PP741 A Friend is a Garden

 Happy Sunday, peeps! Time for a new Paper Players challenge with Stef as our hostess this week! She chose a very pretty color palette for us to play with:

What a pretty combo!  I pulled out a few retired products and went to work:

I started with a pair of frames from Penny Black, diecut in Soft Sky and Soft Seafoam.  They framed this older sentiment from Cornish Heritage Farms, stamped in Balmy Blue and accented with a Stitched With Whimsy die:

My Petal Pink and Soft Sea Foam flowers were diecut with the retired Pierced Blooms dies, and I sponged some extra color on them to give them a bit of dimension:

Another retired Cornish Heritage Farms sentiment went on the inside:

And since I've used frames, I am going to enter this at the Double D Challenge, which wants us to use frames:

I hope you'll play along with our challenge colors this week! Be sure to stop over at the Paper Players blog to see the delightful creations the design team created!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Garden is a Friend, Birthday Centers (both Cornish Heritage Farms, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Petal Pink, Soft Sea Foam, Soft Sky (ret)
Ink	Petal Pink, Soft Sea Foam, Balmy Blue
Accessories	Dimensionals, Pearls
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Pierced Blooms (ret), Stitched With Whimsy (ret), Double Frames (Penny Black), Blending Brushes

FMS689 Sepia Sympathy

Happy Friday, all! I'm a little behind schedule today!  Since John told me I needed to make more sympathy cards, I decided to use the FMS sketch from Cecile to remedy that.  Here it is:

I made my central portion of the card, then realized it was too big to fit on the size card I wanted!  So I opted to make a larger 5" square card!  Here we go:

The scripty portion is from Elements of Text, stamped in Crumb Cake, and the greenery is from the retired Nature's Prints, stamped in Crumb Cake and a wee bit of Pecan Pie:

I added a Crumb Cake mat and a scalloped Pecan Pie mat, as well as a bit of twine and pearls from embellishments.  The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  I did add a few speckles around the edges as well, they're also from Elements of Text.  It feels good to use some of my older retired sets!  

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

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Elements of Text, Nature's Prints (ret), CL342 Sentiments (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie
Ink	Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie
Accessories	Dimensionals, Twine, Brown Pearls from my stash
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Natural Prints Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Layering Squares Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Sponge Dauber

RRCB256 Hello Sunshine

Happy Thursday, peeps! I have a fun little card today using the sketch from RetroRubber:

I confess that this sketch did stump me for a while, and I confess that one of the dies I used is new, but my sentiment is from 2022 and all the papers are retired as well!  So here we go:

I've been hoarding this bird paper from Rings of Love (a few years back) so I matched it up with a few patterned DSPs.  I used the Notes & Totes die to create the slats, and the sentiment, stamped on a piece of Country Woods DSP, is from Special Moments (2022).  

I like how all the colors work together!  

And since I have a bird card, check out what I found in one of my hanging baskets on my porch:

I had seen a couple of purple finches flying around it, so I am assuming they're the ones who built it, but no eggs! I just love how they wound the hanging stuff (I am so bad with plant names) around the outside of the nest!!!  I'll keep you posted if anything else happens!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Speical Moments (ret, 2022)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Country Woods DSP (ret), So Saffron DSP (ret), Soft Sea Foam DSP (ret), Rings of Love DSP (ret), Americana (Honey Bee)
Ink	Misty Moonlight
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Notes & Totes Dies

Butterfly Sympathy

Happy Wednesday, peeps! Yay, we are mid-week!  My friend asked me if I had any sympathy cards she could buy, and my supply was pretty low so I spent a day stocking up! (John told me at our age, I should have a large supply on hand, LOL!  Cheeky guy!)  Anyway, this is one that she didn't take and I was my favorite one, so I thought I'd share it:

This butterfly paper is from Kaiser Craft, and the butterflies have a nice sheen to them.  I just love the vintage look of this particular pattern from the Pen & Ink pad!  I mounted the paper on a mat of Basic Beige on which I had embossed a line of stitching, then adhered it to a Crumb Cake card base.  The little black scallop had been floating around on my craft table, unused from another project, so I added a sentiment from Teeny Tiny Wishes and popped it up on top:

On the inside, a simple sympathy sentiment from the retired Special Moments:

And speaking of a special moment, on the way home from church on Sunday, this little baby ran out in front of us (John had to beep his horn to get her on her way back to momma, who had been right in front of her):

It was certainly the tiniest fawn I have ever seen!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

"Praise the Lord, who carries our burdens day after day; he is the God who saves us.  Our God is a God who saves; he is the Lord, our Lord, who rescues us from death." Psalm 68:19-20

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Teeny Tiny Wishes (ret), Special Moments (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Pen & Ink (Kaiser Craft)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Black Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Unbounded Love Dies, Scalloped Contours Dies (ret), Stitching Lines Dies (Ellen Hutson)

In(k)spire Me #563 Way To Go

Happy Tuesday, all! My card today uses the sketch from In(k)spire Me, and it's a graduation card for a family friend!  First, the sketch:

Here we go:

I heat-embossed a sentiment from the new set called The Right Words, and I am a little disappointed in how it turned out; my embossing powder may be about 20 years old, so maybe I should invest in some new, LOL!  I diecut it and added a Pretty in Pink scallop to match these pretty florals from Wildflower Birthday DSP:

The gold-striped panel is from the same DSP, I just cut a strip and adhered it to the side. I added a few gold leaves and some sparkly ribbon too!  On the inside, I mixed and matched some sentiments:

The young lady graduate just finished nursing school, so she definitely will be on an adventure!

Thanks for visiting today!  And since I haven't posted a picture of Cassidy lately (she's mostly camera-shy these days), I was thrilled when Dana sent me these!  She and Wayne went fishing after youth group on Sunday evening:

A cute little sunnie!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	The Right Words, Adventure Awaits (ret), Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pretty in Pink, Wildflower Birthday DSP
Ink	Bashful Blue, Blueberry Bushel, Gold Encore (ret)
Accessories	Pool Party Glimmer Ribbon, Dimensionals, Gold Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Heat Tool

AHSC632 Floral Thinking of You

Happy Monday, peeps! Time for a new sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

I had some of these Florals in Bloom papers already on my desk, so I decided to use them for my card today as well:

I used the Deckled Edge dies to add some interest, and simply punched out a circle of these pretty flowers as an accent:

The sentiment, stamped in Calypso Coral, is from The Right Words, and I added some ribbon and sequins as embellishments!

I hope you'll play along with our interesting sketch this week!  Share your creation with us at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge blog!  See you there!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	The Right Words
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Garden Green, Florals in Bloom DSP
Ink	Calypso Coral
Accessories	Sequins (ret), White 1/4" Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Deckled Edge Dies (ret), Layering Circles Dies (ret), 1 1/4" Circle Punch (ret)

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)