Sewing Notions

Hey y'all!  How's your Friday going?  My card-making for today was marked by a serendipitous confluence of challenges :D  Here's my card:

Very CAS, just white cardstock and seven colors of ink.  So why buttons?  Because of the Retro Rubber challenge:

I typically don't use actual buttons on my cards because it makes them hard to mail, but I have a stamp set that is all button STAMPS and this card is totally flat and mailable.  Button, Button is the name of that stamp set (appropriately), and I've had it since at least 2013, so plenty retro.  The sentiment is from Pattern of Friendship, which is even MORE retro since I got it in 2006.

And for a bit of serendipity, check out the sketch posted by CAS(E) This Sketch yesterday:

It's like they did it on purpose.  I did change mine up to two rows of three buttons rather than three rows of two buttons, because my sentiment was on the taller side.

And for the colors, I turned to the rainbow birds on the Fusion challenge:

These birds are obviously friends, so I thought my sentiment worked as being inspired by them.  I pulled a pastel rainbow of colors from the photo:  Pretty in Pink (retired), Peekaboo Peach (retired), So Saffron, Lemon Lime Twist (freshly retired), Balmy Blue, and Highland Heather.

I couldn't resist adding a stamp to the inside of the card:

I have no idea what I'd need this card for, but it was fun to make anyway!  Hope you have a great weekend, peeps.

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Button, Button and Pattern of Friendship
Ink:  Pretty in Pink, Peekaboo Peach, So Saffron, Lemon Lime Twist, Balmy Blue, and Highland Heather, Gray Granite
Paper:  Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  None unless you count a Stamp-a-ma-jig

P.S.  You wanna see a card with EIGHTY actual buttons on it, that actually got mailed?  Click here!

Oh, Baby!

I went out to lunch with some friends today and found out that one of them is pregnant...with TWINS!  So as soon as I got home (after I called the boiler man because my house is freezing and that's an amusing story I will probably share on my other blog) I made her a congrats card.

She won't find out boy/girl for another six weeks at least so I thought this week's Splitcoast color challenge might be good since it's blue *and* pink.  I wanted to put something in on the card base, a background stamp or something, but then I decided to go more CAS and leave it as-is.  I used the soon-to-be old Sketch Frenzy Friday sketch (new SFF sketch tomorrow):

Slightly modified, because how often do I actually get it 100% right.  Anyway, since the new mommy-to-be is one of my few really good friends here in England, I suppose I shall soon be back in production on baby books.  I'd had this goal this year to do 100 pages (so, 50 double-page layouts) for OUR scrapbooks, but so far I've only managed two pages...

And there they are!  It felt so good to be back to scrappin', so I need to figure out how to balance my card-making, scrapbooking, baby book production, reading, and cross stitching time (thank goodness classes are done with).  I can't have any more hobbies, though I would love to learn how to quilt, I don't think I should add anything else in here!  This layout was interesting--there was so MUCH red in the photos that I wanted to do a more neutral background so that red could pop, so I ended up with Night of Navy, River Rock, and Garden Green, because Okinawa is all Garden Green.  Yep, these pages are from 2008...I'm way behind, BUT I shall never be bored!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies for the card, all SU!:
Stamps:  Ciao, Baby! and Button, Button
Ink:  Primrose Petals, Bashful Blue
Paper:  Bashful Blue, Raspberry Ripple, In Color DSP
Accessories:  Primrose Petals ribbon, 7/8" scallop circle punch, 3/4" circle punch, Dimensionals

Supplies for the scrapbook pages:
Stamps:  Rough Type
Ink:  Night of Navy
Paper:  Night of Navy, River Rock, Garden Green, Holiday Treasures DSP I think?
Accessories:  Sizzix alphabet