October 2020

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  And it's looking like it will be a busy day--Ryan is going back to school after being on fall break for two weeks, I'm meeting Missy for lunch and I also need to go shop for tiles because we have come to the conclusion that we need to replace our entire shower.  (Happily, we are firing our first contractor now.)  What was supposed to be a two-day job has now edged into its third month and I think it will be a couple of weeks before our new contractor can start work, but that gives me time to order tile.  Just hope it's done by Thanksgiving.

Anyway, on to the scrapbook pages!

This is my monthly catch-all layout for October 2020, our first fall in Germany.  I was so excited that we got fall colors there : ) so I would take pictures while the hubs was driving and we went out hiking several times (because 2020, hiking was all we were allowed to do).  Then there's a pic of Ryan with the first pumpkin coffee cake of the year (family favorite recipe, find it here), playing at the village park, and we got me a bike for the first time in decades!  I used my favorite Color Me Autumn DSP and I really wish I had bought like ten packs of it because I am running out.  Sadface.

Here's our very autumnal color palette:  Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.  All taken straight from the DSP and they work great with all my miscellaneous photos.  Man, I haven't worked on scrapbook pages in a long time and now I really really want to...maybe I'll get to do that this week.

Time to get Ryan off to school.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Full Calendar, For All Things
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Old Olive, Thick Very Vanilla, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories:  None

Cozy Kindness

Mornin' y'all.  I got some time to stamp on Friday so I had cards to share through the weekend and here's today's card:

A couple of cozy creatures to go with the Inspired By... challenge:

That knit texture in the photo reminded me of the Knit Together background stamp I got a couple of years ago, and I love the animals from All Bundled Up so that's where I started my card.  I took the colors Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze, and Mossy Meadow from the pic, plus some Wild Wheat.  I thought this challenge worked well with the inspo list at Festive Friday:

I chose bold colors, wool (the knit stamp counts, right?), feet, and kindness.  Now I'm wondering if I have any stamps with sock images...hmm.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Ryan starts school again tomorrow after having two weeks off for fall break.  I will be doing super fun things while he's at school...like laundry ; ) Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  All Bundled Up, Knit Together, Kindest Gnomes
Ink:  Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Stampin' Blends in Pecan Pie, Ivory, Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze, Wild Wheat
Paper:  Wild Wheat, Cajun Craze, Thick Very Vanilla, Mossy Meadow DSP
Accessories:  Ornate Frames dies, In Color Dots, Dimensionals

Regally Missing You

Hey y'all, how's your weekend going?  In about 20 minutes I will be leaving to meet up with a friend whom I haven't seen in I think at least 10 years; we've been friends since middle school : )  So that will be good, and then probably this afternoon we'll take Ryan to a trunk or treat thing.

In the meantime, I made good on my threat and made a second card with the two challenges that I used yesterday:

This time I turned to my favorite Regal Flora stamp set.  Here's the Freshly Made Sketch:

And the Color Throwdown:

This time I did Peach Pie, Very Vanilla, and Crumb Cake, all edible colors (except I actually don't like peaches or peach flavor).  That's a beautiful inspo pic, too.

All right, I'm going to get ready to go.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Regal Flora
Ink:  Peach Pie, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Peach Pie, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Regal Flora dies, Dimensionals, Polished Dots

Thoughts of Autumn

Happy Friday and guess what, today I only have a single card to share.  Whaaaat. I should make another one : )  But for now, here's my card:

I tried to resist, but in the end I bought Autumn to Remember, which is one of the stamp sets that coordinate with the CTMH stuff that SU! now has under their umbrella.  Here's this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I thought the different sized leaves would work well for the circles on the sketch.  And here's this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Peach Pie (again), Basic Beige, and Pecan Pie for my colors, but I kinda want to have another go at this and use Peach Pie with Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake.  Anyway, the entire DT made cards in honor of Barbara Anders, and so I chose a thinking of you sentiment for my card.  Wishing comfort to Barb's family.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Autumn to Remember, Thoughtful Expressions
Ink:  Peach Pie, Basic Beige, Pecan Pie
Paper:  Basic Beige, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Mini Dimensionals, Classic Enamel Dots

Doubled Up (Again)

Hey y'all, happy Thursday.  Apparently this is my week to do double duty on certain challenges because I made two cards with the same sketch yesterday : ) Here's the first one:

We are going DEEP into the vault for this one!  Check out the Retro Rubber Challenge:

Fall Whimsy (the leaf stamp) was one of the first stamp sets I ever bought; the oldest card with it in my Splitcoast gallery dates to 2006 but I think I've had it even longer than that, so let's just say it is probably approaching 20 years old.  Print Pattern (the diamonds) dates back to at least 2006 as well; French Foliage is at least 13 years old, and Bright Blessings is a wheel that I unmounted and turned into a stamp set and it is also 13 years old.  We are definitely retro today, and I very much enjoyed playing with these older stamp sets.

Speaking of Retro, Atlantic Hearts is going retro and revisiting some of their earliest sketches to celebrate their 600th challenge, so here's the retro sketch:

That is a classic sketch and I couldn't resist making two cards for it, so here's the second one:

I wanted a doggo-riffic card to send to my friend Krissy and this sketch made it super easy.  I kept it really simple with this one, stamping directly onto the card base for both the dogs and the sentiment, then adding some ribbon from my stash.  We might be visiting the Humane Society this weekend to check out puppers for adoption : )

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm going to work on getting a few more things listed on Ebay to sell...wish me luck!

Supplies, fall card, all SU! (mostly retired)
Stamps:  Fall Whimsy, Print Pattern, French Foliage, Bright Blessings unmounted wheel
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Versamark
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Gold EP, Sycamore Street ribbon in Crushed Curry

Supplies, dog card, all SU!
Stamps:  Doggone Friendly, Lighthearted Lines
Ink:  Early Espresso
Paper:  Crumb Cake
Accessories:  Early Espresso 3/8" taffeta ribbon (retired)

For the Birds

Mornin' y'all!  I got some new SU! goodies over the weekend, but they're mostly Christmas-related and I am not ready to be done with fall and Halloween yet so I've been playing with some other stuff.  I have two cards to share today, so I'm going to share the first one, then the challenges, and then the second one.  Here we go.

I saw the new challenge at SOS Challenges to use birds or feathers and couldn't resist playing with Bird's Eye View.  Next up is the CAS challenge from the Paper Players:

And I thought I could put a tag on the Inspire. Create. sketch in place of the greenery:

For some reason I really wanted to play with Summer Splash yesterday, so I made that color the main focus of the card.  Then I started to worry that maybe my card wasn't CAS enough for the Paper Players challenge, so I made a second one, still with Summer Splash but this time focusing on Peach Pie:

I've never been much of a peach person before but Peach Pie is the first of this year's In Colors that I had to buy a whole pack of cardstock for because I was using up the variety pack so fast.  (Pretty in Pink doesn't count because I already had that color from the first time it was in the lineup.)  Anyway, for this one I used several elements from the first card, but made my tag (and bird) smaller and only did one pattern for the strip going across the card front.  I actually used up most of the 6x6 sheet of DSP that I used for yesterday's pumpkin pie card, I have a 1/2" strip left  : )

That's it for me today, peeps.  We're going to take Ryan to another martial arts studio tonight so he can try out a class; we're trying to find something that was similar to what he was doing in Texas.  So we'll see how that goes.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies for the first card, all SU!
Stamps:  Bird's Eye View, Saying Hey
Ink:  Early Espresso, Stampin' Blends in Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Poppy Parade, Pecan Pie
Paper:  Summer Splash, Thick Basic White, Summer Splash & Pecan Pie DSP
Accessories:  Merriest Trees dies, Mini Dimensionals, white baker's twine

Supplies for the second card, all SU!
Stamps:  Bird's Eye View, Saying Hey
Ink:  Early Espresso, Stampin' Blends in Peach Pie & Pecan Pie
Paper:  Peach Pie, Thick Basic White, Summer Splash & Pecan Pie DSP
Accessories:  Tags & Labels dies, Mini Dimensionals, white baker's twine

SUO Challenges: Tricks AND Treats!

 Hey y'all, guess what?  It's time for a new challenge from SUO Challenges!

Get ready....get set...here it is!

And because I was indecisive I went with tricks AND treats : )  So here's my trick card:

Okay it's really not tricky at all but it is a Halloween card.  I thought that Nested Essentials die shape gave coffin vibes so I had to use it with the vampire ghost.  The card base and the sentiment circle are Blackberry Bliss, not black, it showed up extra dark in my photo for some reason.

Next up, a treat:

Let's be real here, if this was truly representative of how I eat pumpkin pie, you wouldn't be able to see the pie for all the whipped cream ; )  I was inspired by this card by Amy Koenders and took my layout from there.  There was a pie-tastic color challenge recently at Hand Stamped Sentiments and I had so much fun with it the first time that I had to have a second go.

We hope you'll join us for this challenge.  What do you think, tricks or treats...or possibly both?  Have fun and don't forget to upload your card at the SUO Challenges blog!

Supplies, ghost card:
Stamps:  Playful Ghosts
Ink:  Blackberry Bliss, Lemon Lime Twist, Versamark, Stampin' Blends in Blackberry Bliss, Lemon Lime Twist, Rich Razzleberry
Paper:  Blackberry Bliss, Lemon Lime Twist, Thick Basic White, Peach Pie DSP
Accessories:  white EP, Nested Essentials dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Purple Shimmer Gems, Dimensionals

Supplies, pie card:
Stamps:  More Than Autumn
Ink:  Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Stampin' Blends in Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Ivory
Paper:  Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Pecan Pie & Pumpkin Pie DSP
Accessories:  More Than Autumn dies, Nested Essentials dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, In Color Shimmer Gems