Lavender Hello

Mornin' y'all, I'm running a little slow this morning but happily I was able to get Ryan off to school with much less drama than yesterday, *and* he has STEM club after school so I get an extra hour of crafty time today : )  So I'm going to type up this post, take Daphers for her tour of the neighborhood, and go get my stamp on.  So here is today's card:

Can't help it, whenever I see purple on a challenge I immediately think of Painted Lavender.  Here's the Inkspirational mood board:

I wonder if I have a hyacinth stamp anywhere in my collection...I don't think there's a stamp set that focuses on hyacinths, not like the ones for lavender and roses and even snapdragons : )  Oh, maybe I should use the snapdragon stamp set with this challenge too!  Anyway, I also had a go at the 500th challenge for CASE-ing Tuesday Sketches:

And here's the original card from the cover of the mini catalog:

I don't have that pocket die and really it's the only thing out of that suite that I might want, so I substituted one of the Everyday Arches dies instead and that made me happy.  The greeting is from the Everyday Arches stamp set and I recently inked up my Gorgeous Grape ink pad and it's a little extra juicy lately.  Maybe I'll attack it with a plastic spoon later today.

I finished my tea and Daphne is giving me side-eye because she knows it and she wants to go, no matter how cold it is outside.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Painted Lavender, Everyday Arches
Ink:  Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Pretty Peacock
Paper:  Pretty Peacock, Thick Basic White, Perennial Lavender DSP
Accessories:  Painted Lavender dies, Everyday Arches dies, linen thread, Tinsel Gems, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

SUO Challenges Spring CASE

Mornin' y'all!  We spent the weekend in Breckenridge and just got home yesterday : )  The hubs and Ryan went skiing; I enjoyed wandering through all the shops and napping with Daphne.  Yep, she had her first road trip...and it turns out she gets carsick.  Poor pupper!

Anyway, today it's time for a new challenge from SUO Challenges!

This time around, we are CASE-ing the catalog:

I chose the card on the top right corner and this is what I made:

I switched out pastels for deeper purples and I discovered that I am down to teeny scraps of the gold foil paper so I need to put that on my next order.  This is the first time I've cut into the Bloom Impressions DSP that is a Sale-a-Bration option, I love all the colors in that paper and I'm looking forward to playing with it some more.

Anyway, there are lots of options for cards to CASE and I hope you'll join us!  Don't forget to upload your creation at the SUO Challenges blog.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sketched Butterflies
Ink:  Blackberry Bliss, Versamark, Pretty in Pink & Petunia Pop Stampin' Blends
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Petunia Pop, Blackberry Bliss, Bloom Impressions DSP, gold foil
Accessories:  Sketched Butterflies dies, Inspiring Snapdragons dies, Everyday Arches dies, white EP, Purple Shimmer Gems, Dimensionals

Katzweiler

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I was scrolling Facebook last week (as you do) and I saw a post from Bonanza Ranch, which was about two blocks away from where we lived in Germany for a few years and so I thought I'd share a Germany layout today.

The top left picture was actually taken at the fence in our yard, the neighbors behind us occasionally turned out their horses in the small yard that adjoined ours which I loved.  The other horse pics were taken at Bonanza Ranch, and the top two on the right page were both taken close to the parkplatz that we could see from our front door, which is where they would do festivals several times a year.  Handy for us since we could walk over there easily.

The pics were all taken in the fall, so my autumnal color palette is Wild Wheat, Moody Mauve, Misty Moonlight, Copper Clay, and Very Vanilla.  I actually found a way to use Wild Wheat on a scrapbook layout!  Will wonders never cease.

Have a great week, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Make a Difference, Bareback, Wanted
Ink:  Moody Mauve, Wild Wheat, Early Espresso marker
Paper:  Wild Wheat, Copper Clay, Misty Moonlight, Thick Very Vanilla, Earthen Elegance DSP
Accessories:  None

Existential Toadstool

Mornin' y'all!  Are you ready for another Terrific Toadstools card?

This time I tried fussy cutting the stamped images without leaving a white border and you know what, I think I like the white borders better.  I used the sketch from Just Add Ink:

The SOS Challenge this week is to use three or more patterned papers, and I figured those three squares would be just the way to incorporate three different patterns.  So I grabbed some scraps and cut out squares with the Stylish Shapes dies.  I used the "glad you exist" sentiment from Saying Hey just because I think it's funny and it fit that banner die perfectly.

That's it for me today, y'all.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Terrific Toadstools, Saying Hey
Ink:  Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Fresh Freesia, Granny Apple Green (it looks extra dark because I just re-inked my ink pad)
Paper:  Fresh Freesia, Thick Basic White, Toadstool Gardens DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Glossy Dots

Peking Duck

Hey y'all!  Today is Ryan's birthday and I made him a birthday card featuring his favorite stuffie friend, Peking Duck!

Yeah I 100% got Easter Friends for that duckling image.  I used the sketch from Retro Rubber Challenges:

Easter Friends is 3 years old; the birthday greeting is from Charming Duck Pond which I think is a year old now.  Ryan's favorite color is yellow so I made sure to use lots of that on the card too.  I also followed the recipe from As You See It:

Birthday celebration, white embossed greeting, ribbon for my die-cut tag, and a trio of pastel colors.  The tag die cut I used (from Merriest Trees) isn't long enough to accommodate the circle I put on top of it, so I spliced together two tags to make it longer and hid the seam with the circle.  One of my favorite tricks.

I'm off to celebrate with Ryan (and Peking).  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Easter Friends, Charming Duck Pond
Ink:  Pecan Pie, Versamark, Stampin' Blends in Lemon Lolly, Peach Pie, Pool Party
Paper:  Lemon Lolly, Peach Pie, Thick Basic White, Lighter than Air DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies, Merriest Trees dies, white taffeta ribbon, white EP, Rainbow Dots, Dimensionals

Stenciled Hydrangeas

Hey y'all, happy Valentine's Day!  Hope you get to spend the day with people you love : )  Today is also the hubs' birthday though he likes to ignore that part and I won't let him.

I also love...playing with new stamps!

I got the Thankful Garden bundle from the preorder for the latest batch of online exclusives; I want a hydrangea accent to use in my wedding album that I keep saying I'm going to finish and this is the first time I've ever played with decorative masks.  I think I need to practice a bit for the wedding album.

Anyway, the hydrangea sprig ended up being a larger element than is drawn on this week's Freshly Made Sketch but I hope it works anyway:

And I paired it with the Inspire. Create. color challenge:

I went with what the color splats look like to me:  Lemon Lolly, Melon Mambo, and Lost Lagoon.  And I found a nice Lost Lagoon pattern in the Timeless Plaid DSP Stack, I've made one other card with that stack but you haven't seen it yet.  It's fun, I want to try out more of the patterns.

Anyway, that's it for me today.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Thankful Garden
Ink:  Night of Navy, Lemon Lolly, Melon Mambo, Lost Lagoon
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Timeless Plaid DSP Stack
Accessories:  Thankful Garden dies, Thankful Garden Decorative Masks, Spotlight on Nature dies, Dimensionals, Riverside Irregular Pearls

Undersea Friends

Mornin' y'all!  Ryan is on a two-hour delay for school today so he's got about another half hour before we have to get ready to go.  Tomorrow is a 3-hour early release and at this point I think I could count on the fingers of one hand the number of times this school year that he's gone to school five full days in a row, Monday through Friday in a single week.  Ugh.

Anyway, I have some undersea critters to share today.

I finally used the Ocean Friends stamps!  I got some (probably dog) hair on the stamp, you can see on the lobster's claw, but I kinda liked the effect on there, I thought it gave him some personality.  Check out the colors at CAS Colours & Sketches:

Now, I don't like Poppy Parade and Melon Mambo together so to be honest I was going to skip this challenge until I saw Amanda Mertz's card where she used Ocean Friends with these colors.  So thanks for the idea, Amanda!

I'm also using this week's CASE-ing Tuesday Sketch:

I left my card base plain since the color challenge is also CAS.  And then I was left with a scrap of the Melon Mambo patterned paper with a circle cut out of it and I couldn't just toss it, so...

I made a crabby card too!  Same colors, just switching up the layout since I was using the negative of the circle die cut.  And this card gives more separation between the Melon Mambo and Poppy Parade, which is good.

So two undersea friend cards that came together pretty quickly.  Gotta love that.

I'm going to enjoy my morning cuppa before I wrangle Ryan off to school.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Ocean Friends
Ink:  Poppy Parade, Summer Splash
Paper:  Summer Splash, Thick Basic White, Friends of the Ocean DSP
Accessories:  Ocean Friends dies, Spotlight on Nature dies, Dimensionals