Geometrical Birthday for Paper Players #189

Hello stamping friends! This week at the Paper Players, the always-awesome Nance is our hostess with a tic-tac-toe challenge. I love these challenges...so many options to get your creative mojo working. I went with the top line of the tic-tac-toe board, using a birthday theme with punches and twine.

The Geometrical stamp set was one we received at the Stampin' Up Leadership Conference back in January. I haven't really given this stamp set it's fair share of ink, so I really wanted to use it for this challenge.  It's a "happy" stamp set. I paired it up with the coordinating Kaleidoscope DSP and Triangle punch, which I was ridiculously excited to earn from the Leadership event. I got up in front of the crowd and shared one of my most embarrassing stamping stories. Eek! I'm not proud of that embarrassing story, but I do love this bight and cheery card.  I added some twine and rhinestones, because bling really makes EVERYTHING happier! :)

Please join us over at the Paper Players!  The challenge is open through Friday, April 4th, 2014 at Noon (PDT). Stop by and say hello to the rest of the Design Team to see what they are sharing this week. 

  

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile 
Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Before I sign off, I just wanted to share one of my favorite photos of two special kitties. Benny (my 24 pound Maine Coon) isn't usually cuddly with the other cats. He prefers to stand alone and take the spotlight for himself. Recently, my little tripod "ginger kitty" Triple has become infatuated with his big brother and is always by his side. I love that Benny has taken to nurturing him. I almost fainted when I saw them cuddled up together.

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CAS Mixed Bunch for Paper Players #187

Hello there stampers! Hope you are having a great day so far. This week Jaydee is our hostess over at the Paper Players with a Clean and Simple Spring card challenge. Jaydee is truly the Queen of CAS cards. She has a way of doing "more with less". I always over-do CAS cards, it seems. I have really been trying to "clean up my act" and not stress about them when I make them. That was my approach for my card for the challenge. Thank goodness it wasn't a one-layer card challenge or I would have REALLY been in trouble. Haha!

The layout was inspired by one I saw on my stamping pal Lesley's blog: The Challenge. Any layout that has elements repeated in "threes" always catches my eye. I decided to use two stamp sets I rarely ink up and picked out a fun spring trio of colors. It is not a complicated card but I really like how it came out. The colors really pop and I am going to be able to pop it in the mail using only one stamp! Whoot!   

Here are the products I used to create my card: 

• Mixed Bunch Stamp Set
• Sweet Essentials Stamp Set
• Decorative Dots Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (Sale-A-Bration item)
• 1" Circle Punch
• Banner Punch (Sale-A-Bration item)
• Basic Rhinestones
• Classic Stamp Pads in Rose Red, Gumball Green and Wisteria Wonder
• Card stock in Whisper White and Rose Red

Please join us over at the Paper Players!  The challenge is open through Friday, March 21st, 2014 at Noon (PDT). Stop by and say hello to the rest of the Design Team to see what they are sharing this week. 

  

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile 
Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Looks like Benjamin is waiting to use the Macbook, so it's time to sign off for now. 

Have a great day today! :) 

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Label Love for Paper Players #186

 Hello stamping friends! Hope you are having a great day so far! This week at the Paper Players, I am the challenge hostess. Right before the Academy Awards, I saw the photo (in the challenge badge) on the Anthropologie page on Instagram and fell in LOVE with the color combo. I thought it would make for a fun challenge. I hope you think so, too.

I was going to go with an entirely different theme for my card but something just kept making me want to create a baby card with these colors. So, I went with it. I have also been trying to ink up stamps that I have been neglecting in my stamp studio. There are quite a few. I bought Label Love awhile ago and have only inked it up once. The layout is pretty simple but I still got a lot of layers on the card, which always makes me happy.

Here are the items I used:

• Label Love Stamp Set
• 7/8" Scallop Circle Punch
• 1- 1/4" Circle Punch
• Scallop Trim Border Punch
• Chevron Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
• Square Lattice Textured Expressions Embossing Folder
• Basic Rhinestones (of course)
• The DSP is retired and the star die cut is non-SU!

Please join us over at the Paper Players!  The challenge is open through Friday, March 14th, 2014 at Noon (PDT). Stop by and say hello to the rest of the Design Team to see what they are sharing this week. 

  

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile 
Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

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Spring Thanks for Paper Players #185

Hello there! How is your weekend going? The weather down here in South Texas has been amazing the past few days. Nothing but sunshine, blue skies and 80 degree temps. It really put me in the mood for the new Paper Players challenge, hosted by the always fabulous, Ann Schach.

This week, we have a "Thankful for Spring" challenge showcasing Thank You cards. I'm going to enjoy our "spring" while it lasts because another cold-front is rolling in late-Monday. Although I know "Texas-cold" is not as cold as what some of you are experiencing (I'm a native New Yorker...I GET snow and cold) the low 40's are COLD down here when you are not used to it!

To get started on my card, I was completely inspired by Narelle's awesome layout over at Freshly Made Sketches this week. I LOVE this sketch! SO versatile and I know I will be using it often. 

For my card, I kept it pretty simple but the patterns, colors and dimension still keep it fun. Here are the items I  used to create my card: 

• Gingham Garden Designer Series Paper
• Bird Builder Punch
• Floral Fusion Sizzlits
• 1- 1/4" Square Punch
• Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack
• Colors: Melon Mambo, So Saffron, Elegant Eggplant, Island Indigo, Pear Pizzazz and Whisper White
• Sentiment is from the (ret.) Curly Cute stamp set...but I never get rid of my sentiment stamps because I use them often.

One more close-up of those fabby dimensional flowers. It's no secret that I love "puffy" or "chubby" cards. Sure they cost more to mail, but I think they are totally worth it. 

Please join us over at the Paper Players!  The challenge is open through Friday, March 7th, 2014 at Noon (PDT). Stop by and say hello to the rest of the Design Team to see what they are sharing this week. 

  

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile 
Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Nance Leedy

Sandy Mathis

Before I sign off, I wanted to share a photo of my sweet Gidget. She went to her first "spa day" this week and I was so thankful she didn't act all "diva-licious" and bite our groomer. Eeek! Luckily she had her big brother Ozzy there to protect her. Poor baby was quite scared on this adventure but she survived and looks sassy as ever. Have a very HAPPY day today! :)

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