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 2026-10-30 04:30 UTC by LeAnne
Happy Friday, peeps! My card today uses an older SU image from Basket of Wishes and even older sentiments from a set called Falling Leaves. I love these outline images that give me a chance to watercolor:
I stamped the basket and pumpkins on watercolor paper with Stazon ink, then used reinkers to color them in. The mottled green... Continue reading »
Happy Thursday, peeps! My Christmas card today uses an image that I've been shuffling around on my desk for a while; it felt good to finally get it used, LOL! Here we go:
I had stamped this little reindeer from Unity on a stitched circle of Kraft cardstock and colored it in; I can't even remember if I used reinkers or markers, that's... Continue reading »
Happy Wednesday, all! I have a fun masculine birthday card today:
I diecut the tools from an older My Favorite Things set of dies, using silver foil and cardstock; the background is embossed with an embossing folder I bought at a yard sale, and the sentiment is from Poppy... Continue reading »
Happy Tuesday, everyone! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! I used the sketch today for a pretty Christmas card:
And here's our sketch:
As was the case in yesterday's card, one of the Christmas cards we made at my stamp camp used the papers from A Stitched Season, which has rows of fun little "quilt"... Continue reading »
Happy Monday, all! The 52 Christmas Card Throwdown challenge this month is to create a mini scene with shaped dies:
I had a Christmas card stamp camp on Saturday and we just happened to make a card that fit the challenge! Here we go:
We diecut a nativity scene from Impression Obsession using Secret Sea cardstock and placed it on a... Continue reading »
Hello, stamping friends! Happy Sunday! It's time for a new Paper Players challenge, and Christy has a lovely sketch for us! I couldn't wait to use one of SU's new upcoming sets called Time to Unwind! I belong to a craft group at my church and we have LOTS of knitters and crocheters! So I was happy to get this set. Here we go:
And... Continue reading »
Happy Friday, everyone! Hope you have a nice weekend planned! It's time for the latest As You See It challenge, and our theme is "Feathers"! I pulled out an old Papertrey stamp for my card today: And here's our prompt:
I will admit that this didn't come out quite the way I had planned, but what can I say! I stamped the image... Continue reading »
Happy Thursday, peeps! I do not need another Halloween card, but as I was looking through some of my papers, I came across these cute ones from Unity that I had barely used! That never happens to you, does it? I thought they worked well with the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches too. Here we go:
And here's the sketch I... Continue reading »
Happy Wednesday, everyone! I have a sweet Christmas card today that I hope will bring a smile to the recipient's face:
and some stamps from Unity's Holly Jolly Holiday' sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Tiny Words Christmas. I just love the expression on that bear's face:
I used the color... Continue reading »
Happy Tuesday, all! I am gearing up for Christmas, since I have a lot of Halloween cards left from last year! I used the Atlantic Hearts sketch for this one, using some pretty Unity papers:
And here's the sketch for this week:
These papers from Unity are called Quiet Christmas Morning, and in hindsight, I wish I had used... Continue reading »
Happy Monday, all! Hope you had a good weekend! Fall was definitely in the air! I have a real simple card today, and wait until you see how I was inspired! Here we go: We went out for dinner Friday night and as I was leaving, I saw this adorable pillow on the bench by the door:
(Now I would have cut off that icky tag... Continue reading »
Happy Sunday, all! It is definitely feeling fall-like here in SE PA this weekend! Stef is our Paper Players hostess this week with a seasonal clean-and-simple challenge!!! Here's my take on it:
And here's her prompt:
This was very quick to make, since I already had this Brushed Copper circle and leaf diecut sitting on my... Continue reading »
Happy Friday, all! Yay, I get to stamp with my ladies at the local retirement community today; that's always fun! First, I'll show you my CAS Halloween card created for the Little Red Wagon challenge! Here we go:
Their challenge is to use a frame, and I remembered that I had this twiggy frame from Poppy Whittles that had barely ever... Continue reading »
Happy Thursday, peeps! Ick, I have a dentist appointment today, so I'll make this quick! I needed another birthday card for a young man and it needed to be pretty simple because he is just not a fussy guy! I pulled out some masculine papers and came up with this:
He's not a carpenter, but he is a handyman, so hopefully he'll appreciate... Continue reading »
Happy Wednesday, all! There's a sweet little sketch over at TGIF and I am squeaking this one in just under the wire!
And here's the sketch:
This image is from an older SU set called Harvest Home. I stamped it in Versafine Black on watercolor paper, then stamped just the crock on Smoky Slate cardstock with Misty Moonlight... Continue reading »
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2026-10-13 04:00 UTC by LeAnneHappy Tuesday, all! Time for another Atlantic Hearts Sketch to play with! I chose to go Halloween, because I need to amp up my supply! Here we go:
This was a really fun sketch to use! At first I was a little intimidated by all the layers, but I pulled out a 6x6 Halloween pad from Echo Park called Spooky and found lots of little patterns... Continue reading »
Happy Monday to everyone! I bought the More Than Autumn bundle last year before it retired and I think I've only used it once! And since it's that time of the year, I needed to get it inky:
along with some pretty fall prints and gingham (although it's hard to see). And here's the... Continue reading »
Happy Sunday, all! Hope you're having a great weekend! Jan is our Paper Players hostess with a fun color challenge this week! Can you figure out what colors she chose?
So here we go:
I loved this challenge because I haven't used either Azure Afternoon or Granny Apple Green in a long time! They worked perfectly... Continue reading »
Happy Friday, peeps! Time for a new As You See It challenge and it's Recipe time! Here's my take on our "recipe" for this week:
And here's our prompt:
As you can see, I chose a non-traditional color theme for my pumpkin-y card! I just love this gingham from Everyday Happiness, so I decided to use an openwork pumpkin from... Continue reading »
Happy Thursday, everyone! Hope you're having a good week so far! The weather has been fabulous here in PA....enjoying these fall days immensely! But I am shifting from fall cards to Christmas today! Here we go:
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Hello everyone and happy Wednesday! The Retro Rubber challenge this week is "Feels Like Fall"! Coming right up!
And here's their prompt:
I had some digital papers printed out, so I mounted them on a Baked Brown Sugar card base, added a Very Vanilla Tailor Made Tag and some watercolored leaves:
The sentiment is actually... Continue reading »
Happy Tuesday, peeps! I have a patriotic card for you today, and it is for the current sketch at the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge! Here we go:
And here's our sketch:
Our church recently hosted a 250th celebration put on by our township's Historical Committee. Unfortunately, it rained, plus there were many other... Continue reading »
Happy Sunday, all! Hope you're having a good weekend! Ann is our Paper Players hostess with a fabulous theme challenge this week!
Can you guess what it is? Here we go:
I have had this landscape silhouette stamp set for a long while and I don't think I've ever used it! It's from what used to be Sweet & Sassy stamps; ... Continue reading »
Fall Collage
2026-10-01 04:00 UTC by LeAnneHappy Thursday, everyone! And happy October! After a few false starts, I finally stamped a card yesterday that I was happy with! I really didn't have anything special in mind when I started it but then I realized I needed a sympathy card, so sympathy it was:
I've really enjoyed revisiting some of my older stamps; this one, Thoroughly... Continue reading »
Happy Wednesday, peeps! Time for a new Atlantic Hearts sketch; it's a long, skinny one:
Yikes! I wasn't quite sure what to do, so I just took the easy way and scored some 1" squares on a panel of Basic Beige and added some fall pumpkins!! Here we go:
Since the sketch was pretty wide open, I turned it on its side to accomodate... Continue reading »
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