PP663 Sketch from Jaydee

Happy Sunday, peeps! Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess this week and it's sketch week! I love sketches!  Here we go:

Wouldn't you know it, I needed another sympathy card this week, so I used Jaydee's sketch to create one:

These beautiful All About Autumn papers are just perfect for a thoughtful card; I used two layers of vellum for my bottom panel so you could still see the leaves through them a bit, and a panel of Copper Clay for the top panel, embossed (debossed, actually) with the Leaf Fall embossing folder:

The sentiment and diecut are both from Papertrey; I added some enamel dots for interest.  A simple sentiment from Stamp Simply was stamped in Early Espresso on the inside:

I am also going to pop this in over at JUGS where they have a lovely mood board:

I hope you'll play with our intriguing sketch this week!  Be sure to visit the Paper Players blog to see what all the designers came up with. I hope they inspire you to play with us as well!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Inspired: Prayer (Papertrey), Farmhouse Scriptural Thoughts (Stamp Simply)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Copper Clay, Vellum, All About Autumn DSP
Ink	Early Espresso, Copper Clay
Accessories	Enamel Dots (from my stash), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Leaf Fall Embossing Folder, Deckle Edge Rectangle Die, Prayer Die (Papertrey)

Stamp Camp Fall Projects

Happy Friday, peeps! Hope you have a great weekend planned!  Keeping my fingers crossed that we don't have rain on Saturday, as it's our Harvest Party at church!  Don't want our bonfire to get drenched!  Here are a couple more projects from my stamp camp; these were two of the fall cards we made:

These both used some beautiful embossing folders, sentiments from Paper Tray and various dies from SU and Lawn Fawn.  These may just have been my favorites!

Again, if you have any questions, shoot me an email (and include your email as well so I can answer!).  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Stamp Camp Halloween Projects

Happy Thursday, peeps! I have a very busy couple of days coming up so I thought I'd just share a few projects that we made at my recent stamp camp!  The theme was Halloween, Thanksgiving and fall, and today I'll share the Halloween ones!  Here we go:

This Trick or Treat one uses lots of punches and dies with papers from Honey Bee's Harvest line.  The sentiment is from an old Recollections set and the dies are from Impression Obsession.

The silhouette one uses an image from 100 Proof Press and another Recollections sentiment, along with some papers from Close to My Heart.  I just love this vintage image!  (Measurements for the panels are:  Pumpkin Pie 2 1/2" x 5 1/2"; star and plaid papers 1" x 3"; white circle 1 1/4"; black circle 1 3/8".)

If you need any more information, just shoot me an email!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

FMS608 FaBOOlous Candy Corn

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  These fall allergies are kicking my butt! I did manage to scrape some time together today to create a fun little card using the FMS sketch.  At first, I had no idea what to do with it, but then a light bulb went on! First, the sketch:

I went pretty literal with it...adding a couple little bits and bobs:

Do you like candy corn?  I feel the same way about candy corn as I do about marshmallows....one or two a year, and I'm good to go!  I don't have any candy corn dies, but I do have Stitched Triangle dies, so I went to work building my candy corn array here, "hanging" them on a twine and adding a retired Hostess sentiment and a little black cat!

They all went on a Crumb Cake panel and then on a Basic White base; here's the inside, with a spooky sentiment and a couple more black cats:

Another to add to my stash!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Six Sayings (ret), Spooky Street (Newton's Nook)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie
Ink	Versafine Black, Daffodil Delight
Accessories	Black Dimensionals, Black & White Twine (Doodlebug)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Triangle Dies, Cat Dies (Impression Obsession)

Fruitful Blessings Sympathy

Happy Tuesday, stamping friends! Sadly, I needed a sympathy card this week and the Color Hues challenge was yellow and kraft:

I still had Fruitful Blessings on my desk from yesterday's card and I had some stamped images unused, so I put them together:

I used the sketch only from Try Stampin On Tuesday:

My image was stamped in Stazon Black and watercolored with Crumb Cake ink. I then added some retired DSP for the panels, added a diecut circle that was embossed with the Timeworn Type EF and a little linen thread bow.  The sentiment is from  Lasting Joy:

I added two sentiments from Special Moments on the inside:

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

God blesses the soil which drinks in the rain that often falls on it and which grows plants that are useful to those for whim it is cultivated.  But if it grows thorns and weeds, it is worth nothing; it is in danger of being cursed by God and will be destroyed by fire. Hebrews 6:7-8

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Fruitful Blessings, Lasting Joy, Special Moments (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Basic White, Hello Honey (ret), Harvest Meadow DSP (ret), Crumb Cake DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Linen Thread from my stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Fruitful Blessings Dies, Timeworn Type Embossing Folder

GDP416 Fruitful Blessings

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend!  I have a Thanksgiving card for you today that uses the "CAS the Designer" challenge at Global Design Project:

I should have made a Halloween card, since I am low on them, but the corn in the Fruitful Blessings cards, along with the Stitched Leaves dies, were calling to me!  Here we go:

My friend Wendy inspired me to get out these retired plaid papers for my background, and the rest is just simple diecutting.  The stamped sentiment is from Fruitful Blessings, and I added some linen thread I picked up at a yard sale.  There is also a Crushed Curry panel under the arrangement, diecut with the Radiating Stitches dies.

My sister went home this morning, but yesterday we visited another local Community Fair, this one was in Unionville.  The only photo I got was of this cowboy on stilts!!!  You can see by the sky, it was windy and chilly!  And he was moving so fast, I couldn't get a good picture of his face! But the kids loved him!  The gun he was shooting was full of bubbles!

My sister took this picture of me and John in the exhibits booth next to a big pumpkin.  They have categories of all sorts of flowers, vegetables, hay, photography, artwork and needlework and have them separated into adult and children.  We had to giggle that the sign for "Adult Vegetables" was right over John's head!

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Fruitful Blessings
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Plaid Tidings DSP (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Linen Thread from my Stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Radiating Stitches Dies, Fruitful Blessings, Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Leaves Dies (ret)

PP662 CAS Happy Fall Y'All

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's time for another Paper Players challenge, with Joanne as our hostess, and she has a Clean-and-Simple one for us:

Remember, CAS means limited layers and we like to see some open space!  I combined the challenge with the gorgeous color palette over at As You See It:

So here we go:

I do have a few layers on my card, but they're pretty plain, so I am hoping Joanne won't disqualify me!  I diecut a layer of Basic White cardstock and embossed it with the retired Gingham EF, then diecut a pumpkin from a piece of Copper Clay that had piece of Adhesive Sheet adhered to the back.  Once I did the diecut, I peeled off the adhesive sheet from the back and stuck it to another piece of Copper Clay and fussy-cut it out to create the base for my pumpkin.  Although you can't see it here, I coated each portion of the diecut with Wink of Stella...it looks amazing in real life!  A few Crumb Cake leaves and a sentiment from the retired Banner Year finished it off, all on a base of Misty Moonlight:

I recently won a gift certificate to Pink & Main, and I sent this as a thank you; here's the inside, because they did certainly brighten up my day!

Thanks to my friend Lisa, I am entering this over at the JUGS challenge this week, which is "pumpkins"!

I love the rich colors on this card, thanks to AYSI!  I hope you'll play along with our CAS challenge too...the signs of autumn are certainly visible in my neck of the woods!  Be sure to pop over to the Players to see what everyone else created, then share yours with us too!

A few signs of fall around the farm:

The berries are some sort of holly and elderberry; the maple trees are just starting to turn:

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Banner Year (ret), Special Moments (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Copper Clay, Misty Moonlight, Crumb Cake
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gingham EF (ret), Detailed Pumpkins Dies (ret), Patterned Pumpkins Dies, 1/2" Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Wink of Stella Pen