CCCB412 and MTS229 BeeUtiful

Happy Monday, peeps!  It is a gorgeous morning, no rain in sight and my grass is a foot high, so I guess I know what I'll be doing later today!  For my card today, I am squeaking in the City Crafter Challenge of "Honey, I'm Home" (use bees),  as well as the Match the Sketch:

I have LOTS of bee stamps, because I just love bees and what they do for the garden!  The sets I used here are from Darcie's Heart and Home, along with some miscellaneous papers floating around on my desk:

I did some random collage-style stamping on the honeycomb background paper:

then I stamped the beehive on some pale yellow DSP , fussy-cut it out and added some shading (and some ink blotches from a messy Hello Honey inkpad 🙁🙁):

then stamped and colored in the frame and sentiment, fussy-cut it and popped it up:

I also added some sequins and a diecut border embellishment, then finished the inside:

I mounted it on a Crumb Cake base and it's all ready for someone's "Bee-day"  

I also wanted to share with you a little favor my sweet friend Linda made for her stamp club girls; it's a little beach bag filled with an umbrella and some other goodies:

It is so sweet!!  Thanks Linda, and thank you for popping in today!  Be sure to stop back tomorrow for a new Retro Rubber challenge!!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	BEEutiful and Day so Sweet (both Darcie's Heart and Home)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Basic Black, scraps of DSP from my stash
Ink	Memento Black, Hello Honey (ret), So Saffron, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Sequins (Sylvia's Etsy Shop), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Finished Touches Edgelits (ret), Aquapainter

MTS228 Stitched All Around

Happy Monday, peeps!  It's stamp club day, so this will be quick...I got my first pre-order of my SU goodies on Saturday---what a surprise, because I never get deliveries on Saturday, and it wasn't supposed to arrive until Tuesday!  Although I didn't have much time to stamp yesterday, I did pull out the new In Color, Grapefruit Grove, and used the Match the Sketch sketch with the Stitched All Around stamp set and Stitched Labels framelits:

And here's the sketch:

I stamped the "thank you" sentiment on Whisper White and diecut it with the Stitched Shapes framelits and then diecut a mat from the In Color DSP.  The vertical panel was stamped with the floral image from the set, and diecut with the stitched die and embellished with a new Faceted Dot:

Then I diecut this sweet little piece and stamped it with the cross stitch stamp and added two wee little stitched hearts:

I am thrilled that SU created another stamp set and dies that feature STITCHING!  Yay!  Can't wait to play with this one some more!  Thanks for popping in today!

Mommy helped Cassidy plant a fairy garden over the weekend:

Perhaps she'll have a better green thumb that I do!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Stitched All Around (coming soon!)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Grapefruit Grove, 2018-2020 In Color DSP
Ink	Grapefruit Grove
Accessories	Faceted Dots
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Stitched Labels Framelits

MTS226 and CAS131 Artistic Black and Pink

Hi everyone!  Monday, Monday...it's Monday again!  The weekend zipped by but I did get a little stamping time in after my company left; I used the Match the Sketch sketch and the CAS on Sunday color challenge of pink, black and white!

I was sad to see Awesomely Artistic on the retired list...it had such nice elements with an eclectic, vintage feel to them.  I thought it would be fun to make a CAS card with Melon Mambo and Basic Black...they are strong colors, but the floral is open and delicate, so the color isn't too overpowering:

I stamped the frame and dragonfly in Basic Black ink and fussy-cut them out, even cutting out the inner portion of the frame.  I used a sentiment from Wood Words inside the frame, as this is a customer's thank you card, and originally I had stamped it directly on to the floral image, but I didn't like how it got a wee bit lost, so I stamped it again on some vellum, layered it on the back of the frame and then re-lined it up with the original stamped sentiment.  Much better:

A black scalloped mat and some speckles from Swirly Bird gave it a little "movement", and I found some retired enamel dots in Strawberry Slush that matched enough!!  

A couple more pictures from Curriculum Night; this is the pot Cassidy made:

and the teepee:

and at one table, we could write a message with Indian symbols; this is what I wrote:

and here's John's:  a man goes fishing in the rain!  LOL!!!!

Thanks for popping in today!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Awesomely Artistic, Wood Words, Swirly Bird
Card stock & Papers	Thick White, Basic Black
Ink	Basic Black, Melon Mambo
Accessories	Enamel Dots (ret), Mini Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Framelits

MTS223 and FF134 Dragonfly Birthday

Happy Monday peeps!  It's another cloudy, gray day here, with more snow flurries predicted tomorrow---but warmer temps later in the week, yay!  I thought I would try to bring spring inside by stamping a birthday card with the Match the Sketch sketch and the pretty colors from Fab Friday:

I dusted off Awesomely Artistic and pulled out the dragonfly image, stamping it in the three lighter challenge colors:

I used the same technique as I did on yesterday's card, a partial diecut with the Stitched Shapes framelits, then mounted them on Night of Navy scalloped mats and adhering them to a card that had been partially embossed with the Seaside embossing folder:

I stamped the sentiment from Beautiful Day directly on to the Fresh Florals DSP, using my Stamparatus, which was helpful because sometimes the DSP doesn't accept the ink quite as readily as regular cardstock!  Finally, on the inside, I used a sentiment from Truly Tailored (it's not just for guys!!), adding a couple more dragonflies:

So happy you popped in today!

This is what you get when you play Mexican train with a double fifteen set of dominoes and only two players!!!  It was quite the "train"!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

MTS216 More Sewing

 Hi everyone!  It's a school holiday today, so this will be quick!!  I promised that I would show you my first sewing-themed card from yesterday's Paper Players challenge...this is the one that was NOT clean and simple but it was still cute, so I thought I'd share!  It uses the Match the Sketch sketch for this week:

And here we go!  This uses the same papers as yesterday's card (Cosmo Cricket's Material Girl) but a different stamp set:  Needle Little Love by Paper Smooches:

I did some paper-piecing for the focal elements, a lot of stitched dies and the needle from SU's Quilt Builder die for my elements:

This was definitely a fun card to create!!!  Thanks for popping in today---I'm not leaving a "recipe" so if you have any questions about the supplies, send me an email! 

A little snow tubing at Round Top, taking advantage of the fresh snowfall we got Saturday night:

 Enjoy your day and be blessed!

RRCB79 and MTS214 Love

Happy Friday peeps!  Wow, the weekend is here and Super Bowl is quickly approaching!  But I am in the throes of making Valentines!  So many pretty challenges out there, I just can't help myself!  Today I am using the Match the Sketch sketch and the RetroRubber "love" challenge for my card:

There really isn't much stamping on my card, most of the work is done by some beautiful papers (they are retro, too!) by My Mind's Eye called Heirloom, but I did stamp the striped paper with the French Script background stamp from SU, and the date on the label says 2000!  Wow....that's an oldie for sure!  So here we go:

All the papers except for the pink hearts that are behind the printed hearts, are from the same paper pack...I just punched them out with a large SU heart punch.  The "I love you" heart is from the same paper, and I just fussy cut it out.  Each of the pink hearts were punched with the same punch from Strawberry Slush cardstock and daubered with White Craft ink to soften the colors.  I did use a new CTMH die to create the row of gold foil hearts.....so stinkin' cute!

I broke my rule of never using a button, because this one just looked so cute:

This heart was embellished with a little Corrugated Element from the current SU catalog:

And this little one was embellished with a diecut from the heart border:

I love the soft vintage look of this!  And here are a couple of sweethearts:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	French Script (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Gold Foil, Strawberry Slush (ret), Heirloom DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Craft White, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Corrugated Elements, Button, String
Tools	Heart Punch (ret), Sponge Daubers, Big Shot, Heart Border Die (Close to My Heart), Outline Shapes Die (Simon Says Stamp), Dimensionals

SIP131 Emboss It!

Hi everyone!  It's back to normal, right?  It always takes me a little while to get back to the routine after the holidays, how about you?  I felt a little rusty in my craft room yesterday, but I am sure with all the new goodies coming out, I'll get back into the groove soon!  Our Stamp Ink Paper challenge for this week is "Emboss It"!

I did both heat and dry embossing on my card today, which is a birthday card for my sister, who drinks coffee all day (and night) long and yet has no problem sleeping, LOL!  Anyway, I used the Match the Sketch sketch, turning it on its side so I could use the coffee cup from Coffee Cafe:

And here we go:

I used a card base of Melon Mambo for a bright burst of color, and a new-to-me embossing folder from Tim Holtz.  Funny story, I bought this folder because I thought it was sand pails, which my other sister collects; imagine my surprise when I looked closer and found it was coffee cups!!  Silly me!  But in today's coffee-obsessed world, I certainly can put it to use! 

I did heat embossing on my coffee cup, lid and sentiment, which comes from the December Paper Pumpkin kit.  The papers and washi are from a sweet little kit from Dayspring Cards and Bella Blvd, called Illustrated Faith:

The little square panel behind my coffee cup is also embossed with the Falling Petals EF!  The final touch was three little punched hearts, embellished with some sequins from my stash!

Thanks for visiting today, and be sure to share your embossed creation at the SIP blog!

At Christmas eve morning's service, our pastor did a little lesson for the children, after which they sang Away in a Manger.  The little boy next to Cassidy was quite enamored with her singing!!  So cute!  And yes, although there is another little boy behind Cass, we have a lot more girls than boys!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Coffee Cafe, Dec 2017 Paper Pumpkin
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Melon Mambo, Illustrated Faith Christmas DSP (Bella Blvd/Dayspring)
Ink	Basic Black, Melon Mambo, Versamark
Accessories	Sequins, Clear and Black Embossing Powders, Illustrated Faith Washi (Bella Blvd/Dayspring)
Tools	Heat Tool, Falling Petals EF, On the Go EF (Tim Holtz), Dimensionals, Mini Dimensionals, Heart Punch (ret)