Friendly Sunflowers

Mornin' y'all!  Hope you had a good weekend, 'cause I sure did.  Daphne and I watched Practical Magic on Friday night and then I went to see the new one on Saturday while my dudes were out camping with the Cub Scouts, and then we went out to dinner with friends last night (HI LYNN!).  Plus I made some great progress on my current Hocus Pocus stitching project and I made several cards, so a very happy weekend as far as I'm concerned.  There was even pumpkin coffee cake for breakfast yesterday, Ryan's favorite.

So anyway, here is today's card:

Since I didn't use the sunflower dies on yesterday's Paper Players card, they had to come out to play today especially with the new challenge at The Card Concept:

I like it.  I used Daffodil Delight, Peaceful Pine, Basic Black, and a wee bit of Pecan Pie for my card and finally used the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches from last week:

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Radiant Sunflowers
Ink:  Peaceful Pine, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Pecan Pie, Basic White, Moonlit Flora DSP
Accessories:  Radiant Sunflowers dies, Spotlight on Nature dies, Dimensionals

And here's a picture of some real-life sunflowers that I took yesterday:

I saw these when Daphne and I were out for our morning tour of the neighborhood, they're growing in the green space but right next to someone's back fence.  When we lived in Germany, we'd see sunflowers at the blumenfeld that were HUGE, like the flowers were the size of your head!  These ones aren't nearly that big but they're still pretty and I see them growing in people's yards too.

Have a great day, y'all!

Red Gate Farm for The Paper Players

Happy Sunday, y'all!  I hope you enjoyed Joanne's candle-centric challenge last week, and that you are ready for a new Paper Players challenge today!  LeAnne has some fun seasonal colors for us:

Since I was busy making what felt like eleventy-billion cookies last week, I didn't get my card done until late in the week and that was after I had already made three or four different ones in my head before I finally got up to the warcraft room to make one for real life.  I had initially been planning to use watercolor paper and do something like I used on a few cards here, but this is what actually happened:

I borrowed a page from Jaydee's book and went to town with my dies.  I had used the pumpkin stamps and the stencils in the Painted Pumpkins bundle, but I had not yet used the pumpkin dies that don't go with a stamp and I saw the gate and fence dies and my Nancy Drew-obsessed brain said RED GATE FARM because #6 is The Secret of Red Gate Farm and then I *had* to make a red gate.  I was planning to use both the pumpkins and some die-cut sunflowers, but in the end I went pumpkins only and used the Sunflower Fields DSP in some neutral browns to ground my scene, and my greeting is from Radiant Sunflowers.

This went out with a package to my pal Krissy yesterday...I had gotten some fall decor and showed her pictures and she really liked what I got so then I had to get her the same things because she needs some postal sunshine right now.  I told her I got her one little figurine that's got a doggo with a pumpkin and a sunflower, but I had a real "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" moment and ended up getting her like six different things so that will be a surprise for her.

Check out the other design team creations on the Paper Players blog, and you can hop through their individual blogs to leave some comments too:

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

you are here --> Christy Stanford

And then upload your card at the Paper Players blog!  Keep in mind a few simple rules:
1.  Create a new paper project
2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission
3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL
4.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Radiant Sunflowers
Ink:  Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red
Paper:  Early Espresso, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Very Vanilla, Sunflower Fields DSP
Accessories:  Painted Pumpkins dies, Perennial Postage dies, Dimensional for the tiny pumpkin

Tiger Sunflowers

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday!  My boys are both off work and school today so we're going to have a little adventure, but first I have a card to share!

It's the Radiant Sunflowers bundle again, but this time I decided to use the dies for something different.  Check out this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And I paired that with this week's Creative Colour Challenge:

This is why I decided to use the dies for today's card since we don't have Garden Green Stampin' Blends (still annoyed about that, SU!).  I do think I should have done the flowerpot in white so it didn't disappear on the Berry Burst polka dots but everything was already stuck down by the time I had that thought and I didn't have time to make the whole card over.  Still, I like the sunflowers in Timid Tiger and I had fun playing with both the colors and the sketch together.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Radiant Sunflowers
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Timid Tiger, Berry Burst, Garden Green, Early Espresso; Berry Burst, Garden Green, & Early Espresso DSP
Accessories:  Radiant Sunflowers dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Earth Tone Shimmer Gems, white EP

Oh I lied, I have to share this picture of Daphne who chose to lay like that for several minutes and my neck hurts just looking at her.  Okay bye for reals this time!

Birthday Sunflowers

Mornin' y'all.  After two very busy days, I am hoping that today I can kinda rest and reset at the house and just chill for a bit, especially since I woke up with a humdinger headache today.  I am going to enjoy my cuppa tea and pumpkin spice English muffin before I take Daphne out for a walk and then I'm hoping to spend a good chunk of the day reading and crafting.

But first, here's today's card:

I had a great time playing with the Radiant Sunflowers suite for my pal Krissy's birthday card.  (I also had fun shopping for her and may have gotten a thing or two to add to my fall decorations!)  This week's Atlantic Hearts sketch was perfect for sunflowers:

So the DSP and sunflower stamps are new, but I had to dust off my old favorite Perfectly Penned stamp set for the birthday greeting, isn't it pretty?  And my trusty corner rounder punch that I used on the larger layers to echo the shape of the die in the middle.  I just had to add some Cajun Craze Blends to my SU! shopping cart, the light Blend I have has suddenly turned more brown and icky, which is weird because I swear it was fine last week.  I've had to replace probably at least a half dozen Blends pairs and it's not like I'm using them hard.  I'd rather be spending my crafting dollas on NEW things rather than replacing markers that shouldn't be acting that way.

Anyway, I think I'm going to get a second cuppa and think fall thoughts.  Cheers, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Radiant Sunflowers, Perfectly Penned
Ink:  Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow, Stampin' Blends in Golden Glow, Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Very Vanilla, Sunflower Fields DSP
Accessories:  Radiant Sunflowers dies, Dimensionals, corner rounder punch, Radiant Gems

Radiant Bouquet

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday.  I'm so happy that yesterday I finally inked up the third new stamp set I got in my last SU! order, Radiant Sunflowers!

I have the coordinating DSP too, but today I used something different to go with the inspo pic at Just Us Girls:

I put my bouquet on a Night of Navy pattern from the Nature Walk DSP and used Peaceful Pine as my card base, going with the darker colors to make the flowers pop like on the pic.  And I had some fun coloring in the flowers, I did each one a bit differently with a mix of Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, and Cajun Craze.  And I kinda sorta used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

My bouquet image is a little pointier at the top and bottom and wider in the middle, though I wish I'd cut the ribbon a little differently to match the sketch a little better.  And obviously I stretched this into a regular A2 card because I don't like making square cards.  But I did just get the new Tiled Garden square dies, which are like the square version of the Spotlight on Nature dies that are circles.  Those teeny cutout bits are annoying as all get-out to get off the cutting plate for my Big Shot, but they sure look good on the card!  I backed the cutouts with Daffodil Delight to make them stand out more.  I thought the sparkle dots were Daffodil Delight but they're actually Darling Duckling, we have hardly any embellishments in Daffodil Delight or Pumpkin Pie and I don't know why.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Radiant Sunflowers
Ink:  Night of Navy, Stampin' Blends in Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Peaceful Pine
Paper:  Peaceful Pine, Daffodil Delight, Basic White, Nature Walk DSP
Accessories:  Radiant Sunflowers dies, Tiled Garden dies, Dimensionals, Night of Navy bordered ribbon, Low-Profile Sparkle Dots, Wink of Stella

How about a little extra cute today:

BLEP.  Daph was snoozing on the love seat next to me while I was working on my stitching project and watching the end of Wonder Woman (the movie, though I do own the 70s TV show as well).  She's a good couch time companion.