Jolly Christmas 2018

Scrappy Monday on a Tuesday!  Man, yesterday was a busy day.  I woke up before 5 a.m., worked out, did a French lesson, wrapped presents, went to the post office and grocery store, then went to work for a few hours, then came home and wrapped more presents, got Ryan off the bus and we made two batches of cookies together, wrapped more presents, and started getting packages ready to mail.  I was wiped out by 7 p.m. last night.  Got another busy day ahead I'm sure, so let's get to this week's scrapbook pages!

This was Ryan's second Christmas, and of course we took *lots* of pictures of him.

Growing up, my family always opened presents after dinner on Christmas Eve, so we did that with Ryan.  However, his grandparents were visiting, so he got SO many presents that he couldn't open them all before bedtime, so these are the Christmas Eve pics.

Color palette:  Baked Brown Sugar, Real Red, Garden Green, Soft Sky, Whisper White, and a bit of Basic Black.

Now for some Christmas Day pics!

I kept the same color for the page base, but changed up the supporting colors a bit to match Ryan's jammies.

Second color palette:  Baked Brown Sugar, Real Red, Calypso Coral, Taken with Teal, Whisper White, and Basic Black.  Rather proud of how many pictures I managed to incorporate on three layouts!

Okay, I'm off to the post office and work.  Good luck with your holiday to-do lists, too!

Supplies, layouts 1 &2:
Stamps:  No Peeking
Ink:  Garden Green, Baked Brown Sugar, Real Red, Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Baked Brown Sugar, Garden Green, Real Red, Thick Whisper White, Nordic Noel DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies

Supplies, layout 3:
Stamps:  No Peeking, Scentsational Season
Ink;  Calypso Coral, Real Red, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Baked Brown Sugar, Taken with Teal, Calypso Coral, Thick Whisper White, Nordic Noel DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies

Baby Books: January

Scrappy Monday, peeps.  So far as I know the twins are still baking but here's another baby book layout:

Baby mama wanted bright, saturated colors ("Pastels are for wussies!") so that's what I used.  Although I suppose Pool Party isn't necessarily a bright, saturated color...if I did these pages again I might use Coastal Cabana instead to see how that looks.

The little penguin and snowman are from No Peeking, which is nominally a Christmas set but hey, penguins and snowmen work for winter non-Christmas pages too.

And some more snowflakes on the journaling block.  Hubs and I just got back from a weekend trip to Ohio's Amish country and we got snowed on twice.  Just flurries, but we did see snow!

Today's color palette:  Tangerine Tango, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black, and Whisper White.  Who says you can't use orange for a winter page.

Well, you know how it is when you get back from a trip (even a short one)...lots of cleaning up and laundry to do, so I should get to it!  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, mostly SU!
Stamps:  No Peeking, Merry
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Kiwi Kiss, Whisper White, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Tangerine Tango, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Frosty Day
Accessories:  Sizzix alphabet, non-SU circle/scalloped circle dies

Friday Flashback: No Peeking

Happy Friday and welcome to another festive Friday Flashback!  Today's randomly selected retired Christmas stamp set (wow, say that three times fast) is No Peeking, which I got right before it retired because my friend Tiana liked it so much and suddenly it looked all extra-cute after listening to her talk about it and I'm a lemming.  Short Flashback aside, it is a cute little stamp set!

I bought it too late to make Christmas cards or anything last year, but I did use it on this baby book layout for my friend Karyn's twin boys.  And that's the only time I've used up until today.  Coincidentally, I used a stamp on today's card that didn't make it onto this baby book layout, so yay!

My snowman is ever-so-slightly crooked, but that's okay because so am I.  This is for my friend Tiana because a.) she talked me into buying these stamps in the first place and b.) she's been dealing with some tough stuff lately following a death in her family.  I have been thinking of her a lot so I need to say it postally.  Which is a word I just made up.

The sketch is from Create with Connie and Mary:

Aww dang, I just realized I put the sentiment layer slightly off--it should have overlapped the orchid snowflake.  Drat!  Oh yeah, I used Orchid Opulence!  There's been lots of hatin' happening since Pantone announced Radiant Orchid as the color of the year for 2014, but I like it.  And my color combo was courtesy of Color Throwdown:

I love those colors together.  I used Basic Gray as well for my snowman's top hat, face, and buttons, but otherwise I stuck strictly to the color challenge parameters.

Hope you have a lovely Friday, and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies for card:
Stamps:  No Peeking, Four You
Ink:  Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Orchid Opulence
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Orchid Opulence, Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Candy Cane Specialty DSP
Accessories:  Festive Flurry & Circles Framelits, Dimensionals

No Peeking!

I just realized that I still have a few baby book layouts I haven't shared yet, and I finished these books around the first half of June.  The twins actually arrived a week ago :)  So let's catch up a bit.

Click the photo to see it larger.  I admit, I bought the No Peeking stamp set specifically for these baby books...it just seemed very "Karyn" to me.  I also got the Snow Much Fun stamp set just for these books too, but I'm sure I'll use both sets again, if not on future baby books then in my own scrapbooks.  I'm still working like a busy bee, jumping back and forth from England to Japan photos, and uploading dozens of pictures to be printed out.  I'm in The Groove, lemme tell ya.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps:  No Peeking
Ink:  Gumball Green, Marina Mist, Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Baked Brown Sugar, Real Red (only because I forgot I used Riding Hood Red for the page base, it should have been RHR ink but it didn't bother me enough to restamp)
Paper:  Riding Hood Red, Marina Mist, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Be of Good Cheer DSP
Accessories:  Cherry Cobbler & Silver Dazzling Details, circle & scallop circle dies