AHSC463 You Are So Special

Happy (late) Tuesday, my friends!  We had a really strong windstorm last night and had no internet this morning, so everything is a bit delayed!  Thankfully we didn't lose electricity but some of our neighbors did.  Anyway, I always love things in threes, so when I saw the Atlantic Hearts sketch this week, I was a happy camper!

I've been trying to use some colors that I don't normally gravitate to (read: PURPLES) so I pulled out the little Fresh Freesia print from the Heart & Home DSP and made a monochromatic card for today:

After layering the panels on Fresh Freesia mats, I stamped the big flower from Tasteful Touches in Fresh Freesia as well, then colored in the petals with a Blender pen.  I was surprised that the ink took on a pink tone, very pretty!  I added a horizontal panel with a sentiment from the same set, fussy-cut my flower, and added some Rose Metallic thread and In Color Jewels for embellishment:

Simple and easy!  Thanks for popping in today!

Here's a few photos of a tree that uprooted in my neighbor's yard:

Truthfully, the pictures don't do it justice...this thing was huge, probably fifteen feet across!  The neighbor across from him had a tree pull the electric wires right off his house.  He was out at 7:30 in the morning, cutting it up to make way for the electric company to come do the repairs:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tasteful Touches
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Fresh Freesia, Heart & Home DSP
Ink	Fresh Freesia
Accessories	In Color Jewels, Rose Metallic Thread (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Blender Pen

Stitched Greenery Hello

Happy Friday, peeps!  I must say, my stamping energy has melted with the heat...just don't feel much like stamping a thing!  I did have a card made last week that I CASEd from someone.....I saw it probably on FB, but I cannot for the life of me find the original card, so if anyone knows, let me know so I can give credit where credit is due!  At any rate, it uses the Stitched Greenery die on a piece of Soft Seafoam, then I colored in each leaf with a couple of different Blends:

I used Dark and Light Soft Seafoam Blends to give them some shading, then added a wee little bit of Light Old Olive as well.  I stamped and diecut a sentiment from Tasteful Touches in Old Olive, but before adhering the diecut, I snipped out a couple of leaves from under where the diecut would sit and added them to the sentiment with some In Color Gems:

I did add some retired white ribbon before adhering it to a Basic White card base.  I love this effect!  Thanks for popping in today!

Our poor rickety swing set and slide is still hanging in there...Cassidy set up her own version of a slip and slide when my SIL brought over her grandkids last week.  Emma, Cassidy and Lucy still had fun, although Cassidy is almost too big for it!

Still cooled them off on a hot summer day!  Enjoy yours and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tasteful Touches
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soft Seafoam
Ink	Old Olive
Accessories	Dimensionals, In Color Gems, White Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Greenery Die, Blends

Sympathies Abound

Happy Friday, peeps!  Unfortunately, it seems when I need one sympathy card, it happens that I need at least one or two more.  I was bracing myself and sure enough, the need arose.  I thought the color combo at Color Hues would be lovely for a sympathy card, paired with the sketch from FMS:

And here we go:

I used two layers of Night of Navy with a Very Vanilla base; the bottom one was cut with an Ornate Layers die and the top was embossed with the Wrapped in Texture embossing folder.  I stamped images from Positive Thoughts in Night of Navy ink and diecut them for my focal pieces:

I added some frayed Misty Moonlight twill ribbon as well as a blue rhinestone to add some interest.  I stamped a sentiment from Comfort and Hope on the inside, along with a flower from Positive Thoughts:

My second card uses the sketch only from the Fusion Card Challenge:

For this card, I used the Peony Garden DSP and stamps from Tasteful Touches.  I stamped the flower in Petal Pink and fussy-cut it, then stamped some of the foliage directly on to the cardstock.  The sentiment is from Here's A Card:

I added some Silver glimmer paper leafy things, diecut with the Nature's Thoughts dies:

And added this sweet little diecut border from the Stitched Be Mine dies...it's so small, it's easily overlooked, but it makes a lovely little design!

Thank you so much for popping in today...so happy you visited!

My niece sent me pictures of Sawyer opening his birthday card...our mail has been so erratic, I sent it early and I guess he just couldn't wait!  You can see it here if you want to check it out.  I hope it wasn't too disappointed it was just a card!

Jameson gives brotherly advice:

Shaking it so the eyes wiggle:

And a big grin for Aunt Le!  Love those kids!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” Romans 15:13 

First Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Positive Thoughts, Comfort and Hope
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Night of Navy
Ink	Night of Navy
Accessories	Misty Moonlight Ribbon, Dimensionals, Holiday Rhinestones (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Nature's Thoughts Dies, Ornate Layers Dies, Tasteful Labels Dies, Wrapped in Texture EF (ret)

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tasteful Touches, Here's a Card
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Gray, Peony Garden DSP, Silver Glimmer
Ink	Petal Pink, Smoky Slate
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Be Mine Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Stitched Tag Dies (Pretty Pink Posh)

Just Saying Hello

 Hi stampers, happy Tuesday!  Hope your day is going well! I got in some stamping time yesterday and dug out a couple florals to create my card for today:

The Global Design Project had a lovely palette for their current challenge, so I used that as my starting point:

Petal Pink is not a color I normally gravitate to, but it makes a beautiful flower with the All Things Fabulous set.  I added foliage in Soft Sea Foam and some smaller florals in Night of Navy.  I adhered it to a Shimmery White panel that I watercolored with a Soft Sea Foam wash and diecut it with the Nature's Thoughts die:

I added a Night of Navy scalloped mat, created from piecing together three Stitched So Sweetly panels, then mounted it on a Soft Sea Foam card base on which I had stamped some greenery from Tasteful Touches.  The sentiment is from the same set.  My final embellishment was a wee bit of gingham ribbon!  This could be a get well card, a birthday card, or a just thinking of you card!!!  I am also entering it in The Spot's challenge this week, which is Designer's Choice:

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

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	All Things Fabulous, Tasteful Touches
Card stock & Papers	Soft Sea Foam, Whisper White, Night of Navy, Shimmery White
Ink	Soft Sea Foam, Petal Pink, Night of Navy
Accessories	Navy Gingham Ribbon, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched So Sweetly Dies, Nature's Thoughts Dies, Fabulous Florals Dies, Aquapainter

AYSI230 Speediest Card Ever

Hi stampers!  Time for another As You See It challenge...and yes, it's the (dreaded) Speed Stamping challenge!  I am pretty sure I chose the theme for this one, because I LOVE things in threes:

Okay...so the trick is that you have to complete your card in TEN minutes or less, and tell us how long it took you to create yours!  And truthfully, I love speed stamping challenges!  Makes me think about how to use my stamps and ink and papers simply!  My card is so embarrassingly easy, it only took me 2 minutes and 15 seconds!!!  I had all my supplies ready, and we had just made a card using the Tailored Tag punch at club on Monday, so I was already in gear to use it again!  So here we go:

I began with a card of thick Whisper White cardstock, and stamped a sentiment from Tasteful Touches in Misty Moonlight at the bottom right.  I then punched out three coordinating Flowers for Every Season DSPs and arranged them nicely:

That was basically it!  As an afterthought, which took me another couple of seconds, I added the smaller sunflower, stamped off in Bumblebee, on top of the sentiment!  Easy peasy!  And pretty darn bright and colorful too!  And this can always be stepped up with some enamel dots or sequins.  But I like it just the way it is!  Since this is uber-CAS, I am also entering it at the Krafty Chicks CAS challenge!

Just for fun, here is the card we made at club....it used lots of patterns from the In Good Taste line...we punched a LOT!

It has a little window too, where the sentiment peeps through!  A great masculine card and easy to do!

Now, do you think you can stamp something simple but wow-ish in ten minutes or less?!  Show us your stuff at the As You See It blog and check out what the design team came up with and see how quickly (or just under the wire) they did it!  Can't wait to see you there!  Thanks for popping in today!

Apparently it's a good time to go fishing:

Cassidy caught six and Wayne caught ONE!!  LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Celebrate Sunflowers, Tasteful Touches
Card stock & Papers	Thick Whisper White, A Flower for Every Season DSP
Ink	Misty Moonlight, Bumblebee
Accessories
Tools	Tailored Tag Punch

3D Cube Card with Flowers for all Seasons

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  And happy July!  I went out of my comfort zone and created a fancy fold card today!  It's not that I am "afraid" of fancy folds, I am mostly just lazy, LOL! But I found an intriguing card on this blog a couple days ago and I was determined to make one for myself!  So here we go:

Isn't that something?  There are two cubes that open up, and it collapses to look like this:

And I created it while watching Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune and Antiques Roadshow, so if I had been more focused, it would have taken less time!  But even still, it was not difficult at all!  Here are closeups of the stamped panels:

Of course, when I first started the card, I was just attempting a trial run...I have to admit that these brightly colored flowers are not my favorites, so I figured if I messed it up, it was no big loss!!  I also don't like how I did the sentiment panel, but again, it was a trial, and I do like the final effect of the card itself!  It is a BIG card....5 1/2" square, so you'll need to make your own envelope or find a larger one for it.  There is also a smaller version on their blog, so I will probably attempt to make that in the future.  The directions on the video are very clear, and they have measurements for both inches and centimeters! Anyway, this larger one requires 12"x12" paper, and the smaller one doesn't, so I am anxious to try it with some other color and stamp combinations!  

Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tasteful Touches, Happiest of Birthdays, Woven Heirlooms
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Just Jade, Melon Mambo, Flowers For All Seasons DSP
Ink	Just Jade, Mint Macaron, Melon Mambo, Calypso Coral
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Forever Flourishing Dies, Blends

PP496 Clean and Simple Thank You

Happy Sunday, peeps!  It's time for another Paper Players challenge with Joanne as our hostess:

Remember that CAS means limited layers and elements---you can check back at the Paper Players blog to get a refresher if necessary!  I happened to need a thank you card to send to my upline's upline...my SU "grandmother", so to speak, so this is what I created:

She gifted me with this Tasteful Touches bundle, so I went to work with it! I stamped the flower in Memento ink and colored it with a Rococo Rose blend, added some leaves from Forever Flourishing dies, and a panel of Rococo Rose DSP, cut with a die from the Tasteful Labels die.  I also stamped a thank you sentiment from Butterfly Gala, and for fun, I stamped a feather in Versamark ink and highlighted it with some old SU pastels...anyone remember them? I still have mine!!!

I also added some Rose Metallic thread behind the florals for a little extra interest.  In hindsight, I wish I had gone over the flowers again with the Blends to intensify the color so it would match the DSP better, but it's long gone in the mail!  I am also entering this in the CASe This Sketch this week:

I hope you'll play with our Clean-and-Simple Thank You challenge this week!  It's such a nice gesture to send someone an unexpected thank you, so here's your chance to make someone's day!  Be sure to hop over to the Paper Players blog to see what the designers created as well!

John recently did some repairs on a friend's Gator; after the repairs were done, he let Lee test drive it (very, very slowly) around the yard!  Since Lee is a pro at his ATV, John wasn't worried about his driving capabilities and Cassidy was thrilled to go along!  He did great!

 

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Tasteful Touches, Butterfly Gala
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Basic Black, Rococo Rose DSP
Ink	Memento Black, Versamark
Accessories	Rose Metallic Thread (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tasteful Labels Dies, Forever Flourishing Dies, Rococo Rose Blends, Pastels (ret), Cotton Ball