Devil's Table

Scrappy Monday, y'all.  We're starting off today with a bang because Ryan isn't feeling so great, poor kiddo.  I think we'll be taking it easy today; maybe I can convince him to watch Ghostbusters 2 with me this afternoon.

In the meantime, I have some scrapbook pages from one of our expeditions in Germany, take a look:

The Devil's Table is a rock formation that I think is near Pirmasens? I could be making that up, but anyway, we took a train to whatever town this was and hiked up to where the Devil's Table is.  I love the pictures of Ryan and the hubs together : )  I took inspiration from hubs' shirt to do a Bravo Burgundy page base, some super-thin Dusty Durango mats thanks to the orange tones in the rocks, and an interesting Soft Succulent pattern because I think it looks like creepy eyes and for some reason that just seemed to fit with the Devil's Table so that's what I chose.

There's the color palette:  Bravo Burgundy/Merry Merlot (my Bravo Burgundy ink pad has the dreaded gold sheen, but Merry Merlot is pretty close...I just have very few sheets of Merry Merlot 12x12 cardstock), Soft Succulent, Dusty Durango, Pecan Pie, and white.

Hope your Monday is starting off well.  Cheers, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rough Type, Wing It, My Paper Pumpkin
Ink:  Merry Merlot, Dusty Durango
Paper:  Bravo Burgundy, Dusty Durango, Pecan Pie, Thick Basic White, Lovely in Linen DSP
Accessories:  1 1/2" circle punch, Layering Circles dies

Beaumaris

Scrappy Monday!  We successfully made it home from the Smoky Mountains, and the ball is finally rolling on our move to Germany :) Posts here may be sporadic for a while; I'm going to be busy sorting through what's going into storage vs. what's coming with us, and then we'll likely be without our household goods for a couple of months while they're shipped.  Might not have much time for stamping or scrapping for a while, but I'll do my best.

So let's talk today's layout!  It's another in the series of Welsh castles we visited in May of 2014.

See the original pics here.  I suppose it's misleading to call it a Welsh castle, considering it was built by an English king to subdue the native Welsh.  Despite that, Beaumaris is beautiful; it's on the island of Anglesey where Prince William and Kate lived for a while.  I loved Wales, I'd love to go back and see more of it.

Today's color palette:  Old Olive, Cameo Coral (that pattern from the Raspberry Tart DSP is one of my favorites), Raspberry Ripple, Elegant Eggplant, and Whisper White.

Cheers, y'all!  I'm about to go start sorting stuff.  Wish me luck...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Jayne's Type Alphabet, Wing It
Ink:  Cameo Coral, Raspberry Ripple, Elegant Eggplant marker
Paper:  Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant, Raspberry Ripple, Thick Whisper White, Raspberry Tart DSP
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies

Scrappy Showcase, Part 1

ETA:  this was supposed to show up on Saturday morning but it looks like it's already published.  So happy early new year?

Last day of the year, y'all!  And thus begins my 2016 scrappy showcase.  Since I usually only post one scrapbook layout per week, sometimes it takes quite a while between when I make one and when I post it so I didn't necessarily make all of these this year.  BUT I did complete 142 pages, so hooray for me!  My goal was 100, so I passed it by a bit :)  Anyway, let's get going!

First up is this layout from the last castle we visited in Wales; I love the dark orange colors contrasted with the green and blues.

Next is my scrappy ode to Disney's greatest villain, all pics taken at Disneyland Paris.  Again I love the colors with the photos plus it's Maleficent, can't go wrong there.

Next up is this snowy layout from England; I got the color combination of Island Indigo, Baja Breeze, and Rich Razzleberry from the old Color Coach.  I never would have put those three colors together on my own but I love the combination so much that I've used it several times on baby books too.

And the final layout for today is this New Years layout, appropriate no?  No Rock Band parties for us this year though, we'll be staying in tonight.

More scrappy goodness coming up in the next few days.  Hope you have a wonderful New Year's Eve and stay safe, y'all!

Vasa Museum

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Today's scrapbook layout is one I did a few months ago and I just didn't want to forget to post it here :)  Here it is:

These pics are from the day we spent in Stockholm, Sweden (see them here).  A friend of ours recommended we check out the Vasa Museum, which houses the raised shipwreck of a nearly 400-year-old Swedish navy ship.  The conditions of the Baltic Sea make it so the water preserves shipwrecks much better than in other places.

There's my title.  Uh, I think mixed-font titles are like my "thing" on scrapbook pages.

I love that lion shield stamp from Wing It, and it really fit here since the figurehead on the ship is a lion too.

Today's color palette is brought to you by Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist, Soft Suede and Whisper White.  Thanks for stopping by today, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Jayne's Type Alphabet, Rough Type, Friendly Words (unmounted wheel), Wing It
Ink:  Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist, Soft Suede
Paper:  Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Deco Labels Framelits, circle punch

Maleficent

I am SO EXCITED about today's scrapbook layout, y'all.  I think I'm in love with it.  No, wait:  I'm definitely in love with it.  Take a look:

AAAAAHHHHHH so awesome!  I love Maleficent.  She will forever be the coolest Disney villain ever, don't bother trying to argue the point.  These pictures are from Disneyland Paris; underneath Sleeping Beauty's castle we found "La Taniere du Dragon" and inside was Maleficent in dragon form.  Bonus points:  now I know how to say "lair" and "dragon" in French.  Even if "dragon" is just "dragon" with a French accent, now I KNOW.  The rest of the pictures are from a series of stained-glass windows and tapestries of scenes from the movie and I kinda sorta want alllll of them in my house, they were gorgeous.

I decided to go all-out purple on this one with Concord Crush and Lovely Lilac, and I looooove it.  For the rose accents, I used a sponge and kinda smooshed some Rose Red ink on thick Whisper White cardstock, then stamped the rose over it and that turned out even better than I thought it would.  The title is a sticker I found in my stash, and of course it's Disney so the font matches the picture of the sign for Maleficent's lair.  Perfect.

Today's color palette:  Concord Crush, Lovely Lilac, Rose Red, Gumball Green, Hello Honey, and Whisper White.  I had more pictures from Disneyland Paris to scrap so I used these same colors over again, but you'll see that one later :)

Cheers, y'all!  Have a fabulous day!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Wing It
Ink:  Concord Crush marker, Rose Red, Hello Honey
Paper:  Concord Crush, Lovely Lilac, Gumball Green, Thick Whisper White, Concord Crush & Lovely Lilac DSP
Accessories:  Curly Label & Decorative Label punches, Disney sticker

Friday Flashback: It's Your Birthday

Happy Friday, y'all!  We are currently prepping for Snowmageddon, which is slated to start this afternoon.  But in the meantime, I have a Friday Flashback for you!  Today's stamp set is It's Your Birthday, and who doesn't need a great set of birthday greetings?  In fact, I'd used this set so much that I only picked about half of what I had in my archives to share otherwise we'd still be doing this flashback *next* Friday.  So let's giddyup!

Also features Bronc Buster, Paisley

First is a birthday card I made for my brother a few years ago.

Also features Floral, Roses in Winter

And here's one for my mother's great aunt...

Also features Baroque Motifs, Embrace Life

Honestly I don't know who I sent this to, it's a rare square card.

Also features Bloomin' Beautiful

This "someone like you should be celebrated every day" stamp is done in the same font as the "happy birthday" above so you could use them together.  Or just use this one for a card and it doesn't have to be birthday-specific.

Also features Dream Gardens

 I do love my Oriental stamps :)

Also features Pun Fun

Here's a cute little one I did for my mom, who loves hippos.

Also features Mixed Bouquet

I made this one for one of my favorite people in the world, who has sadly passed away.  Miss you, Neelu!

Also features Petal Prints

Let's be honest, this is one of my favorite cards.

Also features Wing It, Flannel Plaid

And one more kinda masculine card to round out the group.  Are you ready for today's new creation?  Here it is:

My friend Tiana (who doesn't read this blog, so I'm not giving away any birthday secrets) came out to visit at the beginning of the month and mentioned when we were out shopping that she wanted some super-soft comfy pajama pants.  And since her birthday is next week, I found her some ridiculously cute ones at Kohl's, they're black and have foxes on them and look kinda like this card :D  The jammies are more of a raspberry color than coral, but I only have Calypso Coral embossing powder so I went with that.  I loved these so much I ordered some for myself, and I also got her a set of Star Wars jammies because awesome.  The Star Wars ones have purple in them so this card kinda matches both.

Anyway, I used a sketch from the Retro Rubber challenge site, my very first time to play along over there!

If I got both It's Your Birthday and Fox & Friends when they first came out, then I've had It's Your Birthday for TEN years and Fox & Friends for 6.  And I still love them both :)

Ok, I'd better get moving before Snowmageddon starts.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  It's Your Birthday, Fox & Friends
Ink:  Basic Black, Versamark
Paper:  Basic Black, Lavender Lace, Lucky Limeade & Calypso Coral DSP
Accessories:  Circles Framelits, retired heart punch, Calypso Coral EP, Dimensionals

Caen

Good morning, folks!  Time already to start another week.  I don't have any scrapbook layouts that really tie in to Memorial Day, so I thought I'd share this one from when we toured Normandy since we did visit the D-Day beaches and the American cemetery there.  Of course, I haven't scrapped those pics yet but I do have this:

See the original pics here.  We stopped in Caen for a couple of hours on our way back to Paris, ate dinner and saw the castle of William the Conqueror.  And also that cool statue of Joan of Arc on the left page.  One day I'd like to go to Rouen and see more historical stuff.  Anyway, here's a closeup of the title:

The outside frame is one stamp, and then of course the letters and crown are separate stamps too.  I like how it turned out.

And there's my color palette:  Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Real Red, and a smidge of Hello Honey.  I'm off to do my first run of the week and then work more on prepping the house for the packers on Thursday.  Time is running short!  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Elementary Elegance, Rough Type, Wing It, Carte Postale
Ink:  Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Hello Honey
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Hello Honey, Real Red, Real Red DSP
Accessories:  Curly Label punch

The Bangles

Ok, today's scrapbook layout makes me ridiculously happy.

I was a kid when the Bangles broke up, but they'd been my favorite band since I was six.  So when they reunited and happened to play in the Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas in December 2003, I was *all over* going to that concert :)  These pics are from before we even got a digital camera!

This was actually the very first thing I made with the new In Colors; I waited specifically to get the new In Color 12x12 cardstock so I could use Blackberry Bliss for the page base.

I paired the new colors with some old favorite stamp sets, like Grunge Rock, Wing It, and Priceless.  Glad I finally got these pictures scrapped :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Grunge Rock, Extreme Elements, Priceless, Wing It
Ink:  Whisper White, Blackberry Bliss, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Whisper White, Strawberry Slush DSP
Accessories:  Curly Label punch, non-SU Sizzlits alphabet

Celebrate...Medieval Style

Ready for some fun scrapbook pages?

We went to a costume party in Nottingham last summer; see the original blog post here.  The costumes were provided, and I got I think the only "enchantress" dress they had (I was the only one in purple) while a bunch of the other ladies were queens in that Rose Red color.  So I found myself a crown and decided I was Morgan le Fay, who was both a queen and an enchantress.

This layout was fun to put together though I wish we had lots lots more DSP with the In Colors, especially Gumball Green which I shall miss when it retires this summer.  I got that arrow punch on the SU! clearance rack quite a while ago and this is its maiden voyage.  The thing that took the longest on this layout was deciding which Monty Python quote to use in the top left corner : )

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Seasonal Sayings, Wing It
Ink:  Summer Starfruit, Elegant Eggplant, Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green
Paper:  Raspberry Ripple, Elegant Eggplant, Summer Starfruit, Whisper White, Gumball Green & Summer Starfruit DSP
Accessories:  Labels Framelits, arrow punch (retired), hexagon punch

Friday Flashback: Sense of Time

Happy Friday and welcome to this week's Friday Flashback, Sense of Time.  This is kind of like an older version of Clockworks, which I also have :)  However, I haven't used Sense of Time very much because I bought it right before it retired.  Anyone else do that?  I just couldn't pass it up when it went up for retirement, but a lot of times I don't use my retired sets that much.  Hence the Flashback post each week.  So let's see what we've got:

I made this one for my friend Missy a couple of years ago because I gave her a clock for her birthday.  (She has a thing for clocks.)  The clock was neat, it had twelve 2x2-inch spaces around it for pictures, so I put in pictures from our time in Japan and all the places we went and things we did together.  She says she gets comments on it every time someone comes in her office.

Anywha, here's the brand new card today:

I didn't look at my other card before I did this one, it mighta been nice with the Sanded background on it too.  Oh well.  I got the layout from this week's Retro Sketch:

The only thing I changed was I did three small brads instead of the larger circle embellishments on the sketch.

Thanks for joining me on this week's Flashback!

Supplies for last card (all SU!):
Stamps:  Sense of Time
Ink:  Soft Suede, Basic Black
Paper:  Soft Suede, Basic Black, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Neutrals brads