Little Country Easter Card

Happy Monday, everyone!  I have just a quick clean-and-simple card for you today....I made a few more Easter cards over the weekend, and this one was particularly cute; it used some really "vintage" SU stamps...I think they might have been incentive stamps, but I love the stitched country feel to them, so I incorporated them into a notecard-sized card:

Each one was stamped with Stazon ink and colored with a blender pen and some ink, then diecut with a stitched die and mounted on a circular mat of Pear Pizzazz:

The print paper is a scrap I had in my stash, and the sentiment is also retired from Graceful Words!  

Cassidy was away this weekend, so I'll tempt you with some pictures from our church's brunch yesterday:

  

This was just the dessert table....cheesecake, sticky buns, apple crisp, brownies...the list goes on!  Here's John loading up his plate with a couple of friends!

And yours truly....enjoying apple crisp with homemade whipped cream!  Yum! 

 Enjoy your day!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for my Stamp Ink Paper creation!

PP339 Colors by Joanne

Hi stampers!  Hope your weekend is going well so far!  We have a nice brunch lined up at church today to celebrate Palm Sunday!  I love brunch almost as much as I love stamping, LOL!  Joanne has a beautiful color palette for the Paper Players today....even though I don't use purple very often, I thought this combo was gorgeous!

This is actually my second card; on the first one I used Crumb Cake instead of Sahara Sand, so I went back to square one and I like this one better:

 I had a marathon Easter-card-stamping session on Friday and came across the retired set "Ears to You"....I thought it would be perfect for today's colors as well as the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

I stamped the row of bunnies three times, once in each of the colors, and fussy-cut them out, then mounted them on a little diecut square of white cardstock.  I ran my white mat through PTI's Linen Plate to give it some texture, and added a little banner/sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes.  And I even had a few sequins to match!!

Aren't these little bunnies the cutest?!  I hope you'll find something fun to stamp using these colors--be sure to check out what the DT did with the colors as well:

·        Claire

·        Jaydee

·        Joanne

·        Laurie

·        Nance

·        Sandy

·        Crystal

·        Valentyna

·        Deanne

Cassidy made a card for her little friend Suhavi on Friday; my big shot, punches and glimmer paper got a good workout!  She was quite adamant about having the colors just right!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details--All Products SU Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes, Ears to You (retired)
Card stock & Papers	Sahara Sand, Whisper White
Ink	Perfect Plum, Mint Macaron, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Sequins from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Bitty Banners Dies, Dimensionals, Linen Plate (Papertrey Ink)

The Gift of Easter

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Feelin' not so spiffy this week, so luckily I had some cards already made up to share....just haven't felt like stamping too much!  I need several more Easter cards, so I thought I would use the soon-retiring Mint Macaron and some By the Shore DSP to create this one:

The florals are from Basket Bunch; sentiment is from Suite Sentiments, and there is a little bit of the lacy image from Touches of Textures on the card base!  And here are a couple more projects from my Saturday stamp camp!  The little Easter basket was inspired by a post I saw here by Twila; it was so cute, I just had to make one of my own!  And the little peat pot was one I came up with on my own:

Only one more day until Friday, yay!!  Cassidy has off next week, so I am not sure how much stamping I'll get done then, either!  Meanwhile, I have to show you some of her chalk artwork she did as we were waiting for the bus.  Grampy and I were supposed to guess what this picture was:

  

We guessed the earth (we were close), but she wrote the description under it after we could not guess the correct answer:  "Hill Rite There" with an arrow pointing to the left.  OH, now we see it:

As we look to the left of our driveway, yep, there's a hill with the woods in the background!  Seems pretty obvious, right?!  LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Many Mini Thanks

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I have a real simple card today but it has a really fun element to it!  I saw this card on Natalie Lapakko's blog (there are a couple samples....scroll down a wee bit to see this one) and I just HAD to make it!  I made this one in a real hurry, so it's VERY simple; it uses the little bird from Swirly Bird and a sentiment from Suite Sentiments:

Here are the different views of it; I won't give directions because Natalie has very clear ones on her blog, and really, it's pretty self-explanatory, and any size element can be used:

My customers loved it, so I'll probably be doing this at a class very soon!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details--All Products SU
Stamps	Swirly Bird, Suite Sentiments
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Pop of Pink Specialty DSP
Ink	Melon Mambo
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, 1 1/4" and 1 3/4" Circle Punches, Dimensionals

SIP 93 Coming Up Flowers

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's time for another Stamp Ink Paper challenge, and this one is perfect for your spring creations:

My friend Bonnie also has a watercolor challenge for this month, so I thought I'd give that a shot as well!

So here we go!  I pulled out an Avery Elle stamp set called Peonies, embossed it in white embossing powder on watercolor paper, and used my reinkers to color it in:

I also embossed the sentiment on black cardstock, added a few speckles and gold wire, then mounted it on a Flirty Flamingo card base:

I used shades of Blushing Bride, Flirty Flamingo and Calypso Coral for the flowers, and Wild Wasabi and Garden Green for the leaves.  I did add a wee little bit of Soft Sky as a shadow.  I like this effect and although I might need a little more practice, I think all in all it turned out nicely!

I hope you'll play along with our floral challenge this week and bring a breath of spring to someone's mailbox with your card!  And be sure to stop by the SIP blog....the DT's projects will take your breath away as well!

Speaking of spring, this is a view I had on my walk from yesterday morning:

A neighbor's field, finally greening up!

Some daffodils along the road:

And after Cassidy got off the bus, we went to visit my brother and SIL and she gave Remy the dog a good workout, throwing a stick!  Good springtime fun!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details--All Products SU Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Avery Elle Peonies, Itty Bitty Backgrounds
Card stock & Papers	Flirty Flamingo, Basic Black, Watercolor
Ink	White Craft, Blushing Bride, Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Soft Sky
Accessories	Gold wire
Tools	Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals, Aquapainter

Stamp Camp Projects

Hi everyone!  Hope you had a great weekend!  I promised to show you the projects we did at my stamp camp; here are two of them!  This is what I call a "skinny mini" treat holder; I got the idea from Sam Donald, better known as Pootles!  She has the greatest ideas!  Her sample is longer, but I cut mine down to 6" long.  You can see her directions here!

I used Cucumber Crush In Color DSP and a sentiment from Little Cuties!  Next is a mini egg carton (which are still on backorder, unfortunately), decorated with the Basket Bunch stamp set:

Thanks for popping in today and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Stamp Ink Paper challenge!

A little sidewalk chalk action....hard to tell, but it was a fishbowl, complete with a little archway for the fish to swim through!  She actually does have a fish, too!  His name is Gilly!

Be blessed!

PP338 Topiary Bunny

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's Laurie's turn to host the Paper Players and she has a sweet challenge for us!  

I pulled out this really cute Michelle Masters Easter bunny in his topiary car for my card this week:

He was stamped in Stazon on thick white cardstock and diecut with a rectangle stitched die.  I added some stitched scallops to the bottom of my card, and a panel of retired SU DSP.  I realized after I photographed it that I omitted coloring the little flowers coming from his exhaust!!  I'll have to remedy that!  His car is watercolored in Garden Green with accents of Peekaboo Peach; the sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs.  I even found some cotton yarn in my knitting stash that matched the peach for a little additional accent!  

I know this will be a fun challenge for everyone, so I hope you can play along!  Check out what the other designers did:

·           Claire

·        Jaydee

·        Joanne

·        Laurie

·        Nance

·        Sandy

·        Crystal

·        Valentyna

·        Deanne

Can't wait to see what you create!

Yesterday I had a stamp camp at my church, and we made some Easter treat projects!  I'll post them later in the week but I wanted to share a couple of photos....I am still learning how to take photos with my phone, I am just terrible at it, so I need to practice!  But everyone had fun and they were all patient....there were twelve stampers and I had five Big Shots going at once!  They waited their turns and it all worked out well!

They stamped......(Sandy, Monica and Wendie):

And they cranked......(Sheila, Stacie, Gabriella and Maryanne):

And they assembled!!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details-All Products SU Unless Noted
Stamps	Puttering Around (Michelle Masters Topiary Art), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Garden Green, Peekaboo Peach, Retired SU DSP (can't remember the name)
Ink	Garden Green, Peekaboo Peach, Stazon Black
Accessories	Cotton Yarn
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle and Stitched Circle Dies (Lil'Inker), Scallop Border Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Dimensionals, Aquapainter