Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge #1

Hi peeps, happy Wednesday!  Can you handle another gray and red Christmas card?  I had originally created this card for yesterday's Retro Rubber challenge, but went in another direction, but I thought I'd share this one as well!  I am going to enter it at the new Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge as well!  What a lovely challenge it is, too!  Here's their prompt: 

While rummaging around in my linen drawer, I found this paper napkin from a couple of years ago..not sure why I saved it, probably just for this reason!  So I set about using it as my inspiration!

After several attempts with different dies and different trees, I finally came up with this one.  Not quite like the napkin, but I am going with it, LOL!

I did some masking on a Basic White panel and then sponged on some Smoky Slate ink, fading it out, then stamped some trees from Winter Woods along the snow line:

The main tree is a diecut from In the Woods dies, and the snowflakes are from various Paper Pumpkin sets.  I used two different dies to create the red ornaments; I decided I liked it better without the ornaments in the background, but I had already glued them on...and they weren't coming off!  I really liked the sentiment from Altenew's Festive Silhouettes; it looks so pretty stamped in Real Red with a little snowflake next to it:

I took my inspiration from both the tree in the upper left corner and the ornaments in the lower right!  So happy you popped in today!

A couple more pictures from Saturday's activities:

Getting directions through the maze:

Almost there:

Made it!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winter Woods (ret), Festive Silhouettes (Altenew), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red
Ink	Real Red, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, In the Woods Dies, Seasonal Swirls Dies (little dots), Mini Treat Bag Dies (large dots), Blending Brush

RRCB169 Anything Goes

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Time for a new Retro Rubber Challenge, where we give some love to our older stamps!  Today our challenge is "Anything Goes"!!!

I chose to make a clean-and-simple Christmas card using the CAS Christmas Challenge colors of gray and red:

So here we go:

I used some Stamp Market stamps from around 2018 called Candy Cane Christmas, along with a snowflake folder and the Tailor Made Tags die, stamped in Real Red and Smoky Slate.  I added a Smoky Slate second tag, stamped with some white craft ink, and a "bow" of silver glimmer paper!

I love these colors together!  I hope you'll play with our Retro Rubber challenge this week....just make sure that your stamps are at least a year old and tell us their age!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Dana won tickets to a hemp farm hemp maze....sounds interesting, right?  I need to research the farm to see exactly what they do, but they had a lot of fun there. Cassidy took her friend Chloe, and they got to see buffalo (or maybe they're bison, not sure!!!) that were fed pumpkins (the seeds help them with parasites) while on the hay ride (along with someone's pet dog!):

Then on to the hemp maze:

And of course there were the usual countryside insects as well:

I'll share some more pix tomorrow!  Thanks for visiting today; enjoy it and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Candy Cane Christmas (Stamp Market), Paper Pumpkin snowflakes stamps (retired several years ago)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Smoky Slate, Silver Glimmer
Ink	Real Red, Smoky Slate, Craft White
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Snowflakes Embossing Folder (Darice), Candy Cane Christmas Dies (Stamp Market)

PP562 Thinking of You

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It has been a crazy weekend, lots of family stuff going on!  I was so distracted that I totally did the wrong Paper Players challenge!  Luckily, I was able to create this card in a jiffy, so now you'll have to wait until next week to see what I made by mistake!  It's Anne Marie's turn to be our hostess and she has a lovely color challenge for us:

I love peach and orange hues, so I was happy to use them!  I pulled out the Color and Contour bundle, some Very Vanilla cardstock and stamped some florals for my card today:

First, I randomly stamped the daisy image all over a Pale Papaya card base.  Then I stamped my floral outlines in Early Espresso, and filled in the flowers with Pale Papaya and Pumpkin Pie.  I was surprised at how dark the Pumpkin Pie looked on the Very Vanilla cardstock; it almost looked like Cajun Craze!  But I double checked my ink pad and it was indeed, Pumpkin Pie!  

After diecutting them, I layered them on a panel that was stamped with the word image from Quiet Meadow, and added a Very Vanilla scalloped mat.  The sentiment is also from Quiet Meadow, diecut with a Tailor Made tag, and I added some Pale Papaya ribbon and a few sequins:

I think this would be appropriate for any number of occasions!  I hope you'll find some inspiration from our colors this week; be sure to share your creations with us at the Paper Players!  Thanks for visiting today!

My sister was visiting from South Carolina and wanted to visit my niece to see her new dog, Henry:

Henry has two "brothers", Winston and  Leroy, so it is like a three-dog circus at my niece's house!  It was almost as disorganized as trying to get a picture of my two nieces and my sister and I lined up for a photo!

We finally made it...only to see my BIL was adding his two cents (or two fingers) in from behind!  Crazy!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Color and Contour, Quiet Meadow
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pale Papaya
Ink	Pale Papaya, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso
Accessories	Dimensionals, Mini Dimensionals, Pale Papaya Ribbon, Sequins
Tools	Big Shot, Scalloped Contour Dies, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Stamparatus

DDC Happy Haunting

Happy Friday, peeps!  YAY!  The weekend is upon us!  I have a fun little card today; once I saw my friend Bonnie's card with this cute owl, I knew I had to have him for myself!  You can see her card here!  Here's what I did with it:

I started with a 4 1/4" square card base of Chocolate Chip, added some matching DSP, then stamped and embossed my little owl on some thin typewriter-style paper I found in my stash that had a sepia tint to it.  I diecut it with a stitched circle die, then added some shading to the whole thing in some Halloween colors.  I added a Crushed Curry diecut circle to the back to bring it just to 5 1/2" so it would still fit in a standard-size envelope:

Since I had a little embossing "overspray", I stamped a sentiment from a Graphic 45 Halloween set, fussy-cut it out and sponged some Crushed Curry ink on it as well:

Since the Double D Challenge currently is "Owls or Pumpkins", I am going to enter my little owl there!

So happy you popped in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Owl (Impression Obsession) Halloween (Graphic 45)
Card stock & Papers	Chocolate Chip (ret), Crushed Curry, This & That DSP (Echo Park), Typewriter Paper (misc)
Ink	Versamark, Early Espresso, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals, Clear Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Circle Dies (Lil'Inker), Chevron Circle Dies (Sissix), Sponge Daubers, Blends, Stamparatus, Heat Tool

TTTC134 Fall Birthday

Hi there peeps!  Another post for today, this time it's a new Tic Tac Toe challenge for Team X! I  chose the left column of Ribbon, Leaves and Embossing:

I ran a piece of Very Vanilla through a leafy embossing folder, then sponged color on all the raised areas:

I happened to need a birthday card for a woman who lives in Albuquerque but was visiting her sister here in town.  Her sister threw her a surprise birthday party and it was so much fun!  Very low-key and small, but we were honored to be asked! The older sister is in her 90s, almost blind, and still raises steers on her little farm!  Amazing!  Anyway, after doing all the sponging, I mounted it on a Cinnamon Cider card base, added some Cinnamon Cider twill ribbon and a Tailor Made Tag, on which I stamped a birthday sentiment from Best Year and a little Lawn Fawn stitched leaf! I tied it on with some retired Old Olive Linen Thread.  It matched the centerpiece they had created for the table, which was full of fall leaves!

I hope you'll play with our Tic Tac Toe grid....always so much fun to see what you all come up with!  Share it with us over at the blog...can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Best Year
Card stock & Papers	Cinnamon Cider, Crushed Curry, Very Vanilla
Ink	Pumpkin Pie, Seaside Spray (ret), Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Cinnamon Cider, Real Red
Accessories	Cinnamon Cider Twill Ribbon (ret), Old Olive Linen Thread (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tailor Made Tags Dies, Stitched Leaf Dies (Lawn Fawn), Fall Leaf Background EF (Darice), Sponge Daubers

IB190 Pumpkins Rock

Hey there, peeps!  It's Thursday and time for a fun new Inspired By challenge!  Here are our two prompts for this week:

 

Well, I just had to go with those cool little pumpkins!!  I loved their little "orange-ish" stems, so I used mostly grays with a wee bit of peach thrown in....my two peaches don't really match, but I'm going with it:

I recently watched a video where the stamps were colored with watercolor markers, then filled in with a wet paintbrush.  My markers didn't do quite as well a job as the ones on the video, but well enough that I could still use them!  I used watercolor paper and my Arteza markers on some Close to My Heart pumpkins, then diecut them and mounted them on a scrap of Graphic 45 I had floating around on my desk!  

I diecut a few layers of gray cardstock and papers, added a banner sentiment, some enamel dots and a little twine bow to complete it!

I loosely used the sketch for this week too:

How will you be inspired?  Pumpkins? Rocks? Little Christmas images?  Lots of fun stuff to get your creativity piqued!  Share your creation with us at Inspired By and check out what the DT created as well!  Thanks for popping by! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Autumn Blessings (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Gray Granite, Gingham Farm DSP (My Mind's Eye) Graphic 45 DSP scrap
Ink	Gray Granite
Accessories	Crisp Cantaloupe Thick Baker's Twine (ret), Dimensionals, Enamel Dots (W+9)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Banner Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Stitched Rectangle Dies, Autumn Blessings Dies (Close to My Heart), Stitched Borders Dies (Lawn Fawn), Arteza Watercolor Markers, Aquapainter,

TCC161 If Friends Were Pumpkins

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  It's time for a new Card Concept challenge, where we describe our cardmaking process!  Here's our prompt from Julie today:

You could be inspired by the scene, the colors or the theme!  Anything goes! Just be sure to tell us your cardmaking style!  (See the blog if you need help figuring out what your "style" is!)  As usual, I went Clean-and-Layered...just can't seem to get past that, it must be my favorite!  I pulled out a hostess set from last year called Holiday Haul that barely got any ink, and here's what I came up with:

I started by making a mask and sponging some Seaside Spray on some Basic White cardstock to create a little sky!  I added leaves from Sparkle of the Season, then stamped and fussy-cut the truck and pumpkins separately and popped them up:

I found some fun plaid DSP that matched my colors pretty well, added a Balmy Blue mat, then stamped a sentiment from Pretty Pumpkins directly on the DSP:

I admit my truck wheels are not done very well, but I guess it adds to the "charm" of this simple card, LOL!  I hope you'll find some inspiration and come play with us!  The design team has done a fabulous job with their creations as well....stop by at The Card Concept and check them out as well!  Thanks for visiting today!

No, not a new pet....just a friendly one belonging to the owners of a local winery that the kids like to frequent!  Isn't he adorable?!  Cassidy loved playing with him! 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."  Romans 15:13

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pretty Pumpkins, Sparkle of the Season, Holiday Haul (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Balmy Blue, Fall Break DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Seaside Spray (ret), Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Pear Pizzazz, Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals,
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Acetate Sheet (for mask), Stamparatus, SU Markers, SU Blends