HSS444 Beachy Hello

Happy Thursday, peeps!  Not much of a beachy day around here today, but I know the sun is shining somewhere! The challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments was intriguing:

Those little green apples with the hues of pink and gray were so cool!  I went searching for a sketch and found this one by Mary Fish; not sure of the date:

So after a disastrous first attempt, I came up with this:

I used a mix of old and new products!  The images are from the retired A Day at the Beach; the sentiment is from Choose Happy.  The embossing folder is also retired, Seaside.  The DSP panels are Pretty in Pink, and the gray striped DSP is from Country Lace. I heat-embossed the sunglasses in white on Berry Burst, and although you can't see it, the lenses are sparkly from Wink of Stella!  The popsicle was stamped on Soft Sea Foam cardstock in Granny Apple Green, and the starfish was sponged with Pretty in Pink ink:

And since this is for a friend who is recuperating, I added sentiments from Unbounded Love inside:

These are not colors I would normally put together, but I think they're fun!  Thanks so much for popping in today!

While my sister was visiting, we had to go to Longwood:

This is just one of the little pools, surrounded by purple, yellow and green flowers and foliage:

It was so hot that day, I was wishing I could have waded in!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Choose Happy, Unbounded Love, A Day at the Beach (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Thick Basic White, Granny Apple Green, Soft Sea Foam, Berry Burst, Pretty in Pink DSP, Country Lace DSP
Ink	Craft White, Granny Apple Green, Pretty in Pink
Accessories	Smoky Slate Pearls, Dimensionals, White Embossing Powder, WInk of Stella
Tools	Cut & Emboss Machine, Spotlight on Nature Dies, Stylish Shapes Dies, Seaside Embossing Folder (ret), Heat Tool, Blender Pen, Sponge Dauber, White Gel Pen

RRCB160 Summer Breeze

Hi all!  We have a new Retro Rubber challenge for you, where we show some love to our older stamps!  Our theme this week is "Summer Breeze":

I pulled out Day at the Beach (2017) and stamped three of the images in colors that would match these cute trio of beachy papers from Carta Bella:

I colored in the images with Blends and fussy-cut them out, then added a "put-together" sentiment:  the "happy" is from Sweet Stuff (2014) and the "birthday" is from Time of Year (2016):

I added a few sequins from my stash, and stamped a sentiment from Picture Perfect Birthday (2018) on the inside:

This was a lot of fun to stamp, and I hope you'll be able to give some of your older stamps some love as well!  Share your creation with us at Retro Rubber, and make sure your stamps are at least a year old, and tell us their approximate age!  Thanks for popping in today---enjoy it and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Day at the Beach, Picture Perfect Birthday, Time of Year, Sweet Stuff (all ret)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Soak Up the Sun DSP (Carta Bella)
Ink	Calypso Coral, Flirty Flamingo, Balmy Blue, Blushing Bride, Wild Wasabi (ret)
Accessories	Misc Sequins, Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Stitched Shapes Dies (ret), Stitched Rectangle Dies, Blends

 

TicTacToe #70 Summer Fun

Hello again, peeps!  It's time for the X team's Tic Tac Toe challenge!  Shannon is our hostess and here's her grid:

For my card, I chose the left column of polka dots, sequins and summer!  I pulled out the retired Day at the Beach to make some yummy popsicles:

I stamped them all in Memento Black ink, then colored them with Highland Heather, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight Blends:

I colored them in with some Wink of Stella for sparkle, and added matching sequins around each one:

My yellow paper is from Honey Bee's The Bee's Knees, and I used Stitched So Sweetly and Wonky Stitched (My Favorite Things) dies along with a past Paper Pumpkin sentiment. Here's the inside:

I have just the recipient in mind for this card!  And hang on, there's more!  Felicita very kindly offered to let Cassidy be the Junior Guest Designer this week!  She chose the diagonal line of polka dots, coloring (of course) and sparkle for her "unique" card:

She stamped her ballerina from the retired Sweet Stuff and colored her outfit with a purple sparkly gel pen:

She wanted her to be dancing in the rain, so she stamped and punched out an umbrella from Under My Umbrella in Gorgeous Grape DSP, then curved it so it would be 3D, then used a couple layers of dimensionals to pop it up.  We gave her a raindrop background, but Cass also wanted to create a rainbow, so she hand-drew one and added a polka dotted sun, also from Day at the Beach.  Finally, she drew the "road" and coated it with Wink of Stella for some more sparkle (not sure what that was all about!).  I thought it was very creative and unique and apart from a little coaching from Grammy, she did most of it herself!  Thank you, Felicita, for asking her to participate!

I hope our Tic Tac Toe grid has some fun elements that inspire you to get creative!  Be sure to check out what all the designers did this week at the TTT blog!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Summery Thanks

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you all had a fabulous weekend!  My only complaint is that it went by too quickly!  I did get in a wee bit of stamping time, and found a few challenges that piqued my interest: the Just Us Girls summer challenge; the Less Is More color challenge of Tangerine, Aqua and White; and the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch:

A Day at the Beach is a great summery set, and since it was in the Occasions catalog from a couple of years ago, I never got to use it that much!  So I inked up a couple images and colored them with some Blends, then heat-embossed a sentiment on some Pumpkin Pie DSP and put them all together to create this:

You can't see it here, but there is Wink of Stella on each of the elements, and I added some Iridescent Sequins for some extra shine!  Such happy colors!  Thanks for popping in today!

And speaking of summer, Wayne helped Cassidy enjoy the pool this weekend:

What a great step-daddy he is!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	A Day at the Beach, Perfectly Wrapped (both ret)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie and Pool Party DSP
Ink	Bermuda Bay, Pumpkin Pie, Craft White
Accessories	Iridescent Sequins, Dimensionals
Tools	Wink of Stella, White Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Stamparatus

PP441 Popsicle Birthday

Happy Sunday, peeps, and Happy Mother's Day, if that applies to you!  Not sure what the family has in store today...I guess it will be a surprise!  Joanne is our Paper Players hostess today with a bright, cheerful color challenge...I admit, it had me stumped for a bit!

At first, my mind went "floral" but the colors kept reminding me of ice pops, so I pulled out the retired Day at the Beach...at first I was going to use three different images, but I remembered the sketch from Cecile at FMS:

So here is my popsicle-y creation:

Each treat was stamped in Stazon on watercolor paper and watercolored with inks, then fussy cut and coated with Wink of Stella...it's REALLY sparkly in real life, too bad you can't see it here!  I added some squiggly stitches to for fun on top of some retired Pool Party polka-dot DSP and a mat of Granny Apple Green:

 

I used a sentiment from Itty Bitty Birthdays and the confetti from Picture Perfect Birthday to decorate the inside:

SO....I hope you'll play along with this fun color challenge this week!  Check out what the DT did:

Ann

Claire

Jaydee

Joanne

Laurie

Nance

Anne Marie

Su

Wanda

Windy

And it was a time for celebration yesterday....being new to the karate "community", I did not realize that the students also do competitions!  Cassidy has been practicing very hard lately, and she took first place yesterday in her division for one of her forms, and third place for sparring.  Check out these trophies!!

And here she is with her teacher, Master Fisher:

Thanks for popping in today!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Itty Bitty Birthdays, Picture Perfect Birthday, Day at the Beach (ret), Stitched Borders (CTMH)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Watercolor, Granny Apple Green, Pool Party Prints DSP (ret)
Ink	Stazon Black, Lovely Lipstick, Granny Apple Green, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Pool Party
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Aquapainter, Wink of Stella, Stitched Rectangle Dies, Big Shot

RRCB91 Summer Birthday Sketch

Hi peeps!  It's Tuesday and that means another RetroRubber challenge!  Woohoo!  We have a sweet little sketch this time around:

I pulled out a set from the 2017 Occasions catalog called Day at the Beach for my sunshiney birthday card today:

I stamped each element with Stazon ink on Shimmery White cardstock and watercolored them in, fussy-cut them, then mounted them on some papers from American Crafts (Little by Little by Shimelle).  I used Pineapple Punch, Flirty Flamingo, Mint Macaron and Balmy Blue for my colors:

I added a little stitched scallop at the bottom and stamped a birthday sentiment (Altenew's Label Love), then added some Mint Macaron thick baker's twine.  My final embellishments were some stitched stickers from SRM!  Cute and easy!  I have a dear friend who loves the beach and her birthday is next month...so this will be winging its way to her!

I hope you'll play with our challenge this week...remember that your stamps have to be at least a year old and you must tell us how old they are!!  Can't wait to see what you create!

Now......I am taking a little blogging break....see you in a few days!!

Mojo496 with CTD443

Happy Saturday, peeps!  Hope your weekend is going well so far!  I found this gorgeous color combo at Color Throwdown, and guess what---it uses that (ahem) sassy little Lemon Lime Twist!  SO since I already had some cardstock on my desk, I went for it, combining it with the Mojo sketch:

Since these colors seemed so summery, I pulled out Day at the Beach and used it one more time; so sad it didn't make it into the big catalog!  But here we go!  I used Lemon Lime Twist, Summer Sun and Pool Party for my card:

My friend Dawn had a fun card here using strips of cardstock to create a background, so I used the challenge colors to create mine too....great technique! Then I stamped the images and colored them in with a blender pen, adding some enamel dots for fun:

Finally, I used a Paper Pumpkin sentiment from January 2017 and a couple of non-SU stitched dies:

I can handle Lemon Lime with these colors!!

I had a few responses to my Paper Pumpkin storage and cataloging question!  One person suggested the Facebook page "Paper Pumpkin Fan Club"....you have to request to join, but I did find the dates of a few of the sets I was looking for.  I think you can also search on Splitcoaststampers, which is also a treasure trove of information regarding just about every SU set!  My new friend Lynn shared some photos of how she stores her sets, and says:

"I found the CD Case at Staples. (I've purchased the Paper Pumpkin kits from day one and all of them are in this case and there is still room.)  I put each stamp set and the instructions from the kit into a small plastic sleeve that I purchased from Simon Says Stamps.  I labeled each sleeve with the name of the kit and the corresponding date."  If you want further information about her system, let me know!  She is very organized!

Well, the outer construction is about done; new siding and roof will be put on next week:

Our bedroom originally ended where the diagonal lumber was....now we have lots more head room:

and a really big window to let in a nice cross breeze!!

Of course, we had to have a little mishap:

Yes, one of the carpenters slipped and came through the ceiling in the kitchen!  Blessedly, he was okay, but he needed to be "extracted" by my nephew!  And the ceiling was going to have to be cut in that area anyway!  I was not home when it happened, I am sure I would have probably been frightened out of my wits!

And I finally got a cute photo of Cassidy at breakfast:

She wanted me to take this picture so she could put it in her diary...she is making it like a photo album!  The caption she wrote:  "I love eating breckfast AKA I LOVE EATING!"  Too funny!

Enjoy your day, be blessed, and be sure to come back tomorrow for a new Paper Players challenge!

Project Details--All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Noted
Stamps	Day at the Beach, Paper Pumpkin (Jan 2017)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Pool Party, Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist
Ink	Pool Party, Daffodil Delight, Lemon Lime Twist, Basic Black
Accessories	Enamel Dots
Tools	Bit Shot, Decorative Dots EF, Stitched Rectangle Dies (Lil'Inker), Bundle of Stitched Shapes Dies (Simon Says Stamp), Adhesive Sheets, Dimensionals