You are the Nicest - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #275

The theme with the sketch challenge with Try Stampin' on Tuesday is Sun and Sand. Please note I turned the sketch on its side.

Here is what I came up with:

•  The base cardstock is Crumb Cake, layered with Whisper White, and then Crumb Cake DSP with a strip of scalloped crumb cake trim adhered to the long end.
•  A smaller image rectangle features the images from several stamp sets - the Sandpipers from Wetlands in Soft Suede; the Crumb Cake sand from Work of Art, and the sky colours (So Saffron, Soft Sky ) from Work of Art.
• A crumb cake scalloped trim is adhered to the lower end.
• All edges are sponged with Soft Suede cardstock

Peeking out from under the left edge of the smaller image piece is tucked a  Starfish.  This was created using 2 step stamping (Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand), cut out, the edges sponged with Soft Suede, and the surface embossed with clear embossing powder. It is from the stamp set "Picture Perfect"

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Wetlands, Work of Art, Picture Perfect
Inks: Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Soft Sky, So Saffron
Papers: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Crumb Cake DSp
Accessories: Clear Embossing Powder, Scallop border punch

A Fall Scene - The Paper Players #263

One thing I have a hard time with is creating clean and simple cards.  I tend to fuss too much, and add some things to the card, then I add some more and before I know it the card is beyond clean and simple.
The challenge with The Paper Players is to make a clean and simple card with the theme of a fall scene.
I think I accomplished the task, but my Obsessive Compulsive self is telling me to do something else with this card.  However, I am not.

• The base card is Old Olive cardstock, layered with Whisper White.  On the Whisper white, I used the Stamp set "Work of Art" to lay down 3 colours:  Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, and Marina Mist.
  The fall image from "Happy Scenes" was stamped over top of these colours.
  The sentiment is from Happy Scenes as well.
  
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Father's Day Double Side Step Card

It took me a while to figure this card fold out, but the tutorial by Dana and Sabrina was very helpful.  I decided to make this double side step card into a Father's Day card, and use one of the stamp sets "Walk in the Wild" that is retiring.

The basic cardstock is Soft Suede which I cut and scored as directed in the tutorial.
The images were stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock, matted with Basic Black.  The edges of all Very Vanilla cardstock were sponged with Soft Suede ink.

On the left panel, the image of the goose from "Wetlands" was stamped with Memento ink, and then masked the goose to stamp the sea grass in Old Olive behind it.  At the bottom I stamped the multi circle edge stamp in soft Suede.  I coloured the goose with blendabilities.
At the upper left corner, the sun, from "Kinda Eclectic" was stamped with Hello Honey.
Then with a sponge, I lightly sponged the sky with Marina Mist ink.

The first think I did on the right panel to use a stamp from "Work of Art" in Soft Suede ink in two places.  Above that another stamp from the same stamp set was stamped in Marina Mist ink.  Then the sandpipers from "Wetlands" was stamped in Early Espresso ink.  I also stamped the same edge stamp on the bottom of this panel.
Using a sponge, the sky was first coloured with Marina Mist ink, and then Blushing Bride.

The Moose, from "Walk in the Wild" was stamped with Memento ink on Very Vanilla on the middle panel.  The leaf from "Kinda Eclectic" was stamped using Pear Pizzaz twice on the upper left, after which the sky was lightly sponged with Marina Mist.  The image and grass were coloured with blendabilities.
A butterfly from "Kinda Eclectic" was stamped in Marina Mist ink and punched with the Itty Butterfly punch, attached to the panel with a glue dot and rhinestones adhered to its middle.  I drew two antennae using a fine black pen.

Both sentiments are  from "Best Dad Ever".

The embellishment is a clay button made using SU clay and the button clay mold.  I coloured it with a Soft Suede marker and adhered a bow made with Early Espresso baker's twine.

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