RRCB164 Prince of Peace

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  It's time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we give some love to those older (at least a year) stamps!  This week is an Anything Goes week...use anything you want, just make sure your stamps are at least a year old and tell us the approximate age! 

I have a very simple card today; this was a remake of a card we did recently at my Christmas card stamp camp!  I like to make them simple but pretty, as I have all levels of stampers attending.  This one is a gate-fold card using the Peaceful Pines set from the 2015 Holiday Mini catalog:

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I scored my Basic White card at 2 1/8" from each side to create the gate fold, then stamped the tree in Garden Green and the pot in Cinnamon Cider, using the dies from Perfect Pines to cut them out. I added a little gold glimmer star, also cut with a Perfect Pines die, then mounted everything on a Stitched So Sweetly diecut:

Before adhering to the front of my card, I embossed two Bumblebee panels with a retired Star embossing folder, then assembled everything!  You just need to remember to only adhere ONE SIDE of the stamped panel to the gate fold front....otherwise you won't be able to open your card!  I also stamped the sentiment from the same set on the inside:

I sure hope you'll play along with our Anything Goes challenge at Retro Rubber this week!  Be sure to pop by the blog to see what the other designers created, and share your with us too!  Thanks for visiting today!

A few more birthday cards:

This cutie is from Donna....she knows my crafty side so well!

And another fun one from Shawn:

And this gorgeous fun fold is from Darlene; I tried to make one of these myself but failed miserably!  Hers has given me inspiration to maybe try again!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peaceful Pines (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Bumblebee, Gold Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Garden Green, Cinnamon Cider
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Perfect Pines Dies (ret), Star Embossing Folder (ret)

CAS Sunflower

 Happy Monday, peeps!  I have a very simple card for you today; my friend gave me a pretty sunflower dishtowel as part of my birthday gift and I wanted to make a thank you card for her using the Celebrate Sunflowers stamp set!  Here's the towel:

And here's my card:

The CAS Colour and Sketches sketch was perfect for it:

I used a strip of the retired True Love DSP with a thin mat of Daffodil Delight for the vertical piece, then stamped and colored in the smaller sunflower, using the matching die to cut it out:

I liked the shape of the element on the sketch, so I diecut two stitched squares from Old Olive using the retired Stitched Shapes dies, layered them and then added the flower on top.  It all went on a Basic White card base that was embossed with the Greenery die and embellished with some In Color Jewels.  My final addition was the "thanks", fussy cut from the Big Wishes set and popped up with some mini dimensionals!  And it's in the mail!  Thanks for popping in today!

The kids went on a Happy Hour cruise on the Chesapeake and Delaware canal yesterday!  It had rained earlier but luckily it had stopped by the time they went!  John's chiropractor's son owns the boat but was not the captain on this trip.

And I still have some birthday cards to share!!  Don't want to miss anyone!

This gorgeous one is from Sally...it's even prettier IRL!

My sweet PP teammate Ann sent this one:

And my Retrorubber teammate Maria sent this beauty!

Thanks, ladies!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Celebrate Sunflowers, Biggest Wish
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, True Love DSP (ret)
Ink	Memento Black, Old Olive
Accessories	Dimensionals, In Color Jewels
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Sunflowers Dies, Greenery Die

PP552 By The Seaside and a Tip

Happy Sunday, peeps! Happy AUGUST!  Whoa, how did that happen? The summer is zipping by!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge!  Joanne is our hostess with the theme of Beside the Seaside!  Since I just used my sailboats last week, I decided to go in a bit of a different direction this week!

 

Did you know that SU has kits that are only on their website?  I must have been asleep when they passed out that info!  Anyway, this kit is called A Little Smile, and it comes in a sweet wee box just like Paper Pumpkin!  I only used the stamps on this particular card, but there are LOTS of fun embellishments (like glimmer paper starfishes!) and diecuts!  So here we go with my seaside-themed card:

I used Judy's sketch from FMS:

just stamping the panels with the stamps from the set!  The coral was stamped with Poppy Parade; the starfish and sand dollars were stamped with Crumb Cake and So Saffron, with some speckles from Quiet Meadow added for "sand":

And I stamped the watery stamp (at least that's what it looks like to me) in Balmy Blue, then added a sentiment from the same set, stamped in Early Espresso and diecut with a Tailor Made tag die, then tied with some Linen Thread:

And here's a little tip:  my customers and I both were occasionally having some issues getting some of the more detailed stitched dies out of the metal die.  I found if you put a piece of waxed paper between the stamped image and the die before running it through the Big Shot, it pops out BEAUTIFULLY!  Woohoo! Finally, on the inside, I stamped another sentiment from the set and some starfish:

The Paper Players team has some amazing samples using Joanne's theme, so be sure to check them out at the PP blog!  There's lots of summer left, so I hope you'll be inspired to create something and share it with us there!  Thanks for popping by today!

Still continuing with my birthday greetings!  This amazing creation is from Fran; it features a water lily and a "ruby", which are July birthday flowers and gems!

This brilliant card is from Martha....those flowers are washi tape!

And this glittery creation is from my Paper Player teammate from across the pond, Joanne!

Thanks, ladies!

Cassidy has been at soccer camp this past week, so I haven't seen her much!  Here she is enjoying some miniature golf while on vacation!  We'll be back to our regular schedule this week!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Christmas Banners in the Snow

Happy Saturday, everyone!  I have another Christmas card for you...are you getting sick of them yet?  There are so many fun new things in the upcoming holiday mini, I just can't help myself!  The Jingle Belles want traditional red and green for their challenge this week, and the TGIF challenge wants banners! 

I just received the Merry Snowflakes bundle and I thought it would be fun to combine some banners and snowflakes!  So here we go:

I started by diecutting some banners from some Classic Christmas DSP (retired) using a die from Tasteful Labels.  Before adhering them to my Basic White card, I embossed the bottom portion with the longer snowflake die:

Then I cut another piece of Basic White using the curved die from Basic Borders, and embossed that piece with the snowflake embossing folder from the Wintery set, and layered it on top of my banners:

I diecut two snowflakes (they're gorgeous!) and shimmered them up with some Wink of Stella, then layered them together with a white brad I colored with a Blend.  I stamped a portion of one of the sentiments from Christmas to Remember and diecut it with the smallest Stitched So Sweetly dies:

I love how this all came together!  Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a Paper Players challenge....and a non-Christmas card for sure!

Here are a few more birthday cards:

From sweet Sandy:

and sweet Debbie; the DSP is embossed on this one, such a cool technique!

Kathy always makes clever cards, this one uses Give it A Whirl dies:

And this beauty is from Bonnie!

Thanks, ladies!

This picture just cracks me up!  Elvis has left the building!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas to Remember
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Classic Christmas DSP (ret)
Ink	Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Dimensionals, Brad (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Snowflake Dies, Tasteful Labels Dies,  Basic Borders Dies, Stitched SO Sweetly Dies, Wintery Embossing Folder, Wink of Stella

Tis the Season

Happy Friday, peeps!  Yay, the weekend is upon us!  I have a fun little Christmas card today which uses some old and new products...lots of new stuff, actually!  It began with a few little scraps I had lying on my craft desk and here's what evolved:

It all started with the Christmas tree!  Each time I use a shaped die, I cut it out first from kraft cardstock to create a template.  That way I can line up the opening in the kraft cardstock with my stamped image, pop in the die into the opening like a puzzle piece, and then run it through the Big Shot.  Usually it ends up lining up perfectly.  And then I have a little kraft piece left over!  Mostly I chuck them but I thought this one would look nice embossed in white.  It comes from a retired set called Peaceful Pines with a matching die called Perfect Pines.  I stamped and embossed the tree branches in white ink and embossing powder.  I also had lying on my desk a white wreath, diecut with the new Seasonal Swirls die.  It was just made with some scrap Basic White cardstock and I was going to chuck it as well, when I thought the two diecuts looked nice together!  I layered them on a panel of some Tidings of Christmas DSP that had been diecut with a Basic Borders die.  Before adhering it, I embossed the bottom portion of a Basic White card with one of the Wintery embossing folders; you can just barely see the snowflakes in the photo, but they are very pretty!

To finish it off, I stamped a sentiment from Christmas to Remember in Real Red and used a Tasteful Labels die to cut it out; then I diecut three Cherry Cobbler stars using the Messages die, layered and glued them together and finished it off with some Shimmery Crystal Effects:

There are really a lot of gorgeous new products in the Holiday mini and I can't wait to use them!  Thanks for popping in today!  And here are a few more birthday cards:

This beauty is from Renita:

And this cutie is from Robyn; we share an office in our church (the inside says "just a note to say, you're awesome, woohoo!")

And this sweet one is from Peggy and it has a very cool fun fold!

Thanks, ladies!

And how about a sand crab?  A REAL sand crab?

What a clever guy Wayne is!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas to Remember, Peaceful Pines (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Kraft (Close to My Heart), Tidings of Christmas DSP
Ink	Real Red, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Shimmery Crystal Effects, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Wintery EF, Seasonal Swirls Dies, Basic Borders Dies, Messages Dies,  Perfect Pines Dies (ret), Heat Tool

TTTC124 Summer Shaker

Hi there everyone!  Hope your week is going well!  It's time for a new Tic Tac Toe challenge, and here's the grid that Joanne came up with for Team X:

I needed a birthday card for my niece, and these fun summery papers from Carta Bella seemed to be perfect for a cute shaker card!  I chose the diagonal of Fruit, Patterned Paper and Shaker:

After creating the shaker and filling it with some Ice Cream Corner Sprinkles, I added a little cocktail from Nothing's Better Than, complete with its little lemon wedge on the rim:

There's also a cherry on the patterned paper:

and a little "celebrate" sentiment banner to bring it all together!

My niece will be 31 years old...hard to believe, and I can remember the day she was born!  Hope she likes it!  And I hope you'll play along with our Tic Tac Toe challenge grid this week.  Check out what all the DT created as well!  See you there!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us."  Psalms 103:11-12.

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nothing Better Than, Many Mates (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pool Party, Window Sheet, Soak Up the Sun DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Memento Black, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Positively Pink
Accessories	Dimensionals, Ice Cream Sprinkles (ret), Foam Sheets
Tools	Big Shot, Love You More Than Dies, Square and Scalloped Square Dies (Nestabilities), Banner Dies (Pretty Pink Posh)

KCC570 Pretty Pumpkins

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Hope your week is going well so far!  I have LOTS of goodies from the new upcoming mini catalog and I was able to play with the new Pretty Pumpkins bundle recently!  I LOVE pumpkins...I have lots of pumpkin stamps, but I couldn't resist this new one!  It works well with the Anything Goes challenge at Krafty Chicks, too!  Here we go: 

I started with a mat of the new SAB papers, Peaceful Prints, in a Sahara Sand neutral plaid.   I placed the printed pumpkin stamp in my Stamparatus, then stamped it in Sahara Sand, left it on the plate, and cleaned off the ink.  Then I inked each leaf with a SU marker and re-stamped it right over top of the Sahara Sand ink.  I added a couple of diecut leaves in Old Olive:

I added a horizontal panel of Cajun Craze DSP, stamped with a sentiment from Sparkle of the Season, and matted with a stitched Cajun Craze panel.  This set has lots of lovely pumpkins in it, and I know I'll be using it more!  Thanks for popping in today!

Yesterday was my birthday, and I wanted to share some of the pretty cards I received in the mail!  This one is from Mollie:

and this one is from Karen H:

and this one is from Karen F:

Thanks ladies!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pretty Pumpkins, Sparkle of the Season
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cajun Craze, Cajun Craze DSP, Peaceful Prints DSP
Ink	Early Espresso, Sahara Sand, Old Olive
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Detailed Pumpkins Dies, Markers, Stamparatus