Posts Tagged With: Lighthearted Leaves

Stampin’ Up! Give Thanks Today for All Things and a Happy Stampers Blog Hop

Posted on November 26, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Happy Thanksgiving, my friends! I hope this post finds you well, and surrounded by your family and friends. And that your turkey thawed! 😉 I recall one quite memorable Thanksgiving many many years ago, when the turkey did not thaw, no matter what heroic efforts my parents attempted. These days, the options for dinner on Thanksgiving are many, but back in the dark ages when this took place….not so much. Denny’s was the only option. And they were out of turkey! Perhaps that’s the year I developed a taste for not-turkey on Thanksgiving – and on Christmas, too, for that matter. Whatever your choice for dinner – I hope that preparations are well under way!

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The Happy Stamper Ladies-Who-Hop have gathered their projects to share with you this Thanksgiving Thursday. I know they’ve all worked hard to bring wonderful cards to you, so be sure to cruise thru all of their blogs, okay?

Here’s our design inspiration – this week was a sketch challenge!

My share is a conglomeration of the old and the new. I used the wonderful For All Things, Vintage Leaves, Lighthearted Leaves and a soon-to-be-released 2016 Occasions Catalog set called Apple of My Eye (we ALL got one of these at OnStage Live – it was quite cool!!). Take a look-see:

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Categories: Fall, Thanksgiving | Tags: Apple of My Eye, Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, For All Things, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Leaflets Framelits, Lighthearted Leaves, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Vintage Leaves | 11 Comments

Stampin’ Up! A “Light”hearted Leaves Card!

Posted on November 6, 2015 by stampsnlingers

It’s Friday! And I’m almost on my way home. Whoo-hoo! It’s been an interesting trip. Good that I came – I think they need my help, whether they know it or not!! 😉

But, I’m for sure looking forward to my Tempurpedic bed. I believe this one is a piece of plywood. With a mattress cover! From the Dollar Store. Sheesh. Definitely not the best Hampton I’ve ever stayed in – definitely will be the last time I stay here.

Got some good news today – my travel for my trip to Yuma (a 30 day adventure – did I tell you they have killer bees there!?!? Some kind of mutant bee that gets pretty pissy pretty quick. Can’t wait!) was approved today. Yeah?? That gave me the chance to go ahead and book my flight. Thankfully, there was one middle seat left. So I got it.

I hope the sarcasm came thru….

But – that’s neither here nor there. Today’s all about another glowing card!

I couldn’t help it. I had a piece of the Crumb Cake card stock left over, just the right size for a petite little fun fold card. I loved the first one I did so much that I just had to do another one. And this one uses Lighthearted Leaves – a stamp set that seems made for this kind of card. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Fall, For You, Thank You Cards, Thinking Of You | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, Glowing Window Card, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Into the Woods DSP, Leaflets, Lighthearted Leaves, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers | 6 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Lighthearted Leaves for the Happy Stampers Blog Hop!

Posted on October 22, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Good Blog-Hop-Thursday-Morning to y’all! I hope you’re ready for some beautiful projects from all the Ladies-Who-Hop. This week was a color challenge….

Perfect perfect perfect colors for Fall cards – so, I know that everyone is going to just “wow” the socks off of us all. If you’re not wearing socks – I’ll wait while you go put some on. It’s Fall! And getting chilly. You’ll catch your death of cold without socks on!

Anywhooo….before I share my project with you today, I’d like to introduce you to a little dude that we came upon whilst putting the horses out last night. By the way – the night was so perfectly beautiful – you could smell the leaves on the ground, a little woodsmoke and perhaps someone burning a few leaves. Just cool enough for a light jacket. If you Googled “Fall in GA” – last night would have come up! Just wonderful!

Yikes – off on a tangent again! Here’s the little dude:

According to Google – that’s a Cope’s Gray Tree Frog. He’s just tiny – not as long as the fingers on my hand. As opposed to the fingers on my foot? Sheesh, Mare. He stayed right there while we put the horses out thru the gate he was resting on, and shut said gate. Must have been just chilly enough to make him sleepy – his little eyes were at half-mast and kept blinking like – “what? Huh? I’m the same color as this smooth tree I’m on. Why can you see me?”. I love how he’s got his little frog-hands and frog-feet all tucked up under him!

So, now that you’ve met him, let’s talk cards – since that’s why you’re here! My Blog Hop share uses the beautiful Lighthearted Leaves, a sentiment from Watercolor Wishes and my very favorite thing….the Woodland TIEF. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Fall, Happy Birthday | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Leaflets Framelits, Lighthearted Leaves, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Watercolor Wishes, Woodland TIEF | 18 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Grateful for Lighthearted Leaves!

Posted on October 11, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Well, no Martian for us yesterday. Planning on it today, for sure! We did get to Costco – not to worry, they have a FEW things left! Our “real” Costco was summarily changed to a “business” center (read – “faux Costco!) last year. Now to get to the “real” one, we have to GO NORTH. And it’s just about that traumatic that it has to be all caps! It’s a significant emotional event for us on a normal day. Add in rain. Add in freeway construction. Add in a couple of accidents. The final tally yielded a day that was nightmare-fun-nightmare! But, the difficulty getting there means that when we DO go….well. We make it worth our while, if you catch my meaning! Let’s just say – it’s helpful to have a mini-van…. 😉

Anywho – today’s share is a Fall-y card that uses one single stamp from Lighthearted Leaves – and the “grateful” thinlit from the Seasonal Frame Thinlits dies. And the glorious and wonderful Kraft Corrugated Paper!! Take a look-see:

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Categories: Thank You Cards | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Leaflets, Lighthearted Leaves, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, Seasonal Frame Thinlits, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers | 6 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Lighthearted Leaves Super Simple Thank You!

Posted on September 28, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Well, as anticipated, the night sky was not visible for us last night. So we missed the most-Super of the 2015 Super Moons AND the super-rare Total Lunar Eclipse of said Super Moon. Perhaps we’ll still be around in 2033 and will get to see it then. If any of you saw it – was it completely awesome?!?! I SO wanted to see it!! 🙁

Today’s share is a super simple card to make. It takes a little bit of time to make 8 of them like I did – cause of how you get to color! I just used the Lighthearted Leaves, Watercolor Wishes and the Tin of Cards stamp sets, and added some color from 4 Fall-centric colors in the 2014-2016 In Color suite: Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Tangelo Twist and Mossy Meadow. Take a look-see:

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Categories: Thank You Cards | Tags: Atlanta, Atlanta GA, card making, card making supplies, Demonstrator, Fairburn, Fayetteville GA, Georgia, hand made card, Hand Made Cards, handmade card, Holiday Catalog, Lighthearted Leaves, Paper crafting, Peachtree City, Peachtree City GA, stamps, Stamps-n-lingers, StampsnLingers, Tin of Cards, Watercolor Wishes | 12 Comments

Stampin’ Up! Lighthearted Leaves Welcome Fall!

Posted on August 26, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Good morning – and Happy Hump Day! It’s Wednesday, which means I’m half way thru my business trip and almost ready to go back home.

Except for how I’m writing this on Tuesday afternoon. Lying on my bed in the hotel. Awaiting time to go back out to dinner.

WARNING: This is a bit long-ish, so….if you’re in a hurry, scroll right on by this next part until you see the card share for today! 🙂

Have you guys noticed that I’m a bit of a …. how do you say it??…..stick in the mud? Home-body? A morning person? If you haven’t, let me share that news with you now. I am NOT at my best in the evening (and that’s pretty much any time after about 6:30pm). Here’s a totally normal evening for us – and it’s a routine that I love with every fiber of my being. I’m sorry. I like our routine. I don’t care for it being disrupted. In some regards, I may well be 92 years old. God help whoever has to take care of my crotchety self if and when I ever really AM 92 years old. And tread lightly if you’re going to change anything in my day-to-day-routine! 😉

We eat dinner between 5 and 6. We usually watch a recorded show whilst we eat (yes yes, I know. Bad for the diet. Bad for….well, everything. Got it).

We feed the horses.

We come back inside.

We make sure we re-set the kitty feeder bowls.

We watch the World News Tonight with David Sawyer. Pre-recorded. We aren’t partial to commercials. We have a pretty solid idea how far behind we have to be in order to not ever catch up while we watch the show. It’s a matter of pride to never have to watch a commercial.

We watch one pre-recorded show.

I’m tired and I take a shower. Wayne takes a shower. We go to bed.

On a “late” night – this occurs at around 9.

Yea – we’re night-owls.

So here’s the point of this written perambulation.

When I’m away from home and staying in a hotel, my routine has been disrupted. Like – a lot. When I get back to the hotel in the evening, I’d better have already eaten or have take-out. Cause….I’m there. And thinking about bed.

Except tonight, I’m going out to dinner with some friends I don’t get to see except when I come here for meetings. But, it’s going to take everything I’ve got….. cause….yep. Stick in the mud.

And – it’s practically bedtime!

So, I’m going to keep myself in busy mode by doing my blog post for tomorrow morning now – cause when I get BACK from dinner, it really WILL be bedtime!

This is a simple and easy card to make. I found the technique in the new 2015 Holiday Catalog, and modified it to suit what I was after. It uses Lighthearted Leaves (1 Sept!) and For All Things – a wonderful classic in the Annual Catalog. Take a look-see:

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Stampin’ Up! Lighthearted Leaves Come Home for Christmas

Posted on August 19, 2015 by stampsnlingers

Welcome to Wednesday! For today, I have a lovely stamp set to showcase for you – one that is in the Holiday Catalog. Which means it’ll be avaialble to you on 1 Sept. Which is exactly 13 days away. That’s like a blink! If you have a catalog, are you busily marking your wishlist? If you are, and you didn’t put this set on the list – I think you might want to reconsider!

This is the only stamp set I used today. I also used some of the new Designer Series Paper – Home for Christmas to be exact – which you’ll get 6 – 6″ x 6″ pieces of if you order a Paper or I Want it All Catalog share. See below for the deets! And go to the 2015 Holiday Catalog Shares page to see everything that’s in this pack of DSP.

So – I combined the paper, the stamp set, and my new fave, the Woodland TIEF and this is what I got. Take a look-see: