AYSI 239 Purple Get Well

Happy Friday, peeps! Our As You See It challenge today WAS a challenge for me...we're to use a color that we most avoid!  Oh dear...for me, that would be purple!

Luckily, I remembered some pretty papers I bought this past spring, but never used, and there were some purple patterns in there...mixed with Soft Sky, so it wasn't so challenging for me!  Here we go:

My card base is Highland Heather, and my sentiment is from Many Mates.  I added some florals and greenery from Lovely You, stamped in Pear Pizzazz and Gorgeous Grape and fussy-cut:

On the inside, the other half of the Many Mates sentiment and a little leftover strip of the DSP:

My sketch is from Try Stampin' On Tuesday:

So....what color do YOU avoid, LOL?!  I can't wait to see what you choose....please push through your avoidance and share your creation with us at As You See It!  And be sure to check out what all the other designers' "avoidance" colors are as well!  You'll be surprised!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Many Mates, Lovely You
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Highland Heather, Soft Sky (ret), Sending Love DSP Gina K Designs)
Ink	Gorgeous Grape, Pear Pizzazz
Accessories	White Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched So Sweetly Dies

Going Old School for IB151

Hi everyone!  Time for a fun new Inspired By challenge!  Aren't these bottle brush trees cuuuuute?

And here's our optional sketch for you to use, or not!  I did choose to use it today!

 

I knew just what set I wanted to use too!  Here we go:

Papertrey's Joyful Christmas has three sizes of these sweet little trees, and I used the largest one for my tree trio...say that three times fast!  As far as the "old school" portion of my card, I stamped these in Versamark ink and pulled out my (really) old pastels to give them each a trio of colors!

I diecut them first and put them in Stamparatus with a cardboard template; after lining them up and inking them with Versamark, it was easy to take them out and swoosh them with a cotton ball and some pastels!  I love how they turned out!  The same set has this pretty sentiment, so I heat-embossed it in silver:

And I used another Papertrey set to stamp the inside:

I just can't wait to see how you interpret this prompt!  I am already in love with the samples that the DT created!  Check them ALL out at Inspired By...and show us yours too!  Thanks for popping in today!

I thought I'd share some pictures of our great-nephews Zion and Titus, from John's side of the family!  They're just as cute as Jameson and Sawyer, we just don't get to see them as often!  My niece took advantage of the warmer weather (it's COLD right now) to go to a local county park:

Titus is on the left, Zion on the right.....you can't see his face as well, but trust me he's a cutie!  And they're ALL BOY!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Joyful Christmas and O Holy Night (both Papertrey Ink)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Winter Wonderland DSP (Simple Stories), Champagne Foil
Ink	Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Mint Macaron, Silver Encore (ret), Versamark
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Embossing Powder, Stampin' Pastels (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Joyful Christmas Dies (Papertrey Ink), Heat Tool

TCC144 Homespun Greetings

Happy Wednesday, stampers!  Thanks for coming for a visit! It's time for a new Card Concept challenge, and Julie has chosen a prompt that I just love!  Check this one out:

 

I have white rockers on my porch but they are in pretty sad shape, and we usually put them away for the winter....but I sure like how they gussied these up!  SO....I was inspired by that awesome Buffalo check pillow and the greenery against the white, so here's what I came up with for my Clean and Layered card:

My SU Buffalo Check background stamp worked like a charm; I stamped it with Memento Black ink on Real Red cardstock, using my Stamparatus....it actually looks like flannel to me!  My sentiment is from Tim Holtz, stamped in Shaded Spruce, diecut with an oval die and matted with a Shaded Spruce scallop:

I went back and forth trying to decide if I should leave the bells plain or colored, and in the end, I stamped a second set, colored them with Blends and fussy-cut them so they could be popped up.  I added some Silver Metallic pearls for the clappers!  And I remembered some dark green glimmer paper from the Holiday catalog a couple years back, so I used a Tim Holtz greenery die to cut some sparkly foliage!

And just a hint when you're die-cutting glimmer paper...first peel off the paper backing that gives the glimmer paper that thickness....it is much easier to diecut!  You can even add some adhesive sheet to it (although I didn't here) and it still cuts through nicely.  The inside sentiment is a retro-style one from Flonzcraft:

 And the sketch that I used comes from Sunday Stamps:

We hope you'll play along with our beautiful challenge....just check out the different styles or "concepts" at the Card Concept blog and share which style you're featuring!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."  Romans 1:20

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Buffalo Check, Holiday Greetings (Tim Holtz), Vintage Christmas Sentiments (Flonzcraft)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Green Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Metallic Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Oval and Scalloped Oval Dies (Nestabilities), Holiday Greens Dies (Tim Holtz), Real Red Blends

RRCB148 Birthday Celebration

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Time for a new Retro Rubber Challenge where we give our "retro" stamps (at least a year old) some love!  This challenge fit perfectly into my calendar:

because yesterday was John's birthday!  So here we go:

Not as colorful and festive as the photo prompt, but if you knew John, "colorful" would not be an adjective you would use to describe him!!!  Instead, I used some "manly" elements...silver embossing, silver brads and silver tools!!!  My sentiment is from Suite Sentiments (2017), stamped in Stazon Black on Very Vanilla and diecut with a Stitched Shapes square die and layered with some Silver foil:

The dies are ones I got several years ago from My Favorite Things:

And the inside sentiment is from a set I got eons ago when Cornish Heritage Farm was still around!

The sketch is from Try Stampin' On Tuesday:

So I hope you'll play along with our birthday challenge this week...if you're like me, you always need birthday cards, especially masculine ones!  Just be sure to use stamps that are at least a year old, and tell us how old they are!  Can't wait to see what you create...share it over at the Retro Rubber blog!  See you there!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Suite Sentiments (2018), Birthday Sentiments (Cornish Heritage Farm, ret 2008??)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Silver Foil, Urban Underground DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black
Accessories	Silver Brads (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Tool Dies (My Favorite Things), 1/8" Hole Punch

Fusion Thanksgiving

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend!  The Fusion Card Challenge had an interesting sketch for a Thanksgiving card:

so I made a Thanksgiving card (two, actually) as well as a Christmas card!  First, the really, really CAS Thanksgiving card using circles cut from In Good Taste DSP and a sentiment from Banner Year, and embellished with a piece of Early Espresso Faux Suede ribbon:

And while I had those papers out, I made another one with banners instead of circles; this one uses Braided Linen ribbon and a little acorn from the same Banner Year set, layered on Crumb Cake:

For the Christmas card, I used larger circles and some Toile Tidings DSP, which I have totally neglected this season!  I just love the sweet little scene, it reminds me of my own childhood, sledding down our barn bridge and building snowmen with my siblings!

I used a retired Snow Flurry embossing folder and a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas.  Simple and easy!  And since this has Christmas stamping and an embossing folder, I am entering this one at Let's Squash It! as well as Christmas Kickstart!

Thanks for popping in today!

Brilliant maple trees from my yard:

This tree was so yellow, it turned the whole yard yellow!  Beautiful!  And now...they're all gone....laying on my yard, wet and soggy!  Thanks for popping in today!

"Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Trust in God; trust also in me.  In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you.  I am going there to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.  You know the way to the place where I am going." John 14:1-4

PP517 CAS Christmas

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge!  Ann is our hostess with a CLEAN AND SIMPLE challenge for us this week:

I chose Christmas as my holiday, but you can choose ANY holiday that you like...just make sure it's clean and simple!  So here we go:

 

I stamped and diecut some simple trees, lined them up on a snowy stitched hill, and added a simple trendy sentiment for my card today!  The design also features some silver foil, wee little rhinestones, and red glimmer paper for a bit of pizzazz!

Both the sentiment and the trees are from The Stamp Market; this beautiful sentiment on the inside is from Hero Arts and was a gift from my sweet friend Peggy:

I used the sketch from FMS and the colors from Color Throwdown:

So what holiday will you celebrate "cleanly and simply" this week?  Hope you'll share it with us at the Paper Players....meanwhile, check out what the DT did over at the PP blog and get some inspiration from them as well! See you there!

I am feeling better this weekend...my doctor was able to give me some antibiotics and hopefully it will keep that sinusitis at bay!  Thanks to all who asked how I was doing!  Now, Cassidy has been doing some virtual "traveling"...she got a kit from Highlights called Top Secret; she has to read the brochure, figure out the codes, get the clues and solve a mystery, all in Japan!  Kind of like Clue!  Here are a few shots:

Thanks for popping in today--enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tiny Trees Two, Candy Cane Christmas (both The Stamp Market), Peace Stamp & Cut (Hero Arts), Paper Pumpkin (snowflake, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Red Glimmer (ret), Silver Foil
Ink	Pool Party, Real Red
Accessories	Foam Sheets, Dimensionals, Small Rhinestones (AC Moore)
Tools	Big Shot, Tiny Trees Two Dies, Candy Cane Christmas Dies (both The Stamp Market), Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn)

CAS Christmas

 Hello peeps, sorry I am late today....just one of those things!  I do have a CAS Christmas card to share for two challenges:  the CAS(E) This Sketch sketch and CAS on Sunday, which is to use a big sentiment:

I hope my sentiment is large enough...it's a die called Wisdom Tree from Cottage Cutz; I cut it from a piece of Real Red cardstock, backed with some Adhesive Sheet to make it easier to adhere.  Here we go:

I mounted it on a piece of Whisper White cardstock that was embossed with a Tim Holtz Poinsettia Knit embossing folder, then added a Dazzling Diamonds punched star on top.  

It all went on a Just Jade card base, and after stamping my sentiment on the inside, it was done!

Thanks for popping in today--I am off to the doctor's to see if he can give me something for these terrible sinus issues I've been having!  This is one of the worst years ever!  Hope you are all staying healthy!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."  John 3:16