Praise Team Thanks

Happy Monday, peeps!  I have two cards for you today, and they are both thank you cards to members of our church's praise team!  They have been faithful about sharing their music every Sunday morning for our church's live feed, and I felt compelled to tell them how much I appreciate it!  (Dana is also on the praise team....she got some homemade cupcakes instead of a card, LOL!)  I also have spent some time lately updating the database which lists (almost) all my stamp sets!  My long-time stamping friend/demo Shawn told me recently that she also lists all the sentiments that go with the stamps....quite handy if you're looking for something specific!  But also quite daunting as I have a LOT of stamps!  But anyway, I came across some stamps I totally forgot I had, so I had fun creating with some old friends!

My first card is for the team leader and guitarist; the Less is More challenge is "scribbles, drips or splats"...I just love that description! 

I pulled out Fabulous Four, Epic Celebration and Gorgeous Grunge along with Garden Green and Mint Macaron inks to create his card:

This was pretty straightforward to create, the hardest part was cutting out the guitar, LOL!

The second one is for our organist/pianist.  She is quite an accomplished musician, and I wanted to create something a little more "organic"!!  I stamped a background music stamp in Sahara Sand, then overstamped some images from a long-ago set called Words of Wisdom.  The bird and verse are also from the same set:

I used the colors from the Sunday Stamps challenge:

I colored the bird with Crushed Curry and Crumb Cake inks, and the leaves are Granny Apple Green.

I distressed and sponged the edges of the white panel and mounted in on a Lost Lagoon card base and added some Lost Lagoon ribbon.  And just for fun, I added some Pineapple Punch DSP; it's not "vintage", but somehow, it seems to complement the yellow in the bird!  It felt good to use some of these older stamps!  I love my new ones, but I love the old ones too!  Thanks for popping in today!

Dana got Cassidy a kit to create her own spin art machine!  How cool is that?  She followed the directions and only needed a wee bit of help from mom, and it worked!

Check out those directions---yikes!

It's all wired up, batteries in......

And we have art!

 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Card One Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Epic Celebration, Gorgeous Grunge, Fabulous Four (all ret)
Card stock & Papers	Mint Macaron, Whisper White, Basic Black
Ink	Stazon Black, Garden Green, Mint Macaron
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	AquaPainter

Card Two Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Words of Wisdom (ret), Aged Sheet Music (Cornish Heritage Farms ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Pineapple Punch DSP (ret), Lost Lagoon (ret)
Ink	Sahara Sand, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake, Stazon Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Lost Lagoon Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Aquapainter

FMS235 Get Well Floral

Happy Saturday, peeps!  My card today uses the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

And because it was wide open to interpretation, I thought I would try my hand at some watercoloring a larger image!  I inked up a Tim Holtz floral image and watercolored it with Tangerine Tango and Tangelo Twist, but it looked a bit lonely, so I overstamped it lightly with the Dictionary background stamp:

Because I still need some get-well cards, I added a sentiment from Fabulous Four.  So far, so good, until...I thought I would add a little shadow by stamping the sentiment again, in Sahara Sand, a little down and to the left:

 Hmmm...not too sure of this effect; I think it may make the recipient a wee bit dizzy.  Oh well, it is what it is!  I added a mat and a Tangelo Twist bow and called it a day!

Cassidy got a little science kit and one of the experiments was making invisible ink!  Remember that?  Lemon juice and a candle, right?  Well, we're a little more advanced now, still using lemon juice but I let her use my heat tool...a little safer than holding paper up to a candle, LOL!  She wrote some words with a cotton swab and the lemon juice, then turned on the heat tool:

Oooh, something is beginning to appear!

 

She was so excited to see the words take shape!  Although it's hard to see here, we wrote "Hello", "Cassidy" and "Mom"!  

Our next experiment will be to make a milk shake--YUM!  That's the kind of science I like!

Oh Scrap!

Hey peeps!  Just a quick card today, no challenge, just playing with all the SCRAPS on my desk!  Are you inundated with them like I am?  I collected a few that seemed to complement each other, punched them out with a 3/4" square punch and adhered them to a note card.  Stamped a sentiment from Fabulous Four and it was done!

These colors just make me happy!

A little later, I decided to add some baker's twine....which one do you like better?

Continuing on with Cassidy's hairdressing obsession, she combed Mommy's hair while Mommy laid face down on the floor....whatever!

And here's the turban-style end result!

And she even gave Grampy a bit of a comb-out, too!  LOL!

Thanks for visiting today!

Paper Players 269

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It’s NOVEMBER!  Oh my goodness!  Hope you had a good trick-or-treat night, if you’re into that kind of stuff, LOL!  Today, Claire has a fall challenge for us at the Paper Players:

You know how you have an idea in your head, and then it doesn’t translate quite the way you had hoped?  That’s this card:

To start, I used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

I began by cutting the squares from a panel of Cajun Craze with my 1 3/8” square punch. For a template, I positioned and adhered some scrap squares along the long edge, then I punched over top of them.  Behind the “windows” I adhered a panel of Soft Sky, then three Crumb Cake  tree landscapes from the Sleigh Ride thinlits, each tree colored with a different colored marker:

I stamped the Hardwood background stamp on the Cajun Craze panel in Versamark, because I didn’t want it to be too dark, then added a portion of the Fabulous Four “thanks” sentiment in Early Espresso.  I popped the top layer up with many dimensionals, and unfortunately, you can see a few of them along the edge.  While I like the idea of these little windows, the scenes just look a bit too plain for me….I need some leaves or birds or something to add some interest!  BUT….it is what it is!  Hope you will play along with us as well!  Check out the other designers’ creations here:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

And here are a few pictures from trick-or-treating earlier this week—be prepared to be scared!!!:

A neon skeleton….no fairies, no wings, no glitter this year!  I kind of miss that!  Enjoy your week!

Paper Players 252

Happy Sunday, peeps!  I trust you had a safe & fun holiday yesterday!  Ann is our hostess for this week’s Paper Players challenge, and she’s chose a theme of “The Great Outdoors”!  Wow, there are so many possibilities for this one!

My friend Martha gave me a little stamp set from Recollections featuring some beachy images, and it was sitting on my desk, so I thought that would be a fun way to interpret this challenge, since I love going to the beach!  I just received my latest Paper Pumpkin kit, too, so I used some elements from it to make my card!  The card itself is from the kit, and it has a strange shape, so it was a bit tricky to photograph:

It has a pointy end, so it doesn’t stand up straight!  It also comes with its own envelope and liner….very cool!  I punched out some of the banner stickers and adhered them to the side, along with a little wooden one….it’s next to the sand dollar.  I will caution you, that the wood is very thin and the point broke off, but I was able to adhere it back together.  Just a heads up!  I stamped my images in complementary colors and diecut them with a Lil Inkers Stitched Circle die, then added some speckles (Gorgeous Grunge), sequins and a sentiment from Fabulous Four stamped sideways along the edge:

Another birthday card for my stash….and I know just the person who’ll be receiving this one!  I hope you’ll play with our Great Outdoors challenge too!  Check out what the designers came up with….a great variety this week!

• Ann
• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Amy
• Jodi
• Lisa

And speaking of the great outdoors, I don’t have any Cassidy pictures today, but I do have some nature pictures!  John was mowing on Friday and caught a glimpse of this little bird in the grass!  He picked it up and I was able to get some photos…I was quite intrigued by his markings; I had never seen a bird with a yellow band on the bottom of its tail like this one:

After some research, I found out it was a baby cedar waxwing!  What a wonderful surprise!  I had seen an adult last month, but I did not expect them to hang around and have a nest!  He was pretty content to sit in my hand, but when I put him down on the ground, he took cover in my salvia.  Hope he found his momma!

Enjoy your day!

One-Layer Vintage Thank You

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend!   I had a busy Friday & Saturday, and Sunday we had our church picnic, but the afternoon was leisurely and productive!  I did get a wee bit of stampin’ time in and made a one-layer card (which is a challenge in itself), for three challenges:  CASology wants vintage; Just Us Girls has a word challenge of “summer”; and As You See It wants one layer!   I needed a thank you card for a friend, so I pulled out some Artistic Outposts stamps, a Very Vanilla cardbase and went to work, doing some collage stamping:

I really wanted to add some layers, but I was determined to just use my stamps!  I stamped the images in Mint Macaron and Soft Sky, with an “oops” of Pool Party (pulled out the wrong ink pad!!).  I did add a wee bit of baker’s twine and did some sponging around the edges.  Stamps used were Boardwalk and A Lovely Day.  I added my sentiment  from SU’s Fabulous Four and some shells to the inside:

Thanks for stopping by today!

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