AHSC607 Easy Peasy Birthday

Happy Tuesday, all!  I am taking a break from Christmas cards and using some new upcoming stuff from the Spring Mini catalog, along with some retired goodies, for my Atlantic Hearts Sketch card! First, here's the sketch:

And here we go:

The Wildflower Birthday DSP has two sheets of punch-out images that make great scrapbook embellishments, but they also are great on cards!  I combined two retired sentiment sets, some retired DSPs and some florals from the Birthday DSP to create this quick, cheerful card!  I simply removed  the elements from the sheet and layered them around my hand-cut banner, added some gold pearls and it was done:

 A happy card for a happy occasion!  I hope you'll play along with the sketch at Atlantic Hearts this week...holiday or other occasion, it's a great one!

Maven's first Christmas tree excursion!

She's on the move!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Biggest Wish (ret), Endless Birthday Wishes (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Wildflower Birthday, Awash in Beauty DSP (ret), Balmy Blue DSP (ret)
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Old Olive
Accessories	Dimensionals, Festive Pearls
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Labels Dies (ret)

PP719 Color Challenge from Ann

 Happy Sunday, stampers! Today is our last Paper Players challenge of the year, with Ann as our hostess, and she has a wonderful color palette for us:

What a great way to end our holiday stamping, right?!  I just had to go with the retired Poinsettia Petals set, embossed in gold, with some Pretty Peacock accents:

I remembered some gold-printed DSP from waaaay back so I pulled that out for a background panel, and I also used the retired Pine Bough embossing folder as well:

The sentiment is from the same poinsettia set, but I mounted it on a banner from the Peaceful Season set, and added some gold pearls for accent.  The inside sentiment is from Greetings of the Season:

Of course, I had another idea in mind, so I made a second card, similar layout, using the Christmas Labels set and a diecut bell:

And a little sentiment from Lil'Inkers, which is where the bell is from as well, for in the inside:

I hope you'll come play along with our last challenge of the season, and share your color-filled creation wtih us at the Paper Players! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

JAI731 & RRCB245 Winter Sleigh Rides

Happy Friday, peeps! Are your Christmas cards all done?  I have mine almost all addressed and ready to go, but I still love making them!  Especially when there are so many fun challenges out there! The one from Just Add Ink really caught my eye, along with the Tic-Tac-Toe board from Retro Rubber:

I was inspired by the red, white and tan colors in the photo and I chose the middle row down on the TTT board of texture, greenery and tag, although I could have also done a couple more of those rows/columns!  So here we go:

I used a really old Cornish Heritage Farms set called Winter Signage to create my little sign; it is mounted on a piece Country Woods DSP tag, cut with a Bonanza die.  That stamp is at least ten years old, LOL!  I added diecut greenery in Evening Evergreen and a bit of Cherry Cobbler striped ribbon that retired long, long ago! 

I mounted everything on a Cherry Cobbler panel that was embossed with a Tim Holtz embossing folder called Deer Knit.  On the inside, a sentiment from Greatest Part of Christmas (2019), along with a wee little cup of cocoa from Merry Cafe (2017):

I did add a few little cherry cobbler "berries" for fun!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Greatest Part of Christmas (ret), Merry Cafe (ret), Winter Signage (Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Evening Evergreen (ret), Country Woods DSP
Ink	Pecan Pie, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Cherry Cobbler Striped Ribbon (ret), Cherry Cobbler Thick Baker's Twine (ret), Enamel Dots (from my stash), dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Bonanza Dies (ret), Evergreen Dies (Tim Holtz), Deer Print Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz)

SOS536 Best Wishes Brother

Happy Thursday, peeps! My brother's birthday is coming up and the Shopping Our Stash challenge is asking for a winter themed card but not Christmas!  I used some plaid Christmas papers from Echo Park's The Magic of Christmas, along with a deer diecut and a Birch Wood-embossed piece of woodgrain paper for his birthday card:

My sentiment was a combination of an older Paper Pumpkin "Best Wishes" and a Fiskars "brother"; the pine cones and greenery were from W+9's Merry & Bright.  The deer diecut is from Paper Rose; finally I added some black adhesive brads to add a little zip!

Edited to add:  I am also going to enter this at the Inspired By challenge for this week as well:

Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Paper Pumpkin (ret), Celebrate Family (Fiskars), Merry & Bright (WPlusNine)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic Black, The Magic of Christmas (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black, Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensionals, Adhesive Brads (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Birch Wood Embossing Folder, Merry & Bright Dies (WPlusNine), Deer Family Dies (Paper Rose)

Sweet Little Altoid Box

Happy Tuesday, peeps! Yesterday I resurrected an Altoids box that had been floating around my craft room after seeing this sweet card by my friend Lisa. I remembered that I had some of those Mintay papers, and like so many of the 6x6 pads I get, there are scrapbooking elements on some of the pages, which I never use. I thought it would be fun to incorporate them into a little vignette within my Altoids box.  The designs are both whimsical and elegant, and you'll see what I mean.  Here's the front:

All the papers and elements are from the Merry Little Christmas line by Mintay.  I used the Iconic Imagery die to cut out the snowflake paper for the front of the tin, then fussy cut the deer and that fierce-looking cardinal from the scrapbooking elements of the pad.  I did add a couple of diecut snowflakes as well.  Sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs, Mini Tag Sentiments.  Here's the back:

This time, I stamped a sentiment from Jolly Christmas by CC Designs and used the Nested Essential dies to cut it out.  And here's the inside; these papers are from the same pad but definitely have a more elegant feel:

I simply trimmed the papers to fit the inside, popping up the one on the right.  The left design is all one paper, the only addition is the sentiment (Tiny Words Christmas, from Simon Says Stamp), stamped on a scrap of the paper in Soft Succulent.  The right design has the flowers fussy-cut and popped up; same set for the sentiment.  Here are some closeups:

I did add a few glimmer paper leaves using the Timeless Arrangements dies and some retired glimmer paper, as well as a big silver wire bow.  A piece of retired Blushing Bride ribbon went around the outside, adhered with some Tear n' Tape:

This was loads of fun to make! I am going to enter this is the Inspire.Create challenge this week, which is "Anything But a Card" as well as the Peace on Earth challenge:

Thank you so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

AHSC606 Warm Wishes

Happy Monday, peeps! The Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was a challenging one for me this week, for sure!  Here we go:

And here we go:

I admit that I think I have Christmas card burnout---nothing that I was coming up with was working with this sketch!  I finally came up with this one, and even on this one, I didn't position the vertical strips quite the way I wanted!  Anyway, I used an older CTMH stamp set, stamping the sleigh and snowflakes in Misty Moonlight, then adding some Dazzling Diamonds glitter around the perimeter:

I did make a second one, using scraps from a Christmas paper pack, and tags from The Greetery:

I can't wait to see what everyone else creates with this sketch!  Check it out over at AHSC and share yours with us as well!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

 

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wonderland (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Welcome Winter (Carta Bella)
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Snowflake Sky Embossing Folder

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tear Strip Tags (The Greetery)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Evening Evergreen (ret), Home for Christmas (Violet Studio)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Silver Festive Pearls, Red, Green & Silver Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Tear Strip Tags Dies (The Greetery)

PP718 Peaceful Deer

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Wow, happy December...that month flew by!  It's my turn to be the hostess over at the Paper Players this week, and the theme I've chosen is "Be a Deer"---add a deer to your project!

It wasn't my plan to be so literal in my interpretation of the sketch, but I had a piece of Winter Meadow on my desk and I liked how it looked like a wintery sky, so I went with it!  Here we go:

I have several deer dies, but I hadn't used this Papertrey one for a while; I diecut it in white and stamped the antlers and legs in Misty Moonlight ink:

I placed him on a stitched hill then added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp along with some of the "greenery" from the same PTI set:

The background looked a little bare, so I added some glimmer stars, a couple of rhinestones and a few Poppystamps Whittle trees!  The inside sentiment is from CC Designs called Fanciful Christmas:

While I had the die out, I decided to make a second card since I just got a die I had been wanting for a long time (Michele is such an enabler!):

This time I stamped my deer in Pecan Pie on some Kraft cardstock, then added the background DSP, the double scalloped borders and a sentiment from Hope & Peace.  I am sure you'll be seeing a bit more of this fun die!  And we hope to see YOU in the Paper Players gallery, showing off your deer!  It doesn't have to be Christmas; deer are great for masculine cards, baby cards, anything!  Can't wait to see what you create! Thanks for visiting today!

The last of my "smalls"!  Now I have some bigger projects to frame or finish somehow....more work, more money, LOL!

 Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Deer to Me (Papertrey), Christmas Blessings (Simon Says Stamp), Fanciful Christmas (CC Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Misty Moonlight, Winter Meadows DSP, White Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Silver Cord (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Deer to Me Dies (Papertrey), Tree Dies (Poppy Whittles), Christmas Blessings Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Star Dies (Taylored Expressions), Stitched Hillside Dies (Lawn Fawn)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hope & Peace (ret), Deer to Me (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Kraft (ret), Home for Christmas (Violet Studio)
Ink	Pecan Pie, Cherry Cobbler
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Deer to Me Dies (Papertrey), Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Double Frames Dies (Penny Black)