RRCB93 Tic Tac Toe Smile

Hi everyone!  Tuesday brings us another Retro Rubber challenge!!!  This week it's a tic-tac-toe!   I let my paper do most of the work today:

And here's our grid:

I chose the left column down:  Die cut, stripes and birds!  The designer paper I chose had stripes and birds on it already, and I love the patterns!  I then die cut a little striped tag from some matching papers and stamped the words from an old Project Life set (So You, 2015) on it, then colored in the "smile" portion with a Blend.  It sort of got lost against the busy patterned paper, so I backed it with a black banner!  The little birds were diecut from a piece of wood paper gifted to me by my friend Michele; they work perfectly with the wood pattern on the paper!

I added an embellishment, a little twine and rounded the corner of the card and it was done!  

I hope you'll play along with us and give your older stamps some love!  Remember, they need to be at least a year old, and you must tell us the age of them!  Hope to see you in the gallery at Retro Rubber!

Cassidy's been camping all weekend, so I have to share some photos from around my neck of the woods:

Some pretty clouds I saw on my walk one day:

and a beautiful sunrise:

A sunflower from my neighbor's yard and a rose from the egg farm:

And not one, but two double-yolked eggs from the farm....my friend Kathy must have a chicken that has a tendency to lay doubles!

And I thought you would like to see my boots after picking beans last night....this was after one downpour early in the morning, and I finished just before it rained AGAIN!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	So You (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Wood (from my stash), Be Amazing DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Basic Black
Accessories	Faceted Embellishment, Twine, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Chirping Birds Dies, Greeting Tags Dies (both PoppyStamps), Pool Party Blend

Fusion Smile

Happy Friday, peeps!  Today's card was a quick and easy one to make...I just needed a card real fast, nothing super-duper fancy, just a cheerful card for someone who is going through a rough patch.  I thought the sketch and colors of the Fusion challenge were perfect:

I've probably only used Fruit Stand three or four times since it came out in the catalog, and two of them have been this week!  I used the sunny lemon design as a background for my card, adding some polka dot banners and the "smile" from So You (ret).  I stamped it in Lucky Limeade, fussy-cut it out and mounted it on another little banner:

I hope the recipient isn't put off by the sequin!!!  I just had to sneak something sparkly in!  The inside has a get-well greeting as well!  

Sometimes we just like to get out our paints and paint.....this time we used some more styrofoam plates, and Cassidy painted an apple!

She did pretty well....I didn't help her a bit!  Thanks for popping by!

Project Details
Stamps	So  You (Ret SU)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Fruit Stand DSP, Patterned DSP in Daffodil Delight and Lucky Limeade
Ink	Lucky Limeade
Accessories	Sequin
Tools

Paper Players 285 Hello Sunshine

Happy Sunday, everyone!  I am so excited...the final episode of Downton Abbey is tonight...I can't wait!  Are you a fan?  I am praying for happy endings!! We'll have to wait and see!  But right now it's time for another Paper Players challenge and my sweet friend Sandy is our hostess...and she's got a wonderful challenge for us, very appropriate for this time of the year, LOL!  Check it out:

I am desperately (well, maybe not desperately) trying to use up some of my older DSPs and I found some cute MME Follow Your Heart papers with kites on them, because whenever I think of spring and sunshine, I think of playing outside and trying to fly a kite!  Unfortunately, I am more like Charlie Brown and I never have much success!  But in stamping, I can fly anything!  So here we go:

This is pretty simple card...the base is Daffodil Delight, a wee bit over 6" x 3 3/4".  I stamped the sun from Kinda Eclectic in So Saffron and the Jenni Bowlin silhouette in Basic Black.  

I stamped "hello sunshine" from last year's Project Life's So You set, then cut out a kite from the same DSP and popped it up, adding some baker's twine and "bowties" from scraps of Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight DSP:

Since the card was an odd measurement, I also made a custom envelope for it in the same sunshiney colors!  

The design team has a lot of fun takes on Sandy's challenge!  Be sure to check them out below and show us yours as well on the Paper Players blog!

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance 
• Sandy
• Linda
• Hannelie
• Colleen

Thanks for stopping by today and enjoy your day!  

Paper Players 278 CAS Valentine

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Thank you to everyone who sent along anniversary well-wishes!  We had a nice day!  But on to stamping!  Sandy is our fabulous Paper Players hostess today with a fun clean and simple challenge:

Since Sandy "enabled" me to get some of these cute Simple Stories papers from the I Am... line, I decided it would be appropriate to use one of them in my card!  So here it is:

This is a case of letting the paper do most of the work!  The brickwork and most of the hearts are already on the paper....I stamped the "love & kisses" using SU's So You and Great Greetings sets; then I added a little Papertrey heart diecut from Strawberry Slush that sits right above the fold, and filled it with a little silver glimmer paper heart .  The final touch was a big baker's twine bow, and it is all mounted on a Sahara Sand card that measures almost 3x6".  Oh, and I did add some enamel dots too!!!  Fun little love note that was quick and easy!

I hope you'll play along this week and start your Valentine card stash!  Check out what the other designers did as well:

• Claire
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Laurie
• Nance 
• Sandy
• Linda
• Hannelie
• Colleen

Be sure to share you creations with us at the Paper Players!

I walked into the kitchen one evening last week and found Cassidy standing on the table with Dana trimming her hair!!

And you can tell how excited Cassidy was to be subjected to this torture:

Enjoy your day and thanks for stopping by!

CTD339

Happy Thursday, peeps!  A fun little card today that I was playing around with a couple of days ago, and imagine my surprise when I saw the Color Throwdown colors for this week!  A perfect match!

I was experimenting with Heat & Stick powder and SU’s silver glitter; the big sentiment from So You seemed to fit the bill:

If you’ve not ever used H&S, it’s easy and fun!  Stamp your image with Versamark ink, then sprinkle the H&S on top just like embossing powder and heat it.  It will quickly turn sticky (don’t overheat it!) and you can sprinkle on any fine glitter.  Heat it again to set the glue and glitter and you’ve got  a great sparkly image!  Works best with large, solid images.

I stamped the sunburst image from Kinda Eclectic in Daffodil Delight and stamped a sentiment on top, then punched it out with a circle and mounted it just above the “smile”.  A little yellow heart finished it off.  DSP is from the Stacked with Love pack!

Helping Grammy clear out the flower beds!

Enjoy your day!

Paper Players 240

Happy Sunday, peeps!  Hope your weekend is going well!  Today, the Paper Players’ hostess is the amazing Joanne, and she is paying homage to some of the beautiful In Colors that will soon be retiring!  I am sad to see them go….these are some of the prettiest we’ve had, but I have to admit that I am excited to see what’s in the wings!  So here we go:

I imagined there might be a few floral designs this week, so I went in a little different direction:

I used the sketch from As You See It 082:

I have been seeing a trend of mixing neutrals, and on my card I used Whisper White, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake along with the challenge colors.  I started with squares of DSP and matching mats and just sort of decorated them from there:

The only stamping is the little sentiment and wee little arrow from So You…I just love that set!  I had a lot of fun creating this!  I’ve shared the recipe at the end of the post.  I hope you will have fun creating with these colors as well!  So fresh and springy!  Here are links to the designers’ creations, or simply check them out at the Paper Players blog!

• Ann
• Anne Marie
• Claire
• Debbie
• Jaydee
• Joanne
• Karren
• Laurie
• Nance
• Sandy
• Shannon

A couple of weeks ago, I had a wonderful workshop hosted by the amazing Karen.  She is a multi-talented, multi-media artist and has a vast array of creative friends who attended her workshop!  One couple attended and the husband (who didn’t stamp), did this pen & ink watercolor of some of the guests:

Recognize anybody?

I have to admit, it was a little strange to recognize myself, even in abstract form!  He was an amazing artist!  And his wife (the blue-haired one), did some stamping and decorated the piece with her images and presented it to Karen!  Such a great idea!  He teaches this style of art and says anyone can do it!  Hah….that’s why I joined SU, because I can’t draw a lick, but I do like to color!

Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	So You
Card stock & Papers	Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Very Vanilla, Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana, Pistachio Pudding and matching Backgrounds DSP
Ink	Crumb Cake
Accessories	Linen Thread, Neutral Candy Dot, Pearl
Tools	Big Shot and Dies: SU Flower Fair, Itty Bitty Banners; PTI Love Live Here; Zigzag EF; Small Butterfly Punch, Dimensionals

TSSC360 & JUGS287 Big and Bold

Happy Thursday, everyone!  It has been rainy for the last couple of days…I know, April showers bring May flowers, but I am really hankering for some sunshine!  SO I made a card with some big, sunshiney, bold flowers and sentiments for the following challenges:

Just Us Girls wants Spring:

and Technostamper has a perfect sketch:

I pulled out the biggest flowers from Flower Patch and the big “smile” from So You and went to work:

Really pretty simple: I stamped and masked the flowers & leaves, added the sentiment and a ribbon and mounted it on a Daffodil Delight card base!  I used Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Pool Party, Pink Pirouette and Old Olive.  Easy peasy!

The ONE day we had warm temps this week:

Enjoy your day!