PP658 CAS Sports x Two

Happy Sunday, everyone!  I hope your weekend is going well!  It's the fabulous Claire's turn to host our Paper Players challenge today and she has a great one!  So here we go:

I actually made two for this challenge; the first one I thought was not quite CAS enough!  So I just made another! I can always use them!  So, here we go with the first one:

In my search for some graphic-style paper, I found some in my stash that matched Starry Sky pretty well, and since that's a color I rarely use, I thought I would challenge myself! I pulled out a retired stamp, Exteme Skater, a Paper Pumpkin sentiment and some Gorgeous Grunge and did some simple stamping; I hope skateboarding is considered a sport, LOL:

Everything went on an Orchid Oasis card base and I added a strip of the same paper on the inside:

And here's my first card, I used retired sets called Have a Ball and Your Biggest Fan along with the FMS sketch for this week:

Here's the sketch:

And the inside:

I think this is a great opportunity to create some clean-and-simple masculine cards!  What sports fan do you know who would love a card featuring his (or her) favorite team or sport?  Put on your creative thinking caps and share your creation with us at the Paper Players! 

Here's something I made while pursuing one of my favorite "sports"--knitting!  I made up this pattern off the top of my head; in the future I'll make it less bulky at top and bottom!  The retired Stitched Leaves dies came in handy to create the felt leaves!

 Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gorgeous Grunge (ret), Extreme Skater (ret), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Orchid Oasis, Little by Little DSP (American Crafts)
Ink	Starry Sky, Orchid Oasis
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Rectangle Stitched Dies

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Have a Ball (ret), Your Biggest Fan (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Real Red, Cajun Craze, Real Red DSP
Ink	Real Red, Memento Black, Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Circle Dies, 1" Circle Punch, 1 1/4"Circle Punch

Magic Meadow Tis the Season

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I have great plans to CLEAN UP my craft room today!  We'll see how that goes, LOL! It's a hot mess right now!  Anyway, I did have time yesterday to finally play with the new Magic Meadow stamps and DSPs, and the sketch from Jingle Belles worked great for it!  Here's the sketch:

And here's my take on it:

I used a Smoky Slate card base, then diecut a panel of the DSP with the retired Stitched Nested Labels die.  The die I used was a little too long, so I ran it through again to shorten it a bit.  I also used a piece of Pretty Peacock Shimmer paper for the mat....it looks really pretty with the Lost Lagoon colors.  I stamped the trees Lost Lagoon, and the sentiment (Simon Says Stamp) was stamped in Pretty Peacock.  I also used a couple of those new Faceted Gems for embellishments...they're pretty fat, so this will take extra postage, but it's worth it!  Hopefully you can see how pretty that Shimmer paper is....love it!

It's Christmas week at the Krafty Chicks, too, so I'll be entering this over there as well!  Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Magic Meadow, Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Smoky Slate, Pretty Peacock Shimmer Specialty Paper, Magic Meadow DSP
Ink	Lost Lagoon, Pretty Peacock
Accessories	Facted Gems, Dimensionals.
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Nested Labels Dies (ret)

Celebrate The Season

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I've been missing my stamp room today...it took me two days to get this card done, LOL!  But between laundry, picking stuff from the garden and work, I finally finished it!  So here we go:

This is for a couple of challenges; the Inspire.Create sketch, and the Retro Rubber Fall Scenes challenge:

 

I used several older stamp sets for this card....I had to do a lot of searching to find the ages of them, LOL!  (I'll list the ages below in my "recipe"!)  I used some papers from Honey Bee Stamps for the background, placing them on a panel embossed with the Leaf Fall embossing folder.  I accented my little punkin with some Wild Wheat twine and they're hard to see, but there are silver sequins on the panel as well!

The sentiment and leaves from Beautiful Autumn (2020) was stamped on the inside:

I really enjoyed pulling out these older stamps and playing with them once again!  Thanks for visiting today!  

So I just want to thank everyone who reached out to make sure I was okay during the last two weeks...my little community in Chester County was very close to where the escaped prisoner was hiding, although we were never in danger as he was never that close to us.  He was close to Longwood, where my brother works, and the area where he was captured was relatively close to John's sister's home, but thankfully it is all over now.  The Avondale State Police barracks to where he was transported was the nearest to us but he was in good hands there!  So happy that K9 did his job perfectly, and we are grateful to the countless police officers as well. It was brutally hot last week and the area in which the escapee was hiding was thick and dense. It's easy to be an armchair critic when we're sitting in our nice cool homes and they are out in the thick of it.  I am just glad it's over!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Autumn, (ret, 2020), Happy Scenes (ret, 2015), Itty Bitties (ret 2013), Leave It (Sweet 'n Sassy, 2016), September Stamp of the Month (CTMH 2018), Autumn Blessings (CTMH 2019)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Grapefruit Grove, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze,  Halloween Harvest (Honey Bee)
Ink	Versafine Black, Pumpkin Pie, Pebbled Path
Accessories	Silver Sequins, Wild Wheat Thick Twine, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Leaf Fall EF, Blends, Autumn Punch Pack Leaf Punch

Stamps for Sale

 I'm selling a few stamps---check out the "Stamps for Sale" page above to check them out!

Stamp Club Projects

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Yesterday was stamp club and I thought I'd share the projects that we made.  First, I want to say that the stamping community is an awesome one, where creative people share their cards freely on their blogs and social media!  That means people like MOI can CASE them (Copy And Share Everything)!  These two cards are a perfect example!  I borrowed ideas from two of my favorite stampers and made them my own!  So thanks, Amanda and Beth!  So here we go!   

The first card was a CASE from Amanda Mertz.  You can see her original card here.  For our card, we used Thick Very Vanilla cardstock, embossed it with the Leaf Fall embossing folder, then layered three strips of All About Autumn DSP, cut with the Rectangle Stitched dies, then added a copper-embossed sentiment from Fruitful Blessings:

The Countryside Corners die was a perfect fit for this pretty sentiment:

And we stamped this sentiment from Lasting Joy in Copper Clay ink on the inside:

Our second project featured a Faux Side Step Card from Beth McCullough.  You can see her original card here.  We used the cute Pick of the Patch set with its matching punch, along with some Pumpkin Pie and Granny Apple Green inks and cardstock:

Here's the inside too:

The girls seemed to love them!  Again, thanks to Amanda and Beth for their creativity!  Thanks for popping in today!

Sawyer caught a fish while on vacation...look at the expression on that face!  Priceless!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Lasting Joy, Fruitful Blessings
Card stock & Papers	Thick Very Vanilla, All About Autumn DSP
Ink	Versamark, Copper Clay
Accessories	Copper Embossing Powder, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Leaf Fall EF, Rectangle Stitched Dies, Countryside Corner Dies, Heat Tool

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pick of the Patch
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green DSP
Ink	Versamark, Pumpkin Pie, Memento Black, Granny Apple Green, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Pick of the Patch Builder Punch

TTTC225 So Very Blessed

Happy Monday, everyone! Yesterday we honored our pastor and his family; they've been at our church for five years and we are so blessed to have them!  The card I made for them fulfilled the Tic Tac Toe challenge:  I used the right column down of square, masculine and leaves:

I pulled out my Lawn Fawn Stitched Leaves dies...these are my all-time favorites....and some leafy paper from my stash, so here we go:

I wish I had made it a wee bit smaller; it's 5 1/4" square, but it is what it is! The sentiments I used are from Stamp Simply's Framhouse Scriptural Thoughts, stamped in Pecan Pie ink.  I cut my leaves from Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie and Poppy Parade.  I did add a couple wee little Crumb Cake stamps in the corner of the sentiment panel; it just looked a little bare.  And I just could not stand adding one little embellishment (my pastor likes things PLAIN...this will probably be too fussy for him, LOL!) of some twine on the smaller leaf:

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed too!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Farmhouse Scriptural Thoughts (Stamp Simply), Itty Bitties (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pecan Pie, Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Fall Break (Carta Bella)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Twine, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Rectangle Stitched Dies,  Stitched Leaves Dies (Lawn Fawn)

PP657 Color Challenge from Jaydee

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Hope your weekend is going well so far! We're to have a picnic today at church--we'll see how the weather cooperates!  Meanwhile, Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess today and her color challenge really did challenge me!  Yikes---check it out!

Oh my...the dreaded Wild Wheat AND Pebbled Path, LOL!  Well, I gave it a go, that's what challenges are for, right?  And I will admit that I was happy with the outcome!  Here we go:

It helped that I had a fun sketch to work with; this one is from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

along with the Dainty Designs stamps and dies.  I stamped the images in Saddle Brown Stazon ink, then colored them with reinkers and an aquapainter.  I adhered them to a Pebbled Path frame diecut with the Countryside Corners dies:

I added Stitched Rectangle panels, embossed with the Timber embossing folder and an embossed sentiment from Inked & Tiled, stamped on Pretty Peacock:

I added a few diecut flowers leaves, and everything went on an embossed panel of Timeworn Type.  These colors are pretty nice for fall, and they work wonderfully together in lighter shades and small doses, LOL!  Since The Flower Challenge is looking for die cuts this week, I am also going to enter it there!

I hope you'll play along with Jaydee's color challenge...don't be intimidated by it like I was, they're really lovely fall colors and I know you'll be able to use them to their best advantage.  Hop on over to the Paper Players blog to see what the other designers did to get some more inspiration! 

My two great-nephews are following in their dad's footsteps, learning a lot of outdoor skills; here, they're learning archery while dad watches:

We've got a righty and a lefty!

We recently found out that a little sister will be added to the family...she'll probably learn all this good stuff too!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!
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Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Dainty Delights, Inked & Tiled
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pebbled Path, Pretty Peacock, Wild Wheat, Copper Clay
Ink	Saddle Brown Stazon, Pretty Peacock, Wild Wheat, Copper Clay, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Timber Embossing Folder, Timeworn Type Embossing Folder, Dainty Delights Dies, Countryside Corners Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Timeless Arrangements Dies, Heat Tool, Aquapainter