Sending Thanksgiving Wishes The Paper Players 416

October 28, 2018

It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at  The Paper Players!
The Amazing Anne Marie  is our hostess this week and she has a fabulous Sketch Challenge for all of us!  Have fun and we can't wait to see what you create!  Oh, the possibilities are endless with this fabulous sketch!  

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  I love that it is all about family, friends and food!  I used a Early Expresso card base for my card.  I used a variety of Fall patterned DSP that I found in my stash.  I backed each layer with Early Expresso to make it pop off the barn red background.  I used the SugarPea Designs Indian Summer stamp set.  The little raccoons, tepee and sentiment are all from this set.  I colored them with Copic Markers and cut them out with the matching dies.  Wink of Stella was added for shine. 

Looking for some inspiration?  Make sure you check out all the blogs of the Design Team Members.

 Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.

                                                

Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us. 

1. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
2. 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!
3. Have fun!

The Paper Players Design Team
Claire Broadwater
Jaydee
Anne Marie Hile
Joanne James
Laurie Schmidt
LeAnne Pugliese
Sandy Mathis
Annie Abrahamson (on break)
Jan Clothier
Elizabeth Stewart

All stamping products are welcome.  Thank you for joining us at The Paper Players!

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

HUGS!

Claire

Trick or Treat Sketch Saturday #537

Good Morning Everyone and Happy Saturday!

It's the last Saturday of the month, so once again we're looking for our monthly Guest Designer!!

Requirements:

- Must participate in all challenges for the month (weekly, 4-5 challenges)

- Responsible for emailing completed project by Thursday (2 days before challenge is posted)

- Card must follow the sketch for the week

- You will be emailed all shared digis the team was provided for the month, use of sponsor images is not required but HIGHLY encouraged

If you are interested, please put GDT after your name when you enter/link up on this week's challenge.  Please keep in mind we only have guest designers periodically, so if you are not picked right away please don't be discouraged!!

Now onto our challenge!!

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We have a great sponsor this week:

The Paper Nest Dolls!

The Paper Nest Dolls has lots of fantastic stamps, digis and more! Here is their blog.

The Paper Nest Dolls has generously offered 3 digital stamps of the winner's choice.

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Here is Sketch #537

My card is created on a black card stock square base.  (5 X 5)  I added a layer of polka dot paper from my stash. 

The two black layers of haunted borders are from Craftin Desert Divas.  I used the Harvest Borders Dies and cut two black borders.  
I added a few black bat stickers and the sentiment is a sticker I had in a pack of Halloween goodies.  No stamping requires on this card.  Don't you love it?

Thank you for stopping by my blog!  Don't forget to visit all the DT blogs for lots of inspiration!  We sure hope you will play along with us!  

HUGS!

Claire

Ho Ho Ho Keeping Christmas

October 25, 2018

WOW!  Only 2 months until Christmas!  Time to get started on your stash!

I am honored to be a part of the Keeping Christmas Inspiration Blog Hop.  

It's time for this month's installment of Keeping Christmas with The Challenge Design Team!  We will be sharing Christmas creations on the 25th of each month!!!

The whole idea is to have some Christmas cards and projects in our stash ready to go for December 2018!

So hop along and be sure to visit each blog. 

There is a lot of inspiration and ideas to get your creative juices flowing!

Kelly Lunceford

Lesley Croghan (off this month)

Anita Madden

Broni Holcombe

Claire Broadwater (me)

Julee Tilman

Kim Heggins 

Lori Tecler

Nance Salkeld

Nina Forsyth

I had a lot of fun creating these four cards.  

My base cards are all a shade of green.  The paper was in my stash, so I am not sure what the correct color is.  I cut four white backgrounds using the Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die.  

  

Next, I used white paper and sponged Cracked Pistachio, Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry, and Salty Ocean 

Distress Oxide inks on four different pieces.  I used the Ho Ho Ho Die from My Favorite Things and cut the words out of each color of distressed paper.  

I mixed the colors to create the cards.  This was a super quick way to make four fun cards!.

 I hope these make your smile! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts.  I love to hear from you!

The hop is hosted by the fabulous Kelly Lunceford's blog, so head over there to start from the beginning.

ENJOY the blog hop!  I hope we inspired you to make a few cards, too!

HUGS!

Claire

Witch Way To The Candy? SS190

October 21, 2018

It's time for a new challenge at Sunday Stamps!!

We have a fabulous sketch for all of you!  This sketch is perfect for any type of card.  We can't wait to see your creations! 

Challenge Guidelines

• Feel free to use any brand of product you have. 
• 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 Friday, November 2nd 2 6 p.m. EST

My card is created on a black card base.  I added a layer of Lemon Lime card stock.  I found this cat DSP in my stash for the next layer.  The black rectangle is embossed with a bat embossing folder for texture.  I used rectangle stitched dies to cut a frame out of the lemon lime card stock.  The little cat is from the Simon Says Stamp Frightful Fun stamp set.  I stamped the image with Memento black ink and fussy cut it for my card.  I colored the image with Copic Markers and added Wink of Stella for shine.  A few grey enamel dots were added for fun! 

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

  Sunday Stamps Design Team

Amy Koenders

Annette Elliott

Claire Broadwater (me)

Heidi Baks

Heather Heroldt

Lisa Johansen

Melissa Grant

Monika Reeck

Teresa Kline (taking a break)

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

HUGS!

Claire

How Do You Like Them Apples? PP415

October 21, 2018

It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at The Paper Players!

Our amazing Joanne is the hostess this week and she has a fantastic Clean and Simple Challenge for all of us!  She wants us to use apples!  Fall is the perfect season for apples, so we can't wait to see what you create!  Just remember it is a CAS week!

I have hundreds of stamps, but can you believe this is the only apple stamp I could find!  I have always loved this stamp set be SugarPea Designs.  The A Bushel & A Peck set is still available and on sale right now!  You can change out the items in the basket for different occasions, too!  This little girl makes me smile.  I stamped her with Memento Black ink and colored her with Copic Markers.  I fussy cut her for my card.  The little sign stamp is in this set and the fun sentiment, too.  I thought this would be perfect  to thank one of my grands teachers!  I struggle with CAS, so I hope Joanne will think I am clean and simple with my patterned papers and white space.  I found these patterns in a pack of school papers in my stash. I did not add any embellishments.  That is such a challenge for me!  LOL!  I added a lemon lime circle cut with the Zig Zag  circle stitched die from SugarPea Designs.  Wink of Stella was added for shine.  I also added some details on the apples and her teeth with a white gel pen.  

Looking for some inspiration?  Make sure you check out all the blogs of the Design Team Members.

 Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.

                                                

Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us. 

1. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
2. 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!
3. Have fun!

The Paper Players Design Team
Claire Broadwater (me)
Jaydee
Anne Marie Hile
Joanne James
Laurie Schmidt
LeAnne Pugliese
Sandy Mathis
Annie Abrahamson  (off this week)
Jan Clothier
Elizabeth Stewart

All stamping products are welcome.  Thank you for joining us at The Paper Players!

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

HUGS!

Claire

Thinking of You PP414

October 14, 2018

It's Sunday and time for a new challenge at  The Paper Players!

The amazing Jaydee is our hostess this week and she has a fabulous color challenge for all of us!  Have fun and we can't wait to see what you create!

My card is created on a Very Vanilla card base.  I added a top layer of gold foil to cover the front of the card.  I used the new Simon Says Stamps Sketched Flowers stamp set.  I used Versa Mark Ink on the stamp and stamped it on Very Vanilla card stock.  I heat embossed the flowers and sentiment in gold embossing powder.  I used Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadows and Crushed Curry inks with an Aqua Painter to color the leaves and flowers.  I watered the Mossy Meadows down a lot and colored the background.  I added some sequins to complete the card.  I love the way this turned out.  Such a gorgeous color combo for Fall! 

Looking for some inspiration?  Make sure you check out all the blogs of the Design Team Members.

 Create a NEW paper, or digital, project.

                                                

Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us. 

1. Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
2. 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!
3. Have fun!

The Paper Players Design Team
Claire Broadwater (me)
Jaydee
Anne Marie Hile
Joanne James
Laurie Schmidt
LeAnne Pugliese
Sandy Mathis
Annie Abrahamsson  (off this week)
Jan Clothier
Elizabeth Stewart

All stamping products are welcome.  Thank you for joining us at The Paper Players!

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

HUGS!

Claire

I Feel It In My Bones Sketch Saturday #535

October 13, 2018

Welcome to another week at Sketch Saturday!

We have one of our favorites joining us as sponsor this week.

Just Me Digital Stamps!!

The super prize offered this week is 

two digital stamps of the winner's choice.

                       Here is sketch #535:

                                             

My card is created on a purple card base.  I added a lemon-lime layer and then a rectangle of Halloween DSP.  The tags are cut out of the purple and lemon-lime papers using the SugarPea Designs Gift Tag Die.  I added a strip of black bat Halloween DSP to the tag.  I used the Halloween card set from Simon Says Stamp Fun Halloween for the sentiment and the skeleton.  Both are stamped with black ink.  I colored the skeleton with Copic Markers.  I used goggly eyes and black twine to complete my card.  

Thank you for stopping by my blog!  Don't forget to visit all the DT blogs for lots of inspiration!  We sure hope you will play along with us!  

HUGS!

Claire

Praying For You! PP413 and SSC 189

October 7, 2018

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

It is not often I can combine these challenges but, this week it worked out perfectly!   I hope you will play along with both challenges! 

The Sensational Sandy is our hostess at The Paper Players this week.  She has a fabulous Theme Challenge for us!  Trees and Leaves!  

The bright, vibrant color combo at Sunday Stamps is perfect for any type of card.  So have fun and get creative!  

 

                                                                                     Use a minimum of 3 colors and a neutral of your choice.



                                           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, October 19th @ 6pm EST. 

My card is created on a white card base.  I used Kraft for the next layer.  The Antique Frames die by Penny Black was used to cut out the watercolored panel.  I stamped the Stampin Up Sheltering Tree set to stamp the trees in black ink.  I used red, yellow and orange inks to stamp the leaves.  I used Pool Party ink to watercolor the background with an aqua brush.  The sentiment is stamped in black ink.  

Looking for some inspiration?  Make sure you check out all the blogs of the Design Team Members.  You won't be disappointed! 

The Paper Players Design Team

     Claire Broadwater

Jaydee

Anne Marie Hile
Ann Schach

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

LeAnne Pugliese

Sandy Mathis

Annie Abrahamson

Jan Clothier

Elizabeth Stewart

                                           

  Sunday Stamps Design Team

Amy Koenders

Annette Elliott

Claire Broadwater 

Heidi Baks

Heather Heroldt

Lisa Johansen

Melissa Grant

Monika Reeck

Teresa Kline

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

HUGS!

Claire