PP529 Cool Cat

 Hey everyone!  Happy Sunday!  I am the Paper Players hostess today and it's time for a Clean and Simple challenge:

We all love our pets but sometimes I think the kitties get left out!  My little Pumpkin was our family pet for 18 long years; she's gone now but we still remember her fondly!  So here we go with my clean-and-simple creation this week, using my much-neglected Pampered Pets:

I used the colors from the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge for this week:

I stamped this smug little kitty on some Thick Whisper White cardstock with Stazon Black ink and watercolored her in with Flirty Flamingo and Gray Granite inks, then used the Pets die to cut her out:

I mounted her on a Stitched Shape circle of Misty Moonlight and added a Flirty Flamingo scallop along with some FF hearts!  The sentiment came from the Sweet Ice Cream set.  Here's the inside, using a sentiment from Pampered Pets:

I am also entering this in Global Design Project's Animal Challenge, as well as the Krafty Chicks CAS Challenge:!

And here's an old picture of my favorite kitty, sleeping in our bathroom sink, LOL!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pampered Pets, Sweet Ice Cream
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Thick Whisper White, Flirty Flamingo, Misty Moonlight DSP
Ink	Stazon, Flirty Flamingo, Gray Granite
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Layering Circles Dies, Pets Dies, Aquapainter

Random Cards

Happy Saturday, peeps! Hope all is going well for you this weekend!  I have a couple cards to share for random challenges!! The first one is for the Inspire.Create challenge:

Aren't these colors pretty? My Paper Players teammate Debbie made this card recently and it inspired me to do something similar with these colors.  So here we go:

I used the sketch from Fusion:

and papers from the True Love DSP line.  I fussy-cut a flower from one of the patterns and watercolored it with the three challenge colors, then adhered it to a layer of Thick White cardstock and fussy-cut it out:

The vertical banners were cut from snips of Sand & Sea DSP, and the sentiment, embossed in white on Basic Black cardstock, is from Bloom & Grow and diecut with the little banner die from Smooth Sailing.  I did color in some random flowers on the background with some Sahara Sand ink, but they are pretty subtle!  

The next card is a masculine one, using the mallard duck from Field Journal and a sentiment from Rustic Retreat:

It uses the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

My card base is Crumb Cake with layers of woodgrain In Good Taste DSP; I stamped Mr Mallard in Stazon ink, watercolored him and fussy-cut him out:

I did the same for the little wooden sign, adding some sponging on the edge for a vintage look:

I am also entering this at Watercooler Wednesday, where they are looking for masculine cards!

And I'll leave you with these pix of silly Eden....she's probably wishing she could go outside and play in the early morning snowfall:

but the next best thing is taking a nap....with her legs stuck straight out!  Who sleeps like that?  Silly pup!

Thanks for visiting today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge too!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

AYSI244 Cozy Colors

Hey, stamping peeps!  Yay, it's Friday and time for a new As You See It challenge!  Here's a fun one for you: 

I would have to say that my cozy color is anything in the orange family, particularly peachy hues!  So I went in search of my favorite orange colors and broke out a new set of dies for my card today:

I used some Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Strips dies to cut panels from Rococo Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Grapefruit Grove (ret), Crisp Cantalope (ret), and Petal Pink, then lined them up on a panel I had embossed with the Dainty Dots EF.  My florals are from Altenew, as is the sentiment. 

They were stamped in Blushing Bride, Petal Pink, Rococo Rose and Soft Seafoam, and I added some retired SU sequins.  I had an extra flower cut out, so I adhered it to the inside:

I love seeing what colors make everyone feel warm and cozy, so be sure to share your favorite with us and come play along at As You See It!  Thanks for popping in today!

While taking pictures of Mr Bluebird earlier in the week, I didn't realize I got Mrs Bluebird right next to him!  A lucky shot!  (And Mr Junco in the background!)

Enjoy your day and be blessed!  

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.  I do not give to you as the world gives.  Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."  John 14:27

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Painted Flowers, Best Sentiments (both Altenew)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Rococo Rose, Pumpkin Pie, Grapefruit Grove, Crisp Cantalope, Petal Pink
Ink	Memento Black, Soft Seafoam, Blushing Bride, Petal Pink, Rococo Rose
Accessories	Sequins (ret), Foam Sheets
Tools	Big Shot, Delicate Dots Embossing Folder, Stitched Strips Dies (Pretty Pink Posh)

IB162 Quote Me

Hi everyone!  Happy Thursday!  Time for a new Inspired By challenge!  Here's our prompt and the optional sketch:

Oh my, this little Pooh image brings back such memories!  I remember reading Winnie the Pooh as a child and thinking the same thing..."I wish this book would just go on and on and not be over!"  I don't have any Pooh stamps so I thought I would choose a Bible verse for my "quote"...I had this Inky Antics Songbird stamp, and I paired it with some pretty Bo Bunny Felicity papers:

I stamped the bird and branches in Smoky Slate directly on the DSP, then stamped the sentiment on top, using Tranquil Tide ink, stamping it again in Versamark and heat-embossing it in clear embossing powder.  It stood out much better once I embossed it!

My final addition was a couple of little banners at the bottom along with a shabby seam binding bow in  Soft Sky, adhered to the top left corner.  

I hope you'll find a nice quote or saying for our challenge this week...I am really looking foward to seeing what everyone comes up with!  Share it with us at Inspired By and check out the cute things the DT stamped as well!

I hope I'm not boring you with all our snowy pictures, but I wanted to share with you a video Cassidy took of us sledding.....it's a little wobbly and it's not been edited, so just take it as it is!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

 

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Songbird (Inky Antics)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Felicity DSP (Bo Bunny)
Ink	Smoky Slate, Tranquil Tide (ret), Versamark
Accessories	Soft Sky Seam Binding (ret), Clear Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Square Dies (Lil'Inker)

TCC149 Happy Day

 Hi everyone!  Wednesday brings us a new challenge from The Card Concept, where we share specific concepts of creating!  Here's the prompt Julie has for us today:

Isn't that a fun child's room?  I was inspired by the colors....in my high school yearbook under "favorites", I listed the color orange...and it's still one of my favorites, in any shade!  I pulled out the new Sweet Ice Cream stamp set (ice cream is a favorite, too, LOL!) and went to work:

I used the sketch from TGIF to get me started:

I stamped three ice cream scoops in Coastal Cabana, Pumpkin Pie and Crisp Cantalope (ret), stamping the cones in Baked Brown Sugar, then punching them out with the matching punch.  I stamped the sprinkles in Versamark, then coated them with Heat and Stick powder and added some glitter for fun:

I used some DSP from Peony Garden, matted with Pumpkin Pie and a piece of the retired Birthday Bonanza, then added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays and some retired twine:

Finally, on the inside, an explosion of confetti and another sentiment from Sweet Ice Cream:

As usual, I would say my card follows the "Clean and Layered" style!  You can see all the styles on The Card Concept's blog and I hope you'll be able to play with us as well!

On Sunday after the family finished celebrating Dana's birthday, we decided to do some impromptu sledding!  It was perfect weather...not too cold or windy, even though it was overcast, and the snow from a few days ago was still "sleddable"!  Cassidy and Lee decided to have a race; I think Cass might have gotten a wee bit of a head start:

Great form....she's making good headway!

She's ahead so far!

Uh oh! Lee's a little heavier and is catching up!

He hits the swamp first....I believe he's the winner!

Crash!!  Cassidy runs into him and they both topple over!  But you can see by the smile, they were both laughing hysterically!

Thanks for popping in today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Sweet Ice Cream, Itty Bitty Birthdays
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie, Peony Garden DSP, Birthday Bonanza DSP (ret)
Ink	Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie, Coastal Cabana, Versamark, Crisp Cantalope (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals, Crisp Cantalope Twine (ret), Heat and Stick Powder, Martha Stewart Glitter
Tools	Heat Tool, Ice Cream Cone Builder Punch, Tasteful Labels Dies, Big Shot

RRCB152 Happy Easter Day

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  It's time for a new Retro Rubber challenge, where we give some of our older stamps some love!  We have a sketch for you this week...love sketches!

This may be one of the busiest cards I've made in a while!!!  Once I got started, I couldn't stop adding more little bits and pieces to it!  Here we go:

Remember this cute set?  Basket Bunch came out in 2017, and again, I barely had time to play with it before it retired!  I might have made up for it on this one card, LOL!  The DSPs are several from a few years ago; the card base is Very Vanilla with a Balmy Blue mat (although I should have used Soft Sky), and the bunny and all the accoutrements are stamped on Whisper White, colored with Blends and die cut with the matching Basket Builder Framelets!

The sentiment banner is from last year's Itty Bitty Greetings.  Aren't all the eggs so cute?

I used a sentiment from Suite Sayings (2016) for the inside:

The design team has come up with a lot of fun ideas for this sketch and we hope you'll play along at Retro Rubber!  Just be sure to share the age of the stamps that you use...they must be at least a year old!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for popping in today!

Today is Dana's birthday and we had a little get-together on Sunday!  Happy Birthday, Dana!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Greetings, Basket Bunch, Suite Sayings (both ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Whisper White, Balmy Blue, Crumb Cake, Misc retired DSPs
Ink	Memento Black
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Basket Builder Dies (ret), Blends

GDP279 Get Well Hot Dog

Happy Monday, peeps!  A little late today....a lazy Monday, I guess!  The Global Design Project challenge this week is Animals, and I needed a get-well card for an elderly gentleman from our church, so I went to work!  Here's the challenge:

And here's my simple card:

I  positioned my stamp in my Stamparatus, stamped the pup on some Early Espresso cardstock once in Memento Black, cleaned the stamp, then stamped again in Versamark.  I then heat-embossed it with some Black embossing powder and fussy-cut it out.  I did cut a wee little piece of Poppy Parade for his collar:

and then stamped the sentiment on another scrap and punched it out with the Balloon Punch. I totally messed up the "highlight" of the balloon with my white gel pen; hopefully my friend won't notice too much!  I sponged it around the edges for some dimension, then added an embroidery floss bow and string:

The plaid paper is from a 6x6" pad called Pleasant from Authentique, and it's mounted on a Very Vanilla card. And since the challenge from Always Fun is "Anything Goes", I'm going to pop it in there as well!  Thanks for popping in today!

This little bluebird was quite friendly this morning and let me take several shots of him through my patio door:

He even stopped for a drink at the bird bath:

It's pretty unusual to have bluebirds all winter long, but we have had several pairs stay here this winter!  I love them!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.  Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.  Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it." Psalm 34:11-14