Nutty Day

 The Paper Players challenge this week, PP751, was to create a card and include a critter of some kind.

After searching through my various stamps, I came across "Chipmunk & Squirrel" stamp set by Altenew.

I decided on the little chipmunk because he looked so cute holding his little acorn. I colored him with colored pencils, along with the tree stump and the two little grass/rocks images and die cut everything out.

I embossed a piece of white cardstock with "Birch-Fades" embossing folder by Sizzix.  Then I went over it lightly with Sand Castle ink by Catherine Pooler.  I backed that up with some light green cardstock before attaching to my white card base.

The sentiment comes from the same Altenew stamp set.

Flowery Thank You

 It's Sunday evening and I am finishing up a card for Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #699.

For this card I used a die set by Penny Black called "Flower Circle".  It comes with the sentiment Thank You that is a die to cut out.  The background paper is from a very old paper pack from Momenta called Cardstock Mats.  I cut the Thank You die out of Mixed Metals Glitter Paper from Scrapbook.com and added a stem from "Aquatic Plants" by Creative Expressions.

Shell-ebrate

 Today I put together a water theme card for The Paper Players Challenge PP749.  I have so many water, beach, pool type stamps and dies that it was hard to choose.  I ended up going with dies by Impression Obsession: Fish Net and Shell Border.  Unfortunately, Impression Obsession has gone out of business. 😞

The sentiment that I used is from a Pink & Main stamp set called "Shell-ebrate".

Relaxing Summer Day

 Today I got a chance to play with Honey Bee Stamps "Lovely Layers: At The Beach" for the sketch FMS #698.  The sentiment is also by Honey Bee Stamps from the set "Flippin' Fabulous".  This card has all the things one would need for a relaxing summer day at the beach.

Coffee Please

 Cutting it close to the cut-off deadline for Freshly Made Sketches #697.  I decided to use a digital stamp by Mo's Digital Pencil.  I've had this image for a while and have used it a couple of times on some cards that I made. For this card, I colored the image with colored pencils and fussy cut it out.

The sentiment I used is by Picket Fence Studios called "Coffee in Hand".  She does look like she's enjoying her coffee. 😊

Birthday Fishes

 I made this birthday card for my son-in-law.  His birthday is August 4th.

He is into fish and aquariums, so I decided to make an aquarium with fish in it.  I used three of the Lovely Layers sets by Honey Bee Stamps: Fish, Tank and Tank Aquarium Add-On.  Let me tell you, putting the pieces together was time consuming, but I do like the way it turned out.  It was worth all the die cutting and gluing.  The sentiment I used is from the Waffle Flower set called "Under the Sea Sentiments".  I added a few clear Nuvo Drops to get a bubbles affect.