LRW829 Vivid Leaves

Happy Wednesday, peeps! I am way late today!  But I've been experimenting in my craft room and having some fun with some old products and new products!  I was totally enamored by THIS CARD created by my PP teammate, Stef.  Wowza, it is amazing! 

I remembered that I had some retired dies from SU called Stitched Leaves, and I thought I'd  experiment with them to see if I could come up with something similar.  I used blending brushes and ink instead of alcohol inks to color mine, but I was happy with the vivid colors I was able to achieve:

Stef's challenge was to only use rust and yellow, but I went with all the fall colors!  The yellow leaf is diecut from some watercolor paper, but the other leaves were diecut with some new paper that will be coming out soon called Whispers of Texture.  If you look closely, you can see a wee bit of a woven texture on them:

I also added some new embellishments called Pearls of Beauty, and I unraveled some burlap ribbon to create a rustic bow.  Everything went on a panel of Country Woods DSP, and I stamped a sentiment from Simply Said.  I am going to enter this at the Little Red Wagon challenge because they're looking for a Captain's "log"...anything woodgrain!

The leaves outside my window don't look quite this bright, but they are beginning to turn!  Fall is definitely in the air!  Thanks so much for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Said
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Watercolor, Whispers of Texture (OE-Nov), Country Woods DSP
Ink	Crushsed Curry, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow
Accessories	Pearls of Beauty (OE-Nov), Burlap Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Leaves Dies (ret)

SSC371 Trio of Trees

Happy Tuesday!  I have a fun little Christmas card today and I used some products that I don't think I've used more than once or twice!  I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps, because I love things in threes:

And here we go:

I started by cutting some trees from dark green glimmer paper using a Cottage Cutz die, then mounting them on a Tim Holtz December Calendar-embossed mat:

Both sentiments, inside and out, are from More Merry Messages; I heat-embossed the outside one and diecut both before adhering:

I really like the clean, fresh look of this!  Thanks for popping in today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	More Merry Messages (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Green Glimmer (ret)
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Star Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh), White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine,  Heat Tool, Tree Trio Dies (Cottage Cutz), December Calendar Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz), Banner Dies (Pink & Main) Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret)

AHSC651 Hey There, Pumpkin

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

and since I had a "pumpkin" class on Saturday--we stamped pumpkin-themed cards--I pulled out another pumpkin stamp I had in my stash!!  Here we go:

This went together pretty quickly; I already had the plaid paper cut but unused for another project; it went on a panel of Calypso Coral and on top went a panel of Cajun Craze.  It was diecut and embossed with the Gathering Leaves embossing folder.  The patchwork pumpkin was stamped in Calypso Coral as well, fussy cut and popped up with a little seam binding embellishment:

The sentiment is from the same set; I had a narrow scrap of Basic White that wasn't quite wide enough to fit the sentiment, so I re-stamped the top portion and fussy cut it out.  I embossed it with a polka-dot embossing folder and added some little orange dots, which in hindsight look a little too pale.  Maybe I'll fix that later!  I left the inside blank so I can add an appropriate sentiment when I need to!

This is a great sketch, I love it! I hope you'll play with it as well, and share your creation with us at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge blog!  Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge.  I say to the Lord, "You are my Lord; apart from you

I have no good thing."  Psalm 16:1-2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Autumn Wishes (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cajun Craze, Calypso Coral, Timeless Plaid DSP
Ink	Calypso Coral, Cazun Craze
Accessories	Enamel Dots (ret), Seam Binding Ribbon (ret), DImensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Gathering Leaves Embossing Folder, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret)

PP759 Spooky Trick or Treat

Hello stampers!  Time for a new Paper Players challenge, and Elizabeth is our hostess for this month's color theme!  It's a doozy:

At least it was a doozy for me, as purple is a color I rarely use! I like it, I just don't use it! And normally I try to think outside the box a bit for color challenges, but I decided to embrace the Halloween feel to these colors and go for it!  Here we go:

To be honest, these colors on this card are NOT at all true-to-life!  For some reason, Lemon Lime Twist just does not photograph very well...my card is much brighter that what it looks here!  I stamped some Papertrey images in Memento Black ink, diecut them with a postage die and did a bit of sponging around the edges.  The images were colored with Copics and mounted on a piece of purple paper that has little skulls on it---very faint, but they're there:

I added a black glimmer paper diecut sentiment and some stars, and this sentiment on the inside; I just wish the color was better, but hopefully you'll get the idea:

Obviously, you don't have to go with the Halloween theme using these colors--if you visit the Paper Players blog, you'll see that the Design Team has come up with some other wonderful ways to use these hues! I hope you'll come play along too!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	And Many More (ret), Tremendous Treats: Halloween (Papertrey), Halloween Set 1 (Rubbernecker)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Lemon Lime Twist, Halloween Harvest (Honey Bee), Black Glimmer (ret), Adhesive Sheet
Ink	Memento Black, Lemon Lime Twist
Accessories	Black Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Postage Stamp Die (W+9), Trick or Treat Die (Impression Obsession), Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Copics in various colors, Blending Brushes, Country Star Punch and Star Punch (both ret)

FMS707 Get Well Pumpkin

Happy Thursday, peeps! The week is whizzing by!  I have a quick card that I made for a friend who had a fall and cracked some ribs!  Ouch!  The sketch is Judy's from FMS:

And here we go:

I already had my pumpkin made, an extra from when I made THIS card, so the only thing I had to do was get some scraps for the background.  I did add a little border around my pumpkin and a get well sentiment from Technique Tuesday:

This will be winging its way to her in the mail today!  Thanks for popping in, enjoy your day and be blessed!

Winter Schminter

 Happy Tuesday, all! I have an uber-quick card for you today; it's for two challenges!  The Addicted to CAS challenge wants to see a sweater, and the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge is a sketch:

I have a fun little sweater die that I pulled out, along with some scraps of paper from my stash; here we go:

I actually cut two sweaters from some retired Soft Sky cardstock and "stretched" it to make it fit under the sentiment banner a wee bit!  A little faceted embellishment tied to the colors of the plaid strip.  The strips were diecut with the Taylored Expressions Easy Strips Stitched dies; they make for a nicely-finished edge, I think! The sentiment is from Whippersnapper; it's an oldie from 2008!

The top inside sentiment is from the same Whippersnapper set; the birthday one is from Paper Pumpkin:

A fun wintry birthday card for my stash!  Thanks for stopping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winter Schminter (Whippersnapper), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Winter Wonderland (Simple Stories)
Ink	Early Espresso, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals, Faceted Gem (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Sweater Die (Gummiapan), Easy Strip Dies (Taylored Expressions), Banner Dies (Pretty Pink Posh)

AHSC650 Vintage Santa

Happy Monday, peeps!  After a whirlwind weekend, I am ready to hunker down and clean up my craft room---and the rest of my house, LOL! But we had beautiful weather and it was a lovely weekend!

It's time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I saw a cute challenge at Peace on Earth:

And I knew I just had to find a vintage Santa to use for the sketch! So here we go:

I believe this digital image came from the Graphics Fairy, and I printed my Santa on some sturdy computer paper, then fussy-cut him out and mounted him on a stitched square of Basic White cardstock.  I found some fun  candy cane paper to mount it all on, adding a few diecut holly leaves and a heat-embossed sentiment:

This vintage sentiment from Flonzcraft seemed to work with my vintage Santa:

I think this sketch is very versatile and could be used for most any occasion or image!  I hope you'll play along with us at Atlantic Hearts this week!

Cassidy enrolled in Life Sciences class this year as an elective, and she had to take a baby home for the weekend!  This is "Elisha"!  He cries, needs to be fed and have his diaper changed!  

Apparently his eyes don't close, however!!!  She said he awakened her three times on Friday night, but only once on Saturday night.  It was interesting watching her take care of him at church on Sunday! He certainly got a lot of attention!  But I think she'll be glad to turn him in on Monday!!!

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Christmas Words (Impression Obsession), Christmas Sentiments (Flonzcraft)f
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Real Red, Garden Green, Winterberry (My Mind's Eye), computer paper
Ink	Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, 1/8" Hole Punch, Holiday Greens Dies (Tim Holtz), Banner Dies (Pink & Main), Heat Tool, Computer