Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the U.S.!  Thanksgiving is a time when I  give thanks for all my blessings. I also like to remember all of my loved ones we have lost and remember the wonderful Thanksgivings we had with them as well.  Wherever you are I hope you have a beautiful day with people you love.

This is my and Lisa Somerville's last week as part of the PDCC Design Team. It has been a wonderful time and I enjoyed playing along with the fun colors and the fabulous design team. 
We were lucky enough to be able to select some beautiful stamps from our sponsor this week Stamp Attack.

Here is my card created using the fun colors and the lovely stamps.

I wanted to try something different with the same colors and created this wintry scene.

Here is the inspiration photo from Sarah:

Head over to the Play Date Cafe Challenge. Our sponsor this week is Stamp Attack they are providing our wonderful prize this week. 

The Play Date Cafe design team:

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Have a fabulous Thanksgiving!
Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #56

This week at the  Play Date Cafe Challenge is Player Appreciation Week. We have three sponsors and multiple guest designers and prizes.  We really appreciate the fantastic players who join us in the challenge every week. This week is a celebration of all the great players we have. 

Here is my card using the fun colors this week:

The papers are Cosmo Cricket and the stamps are Artistic Outpost - Snowy Woods.
We were also  provided stickers from EAD , who is one of our sponsors this week. Here is my projects using the stickers and the colors. 

Here is the inspiration photo:

Our sponsors  and guest designers this week are:

EAD and the guest designer is Amy Costello

Discount Cardstock and the guest designer is Tami Mayberry

Wilson Designs and the guest designer is the owner Kim Wilson

The Play Date Cafe design team:

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Have a wonderful Thursday!
Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #53 - Color Splash

It is a color splash week at the Play Date Cafe Challenge!  Sarah selected the colors and the inspiration photo for the challenge.

We were lucky enough to receive some beautiful stamps from Mark's Finest Papers to use in our projects this week.  They sent us Flourishes and Frame Set with some gorgeous flourishes, frames and sentiments.

I created this card using the stamps from the set. I apologize as my ribbon looks much lighter in my picture than it is in real life.

The second card I used some beautiful Toile pattern paper for the bottom but I did add one stamped feature. You will have to guess what it is. :)

and here is the beautiful photo for our inspiration:

Marks Finest Paper will also be providing a beautiful stamp set from their November release as our prize this week!
If you are looking for more inspiration, go and take a peek at the rest of the design teams projects!

The Play Date Cafe design team:

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Hope your Thursday is wonderful!
Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #51 - Christmas Gifts Galore

Another fun challenge this week hosted by Sarah at the Play Date Cafe!  We have wonderful sponsor so I ended up creating a few projects using their die cuts.  This is a picture of the complete set of projects.

Here is Sarah's wonderful picture for the color inspiration:

What serene lovely colors. Here are a few closeups of the projects.

I received a card with the Fancy Frame Window A2 card.  I decided to layer it onto another piece of Ocean Breeze.

The image is from Hero Arts  Christmas stamps. The embossing folder is Cuttlebug. The inks are Versamark, Hero Arts Shadow Ink Sand, Versafine Deep Lagoon. This project didn't end up using the minty green and doesn't have all  the colors for the challenge this week but does have the wonderful die cuts so I included it with my other projects.

The second project was the inspiration for all my projects as I had a cake box from the wedding die cuts and thought what a great Christmas Tree it would make.  I stamped the Hero Arts Christmas tree on the front and back using Versamark ink and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.

Sponge some blue dye ink and accent with beige and minty green pearls and you have an elegant Christmas Tree.

The next project was a beautiful Trapezoid box die cut. I stamped the Stampendous Holiday Quad Cube repeatedly using Versamark and heat embossed using white embossing powder. Then I created a little tag using Juniper Adirondack dye ink and Hero Arts stamp for the sentiment.

The last little tuck top cube box is adorable and was fun to emboss and decorate with tulle and snowflakes.

All the wonderful boxes and die cuts were provided by our sponsor this week Creative Cuts & More.
If you head over to place an order you can receive a 10% discount by using the code: CC&M10Lisa.

The design team all had different die cuts to play with and created some very inspiring projects. 

Play Date Cafe design team

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn

Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Have a lovely day! Looking forward to viewing all the entries this week, as always!

Suzz