PP740 Recycled Christmas

Happy Sunday, peeps! Happy June!  Jan is our Paper Players hostess this week with a really fun challenge:

Usually I have something hanging around on my desk that I salvaged from a piece of mail or something, but I had to resort to going to my cut-up Christmas card stash that I usually send to St. Jude's but hadn't sent out yet!  I found this sweet little image on the front of a card, so I re-purposed it for my own holiday greeting:

I diecut the panel with a Scalloped Contours die and backed it with a mat of Gold Glimmer paper and added a little gold pearl to the star, then popped it on top of a Very Vanilla card base.  I just love this little sentiment:

And to add to the sparkle, a sentiment from Sparkle of the Season, embossed in gold, went on the inside:

I cannot wait to see what you can create with something recycled or repurposed!  Share it with us at the Paper Players blog, and see what the other participants created as well!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sparkle of the Season (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Gold Glimmer (ret), recycled Christmas card
Ink	Gold Encore (ret)
Accessories	Festive Pearls, Gold Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Heat Tool, Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen)

AYSI349 Speed Stamping

Hello, stamping friends! It's time for a new As You See It challenge, and this week, since it's the fifth Friday of the month, means it's time for SPEED stamping! Yep, we want to see what you can create in ten minutes or less!  Get all your supplies ready and go!  Here's our theme: 

I pulled out a couple of older sets that make me smile and the new Cloud Cover ink and paper, and here's what I created in 8 minutes and 30 seconds! I would have been done sooner but it took me as long to glue on the sequins as it did to stamp and emboss!

The image of the little girls in the ocean is from Technique Junkies, and the sentiment is from Crafty Secrets:

The seagulls are from the retired Sailing Home set, and the embossed background is the retired Seaside embossing folder.  I left the inside blank so I wouldn't run out of time!

I hope you'll stand up to our Speed Stamping challenge, too!  Check out what the DT created and then come share your quickly-stamped creations with us at the AYSI blog!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sailing Home (ret), Besties (Technique Junkies), Seaside (Crafty Secrets)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cloud Cover
Ink	Cloud Cover
Accessories	Sequins (Honeybee)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Seaside Embossing Folder (ret)

FMS688 Just a Note

 Happy Thursday, peeps! I am moving slowly this morning....rain and clouds make me feel like a sloth, LOL! I did find some time to create a couple of cards using the FMS sketch though! Here's the sketch:

I chose some florals from Florals in Bloom along with some Petal Pink DSP; I swear, sometimes I have the worst time matching colors.  The background of the floral looked like it matched the Petal Pink until I went to photograph it.  Now it doesn't look like it matches at all!  But I already put it together, so it is what it is!

I embossed the Petal Pink DSP with the Eyelet embossing folder to give it a bit more interest, then added a sentiment from Notes & Totes, stamped in Secret Sea and added some Cloud Cover ribbon and mat:

For fun, I created another card, which really has a fall vibe to it, using Timid Tiger inks and Pumpkin Pie DSP, as well as the retired Cottage Wreaths bundle:

The little sentiment is from Friends are Like Seashells:

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

"The Lord saves the righteous and protects them in times of trouble." Psalms 37:39

First Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Notes & Totes
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Florals In Bloom, Cloud Cover, Petal Pink DSP (ret)
Ink	Secret Sea
Accessories	Cloud Cover Ribbon, Dimensionals, Festive Pearls
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Eyelet Embossing Folder

Second Card Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Cottage Wreaths (ret), Friends are Like Seashells (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Timid Tiger, Pumpkin Pie DSP
Ink	Timid Tiger, Peach Pie
Accessories	Iridescent Sequins (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies, Country Wreath Dies (ret)

HSSSC464 Birthday Daisy

Happy Wednesday, everyone! My card today features a sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

And some papers from Country Woods and Perennial Lavender, along with a couple of daisies from Natural Botanicals:

This is my first time using the Two-Tone cardstock, which has a white core.  I embossed this piece of Pool Party with the Exposed Brick embossing folder, then sanded it to show the white beneath! I stamped the daisies in Pecan Pie ink and rather than use the opposite side of the two-step stamp to fill it in, I opted to use an aquapainter and Pool Party ink for a softer look:

I heat-embossed a sentiment from Simply Said with Craft White ink and white embossing powder, then cut it out with a Textured Notes die:

I really like the rustic feel of this!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said, Natural Botanicals
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Pool Party Two-Tone, Perennial Lavender DSP, Country Woods DSP
Ink	Pecan Pie, Pool Party, White Craft
Accessories	Natural Sequins, White Embossing Powder, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Exposed Brick Embossing Folder, Textured Notes Dies, Heat Tool, Aquapainter (ret), Sanding Block (ret)

SSC361 Blessed Day

Happy Tuesday, peeps! Doesn't it feel like Sunday? Or Monday? Those Monday holidays mess me all up! I have a quick little card today that uses the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

Although I am disappointed that SU didn't have very many new designer papers this year, it is nice to be able to continue to use the ones I didn't use very much from last year!  This card uses some pretty prints from Nests of Winter along with the flower from You Are Remarkable:

I stamped my flower in Early Espresso and added the petals in Moody Mauve, stamped off once to give it a lighter hue.  It was backed on a little square, also from Nests of Winter, and a sentiment from Unbounded Love:

And I always need birthday cards, so a sentiment from the same set went on the inside:

Easy peasy and sweet!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	You are Remarkable, Unbounded Love
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Nests of Winter, Early Espresso
Ink	Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Moody Mauve (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Textured Notes Dies

AHSC631 Patriotic Thinking of You

Happy Monday, everyone!  It's time for the latest Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, and I wanted to create a card in patriotic colors for Memorial Day, but not necessarily in a Memorial Day theme, because I don't send out those kinds of cards! But I knew I had some papers in vintage patriotic colors, so that's what I went with!  First, the sketch:

To accomodate the size of my papers, I chose to make my card a wee bit larger than normal; it's 6 1/4"x 4 3/4", from Basic Beige.  I cut my printed background paper to fit my card, then simply cut our the floral panel and added a Night of Navy border, although in my photo, it looks much brighter:

The sentiment is from Hero Arts, stamped on another piece from the same paper pad and diecut with a 3/4" wide banner die:

And since my card is a little larger than normal, I created a custom envelope with some paper I had in my stash, no idea the maker!!

I hope that you'll have some time this week to play with our sketch at the Atlantic Hearts!  Thanks for visiting; enjoy your day and be blessed!

  

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hero Arts CL342
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Night of Navy, Americana (Honey Bee)
Ink	Night of Navy
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Banners Dies (Pinkfresh)

Never Forget

 

Let's not forgot those who paid the ultimate price to keep our great country free!