TS107 and CASCSC367 Inlaid Roses

Hi folks, happy Wednesday!  You must be gentle with me today....I attempted an inlaid card with the rose border die from the new Ornate Borders set....it is certainly a test of one's patience!  So here we go:

The CAS Colours & Sketches challenge this week is to use some soon-to-be-retiring In Colors:

I had the white outline die already cut out, so I thought I would try to fill it in with the Pineapple Punch and Call Me Clover pieces....the leaves were easy to match up; the little rose pieces, not so much!  I will keep at it, though!  This was just my first attempt!  I ran two lines of Sticky Strip down the Blueberry Bushel DSP, laid the white piece on top, then fit the smaller pieces in.  I did have to add some glue on a few of them to keep them in place!

And since The Spot's challenge this week is birthdays:

I added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays along with my last little piece of Call Me Clover ribbon:

I will be sad to see Blueberry Bushel and Call Me Clover retire....Pineapple Punch, not so much!  LOL, I had ONE piece of cardstock left and I had to use part of it to just cut out these little pieces!!!  Yellow is just not one of my go-to colors!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Pandemic?  What pandemic?!  Oh, to be like a pup!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pineapple Punch, Call Me Clover, Blueberry Bushel DSP (ret)
Ink	Blueberry Bushel
Accessories	Call Me Clover Grosgrain Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Ornate Borders Dies, Stitched Rectangle Diecs

FMS415 x Two

Happy Friday, peeps!  I have two quick, easy cards today, and they both use the FMS sketch for this week:

My Christmas cards are all sent out, but I do need some birthday cards, so I thought I would put to use some pretty papers I recently won from my sweet friend Mary Rose (you should visit her blog,  Mary Rose's Cafe; she has some lovely creations as well as being just a lovely person!)!  And believe it or not, I had never purchased these SU DSPs!!  My birthday recipient is an avid seamstress, so I thought she would like this:

 

I used a Crumb Cake base, a Balmy Blue mat, and diecut one of the circle images with a Stitched Shape die.  I stamped my sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays directly on a piece of Crumb Cake Classic Weave ribbon in Soft Suede ink:

Then I added a few sequins from my stash, just for fun!  And I know I have all my Christmas cards done, but I just made a purchase from the Eyelet Outlet....normally, I am not a washi tape person, but I had seem some used recently (and they had a sale!), so I gifted myself some of these cute Christmas rolls!  Let me tell you, if you need a card in a hurry, you can't go wrong with these washis!  I had this scrap of DSP laying on my desk, so I just cut off some tape and voila!  An instant card!

I mounted it on a Poppy Parade base, added a sentiment on the inside and it's good to go for 2020!

So happy you popped in today!

Wayne works for a wholesale produce company and he sent Dana these pictures from a trade show he attended yesterday; how about a Christmas tree made of peppers?

Aren't people creative?  Who would think of this?  And it's at least 8' tall!  If peppers aren't your thing, you can always do a celery tree (NOT!)!!!!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

HSS329 Retro Kitchen

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  You can tell in blogland that the posts are more sparse as people are busy doing all their holiday preparations!  I know I have less stamping time!  So when I saw the Hand Stamped Sentiments sketch:

and I needed a quick birthday card, I went to my stash of 6x6 pads and came up with fun retro kitchen pattern from Carta Bella:

I love it when the paper does all the work!  There's only one little bit of stamping on the outside--the sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays--everything else is patterned paper from the pad.  Aren't these images cute?

I stamped the sentiment in Bermuda Bay and diecut it with a Stitched Rectangle die, then popped it up: 

 I did a little extra-special stamping on the inside with a sentiment from Perennial Birthday, stamped in Flirty Flamingo and matted with a scalloped Bermuda Bay oval:

Thanks for popping in today!

The Elfdon saga continues!  The company for which John does some part-time work had their Christmas party recently and they give out a lot of gag gifts; one of mine was some Warheads candy.  They are very sour and I certainly won't eat them, so I gave them to "Elfdon" to put in Cassidy's Advent calendar.  Needless to say, Cassidy doesn't like them either.  Here's the note she wrote to Elfdon:

She was quite polite but she told Elfdon she didn't like that type of candy.  Elfdon came back with a very good rebuttal, and Cassidy conceded!!! I love her little smiley face!  And of course the gigantic heart!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

GDP218 Woodland Sketch

Happy Sunday afternoon, peeps!  I am supposed to be addressing my Christmas cards, but I wanted to get this card in before the Global Design Project's deadline!!  Here's their sketch:

Tomorrow is my brother's birthday, and I thought these Nestled papers from Authentique would be fun for a masculine card:

Just look at those cute little faces.....I cut them out with a stitched die and backed them with a little scalloped mat.  The horizontal panel is embossed with the Pinewood Planks EF and sponged with some Early Espresso ink to bring out the woodgrain:

  

The birthday sentiment was stamped once with Early Espresso in my Stamparatus, then without moving the stamp, I cleaned it, inked it again with Versamark ink, then heat-embossed it with clear embossing.  I diecut it and popped it up with some dimensionals.  And here's the inside; I couldn't help but punch out one of those little faces to stick on the inside!  I hope he likes it!  Thanks for popping by again!  

Now off to the covered dish!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays, Birthday Centers (Cornish Heritage Farms, ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze, Chocolate Chip (ret), Nestled DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Early Espresso, Versamark
Accessories	Dimensional, Clear Embossing Powder
Tools	Heat Tool, Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Layering Squares Dies, 3/4" Circle Punch

Stamp Club Projects

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Almost halfway through the week, yippee!  I thought I would share a couple of the stamp club projects we made on Monday.  I enjoyed making the box card shown here so I thought my stamp girls would too!  Both groups used DSP from Come to Gather, in different patterns and palettes.  Instead of using a circle die to cut out the opening, this time we used the Stitched Rectangle dies.  So here they are (the center panel on the first one looks off-center but it is only because of the camera angle!):

To create the opening and the inside panel, we adhered a piece of DSP to the front of the card, adhering the SIDES only.  Then we cut out a panel using one of the Stitched Rectangle dies; it is a little challenging to get it through the Big Shot as you are cutting through two layers, but it will work!  Because there is no adhesive holding the layers together in the center, you are able to separate them (save the white layer for another use), then you can then flip the DSP over and cut a smaller panel using the next size down die.  Adhere that piece to the center and decorate as desired!  For these, we used the Seasonal Layers leaf dies, and added a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays, also diecut with the Stitched Rectangle dies.  A sentiment can be added to the back, if desired.  Once finished, these can be pushed flat and they fit into a standard envelope! I really enjoy making these cards!  Thanks for popping in today!

Wayne's company did a charity golf outing yesterday for the Make a Wish Foundation (they raised $31K!!!), and he brought home one of the centerpieces from their table:

Isn't that pretty?! Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Cajun Craze, Merry Merlot, Pool Party, Pretty Peacock, Come to Gather DSP
Ink	Pretty Peacock, Merry Merlot
Accessories	Linen Thread, Nature's Twine
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Seasonal Layers Dies

FF169 Celebrate You

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  I have a decidedly masculine card for you today, but first I must whine a little....I made this card last night in my craft room which is like a cave sometimes, despite all my attempts at lighting!  This Magnolia Lane DSP is Early Espresso, which is a nice, dark brown, but when I stamped the wood image from Rooted in Nature in Early Espresso ink, it looked almost black, and I didn't like it, so I stamped it in Soft Suede.  In my nighttime-cave-craftroom lighting, they looked pretty good together, so on I continued, adding my sentiment and little leaf and went on my merry way.  This morning, when I photographed it in natural light, I was aghast...it looks terrible.  The two browns just don't work together very well...and yet, I am not going to toss it, since men don't really look at that kind of stuff anyway.  BUT....my whining is that I wish SU would come back with Chocolate Chip or some sort of other brown that is not so greenish (Soft Suede) or not so dark (Early Espresso).  Is that so much to ask?  Okay, done with my rant and you can judge for yourself:

My sentiment is from Itty Bitty Birthdays, which has some great little ones that fit nicely in the Stitched Rectangle dies.  I stamped the leaf image in Pear Pizzazz and diecut it with the matching die.

I contined with Pear Pizzazz on the inside, stamping my leaves again, this time second and third-generation so they were very light.

My lovely sketch is from Fab Friday:

And so there it is, in all its "unattractiveness"!!  What can I say?  And since I have no Cassidy pix this week, I thought I'd share some of the beautiful birthday cards that I received a few weeks ago:

These two are from Kathy and Laurie, my PP teammate:

And these two Magnolia Lane beauties are from Teri and Sandy:

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Rooted in Nature, Itty Bitty Birthdays
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Early Espresso, Magnolia Lane DSP
Ink	Soft Suede, Pear Pizzazz
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Nature's Roots Die

PP441 Popsicle Birthday

Happy Sunday, peeps, and Happy Mother's Day, if that applies to you!  Not sure what the family has in store today...I guess it will be a surprise!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess today with a bright, cheerful color challenge...I admit, it had me stumped for a bit!

At first, my mind went "floral" but the colors kept reminding me of ice pops, so I pulled out the retired Day at the Beach...at first I was going to use three different images, but I remembered the sketch from Cecile at FMS:

So here is my popsicle-y creation:

Each treat was stamped in Stazon on watercolor paper and watercolored with inks, then fussy cut and coated with Wink of Stella...it's REALLY sparkly in real life, too bad you can't see it here!  I added some squiggly stitches to for fun on top of some retired Pool Party polka-dot DSP and a mat of Granny Apple Green:

 

I used a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays and the confetti from Picture Perfect Birthday to decorate the inside:

SO....I hope you'll play along with this fun color challenge this week!  Check out what the DT did:

Ann

Claire

Jaydee

Joanne

Laurie

Nance

Anne Marie

Su

Wanda

Windy

And it was a time for celebration yesterday....being new to the karate "community", I did not realize that the students also do competitions!  Cassidy has been practicing very hard lately, and she took first place yesterday in her division for one of her forms, and third place for sparring.  Check out these trophies!!

And here she is with her teacher, Master Fisher:

Thanks for popping in today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays, Picture Perfect Birthday, Day at the Beach (ret), Stitched Borders (CTMH)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Watercolor, Granny Apple Green, Pool Party Prints DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Lovely Lipstick, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Pool Party
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Aquapainter, Wink of Stella, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Big Shot

IB70 It's Your Pennant Day

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Today's the pre-order period for the new SU catalog..woohoo!  Can't wait to get my hands on some new goodies!  Meanwhile, it's also time for Inspired By!  Here's my card for Laurel's newest challenge:

Some soft, pretty colors!  And here's her prompt:

I went pretty literal, combing through my plethora of 6x6" paper pads until I found some that matched the photo pretty well! I used a SU tree punch to punch out a few, then sponged them for a vintage look, and embellished them with some glimmer and enamel doodads! 

Before adhering them, I scored my Naturals White card front every 7/8" with my scoring tool, then very, very lightly, added some Smoky Slate watercolor to bring out the dimension.  I stamped a little stitched line on which to "hang" my banners, and another stitched circle for my sentiment; I added a tiny enamel star and a Blend-colored heart to finish it off!

I love the sweet pastels in this card...hope you find some inspiration and will share your creation with us at Inspired By too!  Can't wait to see it!

Cassidy helped Mommy make salsa!!

She did a great job....but she didn't like the onions!!!  Running late today---have a wonderful day and be blessed!