Say Cheese for Sunday Stamps!

I love photography and I was excited to see SU come out with some photography themed sets, such as Say Cheese and the wood stamp Snapshot. I decided to combine these 2 today to play along with the sketch over at Sunday Stamps.
I kept the colors pretty muted, sticking mainly with a pop of Real Red and Basic Gray as the main color. The banners were cut from I Am Me DSP (retired).  The Arrows TIEF seems to be my new favorite EF, I've been using it a lot lately, probably since my other favorite EF Square Lattice was retired, boo!

The banner with the sentiment is from the Say Cheese set and I stamped it and then cut it out and popped it up with dimensionals above the banners.

Nice and simple card!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Snapshot, Say Cheese

Paper: Real Red, Basic Gray, Whisper White, I Am Me DSP(retired)

Ink: Black StazOn, Real Red, Basic Black

Accessories: Big Shot, Arrows TIEF, dimensionals

For Your Country

As soon as I saw the set For Your Country in the new SU catalog I knew I HAD to have it. I'm a veteran, former military wife(hubby retired from the military in 2008) and I absolutely adore all things patriotic. The challenges at Create with Connie and Mary and Pals Paper Arts gave me the perfect excuse to pull this set up and ink it for the first time!

The colors at Pals Paper Arts are very patriotic...Real Red, Midnight Muse and Whisper White. Midnight Muse is now retired but it was one of my favorite colors so I still have a brand new pack of it to use. I also used retired Polka Dot Parade in Real Red for my banner. Another DSP that I was so sad to see go but like the Muse I have a few packs of it left.

I embossed some Midnight Muse with the Arrows TIEF and I layered that on a card base of Real Red. I had originally stamped the silhouette on a smaller oval but to keep in line with the sketch I went to the next size up and stamped the image in Midnight Muse. I then stamped the sentiment in Real Red and created a Whisper White banner across the card, where the sparkly strip in the sketch is. For the 2 flower pieces in the sketch I stamped the boots from the set in Midnight Muse and popped those up with dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by, and make sure you go check out these 2 challenge blogs!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: For Your Country

Paper: Real Red, Midnight Muse(retired), Whisper White, Polka Dot Parade(retired)

Ink: Midnight Muse(retired), Real Red

Accessories: Big Shot, Ovals Collection Framelits, Banners Framelits Dies, Arrows TIEF, dimensionals

Prints for Father's Day

This week at The Friday Mashup Lynda is our hostess and she has a terrific challenge for us! She wants to see projects for Father's Day and while you are doing that, stamp on something other than card stock.

I was stuck on what to stamp on that wasn't card stock and my friend and fellow DT member Holly made some suggestions, one of them being newspaper. I thought, ok, that's something I can handle! We save newspaper throughout the year to use for our grill chimney so I grabbed some and sat down to get to work.

I cut a piece of the newspaper a bit smaller than my card front size and I grabbed the World Map background set and stamped that in Early Espresso on the newspaper. Then I grabbed some Naturals White card stock and stamped the train from the new Travelers set in Early Espresso also. I used a circle die to cut it out and its adhered directly to the newspaper. The Father's Day sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set. I love that set! The newspaper background is adhered to an Early Espresso card base. I kept the whole thing monochromatic, I really like how it looks.

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup blog to check out all the great projects from the rest of the design team and then play along with us!

Create a project for "Father's Day or that special guy in your life".

Create a project with "Stamping on anything other than Card Stock".

or Mash it Up! and create a "Father's Day project with Stamping on anything but Card Stock".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Traveler, World Map, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Early Espresso, Naturals White, newspaper

Ink: Early Espresso

Accessories: Big Shot, Bitty Banners Framelits, Circle Dies, sponge, dimensionals

Happy Trails for Freshly Made

I haven't played along with Freshly Made Sketches in a bit so I sat down this morning to play along with their latest challenge.

I looked at the sketch for a while and it took me a bit to figure out what I wanted to do with the stamp set I had in mind but it finally came together for me and I am really happy with how the card turned out.

My friend Holly recently introduced me to Lawn Fawn stamps and I was instantly smitten. I picked up the Happy Trails set and matching die last week and wanted to get them inked up. Me, hubby and 2 of our boys went fishing for salmon about 4 hours from where we live and of course being Alaska the entire drive is awesome :) The scenery and miles and miles of nothing but trees and mountains was my inspiration for this card. I live in a wonderful area but I tell you this last weekend my husband could have dropped me off in the middle of nowhere and I would have been perfectly content!

The line of trees represents lines in the sketch, as does the road and then the sentiment that I placed under the road scene. Lawn Fawn included some of their pattern paper in my orders (how cool is that!) so I used some of it to paper piece the little trailer. I thought they were nice summer patterns! The larger trees are flat on the paper and the smaller trees I popped up with dimensionals. The camper and car are also popped up.

Just some of the amazing views we had along our drive. This is along the Glenn Highway.

Stamps: Happy Trails (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Basic Black(SU), Whisper White(SU), Pink Lemonade paper (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Garden Green, Lucky Limeade, Daffodil Delight, Sahara Sand, Chocolate Chip(all SU)

Accessories: Happy Trails Lawn Cuts(Lawn Fawn), SU White Chalk Marker, dimensionals

Staying Tradtional for Jingle Belles

I was happy to see the challenge over at Jingle Belles. This week they are all about red and green, the traditional colors of Christmas. I am totally a traditional type of gal. I love red an green Christmas cards, they just make me so darn happy!

I sat for a while staring at my supplies, trying to figure out what to do. For someone who was so excited about the challenge I had zero mojo flowing through me, so irritating!

I grabbed some polka dot paper and snowflake dies and got the wheels turning. I ended up taking the die and cutting out the shape in the middle of the Old Olive polka dot paper. Then I put some Real Red polka dot paper in the back of the snowflake shape. I then cut a smaller snowflake in Old Olive and put that in the middle of the larger one.

I then cut out the 'Merry' in Real Red (the photo makes it look a lot darker than it is, it actually goes quite nicely with the polka dot background) and adhered that at the bottom of the card. For a little sparkle a added some rhinestones here and there. The photo doesn't do the card justice, its really pretty in person!

Make sure you head over to Jingle Belles to check out the challenge and play along!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: none

Paper: Old Olive, Red Red, Polka Dot Parade DSP(retired)

Ink: none

Accessories: Big Shot, Expressions Thinlits Dies(retired), Festive Flurry Framelit Dies, Rhinestones

Patterns for Friday Mashup

Before I get into details for this weeks Friday Mashup challenge I just want to thank everyone for the very nice comments on my mini blinds card from last week! I was thrilled that so many of you enjoyed my project and your kind comments were greatly appreciated. I haven't had time to get a tutorial together but you can always go HERE, its the tutorial I used to make my card.

This week Avery has a great sketch for us and she wants us to use different DSP with it. Avery mentions that she has a lot of DSP left over from last years catalog and let me say, I am right there with her! I organized my craft space last weekend and I was surprised at some of the older DSP I had. Now the funny thing is, I didn't use any retired DSP on this card, its all new LOL Oooops! Oh well, I'll make other cards with this sketch and retired DSP.

For the ribbon I didn't have any Blackberry Bliss so I took some retired Whisper White I had and colored it with the Blackberry Bliss marker. In person its not as dark as the photo makes it seem.

Make sure you stop by The Friday Mashup to check out all the great cards from the rest of the design team and then give the challenge a try, we'd love to see what you come up with!

 -Create a project using the "Sketch".
 -Create a project using " an assortment of different Pattern Papers".
 -or Mash it Up! and create a project with the "Sketch using different pattern papers".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Just Sayin'

Paper: Smoky Slate, Blackberry Bliss, Lost Lagoon, Whisper White, Moonlight DSP

Ink: Smoky Slate

Accessories: Ribbon(retired Whisper White colored with a Blackberry Bliss marker), Word Bubbles Framelits

Challenging Colors for TTS18

 

It's time for 'Tis The Season and we've got some colors this week that will really make you think! We want you to make a Christmas card with Pacific Point, Rich Razzleberry and Basic Black, with an optional trimming of using anything silver.

I thought about this one for a while and I decided to just keep it simple. I brought out one of my favorite Christmas stamps, SU's Scenic Season. I just cant get enough of these trees and the simple sentiment.

I stamped the trees, sentiment and snowflakes in Silver Metallic Ink and also sponged the edges with it. The Pacific Point was brought in by stamping the scene on a piece of Whisper White and coloring the bird from the stamp with Pacific Point and cutting it out to mount on the Basic Black card stock. The Basic Black panel was then mounted on a card base of Rich Razzleberry. I incorporated more silver by adding some silver stretch cord along the bottom of the card.

I hope you'll drop by 'Tis The Season to see what the rest of the design team came up with, and then give the challenge a try!

Supplies used(all items SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Scenic Season

Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink: Silver Metallic, Pacific Point

Accessories: Silver Stretch Cord, sponge, dimensionals