52CCT24-37 Sweet Christmas

Hello stampers!  Happy Saturday! I was chosen to be a Guest Designer at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown...one of my favorite challenges!  This week it's a sketch: 

What a fun sketch!  I pulled out some Unity papers, some retired cardstock and stamp sets and went to work!  Here we go:

I created a little frame from Poppy Parade cardstock to frame my little candy cane; there are actually candy canes on the printed paper, but I covered them all up!!! I added some diecut "greenery", a little baker's twine and an enamel "berry"!  The Certainly Celery panel was embossed with the Perfect Polka Dot embossing folder too:

I combined two stamp sets to create my sentiment; the "Christmas" is from Impression Obsession's Christmas Words, and the "have a sweet" is from Lawn Fawn's Baked with Love:

And the inside sentiment is from the retired Jar of Cheer:

So much fun to play with all these layers! I hope you'll play along with the challenge too....Christmas will be here before you know it, so if you've not started your holiday cards, I hope this will get you in the mood!  Thanks for popping in today!

Wayne, his brother, his cousin, Dana & Cassidy went to Tampa to see the Eagles play---unfortunately it was NOT a good game for Eagles fans!  It was about 100 degrees, but I think they still had a good time!

Uncle Matt looking goofy in the background!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Jar of Cheer (ret), Holiday Sampler (ret), Christmas Words (Impression Obsession), Baked with Love (Lawn Fawn)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Poppy Parade, Evening Evergreen (ret), Certainly Celery (ret), Winter Flowers (Unity)
Ink	Poppy Parade
Accessories	Dimensionals, Enamel Dot (W+9), Red & White Baker's Twine (ret)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Squares Dies (ret), Stitched Rectangle Dies (ret), Greenery Dies (Tim Holtz), Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder (ret), Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen)

FMS655 Candy Corn Lineup

Happy Monday, peeps! I am squeaking in a card for FMS today; I had lots of ideas for this card, but finally decided on another Halloween card, as my stash is low.  Here's the fun sketch:

Isn't that fun?  My first thought was buttons, but in the end, I went with candy corn!  Here we go:

These little cuties are from Lawn Fawn; I stamped, colored and fussy-cut them out, then mounted them on a simple card base of Pumpkin Pie on which I embossed a Stitched With Whimsy die.  The sentiment is from My Creative Time, diecut with a Stylish Shapes dies.  I did add a couple of wee little star sequins just for fun!

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

The Lord works out everything to its proper end--even the wicked for a day of disaster.  Proverbs 16:4

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Trick or Treat (Lawn Fawn), Mixed Holiday Messages (My Creative Time)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pumpkin Pie
Ink	Stazon Black
Accessories	Dimensionals, Star Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stylish Shapes Dies, Stitched With Whimsy Dies, Markers

CCCC32 Warm Winter Wishes

Happy Friday! Yay, the weekend is upon us!  My desk is covered with Christmas stamps right now, so when I saw the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge this week of "cute critters", I knew just which stamp I wanted to use!

And here we go:

I admit that this Mr Fox from Lawn Fawn is probably thinking that there is hot chocolate in his mug, but for today, we'll pretend that it's coffee!  I stamped him in Versafine Black ink and colored him with an aquapainter and inks.  I snipped a wee little snowflake from some printed paper and adhered it to his mug, and there is glitter on the snow! A pretty plaid mat and some Cherry Cobbler seam binding finished the outside:

A fun little sentiment from Oh What Fun went on the inside!

Here are a few more birthday cards from friends!  This is from my friend Karen in Florida:

And this happy one is from Tracy:

And this beauty is from Mollie:

And here's a shot of my family; Dana, Wayne and John all planned a surprise birthday dinner for me at a local restaurant...an Italian restaurant so I could have my yearly celebratory tiramisu!!  After a comical mixup of seating, the surprise was revealed and I was happy to be with them to celebrate my birthday.  A few seconds later, I felt a tap on my shoulder and my sister from South Carolina stood behind me! She flew up to PA the day before and spent a secretive weekend with Dana just to surprise me!  They REALLY got me!!  I was thrilled!  And oh my goodness, John is actually smiling, LOL! Poor guy was in torment all weekend long, keeping that secret!

Dana had another surprise up her sleeve, but I'll tell you about that much later!  Thanks for popping in today, enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Winter Fox (Lawn Fawn), Oh What Fun (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Cherry Cobbler, Christmas Salutations (Echo Park)
Ink	Versafine Black, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Pool Party
Accessories	Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched So Sweetly Dies (ret), Aquapainter, Dazzling Diamonds Glitter (ret)

Wish Upon A Star Birthday

Happy Saturday, peeps!  My card today is a little out of my norm, but I needed a card quickly and just sort of threw this together!  A sweet church friend is a dog lover....I mean a REAL dog lover, and her birthday is coming up.  The challenge at JUGS is to use stencils, and the Seize the Birthday challenge is to use red as the main color:

I pulled out the retired Happy Tails and its matching punch, some star stencils I received as a gift, and here is my quick card:

I remember experimenting with red inks on red cardstocks but I forget what I ended up thinking was the best color...this was Cherry Cobbler, and I don't really like the muddy effect it created, but I needed to get this in the mail, so I'll have to experiment again!  Anyway, I stamped my pup on Crumb Cake and punched him out:

The sentiment on the front of the card is a from Lawn Fawn's Upon a Star:

and on the inside, the sentiment is from Spellbinders, along with some paw prints from Happy Tails:

I hope she likes it!  And just to show you how special my friend is, she volunteers for an organization called Canine Partners for Life.  They train service dogs for people with disabilities and are seizure-prone, and besides the regular trainers, they use people like Sue who raise and foster puppies to be service dogs. They also use prisoners who train them as well.  It's a pretty cool setup! She brings her dogs to church and sometimes we can hear them as they are napping and dreaming, LOL!  Check it out at their website!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Happy Tails (ret), Upon a Star (Lawn Fawn), Greetings (Spellbinders)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Crumb Cake, Real Red
Ink	Real Red, Versafine Black, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Nested Essentials Dies, Dog Punch (ret), Star Stencil (A Color Life Designs), Blending Brush

PP665 Give Thanks

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Anne Marie is our Paper Players hostess today with the timely theme of "Give Thanks":

Even if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving, or send out Thanksgiving Day cards, a thank you card is always appropriate!  But I do have some cute Thanksgiving stamps, so that's what I went with!  I also used the sketch and colors from CAS Colours & Sketches:

So here we go:

I stamped the mice in Versafine Black and watercolored them with Gray Granite and Basic Black inks, then stamped and fussy-cut the cheese, coloring it with Hello Honey.  The panels are some green scrapbook paper from my stash and some Cajun Craze plaid from a couple of years ago!  They were diecut with the Stitched Triangle dies, then layered on a Very Vanilla card.

I may go back and give these little mice a little blush on their cheeks, LOL!  I also managed to track down my retired Really Rust ink pad for the sentiment inside!

We all have something for which to be thankful! I hope you'll translate that into a card and share it with us at the Paper Players!  Be sure to check out what the design team created as well!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Papertrey Take Three:Fall, Thankful Mice (Lawn Fawn)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze DSP (ret), Misc green from my stash
Ink	Versafine Black, Gray Granite, Hello Honey (ret), Really Rust (ret)
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Triangle Dies (ret), Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Aquapainter, Blender Pen

PP660 Wish Upon a Star

Happy Sunday, everyone! Happy October, too! Ann is our Paper Players hostess and she really challenged me today!  Here's her theme:

Now, I have NOTHING vaguely resembling space travel or planets, so it was a good thing Ann said we could use the sun, moon or stars!  That I could come up with!  I think I won this cute Lawn Fawn set many "moons" ago, and this seemed like a good time to use it:

I found some Sun Prints DSP from last year that looked like a sky, and heat embossed the stars on it:

I added a Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside hill of Mossy Meadow and perched my two little friends on top, then added an embossed sentiment:

It all went on a Starry Sky card base; on the inside, I added a Basic White panel on the inside with a birthday greeting:

So hopefully you can come up with some sort of space or sky-themed creation this week!  Be sure to stop by the Paper Players blog to see what the amazing Design Team came up with, then share yours with us too!  

Yesterday my TOPS group (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) had a local meeting with some other area TOPS groups.  

It's a fun day of learning helpful hints for good health, and we always have raffles and games.  My friend, who is the president, is also the luckiest person I know and won these flowers.  She says she is also  has a brown thumb, so she gave them to me...they match my shirt! What a friend she is!

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Upon a Star (Lawn Fawn)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Starry Sky, Mossy Meadow, Pumpkin Pie, Smoky Slate, Sun Prints DSP
Ink	Memento Black, Craft White, Starry Sky
Accessories	Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Hills Dies (Lawn Fawn), Heat Tool, White Gel Pen, Blends

PP649 CAS Gingerbread Greetings

Happy Sunday, everyone!  It's time for a new Paper Players challenge!  Anne Marie is our hostess this week with a CAS challenge, and it's a fun one!  She wants to see something we can eat!

The Christmas Kickstart challenge this week happens to be gingerbread, so I decided to combine the two challenges and came up with this:

My Lawn Fawn gingerbread people were stamped on Cinnamon Cider cardstock, then colored with a Real Red blend.  The gingham piece was stamped in Real Red ink and I added a scalloped border of Shaded Spruce.  The sentiment was also stamped in Shaded Spruce:

I resisted the temptation to add any other embellishments since it is supposed to be clean-and-simple!  

I hope you'll find some inspiration at the Paper Players blog to create your own "foodie" CAS creation!  Can't wait to see what you come up with!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy your day and be blessed!

I am the Lord, your saviour; I am the one who created you.  I am the Lord, the Creator of all things.  I alone stretch out the heavens; when I made the earth, no one helped me. Isaiah 44:24

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simply Celebrate Winter (Lawn Fawn), Background Basics Gingham (Papertrey Ink)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Basic White, Shaded Spruce
Ink	Versafine Black, Real Red, Shaded Spruce
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Be Mine Dies (ret), Simply Celebrate Winter Dies (Lawn Fawn)

A Sweet Birthday

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  I have a sweet birthday card today; this is for a sweet friend of mine who is also one of the best bakers I know, so I hope she likes it!  I am squeaking in the Color Hues challenge of red and aqua as well as the sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

I found some red plaid paper in my stash, pulled out a cute Lawn Fawn set called Baked with Love, and went to work:

All the images were stamped in Versafine ink and colored with Blends or Copics, then diecut with the matching dies.  I adhered them on top of a Basic White circle, matted with a Pool Party scallop. I added a sentiment from the same set along with some enamel dots from my stash:

I forgot to take a picture of the inside, but it said "You're the Icing on the Cake"!  So cute!  Thanks so much for popping in today---enjoy your day and be blessed!

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.  Proverbs 17:17

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Baked with Love (Lawn Fawn), Whittle Sayings (Poppystamps)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Pool Party, Real Red, Huckleberry Pie DSP (American Crafts)
Ink	Versafine Black, Real Red
Accessories	Dimensionals, Enamel Dots from my Stash (maybe W+9)
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Circles Dies (ret), Baked with Love Dies (Lawn Fawn), Copics, Blends, Wink of Stella

AHSC514 Gift Card Holders

Happy Wednesday, everyone! I have a couple of little gift card holders for you today; I rarely make them and yet they really come in handy when you don't know quite what to get someone!  I am using the sketch from Atlantic Hearts: 

The folded card holder measures 3" x 4 1/4".  I started with a piece of cardstock that measured 4 1/4" x 7 3/4", then scored at 3" and 6".  The remaining 1 3/4" flap gets folded to the inside and adhered close to the edges so that the gift card can slide inside.  For this particular one, I used Mango Melody cardstock and some Dandy Designs DSP:

I created a little faux gift bag, gave it a twine handle and some tissue paper, then mounted it on a retired Stitched Nested Label diecut.  

The cupcake is from Lawn Fawn, and the sentiment is from Our Daily Bread Designs:

I used sentiments from the retired Picture Perfect Birthday for the inside panels.

I decided to do another one, this time using current products (although the Dandy Designs was a SAB gift and is no longer available), but I used a sentiment from Charming Sentiments directly on the DSP, made the gift bag a single layer so that it would be simpler to create, and added a birthday candle from the Sentiments Silhouettes dies:

The sentiments for the inside of this one are from Peaceful Moments:

Still fun and cute!  The possibilities for these little gift card holders are endless!  Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy it and be blessed!

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Picture Perfect Birthday (ret), Tiny Tag Sentiments (Our Daily Bread Designs), Baked With Love (Lawn Fawn)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Mango Melody, Dandy Designs DSP (ret)
Ink	Versafine Black, Mango Melody, Calpyso Coral
Accessories	Linen Thread, Rhinestone, Tissue Paper
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Stitched Nested Label Dies (ret), Baked with Love Dies (Lawn Fawn)

Second Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Peaceful Moments, Charming Sentiments
Card stock & Papers	Fresh Freesia, Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Dandy Designs DSP (ret)
Ink	Pear Pizzazz, Stazon Black
Accessories	Linen Thread, Tissue Paper
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Sentiments Silhouettes Dies