped in Old Olive and Garden Green and I clustered them behind the flower, then added some glimmer dots to look like dew:

I am totally enamored of the new Buffalo Check background stamp; here I stamped a piece of Whisper White with Garden Green ink, angling it on the stamp to get a diagonal plaid.  The sentiment, because I never have enough get-well cards, is from Apron of Love, and it was diecut with the Stitched Labels framelit die:

A piece of woodgrain paper provided a lovely "rustic" background!  This card just makes me happy, and I hope it will cheer someone up when it goes out in the mail!  I hope as well that you'll play with our challenge at Inspired By and share your creation with us as well!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Cassidy told me the other day she only has to wait eight more years until she can drive!!!!  Yikes!  She is getting a head-start by helping Mommy fill her gas tank, LOL! (No worries, Mommy was right there supervising!)

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Painted Harvest, Apron of Love, Buffalo Check Background (available Sept 5)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Woodgrain DSP (Pleasant by Authentique)
Ink	Pineapple Punch, Crushed Curry, Garden Green, Old Olive
Accessories	Glitter Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Labels Framelits, Sponge Daubers

Bold Butterfly

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  I am squeaking in a quick clean-and-simple card for two challenges, the Cards in Envy yellow and black challenge, and the CAS on Sunday butterfly challenge!  I rarely use yellow, so I thought I would force myself to use the new In Color, Pineapple Punch.  I stamped the butterfly from Beautiful Day on some In Color DSP and embossed it with black embossing powder:

I added a little coloring with a Daffodil Delight blend, fussy-cut it out and mounted it on a plain white card that I embellished with a piece from the Delightfully Detailed Laser-cut DSP.  To create some movement, I stamped the flowers from Wishing You Well: 

and added a sentiment from the same set at the bottom:

It's always nice to have a little note card on hand!  Thanks for popping in today!

For her birthday, Cassidy got a bubble kit to make giant bubbles, which is funny, because we had just been trying to do this on our own with a recipe from Pinterest.  We came pretty close, but these were much better:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Day, Wishing You Well (available 9/5/18)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, 2018-2019 In Color DSP, Delightfully Detailed Laser-cut Specialty DSP
Ink	Basic Black, Versamark, Pineapple Punch
Accessories
Tools	Heat Tool, Black Embossing Powder, SU Blends, Stamparatus

Dotty Happy Birthday and a Winner

Hi peeps!  It's Monday (groan), only one more week before school starts and we have a busy few days ahead of us.  Blessedly, the sun decided to shine this morning after a weekend of rain, rain, rain!  I got in a couple minutes of stamping time today to make a quick, easy card for two challenges!  So here we go:

I always need juvenile birthday cards and I think this one fits the bill!  It is for the Just Add Ink challenge of Just Choose Two (I did embossing powder and embossing folder), as well as the Less Is More sketch challenge:

I thought it would be fun to highlight the In Colors on my card, so I used the smallest Stitched Shapes square die to cut out some polka-dotted pieces, then layered them on a panel of Whisper White that was embossed with the Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder.  The final step was to use my Stamparatus to first stamp the sentiment from Perennial Birthday in Lovely Lipstick; then I cleaned my stamp without removing it from the plate and re-inked it with Versamark ink and stamped again.  Then I heat-embossed it with Clear embossing powder, trimmed it to a banner and popped it up!

It's hard to see, but there's a nice shine to it and that technique is a great way to let you emboss in almost any color!!  Love that!

We did have rain on Cassidy's birthday party, but we had a couple of tents, and the kids were already wet from swimming, so it did not dampen spirits too much!!  

She had a Minecraft cake and cupcakes, which was a big hit:

Finally, I do have a winner of the Sail On card from THIS post!  I asked Cassidy to choose a number from one to twelve, and she chose number eight!  She said, "Grammy, do you know why I chose eight?  Because I AM eight!"  So Lynn, you are my winner!  I'll be in touch for your details!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Perennial Birthday
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Lovely Lipstick, 2018-2019 In Color DSP
Ink	Versamark, Lovely Lipstick
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Clear Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Stamparatus, Perfect Polka Dot EF (ret)

PP406 Corny Thanks

Hi peeps!  Sunday is here and that means another Paper Players challenge!  Sandy is our hostess and she has a clean-and-simple challenge, and it's a fun one:

I really don't have  that many fruits or vegetable stamps, although when I started to check, I found I had more than I thought...more DSP, really!  But anyway, I found this Perfectly Preserved set, which had a fun ear of corn, so I used the FMS sketch to make my CAS card:

Here's the sketch for reference, and I also used the Hand Stamped Sentiment color challenge:

There is a matching die with the set, so I stamped the corn in both colors, die-cut them and trimmed off the husk and glued them together, then popped them up on an oval that I embossed with the Basket Weave EF.  The Blueberry Bushel DSP was a good background for my sentiment.  Now, why would I make a thank-you card with corn on it, you ask?  Our neighbor just gave us two dozen ears of corn, and I wish I could say that I took a picture of it on my plate, but it is GONE!  And it was the most delicious corn ever!  So I had to send him this as a way of thanking him!  John said he has over 30 tomato plants as well....it's just him and his wife, so I think he gives a lot of his produce away to the local food pantry and senior centers as well!  What a nice guy!

 

I hope you'll have fun creating something CAS with fruit and/or vegetables!!!  Share it at the Paper Players blog...can't wait to see it!  While you're there, be sure to check out what the designers did and give them some love!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Perfectly Preserved (ret), Label Love (Altenew)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Blueberry Bushel DSP
Ink	Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies (Lil'Inker), Perfectly Preserved Dies (ret), Basket Weave EF

TMS466 Green Deer

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Have you ever seen a green deer?!  Well, I have one to share with you today!  My creative friend Wendy made a cute little card yesterday using the Tuesday Morning Sketches sketch (you can see her card HERE) and I loved it so much, I thought I would CASE it and make my own!  Her card is for Halloween, and mine is Christmas!  I recently got the Under the Mistletoe DSP, and I usually gravitate towards the smaller prints, but I thought I would challenge myself to use the bold Shaded Spruce one...so here we go:

And here is the sketch prompt:

I stamped a deer from Dashing Deer in Shaded Spruce and diecut it with the Detailed Deer Thinlet, popping it up on a panel that had the corners rounded with my Envelope Punch Board.  The sentiment is from Many Blessings:

What I thought was so clever on Wendy's card was that she cut out some elements from DSP to create her accent piece, so I did the same, cutting a small flower and part of a leaf out, then layering them on top of a larger flower.  There is a tiny bit of Old Olive in the pattern as well, so I used the corner die from the Detailed Deer Thinlet to make a couple of swirly pieces:

My final addition was a glimmer dot in the center of the smaller flower!  While this is certainly out of my comfort zone, I think it turned out nicely!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!  Off to a party!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Dashing Deer, Many Blessings (available Sept 5)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Old Olive, Under the Mistletoe DSP
Ink	Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Glimmer Dot (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Detailed Deer Thinlet, Envelope Punch Board (for rounding corners)

CAS Christmas Tree

Happy Friday, peeps!  I have a quick card today using the new Winter Woods set; it will be available September 5, and it coordinates so very nicely with the Rooted in Nature set!  I made a CAS card for the CAS Christmas challenge of "tree":

I stamped and diecut the main tree from the Winter Woods set, using Tranquil Tide ink, then stamped it again in the background without re-inking it.  I did the same technique with the two trees from Rooted in Nature, creating my background.  I added a stitched hillside, then stamped a sentiment from Christmas Pines and added a couple of pine boughs from Winter Woods:

I used an older Verve Christmas stamp for the inside and added a couple more pine sprigs as well!  I resisted putting some glitter on it...the last time I tried to add glitter to Tranquil Tide, it turned green!!  I'll have to work on that!

Today is Cassidy's 8th birthday and she has a jam-packed weekend ahead!  Last night her karate class went to a Wilmington (DE) Blue Rocks baseball game, where the black belts did a performance.  She got her picture taken with their mascot, Rocky Bluewinkle:

Now, Rocky has a cohort named Mr Celery---can you believe it!  If you have a few minutes, you can read how both mascots got their name here, and I will have to ask Cassidy tomorrow at her party if she got to see him!  Apparently he comes out if the team scores a run, and although they lost the game, they did score four runs!

And finally, I have two more birthday cards to share:

This beautifully-detailed one is from Fran!

And Ellen created this garden beauty!  Thanks, ladies!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!  Thanks for popping in!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winter Woods, Rooted in Nature, Christmas Pines, Joyous Noel (Verve, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White
Ink	Tranquil Tide
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, In The Woods Framelits, Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn)

IB33 Sail On and a Giveaway!

Hi everyone!  Thursday is here...and time for another Inspired By challenge!  Laurel always has the nicest inspiration photos for her challenges!  Here's my take on today's:

And here's her prompt:

(I wish I had thought to sneak in a pretty little starfish like the one in the photo!)  I stamped my sentiment on a stitched tag and added a couple little enamel dots, and my anchor is from the retired Guy Greetings set; the DSP is some retired SU from many years back, and the embossing is the Cable Knit EF; I colored the anchor in with my blends:

It's hard to see, but I also added a piece of Corduroy ribbon in Night of Navy along the edges of the white panel.  I just love the effect it gives!  And here's the inside:

Both sentiments, outside and in, are from a set by Clearly Whimsy, called Ocean Journeys Sentiments.  I think this card would be great for a graduate, someone who is getting a new job or moving to a new home!  I don't have anyone that fits that bill right now, so if you would like to receive this card so YOU can send it to someone, just leave me a comment along with a valid email!  I'll pick a winner on Sunday, August 19 and if your name is chosen, it will be winging its way to you soon!

I hope you'll be inspired by our nautical theme this week....so get creative and share your masterpieces with us over at Inspired By!  Can't wait to see them!

Just a few shots from Cassidy's karate classes!  Here she is intently listening to Master Fisher:

Delivering a kick...maybe a round house?  I have no idea!

And sometimes, just for fun (and to learn teamwork, how to follow directions and good old-fashioned exercise), they play games....here, Cassidy is the "zombie dog" (you KNOW they love that), and they have to run around on all fours and tag others, who then also become zombie dogs!  It's pretty funny!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Guy Greetings (ret), Ocean Journeys Sentiments (Clearly Whimsy)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Maritime DSP (ret)
Ink	Night of Navy
Accessories	Enamel Dots, Corduroy Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Cable Knit EF, Stitched Tags Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), SU Blends