Postage Stamp Christmas

Hi stampers!  I have a card today for a challenge I don't think I've ever played before, Pixie's Snippets Playground!  I certainly have plenty of "snippets" lying around on my desk and in my file drawers!  I recently got a couple of postage stamp dies, so I diecut some from scraps of Whisper White and began to play around with some of my smaller-imaged stamps.  I also was very happy to find that they fit perfectly on these rectangles of Real Red, which are the "windows" from the Hearth and Home die....and they fall out of my folder every time I open my drawer!  So I was happy to use up four of them here:

I used several different stamp sets and kept the colors similar on each "stamp".  It was fun to combine the images to create each little scene!

I really wanted to add some red gingham ribbon, but I didn't have any, so I created a narrow strip with a stamp....another little snippet!  Happy to use them up (but I have a lot more to use, LOL)!!! I am also entering this in the Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge for this week:

 Thanks for popping in today!

Cassidy did a little stamping after packing her shoebox this past weekend; she was quite proud because she knew just how to set up the Stamparatus all by herself!  She made a Thanksgiving card for her boy cousins, using I Dig You and the little Pilgrim mice from Lawn Fawn!!

She came up with the idea all on her own, too!  I really miss crafting with her!!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Simple Serif Alpha and Numbers (ret), Merry and Bright (W+9), Winter Aviary, Mini Aviary (both Flora and Fauna), Background Basics Gingham (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Real Red, Mint Macaron
Ink	Real Red, Mint Macaron, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Rococo Rose
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Pine Bough EF (ret), Small Postage Die (Papertrey), Blends, Hearth and Home Die (ret)

CAS On Sunday Christmas Silhouette

Hi peeps!  I have a very quick, CAS Christmas card for you today....I had this sitting on my desk, thinking it needed something more, and when I saw the CAS On Sunday challenge of Christmas in July, I thought I would leave it as it is!  It is most definitely clean and simple!

I used a Night of Navy base and a little silhouette scene from Cottage Kutz and some gingham ribbon from SU.  The sentiment is from Sweet & Sassy's We Three Kings.  The inside sentiment is equally clean and simple, it's from W+9's Merry and Bright:

Dana snagged this while on vacation:

So sweet!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Sugar Pea 43 Love U

Happy Friday, peeps!  Happy weekend!  Looking forward to spending some time with the family this weekend, how about you?  Hope you have something fun planned!   I thought the Sugar Pea Mix it Up challenge this week was a pretty one:

and I needed a Mother's Day card for John's stepmother, so I pulled out W Plus 9's Freehand Florals and made some roses for my simple CAS card:

I had watched this video which was very helpful in lining up these beautiful layered stamps!  I mounted them on a Crumb Cake panel which was stamped with the retired Dictionary stamp, then I sponged the edges a bit for a vintage look.  Before sponging, I cut the corner of my panel, as well as my card, with a 1 3/4" circle punch to get the rounded edge.  My sentiment is from Altenew's Label Love.  The inside just has a simple Mother's Day sentiment from a past Paper Pumpkin kit.  Aren't these colors pretty?

So happy that you popped in today!

And speaking of Mother's Day, Cassidy's class had a luncheon for their moms yesterday.  They brought in different items for their menu, and Dana chose a turkey sandwich, which Cassidy made (without mayo, because that's how SHE likes it), and Cassidy added not one, but two chocolate chip muffins and some chips.  A good, healthy lunch, LOL!  I told Dana it looked like she used an entire loaf for the sandwich, but it was just the heel:

And the muffin actually looks like a little face!!  But they had fun and Dana got to meet some of Cassidy's classmates as well as their moms, too!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Freehand Florals (W+9), Dictionary (ret), Label Love (Altenew)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Ink	Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Mint Macaron, Garden Green, Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Freehand Florals Dies

Inspired By 11 Hoppy Easter

Hey peeps!  It's Thursday....almost the end of the week, although my busy-ness keeps going all weekend long, LOL!  Laurel has a beautiful Inspired By challenge prompt this week!  It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do....there are more elements that I would have liked to incorporate, but for now, this is what I came up with:

And here is her inspiration:

I had an almost-empty 6x6 pad of designer paper by My Mind's Eye called Sunshine and it happened to have this soft, pretty gingham page still in it...I must have been "saving" it for an occasion such as this!  I die-cut a pretty little frame, added a sweet little bunny from Close to My Heart:

 

and some florals from Altenew, along with a couple of little banners from the same paper pack and a few sequins:

The sentiment is from the same CTMH set; I also stamped a few very dainty florals directly on to the gingham paper with a little W+9 floral; you can just see them within the frame:

There are so many directions in which you could go with this photo challenge...I hope you're inspired to create something spring-like and share it at IB with us!   We'd love to see what you create!

Just a girl and her dog!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Easter Animals (Close to My Heart), Painted Flowers (Altenew), Freehand Florals (W+9)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Lost & Found Sunshine DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Memento Black, Powder Pink, Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron (ret), Garden Green, Smoky Slate, Flirty Flamingo
Accessories	Sequins
Tools	Big Shot, Lacy Scallop Frame Die (Reverse Confetti), Stitched Borders Die (Lawn Fawn), Aquapainter, Dimensionals

CC&S208 Freehand Florals

Happy Thursday, peeps!  I am running behind today...just can't get out of my own way today, LOL!  I have a springy floral card today; I saw this double challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches:

I tried to resist doing a floral element, but the lovely retired colors seemed to evoke flowers, and I was itching to use the new W+9  Freehand Floral stamp set my friend Martha recently gave me:

 

This is a very simple notecard-sized card; I stamped and diecut everything on thick white cardstock from SU...I just love how the diecuts come out on the heavier weight paper!  I embossed the upper layer with the Vine Street EF, and the horizontal Sage Shadow piece has been stamped with the lacy pattern from Touches of Texture:

I added a stitched circle, a petite scalloped circle of Dusty Durango, and a sentiment from Hero Arts!  And this morning, Cassidy snuck some goldfish out of her snack pack and nibbled on them after breakfast, but not until she had lined them up like a traffic light.....and they almost match my card colors today!  

Silly girl!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details
Stamps	Touches of Texture, CL342 (Hero Arts) Freehand Floral (W+9 Stamps)
Card stock & Papers	Thick Whisper White, Peach Parfait DSP (ret SU), Sage Shadow, Dusty Durango
Ink	Dusty Durango, Sage Shadow, Peach Parfait
Accessories
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies, Nestie Petite Scallop Dies, Freehand Floral Dies, Dimensionals, Vine Street EF (ret SU)