PP445 Follow Your Art

Hi all!  It's Sunday, and time for another Paper Players challenge!  Anne Marie has a fun, cheery color palette for us to use this week:

I hadn't used these "coloring implements" from the It Starts with Art set yet, and I was excited that they have a matching die, so I stamped them in Memento ink and went to work:

I had Blends in Highland Heather and Daffodil Delight, but I had to color the pencil with Granny Apple Green with ink and a blender pen; I still think it came out okay:

I used a piece of retired DSP from several years ago on which to stamp my sentiment, and added some buttons using the dies from the same set, along with a few sequins from my stash!  I also added a little lacy die at the bottom part of the panel.  It all went on a layer of Whisper White, embossed with a Jumbo Polka Dot EF:

These colors just make me happy--fresh and springy!  I hope you'll play along with them as well!  Be sure to check out what the DT did; you can see them all at the Paper Players blog!

We had a little art session with some sidewalk chalk before the bus came; I guess you could say they were following their own art:

It certainly makes the time waiting for the bus go by a lot more quickly!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	It Starts with Art
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Highland Heather, Granny Apple Green, DSP (I can't remember the name!)
Ink	Memento Black, Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Sequins (Sylvia's Etsy Shop), Dimensionals, Perle Cotton
Tools	Big Shot, Arts and Crafts Dies, SU Blends, Blender Pen, Jumbo Polka Dot EF

FF165 Ho Ho Ho

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I hope you have something fun planned this weekend!  I realized I am way behind on my Christmas cards, so when I saw the Jingle Belles challenge of Santa Baby, along with the sketch from Fab Friday, I thought I could combine the two!

Using papers from My Mind's Eye Winterberry line, I stamped Santa and a little sentiment in Merry Merlot ink:

I added a diecut scallop, backed with the same papers and added some bling for fun!

A sentiment and some snowflakes from the same set (Close to My Heart Santa Claus) finished it off!

Another for the stash!  

On a personal note, we had quite a scare on Thursday; my nephew attends West Point and was participating in tactical training when a member of his class was killed in a vehicle accident.  My sister spent several hours in tears, wondering if he was okay.  Blessedly he was, but our hearts go out to the Morgan family who lost their son.  We were all praying hard that day!  Here is a picture of him, his sister Jessie, Cassidy and my two great-nieces Emma and Lucy, when they were all visiting after my dad's funeral!  The kids LOVE him!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Santa Claus (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Smoky Slate, Winterberry DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Smoky Slate, Merry Merlot
Accessories	Rhinestones
Tools	Big Shot, Scallop Dies (Close to My Heart)

AYSI202 Sunset Colors

Happy Friday, peeps!  Yay, it's the end of a long week...only a few more days left of school and I am looking forward to trying to keep Cassidy busy all summer long, LOL!  It's time for another As You See It challenge, and Jan's chosen a wonderful color one for you:

The challenge photo is gorgeous, isn't it?  But I really wanted to do something other than a floral or a butterfly, and I thought the Coral and Daffodil would make a great sunset.  I am a little rusty on my brayering technique, so I got our my little sponge brayers and went to work:

Although I would have liked to have blended my colors a little more evenly, I thought my first attempt didn't look too bad, so I went with it!  After blending the Daffodil Delight and Calypso Coral on a piece of Whisper White cardstock, I ripped a little piece of scrap paper and laid it near the bottom and then brayered Mossy Meadow along the edge to create a hill.  I stamped some trees from Rooted in Nature on top and behind the hill, then mounted it on a piece of Mossy Meadow on which I had stamped the birch trees from the Winter Woods set:

My final addition was a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings, and then it all went on a Naturals White card that was embossed with the Subtle EF.  The sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches:

And since the Time Out challenge this week is Nature, I am entering it there as well!

We'd be thrilled if you would play along with our color challenge this week!  Check out all the samples at As You See It, and share yours too!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Itty Bitty Greetings, Winter Woods
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Mossy Meadow, Whisper White
Ink	Calypso Coral, Mossy Meadow, Daffodil Delight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Sponge Brayers, Big Shot, Subtles Embossing Folder

IB75 Patina and Honey

Hi folks!  Ah Thursday...almost the end of the week, and time for another Inspired By challenge!  Here is my creation for today's challenge:

And here is Laurel's prompt:

Oooh, this really pulls on my vintage-loving heart-strings!  I pulled out a wreath image from a Darcie's Heart and Home set that looked like the container behind the faucets and stamped it in Stazon on some watercolor paper.  I just bought a set of Arteza watercolor brush pens, so I used a couple of them to color it in.  I stamped the honey image from another Darcie set over top, in Sahara Sand, then die cut it out:

I embellished it with some golden pearls and a little fussy-cut bee whose wings are delicately colored with Wink of Stella...too bad you can't see it here!  My final addition was a couple of little banners at the bottom.  I used an assortment of various print papers from my little 6x6 stash, as well as some gold foil, and used the Try Stampin' On Tuesday sketch 411, which has the option of vintage--yippee!!

I hope you'll play along with our "patina" challenge this week...be sure to check out the DT's creations...you will get a chuckle from Michele's!  You can see them all at the IB blog!

And here is my little busy bee; she has learned how to cut asparagus from the tiny little patch we have in our garden, and Grampy is teaching her how to snap off the ends!  She likes to pick it but she won't eat it!

Thanks for popping in...enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beeutiful, Day is Sweet (Darcie's Heart and Home)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Gold Foil, Watercolor, French Flea Market DSP (Photoplay), Lost and Found Oliver (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Stazon Black, Memento Black, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Gold Pearls, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Banner Dies (Nestabilties), Arteza Watercolor Brush Pens, Wink of Stella

RRCB112 Buttons and Bows

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  It's time for another Retro Rubber challenge....we want to see buttons or bows on your card!

I do love putting bows on my cards, but I got out of the habit of adding buttons because of postage!  BUT....I saved this little button die SU had many years ago and it allows me to make paper buttons!  So here we go:

I thought it would be fun to create a jar of buttons using the Jar of Love (2017) set, but I really was resisting doing a shaker card....but in the end, I gave in because it just needed to be done! ((I really didn't even take into consideration that the challenge photo featured jars, LOL!)  I stamped the smallest jar in Pool Party, then added Balmy Blue and Poppy Parade buttons, a Poppy Parade bow and a Balmy Blue lid:

I used some thin strips of dimensionals and a window sheet to create the jar....since it's not sequins or beads, there's no danger of these buttons falling out the side!  This cute paper from my stash seemed to be a perfect match, and a sweet little sentiment from a Cornish Heritage Farms (maybe 2012?) set called Sew Special finished it off:

I am also using the sketch from Inspire.Create:

There are so many things you could do with our embellishment challenge!  Be sure to use older stamps (at least a year old) and tell us the age of them, as close as you can!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Share them with us at the RetroRubber blog!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Love (2017 ret), Sew Special (2012 Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Balmy Blue, Poppy Parade, Misc DSPs, Window Sheet
Ink	Balmy Blue, Poppy Parade, Pool Party
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Everyday Jars Dies, Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Button Die (ret)

SSC206 Two Sympathy Cards

 

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend!  We had a crafty yard sale on Saturday and it was crazy for an hour or so!  I can finally see the floor of my craftroom and got rid of some tubs of retired product I had been saving up!  

I needed sympathy cards this week; two brothers lost their mom, so I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps to make two easy cards.  Here's the sketch:

And here we go:

The first one uses a Paper Pumpkin card front that I cut down, then trimmed the back panel for the back layer:

I used a sentiment from Better Together (I cut it apart so that I could position it the way I wanted...fits the oval better!) and diecut it with a Stitched Shape oval, popped it up and it was done!!  

The second one is a little stepped-up; it uses the Graceful Glass DSP, which I totally forgot I had!  Turning the sketch on its side, I colored the back of the vellum with blends, backed it with a scrap of white cardstock, added a mat of Strawberry Slush and a panel of Basic Black:

I added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings, diecut with the Stitched Rectangle die and attached it with a dimensional!  Still very easy but quite pretty!

Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow where I'll have a new Retro Rubber challenge for you!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

No Cassidy pictures, but this picture of my great-nephew Sawyer was so cute, I just couldn't wait to share it:

Love that little ginger!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Better Together
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Paper Pumpkin May 2019
Ink	Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Basic Black, Strawberry Slush (ret), Graceful Glass DSP
Ink	Stazon Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Blends in Various Colors

PP444 Summer Vacation

 

Happy Sunday, happy June!  Ann is our Paper Players hostess this week with a timely theme:

The beach is our summer vacation of choice, so I pulled out a stamp called Besties from Technique Junkies, along with an older Artistic Outpost vintage beach set called Boardwalk.  I finally broke into some new Seaside Spray cardstock, pairing it with Blueberry Bushel!  So here we go:

I realize that the images of these two sets are really of different "vintage" eras, but I still like the images together!  I stamped the main image in Blueberry Bushel and diecut it with a Stitched Rectangle die.  I stamped a collage of the other vintage beach images on the Seaside Spray mat with the same color ink, then ran it through the Subtle EF and sponged the edges.  I added a circular embellishment and a couple iridescent sequins:

Aren't these shells lovely?

On the inside, I stamped a friendship sentiment from Free As a Bird, and another of the vintage beach images:

And since the Festive Friday challenge this week wants to see "blue", I am submitting it there as well!

I hope you'll play along with our summer vacation challenge this week!  Be sure to check out what the DT created at the Paper Players blog!

My two pretties!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Free as a Bird, Besties (Technique Junkies), Boardwalk (Artistic Outpost)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Blueberry Bushel, Seaside Spray
Ink	Blueberry Bushel, Seaside Spray
Accessories	Sequins (Etsy by Sylvia)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Subtle Embossing Folder, Sponges