Beside Me

Today, once more,  I have a card featuring some retiring products. The stamps and the dots are on their way out! I used the "travel" theme from The Paper Players, and the colors from Hand Stamped Sentiments, and while the layout is a little weird, I still like the result! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Watercolor World, Beside Me (both retiring)

Ink: Summer Splash, Pecan Pie, Pretty Peacock

Paper: Pretty Peacock & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Tinsel Gems Three Pack (retiring), Dimensionals

The gems are supposed to be Lost Lagoon, but it sure looks Summer Splash to me....! Both of these stamp sets are discounted (as of typing this) so you will definitely want to snag them asap! 

Father's Day x2

So last week I pulled printed photos from the box intended for the albums for my husband and I. That is usually where I scrap Mother's Days and Father's Days. 

Today I have two different Father's Day's scrapped, ha. Very simple, got it done, kind of pages. I used the same pack of DP, but they won't be next to each other in the albums so it doesn't matter in the slightest. haha!  

Supplies:

Stamps: Alphabest, Well Said - both retired

Ink: Misty Moonlight, Boho Blue

Paper: Basic White card stock, Parker's Patterns DP (retired)
Accessories: 2023-25 In Color Dots (retired)

Supplies:

Stamps: Beside Me

Ink: Pebbled Path

Paper: Soft Seafoam card stock, Parker's Patterns DP (retired)
Journaling Font: Artistamp Medium

Colorful Forest

This is from the Inspire.Create.Challenges to CASE the designer. CASE in today's case, means "Copy And Selectively Edit". I used the sketch, but altered the angles, and I used the same colors for the trees, and changed the greeting. I could have die-cut them, but I wanted to stamp it instead. But you can definitely see the inspiration.

Supplies:
Stamps: Encircled In Nature, Beside Me
Ink: Misty Moonlight, Coastal Cabana, Daffodil delight, Soft Seafoam, Fresh Freesia
Paper: Basic White & Misty Moonlight card stock, Country Woods DP
Accessories: Tinsel Gems Three Pack, Dimensionals, Circle Dies (retired), big shot (retired)

Flower Die Cut

Hello! I am so excited for autumn! It started to cool off, and then it forgot to be autumn and should be around 90 most of this week. Rude. But the mountains are turning red and yellow so that's happy! 

Today's card uses the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches, along with the theme (wellll more the colors from the graphic...) from TGIF Challenges. It sort of looks like I took the sketch more literally, but really, I just stamped on a scrap rectangle, and then die cut the flowers out of that. Then I colored it!

Supplies:
Stamps: Layers of Beauty, Beside Me
Ink: Memento Black, Pecan Pie
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Pumpkin Pie, Dark and Light Old Olive, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Balmy Blue
Paper: Basic White, Pecan Pie card stocks
Accessories: Iridescent Striped Trim, Iridescent Foil Gems, Dimensionals, Layers of Beauty Dies, big shot

A card for a dad

Happy Friday! Two weeks in a row full of crafty posts! Hooray! 

I love these images but I sometimes don't have enough Stampin' Blends markers yet to do them justice. This time it worked out, ha. 

Also, that DP is on sale still, but only thru tomorrow!! Hurry before you miss the discount! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Beside Me
Ink: Memento Black, Gray Granite
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Petal Pink, Dark & Light Granny Apple Green, Dark & Light Balmy Blue, Dark Pumpkin Pie, Dark Basic Black, Dark Smoky Slate, Bronze, Light Cherry Cobbler, Dark Daffodil Delight, Dark Night of Navy
Paper: Basic White card stock, Country Woods DP (ON SALE!)

Bonus Flowers, round 3

Here is the final (for now anyway) of these flowered cards. This is actually what I envisioned as soon as I saw the big daisies. I used the Blending Brushes for the colored strip and then just stamped it right on top! Quick, easy, and pretty!
And because I like how it turned out, I'm going to put it in with the current SUO Challenge to make birthday cards! 

Supplies:
Stamps: March 2024 Paper Pumpkin extra stamps, Beside Me
Ink: Boho Blue, Misty Moonlight, Mossy Meadow
Paper: Misty Moonlight & Basic White card stocks
Accessories: Tinsel Gems 3-Pack, Blending Brushes

Christmas Post

Soo there was a small hiccup in my class plan. When things are on the Online Exclusives section, they're only there while supplies last. A detail I sort of forgot about when I came up with my original plan... And that means the stamp set I was going to feature is now sold out and gone. Arrrggh!! So I had written up my plan and when I pulled everything to put my ideas together I thought it would be quick. But once I realized I can't use that, I had to make a bunch of adjustments. 

All that to say, this particular card might not look exactly "Christmas". But I love that the letter stamp goes so nicely with the beautiful mailbox DP, so I'm offering it anyway. Maybe people will send it out in November instead. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Stamped With Love, Beside Me
Ink: Mossy Meadow
Paper: Crumb Cake & Basic White card stocks
Accessories: Burlap Ribbon

This paper is also from the Online Exclusives, so don't miss out! It's so lovely and has such a peaceful cozy vibe! I'm looking forward to using it in scrapbooks too! 

Quick & Grateful!

Back in August, I trimmed a whole sheet of DP into card fronts, as it was designed. You can see it by clicking HERE. I had three bits left over that I didn't use that day so I used two for this quick card! And it's already been sent!

Supplies:
Stamps: Beside Me

Ink: Moody Mauve

Paper: Gray Granite & Basic White card stock, Fresh As A Daisy DP

Accessories: Moody Mauve Textured Ribbon, 2023-25 In Color Dots, Glue Dots, Dimensionals 

99!

Yep really, my father in law turns 99 in just a few days! So for his birthday card, I used the As You See It sketch, with the colors from Inspire.Create.Challenges.  I like the pop of red and yellow, even if half the products are now retired. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Beside Me

Ink: Pretty Peacock
Paper: Basic White, Pretty Peacock & Cherry Cobbler card stocks, Come to Gather DP (retired)

Accessories: Alphabet A La Mode dies, Crushed Curry Baker's Twine (retired), Dimensionals, big shot (retired)

Grateful in Copper

Today's card was guided by my son. I need a stack of birthday cards over the next couple weeks and I'm a bit stumped as to what direction to go with my current inventory for any of them. My son pointed out that this image would work for one, and these words would too. I found a sketch with Global Design Project and put it together and there it is! Quick and sweet and perfectly masculine! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Beside Me

Ink: Copper Clay

Paper: Copper Clay, Very Vanilla card stocks

Accessories: 2023-25 In Color Dots, Dimensionals, Circle dies, big shot (retired)

Are you making anything today?

Father's Day!

is in just three days and I haven't sent anything out all.
Clearly it was time to bust out this cute new set that I purchased a couple months ago and haven't touched other than to assemble it.... 

This image could be me and my brother with my dad, or my two younger siblings, or my big kids with my husband! I "cut out" the fishing poles by putting scotch tape over the poles after inking and before stamping. Then I used some recent color challenges to color them in. Both cards use the sketch from Global Design Project. They also use the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge...ish. It was Pear Pizazz, Basic Gray and Blushing Bride. I subbed the green and pink slightly. And then I accidentally and/or unintentionally used Smoky Slate instead of Basic Gray. Sooo... "ish". 

On this first one, I used the Watercolor Pencils and used Flirty Flamingo and Old Olive, and then a smidge of Early Espresso and Daffodil Delight.

Supplies: 

Stamps: Beside Me

Ink: Stazon Black

Paper: Smoky Slate, Old Olive, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Blender Pen, Classic Matte Dots, Timeworn Type Embossing Folder, big shot (retired)

On the second, I used the same colored Stampin' Blends, plus the Daffodil Delight, Bronze, Ivory and Light Petal Pink. And I think it worked both times too! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Beside Me

Ink: Memento Black
Stampin Blends: Light & Dark Flirty Flamingo, Light & Dark Smoky Slate, Light & Dark Old Olive, Bronze, Ivory, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Petal Pink

Paper: Smoky Slate, Old Olive, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Classic Matte Dots, Timeworn Type Embossing Folder, big shot (retired)