April Showers with The Paper Players

Happy Easter!  Mornin' y'all and it's time for a new challenge from The Paper Players!  First though, thanks to everyone who played along with Ann's tic-tac-toe board last week, we had so many beautiful cards in the gallery!  And today we have a new challenge courtesy of the marvelous LeAnne, take a look:

As I said earlier this week, I've been feeling kinda blocked lately and so this challenge took me a while but then I ended up with two cards for it.  So here's the first card:

I got Million Dollar Moments out of the To Sell? boxes and paired it with the same Pleased as Punch paper I used for a different rainy day card a while back.  I stamped the lady in VersaMark + Night of Navy and embossed with clear EP.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Million Dollar Moments
Ink:  Night of Navy, VersaMark
Paper:  Balmy Blue, Pleased as Punch DSP
Accessories:  Clear EP, Textured Notes dies, Full Heart Punch, Dimensionals, Milky Dots

Here's my second card, actually I think I made it first but whatever:

Rather similar to the other card with embossing an image on DSP, but this time I used the Rain or Shine Specialty DSP.  Same Balmy Blue card base and Milky Dots for embellishments.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Silhouette Scenes, Playing in the Rain
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Balmy Blue
Paper:  Balmy Blue, Thick Basic White, Rain or Shine Specialty DSP
Accessories:  Clear EP, Textured Notes dies, Dimensionals, Milky Dots

Funny story:  we actually got rain for the first time in a long time one day last week, and Daphne rang the bell to go outside, so I opened the door for her.  She stuck her nose out and noped right back into the house and I laughed.  She did the same thing ten minutes later and looked at me like "Mahm, why is water falling from the sky?  I don't understand!"  Yeah, we haven't gotten much rain around here lately.

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

Anne Marie Hile

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!

October Anniversary

Happy Friday, y'all!  We just had a parent-teacher conference with Ryan's teacher and she said he's very smart (no surprise there) and wiggly (also not a surprise).  She had good things to say about him and said that she's going to give him opportunities to do more challenging stuff, which is good because he gets bored easily.

Anyway, I made a card yesterday and here it is:

Okay, I was silly on Sunday and made a Halloween card for the Paper Players challenge, so I had to give it another go with a more traditional card.  The hubs and I have our 21st wedding anniversary coming up next week, and that sentiment from Silhouette Scenes felt particularly appropriate since he was deployed over our last anniversary.  So here's the Paper Players challenge:

And I love the mood board from Inkspirational:

This was actually the challenge I started with when I made my haunted house card, which is where the Azure Afternoon came in, but it ended up being pretty far away from this mood board which is why I had to have another go at it.  Once again the Thoughtful Journey DSP stack came to my rescue with the Lost Lagoon wash and the background with warm colors, plus just a bit of purple peeking out on one side which I liked because our wedding colors were royal blue and royal purple.  I decided to go with some florals and greenery thanks to the Atlantic Hearts sketch:

This is my first time playing along over there.  I didn't put a bow on my card because, y'know, it's going to a dude, but otherwise I tried to stick close to the sketch.  I did, however, cover the Cajun Craze flowers with Wink of Stella because I just have to glitterfy everything ; )

That's it for me today, peeps.  The hubs has an MRI this afternoon to check how he's healing after his surgery, and then we're taking Ryan to see The Wild Robot.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Regal Flora, Silhouette Scenes
Ink:  Night of Navy, Lost Lagoon, Cajun Craze, Peach Pie
Paper:  Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Thoughtful Journey DSP Stack
Accessories:  Regal Flora dies, Stitched Shapes dies, Stitched Rectangles dies, Dimensionals, Essentials Dots, Wink of Stella

The Perfect Place to Be

Guess what, chickens?  Today is our 19th wedding anniversary.  Happy anniversary to the hubs, who puts up with a lot from me and still loves me anyway.  I made a quick anniversary card to sneak into his car this morning:

Over the past 19 years, the hubs and I have lived in four different states and three different countries (...I think), so this sentiment seemed particularly apt for us.  I'll be entering this at the Festive Friday challenge:

Yes, I managed to take a Halloween-inspired challenge and make a non-Halloween card!  (Fear not, I'll be back to spooky season shenanigans tomorrow!)  For today's card, I included the moon, stars, black, and silhouette.  You'll have to squint to see the stars though, they barely show up even in person. I stamped the main silhouette and embossed with shimmery black embossing powder (seriously, why was this available for such a short time, it's awesome), used blending brushes to add the background (our wedding colors were royal blue and royal purple, I decided to go with a more pastel version for this card), and then stamped the stars in the background and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I expected the stars to show up a little darker even though they're tiny, but they turned out to be tough to see.  So that's when I added the moon.

And book-loving me also loved this stamp from One In a Million, so I had to use it for the inside of the card.

One more picture that shows the sparkle a bit more, and you can see the reflection of the teeny tiny stars if you look closely.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Have a great day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Silhouette Scenes, So Many Stars, One In a Million
Ink:  Versamark, Starry Sky, Highland Heather, Balmy Blue
Paper:  Starry Sky, Thick Basic White, Balmy Blue DSP, glimmer paper
Accessories:  Shimmery Black EP, Clear EP, non-SU punch for the moon, Dimensionals

SUO Challenges: Full Color Flowers

Goooooood morning stampy friends!  It is time once again for a new challenge at SUO Challenges!

The challenge this time is to do some coloring--use markers, Stampin' Blends, watercolor pencils, whatever technique you like to color on your card.  Here's what I did:

I decided to go with Stampin' Blends this time, so I used Highland Heather, Just Jade, and So Saffron for my colors.  I used the color lifter to try to blend the shades together a bit since I used both light and dark markers for the purple and green.  I chose Inspiring Iris just because I hadn't used it in a while, and I liked the sentiment from Silhouette Scenes to go with it.  I want to send this off to the lady who dyes my cross stitch fabric :)

Now it's your turn!  Make a colorful creation to share at the SUO Challenges blog.  I mean, I guess you *could* use black and gray to make a monochromatic card and still use coloring on it *shrug* I just like lots of colors :)  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inspiring Iris, Silhouette Scenes
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Gorgeous Grape, Stampin' Blends in Highland Heather, Just Jade, and So Saffron
Paper:  So Saffron, Thick Whisper White, Just Jade DSP, Gorgeous Grape DSP
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, In Color enamel dots, Dimensionals

SUO Challenges: Summer

Good mornin' y'all and welcome to Tuesday!  I had a very productive day in my craft room yesterday so that makes me happy :)  Another reason to be happy--it's time for a new challenge at SUO Challenges!

This time it's a theme challenge--we want you to make a SUMMER card!  For some reason, summer is the hardest season for me to translate into a card.  For fall, you've got all the glorious fall leaves and pumpkins and stuff.  Winter means snowflakes and holiday stuff.  Spring means baby animals and pastel flowers.  But what about summer?  Well, here's what I made.

I got Silhouette Scenes *months* ago and this is the first time I've used it at all, along with the coordinating Sweet Silhouettes dies.  My original plan was to brayer or sponge a colorful background for the little girl, but that May Paper Pumpkin kit is still on my craft table and I thought that rainbow piece was perfect.  To a Wild Rose was also still on my table from one of my cards last week, so that's where the "hello" came from (what can I say, sometimes I'm lazy!).

Share your Stampin' Up! only summertime creation on the SUO Challenges blog.  Cheers, y'all!  Wish the playgrounds were open, a swing sounds like fun about now...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Silhouette Scenes, To a Wild Rose
Ink:  Versamark, Shaded Spruce
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Shaded Spruce, Thick Whisper White, May Paper Pumpkin kit
Accessories:  Sweet Silhouettes dies, Ornate Frames dies, black EP, Dimensionals, In Color Enamel Dots