Love & Holly

Hey y'all!  We've got the contractors here again today to do the grout and caulking on our shower and we MIGHT actually get to USE IT by this weekend!  I'm very excited after 3 months of going down the hall to Ryan's bathroom.  Daphne will be excited when it's done too because she gets locked in her crate while the contractors are here.  She gets stressed out with them coming and going so it's easier for everyone if she's in doggo jail.

I've got a festive card to share today.

I'm mixing old and new on this one, with some super-old Brushed Gold cardstock, a stamp set from 2021, and this year's Regal Winter suite.  First off is the Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I tried to stick pretty close to the sketch.  Next is the Paper Players color challenge:

Cherry Cobbler and Pretty Peacock are both in the Regal Winter DSP so I started there and added gold accents.  Last up today is the Retro Rubber tic-tac-toe challenge:

I went diagonal from the top right with dies - greenery - twine.  I thought for a minute that I was trying to go down the right and had missed doing woodgrain, ha!  As I said before, Christmas Season is 3 years old.  My Brushed Gold cardstock is probably over 15 years old so it's super retro.

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Christmas Season, Regal Flora
Ink:  Pretty Peacock, Cherry Cobbler, Versamark
Paper:  Pretty Peacock, Thick Basic White, Brushed Gold, Regal Winter DSP
Accessories:  Seasonal Labels dies, Gold Glitter Enamel Dots, Gold Twine, Gold EP, Dimensionals

Festive Teacups

Hey y'all, Scrappy Monday will be on Tuesday this week because I want to enter my card in a couple of challenges so I have to post it today :) I actually meant to post it on Saturday but it completely slipped my mind and we were out for most of the day at another Christmas market.  So here we are!

Christmas teacups!  I heat embossed both teacup stamps from Cup of Tea, one on Real Red and the other on Granny Apple Green, then added some holly from Christmas Season and a gold-embossed sentiment from Sweet Candy Canes.  I used the Color Throwdown colors:

And the latest Freshly Made Sketch:

And there you have it!  I've got to run, I need to wrap some presents and I work today and also I need to do my French lesson.  No rest for the festive ; )  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cup of Tea, Christmas Season, Sweet Candy Canes
Ink:  Versamark, Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Teacup dies, Seasonal Labels dies, Stitched Rectangles dies, white EP, gold EP, Seasonal Sequins

Merry Little Christmas with the Paper Players

Happy Sunday, y'all!  It's time for a new challenge from the Paper Players, the last one for this year:

This festive color challenge is from Ann.  I must confess I'm a bit sad as this is my last challenge as a guest designer for 2022.  I know I'll be playing along with next year's Paper Players challenges as often as I can.  Anyway, here's my card for today:

I was hunting through my stuff for some gold ribbon that I *know* I bought last year when I found those gold snowflake doilies so I thought I'd use that since the ribbon was MIA (I found it several days after I made this card).  I think it's safe to say that this merry little Christmas stamp is my favorite from Framed & Festive.  I embossed it in gold on some Very Vanilla cardstock, added some holly and berries in the other challenge colors, and put it all on that awesome plaid pattern that I just love that we have in every single color.

Hope you'll have time to play along with the challenge this week, and upload your card at the Paper Players blog.  And to the permanent Paper Players team, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to be a guest designer this year.  I had a ball doing it and as I said, I will absolutely be playing along as often as possible next year!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Framed & Festive, Christmas Season
Ink:  Versamark, Evening Evergreen, Cherry Cobbler
Paper:  Cherry Cobbler, Evening Evergreen, Thick Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Seasonal Labels dies, gold EP, gold snowflake doily, Dimensionals

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Cindy Beach

Christy Stanford <-- You are here : )

Jennie Maier

Sending Pinecones

Hey hey!  I'm working today but I've still got a card to share.

I bought Christmas Season when it debuted last year and then...I never used it!  But it was *perfect* for the Inspired By challenge this week:

I used the inspiration pic and the sketch this time:

I used some scrap paper to mask off the strip that I stamped, though I guess I could have cut a two-inch strip, stamped it, and then adhered it to my card.  I also broke out the long-retired ticket corner punch for the corners of my card front, I liked how it mimicked the corners on the die I used for the second part of the sentiment.  Man, I remember when that ticket corner punch was used on *everything*!

That's it for me today, peeps.  Have a good 'un!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Christmas Season, Sending Smiles
Ink:  Cinnamon Cider, Early Espresso
Paper:  Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Ticket corner punch, Sending dies, mini Dimensionals