Bold Peace

Happy Saturday, peeps!  We are shopping today to pack our Operation Christmas Child boxes!  Cassidy always likes to do that!  I squeezed in some time to create a Christmas card yesterday for a few challenges:  the gorgeous photo from The Card Concept, the FMS sketch, and the metallic Christmas from  In(k)spire Me!

The Card Concept always wants to know what style card you've created---I would say that this is "cleand and layered"!  I recently got a beautiful pad of patterned paper called Wonderland from KaiserCraft, and it had this gorgeous foiled paper with a funky tree design!  I matted it with a piece of Bermuda Bay foil; in order to save some of this gorgeous foil, after cutting the mat, I cut out the center of it so that I just had a "frame" on which I mounted the printed paper!  I then used part of the piece left from the inside of the frame to diecut the "peace" (Papertrey):

I also had some Bermuda Bay glimmer paper left from last Christmas, so I cut out a few little trees  (The Stamp Market) and topped them with some silver stars

On the inside, stamped with Bermuda Bay inked, I added a sentiment from a past Paper Pumpkin kit, along with some Stamp Market trees:

The card base is Naturals White...missing that nice paper from SU's lineup!  Glad I got some while it was on the Clearance Rack!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tiny Trees Two (The Stamp Market), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Pretty Peacock Foil in Bermuda Bay, Silver Foil, Wonderland 6x6 (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stars Die (Verve), Peace Die (Papertrey), Tiny Trees Two Dies (The Stamp Market)

AYSI214 Colorful Bird

 

Happy Friday, everyone!  The As You See It Challenge this week is decidedly bright!  At first I was intimidated, but as I worked with the colors, I came to love them together!  Check them out:

It wasn't my original plan to use Free as a Bird for my card, but I hadn't used it in a while, and it is so easy to color, I went for it!  So here we go:

I also used the Global Design Project challenge to CASE the designer, who is Sarah Berry; here is her inspiration, and I used her sketch as my starting point:

I stamped the single bird, flower and greenery in Stazon Black, then watercolored them with ink and an aquapainter...my favorite coloring method!  I added panels of Granny Apple Green and Pineapple Punch from some retired DSPs, a Blueberry Bushel diecut scallop and mounted them on a card that was embossed with the Pinewood Planks EF:

I mounted my bird on a rectangle diecut with a Stitched Rectangle die, after stamping some elements from A Big Thank You.  Finally, I rounded the corners of the card with a corner punch.  I just love these pretty, vibrant colors!  Wouldn't this card cheer someone up?!  I hope you'll play along with our challenge too....can't wait to see what you do with these colors!  Share it with us over at As You See It!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Free as a Bird, A Big Thank You
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Blueberry Bushel, In Colors DSP (ret), Gingham (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Blueberry Bushel, Pineapple Punch, Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Rectangle Stitched Dies, Be Mine Dies, Aquapainter, Pinewood Planks EF

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

Grateful Woodland Wreath

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  A sweet little card today for two challenges: the SIP challenge of thankful (mine is actually grateful, I hope that's okay), and the TSOT sketch:

I realize as I look at the TSOT sketch, I missed the little horizontal banner part..oops, oh well!  Anyway, I just got this cute Woodland Greetings set (CTMH) and couldn't resist inking it up and coloring in some of the images:

All the images were stamped on Crumb Cake with Soft Suede ink and colored with Blends and Copics; I heat embossed the sentiment in white and did a little bit of sponging around the edges:

I shaded the bunny a tiny bit with a Blend, then highlighted his tummy and tail with a gel pen...he is the cutest, don't you think?  All the patterned papers are from Authentique's Nestled pad.  I added some white twine to complement the white embossing.

On the inside, I stamped a little fox and a sentiment from CTMH's Inspired Words set.  And it's already in the mail!

Thanks for popping in today!  Sorry I have no pix lately, but Cassidy is spending the night Friday so hopefully I will have some then....if I can sneak them in!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Online Extravaganza 3 Days Only!

Hey stampers!  November 20 starts a Stampin' Up! promotion...selected cardstocks, inks and bundles are on sale, just in time for your holiday stamping!  You can click HERE on the 20th for all the details and ordering, or just send me an email and I can help you with whatever you need!  Remember, it ends on Friday, November 22, so don't delay!

RRCB124 Tic Tac Toe

Hey everyone!  It's time for another Retro Rubber Challenge...this week it's tic-tac-toe time!  Check out the grid:

I chose to use the top row of metallics, mode of transport and patterned paper!  Now, the mode of transport is a bit tongue-in-cheek....but I thought a tricycle would be a fun image on a card for a little boy who never grew up!  So here we go:

My tricycle image, along with the sentiments next to it are from an Artistic Outpost set called Playtime (not sure of the date...maybe 2010?), and it was stamped in Night of Navy on some Authentique denim-look paper:

I also used images from Gorgeous Grunge (2013) to give it a bit more "vintage" look, and the sentiment is from Suite Sentiments (2017); I love how it goes along with the playful theme:

 

I added some metal embellishments as well, and then the inside features the old faithful, Guy Greetings (2015):

The sketch I used is the CAS(E) This Sketch, but I am afraid it's a bit too busy to be considered clean and simple, but here it is anyway:

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Playtime (Artistic Outpost), Gorgeous Grunge (ret), Suite Sentiments (ret), Guy Greetings (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Genuine DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Night of Navy, Basic Gray, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Metal Brads (ret)
Tools

Bold Poinsettia

Happy Monday, peeps!  I have my last two stamp camps today, so I am squeaking this in quickly!  When I saw a gorgeous poinsettia card made by my Paper Players teammate Su Mohr, I knew I wanted to give it a try.  You can see hers HERE.  She used the smaller leaf from Rooted in Nature,but I wanted to try it with the larger leaf...and it makes a BIG poinsettia!  So here we go:

I ended up using both the large and small leaves, all stamped in Lovely Lipstick ink, along with some Old Olive leaves to create my Christmas poinsettia!  I backed it with a panel of Old Olive gingham, and instead of using sequins for the center (which is a fabulous idea), I simply punched a circle of Gold glimmer paper:

I stamped a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas in Gold Glitz ink, and to intensify the goldness as well as make it dry faster, I brushed on some gold Pearl-ex!  My final addition was a trio of Gold Pearls in the upper right hand side.  Thanks, Su, for a great inspiration!

Dana and Wayne treated us to dinner at a Brazilian steakhouse, where the servers come around to your table with huge skewers of different meats and slice off pieces for you!  It was amazing!  And yummy!

Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!