IB69 Vintage By The Numbers

Happy Thursday, all!  Time for another Inspired By challenge, and I went "snarky" masculine today:

And here's Laurel's photo prompt:

Those bins would be fun to have, wouldn't they?!  But let's get to my card!  I went pretty simple today!  I have a stamp of a strip of vintage numbers that I thought would be great for this challenge, so I stamped them in white craft ink on chalkboard paper and mounted them on SU's Woodgrain paper. I added a Naturals White panel on which I stamped the vintage car and sentiment, then over-stamped it with the Sanded background stamp to give it a nice weathered look:

Then on the inside, I stamped another vintage car and a birthday sentiment:

I never have enough masculine birthday cards, so this will get added to my stash!  

Hope you'll come play with us at Inspired By...the designers have made some fabulous things, you definitely need to check them out at the IB blog!  Hope to see your creation there too!

My little tomboy, exploring in the creek!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sanded (ret), Vintage Numbers (unknown), For the Guys, (Unity), Consider Yourself Vintage (Unity)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Chalkboard (ret), Woodgrain DSP
Ink	Craft White, Stazon Black, Early Espresso, Sahara Sand
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, A2 Curved Matting Die (Spellbinder)

Simple Flowers

Hi everyone!  I have a quick simple card today, my patterned paper did 99% of the work!  This is my first time playing with The Flower Challenge!  This week they have a sketch:

My papers are all from the Cute Girl line from Crate Paper, except for the yellow flower, which is from Bo Bunny's Petal Lane collection:

The flowers are all diecut from a My Favorite Things flower die; centers were punched from Melon Mambo cardstock with a 3/8" circle punch.  The sentiment Altenew's Label Love, was also stamped in Melon Mambo ink:

Just an easy, fun, bright cheerful card!  Thanks for popping in today--be sure to stop back tomorrow for the next Inspired By challenge!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Filling the feeders!

New Clearance Rack Items!

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RRCB109 Anything Goes in a Garden

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's time again for the latest Retro Rubber Challenge, where we challenge you to use stamps at least one year old!  This week, it's "Anything Goes"!  Yay!  That's always fun!

My SIL has a birthday coming up, and she loves to garden, which gave me a chance to use one of my all-time favorite older SU stamps. Garden Pleasures, from 2001--wow, that's 18 years ago! So here we go:

I used the Global Design Project's sketch for this week, flipping it so my little birds would be looking at each other:

I stamped my image on Shimmery White cardstock, watercoloring it with an aquapainter and inks:

I added a sweet little Be Mine diecut Kraft element at the bottom, after cutting the image out with the Stitched Rectangle die (shortening it a wee bit).  The little sentiment banner is from a set called Small Sayings, from 2006; the inside birthday sentiment is from Better Together (2016); the rest of the images are from the same Garden Pleasures set:

I hope she likes it!  And I hope you'll play along with us as well!  Remember, stamps have to be at least a year old, and you must tell us the age in your post!  Check out all the DT samples at the Retro Rubber blog!  Hope to see you there!

Speaking of gardening, Cassidy is getting into her own little gardening groove:

Dana said she did this planter all by herself!  I think I need to put her to work on my patio!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together, Garden Pleasures (ret), Small Sayings (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Shimmery White, Crumb Cake, Kraft (ret), Precious Memories DSP (Graphic 45)
Ink	Stazon, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, So Saffron, Balmy Blue, Flirty Flamingo
Accessories	Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Be Mine Dies, Radiant Sunflower Die (for circle) (Simon Says Stamp), Aquapainter

CTS218 Merry

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!  The sun finally made an appearance yesterday and we had a lovely Easter service and a delicious potluck at my nephew's!  

I thought I would share the original card I made for the Paper Player's paper piecing challenge yesterday, but decided it wasn't CAS enough!  I used the CAS(E) this Sketch sketch for my layout:

And since I am really behind on my Christmas cards, decided to use an ornament stamp from an old Waltzingmouse stamp set for my creation:

I stamped the ornament on a scrap of Authentique's Christmastime paper, but the black Stazon didn't really show up very well.  Since I used my Stamparatus to stamp it, I cleaned off the stamp, re-stamped it with some Versamark ink, then heat-embossed it with some black embossing powder!  Much better! I did the same on some Brushed Silver cardstock for the ornament top, then fussy-cut them both out and mounted them on an embossed panel:

My sentiment banner is from a couple of different diecuts, and I stamped a little snowflake from a past Paper Pumpkin kit on each end just for fun!

 I love how this came out, but it isn't as CAS as I would have liked; it might not even be CAS for the sketch challenge, but that's okay...I like it just the same!

A few family pix from yesterday:

And Cassidy couldn't wait to hold Sawyer...although he doesn't like to be held very long!

Thanks for popping it...enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Waltzingmouse Stitched Christmas Ornaments (ret), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Brushed Silver (ret), Christmastime DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Stazon, Versamark, Riding Hood Red (ret)
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Heat Tool, Black Embossing Powder,  Perfect Polka Dot EF (ret), Ribbon Banner Die (Concord & 9th), November Small Die of the Month (Spellbinders)

Happy Resurrection Day!

The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified.  He is not here; he has risen, just as he said.  Come and see the place where he lay.  Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee.  There you will see him.' Now I have told you."  Matthew 28:5-7

Praise the Lord for his indescribable gift!  Happy Resurrection Day!

PP438 Paper Pieced Butterfly

Happy Sunday, Happy Easter, friends!  It's time for another Paper Players challenge with Anne Marie as our lovely hostess, and it's another CAS challenge!  This is a really fun one...great idea, Anne Marie!  So here we go:

Originally, I made a different card for this challenge but thought it wasn't quite "clean and simple" enough...maybe I'll share that one tomorrow!  I went back to the drawing board and came up with this:

 

I stamped the big butterfly from Beautiful Day on some Twinkle Twinkle DSP and fussy-cut it out.  I stamped it again on a card of Whisper White, then added some of the elements from the retiring Touches of Texture, stamping them in Petal Pink.  I adhered the cut-out butterfly, added the "friend" from Botanical Bliss, then added a few iridescent sequins for some zing:

And since the Festive Friday challenge this week is pink, and the CAS on Sunday challenge is butterflies, I am entering this at both of those as well!

I hope you'll play along with our CAS Paper Piecing challenge!  Be sure to check out the DT's samples as well:

Ann

Claire

Jaydee

Joanne

Laurie

Anne Marie

Su

Wanda

Windy

Thanks for popping by today!

Cassidy's dad recently was at a truck stop (he's a truck driver) and a little chihuahua ran up to him; apparently someone threw the little dog out the window (how anyone can do that is beyond me🙁).  Needless to say, they now have a new little member of the family:  Ginger!

Cassidy loves her!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Day, Botanical Bliss, Touches of Texture
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Twinkle Twinkle DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Petal Pink
Accessories	Iridescent Sequins (Sylvia' Etsy Shop)
Tools