AHSC495 Congratulations

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  My card today is for a couple's anniversary and I cannot believe that I don't have ANY really nice anniversary stamps!  SO I've made them a congratulations card, congratulating them for being married for such a long time (I know it's over 40 years!) and I hope they'll "get" my drift, LOL!  Here we go:

I began with some fall-ish DSP from the retired Rings of Love and stamped a retired background stamp called Sanded right on top with some Crumb Cake ink to give it a more rustic look.  I diecut a leaf from Poppy Parade cardstock and stamped it too, then sponged the edges.  I fit it into a So Saffron diecut circle and finally, added a sentiment from Happiness Abounds.  I did some tricky cutting to get it to fit into that banner die, and I had to laugh because the sketch that I used from Atlantic Hearts actually shows the same thing!

I added an Early Espresso suede bow for some contrast, then combined two stamps for the inside:

Everything went on a Soft Suede mat and a Very Vanilla card base!  Hope they like it!  Thanks so much for popping in today!  Enjoy it 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	Happiness Abounds, Sanded (ret), Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs), So Blessed (Technique Tuesday)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, So Saffron, Poppy Parade, Rings of Love DSP (ret)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Poppy Parade, Soft Suede
Accessories	Dimensionals, Early Espresso Suede Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Leaves Dies (ret)

Booooo!

Hi peeps, happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend! I swore I was not going to purchase any new Halloween stuff this year...well, that promise went right out the window when I saw these fun vintage-style dies from Tim Holtz and just had to have them!  Here's my cute little Jack-o-lantern:

I used the sketch from FMS as well as the inspiration photo from Inspired By:

My papers are from Echo Park's Spooky 6x6 pad along with some retired Smoky Slate DSP from SU; the pumpkin was Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie:

I created my own sentiment with the retired Labeler Alphabet and a 1/4" square punch, adhering them in a wee little curve and fussy-cutting them out.  I also added a stitched zig-zag border at the top!  I love his vintage face!  So happy you popped in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Labeler Alphabet (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Gray, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Gray DSP (ret), Spooky DSP (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black
Accessories	Black Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Basic Borders Dies, Retro Halloween Dies (Tim Holtz), 1/4" Square Punch (ret)

PP613 CAS Wheels

Happy Sunday, stamping friends!  I am the hostess at the Paper Players this week, and it's Clean-and-Simple week!  Here's my theme:

 

I just love that little pickup truck, but let me remind you that you don't need to use a truck...it can be anything with wheels!  I have been hoarding these puffy stickers from Prima for a long time and I decided today would be a good time to put a few of them to use:

I embossed a piece of Very Vanilla with the Timeworn Type embossing folder, then punched out three pieces of printed paper with the Postage Stamp punch and adhered the sticker to them:

Finally, I stamped a wee little tag, punched it out and adhered it with some Linen thread to finish it off.  It all went on a Crumb Cake base, and I left the inside blank so I could use it for most any occasion!  

I hope you'll play with our Players challenge this week too!  Remember to make it clean and simple!  And be sure to check out what the design team created as well when you share yours!  Thanks for popping in today!

Here's my little friend who likes to run under my porch and over to my shed; he hangs out on the hose loop and surveys his domain!

I feel kind of bad....I only ever see one of them, so I wonder if (s)he is lonely?  Doesn't seem to bother him though!  He enjoys eating the seeds under the bird feeders, so I think he's pretty happy!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Mini Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Pen & Ink DSP (Kaisercraft)
Ink	Basic Gray
Accessories	Dimensionals, Linen Thread, Amber Moon Stickers (Prima), Silver Pearls (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Timeworn Type EF, Rectangular Postage Stamp Punch

CTD714 Trick or Treat

Happy Saturday, all!  I have a fun card for you featuring the colors from Color Throwdown, which I never seem to get to play with!  So I made an effort, and although these were a wee bit out of my comfort zone I kinda like how it turned out!  First, here are the colors (great photo inspiration, isn't it?):

And here we go:

I stamped the Purple Onion pumpkins on Thick White cardstock in Cajun Craze ink and used Dark & Light Cajun Craze Blends to color them in....my blending skills are not as good as I'd like, unfortunately!  I colored the stems with Crumb Cake, then very carefully cut them out and adhered them to a Misty Moonlight card base.  I sponged Misty Moonlight ink around the edges so that the jacks were highlighted a bit:

Then I added some Tim Holtz stickers for my sentiment.  I colored in the little star on the middle punkin stem with a Gold Wink of Stella pen, so I added a few more "stars" around the sentiment; hopefully you can see them; they look really cool IRL!:

Finally, a sentiment for the inside, stamped in Night of Navy:

Thanks for popping in today! 

And speaking of pumpkins, our neighbor has a wonderful garden and after his family picks as many pumpkins as they want, he lets us come and get some too! 

I recently saw that a teacher grew a pumpkin that weighed 2650 pounds!  This one doesn't weigh that much but it was plenty heavy!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Mixed Holiday Sentiments (My Creative Time), Happy Pumpkins (Purple Onion)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Misty Moonlight (ret)
Ink	Cajun Craze, Night of Navy, Misty Moonlight (ret)
Accessories	Chitchat Stickers (Tim Holtz)
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Blending Brush, Blends, Wink of Stella Gold (ret)

Pink Christmas

Happy Friday, peeps!  Hope you have a great weekend planned!  I have had a stamping slump the last couple of days but I managed to squeak out a card this morning for two challenges: Jingle Belles is dreaming of a "pink Christmas" in honor of Breast Cancer Month, and the TGIF challenge has a nice sketch:

I found some pretty pink-hued Christmas papers in my stash, and I used them for all the elements on the front of my card, in addition to a sparkly snowflake, so no stamping---at least on the front!  Here we go:

I diecut the Santa image with a Stylish Shapes dies, leaving the top of his hat popping up, and added a snowflake and stitched scalloped banner of white glimmer paper.  The sentiment was also from the same paper pad, my only other embellishment was a pearl in the center of the snowflake:

A Papertrey sentiment was stamped on the inside in Basic Gray ink:

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

"He who fears the Lord has a secure fortress, and for his childredn it will be a refuge."  Proverbs 14:26

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Holiday Wishes (Papertrey Ink)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, White Glimmer, Silver Bells DSP (Kaiser Craft)
Ink	Basic Gray
Accessories	Dimensionals, Festive Pearls
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Be Mine Stitched Dies (ret), Stitched Snowflake Dies (ret)

Scottie Birthday

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  My niece has a birthday coming up and she has THREE scottie dogs!  Her house is a madhouse when the doorbell rings! But they are so cute!  I chose to only use one scottie on her birthday card today, it's from Christmas Scottie!  Here we go:

I used the sketch only from In(k)spire Me:

I stamped and fussy-cut my scottie, then diecut a gift from the Spruced Up Outlines dies in both Pool Party and Glimmer Specialty Paper.  In hindsight, I should have used just the plain white Glimmer Paper, but this will have to do!

I gave him a Pool Party bow, added a Pool Party heart and mounted him on a Basic White layer on top of a Pool Party scalloped mat.  The background paper is from Celebrate Everything and the sentiment is from the retired Picture Perfect Birthday.  Here's the inside as well:

It was fun to use a non-traditional color; I usually gravitate towards red when I stamp scotties!  Hope she likes it!  Thanks for popping in today!  And speaking of red, there's a lot of it in my travels lately, along with orange, yellow and green:

Just beautiful!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Scottie, Banner Year (ret), Picture Perfect Birthday (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pool Party, Celebrate Everything DSP, Glimmer Specialty
Ink	Pool Party, Versafine Onyx
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Scalloped Contour Dies, Spruced Up Outline Dies

AHSC494 Basket of Wishes

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  The Atlantic Hearts Sketch is a fun one this week!  Check it out:

I needed a special birthday card but I felt like pulling out some retired fall goodies...I have so many fall sets, I just can't part with them!  So here we go:

The retired set Basket of Wishes has a wonderful array of fall images in the line-drawing style that I love to watercolor!  I stamped them in Versafine ink on watercolor paper and colored them with inks and an aquapainter:

I added a few leaves from the retired Beautiful Autumn set and punched them out with the matching punches.  I placed one on top of the banners that were cut from retired DSP.  The background DSP is also retired.....some of it is really old, LOL!

I added a sentiment banner as well as a sentiment on the inside, all from the same set, stamped in Cajun Craze!

I am also going to enter this with my friends at Retro Rubber, since their challenge this week is "Anything Goes", and my stamps are at least two or three years old! 

Thanks for popping in today! 

I didn't get any pictures of Cassidy decorating her pumpkin at the Harvest Party, but my minister's wife snagged this one of her youngest:

She's quite an accomplished photographer, but it doesn't hurt that her son is so stinkin' cute!  As is his pumpkin!!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Basket of Wishes (ret), Beautiful Autumn (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basket White, Watercolor, Under the Mistletoe DSP (ret), Orchard Harvest DSP (ret), Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze and Mossy Meadow DSPs (ret)
Ink	Versafine Onyx, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Real Red, Pear Pizzazz, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Hello Honey (ret), Cinnamon Cider (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Autumn Punch Pack (ret), Aquapainter, Stitched Strips Dies (Pretty Pink Posh)