CCMC395 Company Store-Inspired Birthday

Happy Leap Day, everyone!  I must say, even though February is the shortest month of the year, it feels like this month will NEVER end!  I am happy to turn the calendar to March tomorrow!

I was reading my latest Southern Living magazine and came across this ad for some bedding from The Company Store:

The colors intrigued me, and since I needed a birthday card, I decided to try to replicate the design.  In hindsight, I wish I had used Marina Mist instead of Lost Lagoon, but otherwise, I am happy with it:

The card base is Smoky Slate, and I used Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Mint Macaron, Mossy Meadow and Cameo Coral for my ink colors.  I outlined each floral image on the background with a white gel pen (and I see I missed one at the top...boo).  The stamps I used were Flower Patch, Endless Thanks and Summer Silhouettes along with a sentiment from Remembering Your Birthday, and I used the sketch from Create with Connie & Mary:

I used Cottage Greetings for the inside, stamping the flowers in Basic Black and using a blender pen and ink to color them in:

Do you ever get inspiration from pictures or people's clothing (that happens to me in church, LOL!)?  I am interested in hearing where others get their inspiration!  Thanks so much for popping by today!  And I don't think I ever shared this photo from Valentine's, when Cassidy lined up all her gifts.  "Lovey" the hedgehog was by far the favorite, almost edging out Lambie for top billing!!!

TSOT231 and AYSI99

Hi all!  It’s the middle of the week, yahoo!  I have a sweet little card using the sketch from Try Stampin’ on Tuesday:

and I have incorporated the colors from the As You See It challenge for this week:

Isn’t that a gorgeous challenge photo?!  Swoon-worthy!  Since the bonus challenge at Try Stampin’ was watercoloring, I pulled out the retired set Perfectly Preserved and stamped the mason jar with the new archival Basic Black ink and colored it with Bermuda Bay ink and my aquapainter on a heavyweight Whisper White tag:

I think I am going to like this new ink…it worked great and didn’t bleed when I used my aquapainter!  I stamped some florals from Flower Patch and Summer Silhouette in Watermelon Wonder; hand-painted the stem in Cucumber Crush, and finished it off with the little banner and sentiment from Endless Thanks!  I added some Wink of Stella to my “water”, I wish you could see it, it’s so pretty!

My horizontal piece is from the In Color “Color Collection” stack…I love how the font matches the font in my sentiment!  And here are a couple more of my lovely birthday cards:

This beautifully-colored little lovely is from my friend Broni:

and the photo just doesn’t do this card justice!  From my friend, Darlene, this is diecut, embedded and GLITTERY!  Just gorgeous!  Thanks, ladies!

I haven’t had my wee one for a few days, so I am looking forward to seeing her today!

So happy you stopped by today!

MTS073 Sympathy

Happy Monday, peeps…Happy Memorial Day (again) to all my American friends!  A quick post today as I want to spend time with my family!  I needed a sympathy card, so the Match the Sketch sketch this week worked well:

I had some Moonlight DSP on my desk for another project, so I pulled this pattern in Smoky Slate, stamped my Summer Silhouette images in Blushing Bride and Mint Macaron, then added some lace to my punched tag, some embossed stripes and a wee bit of ribbon.

Sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Wishes…I hope SU never retires that set!  Thanks for visiting today!

The weekend brought a trip to Lancaster County’s famous Dutch Wonderland for Cassidy!  You’ll be seeing more smiles like this:

But this one cracked me up the most!  Dana’s boyfriend with his beard really does look like an Amish man (but not a boy!)….and check out the demure look on Cassidy’s face!

Enjoy your day!

AYSI81 and FF 61 for Easter

Happy Saturday, everyone!  We have a busy day—we are headed to the circus in Baltimore!  So I made a few last-minute Easter cards yesterday for my small group members using the As You See It sketch for this week:

as well as the colors from the Fab Friday challenge:

I recently found a lovely blog called The Paper Caper, and Jess had a tutorial for making a little diecut cross using the Little Letters dies.  You can see it here.  I used her idea, but I used the smaller Chalk Talk die and backed the cross with SU’s Gold Foil:

I made five of these, using pastel shades for the die and flowers; I used images from Kinda Eclectic, Summer Silhouettes, Bordering Blooms and some of them had Gorgeous Grunge as well.

I did some heat embossing in gold, using the Easter sentiment from the retired set, Delightful Dozen:

I used the sunburst from Kinda Eclectic on the inside as well, along with a sentiment from God Bless II:

We did some egg-dying on Thursday, but first she had to peel one of the cracked ones:

and of course, she had to try to dye her peeled egg as well, LOL!

Be sure to come back tomorrow for our next Paper Players challenge!

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Happy Tuesday, peeps!  One more day of Sale-a-bration, woohoo!  It was a busy month for me!  I did squeeze in some stamping time yesterday to play with Mary Jo’s Technostamper  sketch:

I was a bit stumped as to what to do with this All Abloom DSP, but when I saw the sketch, I thought it would be fun to reverse the panels and use a floral for the right side:

I tore a couple of strips of cardstock for a little visual interest and stamped the leafy images from Summer Silhouettes in Pistachio Pudding on the left, and added a little Lost Lagoon strip underneath, then finished it with some Lost Lagoon ribbon.  My sentiment was stamped on a piece of white cardstock which I diecut with my Chalk Talk die, and I lightly stamped the same leaf on it as well before stamping my sentiment:

The little flower is from the same set!  I will be needing lots of thank you cards for some new customers, so you’ll be seeing more of them in the future!  And most of them will be simple, so they’ll be easily duplicated!

A playdoh moustache!

Two Squares and ATC38

Happy Friday, peeps!  The end of the work week and a holiday ahead for us Americans!  I am sharing a couple of 4 1/4” square cards today…these are a fun little change from the standard A2 size!  The first one uses a new In Color, Lost Lagoon, and I think it looks great with Soft Sky and Pistachio Pudding:

I stamped the flowers from Summer Silhouettes in Lost Lagoon; one was “full-strength” and the second was stamped again  without reinking.  I also stamped the gingham panel (from the Gingham wheel that I unmounted from the wheel and added to cling mount to make it into a stamp) in Soft Sky and added some Soft Sky seam binding.  The sentiment on the front is from Something to Say and on the inside, a fun little sentiment from Num Num:

My second card used a scrap of DP I had laying on my desk and the new Endless Birthday Wishes stamp along with the new File Tabs Edgelits. 

I wasn’t sure what I would use these File Tabs  for, but the “celebrate” sentiment fit on the tab perfectly:

I stamped the rest of the sentiment on a Chalk Talk diecut in Real Red and Pacific Point, and added some stars, glittered up as I did on the hearts from this post:

Since my diecut goes off the side of the card, I am entering this in the Addicted to CAS challenge 38, “Off the Edge”!

A little pudding enjoyment:

 

And our baby robins have hatched!  Not too attractive, but here they are:

Hopefully, they’ll be opening their eyes soon and mama will be busy feeding them!

Enjoy your day!

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I am so glad Arielle has a beautiful fresh palette for us today, because it has been nothing but gray and dreary here in PA!  What do you think of these:

I chose to substitute Pool Party for Cool Caribbean for my card today!



I used the Mojo Monday Sketch 340 from this week:

I used elements from Betsy Blossoms and Summer Silhouettes as well as a sentiment from Remembering your Birthday:

Such happy colors!  I hope you can play along with us this week too!  Check out all the details and sample at the ColourQ blog!

Another one of those “quiet” moments….I came in to find Cassidy emptying her bureau drawer of ALL her outfits and piling them in her little cart.  She was going shopping at Walmart:

She informed me she even had a credit card!!!

Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Betsy's Blossoms, Summer Silhouettes, Remembering Your Birthday
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Tangerine Tango, Peach Parfait (ret SU), Pool Party Patterns DP (ret)
Ink	Bermuda Bay, Tangerine Tango, White Craft, Peach Parfait (ret)
Accessories	Pearls, Bermuda Bay Ribbon (ret), White cord
Tools	Big Shot, Circles Framelits, White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool,  Elegant Lines EF (ret), Petite Scalloped Circle Dies (Spellbinder), Stitched Mats Dies (Lil'Inker), Dimensionals