Paper Players 274

Hi everyone!  Woohoo, it’s Sunday and time for another Paper Players challenge with Claire as our sweet hostess today!  Check out this cute theme challenge she has:

Oh, who doesn’t love snow…well, at least on a stamped project, right?!  And if you’re like me, your holiday schedule is beginning to get full, so I needed to make this card quickly!  I have SO many vintage digital images that feature snow, I decided to use one for my creation today!  This particular image is from Crafty Secrets’ Retro Christmas CD:

I printed out my image on Whisper White cardstock and added a stamped sentiment from an old SU set called Winter is Calling.  I liberally added an assortment of sequins in white, silver and aqua, then mounted it on mats of Soft Sky and Riding Hood Red, then on a card of white.  Aren’t these little imps cute:

Of course, I had to add some glitter to the snowball as well!  Easy little snowy card to add to my stash!  I hope you’ll find time in your busy schedule to create a snow-filled card and play along with us this week too!  Be sure to check out all the designers’ creations at the Paper Players blog for lots of fun inspiration!

My little “imp”!

Enjoy your day!

TSOT247 and SIP25

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Try Stampin’ on Tuesday had such a great sketch this week, I just had to play!  When I was a kid, I remember this Mondrian style and thinking it was so cool!  So here’s the sketch:

Are you tired of seeing these papers?!  I had them on my desk (still) from the baby card I made earlier this week, and since I needed a baby boy shower card, I just picked out a few more for the sketch:

 

 

The little duck from Storybook Friends (one of SU’s cutest ever sets!) was the perfect size to fit in the lower right-hand block; I stamped him on some Whisper White cardstock, colored him a wee bit and fussy-cut him out, then stamped him again on the printed paper and mounted him on top!  He is so sweet, squawking out his “hooray”!, don’t you think?

 

 

The “hooray” is from the same set, just cut out with a Nestabilities banner:

 

and I stamped a sentiment and another little critter on the inside as well:

 

 

I am also submitting this to the Stamp, Ink Paper challenge for this week, which is “Cardmaker’s Choice”!!

Thanks for visiting today!

 

We put out the Nativity set yesterday! 

 

 

Then, she started renaming the figures and making up her own stories!

 

 

Then she put them all to bed!

 

 

Enjoy your day!

FMS215 & MM182 - Again

Yay, it’s Friday!  Time for the weekend!  I am trying to redeem myself with the girls at Merry Monday, so I’ve created another birdie card, much better than yesterday’s fiasco!  This uses a 3D sticker from K&Company; some recycled cardstock from a card I received last Christmas;  a couple of dies and a single sentiment from Waltzingmouse:

This is just a wee little card, about 3 1/8” x 4 1/4”, because that was the size of the stitched mat…I mounted it on a Crumb Cake card of the same size.  The Mossy Meadow pinked mat is from W+9, and it fit my sticker nicely:

Here's the inside too:

Both sentiments are stamped in Mossy Meadow and are from Waltzingmouse’s Compliments of the Season!  This is also for Christmas Cards All Year Round’s challenge of “Keeping it Simple”!

Now, on to my Freshly Made Sketches card, which is also a Christmas card! 

I found this scrapbook paper in my stash and I have absolutely no idea from whence it came!  I am not sure if I bought it or it was a gift…no manufacturer’s name on it either, but the little deer were already printed on it, so I just added the banner and the embossed piece, and it was done!  In order to make it fit the sketch, I had to make the card a little bigger…it’s 6 1/2” high!   The sentiments are from Sweet & Sassy, and the Old Olive embossing is from Tim Holtz….the twine is SU, as is the little pine bough, stamped in white craft ink:

Thanks for visiting today!

It’s Advent Calendar time!

Enjoy your day!

MM182 For The Birds

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Today’s card is one of those cards…you know the ones I mean.  You get an idea in your head and spend a lot of time on it and somehow, it just doesn’t pan out the way you’d hope it would, but you’ve spent so much time on it, you can’t bear to throw it away…..yeah, this is one of those cards (sigh).  I was happy to see that “birds” were the theme of the Merry Monday challenge:

Isn’t he a cutie?  Well, don’t go looking for him on my card….not there.  But, here it is, nonetheless:

I am not sure which is the worst….the droopy-looking “icicles”; the family silhouetted against the screaming red “wallpaper”…or my poor little bird all alone on the windowsill:

Nah, he’s probably the best part of the whole card!  I do love the background too, but it maybe should have been saved for a different card…..oh well, I like the inside:

I used a bunch of retired sets here, so if anyone wants to know what’s what, just email me!  I think I might hang up my stamping hat if my mojo doesn’t return soon, LOL!

For lunch yesterday, Cassidy was eating a take-home salad from her dinner the night before…

She pointed to the ranch dressing at the bottom of the cup and said, “Look, Grammy!  A uvula!” 

Oh my goodness…how does she come up with these things?  Yep, looks like a uvula to me, too!  Now, with that image in your head, enjoy your day!

SSSC297 Sympathy

Hi, all!  My sweet friend Linda lost her husband very suddenly…she is devastated, obviously.  I wish my blog friends didn’t live so far away!  I am hoping this card brings her some comfort.  I didn’t want it to be dark and somber, and I thought these papers from BoBunnys Pincushion collection were sweet:

I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge:

and a sentiment from Thoughts and Prayers.  I added a scallop, a remnant of a doily left from another project, and I used a circle punch to punch out a little heart from a scrap left from the background.  A narrow black grosgrain ribbon finished it off.

Thanks for popping in today!
It was the annual “ throw the pumpkins out in the woods” event:

First, we saved a few seeds from some of the pumpkins, then hauled them out to the woods in the garden wagon:

She could only toss the little ones, but she did pretty well!

Mother Nature will do the rest!  Enjoy your day!

MTS100 Welcome Baby

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  I had a wee bit of stamping time yesterday to make a baby card for John’s nephew and his wife, who welcomed little Zion into the world on Sunday morning!  How exciting for us all!  I was determined to use the Match the Sketch sketch, because it was intriguing to me:

I pulled out some fun papers from the scraps left of my MME’s Fly A Kite 6x6 pad, added them to a Crumb Cake base, embossed with stars:

and then diecut my circles and stars (Simon Says Stamp Bundle of Stitched Shapes) with some scraps of Pear Pizzazz, Mint Macaron and some more MME papers!  The sentiment is a (really) old SU set called Short & Sweet, and the inside images and sentiment are from another old set called Small Sayings:

I can’t wait to see this wee little guy in person!!

Over the weekend, we got Cassidy a new single bed so she has a little more room in her bedroom! 

We still have the old decorations and wallpaper….but she was so surprised and happy, and promptly began playing……

and lining things up!

Enjoy your day!