RRCB203 A Special Birthday

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I have a fun, easy birthday card for a special three-year-old at our church, who also happens to be our friends' grandson!  The Retro Rubber challenge is to make a birthday card--how convenient!

I pulled out Number of Years (2016) and Boys Will Be Boys (2014) to make a primary-color card for him:

I diecut squares of Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point and Real Red, then stamped, colored and fussy-cut the legos and yoyo.  The "3" was a diecut from a really old SU called Timeless Type Alphabet Junior (anyone remember that set???) and everything was adhered to some popped-up diecut circles!

On the inside, I used Real Red to stamp the sentiment from Number of Years:

I am hoping he knows his colors and numbers so even if he can't read the words, he'll know it's to celebrate HIM!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Number of Years (2016), Boys Will Be Boys (2014)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, DSP in Daffodil Delight, Pacific Point & Real Red
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies

Tic Tac Toe 108 Best Kid Ever

 Happy Thursday, peeps!  A new Tic Tac Toe challenge is on deck for today; here's the grid:

I chose the bottom row across of Patterned Paper, Any Shape Die, and Stencil!  And I love how this little boy card turned out!!

The Dino Days set is so fun, and I am sad it is retiring!  I just didn't get a chance to use it enough!  I stamped this dinosauer in Old Olive and Bermuda Bay to coordinate with the Ice Cream Corner DSP I used:

I used the Basic Pattern masks (stencil) to create my background, and can you see the mat behind the polka-dotted paper?  I used DECKLE-EDGED scissors to cut that!  Who remembers them?  One of my first purchases from SU way back in the early 2000s!  I added some Mossy Meadow Braided Trim and a sentiment from the retired Boys Will Be Boys!  I added a palm tree and mounted everything on a Cinnamon Cider card base.  For fun, I added another dino on the inside:

I never have enough little boy cards in my stash, so this one will get used quickly, I'm sure!  What will inspired you from our Tic Tac Toe board this week?  Share it with us at the blog, can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for popping in today, enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Dino Days, Boys Will Be Boys (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Bermuda Bay, Old Olive, Cinnamon Cider, Ice Cream Corner DSP
Ink	Old Olive, Bermuda Bay, Cinnamon Cider
Accessories	Mossy Meadow Braided Trim, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Dino Dies, Layering Squares Dies, Tasteful Labels Dies, Stitched Rectangle Dies,  Basic Pattern Masks, Blending Brush, Deckle Edge Scissors (ret)

AYSi184 Back to Basics Birthday

Hey there, peeps!  It's Friday and that means a new As You See It challenge!  I love this one, it fit right in with what I needed to create this week....Back to Basics!

In stamping, "basics" to me means three things:  stamps, ink and paper!  At my very first workshop, we stamped a card very similar to this!  We only used one image and one sentiment from a fall set called Grand Cornucopia, stamped in Really Rust on Very Vanilla, and then we "decorated" it with  the speckles from Itty Bitty Backgrounds!  I was in LOVE!  And it was so very simple!  So today, I am sharing a card for my nephew Will (the one who is at West Point, you can see him here), and I know he basically just cares about the cookies that I am sending him, so I made his card very simple as well:

I used two images from Rooted in Nature, stamping the background trees in Crumb Cake and the foreground tree in Mossy Meadow and Early Espresso.  The sentiment is from Perennial Birthday.  And just for old times' sake, I stamped some Itty Bitty Background sprinkles in Old Olive:

While Will was visiting us, we asked him to tell us about his latest drill, which was parachuting out of a plane!  I remembered this little army guy from Boys Will Be Boys, so I just couldn't resist adding him on the inside, stamped in Old Olive and colored in with some Blends!  (Okay, when I first was learning the basics of stamping, we didn't have Blends, but humor me, LOL!)  He will get a kick out of it, I'm sure!

What does Back to Basics mean to you?  Perhaps the photo will inspire you, or like me, you'll just do some basic stamping...the interpretation is totally up to you!  Share it with us at the AYSI blog, can't wait to see what you create! 

A few weeks ago, Cassidy's friend Lee had a birthday party, complete with swimming, pizza and four-wheelers!  Well, only one four-wheeler, and Lee's dad has it rigged so it can't go very fast!  But he took Cassidy for a ride.  Since she didn't have a helmet, she used Lee's:

(It still cracks me up when I see it!); and off they went:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Perennial Birthday, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret), Boys Will Be Boys (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Confetti White (ret)
Ink	Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake, Old Olive, Early Espresso
Accessories
Tools	Blends in Light and Dark Old Olive

MTS118 Birthday Boy

Hi everyone!  Happy that it's Friday and Cassidy is back to her regular school schedule!  That girl wears me out, LOL!  I seem to be on a masculine card kick lately....Brian King's latest card inspired me to use my Tags & Labels framelits for the Match the Sketch sketch this week:

I mixed up some Schoolhouse papers with some sentiments from Endless Birthday Wishes stamped in Garden Green, Tangerine Tango and Pacific Point, and a yoyo from Boys Will Be Boys, stamped in Basic Gray and watercolored with Tangerine Tango:

The ribbon is my last piece of some stitched Soft Sky from several years back, and I added a little candy dot for fun!

And speaking of fun, this child makes bedtime a hoot:

 

Enjoy your day and thanks for popping by!

FMS179

Happy Thursday, everyone….aah, we are almost to the weekend!  I am desperately trying to stamp some new samples for a big workshop I have this weekend, so I pulled out a new-to-me set, Boys Will Be Boys, and put the Freshly Made Sketches sketch to use:

I am also trying to use up some of the DSP I have because before we know it, the new catalog will be upon us with some new stuff!  I have to admit that I have been better this year at using mine up!  This pattern from Confetti Celebration is not one of my favorites, but the graphics in it seemed perfect for a boy’s card!  Here we go:

I stamped the image in Basic Gray ink and colored it in simply with markers.  It looked a little plain, so I added some Candy Dots along the edge…much better!  My banner is from Maritime, and although I forgot to photograph it, I stamped the birthday sentiment from the set on the inside:

I am sure I could use this set for Cassidy, as she loves to play with blocks too…so it’s not just for boys! 

Cassidy was definitely into licking the cake bowl:

and the spatula:

And my mom always taught me “A good cook always cleans up her mess”, so she went to work washing up afterwards!  A little messy, but another good way to keep her occupied!

Enjoy your day!