Dropping In

Evening, y'all!  Surprise post because I just HAD to squeeze in a quick card this afternoon before Ryan's football practice and I couldn't wait anymore to share it so here it is:

I do love Merry Merlot and I'm still sad that it's a retired color, but I still have a fair bit in my stash.  I had to use it when I saw the new Inspired By... Challenge:

And CAS on Friday wants fall cards, and those two challenges are a great excuse to get out a couple of old favorite stamp sets for tonight's card.  I used Merry Merlot, Golden Glow (still loving that color), Pecan Pie, and Early Espresso with Very Vanilla for my colors.

We've got a thunderstorm rolling through and I think I'm going to curl up with Daphne and read a book while I listen to the rain.  Have a good evening, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Wonderfall, Acorny Thank You
Ink:  Golden Glow, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Merry Merlot
Paper:  Merry Merlot, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Acorn punch, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals

Happy Fall-Ways

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday!  I am so very happy that this week it's (finally) starting to actually FEEL like fall, at least in the mornings.  The leaves are juuuuust starting to turn here and I plan to enjoy the heck out of this fall.  My appendix can't ruin it for me this year : p  If you don't remember, my appendix went nuclear at the end of September last year and I mostly slept through October while I recovered from surgery, I was very sad to miss my favorite season.

Anywhooodle, how about a happy fall card?

YESSSS I finally got to play with Elegant Leaves!  Actually I have made another card with this bundle, but it's for a future design team card so you won't see that one for a bit.  I chose the Autumn Opulence DSP and this week's Atlantic Hearts sketch for my card:

I had actually pulled a floral stamp set to use with this sketch and planned to use the Color Hues pair of purple and artichoke, but then I saw Stef's card for that color challenge and decided that she is 100% correct, we can do something more interesting than florals with those colors.  So you'll see my purple and artichoke creation on Monday (I'm quite pleased with it), and today I went with fall leaves in Golden Glow (loving this yellow), stamped-off Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, and some accents in Blackberry Bliss.  I need to play with the Elegant Leaves bundle some more, it's got two-step stamping and fun dies to go with it.

Once again I have an appointment this morning and then some errands to run, but one of those is buying floss for my next stitching project so at least that's fun.  I was watching Scooby-Doo last night while I stitched and every time they said "Daphne" on the show, I said it to Daphne our doggo and finally she gave me this look that said "You've made your point and it's not funny anymore, Mahm."  I love my sassy pupper.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Elegant Leaves
Ink:  Golden Glow, Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, Blackberry Bliss
Paper:  Golden Glow, Pecan Pie, Blackberry Bliss, Very Vanilla, Autumn Opulence DSP
Accessories:  Elegant Leaves dies, Nested Essentials dies, Dimensionals, Painted Patch Dots

Pink Pumpkin Club

Mornin' y'all!  Well, despite my paper crafty intentions yesterday, I only got one card made in the afternoon...but I have made a lot of progress on my current stitching project so I was still being crafty, just in a different medium.  So here's the card I made:

Continuing to make good on my threat to make these pumpkins in a rainbow of colors, here they are in pink : )  Flirty Flamingo and Crumb Cake, to be precise.  I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

Combined with the Creative Colour Challenge:

I used the stencils and blending brushes to color my pumpkins, and then I used another blending brush to apply Lemon Lime Twist ink to white cardstock and used the leafy and viney dies to cut those bits out so they'd match the pumpkins.  That plaid is from the Timeless Plaid DSP stack that's now retired but none of my regular card recipients would know (or care) if my supplies are current or not so I can use whatever I want in my warcraft room.  I found one scrap of that ribbon in one of my ribbon boxes and used about half of it for today's card, I wish I had more as I like that ribbon.  It's odd that I just have the ribbon scrap and not the original roll that I assume it came on.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Painted Pumpkins
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Basic White, Timeless Plaid DSP Stack
Accessories:  Painted Pumpkins stencils & dies, Dimensionals, Dots for Days (I think), LLT ribbon

And here's my current stitching project:

All I have left to do is the words, it will say "It's just a bunch of Hocus Pocus" on the bottom : )  Probably won't take very long, I've done a lot of work lately while watching episodes of Scooby-Doo so that's fun.  I am already trying to narrow down what my next project will be...fall, Halloween, or maybe Christmas?  So many choices.  Cheers, y'all!

HOoOowl

Mornin' y'all, hope your Wednesday is off to a good start.  I had a very busy day yesterday and once I picked Ryan up from school, I absolutely hit a brick wall and conked out for a bit and thus never got any crafting done yesterday.  Not a literal brick wall, you know what I mean.  So then I had to make a card this morning to share today and here it is:

Is my wolf levitating?  Yes.  Do I care?  Nope, I think he's cute even if he's levitating.  I used the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

And the color palette from As You See It:

I was looking at a werewolf stamp set that I want to get, and the idea for today's card popped in my head but obviously I don't have those werewolf stamps (yet) so I used the wolves from Lawn Fawn instead.  And my little wolfy fits with the Inkspirational challenge:

Supplies:
Stamps:  Wild Wolves, Wolf Before & Afters from Lawn Fawn
Ink:  Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Smoky Slate Blends
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Basic White, Lights of Aurora DSP Stack, Simply Marbleous DSP Stack
Accessories:  Lawn Fawn dies, Layering Circles dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Shimmery Stars Foam Stickers

I only have two errands to run today so hopefully I'll get some crafty time later this morning.  I do still have a few more cards to share today, as I am the lucky recipient of THREE cards from the UK and New Zealand!  The first two are from Joanne and the last one is from Jan, who are both my teamies on the Paper Players design team.  Take a look:

I wish I had gotten an extra pack or two of that Delightful Floral DSP, isn't it gorgeous!  Also Joanne is the one who "made" me get the Words of Beauty bundle so I think of her every time I use it.  (She's responsible for my purchasing several other things too!)

Joanne said she hoped that Daphne didn't mind the kitties on this card too much and I will say that Daph kinda gave it the side-eye a bit : )  I don't think I've used the kitties from the Cutest Crew stamp set yet and I know I haven't used the birds, I always go for the puppers.

And here's a beauty from Jan, I like how she cut the patterned paper into strips and then popped every other strip up, it's such a neat effect.

Okay, I have just enough time to finish my cuppa and take Daphne for a walk before I have to hit my first appointment.  Cheers, y 'all!

CASEing Jennie for SUO Challenges

Mornin' y'all!  It's time once again for a new challenge from SUO Challenges, and this time we are CASEing the one, the only...Jennie Maier!  She frequently plays along with us and we are so pleased to be featuring her today.  Here is her card:

So I don't have the stamps or the paper that she used, so after having a bit of a think about it I elected to go with something that has a similar "feel" to it and here's what I made:

I started with the patterned paper and chose a pattern somewhat similar to what Jennie used, and it's fall (shut up calendar, I say fall starts on September first and the leaves are changing colors already so that means I'm right) so I went with leaves.  Also these leaf stamps are nice, solid shapes like the ones she used on her card.  I tried to stick to a similar color combination too, including a bit of Pool Party to go with all the warm colors.  I love a nice blue or purple for contrast with the more typical fall colors.

I hope you'll play along with us at upload your card at SUO Challenges!  Don't forget to keep it to only Stampin' Up! products (that's what we do, after all) and most importantly, have fun.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Simply Leaves
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Golden Glow, Pool Party, Early Espresso
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Golden Glow, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Sunflower Fields DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Radiant Gems

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