SSC214 Fall Thanks

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a great weekend...I know I had one busy day and then one relaxing day...a great weekend!  I got in a wee bit of stamping time between reading, cross-stitching and cooking, and was able to create a thank-you card for a customer using the Sunday Stamps sketch:

 

Normally, with a large open area like this, I would be tempted to let some beautiful DSP do all the work (and I may do that yet, LOL!) but I decided to go a little more detailed with the Sweetly Swirled set:

 

Unfortunately, there is no die to match this set, but the elements are fairly easy to fussy cut!  I stamped some leaves in Terracotta Tile, Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody and Pumpkin Pie, then some greenery in Old Olive, and finally some flowers in Cajun Craze, Real Red and Terracotta Tile, then cut them all out.  I stamped the wreath with Crumb Cake on a Very Vanilla panel and went to work assembling it all:

I did stamp some "berries" in Terracotta Tile (my new favorite color) before adhering everything down!  My sentiment was from Itty Bitty Greetings, and I already had this Old Olive Linen Thread bow sitting in my unused box, so I adhered it to the banner.  I mounted it all on a piece of Old Olive gingahm DSP....I love the country feel of this!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweetly Swirled, Itty Bitty Greetings
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Terracotta Tile, Old Olive DSP
Ink	Crumb Cake, Terracotta Tile, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Mango Melody, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Old Olive Linen Thread, Dimensionals
Tools

PP460 Tall Skinny Gnome

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Wow, summer is back again...it's been hot this weekend!  Hopefully we can cool off looking at my latest Paper Players card!  The amazingly-talented Claire came up with a fun new challenge...a tall and skinny sketch!!  How fun is that?!

My card is definitely skinny....2 1/2" across and 6" tall!!  This little gnome (Fun Stampers Journey) was calling my name, he hadn't been inked up for a while, so I stamped him twice, once in Real Red and again in Smoky Slate, and did a little cutting and pasting:

After coloring in his nose and beard with Blends, I stamped a Real Red heart, some trees in Smoky Slate to create a backdrop, and they were all mounted on a piece of Whisper White cardstock embossed with a Nordic pattern.  It's too bad you can't see the Wink of Stella on his beard, it's quite sparkly!   A piece of retired SU DSP worked perfectly for my vertical panel!

A couple more images on the inside and a fun Christmas sentiment from Paper Smooches, and my card was done:

And since the Christmas Kickstart Challenge is featuring Scandinavian designs this week, I am entering it there as well!

I hope you'll play with our sketch this week...there is lots of room for creativity, and the tall and skinny feature will challenge you to do something different!  Be sure to check out what the Design Team did at the Paper Players blog!  See you there!

Talk about a dog just enjoying the day:

I am sure Eden is thinking "Wayne, you've got a nice drink....where's mine?"  LOL  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	All Yule Need (Paper Smooches), Gnome for the Holidays (Fun Stampers Journey)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Sending Love DSP (ret)
Ink	Real Red, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Rhinestones, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Gnome for the Holidays Dies (FSJ), Deer Knit EF (Tim Holtz), Blends, WInk of Stella

CAS Fall Latte

Happy Saturday, peeps....my schedule is all out of whack today, I am very late!  But we had a late night at the fair (no ribbons, but that's okay!), then yard sale, an auction and a health fair during the day today!  Finally I am home and I can post a little card I created yesterday for a couple of  challenges!  It features the retired Merry Cafe, which just didn't get enough ink time when it was in the Holiday catalog a couple years ago!

My sketch from from CAS(E) This Sketch:

and I stamped the little to-go cup in Terracotta Tile, adding some shading with a Blender Pen and a pretty little sleeve from some fall-ish DSP:

I stamped the sentiment in the same ink, then mounted the cup on a couple of diecut panels in Terracotta Tile and Crumb cake.  They were mounted on a Very Vanilla panel and adhered to a Crumb Cake card!  This also fulfills the Fusion Coffee Challenge (I only used the photo, not the sketch):

This was a fun card to make, I loved shading that little cup!  Thanks for popping in today!

Speaking of fall, here are a few pix from the Solanco Fair last night:

It was a gorgeous evening...cool and clear!

Contented cows:

Lots of blue ribbons for interesting veggies:

And can you see the sign under this pumpkin?  920 pounds!!  That's a BIG pumpkin!

Dana and I are already thinking about what we can enter in the fair next year....she's going to do some crocheting and I have a couple of things in mind!  We have a year to get them ready, LOL!  Thanks for visiting--be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge too!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Merry Cafe (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Terracotta Tile, Pleasant DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Terracotta Tile
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nested Labels Dies, Blender Pen

Follow Your Butterfly

Hi everyone!  Happy Friday!  I have a CAS/Layered card for a few challenges:

The sketch at Freshly Mades Sketches is lovely; the Card Concept features beautiful butterflies, and the Colour Inkspiration wants Rococo Rose, Seaside Spray and Gold...it says foil, but I used glimmer paper, hope that's okay!  So here we go:

My creative friend Vicky made a couple of cards using an older SU set called Touch of Nature.  She used the bird image (you can see them HERE), and I remembered that I had that set, so I got it out to see if I could recreate her birds....NOT!  But, there was a pretty butterfly in that set, so I stamped it in Stazon ink and watercolored it with Rococo Rose ink.  I already had these little DSP strips cut from a previous project, so all I had to do was to diecut some gold foliage and heat emboss a sentiment in gold on a narrow strip of Thick Whisper White cardstock:

I did add a little twirl of gold thread to create some "movement"....now this will go out in the mail to one of my customers!  And since the Card Concept likes you to define the style of card you create, I am calling this "layered clean and simple"....the base is very clean, but there are several small layers and embellishments!  Thanks for popping in today!

This week is Solanco (Southern Lancaster County) Fair week....it kicks off with a parade on Wednesday night, so Dana, Wayne and Cass went to that.  It was funny, I went into Quarryville on Tuesday morning to drop an entry off at the fairgrounds, and the sidewalks were lined with lawn and camp chairs....apparently if you don't stake out your claim early, you won't get a good view of the parade, LOL!  Dana said people started putting them out over the weekend!

There are lots of vendor booths with giveaways:

And since it's an ag fair, either ice cream or a milk shake is a MUST!

And for some reason, Cassidy really wanted to see the goats!

We'll be going tonight, it's going to be perfect weather and I can't wait!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	It Starts with Art, Touch of Nature (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Gold Glimmer, In Color DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Rococo Rose, Gold Encore (ret)
Accessories	Gold Thread (ret), Gold Embossing Powder, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Botanical Tags Dies, Heat Tool, Aquapainter,

IB90 A Little Notepad Just for Me

Happy Thursday, everyone!  The weekend is in sight, woohoo!  It's time for another Inspired By challenge, and this one was near and dear to my heart!  Usually I show the photo prompt after my project, but today, I am going to show it first!  Here ya go:

Now do you see why it was near and dear?  That's my very own initial (and Laurel's too, LOL!), so I knew I had to make myself a little project rather than a card!!!  I always like to take a little notepad with me in my purse, and Cassidy absconded with my last one (after she learned how to play hangman!), so I thought I'd make a new one!  So here we go:

There is only one wee little bit of stamping...the rest is paper and diecuts!  I had some gorgeous papers from My Mind's Eye called Gingham Farm, so I used that for the cover of my little note pad, adding a diecut "L", a wee bit of green accent paper and a sentiment from Close to My Heart.  I added some silver glimmer paper foliage and a few rhinestones for pizzazz!:

This will certainly be a fun way to take notes, right?!  And in case you're wondering how I did the cover, I used needle-nosed pliers to unhook the ends of the spiral wire and "turned" the entire spiral out of the note pad and set it aside.  I covered the notepad using a really strong adhesive; used a 1/8" hole punch wherever the original holes were in the cover, then put everything back together again and fed the spiral through, re-bending each end so it stayed together.  It's easy once you get the hang of threading the wire out and back in again!

I hope you'll play along with our Inspired By challenge and be inspired!  Thanks for popping in today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Bunches of Joy (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Black, Silver Glimmer, Gingham Farm DSP (My Mind's Eye), Time to Celebrate DSP (Graphic 45)
Ink	Granny Apple Green
Accessories	Rhinestones
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Be Mine Dies,  Little Letters Dies (ret), Flourish Dies, 1/8" Circle Punch, Needle-Nosed Pliers

TMS521 Thanks

Happy Wednesday, peeps! When I made this card yesterday, in my craft room light, it looked great! I really though my DSPs were both from the Flirty Flamingo color family!   However, when I photographed it, the difference in the colors was quite apparent!  But I had already put time into it, so I let it go!  It uses the Tuesday Morning Sketches sketch:

along with some papers from the Brights DSPs and Bird Ballad DSPs:

So I guess the bird cage paper is more Grapefruit Grove than Flirty Flamingo....better luck next time!!  And although it's hard to see, there are feathers from a Paper Pumpkin kit heat embossed in white on the background; the sentiment is from A Big Thank You, diecut with a die from the Stitched Labels dies:

The bird, popped up on a stitched circle, was simply cut from the Bird Ballad DSP!  Thanks for popping in and checking out my mis-matched card!

So this happened yesterday too:

Her hair was getting a little too long for her to take of by herself, so a little cut was the solution! No more blue-turned-green, either!  Cute!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Big Thank You, Paper Pumpkin (May2019)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, Bird Ballad DSP, Brights DSP
Ink	Calypso Coral, Whisper White, Petal Pink
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Labels Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder

Fall Flowers

Happy Tuesday, all!  I had a few minutes to stamp yesterday between camps, and I was really just kind of fooling around with some watercolored images...wasn't really planning to use them, just practicing, but in the end, when I saw these two challenges, I thought I might go ahead and create a card with it!  The challenges are The Flower Challenge--anything goes, and the Always Fun Challenge, which is asking for fall colors:

My flowers are from Tim Holtz, stamped in Stazon on SU's watercolor paper and colored with Real Red, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Suede and Old Olive inks:

I diecut it with a Stitched Rectangle die, added a distressed Old Olive mat and mounted it on my card:

The card base is Crumb Cake, and I stamped the "distressed" image from Woven Heirlooms randomly on it before adding a piece of woodgrain paper and a sentiment from Altnew.  I love line-drawn images, they're fun to color!  Thanks for popping in today!

Mommy-daughter lunch date....or I guess maybe it's dessert date!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Woven Heirlooms, Flower Garden (Tim Holtz), Label Love (Altenew)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Old Olive, Woodgrain DSP, Watercolor Paper
Ink	Stazon Black, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Soft Suede
Accessories	Black Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Aquapainter