FMS648 Shabby Patriotic Birthday

Happy Friday, peeps! Yay, the weekend is upon us!  I need several masculine birthday cards this month, which can always be a challenge, but I remembered some vintage-style patriotic paper I had gotten a couple of months ago and hadn't even opened yet! Yikes! I used the FMS sketch, which I love because I love THREES:

So here we go:

I used a punch to punch out the center panels, then the Layering Squares dies to make the scalloped mats.  I happened to have this piece of Country Woods DSP laying on my desk and thought it made a great background!  A little sentiment from the retired Label Me Bold, stamped in Cherry Cobbler, was popped up in the center:

One of the grungy stamps from Label Me Bold was also stamped on all the Crumb Cake mats to give it an even more vintage look!  Here's the inside:

One for my masculine stack...I need a few more, though!  Thanks for visiting today!

A few more Longwood pictures:

And these little guys were attached to the railing along the pond:

So cute! Too bad they don't croak!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Label Me Bold (ret), Perennial Birthday (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Country Woods, Americana (Honey Bee)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Layering Squares Dies (ret), Layered Banner Dies (Nellie Snellen), 1 3/8" Square Punch (ret), Sponge Dauber

Today Blooms for You

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Feels like Monday, doesn't it?  Well, sort of...all the days run together lately!  I had a little time to stamp yesterday before our little picnic, and made a couple of birthday cards to replenish my supply!  This one uses the sketch from Global Design Project as well as the colors from Cupcake Inspirations Challenge:

I love both of these!  And here's my creation:

I used the retired set Gorgeous Grunge to repeatedly stamp a black and vanilla strip for the top and bottom portion of my card, and layered on a pretty piece of Best Dressed DSP.  I am sad to see the Perennial Birthday set go; I think I'll keep it around for a while!  I stamped and embossed it in black and watercolored it with Blushing Bride ink, then fussy cut it out:

I layered it on some black and white baker's twine and adhered it to the edge of a Basic Black circle that encases a Very Vanilla circle that was embossed with the new Ornate Floral EF.  I stamped a sentiment from the same set and free-handed cut it out:

On the inside, I stamped a big sentiment and some Blushing Bride flowers:

Another one for my stash!  Thanks for popping in today!  Be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Card Concept challenge too!

It felt great to get outside and play some cornhole!  I am going to need lots of practice if I am to be any good at this at all!  Cassidy beat Grampy, but he was throwing left-handed, so I am not sure how fair it was!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Perennial Birthday, Gorgeous Grunge (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Best Dressed DSP
Ink	Memento Black, Blushing Bride, Versamark
Accessories	Black Baker's Twine (Doodlebug), Dimensionals, Black Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Heat Tool, Aquapainter, Ornate Florals EF, Stamparatus

TTTC#056 Under the Blue Umbrellas

Hi everyone!  Second post today!  If you're looking for my Inspired By post, just scroll down!  It's the second Thursday of the month, and that means a Tic Tac Toe challenge for Team X!  I am the hostess this week, too, and here's the grid I've chosen for you to play with:

I chose the middle column of blue, umbrella and DSP!  I knew I wanted to use the Under My Umbrella set, but I wanted a more "vintage" color palette!  I chose papers from some Graphic 45 6x6 pad and stamped all my umbrellas in Night of Navy and punched them out:

The background paper, which features tiny little hearts, is also from the same pad, but to give it some interest, I stamped some flowers from Perennial Birthday in Crumb Cake directly on to the DSP.  Then I popped up the umbrellas, added the handles and some Blend-colored rhinestones and stamped the sentiment in Crumb Cake and diecut it with a Stitched So Sweetly die:

I added some rhinestones here too! 

A really simple card...the stamps and punch make this a breeze!  I hope you'll play with our grid this week to get your spring cards started!  Check out what the other designers created at the Tic Tac Toe challenge blog and share yours too! 

Cassidy's been working on a blanket she started a while ago:

Stay tuned to see the finished product!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Under My Umbrella, Perennial Birthday
Card stock & Papers	Marina Mist, Botanical Tea DSP, Precious Memories DSP (both Graphic 45)
Ink	Crumb Cake, Night of Navy, Soft Suede
Accessories	Rhinestones, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Umbrella Punch, Blend

PP470 Fluffy Little Frosty Snowman

Happy Sunday, peeps!  AND Happy December!  Woohoo!  Laurie is our Paper Players hostess with a sweet, fun theme challenge:

How cute is this little snowman?  He reminded me of a Penny Black snowman image I had, so I dusted it off, inked it up in some Weathered Wood Distress Ink and did a wee bit of watercoloring to give him some life:

For my layout, I used the Paper Craft Crew Card sketch:

I stamped my little snowman on a piece of Shimmery White cardstock, trimmed out the top of his hat and then ran it through the Big Shot with the hat placed OVER the top of the die.  I then colored him with Balmy Blue, Garden Green, Flirty Flamingo and Pumpkin Pie inks and an aquapainter:

I found a couple of background papers in my stash that I thought would look good together; the blue paper even had some foil-printed snowflakes already on it!  Perfect!  I added some Silver Foil swirls and snowflakes and adhered a few silver sequins as well.  The sentiment is from an old Whippersnapper set, and believe it or not, this is NOT a Christmas card...it's a birthday card for a special someone who has a December birthday!  So I stamped this on this inside:

along with another little snowman in the corner, from the same Whippersnapper set!  I love snowmen!

I know there are lots of you out there that just love snowmen, so show us what you create at the Paper Players!  And meanwhile, check out what the DT has created over at the PP blog!  Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy hasn't worked on her loopy-yarn blanket for a while, so I was happy when Dana sent me these pictures!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Perennial Birthday, Critter Christmas (Penny Black), Winter Schminter (Whippersnapper)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Shimmery White, Silver Foil,  Silver Bells DSP (Kaisercraft), Meadow DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Balmy Blue, Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Flirty Flamingo, Weather Wood (Tim Holtz)
Accessories	Silver Sequins (ret), Dimensionals, Ice Stampin Glitter
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Squares Dies, Christmas Cardinal Dies (for swirls), Trio of Tags Dies (for snowflakes), Aquapainter

PP458 Ann's Pretty Colors

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Hope your weekend is going well so far!  Time for another Paper Players challenge with the talented Ann as our hostess!  She has a pretty fall color challenge for us this week:

Some of these colors are in the new Come to Gather DSP, so I paired a few of the patterns with some Merry Merlot DSP to come up with this:

It follows the Fab Friday sketch:

and I used some strips to create the horizontal elements; I used the woodgrain paper for my background, and I cut an open circle from the Merry Merlot DSP, along with a MM leaf diecut, for a focal image.  I hand-cut a little tag from the same woodgrain paper and stamped a sentiment from Here's a Card, then added some sequins, a faceted element and a little twine bow!

As I do often, I created another card with a totally different feel using the same colors!  This one uses the sketch from FMS, the CAS on Sunday challenge to use a diecut sentiment, and the Festive Friday Inspo challenge;  I used stripes, a bird, and pearls:

And here we go!  For this card, I hand-painted some stripes in Pretty Peacock on a piece of diecut Whisper White, then  used my Stamparatus to ink flowers from Perennial Birthday in Merry Merlot and Versamark, then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder and watercolored them in.  They're not too hard to fussy-cut, so after doing that, I mounted them on a "wreath" from Sweetly Swirled, stamped in Cajun Craze:

I masked off part of another sentiment from Here's a Card and stamped it on the striped piece to go with my diecut sentiment and bird, which are both from the Well Written dies, and I added some speckles and pearls to finish it off:

Please be sure to stop by the Paper Players blog to see the fabulous creations the DT has made, then share yours with us as well!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Card One Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Here's a Card
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Come to Gather DSP, Merry Merlot DSP, Merry Merlot
Ink	Pretty Peacock
Accessories	Dimensionals, Linen Twine, Faceted Embellishment, Sequins from my stash
Tools	Big Shot, Be Mine Dies, Seasonal Layers Dies

Card Two Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Perennial Birthday, Here's a Card, Sweetly Swirled
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White
Ink	Merry Merlot, Pretty Peacock, Cajun Craze, Versamark
Accessories	Pearls, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Heat Tool, Clear Embossing Powder, Aquapainter, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Well Written Dies, Stamparatus

Mosaic Seahorse

Happy Monday, peeps!  No challenges today, but I thought I'd share a card I made recently to highlight some new products:  the In Color Terracotta Tile, Seaside Notions, and the beautiful Mosaic Mood Specialty DSP.  So here we go:

I began by trimming a piece of the Mosaic Mood DSP along the tile lines; these papers are clear-embossed on one side, very, very pretty!  To keep with the embossed look, I stamped the seahorse in Terracotta Tile using my Stamparatus, then cleaned the stamp, keeping it in the same position, and reinked it several times with Versamark ink.  Once I sprinkled it with clear embossing powder, heated it and fussy-cut it out, I was ready to color it with an aquapainter and some ink!  I added a sentiment from the same set, framed in a Stitched Rectangle die and adhered it atop a lightly-stamped coral image:

  

Perennial Birthday provided the inside sentiment:

No pix today, gotta run!  I have stamping girls coming soon, and I can't wait to get inky with them!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

IB64 Today Blooms

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Time for another Inspired By challenge....it's a warm vintage one today, here's what I created (the photo doesn't do it justice, really):

And here's Laurel's sweet prompt:  

Spring lovelies they are, too!  Just look at all that homespun goodness!  I started by diecutting an oval from the front of a Naturals White panel, then stamped it with the Linen background stamp in Sahara Sand ink.  For my background, I stamped the Buffalo Check background stamp in Pear Pizzazz and placed it behind the "window". I mounted all of this on a Soft Seafoam card base.  My diecut flowers in Pear Pizzazz and Almost Amethyst were laid along side the edge of the oval and accented with a couple of sequins:

Finally, I "tied" the stems with a piece of crochet trim and Old Olive linen thread.  My sentiment is from Perennial Birthday, and I hand-cut it out and sponged the edges:

I could gaze for hours at this pretty vignette that Laurel found!!  It's so homey and cozy...what inspires you?  I hope you'll play along with us this week as well!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Perennial Birthday, Buffalo Check Background, Linen Background (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Soft Seafoam, Pear Pizzazz, Almost Amethyst (ret)
Ink	Pear Pizzazz, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Old Olive Linen Thread, Crochet Trim (ret), Sequins (Sylvia on Etsy)
Tools	Big Shot, Layering Ovals Framelits, Prim Poppy Die (Memory Box)