Moseying Merry Monday Moose

Good Merry Monday morning, my friends.

As you can see, our Nina chose this week's challenge.

I took the inspiration picture quite lieterally and used the 

only moose stamp I have.

I was happy with how it turned out.

Now it's your turn.

First, you need to check out the rest of the Design Team's cards.

They are fantastic!

You can find them at

Merry Monday.

Hope you'll join us this week!

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  The Pines (retired SU), Mixed Christmas Sentiments (Happy Little Stampers)

Ink:  Baked Brown Sugar, Smoky Slate, Whisper White (all SU)

Paper:  Naturals White (retired SU), Cherry Cobbler, Vellum, Real Red (SU)

Other: Woodland EF (SU), Stampin' Sponge, White Embossing Powder (SU), Cherry Cobbler BAker's Twine (SU), Birch Die (IO)

Father's Day

A quick share with my Father's Day cards.

Remember last week's Merry Monday sketch?  I tried to use trees as the banners and it didn't work out.  I might add that several of you did use trees and they worked out beautifully!  You can check out the gallery here.

Have I mentioned that DH thinks there needs to be a tree and/or duck or goose on all his cards?  Yeah, I thought so.  So he see's these geese a lot!  There's 3 for our 3 daughters.  He's such a wonderful Dad and Pop Pop!

And I hesitate to even share this one.  I bought this set of stamps at a sale and I had some trouble getting this chickadee to look right.  If nothing else you can see what not to do.

This is the second one I did.  LOL, the first one looked like he had a broken wing.  I sent this one to my Dad who loved getting the mail but didn't notice the imperfections.  What a blessing that I've had such a wonderful Dad!

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Lovely as a Tree, The Pines

Ink:  Old Olive, Cool Caribbean, Certainly Celery, Tuxedo Black (Memento)

Paper:  Naturals White, Handsome Hunter, Whisper White

Other:  Simply Scored

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Birds (MS), Sanded, Something to Celebrate

Ink:  Tuxedo Black (Memento), Sahara Sand, Soft Sky, SU Markers (Basic Black, Basic Gray, Peach Parfait, Handsome Hunter)

Paper:  Whisper White, Handsome Hunter

Other:  Ovals Framelits, Woodgrain EF

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

Quite a Pair

I have a really simple card for you tonight.

I finally got to play with the Saturday challenges.

Dynamic Duos 

Less is More

UP IN THE AIR

CAS-ual Fridays

I masked an area and sponged using a scallop strip as a template for clouds, removed the mask and scored along the edges of the sponging.

All that was left was to stamp the geese.  There are actually 3 geese on this stamp but I only inked 2 since I thought I would use it as an anniversary card for my hubby this year.  I've told you how he thinks everything should have a duck on it.  Geese are close and they mate for life.  Like we did.  Our anniversary isn't for several months, but it will be ready when it rolls around.

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Pines (retired), Teeny, Tiny Wishes

Ink:  Tempting Turquoise, Tuxedo Black (Memento), SU Marker (Basic Black) 

Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black

Other:  Stampin' Sponge, Simply Scored, Large Scallop Edgelit (for template)

I hope you've had a great day and found some time to stamp.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

DSP times 3

I love Designer Series Paper. I love it so much that I hoard it and rarely use it. It always looks so pretty in the case and I think I'll use it, but then it looks a bit too busy for my Simple taste. Well this time, I went all out!

On SCS the Dirty Dozen had all kinds of challenges last week. It was mind boggling. After Wednesday, I was so full of challenges, that I had to stop. I am definitely not the Queen of Challenges! But this one, to use two or even 3 different Decorative Papers, was a challenge I had to try my hand at. I wasn't sure I could do it.

But ta dah! I DID IT!

This moose is from the Pines stamp set. He's been retired a couple of years now. He was hiding in the BOX and I just happened to have 3 different papers in brown. I used Tangerine Tango (now that's new) behind all the pieces except the back piece. All that brown needed a little brightening up. I don't know what sets the paper came from but it is all Stampin' Up!

Here's a closeup of the Happy Birthday circle with the Neutrals small, jumbo brad in the center. The stamp is from the Wow Flowers set. Sorry, it's retired too.

Seeing all that DSP in my case seeing all that pretty new DSP in the 2010-2011 Idea Book and Catalog got me to thinking. I will have to have a DSP party and offer some layouts and just let everyone go creative with all that paper. Sound like fun? I've got retired accessories that need to be used up too. We'll just have ourselves a Retirement Party! Now all I have to do is find a day to do it. I'll let you know.

I'm going to take a quick break and then post another challenge card.

I'll be back.

Bonnie

Christmas in this Heat?

It's hard to think of Christmas when it's soooo HOT outside. Thank God we have AC and it's working!

Susan chose Christmas for her One Layer Wednesday Challenge this week. You can visit her blog and see what's showing up there by clicking here.

I did two. This is the second one. It took about 10 minutes if you don't count the 45 minutes it took to do the other one that I didn't like.

This was so simple and I liked the way it turned out.

The pine bough is from the Autumn Days set. I inked it with Soft Suede & Garden Green SU Markers and stamped on a Naturals White card. I did use the Stamp-a-ma-jig for placement for this as well as the sentiment. I can still manage to stamped crooked when I use that thing! This time I did pretty good. BTW, the Merry Christmas is from A Cardinal Christmas set.

The bow is from a piece of Christmas wrapping cord tied in a bow and attached with a glue dot.


Now for the one that took so long.

I traced a 1" circle on the Naturals White card with a pencil and stamped the pine spray from the Pines set. This is a retired set that I still use from time to time.

The pine needles are stamped with Garden Green. The berries are from the Autumn Days set and I used a Real Red Marker to ink a few berries and stamped around.

I didn't do a very good job on leaving an opening on the inside and I felt like it needed a little something else, so I pulled out the Extra Large Bird Punch and punched the bird & wing out of scraps of leftover Christmas paper. The sentiment is from the Warm Words set (also retired) and stamped in Real Red. I used one of the tiny pearls that SU offers now for the eye.

Now that I'm finished, the wreath doesn't look so bad but I still like the single spray better.

I've got to go and post this on Susan's blog.

Christmas is right around the corner! Hopefully it will cool off a lot by then!

Enjoy,
Bonnie