SSC336 Knitting Keeps Us From Unraveling

Happy Wednesday, peeps! I have a fun little card today which uses the sketch from Sunday Stamps--such a fun one, too!

A friend in our church knitting group is celebrating a birthday and my first thought was to use the knitting llama from the Zany Zoo set, but I remembered this older SU set called Hand Knit, so I pulled it out and got to work:

I am always teasing her because she tends to knit things in grays and other neutrals, and tell her she needs to knit and wear brighter colors!  So I chose some bright prints for my DSP, but nodded to her love of gray in the stamped images:

I did stamp the sentiment in the retired Regal Rose ink and I mounted the panel on a piece of Bubble Bath...just had to get some color in there!  And since I smudged my original inside sentiment, I stamped it again on a Spotlight on Nature circle diecut and adhered it on top of my booboo, adding some knitting needles beneath it:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hand Knit (ret), Birthday Centers (Cornish Heritage Farms)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Smoky Slate, Bubble Bath, Misc DSP from my stash
Ink	Memento Black, Smoky Slate, Bubble Bath, Regal Rose (ret)
Accessories	Baker's Twine (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Banner Dies (Pretty Pink Posh), Blender Pens

RRCB228 Yarny Birthday

 Happy Wednesday, peeps! A quick card today that uses the sketch from Retro Rubber:

We have a little craft group that meets each week at our church; some of us knit, some cross-stitch, some make cards and some crochet!  One of the crocheters has a birthday coming up and I made her a card using the yarn skein from Hand Knit (2010) as well as a sentiment from Here's a Card (2019):

These 12"x12" papers from Echo Park called I'd Rather Be Crafting were bright and cheerful, so I created my layers and mounted them on a retired Soft Sky card base.  The yarn was stamped in Calypso Coral and colored in with a Flirty Flamingo Blend.  I added a Flirty Flamingo circular mat as well as a Soft Sky mat, diecut with a Zigzag Stitched circle die from Sissix:

A wee little baker's twine bow finished it off.  I stamped a punny sentiment on the inside, along with the little knit garment from the same set:

Thanks for visiting today! Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hand Knit (ret, 2010), Here's a Card (ret, 2019)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Flirty Flamingo, Soft Sky (ret), I'd Rather Be Crafting (Echo Park)
Ink	Calypso Coral, Baja Breeze
Accessories	Calypso Coral Baker's Twine, Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Circle Dies (Nestabilities), Zigzag Stitched Dies (Sissix), 1/16" Hole Punch

AYSI174 Shades of Gray Speed Stamping

Happy Friday, peeps! Yay, the end of the week and time for another As You See It challenge!  Does this one spark your interest?!  I have never seen this movie so it might not have the same meaning for you...for me, it means Speed Stamping (less than 10 minutes) in any and all shades of gray!  Fun!

At first, as I thought about this challenge, I was a little stumped, but then realized there were lots of images that I could have used!  While going through some of my retired DSP, I came across this knit paper and thought all the little images from Hand Knit would coordinate and be fun and easy to do.  I assembled my supplies, set the timer and went to work:

I managed to finish in 8 minutes and 42 seconds!  I stamped all the images in Smoky Slate ink, then diecut them with the Stitched Shapes square framelits.  I quickly colored them in with a Smoky Slate blend marker: 

stamped the sentiment from Crafting Forever down in the right hand corner, adhered them on my DSP, matted it with another layer of Smoky Slate and adhered it to my card.  

The only little "extra" I did was to stamp another ball of yarn, quickly cut it out and adhered it with a mini dimensional!!  I love monochromatic cards and this was a fun challenge! 

Now, how fast can you stamp?  Show us your creations stamped in 10 minutes or less over at the As You See It blog!  Can't wait to see them!

Cassidy signed up for karate....she really loved her introduction and can't wait to learn some moves!  She's already got the "HI-YAH" down pat!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

MTS059 Birthday Card for Dana

Happy Monday, everyone!  Hope you are staying warm….it was zero degrees on my porch yesterday morning, but I am thankful I am not in the Boston area….that’s just way too much snow, LOL!  We celebrated Dana’s birthday yesterday (it’s actually today) and I used the Match The Sketch sketch for this week to get me started:

Just before Christmas, Dana, my niece and I were all bitten by the knitting bug, so I thought the retired Hand Knit set, along with the knit DSP from Adventure Bound made a perfect match for her card!  Here ya go:

I watercolored my wee little lamb, which was stamped in Stazon on Naturals White cardstock, and used a little artistic liberty with her wooly coat….I don’t think I have ever seen a lamb with Cajun Craze wool, LOL!  But it matched the opposite side of the DSP perfectly:

I stamped and fussy-cut the other elements, stamped a few knitting needles on the Sahara Sand card base and it was done!  She said she liked it!!!  And Cassidy liked blowing out the candles on the cake:

Thanks for visiting, and enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Hand Knit (ret SU)
Card stock & Papers	Sahara Sand, Naturals White, Cajun Craze, Adventure Bound DSP
Ink	Stazon Black, Sahara Sand, Cajun Craze
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Oval & Scallop Oval Nesties, Dimensionals