PP531 Hello Spring

Hi stampers!  Happy Sunday!  It's time for a new Paper Players challenge; Claire is our hostess with this lovely theme challenge:

 

Oh my, so many choices!  In the end I opted to use that little bunny in the corner as my inspiration!  I pulled out one of my favorite old SU sets called Hello Spring!  And here we go:

I had this piece of retired magnolia paper on my desk for another project and although Petal Pink is a hard color for me to work with, I thought it would make a nice spring card!  I had an idea to make a wreath, but most of the wreath stamps I had were too "flimsy".  Then I remembered a fall wreath stamp that I had from Fun Stampers Journey, so after adhering my DSP to my cardstock, I stamped it in Soft Suede, then embellished it with a few little springy flowers and twigs...and of course, a bunny:

The sentiment is from the same set, although I cut it apart so that I could create a linear sentiment on a banner; I added a little Pierced Bloom diecut flower too:

I just love that little bunny!  What will inspire you from our photo?  Spring is definitely in the air, so get out your stamps, ink and paper and create something springy, then share it with us at the Paper Players blog!  Check out what the design team did as well!  Thanks for popping in today!

Dana spent a few minutes trying to teach Cassidy to crochet....not sure how long it will last, neither of them have a lot of patience, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come."  Song of Songs 2:12

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Autumn Wreath (Fun Stampers Journey), Hello Spring (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Petal Pink, Soft Suede,  Crumb Cake, Magnolia Lane DSP (ret)
Ink	Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pierced Blooms Dies, Forever Flourishing Dies, Markers

Butterflies for FMS475

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I have a couple of cards for Freshly Made Sketches for this week using the pretty Butterfly Bijou DSP!  Here's the sketch:

The Butterfly Brilliance Bundle is gorgeous, but I already had Butterfly Gala, so I only purchased the DSP.  For my cards today, I chose this pretty pattern, cut into three panels and backed with Highland Heather and adhered to a Basic White card stock embossing with the Stitched With Whimsy dies:

I stamped a simple butterfly on Coastal Cabana cardstock with Coastal Cabana and Highland Heather inks, added a jewel and a little sentiment and it was done!

My second card is basically the same, although I changed up the butterfly a week bit and added some retired ribbon:

and TWO rhinestones!

Such beautiful colors!!  Thanks for popping in today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Butterfly Gala
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, Highland Heather
Ink	Coastal Cabana, Pool Party, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape
Accessories	Rhinestones (ret), Dimensionals, Bermuda Bay Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitched Whimsy Dies, Butterfly Punch

AYSI245 Stampede Birthday

Happy Friday, peeps!  It's my turn to create a "recipe" for you at As You See It!  I always struggle with creating masculine cards, so here's a recipe to get you started:

And even though this was my own challenge, I struggled with it as well!  This is the third card I created for the challenge...the other two were not so great, LOL!  So here we go:

I started with a 100 Proof Press image, stamped in Soft Suede on Very Vanilla cardstock, then diecut with a Stitched Shapes die. The papers are from Photo Play's Autumn Day.  I embossed the rust-colored piece with the retired Basketweave EF, then added some stitched embossing on a Soft Suede strip as well.  For some added interest, I stamped some barbed wire (retired Yee-Haw) along the edge, and added a twine "lasso" behind the cowboy image:

The sentiment, stamped in Terracotta Tile, is from the retired Picture Perfect birthday:

My sketch is from Try Stampin on Tuesday:

I am also adding this to Just Add Ink this week, which is to "add L"!  My "L" is a lasso!

I hope you'll play along with my recipe this week...be sure to check out what the designers created, and share yours as well at As You See It!

So let's see Cassidy's final result!  She really liked doing the splatter work, so this time, we watered down some white craft paint and she splattered that on her finished card:

After we dried it, she peeled off the letters:

Much better results!

She added a white heat-embossed sentiment at the bottom (the same as my card above), then added some numbers and a little hand-written sentiment on the inside!

She was happy with the end results, learned some new techniques and we had fun!  Thanks for indulging me!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Picture Perfect Birthday (ret), Yee-Haw (ret), Stampede (100 Proof Press)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Autumn Day DSP (Photo Play)
Ink	Soft Suede, Terracotta Tile
Accessories	Very Vanilla Twine, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Basketweave EF (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)

IB164 Hello Kitty

Hello peeps!  It's Thursday, and we have a new Inspired By challenge for you...since I just had a kitty challenge over at the Paper Players, I had to smile when this popped up!  Here we go:

And here's our optional sketch:

I realized that I do not have any whimsical kitty stamps like the photo...but I remembered a fun DSP 6x6 pad I had that had one wee little strip of kitty paper left in it!  PLUS I had just gotten some of these Whittle dies from Poppystamps and look what I found:

Yep, a cute little kitty!  So here we go:

It's a pretty simple card...layers of cardstock, a little sentiment from Here's a Card, some stitched borders and my little kitty!  My own "Hello Kitty"!  In hindsight, I should have added a little heart somewhere...oh well!  I know there are lots of fun kitty stamps out there, so I expect to see lots of fun creations this week!  Check out what the designers did at the Inspired By blog too...kitty cuteness for sure!  Thanks for popping in today!

To continue Cassidy's creative journey in making her friend's card, (you can see the start here), after peeling off her masked letters, the end result wasn't quite what she had anticipated.  I originally wanted to try to tell her she wouldn't get the effect she was looking for, but she is pretty stubborn, so I thought the best way to learn is to let her try and learn on her own:

Since she couldn't see the letters very well, she tried to outline them, which ended up being a disaster.  I told her this was a "trial run" anyway, so she decided to go in a different direction!  This time she wanted to create an ombre effect and she was very excited about using a brayer! We cut another set of letters and went to work:

She chose Pool Party, Flirty Flamingo and Highland Heather for her colors:

Come back tomorrow to see the final product!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Here's a Card
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Tranquil Tide (ret), Soft Sky (ret), Cute Girl DSP (Crate Paper)
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shape Dies, Tasteful Labels Dies, Cat Whittle Die (Poppystamps), Stiching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)

TCC150 Happy St Patrick's Day

 Happy Wednesday, peeps!  It's time for a new Card Concept challenge, where we describe our stamping style!  This is one I hope you'll find seasonal and fun:

I love the fresh colors in this inspiration photo, but the little hat is what inspired me to create my Clean and Layered card, using the Gift Givers stamp which I already had on my desk!

I stamped this little guy in Memento ink, colored him with Blends, then diecut him out and added a Gold Foil scallop layer.  The sentiment is from a really, really old set from Purple Onion, stamped in Shaded Spruce, and the layers are Bumblebee and Felicity DSP from Bo Bunny:

I also added a glimmer bow from Pretty Pines for some extra fun!  The sketch that I used is from Sketch Saturday:

I am also entering this at Always Fun Challenges; they're looking for "good luck" cards!

I hope you'll play along with our Card Concept challenge this week...even if you don't celebrate St Patrick's Day, I am sure you'll find something to inspire you!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy came over Sunday afternoon and decided to make a card for her friend Avery.  She wanted to try some splatter art, so we got some craft ink, a paint brush and went to work! She had an idea to create a mask with the letters of Avery's name, then splatter paint over it.  We used the Little Letters dies and some repositionable tape to create the mask, then she splattered various colors of paint on top.  She learned how to splatter the paint by watching a YouTube video:

She even added some glitter paint!  If you look closely, you can see the letters; we dried it with my heat gun and then she peeled off the letters.  More to come this week!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gift Givers (ret), Seasonal Sayings (Purple Onion)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Bumblebee, Gold Foil, Gold Glimmer (ret), Felicity DSP (Bo Bunny)
Ink	Memento, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Layering Circles Dies, Pretty Pines Dies (ret), Dotted Swirls Cover Plate (Altenew)

RRCB153 Easter Blessings Tic Tac Toe

Hey there everyone!  It's time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we show some love to our older stamps!  Today we have a fun Tic-Tac-Toe grid:

I chose the right column going down: rhinestones, coloring and blue, and I used the sketch from Try Stampin on Tuesday:

 

And here we go:

This adorable Gift Givers stamp is from 2011, and I had never even used this one from the set--it still had the backing on it!  I stamped it in Memento ink and colored it with Blends, then fussy cut it out and popped it up on some MFT Homespun Gingham DSP:

I added a diecut bow from the Stitched Blooms dies and accented it with a blue rhinestone.  The scalloped trims were diecut with the Stitched Be Mine dies, and the lower layer is from Carta Bella's Soak up the Sun.  I used a sentiment from Itty Bitty Greetings as well.  It all went on a Crumb Cake card base and on the inside, I stamped a few more Easter sentiments from Close To My Heart's Easter Animals (at least 2019)

Our grid this week offers lots of possibilities, so I hope you'll play along!  Just make sure your stamps are at least a year old and tell us how old they are!  Meanwhile, check out what the DT created over at the Retro Rubber blog!  Thanks for popping in today!

First time for Chinese food!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous.  Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord You God will be with you wherever you go."  Joshua 1:9

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Gift Givers (ret), Itty Bitty Greetings, Easter Animals (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Homespun Gingham DSP (My Favorite Things), Soak up the Sun DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Rhinestone (from my stash), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Be Mine Dies, Pierced Blooms Dies, Blends

Birthday Sprinkles

Happy Monday, peeps and Happy March!  No challenges today, just a quick card I created with Sweet Ice Cream...such a great set for birthdays or any sweet greeting!  And it was a chance to use some brighter colors, which I really needed on a dreary weekend!  So here we go:

I stamped the popsicles in Coastal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Flirty Flaminto, Poppy Parade, Mango Melody and Pumpkin Pie, then stamped the sticks in Soft Suede and Crumb Cake:

I added some sequins and a couple of sentiments, diecut with the Stitched Rectangles die.  It all went on a Soft Seafoam card base and DSP layer!  The sentiments are from Itty Bitty Birthdays and Sweet Ice Cream, stamped in Flirty Flamingo.  Yummy!  Thanks for popping in today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!  Come back tomorrow for a new Retro Rubber challenge too!