TSSC224 Vintage Vogue

Wow, what a gorgeous day it is today here in PA!  I wanted to make a card with cheerful colors for Mary Jo’s TechnoStamper’s sketch:

I had originally been thinking about using Tangerine Tango, since I hadn’t used that color in a while, and mistakenly pulled out some Calypso Coral designer paper….oops!  So I went with that, and paired it with Daffodil Delight for a friendly birthday card:

I stamped a background with the floral images from Vintage Vogue, then added the cut-out F atop a little scalloped square; the sentiment, from Teeny Tiny Wishes, was cut with the largest Itty Bitty Banner die.  I wish now I had done something different with the left side of the banner….maybe I’ll add a flower to cover it up!   I also added a little scalloped border on the top and bottom panels.

A cheerful card for a sunshiny day!

Playing is hard work!!!

 

Thanks for visiting!

ColourQ 140

 

Happy Tuesday everyone!  Are you ready for another color challenge from the ColourQ?  How about this:

Don’t these colors just make you feel HAPPY?!  I went to a Lockhart stamp I hadn’t inked up in a while:

It just seems I am on a watercoloring kick lately!  I stamped the image in Stazon on Shimmery White cardstock and colored it with an aquapainter and some inks; added a couple circle mats, some buttons and a cute little PTI sentiment, and it was done!  The line of hearts is from SU’s PS:  I Love You!

Easy peasy!  Be sure to stop by the ColourQ blog to see what the other creative courtesans have come up with, and share your bright creation as well!  Can’t wait to see what you do with these colors!

Merry Monday 23

 

Happy Monday, peeps!  It’s time for Lesley’s Merry Monday sketch challenge!  Use her sketch every week, and soon you’ll have lots of cards for the Christmas holidays!  Here’s our sketch 23:

I finally broke open the pack of Be of Good Cheer DP that I received and I kind of went overboard with it!!!

This is a bit of a departure from my normal style, but I just couldn’t help myself---the prints and colors of this paper are so fun to work with!  I used a retired tag image from Christmas Punch, stamped twice; once in Cherry Cobbler and again in Gumball Green, and then cut out the hat and adhered it to the tag.  I mounted it on a circular base of Gumball Green and added some cool Gumball Green stitched ribbon and a glimmer brad:

Of course, he had to have some “snow” of Dazzling Diamonds glitter!!!  My sentiment is from Four the Holidays, which I am sad to say is retired as well!  I hope that you’ll be able to play with us this week over at Always Playing with Paper, which hosts the Merry Monday challenge, and peek at the other creations as well!

I don’t have any Cassidy photos today---but I did snag a few pix of a snapping turtle at my neighbor’s pond.  (Sorry, I know that’s not as fun as Cassidy!)   Every spring we usually see one; sometimes it comes all the way across our yard, down across our stream, across the road, and eventually makes it to his pond:

 

 

As soon as he saw me coming, he plopped in the water so fast, I couldn’t get another shot. Although judging by the grass “skirt”, it may be a “she”!!!  Maybe next year!  Have a happy week!

Paper Players 98 – Summertime

Hi everyone!  I hope you are having a great weekend!  Sunday means Paper Players, and Jaydee has come up with a summer-themed challenge for us all today:

You can choose the colors or anything that reminds you of summer!  Last week here in Pennsylvania, it was almost 90 degrees, so it wasn’t hard to imagine summer at all…..yesterday when I did my card, it was decidedly chillier!  But as I was clearing shelves of retired stamps to make way for new ones, I came across a cute retired set and it was perfect for my summer-time card!  Isn’t that always the way when new things are on their way---you find old ones that are just as appealing!  Do you remember Crab & Company?  It was a great reminder of summers spent at the Delaware shore:

 

Although I am pretty sure I have never seen a green crayfish!!  I used the JUGS sketch 139 as well as the Just Add Ink summery inspiration challenge 120 :

I watercolored my little images with some of the inspiration colors, added some glitter and punched them out in different sized squares, then mounted them on a piece of Comfort Cafe DP:

The smaller ones were popped up with dimensionals, too.  It’s difficult to see in the photo, but the card base has been embossed with the Stripes embossing folder to replicate the beaded boards of the photo, but it’s not hard to see that cute little sandcastle punched border:

 

I can smell the salt air right now!  I stamped a sentiment from Heard from the Heart and added a linen thread embellishment, and my card is done!  I hope that you are inspired to create a summery project…how about a scrapbook page or a 3D item?  It doesn’t have to be a card!  Share it with us over at the Paper Players blog and check out what the other designers created as well!  Thanks for visiting today!

And here’s a fun little photo, just to nail home the fact that my little angelic granddaughter loves to play in the water….no matter where it happens to be:

Yes, her hand is wet……very wet!!!   Sometimes she is just too fast for grammy!

I’ve Been Framed with OCCC

  

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Those sweet girls over at Our Creative Corner have asked me to be a guest designer today!!

The challenge is “Embellished Frames”…..make it any shape, but the frame should be the first thing you see!   I used a Tim Holtz embossing folder to make my “wooden” frame from Chocolate Chip cardstock.  I am glad I never took wood shop; I would have gotten an “F” on making mitered corners!!  Here’s my square “framed” Father’s Day card:

I was totally inspired to use Lovely as a Tree after seeing Narelle’s beautiful card here.  I stamped and sponged the classic tree image, then added the letters from Timeless Type dies (which is retiring-----insert a BIG pouty face here), and popped them up a bit:

You need lots of little itty bitty bits of dimensionals for this, let me tell ya!  Teeny Tiny Wishes provided the sentiment, adhered over one of the Itty Bitty Banners images, then I added some jumbo eyelets with my Crop-a-dile, and it was done!  Since the card is square, the banner poking out on the side still allows it to fit into a standard-sized envelope.   I stamped a nice Verve sentiment on the inside:

This also qualifies for the Little Red Wagon challenge this week:  wood!  I hope you’ll meander over to the Our Creative Corner blog and play along with the Embellished Frame challenge too!

Doesn’t everybody chill out with their foot up on their trike, surveying the newly-mown lawn?!

Monkey Sketch 111

Shirley and Terry from a La Card Monkey chose one of my cards last week, which means I get to be a GD this week!  Here’s their fun sketch:

Terry assured me it didn’t HAVE to be a graduation card, so I went with more of an encouragement card, using one of the new In Colors, Summer Starfruit, some new papers from Cozy Cafe, and the Countryside truck:

When I first read the name of this color, I misread it as “Summer Starfish” and that just sticks in my head, so if you see me mistype it in the future, you’ll know why!  I stamped this image in Stazon on some watercolor paper and colored it with various inks and my aquapainter:

  

I also “vintaged” the edges with some Crumb Cake ink and a lot of water to give it an aged look.  The sentiment (gasp-I cut it apart to use it in two pieces!!!!) is from Blessings from Heaven.  I don’t know what took me so long to get this set; my friend Darlene sent me a card with one of the sentiments on it, and I just had to have it!  It looks terrific on this banner, stamped in Early Espresso, especially with that little apple that fell off the truck:

 

I love this unique sketch and I hope you’ll drive on over to the Card Monkey blog to play along with us this week!  TFL!

This is a book I got from the library about a mother mouse looking for her babies; each page features an image with little flaps that fold down, and the mother doesn’t find her babies until the last page.  Cassidy LOVES this book, but her fingers can’t quite get under the flap, so she grunts “UNH” on each page…..as if that would help those little fingers!  So cute!

iSpy Fun

I was really honored when the awesome designers at iSpy Sketches asked me if they could use this card as the basis for one of their sketches!  Wow!  So I had to play along too, using some new papers from Floral District, which is available today!

This is such an easy layout; it’s a good way to use up your scraps; these pieces are 1.25” x 4”.  I made a cute felt flower (which qualifies it for the Catered Crop challenge this week)—not too terribly creative, but a fun way to mimic the flowers in the papers.

 

A little tiny bit of stamping with Teeny Tiny Wishes in Tangerine Tango, cut out with an Itty Bitty Banner die, for which I then handcut a mat:

And a whole assortment of buttons, some regular, some cardstock and Crystal Effects, for my embellishments:

 

I would be thrilled if you played along with this sketch this week!  You can find all the details plus see the incredible talents of the iSpy girls at the iSpy Sketches blog!