40th Anniversary Card

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a lovely weekend.  My friend Robyn, who is also my co-worker at church as well as a crafty stamper herself, has been working at our church for FORTY years!  Wow!  She has seen lots of changes in her many years and has still maintained her positive spirit and love of the Lord! We managed to surprise her yesterday with a big luncheon!  And of course, I had to make her a card in her favorite color of purple!

I stamped the florals from Dainty Delight in Stazon Black, then watercolored them and diecut them with the matching dies.  Although you can't see it very well in the photo, the horizontal panel is Glimmer Paper, which gave it a wonderful sparkle!  A little scalloped panel of Mint Macaron, and it all went on a piece of Gorgeous Grape dsp.  

I added some sparkly ribbon and a little tag from Our Daily Bread Designs, and stamped a congrats on the inside:

I used the sketch from Just Add Ink:

And I am also entering this at the Time Out Challenges this week where they want something sparkly!

I had to share this from the luncheon yesterday; Robyn loves chocolate, so her daughters and several others made chocolate desserts.  There was quite an array from which to choose:

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

A friend loveth at all times. Proverbs 17:17a

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Dainty Delight, Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs), Farmhouse All Occasion Greetings (Stamp Simply)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mint Macaron (ret), White Glimmer (ret), Gorgeous Grape DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Gorgeous Grape, Fresh Freesia, Mint Macaron (ret)
Accessories	Glitter Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Dainty Delight Dies, Scalloped Contour Dies, Large Banner Dies (Pink & Main), 1/8" Hole Punch, Aquapainter

PP670 Yummy for You

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Today is the last challenge of the year for the Paper Players! This time of the year, everyone is needing a break, right?  Claire is our hostess and she is going out with a bang with her bright color challenge:

 

I admit that this one had me scratching my head!  I pulled out a set I don't use very often, called Super Cool, did a little fussy-cutting and die cutting and here's what I came up with:

I used the FMS sketch:

and some Tahitian Tide DSP and cardstock to create the vertical piece, then stamped my goodie in Melon Mambo and Real Red, then trimmed the strawberry and popped it up back on top:

I diecut the sentiment using Love For You dies, then added sentiments on the inside too:

Big and bold and bright!

What will you do with these colors?!  The design team came up with some really beautiful samples! Check them out over at the Paper Players blog and show us your creativity as well!  We'll see you back on January 7, 2024!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Super Cool, Biggest Wish, More Wishes
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Real Red, Tahitian Tide, Tahitian Tide DSP
Ink	Basic Black, Real Red, Tahitian Tide, Melon Mambo
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies, Love For You Dies

Very Merry Scotties

Happy Saturday, peeps! Hope you have a good weekend planned!  I am squeaking in one more Christmas card for the year; I always send my niece a Scottie card, as she has three of them!  I don't remember if I sent her one with this little lineup before...if I did, I am sure she'll forgive me!

The challenge from CAS on Sunday is to use black, white and one other color, so I chose to use some Poppy Parade gingham that I printed digitally as a background for my Scottie lineup:

The die is from Cottage Cutz; I added a little scallop border and embossed the front of my card with a Darice Snowflake embossing folder.  My sentiment, from CC Designs, was stamped in Versafine Black and I added a glitter scallop behind it...a little redder than the Poppy Parade, but hopefully she'll not notice!

Except for a few stragglers, I think I've got almost all my cards mailed!!!  Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jolly Christmas (CC Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Poppy Parade, Real Red Glimmer (ret), Gingham (digitally printed)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Scottie Lineup Die (Cottage Cutz), Stitched Borders Dies (Lawn Fawn), Layering Circles Dies (ret), Snowflake Embossing Folder (Darice)

Complimentary Peanuts

Happy Friday, peeps!  I have a silly little birthday card today for my brother; every time I look at this stamp set, it cracks me up, hopefully he'll get the humor too.  It uses the sketch from Try Stampin' On Tuesday as well as the Stamp Act challenge from Krafty Chicks and Felicita's  Tic Tac Toe challenge!  

I used the bottom row across of free, embellishment and diecut.  So here we go:

I used some papers from my stash; stamped the peanuts and loosely colored them with Blends, then stamped the "compliments" separately and popped them up after cutting them out:

Being the only boy in the family, this is probably pretty much how my brother sees himself anyway, so I'm sure he'll get it! LOL!  Just kidding!  But he does know he's pretty special! 

We got a nice little snowfall yesterday, it was fun to watch the flakes while I made cookies and decorated our tree!  This little bird didn't let the snow deter him:

And even Mr Fox was out and about:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	That's Funny (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Misc DSP from my stash
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow, Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals, Enamel Dots (W+9)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentials Dies, Large Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Crumb Cake Blend

Happy Christmas Deer

Happy Thursday, peeps! The week is screeching along to the weekend and I feel behind!  LOL, I am sure I will get it all done, right?!  I made a card a couple of days ago and just had the time to post, and it happened to be for a couple of challenges!  First, the sketch at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown:

And both Little Red Wagon and Double D challenges want Christmas animals on their cards:

I hadn't used this sweet little deer diecut from Papertrey for a while, so I decided he needed to make an appearance:

I guarantee you that John won't see a deer out in the woods decked out like this one, LOL!  He's created from some retired Naturals White cardstock, mounted on various Christmas papers, and decorated with some sequins and twine on his little wreath around his neck:

The layers are mounted on a 4 1/4" square Mossy Meadow card, and the sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Christmas Blessings!  Off to make some more cookies!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mossy Meadow, Naturals White (ret), Real Red Glimmer (ret), Winter Flowers (Unity), Christmas Salutations (Echo Park)
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Real Red
Accessories	Sequins (from my stash), Cherry Cobbler Thick Baker's Twine (ret), Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Deer to Me Dies (Papertrey), Large Banner Dies (Pink & Main)

AHSC554 A Really Big Baby Card

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  I guess by the name of my post, you might think this is a baby card for a really big baby, or a really big card for a normal-sized baby!  Thankfully, it's the latter! My niece finally had her baby Sunday night, and I used the sketch from Atlantic Hearts for their card:

So here's my really big card:

I wanted to be able to use a business-sized envelope, so the card is 3 3/4" x 8 1/2".  I apologize for the poor quality photo....I guess it's just too big!  I used some plaid papers from the retired Country Gingham DSP, and some scrapbook paper from my stash.  The teddy bear was stamped and colored with Blends; it's from the retired Every Little Bit, and he was mounted on an embossed square of Basic White:

The sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs and the enamel dots are retired SU.  And on the inside, some sentiments from Charming Sentiments, stamped in Azure Afternoon, and for the Global Design Project challenge this week, which is "ABC--using letters", 

I diecut Papertrey letters for his name:

And here is baby Coby, with Mommy and Daddy and big brother Cole....and he weighed in at 9 lb, so I guess you could say he was a big baby!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Charming Sentiments, Every Little Bit (ret), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Balmy Blue, Poppy Parade, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green,Azure Afternoon, Baby Boy (Jolee's Boutique)
Ink	Balmy Blue, Azure Afternoon, Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Enamel Dots (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Charming Sentiments Dies, Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Layering Squares Dies (ret), Small Alphabet Dies (Papertrey), Stitched Border Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug/Provocraft), Polka Dot Border Embossing Folder (Cuttlebug/Provocraft)

Three Vintage Christmas Cards

 Happy Monday, peeps!  Phew, I'm beat.  It was a crazy hectic day yesterday between church and our covered dish supper, then Christmas Carol hymn sing....but it really put me in the Christmas spirit!  Today is grocery shopping and laundry....so this will be quick!  The challenge from In(k)spire Me is Retro Christmas, and Inspire.Create also wants Christmas this week!  I have had this wood mounted stamp from Inkadinkado for a long time and have never inked it up!  I actually took it off the wood block so I could use it in my Stamparatus and while I was at it, I made three!  

So here we go:

I am not quite sure why the colors in my photo are really off; my images are stamped on Crumb Cake and the card bases are Cherry Cobbler, Misty Moonlight and Shaded Spruce, but it certainly doesn't look like those colors in real life, LOL!  Anyway, you get the gist.  I began by stamping them all in my Stamparatus:

Then I diecut them with a Deckled Edge Rectangle die and used a Blending Brush and Crumb Cake ink to give them a vintage look.  On the corners of each card, I stamped a holly image from the retired Bells & Boughs set, then mounted the image on top:

A vintage sentiment from Crafty Secrets was stamped and diecut, then added to the inside.  Simple & easy!

Thanks for popping in today..if you need any info on any of the products used, just shoot me an email!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!