All These Hearts...

Hey y'all!  Recently, I had a Prophylactic Bilateral Mastectomy (I dish all about it on my lifestyle blog HERE).  I have received a deluge of love and support from family, friends as well as people from social media.  It has been beyond humbling.

Life has kept me away from paper crafting.  However, while I'm recovering, paper crafting and I have been reunited!

When I read the CAS-ual Fridays "Summertime Colors Heart" challenge (CFC133), I had to play!  Since I've been on such a long paper crafting hiatus, I don't own any Casual Fridays stamp sets.  So, I used a stamp set from one of my most favorite stamp companies, Paper Smooches.  I am also linking up with the Paper Smooches Sparks Anything Goes Challenge.

Kraft cardstock: Paper Source, Chipboard hearts: Studio Calico, Stamps: Squeaky Clean Paper Smooches

This is what I feel like...a love machine!  I couldn't be more grateful and appreciative for the love I've received.  Feels good to be back!

CFC120 - HELLO!

Well hello there!  So glad to be back!  I've been gone since May and I've missed papercrafting so much!  What was I doing?  Let see...growing, evolving and taking some much needed time to figure out what I wanted out of life.  You have to do that sometimes in order to keep going in a positive direction don't you think?

Oh!  I have a new name now!  It's "RoseRedd Paper Studio".  I changed the name to match my other blog, "RoseRedd Said The Miscellaneous Blog".  It's my lifestyle blog.  I wanted to have one internet identity.

So, now that we're all caught up, I'd like to share the card I created for the Cas-ual Fridays challenge for this week.  They've partnered with the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge as well so that made it fun and interesting.

Here is the inspiration photo:


Here is my card.  I used one of my favorite Paper Smooches sets to create this card.  Since I've been out of the game for about a six months, I don't have many "new" stamps and dies!  I've got to get caught up!

Paper piecing is by far my favorite stamping technique.  This horse was easy to piece for the most part.  The trick is to be patient when paper piecing!  This is not the technique for going fast!

The sentiment is #ToDieFor.  Love it!

Kraft Cardstock: Paper Studio

DP: Studio Calico

Stamps: Paper Smooches

Twine: Stash

Buttons and Pearl: Stash