Get Well Tree

Mornin', y'all!  How's it going today?  Kiddo is already down for his nap so when I finish this blog post I'll be heading down to the ol' craft cave to do some stamping!  But here's the card I made yesterday during naptime:

I seem to always gravitate toward blues and greens when I use this stamp set.  The current challenge at Retro Rubber is anything goes:

And then I happened to see the theme challenge at SUO Challenges, "Out in the Garden", so I put those two together and came up with probably the two oldest stamp sets in the SU! catalog.  I've had Lovely as a Tree since at least 2006, and Teeny Tiny Wishes since 2009, so they're both really retro ;)  And I continue my watercolor wash obsession; the watercolor paper has taken up semi-permanent residence on my stamping table.

Anyway, I also used the sketch from As You See It:

This card came together really fast.  Maybe a little too fast...I didn't use my heat tool to dry the watercolor panel because I thought it had dried enough while I was working on the other card elements, so after I adhered it to the card front it warped a wee bit.  Word to the wise:  use your extra-strong adhesive for watercolor paper ;)  I stamped the oak leaf cluster on the banner, but I stamped it off once so that it wouldn't compete with the tree for attention.  So it's just got a little bit of subtle pattern on there.

Okay, off I go now.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Lovely as a Tree, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Marina Mist, Wild Wasabi
Paper:  Marina Mist, Wild Wasabi, Very Vanilla, Watercolor Paper
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes Framelits, Dimensionals, Candy Dot (I know it's retired, but why not use what I've got?)

Dragonfly Birthday

Mornin', y'all!  Once again I have Ryan trying to help me type...his spelling isn't so great, so it's a good thing he's extra cute :)  As it happens, he also inspired today's card!

You'll see how in a minute.  Anyway, for this one I used the very last Mojo Monday sketch:

I only played along with the Mojo sketches occasionally, but it's sad when challenges stop.  Still, I understand why Julee had to give up something to get her life more in balance, so I wish her well!

I also used this week's Paper Players theme:

Easy peasy!  We have a lot of birthdays in my family coming up in July so this is a good time to stock up on birthday cards.

Okay, so here's how Ryan inspired today's card:

See the colors on his onesie?  It's all Lemon Lime Twist, Emerald Envy, and Pacific Point!  This isn't a really great picture of Ryan though; I took it this morning and he was like why aren't we eating breakfast already? instead of smiling for me.  That's okay though, I have this one from Sunday:

New favorite picture, right there.  They were watching me cook dinner.  Yep, buncha guys standing around watching the only woman do the work!  ;)  I love my boys.

Anyway, I think it's time to read to Ryan for a little bit before he goes down for his nap.  Have a fabby-dabby Tuesday, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Dragonfly Dreams, Awesomely Artistic, Rose Wonder
Ink:  Lemon Lime Twist, Emerald Envy, Pacific Point
Paper:  Lemon Lime Twist, Emerald Envy, Pacific Point, Whisper White
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Caerphilly Castle

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Did you have a good weekend?  I did--I went to see Wonder Woman yesterday and it was AMAZING.  I can't wait for it to come out on digital/DVD so I can watch it again!  I left the hubs and the tiny human at home to go see it by my onesies, and then I went to Target.  And then when I got back to my car I opened what I thought was a bottle of flavored water and it turned out to be carbonated ICK which exploded all over me and the inside of my car.  So like an Amazon warrior, I destroyed it and did a load of laundry after I cleaned out my car ;)

But anyway!  Let's check out today's scrapbook layout, shall we?

More pictures from our 2014 Wales road trip, can't believe it's been three years already.  See the photos here.  What's funny is I chose to use Bravo Burgundy and So Saffron to go with the picture of the mannequin on Ye Olde Water Closet, and then I didn't use that pic on the layout.  Well, I'm weird like that.

I've been using Jayne's Type (the bigger alphabet) and Rough Type for all my Wales page titles.

Here's a slightly blurry closeup of the flowers I fussy-cut as accents.  I kinda think maybe I should add a few Watermelon Wonder flowers like the one next to the title...

Today's color palette:  the recently-retired Watermelon Wonder, long-retired Bravo Burgundy, still current So Saffron, medium-retired Midnight Muse, and will-never-retire Whisper White.  Hee.

I didn't actually get any pages done over the weekend, but I do have one layout sitting on my desk that's 75% done.  I'm going to go tackle that while the tiny human is asleep :)  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Jayne's Type Alphabet, Rough Type, One of a Kind, Fabulous Flowers
Ink:  Watermelon Wonder, Midnight Muse, So Saffron
Paper:  Watermelon Wonder, Bravo Burgundy, Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Bravo Burgundy DSP, Walk in the Park DSP
Accessories: patience?

Honeymoon Cruise, Part 1: Title Page & Table of Contents

Y'all, I DID IT.  I finished my honeymoon album!  Okay, so I finished all the pages for it but I haven't put them in the actual album yet.  Close enough.

Only 12 years overdue!  So for the entire album, I used a very limited set of supplies and I divided the pictures into five categories, each with its own color:

Pacific Point and Tempting Turquoise are on all the layouts, and then the other colors are only for that specific category.  Limiting the supplies like that made it faster to put the pages together (once I forced myself to sit down and just finish the dang thing) and now it's obvious that they all go together. 

The album colors:  Whisper White, Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, and Orchid Opulence.  I bought cardstock to do this album waaaaayyyy back before the first big color refresh when the 12x12 cardstock was really more like 11 3/4" cardstock, and then I changed all the colors to the newer versions after the color refresh (older ones were Brilliant Blue, Yoyo Yellow, Only Orange, Pink Passion...I think I changed out the still-current Old Olive for Wild Wasabi).  I kept Orchid Opulence, because there just wasn't a good replacement for that.  Stampin' Up!, we need more purples :D

Sooo I'll be sharing pages from this album on Sundays for a while.  But for today I'm gonna go see WONDER WOMAN!!!!  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies for the whole album:
Stamps:  Tall Tales Alphabet, Island Blossoms
Ink:  Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, Orchid Opulence, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Whisper White, Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, Orchid Opulence
Accessories:  Scallop border punch, Mickey Mouse punches

Sailing the Skies in a Hot Air Balloon

Happy weekend, y'all!  I missed a couple days posting this week (sometimes Ryan throws me a curveball and won't nap for as long as I want him to) so here's a bonus Saturday post!

I did my first new catalog order on June 1, and aside from new Designer Series Paper I only bought two stamp sets.  And one of them is a background stamp.  So for a bit here I'm going to concentrate on playing with the stamps I currently have...I still have a bunch of current stamp sets even with the catalog changeover.  And some of them I haven't used hardly at all, so this is going to be fun :)  (Le'ts not be coy, I can't wait to get the two stamp sets I ordered...and that awesome new paper!)

So anywah, here's a new card with Lift Me Up and the coordinating dies.  I don't think I'd used that ornate balloon die before, isn't it gorgeous?  Still had the watercolor paper out, so I did (another) watercolor wash for the sky behind my balloon.  The clouds are die cut out of Shimmery White paper and the balloon is Gold Foil, with Night of Navy and Powder Pink backing.  This card should have taken me like 15 minutes to make (maybe a little longer?) but the kiddo woke up and so it sat half-done on my desk for most of the day yesterday.  But we got there in the end!

I used the sketch from Inkspire Challenges:

And the color challenge from Color Throwdown:

As I said, I used Night of Navy, Powder Pink, Gold Foil, and Shimmery White for my colors.

So my Saturday plans include going for a run and then doing a few errands.  Maybe laundry.  Oh yeah, it's the glamorous life here.  If I'm lucky maybe I can work on some scrapbook pages...or else I'll be binge watching The Flash with the hubs while the baby naps :D

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Lift Me Up
Ink:  Night of Navy
Paper:  Powder Pink, Night of Navy, Shimmery White, Watercolor Paper, Gold Foil
Accessories:  Up & Away Thinlits, Dimensionals

Cool Summer Treat

Happy Friday, y'all!  Looks like it won't be much longer before Ryan is trying to "help" me type up my blog posts...he's starting to reach out for the keyboard when I hold him in my lap :)  He's also working really hard on his "mmmmm" sound so he sounds like the monster on Young Frankenstein.

My little monster napped just long enough yesterday afternoon for me to make this card:

I got Cool Treats I think when I did a big SU! order for my birthday but this is its maiden inky voyage.  Having a baby kinda derailed my stampy plans for a little bit ;)  How do you like my stripey paper?  I made it myself.  The "stripe" is actually the stem stamp from Sunshine Sayings; it's got just a little curve to it and I didn't line up my stripes exactly so it gives kind of a hand-drawn feel to the stripes.  Uh, probably would have been faster if I'd just drawn the stripes with markers but that's not where my brain went!

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And I was utterly incapable of resisting the Just Add Ink color challenge:

I've kinda had a hard time working with Peekaboo Peach, so I'm going to have to file this color combination for use again, maybe in a scrapbook layout.  It's a perfect combo for summer!

Well, my little boy is starting to get his wiggle on so I'd better put him on his play mat for a while.  See if I can't convince him to turn that "mmmm" sound into Mama! ;)  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cool Treats, Sunshine Sayings
Ink:  Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Peekaboo Peach, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Peekaboo Peach, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Frozen Treats Framelits, retired Circles Framelits (I needed an extra-large circle), Dimensionals

Swanless Lake

Mornin', kids!  How's it going today?  Looks like we might actually have a sunny day here, seems like it's been raining for a week.

Alas, even with all the rain I don't have a pond with water lilies in it, but I do have a water lily stamp!  This card features three stamps from Swan Lake, and somehow I haven't used the swans on anything yet.  Hee.  I did a light watercolor wash on watercolor paper for the background, I am loving that look lately.  Then the main image is stamped on Very Vanilla and I doubled up the cardstock on that layer to make it a little sturdier.

The colors are courtesy of this week's Global Design Project color challenge:

I hope they'll forgive me for adding in some Pool Party, but my water lilies needed...water.  They also needed sparkle so I brushed on some Wink of Stella.

I also used this week's Paper Players sketch:

And that's all she wrote for today.  Have a great one, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Swan Lake
Ink:  Basic Black, Calypso Coral, Old Olive, Pool Party
Paper:  Basic Black, Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Watercolor paper
Accessories:  Tags & Labels Framelits, Dimensionals, corner rounder punch