May 2019

Scrappy Monday!  I took pictures of several new layouts that I just finished in the last couple of weeks, but for today I'm sharing one I finished a while back.

This is another of my monthly layouts with random snapshots from my phone.  May of 2019 was the first time Ryan got one of those viruses that makes you throw up a lot--it went on for about a week, poor kid.  We pulled his mattress out into the living room so he could camp out on that and I could lay on the couch, and when he wasn't sleeping we watched Cars on repeat.  And then all the pics on the right page are when he felt better again :)

Today's color palette:  Poppy Parade, Call Me Clover, Pool Party, Pacific Point, Basic Black, and Whisper White.  I wish I'd gotten an extra pack of that Animal Expedition DSP, I love several of the patterns on it and we had so few patterned papers featuring Call Me Clover as one of the colors.  You know I love my greens.

Anyway, it's Monday and that means it's back to work today!  Hope to have more time to scrap later this week...I have ideas swirling in my head.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  My Paper Pumpkin, Animal Outing
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Pacific Point, Basic Black marker, Stampin' Blends in Smoky Slate, Pool Party, Mango Melody, Call Me Clover
Paper:  Poppy Parade, Pool Party, Pacific Point, Thick Whisper White, Animal Expedition DSP
Accessories:  Animal Friends dies, Stitched Shapes dies

Zoo Pals

Hey y'all!  I didn't get to do anything in my craft room on Tuesday, so no card yesterday, but I did manage to get one made during yesterday's quiet time.  Here it is:

 I started with the theme challenge from The Paper Players:

I was thinking about using a retired set for this challenge, and I opened my personal stamp catalog to look through my animal stamp sets, and then I didn't get past Animal Outing :)  I haven't used this stamp set in a YEAR so it was past time to ink it up.  The sentiment was from the very first My Paper Pumpkin kit, and it just seemed perfect for these zoo pals.  The flower and leaf stamps are from the recent SAB set Thoughtful Blooms because I hadn't inked it up yet and it seemed like a good idea with everything else.

I loved the bright colors for this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Pumpkin Pie (the giraffe's spots), Granny Apple Green (I used the darker Blend for the frog, lighter for the leaves, and then used Versamark to stamp the leaves on the Granny Apple die cut layer), Melon Mambo (sentiment, because who doesn't love a pop of pink), and Daffodil Delight (I think you can guess where this is).

Last up is this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I think I own some non-SU diamond dies, but I didn't feel like digging them out so I just used the Stitched Nested Labels dies for the diamond shape (and the sentiment, for that matter).

Hope y'all have a great day.  I need to get this card in the mail...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Animal Outing, Thoughtful Blooms, My Paper Pumpkin
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Versamark, Stampin' Blends in Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Pumpkin Pie, and Soft Suede
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Stitched Nested Labels dies, Mini Dimensionals, retired Glitter Enamel Dots

Safari Duo

Mornin', kids!  My little one took an extra-long nap yesterday so I actually got cards made for both today and tomorrow, which means I can use naptime for scrapbooking today, woo!  In the meantime, I am quite fond of the card I made for today.

I got the Animal Outing bundle when I did a big order for my birthday back in January, and this is the first card I've made with it.  Don't know what took me so long!  I adore this giraffe and frog duo, whom I colored in with a combination of watercoloring with an Aquapainter and coloring with Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends, which gave me a couple of values of Crumb Cake for my giraffe with little effort on my part.  I chose three patterns from the coordinating Animal Expedition DSP.  The sentiment is from a My Paper Pumpkin kit from earlier this year that coordinated with the Animal Outing bundle, I just had to get that one :)

It's this week's Global Design Project sketch that finally prompted me to get these stamps inked up:

I know it says "sentiment" but I thought that horizontal strip was just the perfect place to put the frog and his branch.

Just a reminder that there's still a bit of time to play along with the coloring challenge at SUO Challenges!

Y'all have a good day, peeps.  I'm actually going to my barre class for the first time in six weeks!  Seems like life has been working against me getting to the gym on Thursday for some reason.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Animal Outing, coordinating MPP stamps
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Crumb Cake, Lemon Lime Twist, Call Me Clover, Crumb Cake Stampin' Blends
Paper:  Pool Party, Thick Whisper White, Animal Expedition DSP
Accessories:  Animal Friends Framelits, Mini Dimensionals