Paper Players 272

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Laurie is our hostess at the Paper Players this week, and she has a lovely sketch for us.  I think I might have to pin this one for future reference!

I am still making Thanksgiving cards…..I can send them out tomorrow and they’ll still arrive in time, right?!  I pulled out the lovely, sadly retired, Truly Grateful set and some retired DSPs and went to work:

I stamped the wheat bundle in Hello Honey on a stitched tag from Simon Says Stamp, then stamped it again and cut it out, sponging it and popping it up with dimensionals:

It looked a wee bit plain, so I added a little Soft Suede ribbon tied with some Linen Thread to match my Soft Suede banner.  I cut out a stitched banner (same die set) in Pool Party and isolated just the word “Thankful” with a marker to stamp on top.  My Hello Honey panel is matted with some Cajun Craze cardstock and the whole shebang was mounted on a Hello Honey card.  I found this sentiment in my Harvest Home set, stamped it in Soft Suede on the inside and used my Versamark pad to stamp the wheat again in a lighter tone.  I love this look:

The “Happy Thanksgiving” is from last year’s Paper Pumpkin kit!  I have gotten a lot of use from that little set!  I am also entering this in the Papercraft Crew Challenge #171, which is a theme challenge of giving thanks!

 I hope you’ll join along with us and create something with this wonderful sketch!  You can see everyone’s creation here, or visit us at the Paper Players!

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

Last week we found a slate-colored junco and a wee little mouse, both of whom had met their demise somewhere near our house…thankfully not IN the house!  After a few tears (Grampy told her the mouse went to mouse heaven, at which she replied “There is NO mouse heaven, Grampy!”), we had a little burial for both of them, complete with blanket!  She insisted on digging with her own shovel, although Grampy did have to help her with that:

Never a dull moment!  Enjoy your day!

MM180 and SIP23

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Just a quick little note card to share with you today, a Christmas note card using the Stamp, Ink Paper sketch challenge as well as the Merry Monday theme of reindeer!  Here’s the sketch:

 

And here’s my card:

I had gotten this cute set from Technique Tuesday a while back that features a thumbprint and various little critters to stamp over it!  Adorable!  I remembered there was a reindeer in the set, so I whipped this up in no time at all!  I mounted my tag on some retired SU paper from a couple years back, added some stitched ribbon and Cherry Cobbler baker’s twine, but he still looked a bit plain.  Of course…..he needed a red nose!  Some glimmer paper to the rescue!

Rudolph is stamped in Tip Top Taupe and Basic Black; the sentiment is from last year’s Paper Pumpkin Christmas set, stamped in Cherry Cobbler.  The embossed edge is from a Lawn Fawn die set.  Thanks for popping in!

One of our favorite activities to while away the minutes as we wait for the bus is to play Simon Says.  Here, Cassidy is trying to convince Grampy that he should “run around as fast as you can” because Simon Said so!  Grampy’s not too keen on running at any pace, LOL!

Enjoy your day!

RS190

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Monday happened to be a big birthday for DH!  He’s not one for lots of froufrou on his cards, so he really liked the “manly” one I made for him:

I stamped the bear from Thankful Forest Friends in Soft Suede on some textured Very Vanilla cardstock, cut him out and popped him up on VV panel and stamped my sentiment from Endless Birthday Wishes in Garden Green (don’t look at the wonky way my “birthday” stamp curved!!!  Yikes!):

SU’s Little Numbers provided the “60th”, and the burlap ribbon is SU as well.  The DSP is some from my stash, Echo Park’s This & That, and it’s just about the last couple of pieces I have!!!  I used the sketch from RetroSketches:

Cassidy insisted that Grampy wear a Happy Birthday headpiece:

and couldn’t wait to “help” him open his gifts and blow out the candles!!!

And guess what Grampy has begun doing, now that he's 60?  He started taking piano lessons!  Oh boy!  Enjoy your day!

PCCCS170, JUGS319 and STB

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  Taking a break from Christmas cards and squeezing in a couple of challenges today with a birthday card!  Seize the Birthday is an “anything goes” challenge, Paper Craft Crew Challenge has this sketch:

and the trend week at Just Us Girls is watercoloring:

So here we go:

 

I dampened a piece of watercolor paper and lightly dabbled on some Lost Lagoon ink.  I pulled some papers from the Pretty Petals stack for my banners, then stamped the feathers from Cheer All Year for the focal point. 

A Paper Pumpkin birthday sentiment stamped in Basic Black was bold enough to work against the watercolored background.  I also added a few sequins from my stash, added some black glimmer paper elements,  and speckled some color on with a wet paintbrush.  My sentiment inside is from Cottage Greetings and I stamped another feather as well:

It’s off to the mailbox this card goes!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy went to her friend Gabby’s birthday party on the weekend.  Gabby is all about glam and glitz….Cassidy?  Well, she apparently hasn’t given up Halloween yet, LOL!

Enjoy your day!

Peace Christmas

Happy Monday, peeps! A quick Christmas card for you today; I let the paper do all the work on this one!

MME has some beautiful papers called All Is Bright (they’re a couple years old, so I don’t know if they’re still available) and this sheet is just full of eclectic beauty!  I took a trimmed portion to make the “all is calm” banner, and some leftover music paper from this card to diecut the Papertrey “peace”, then backed it with another diecut in Basic Black to give it some definition:

I did stamp this sentiment from Verve in Basic Black ink direction on the paper, then added some twine and gold sequins!

The paper is matted on Crumb Cake and then on a Soft Suede card.  Hope you like it!

Enjoy your day!

Paper Players 271

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Time for another Paper Players challenge, with Jaydee as our hostess today!  Here’s her challenge:

A great challenge to help us get started on those holiday cards, if we haven’t already started!  I just happened to have a cute stamp, very neglected on my shelf, from Elzybells, that was perfect for the challenge:

Little Elzybell is enamored, as I am, with that wee little sweet Christmas bird!  (Unfortunately, I am pretty sure the company went out of business, so I don’t think they’re available any longer!)  I stamped them in Basic Black and used some ink, an aquapainter and markers to color them in:

I diecut the image with a Lil’Inkers stitched circle die, and added some Dazzling Diamonds snow and an Elzybells sentiment as well!  I mounted them both on a panel of Soft Sky embossed with the Softly Falling EF…love that thing!  Really simple little card!  I hope you’ll play with us this week and share your clean and simple Christmas card!  Can’t wait to see it; and here’s what the DT created:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

We did some heavy-duty coloring one day last week, and when it was time to clean up, Cassidy insisted on returning the crayons to the box in the order shown on the lid….why didn’t that surprise me?

 

 

 

 

 

Our only distress was that one crayon was missing…uh oh!  It messed up the lineup, so we’re on the search for that errant one!  Enjoy your day!

Another In(k)spire Me Card!

Hi peeps!  Happy Friday!  I was so inspired by the sketch at Inkspire Me (do you know that if you try to put a parentheses around a “k”, you get this:  ???  So weird!  Cute, but weird!) that I decided to use it again for a Christmas card.  Here ya go:

And in case you forgot what the sketch looked like, here it is:

This go-round, I used Merry Moments DSP along with Home for Christmas (music) and diecut a big circle of Very Vanilla on which to stamp that pretty snowflake from Holly Jolly Greetings in Soft Sky ink.  I added the sentiment in Lost Lagoon and Basic Black, then diecut the sleigh and horse using the Sleigh Ride edgelits, from another circle of Lost Lagoon:

Added some glitter and bling, or “bedazzle”, as my friend Anna calls it, and stamped the inside like this:

My trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig really comes in handy with this set!  My final touch was a bit of shabby Soft Sky seam binding, tied with silver ribbon, and adhered with a glue dot!  Thanks for visiting today!

AJ hadn’t had a bath in a while, so we needed to take care of that….”I’m a good mommy, aren’t I, Grammy?”  Oh yes!

Enjoy the day!