It’s a new Retro Rubber Challenge!  It’s a color challenge to use a variety of purples and a cream/peachy/pink color.

I went with my usual CAS and die cut some sweaters.  I used my distress inks and blending tools to create variegated sweaters.  I love these dies – they are from a Swedish stamp company called Gummiapan.

I popped them up on a base of cream cardstock and added the sentiment from My Favorite Things Warmest Wishes from sometime before 2017.

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Supplies:  CS:  PTI cream and white.  Dies:  Gummiapan knitted sweaters.  PTI linen plate.  Stamps:  MFT warmest wishes (circa 2017).  Inks:  Distress – milled lavender, shaded lilac, tattered rose, Victorian velvet, dusty concord and villainous poison.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a fill in the blank!  This year, my crafting resolution is more ink blending and coloring!

I have been watching a lot of crafting videos lately and they have all been about ink blending and coloring.  I usually rely on my colored ink pads but these videos have inspired me to do more with my blending brushes, alcohol markers, colored pencils, watercolor pencils and watercolors.  Let’s hope my resolution holds out!

I went really clean and simple here by die cutting a background, a picket fence and an urn.  I used my inks and blenders to color the fence and urn, leaving the background white.  I did attempt to color the background but just couldn’t get the right color or look.

I popped the fence and urn up on the background and adhered to the kraft base.  I added a simple sentiment and was done.  What is your crafting resolution?

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Supplies:  CS:  PTI kraft and white.  Dies:  PTI linen plate.  Gummiapan antique urns, picket fence and worn paper note.  Stamps:  CB message me.  Inks:  Distress inks – antique linen and mermaid lagoon.

It’s a new Retro Rubber Challenge!  It’s a theme challenge to make a card with a winter theme.

I started by stamping and coloring this sweet snowman image.  Then I die cut and adhered him to some snowflake paper and popped that up on my card base.

I stamped the sentiment from Papertrey Ink’s Just Sentiments: Snow (2021) and die cut as well.  I added to the card, threw on some dots and was done!

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! white and iconic celebrations.  Dies:  PTI linen plate.  SU! spotlight on nature.  Stamps:  Unity casual winter hello.  PTI just sentiments snow (2021).  Inks:  SU! blends:  misty moonlight, poppy parade, gray granite and pumpkin pie.  Other:  SU! dots.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a color challenge to use berry burst, basic gray, smokey slate and peach pie.

I started by stamping and coloring this sweet donkey image.  I used peach pie on his nose and ears, smokey slate on him and berry burst for the flowers.

I die cut the image and then popped it up over a strip of basic gray dsp.  I stamped and die cut the sentiment, added to the image and was done!

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Supplies:  CS: SU! white and neutrals dsp.  Inks:  SU! blends berry burst, smokey slate and peach pie.  Stamps:  Unity darling donkey smiles.  Dies:  Unity stitched banners and grunge cuts.  PTI linen plate.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a fun sketch challenge!

This was such a great sketch!  So much so that I broke out my brand new SU! sea turtle stamp set.  Team member Jan Clothier is a champ at this set and after all of her beautiful cards – I had to have it!  (I just hope I did it justice!)

I started by running some white card stock thru my dotted circles embossing folder and my linen plate.  Then I die cut using my stitched rectangles.  I should have done this in reverse order because it flattened all my circles.  Lol.  Then I added some dsp and the twine.

I stamped the water and turtle, die cutting using the stitched rectangle and fussy cutting the turtle.  I added the sentiment and then put everything together according to the sketch.

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Supplies:  CS: SU! white and 2022-2024 in color dsp.  Stamps:  SU! sea turtle.  PTI floating by sentiments.  Inks:  SU! parakeet party and Tahitian tide.  Dies:  PTI linen plate.  SU! stitched rectangles.  SU! dotted circles embossing folder.  Other:  SU! parakeet party twine.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a speed challenge to make a card with fruit!

I dug out some old pear stamps and my pear pizzazz ink and paper – naturally.  I started the clock and set to work.  I cut down the card base, a piece of black and the white card front and ran them all through the linen plate.

I stamped random pears and only inked in one set of pears with the pear pizzazz and some crushed curry ink.  I stamped the sentiment and then used my washi punch on it and a piece of pear pizzazz.  I layered everything and was done.  With 2 seconds to spare.  I was sure I had more time than that left on the clock!  That ten minutes goes by fast in these speed challenges!

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! white, basic black and pear pizzazz.  Stamps:  W+9 punny produce – pears.  Inks:  SU! crushed curry and pear pizzazz.  Other:  SU! washi punch.  PTI linen plate.

It’s a new Retro Rubber Challenge!  It’s a theme challenge to make a card with camping or outdoor stamps and/or paper.

I made my card before I remembered the camping part of the challenge image.  So my jeep and surfboard are on their way to a beach camp out!

I stamped my jeep, board and sentiment and backed with a bit of blue chalk.  I used my Heidi Swapp stamp set from her Stamp Therapy class.  I have had the stamp set for over a year.  In the end, I kept to my CAS style with this one.

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Supplies:  CS:  PTI white.  Inks:  SU! Tahitian tide and parakeet party.  Stamps:  Heidi Swapp stamp therapy (had over a year).  Other:  PTI linen plate.  Chalk.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  It’s a fun sketch challenge!

I love a great sketch and this one is definitely open to interpretation.  I don’t know that I did it justice but my mind went to camping so I searched out some camping stamps and got started.  I stamped and colored my images before die cutting. 

The sentiment snugged up nicely with the car and trailer so that I didn’t have to ruin the clean lines of the Tahitian tide that I added underneath.  Just a nice pop of color all around!

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Supplies:  CS: SU! white and Tahitian tide.  Stamps:  Lawn Fawn happy trails.  Dies:  PTI linen plate.  MFT blueprints 20 and mini stitched scalloped rectangles.  Inks:  SU! stampin’ blends – parakeet party, bubble bath, Tahitian tide, lemon lolly, smokey slate and gray granite.

It’s a new Retro Rubber Challenge!  It’s a tic tac toe and I opted for sequins, summer and die cut.

I started by stamping the shells, bucket and thongs from my Lawn Fawn Life is Good stamp set from 2014.  I colored with my alcohol markers and then die cut.

I die cut the chair from SU! summer splash, adhered to the card base and then filled in the beachy stuff around it.  A quick sentiment and the sequins completed the card. 

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Supplies:  CS:  SU! white and summer splash.  Stamps:  LF life is good (2014).  Dies:  LF life is good.  SU! seasonal layers.  PTI linen plate.  Inks:  SU! stampin’ blends – calypso coral, peach pie, Tahitian tide, parakeet party, summer splash, petunia pop, lemon lolly and crumbcake.

It’s a new challenge at As You See It!  We have a recipe challenge to use an embossing folder, black, white, one other color and die cut.

I opted to stamp my image (in pretty in pink as my one other color) randomly on the white card stock.  Then I embossed with my tasteful texture embossing folder.

I stamped the sentiment, die cut it as well as the white card front.  Then I adhered the card front to the pretty in pink cardstock and then onto black.  Finally, I added a strip of black behind the sentiment to anchor everything together.

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Supplies:  CS: SU! white, black and pretty in pink.  Stamps:  SU! faith in nature.  Dies:  SU! stitched rectangles and tasteful texture embossing folder.  Inks:  SU! pretty in pink.