Always Playing with Paper: Fruit and Flowers

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Paper Players #99-Colours from Lesley {Sweet Friend} and CAS-ual Fridays

It is time for another Paper Players Challenge and I am the hostess this week! Hooray! I got to choose some colours for the team and decided to go with a bright happy combo of Melon Mambo, Lucky Limeade and Basic Gray. It is also our 99th Challenge at the Paper Players! I began this challenge on my blog, 2 years ago. LeAnne and Jaydee started it with me and wow, we sure had fun getting it going. By August, I realized I needed to make into its own challenge and invited Nance and Ann to the team. Our final design team member to come along was Anne Marie...a darling. And thus, the Paper Player team was born. I love these ladies, even though I have never met them. They are all "Sweet Friends".

I wanted to play along with the CAS-ual Friday crew and their polka dot challenge! I went very clean and simple for this, I am trying so hard to get better at clean and simple! I hope they like my effort!!!

We hope that you will join the Paper Players Challenge this week! Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations!

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Lesley Croghan

Nance Leedy

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Stamping 411 and Colour Q

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you are enjoying your weekend. I have been stamping up a storm tonight, I wanted to make some special little cards for friends and family. I was looking for inspiration when I found the Colour Q Challenge and the Stamping 411 Sketch.

I made a birthday card for my sister in law, a "For You" card for a work colleague, a simple "hello" card and a "Because I Care" for a friend.

Thanks for stopping by! Any questions, please leave me a comment and I will answer them for you if I can.

Smiles,

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Paper Players Theme Challenge #58- School Daze Theme Challenge

This week at the Paper Players, Ann has a fun theme challenge for us! She is challenging us to create a project based on "School Daze". As a teacher, I know that school will be starting soon and I wanted to make a special card for the staff I worked with last year, to help them celebrate the start of the new school year! I thought this sentiment from "Pursuit of Happiness" was the perfect sentiment for a group of teachers.

I also inked up another new set called "Fruit and Flowers". As soon as I saw this set in the catalogue I knew I had to have it! I love the apple image and inked it up in "Poppy Parade" (you must know by now that I LOVE this colour) and "Lucky Limeade" which is a new In Colour for 2011-2012. I highlighted the entire card with Chocolate Chip for contrast. I also used the School Lines single stamp to create the lines for my sentiment and to stamp the background of the card.

I also finished off the inside of the card with the School Lines stamp and another apple that I coloured with markers and huffed. The apple on the front is nested in the 1 3/4" Circle Punch and the 2 3/8" Circle Punch. Can you see the school lines on the front of the card too?