Happy Winter Birthday

Happy Friday, peeps! I don't know about anyone else, but I am struggling to get back into my regular routine after the holidays! I know it's only a couple of days, but I feel jet-lagged, LOL!  I did manage to get into my craft room yesterday to make a wintery birthday card!  It uses the inspiration from Inspired By and the sketch from FMS:

So here we go:

I embossed a panel of Boho Blue with the retired Cable Knit embossing folder, and diecut a snowflake with the retired Stitched Snowflake die.  The snowflake was mounted on a Sentimental Christmas DSP circle as well as a Crumb Cake scallop.  I admit, I did go a little overboard with the gems and sequins, LOL!  The sentiment is from Choose Happy, on a Stylish Shapes die:

The inside sentiment is from Unbounded Love:

I am also entering this at JUGS, where they are looking for dies!  

Now to make three more cards---January is a busy birthday month for my family!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Unbounded Love, Choose Happy
Card stock & Papers	Boho Blue, Basic White, Crumb Cake, Sentimental Christmas (ret)
Ink	Boho Blue
Accessories	Iridescent Gems, Sequins (Honey Bee)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched Snowflake Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Layering Circles Dies (ret), Cable Knit EF (ret)

PP712 Tag, You're It!

Happy Sunday, peeps! I am the hostess at the Paper Players this week!  It's Clean-and-Simple week and the theme is TAGS!  

Adding a tag to your creation is so fun....there are lots of dies and punches out there to make it easy, and even if you don't have any of those, it's still a snap to do!  I actually made two cards because the first one didn't really seem CAS enough, LOL!  So let's see what I did create:

I have almost as many Halloween products as I do Christmas, so I always try to give my older stamps (and papers) some love!  These papers were from way, way back; I used the Bonanza dies to cut out a tag, then stamped a couple of images on them to create my spooky tag!  I added some mesh ribbon and twine as well as a sparkly black brad!  It all went on a Very Vanilla panel that was embossed with the Dotted Circles embossing folder:

Another real oldie for the inside:

And here's the one that didn't make the CAS cut:

I printed and diecut a digital vintage postcard from my saved images (not sure where this came from; maybe Olde Design Shoppe or the Graphics Fairy) and mounted it on another Bonanza die.  This time I added a little panel at the top from The Greetery, along with one of their Halloween sentiments and banners:

The banner is movable so that it can go into the envelope easily and then be moved outward to display the card and the rest of the tag image.  Love that starry witch!  I used a past Paper Pumpkin set to stamp the inside:

I think I will enter this over at Just Us Girls; they have a mood board and that vintage image on the left makes me think of a vintage postcard!

I will soon be putting away all my Halloween stamps so this may be the last card for that holiday you'll see!  I hope you'll play along with my tag challenge...just remember to keep it clean and simple!  Minimal layers, stamps and embellishments will fit the "tag"!  Share your creation with us at the PP blog and while you're there, check out what the other team members made as well!  Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy's school had a Rhyme without Reason day; her friend dressed up as a hacker and Cassidy was a rapper:

I hope she didn't leave that "bling" on her teeth all day, LOL!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Spooks Galore (ret), Fright Night (ret), Just For You (My Creative Time)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, Halloween DSP (can't remember the name of it)
Ink	Versafine Black, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories	Black & White Twime (from my stash), Metallic Mesh Ribbon (ret), Glimmer Brad (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Dotted Circles Embossing Folder, 1/2" Circle Punch (ret), Bonanza Dies (ret)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tear Strip Tags: Halloween (The Greetery), Paper Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic Beige, Pumpkin Pie, computer paper
Ink	Versafine Black, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Glimmer Brad
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Bonanza Dies, Tear Strip Tag Dies (The Greetery), Tear Strip Tag Cover Up Dies (The Greetery)

PP709 Tic Tac Toe from Claire

Happy Sunday, peeps!  September has five Sundays, so that means the Paper Players get to have a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge, with Claire as our hostess!  Here's her board:

My original plan was the middle row across of orange, diecut and stencil, but I also managed to do the left column of leaves, orange, and monochromatic!  My friend Martha gave me a nice leafy stencil that I had never used, so I set it up on some Very Vanilla cardstock and gathered some Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze inks and went to work:

After stenciling, I added some Itty Bitty Background dots, then ran it through the Cut & Emboss machine with a Subtle embossing folder.  My sentiment is from Unbounded Love; I stamped it on a piece of Very Vanilla in Cajun Craze, then used a Stitched Leaf die to cut it out:

I found some Very Vanilla thick baker's twine in my stash, so I added it to the panel, then popped everything up on top of a Cajun Craze card base.  I left  the inside blank, so I can use it for whatever occasion might arise.  I forgot how much I love orange hues....when I was a senior, I remember under my picture in the yearbook, my favorite color  was.....orange! And since this week at Just Us Girls, they want us to use stencils, so I am entering it there as well!

I hope you'll find something in Claire's grid to tickle your fancy, so you can play with us over at the Players!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Unbounded Love, Itty Bitty Backgrounds (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze
Ink	Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze
Accessories	Dimensionals, Thick Very Vanilla Twine (ret), Big Leaves Stencil (A Colorful Life Designs)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Leaves Dies (ret), Subtle Embossing Folder (ret), Blending Brush

PP686 CAS From Jaydee

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess this week with a sweet clean-and-simple challenge:

There is a cute heart-shaped tulip image in the Hooray for Surprises set, so I chose to use that for my simple image.  Here we go:

I used the sketch from In(k)spire Me as well as the colors from Just Us Girls:

I heat embossed the image in white on Pale Papaya, then added a little Peach Pie ink to each of the flowers, then diecut it out along with another plain heart to layer behind it.  (I forgot to order the new In Color cardstocks!!)  I added a sentiment from Unbounded Love and tucked it behind the hearts, embellishing them both with some Iridescent gems:

The vertical panel was embossing with a polka dot embossing folder, then layered with Soft Sky and Pale Papaya mats.  Because this is a clean-and-simple challenge, I left the background of the card base plain!

I hope you'll play along with our challenge this week! Remember to keep it clean and simple! This card is probably a little more detailed than I usually do for CAS, but it does have a lot of white space, so I think it still qualifies! Check out what the DT created over at the Paper Players blog, and we hope to see you there too!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Hooray for Surprises, Unbounded Love
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pale Papaya (ret), Soft Sky (ret)
Ink	Peach Pie, Craft White
Accessories	Dimensionals, Iridescent Gems, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Hooray for Surprises Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret), Heat Tool, Blender Pen

Vintage Halloween Cat

Happy Monday, peeps! Hope you had a good weekend!  We had a gorgous warm day on Saturday, then cool and rainy on Sunday! From one end of the spectrum to the other!  I have one last Halloween card for you, since I hadn't used one of my favorite images this year, and the JUGS challenge of CAS using just the center of your card, as well as the CAS on Sunday challenge to use an animal, reinforced my idea! 

So here we go:

I had a piece of Crumb Cake that was a wee bit smaller than a standard-sized card, so I used that and stenciled a "moon" of Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze.  I stamped my little vintage cat on a broom in Versafine Black and added an old Crafty Secrets sentiment:

I also embossed the outer edges wtith the Stitched with Whimsy dies....not sure if I should have done it or let it alone...but it is what it is!  I added a Rubbernecker sentiment on the inside:

This was quick and easy and still just one layer! Woohoo!  Thanks for popping in today!  And how about a couple more vintage Halloween postcards?

This one is from my great-uncle Hutch to his brother Bob...apparently he had a cold!  It strikes me funny that first he asked how his cold was, then he hoped everyone was well, LOL!  It's dated October 30, 1913!

This is one of my favorites, with those big pumpkin and moon faces!  I think the little boy's hair is standing straight up on end!

This is to my great-uncle Bruce from his Uncle John.  He tells Bruce he hopes he has all his pumpkins in by this time!  I remember Uncle Bruce and Uncle Bob, but Uncle Hutch and Uncle John were gone by the time I was born!  It's fun to have these remembrances though!

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Vintage Halloween (Crafty Secrets), Cat on a Broom (Victorian Greetings), Halloween Set 1 (Rubbernecker)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake
Ink	Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Versafine Black
Accessories
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Blending Brushes, Circle Stencil

PP663 Sketch from Jaydee

Happy Sunday, peeps! Jaydee is our Paper Players hostess this week and it's sketch week! I love sketches!  Here we go:

Wouldn't you know it, I needed another sympathy card this week, so I used Jaydee's sketch to create one:

These beautiful All About Autumn papers are just perfect for a thoughtful card; I used two layers of vellum for my bottom panel so you could still see the leaves through them a bit, and a panel of Copper Clay for the top panel, embossed (debossed, actually) with the Leaf Fall embossing folder:

The sentiment and diecut are both from Papertrey; I added some enamel dots for interest.  A simple sentiment from Stamp Simply was stamped in Early Espresso on the inside:

I am also going to pop this in over at JUGS where they have a lovely mood board:

I hope you'll play with our intriguing sketch this week!  Be sure to visit the Paper Players blog to see what all the designers came up with. I hope they inspire you to play with us as well!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Inspired: Prayer (Papertrey), Farmhouse Scriptural Thoughts (Stamp Simply)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Copper Clay, Vellum, All About Autumn DSP
Ink	Early Espresso, Copper Clay
Accessories	Enamel Dots (from my stash), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Leaf Fall Embossing Folder, Deckle Edge Rectangle Die, Prayer Die (Papertrey)

JUGS699 CASE a Spooky Card

Happy Tuesday, peeps! I am waaaay late posting today, just couldn't get my mojo in gear!  My friend Michele had a cute card where she CASE'd the designer over at Just Us Girls, so I went to have a peek and found a really sweet Halloween card that got my creative juices flowing!  First, let's see the prompt:

And I chose to CASE Carol Mc; here's her cute card:

I found a scrap of Gorgeous Grape cardstock, pulled out some Halloween dies and this is what I came up with:

My card measures 4 1/4" x 3 3/4" and I used a Memory Box Small Madison Arched Window die to cut out the opening.  I stamped around the edges with a CTMH swirly star stamp, then added Impression Obsession diecuts:

The background paper is from Echo Park's Spooky pad, and it just happened to have a scrapbook block on the other side, so that went on the inside front under a piece of vellum:

I used a really old Lizzie Anne Halloween sentiment, I think it's the cutest!  And since I cut out an extra black cat, I added that in there too!

And I am also going to enter this at the Four Seasons blog, where they're looking for anything fall! 

 

Thanks for visiting today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Halloween Sentiment (Lizzie Anne), Swirling Stars (Close to My Heart)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Gorgeous Grape, Vellum, Black Glimmer Paper (ret), Spooky (Echo Park)
Ink	Stazon Black, Versamark
Accessories	Peacock Rhinestone (ret), Dimensionals, Black Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Small Madison Arched Window Die (Memory Box), Trick or Treat Die 342-A (Impression Obsession), Seasonal Cupcake Topper Die 2305-Y (Impressions Obsession), Cat Dies DIE083-K (Impression Obsession)

Birthday Shells

 Happy Monday, peeps!  It's club day so I will make this quick!  My card is for two challenges:  the Just Us Girls challenge wants shells, and the Inspired By challenge is Sea Decor:

One of my favorite shell images is called Shell Plate 17 from 100 Proof Press; I combined it with a Cheesecloth stamp for my card today:

The shells were stamped in Baja Breeze on Mist cardstock from Close to My Heart and diecut with a Scalloped Contours die.  The cheesecloth was stamped in Crumb Cake and I added some "splashes" with a stamp from Nature's Prints, stamped in Craft White ink.  

I stamped a birthday sentiment from Lasting Joy and diecut it with a Nested Essentials die; beneath it I added a rope tied with a nautical-style knot:

The sentiment and shells on the inside are from an older Crafty Secrets set:

Thanks so much for dropping by today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

Those who love your law have perfect security, and there is nothing that can make them fall.  

Psalm 119:165

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Nature's Prints, Lasting Joy, Shell Plate 17 (100 Proof Press), Cheesecloth (Cornish Heritage Farms), Seaside (Crafty Secrets)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Mist (Close to My Heart)
Ink	Craft White, Pecan Pie, Baja Breeze (ret)
Accessories	Twine (from my stash), Metallic Pearls (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Scalloped Contours Dies, Nested Essentials Dies