Reason for the Season for As You See It Challenges

Happy Friday to you all! I'm here in my youngest daughter's home, having a great visit with her and her family! My little grandsons are keeping me busy, but the days are full of laughter and fun!

Of course, Friday means another As You See It Challenge! Today is Challenge #106 and it is a sketch:

Great work, Amanda! They just keep on getting better all the time. Give this one a try!

For my version, I got out the new Reason for the Season stamp set, which has a 4 step stamp sequence in it for the poinsettia. I also used some new Designer Series Paper - Season of Cheer!

• Look at the richness of that Designer Series paper! The Season of Cheer collection reminds me so much of my Christmases as a child with the hand-painted images and the rich reds and greens and light blues.
• The Holidays Fancy Foil Designer Vellum is quite easy to work with and really complements the paper. The foiled areas are perfect for adding the adhesive to without having it show on the outside, always the tricky part about working with vellum.
• I love how Stampin' Up! has added little arrow indicators on the stamps to help you line up the images for the 4 step stamping.
• The sentiment is also from the Reason for the Season stamp set and look at that font! Gorgeous!

That's a wrap for this week! Have a great weekend! We'll see you Monday with a design using the adorable Snow Place stamp set images!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Reason For The Season Photopolymer Stamp Set [139730]	Reason For The Season Photopolymer Bundle [140847]	Season Of Cheer Designer Series Paper [139590]	Holidays Fancy Foil Designer Vellum [139597]	Red Foil Sheets [139607]
Mossy Meadow 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133676]	Cherry Cobbler 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119685]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]	Soft Sky 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [131203]	Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [126966]
Mossy Meadow Classic Stampin' Pad [133645]	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [131173]	Pearl Basic Jewels Embellishments [119247]	Real Red & Garden Green 1/8" (3.2 Mm) Striped Ribbon [139615]	Lots Of Labels Framelits Dies [138281]
Big Shot [113439]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Glue Dots [103683]

Happy Birthday with Thankful Forest Friends for The Paper Players

This week's Paper Player's sketch challenge is great! I love the balance and the design elements in this sketch, and since I am at my daughter's house about to celebrate her birthday, I decided to use it as the layout for her birthday card! She loves all things autumn, and she does some amazing watercolours of whimsical forest animals, so I thought she would like the images in the new stamp set, Thankful Forest Friends.

Here's the challenge sketch:

Isn't that eye-pleasing? Thanks, Claire Broadwater, for your design skills!  Here's what I did with it:

• I really like this colour palette. Cajun Craze, Island Indigo and Delightful Dijon give a very folktale looking design which is perfect for the Thankful Forest Friends stamp set. Don't you love that little fox?

  Cajun Craze     Island Indigo     Delightful Dijon

• I've had Sassy Salutations for quite some time now, but you know, I don't think I've ever used it before and I have no idea why. It's perfect for the folk feel of this card, with it's stylized lettering.
• As always, I love the Kraft Corrugated Paper. The texture adds so much dimension to a papercraft project! And the kraft colour adds a much needed neutral as well.
• The 2015 - 17 In Colour Envelope Paper gave me the option for adding the Delightful Dijon in a Designer Series Paper. Do you recognize parts of the Mini Treat Bag thinlits that I used to die cut the panel? I also used one of the thinlits to die cut the heart border.
• The Into the Woods Elements with a little bow of Linen Thread make a super embellishment for this design.

I hope my daughter will like this. She has a raging Etsy business called The Honey Bee Paperie. Here are some samples of her work:

Thanks for stopping by today. I'll be back tomorrow with another As You See It Challenge.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Thankful Forest Friends Wood-Mount Stamp Set [139720]	Thankful Forest Friends Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139723]	Sassy Salutations Clear Stamp Set [126707]	Sassy Salutations Wood Stamp Set [132070]	2015-2017 In Color Envelope Paper [138312]
Kraft And White Corrugated Paper [138317]	Island Indigo 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [122923]	Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119684]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Delightful Dijon Classic Stampin' Pad [138327]
Island Indigo Classic Stampin' Pad [126986]	Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad [126965]	Into The Woods Elements [139636]	Linen Thread [104199]	Mini Treat Bag Thinlits Dies [137547]
Big Shot [113439]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Glue Dots [103683]