Treasured Friend

Happy Saturday, y'all!  It's starting out quiet, only Daphne and I are up yet and it's all misty outside.  I typed too soon, sounds like Ryan just woke up.  Anyway, Daph-Daph had her first group class last night and she did very well--that's the first time she's been around multiple other dogs without having a fence in between them.  Yeah she still gets squirrelly and distracted by things, but I think she did so well for it being her first time in that environment.  And she's officially graduated from her private lessons and we can do group classes with her as often as we want : )

Enough about my pupper (never!), I did make a card to share today:

Kinda love this, the Symbols of Fortune Specialty DSP is gooooorrrrrgeous and I didn't use much of it before it retired.  The flowers are cut from one sheet of patterned paper and then the next two layers are other patterns in the pack (the plaid is from that year's In Color DSP, my favorite of the patterns they've done in recent years).  I paired that with the stamp set Treasured Kindness for the greeting (also a great stamp set that I hadn't played with enough yet) for my Oriental-inspired card.  Check out the sketch from Just Add Ink:

And the inspo list from Festive Friday:

I used greens, twine, frames (the bamboo pattern layer is a frame around the flowers that I cut from another piece of the DSP, and I die cut it with a Radiating Stitches die so it's got a fun but subtle edge on it), and plaid.  And finally, here's the challenge from As You See It:

For card-making *and* scrapbooking, it's my Stamp-a-ma-jig.  That lives on my craft table full time and I used it on today's card to place the greeting exactly where I wanted it on the die cut frame panel.  For scrapbooking, it would be my Journaling Genie, which is a thing where you can trace lines at even intervals with a pencil so your journaling looks nice and even; if there is writing on a scrapbook page, I used the Journaling Genie on it.  Not glamorous, but those are my two most-used tools.

Time to feed Ryan breakfast and do a bit of yoga to start my Saturday.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Treasured Kindness
Ink:  Evening Evergreen
Paper:  Soft Succulent, Symbols of Fortune DSP, Evening Evergreen DSP
Accessories:  Radiating Stitches dies, Evening Evergreen baker's twine, Faceted Gems, Dimensionals