The Paper Players #514: Jaydee's Sketch Challenge

 Hi Friends! Well, I finally started my Christmas cards and put away Halloween.  I'm playing along over at The Paper Players with a great sketch from Jaydee:

I like the three focal points and was completely inspired by Joanne's gorgeous card from the DT.  Besides loving her choice of nontraditional colors, I had just received Stampin' Up's Sweetest Time stamps and dies and had not used them yet.  To change it up, I used traditional Christmas colors (SU Real Red, Just Jade, Shaded Spruce) and added gold accents with SU Beautiful Boughs dies.  

 Thanks for stopping by and thanks for the mojo boost, Joanne! 

Hugs,

Annie

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #087

 Hi Friends! It's time for another fun board over at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge:

I love making Halloween cards so, of course, I had to pick the bottom Scary, Halloween, and Purple row.  

I have this scary ghosts die from Tim Holtz in my stash.  It's an old Sizzix Bigz die that I don't think is available any longer but I use it every year.  I die cut the ghosts three times out of white cardstock and layered them together.  I then coated them with Wow's 'Glow in the Dark' embossing powder and heat set a couple of times.  They really do glow in the dark!  The background is a piece of DCWV DSP that I inked up with Distress Oxide Wilted Violet and added tiny star sequins to the sky.  I layered the spookiness on a violet card base and popped up the SSS sentiment.  Boo!

We hope you'll play along this week and maybe get spooky?  Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Annie

Happy Thanksgiving 2020

 Hi Friends!  Today I'm playing along over at The Paper Players for their warm and cozy color challenge and also over at Shopping Our Stash for the Happy Fall Y'All!

I thought I would use these challenges to get a head start on Thanksgiving cards.  Sadly, this year we won't be getting together for a big family Turkey Day. I still want everyone to know I'm thinking of them so I'll be sending a bunch of cards.

After taking my time to stencil all the little leaves in the challenge colors using Taylored Expressions Fall Foliage stencils, stamping and die cutting some leaves and the sentiment from Hero Arts Grateful Leaves, I put the card together.  When I went to open it up to do the inside, I had put everything together upside down on the card front!  Have you ever done that? Well, that was the second time in two days I did that to a project <big sigh>.  Anyhoo, I cut off the card front, trimmed the Cinnamon Cider cardstock and attached it to a Very Vanilla card base.  I actually think I like it better even though it took a while longer to get there!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Annie 

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #085

 Hi Friends! Here's the new board for this week's challenge over at Tic Tac Toe:

And here's my DT card following the first row down: Pumpkins, Orange, and Fall.

I've had this great fall DSP from DCWV for a very long time and decided to let it do the work for my Thanksgiving card.  It has flecks of gold in it which were hard to photograph but I die cut gold vines for the pumpkins to coordinate.  The Pretty Pumpkins from Sunny Studio are layering stamps that give the pumpkins some fun dimension with three different shades of orange ink. The doily was die cut out of kraft cardstock and the card base is Cajun Craze from Stampin' Up.  

We hope you'll play along this week! See you in the gallery!

Hugs,

Annie

The Paper Players #511: Claire's Theme Challenge

 Hi Friends! Today I'm playing along over at The Paper Players where the lovely Claire is hosting a "Fall Critters" theme:

I am still playing with Halloween cards, so...

Stampin' Up's 'Have a Hoot' owls came out to play.  After simple coloring with Copics, I used the Peek-a-Hoot dies to die cut some windows out of Ellen Hutson Woodgrain cardstock. The sentiment is from SSS popped up on the front and I used the SU sentiment, "Have a Hoot on Halloween" on the inside.  I touched up the pumpkin and bandana with a  Nuvo Glitter pen and added Glossy Accents to the owls' eyes and spider.  

Thanks for stopping by ~ hope you're having a good week!

Hugs,

Annie

Shopping Our Stash #430: Slimline Cards

 Hi Friends! I'm playing along over at Shopping Our Stash where they are getting trendy this week and looking for slimline cards. 

 This is only the third slimline card I've made.  I did buy a slimline die set from Catherine Pooler so I didn't have to think about the measurements too much!

I used Distress Inks with a SSS Leaves stencil on watercolor card, did some splattering, and die cut into squares.  I added some SU linen thread and a SU sentiment and then finished off the card with gold confetti sequins.  Now I just need to practice how to photograph these tall cards! LOL!

Thanks for stopping by ~ hope you're having a good week.

Hugs,

Annie

The Paper Players #510: Joanne's Sketch Challenge

 Hi Friends! Joanne has created a fun sketch to play along with this week over at The Paper Players:

Look at those layers! Love the chance to use DSP in so many different ways!

And yep, I'm still playing with Halloween cards - one of my faves to make.  I substituted my die cut witchy legs (DieVersions) and witch hat (Darice) for the banner in the sketch. The DSP is from MFT's Creepy Confections and the sentiment is from MFT's Spooky Sentiments. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Annie