IB123 Flower Me with Color

Happy Thursday, everyone, and it's time for a new Inspired By challenge!  I think my mojo has all washed away with the rain, I had to let paper do all the work for me...not a wee bit of stamping on my card at all today!  Here's the challenge:

I didn't have a single floral stamp that I could conjure an idea with, so I just went with some pretty BoBunny papers and the Try Stampin' On Tuesday sketch:

I cut a border from some retired SU Woodgrain paper, then used the same die to cut the floral panel:

I found a little packet of KaiserCraft embellishments in my stash (never opened--what am I saving them for?), so I mounted one on a stitched circle diecut from the same paper pack, added a fussy-cut floral embellishment and a triple-layer Very Vanilla "hello":

I didn't make my border quite wide enough to handle the three little candy dots, so I took the liberty of adding a little banner:

This will go to another TOPS friend....we've got to encourage each other during these times...hopefully they'll be over SOON!

I hope you'll play with our challenge this week...I didn't play with the sketch this week, as it's optional, but if you can incorporate them both, it's fun!  Share them with us at the Inspired By blog!  

Speaking of flowers, Dana shared a craft that Cassidy did; an Amazon box they received had this on it:

She colored it, cut it out and assembled it, and mailed it to Wayne's stepdaughter in NC!

Pretty cool idea!  Thanks for popping in today, enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Felicity DSP (BoBunny)
Ink
Accessories	Dimensionals, Paper Embellishments (KaiserCraft), Candy Dots (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Hip Hello Die (Poppystamps)

CAS Times Two

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I have a couple of easy CAS cards to share today!  The CAS on Sunday challenge is to use your favorite flower stamp, and the Hand Stamped Sentiment challenge is a nice sketch:

So here we go:

My friend Martha gave me this stamp a while back and I totally forgot I had it, and came across while doing a bit of organizing.  I must say, I was really impressed with how it stamped and how the images lined up.  It's from Altenew and usually their images are a little more loosely layered, but this has an outline image and it matched up perfectly.  I will also say that I rarely use purples, and here I've used them two times in a row!  I think if I were to do this again, I would not choose Blackberry Bliss for the darker tone; I used Purple Posy and Highland Heather for the lighter areas (and I know the Posy is not available but I managed to get an ink pad before they discontinued it, and I love the lighter shade!!!) and I just think the Blackberry is too much of a contrast!  But I still think it's quite impressive!  I fussy-cut it and the leaves out, then mounted them on a diecut and embossed panel backed with a Soft Seafoam mat, and if you look very closely, you can see a few Seafoam sprigs stamped below the flower; they are from a W+9 set, as is the sentiment:

A few sequins finished it off.

I discovered this card that I made last week, hiding under a pile of stamp sets on my desk; I forgot all about it!  It's for the popular CAS(E) This Sketch, which I am squeaking in under the wire:

I was very sad that SU didn't bring this Honey Bee bundle into the new catalog, so I thought I would play with this glittery bee a little more, pairing it with some Golden Honey DSP and embossed card front:

I pieced some Basic Black glimmer paper into the Gold bee and added a little sentiment on a diecut:

I have a TOPS friend who is struggling with being cooped up inside, so I thought this would cheer her up!  Thanks for popping in today!  And here's a face that is BOUND to cheer you up:

 I'll leave you with that!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Garden Treasure (Altenew), Spring Blessings (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Soft Seafoam, Blackberry Bliss
Ink	Purple Posy (ret), Highland Heather, Blackberry Bliss, Soft Seafoam, Pear Pizzazz, Memento Black
Accessories	Sequins from my Stash, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Coastal Weave EF

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Golden Honey Specialty DSP (ret), Gold Glimmer, Black Glimmer
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pinewood Planks EF, Detailed Bee Dies, Stitched So Sweetly Dies

Violets for RRCB134

Hello stampers!  It's Tuesday, and time for another Retro Rubber Challenge!  Look at this pretty prompt!  I'll bet you all have some lovely older floral stamps that would appreciate getting inky!!!

I first used this Flourishes violet stamp set on my blog back in 2010, so it's at least ten years old!  I inked it up in Stazon Black on some watercolor paper and went to work with my aquapainters and ink:

Even though it's a bit intricate, it's a fairly easy image to color in!  I diecut it with a Nested Label die, then mounted it some complementing layers of Mellow Moss DSP and Purple Posy.  I stamped some of the single violets on a Highland Heather card base and adhered the layers to it.

I diecut the sentiment from the Smooth Sailing dies, adhered it on the front, and added some sequins and Mossy Meadow ribbon to finish it off.

When I was a little girl, violets were always something that grew in our yard in the spring, and I remember picking them to give to my mom and grandmother!  Such sweet memories!  I hope you'll share you spring flowers with us at Retro Rubber this week too!  Just make sure your stamps are at least a year old, and tell us their age!  See you at the blog! Thanks for popping in today!

And speaking of spring activities, you can tell the difference between what little girls do in the spring (pick flowers) and what little boys do in the spring; these are my nephews in the little creek that runs behind their mom-mom and pop-pop's house:

They were with their cousins and let me tell you, the mud was flying!  Running, jumping, splashing, muck everywhere!  And there was a little girl in the mix too, LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed! 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Violets (Flourishes)
Card stock & Papers	Highland Heather, Purple Posy, Best Dressed DSP, Fluid 100 Watercolor
Ink	Stazon, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Mossy Meadow Ribbon (ret), Dimensionals, Sequins from my Stash
Tools	Big Shot, Tufted EF, Ornate Layers Dies, Nested Labels Dies, Smooth Sailing Dies, Aquapainter

SSC230 I Miss Your Face

 

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you all had a good weekend.  I have a quick card to share today for the Sunday Stamps sketch challenge:

I have seen lots of cute cards featuring the piggy stamp from SU wearing a mask, and after seeing Anne Marie's cute card from yesterday's Paper Players, I thought I could do the same thing for the cow from Over the Moon!  So here we go:

My mask is just from a little piece of paper towel, folded and adhered with glue dots.  I did thread some white floss behiind her ears to make it a bit more realistic!  And of course, a sentiment from the Share Sunshine PDF was a perfect addition!  I have been pushing these papers around on my desk for a few days, so I thought they would make a cheerful background

 This is being popped into the mail today; can you guess whose little face I miss so much?  And here she is, our little tomboy, playing with some of her daddy's trucks over the weekend:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Over the Moon, Share Sunshine PDF
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Misc DSP from my Stash, Paper Towel
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Embroidery Floss
Tools	Big Shot, Ornate Layers Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Blends

PP489 Make Us Smile

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Hope your weekend is going well!  Joanne is our hostess this week at the Paper Players with a much-needed theme challenge!  Make a card that will make someone smile!  We all need that, right?!

Of course, the Share Sunshine PDF came at the perfect opportunity, because look at this cute sentiment:

I mean, what is with the TP hoarding?  Our local grocery store still doesn't have any!  Good thing I am a "stock up" kind of shopper, I had a few on hand when this all started!  I printed my download on computer paper as my little Canon printer refuses to print on cardstock, but it worked fine....my shading with the Blends went a little wonky, but it is TP, after all! I used the TGIF Challenge colors for this week:

I diecut a Stitched Rectangle of each of the challenge colors from a gingham panel, adhered them on a card front, then embellished my sentiment with some of the felt cuties from Follow Your Art Embellishment Kit:

I added another Sunshine sentiment on the inside and added some strips of cardstock to keep with the challenge colors:

What will you put on your card to make someone smile?  I have to admit, my cards are not often "funny" ones, I go more for thoughtful or sentimental, so this is out of my comfort zone a bit!  My mom ALWAYS sent funny cards, and I miss them, so I guess maybe I should go out of that zone a little more!  Share yours with us at The Paper Players, and be sure to check out what the design team did as well...there are some cute ones!  Thanks for popping by!

My brother gave me a few more bulbs from Longwood and I quickly stuck them in the ground, where they bloomed the next day!  I didn't even have a chance to mulch them or anything!  They are tiny narcissus:

But they are so pretty as I come up the drive from my daily walk!  And speaking of Longwood, their blog has an interesting article on what the Facilities team (of which my brother is a part) is doing while they are closed.  It's not full of technical stuff, and it's actually pretty informative!  You can see it HERE.  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Jingle Belles Sketch

Happy Saturday, everyone!  Wow, the sun is shining, what a surprise!  DH is out mowing, so between loads of laundry, I am sneaking into my craft room to create a Christmas card with the Jingle Belles sketch:

I was honored to win some goodies from the Jingle Belles recently, and one of the packs I chose from Lauren's etsy store was some Christmas goodies....they were amazing, too!  Lots of cool book pages, tags and other goodies.  I chose a page from a Christmas book, trimmed down the image, matched it with some images and papers and this is what I came up with:

I stamped these little "elves" on the same book page, as there was just enough margin for me to cut out a tag, then mounted it on some Basic Gray paper and trimmed it around the tag, then added a sentiment from a past Paper Pumpkin kit:

I dug waaaaay back in my embellishment stash and came up with some little stick-on hologram-type gems to create my swirl; they are hard to see, they sort of blend with the banners on the paper:

My borders were some SU ribbon and a die-cut border from Riding Hood Red on top of some Christmas DSP:

and I used another PP sentiment and embellishment for the inside:

This was a fun card to create!  And I have another one for my stash!  Thanks for popping in today and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin Christmas set, Stocking Elves (Cornish Heritage Farms), all ret.
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Naturals White (ret), Basic Gray, Riding Hood Red (ret), Christmas book page, Mad 4 Plaid DSP (Photoplay)
Ink	Memento Black, Riding Hood Red (ret), Smoky Slate
Accessories	Stickers, Grosgrain Ribbon (ret), Linen Thread, Dimensionals, Black Trim (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Arts and Crafts Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Tag Punch (ret)

GDP238 Share Sunshine

Happy Friday, everyone!  I have an uber-quick card for you today, and it uses a wee little digital image from the Share Sunshine download that SU is offering.  You can find out more about it HERE.  There are lots of images and sentiments--15 pages worth----and they are scaled to be used with dies and punches, and as they are copywrited, are not to be altered or shared.  I just printed mine out on regular computer paper for my first go-round, and I was happy with them!  I'll do them again on cardstock as I need them!

Anyway, the Global Design Project had a nice easy sketch this week:

I cheated a wee bit with the ombre part, because I found some papers that perfectly matched my little sentiment.....here we go:

I stamped the flower from the retiring Painted Harvest set in Strawberry Slush and Primrose Petals, with the center stamped in So Saffron. I diecut it and adhered it to a Strawberry Slush scalloped circle, then cut it in half and separated it a bit to fit behind the sentiment banner. The So Saffron banner was made by just using the ends of a die from Stitched Labels, and on that I adhered the #ShareSunshine:

I added a few sequins and it was done!  I also adhered a sentiment from the same digital set to the inside.  I have a few more ideas for this cool little set as well!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Painted Harvest, Share Sunshine PDF
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, So Saffron, Strawberry Slush (ret), Little by Little DSP (Shimelle), computer paper
Ink	Strawberry Slush, Primrose Petals (both ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Iridescent Sequins
Tools	Big Shot, Circle Dies (ret), Layering Circle Dies, Stitched Labels Dies