Claire Creates Cards

Sunday, January 13, 2019

Smile SSC196 and PP424

January 13, 2019

It's Sunday and time for new challenges at The Paper Players and Sunday Stamps!

The fabulous SS sketch is by Annette and the beautiful PP color combo is chosen by our hostess, Anne Marie! Oh, there are endless possibilities with both of these challenges. We sure hope you will play along!

My card is created on a white card base. I sponged Daffodil Delight and Grapefruit Grove inks on a white panel. I used a sunburst embossing folder to create a huge sunshine. The white rectangle strip was stenciled using Pool Party ink and a sponge. I backed the sentiment panel with Pool Party and used the Casual Friday Smile stamp set. I used Grapefruit Grove to stamp the word smile and black ink for the rest of the sentiment. I added a few enamel dots to complete the card. I am sending this to a friend that is battling cancer. I hope it makes her smile! It was made with love!

Challenge Rules: Paper Players Challenge

1. Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.
2. Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
3. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
4. Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL.
Entries linked to more than 3 challenges, including ours, will be deleted without notification!

5. All stamping products are welcome.
Have Fun!

Challenge Guidelines For Sunday Stamps:

Feel free to use any brand of product you have.
The colors from this challenge MUST be the primary colors on your project.
Please Link up a new project created for this challenge (no back links).
Feel free to combine our challenge with up to FOUR other challenges.
We reserve the right to delete any links that do not adhere to challenge rules.
Please provide a link to us or use the graphic above in your post.
Have Fun!!!

The challenge will end on Friday, January 25th@ 6pm EST.

Don't forget to check out all the amazing projects from the Design Team.

The Paper Players Design Team

Claire Broadwater

Jaydee
Laurie Schmidt

Wanda Cullen

Sunday Stamps Design Team

Amy Koenders

Annette Elliott

Claire Broadwater (me)

Monika Reeck

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. Please leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!

HUGS
Claire

Saturday, January 12, 2019

LOVE FMS 370

January 12, 2019

It is chilly here today, so I had time to make a card for the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge. This week's sketch is courtesy of the talented Jen Timko. I have always loved their challenges and just never find a lot of time to play. So happy to share my card today!

My card is created on a white card base. I used a retired MFT Blueprints die set to cut the red scalloped piece and the black and white X's. I found this paper in my Valentine stash. The LOVE is cut in white and red using the Cherry Lynn Bohemian Word

die. I cut the little candy conversation hearts out of white, red and pink paper using the Cherry Lynn Sweetheart Candy Dies. Such an easy card to put together!

A big thank you for stopping by my blog today!

HUGS!

Claire

Sunday, January 6, 2019

Friends Warm My Heart PP423

January 6, 2019

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!! So happy to be back creating cards and blogging. I enjoyed my time off with lots of family and friends over the holidays.
These are a few of my favorite moments.

It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at The Paper Players! It's our first challenge of 2019 and we hope you will play along. We are so excited to have Wanda Cullen and Su Mohr join us as our new Guest Designers. They are both so talented and we know you will enjoy their creations each week.

The amazing Ann is our hostess and she has a FUN theme challenge for all of us! Anyone that knows or follows Ann is aware that she owns the most beautiful Boxers you have ever seen! She is an animal lover and wants us to add an animal to our cards! There are so many possibilities. We can't wait to see your ideas!

I used a Crumb Cake card base for today's card. My card is created using the items in the new Simon Says Stamp January Kit--Snow Much. There are so many fun items in this kit. I used the patterned papers for all the papers in my card. I stamped the little bird using Honey Bee Stamps Snow Birds. I used the matching dies to cut him out. I colored him with Copic Markers and paper pieced his scarf with one the plaids in the SSS kit.

The sentiment is stamped using the same set in Versa Fine black ink. I cut a fishtail banner and added dimensionals behind it. I found this snowflake die in my stash. I am sorry, I don't know where it is from. I added three white snowflakes around the circles that were cut using the SugarPea Designs Zig Zag circle dies. I added retired navy candy dots from SU on the sentiment banner and the center of the snowflakes.

In the New Year, I am going to try to finish the inside of my cards and make matching envelopes. It is so much easier to get the cards in the mail if you do this.

Challenge Rules:

Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
Please be considerate of our requests; entries that do not follow any of these rules will be deleted without notification.
Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!