Friday Flashback: Ruff Day

Happy Friday!  It's time for another Friday Flashback, and today's randomly-chosen retired stamp set is Ruff Day.  Let's get to it!

Also features All-Year Cheer I, A Little Love

Why is it that for baby clothes, all the boys' clothing has dogs on it and the girls' has cats?  Oh well, I thought this puppy made for a cute baby shower card anyway.

Also features Background Basics, It's Your Birthday

Here's a kick up your heels birthday card.

Also features Print Pattern, Tag Time, Tiny Talk

And a St. Patrick's Day card.  I bought Tag Time specifically for that tiny four-leaf clover.

Also features And Everything Nice, Background Basics

One more baby card that I made a couple years ago for a friend, who loved it and said it reminded her of a song in Labyrinth where David Bowie sings about snips and snails and puppy dog tails.  Love Labyrinth : )

So here's today's brand new creation!

I knew without even looking that I hadn't used this dog in the beret yet so he was a natural choice for today's card.  And I did take French for, like, seven years; when I was in high school, we used to speak French with an intentional (and terrible) Texan accent just to make our teacher holler at us.  So bone jour, y'all!

I used the colors from Colour Q:

Though I added quite a bit of black, and the only Chocolate Chip is on the dog's spots.  I used retired Watercolor Wonder Crayons to color in the dog, and then watercolored the beret and the "ground" with ink pooled in the ink pad lid.  I miss WWC!

I also used the fabulous sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

Wonderful sketch, right?  Super easy to work with.

Anyway, I think maybe it's stopped raining so I should take my pups out for a walk.  Otherwise we will have a Ruff Day :)  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Ruff Day, paw print from ?
Ink:  Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black, Coastal Cabana, Strawberry Slush
Paper:  Basic Black, Coastal Cabana, Strawberry Slush, Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Accessories:  Chalk Talk & Circles Framelits, Neutrals Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Neutrals Candy Dots, Black EP, Dimensionals

Cordelia's Cards

Howdy, folks!  No matter what I say, I can't seem to get ahead with the card makin' so I've been doing my posts late.  It's a good thing I have to have my Nacho cards done a couple days ahead of time because this Tuesday I spent almost the whole day reading a book...and then went to bed too late because I was wired due to the cliffhanger ending :(  Can't wait for the next one!

But anyway!  Let's look at some cards, eh?  Um, a lot of stuff I used today is retired, because I have a giant stash so I might as well use it.

I said in last week's Friday Flashback that I wanted to make more cards with A Little Love so here's another one.  Up until last week, we could pretty much wear flip-flops around here, but today, it feels more like this:

I put on my heavy jacket to walk the dogs, probably could have used my gloves too, and it was AWESOME.  My mom keeps saying "boo on cold weather" but me, I'm loving it.  Might have something to do with the bit where I felt like Alabama was trying to kill me with heat and humidity for several months.

Anyway, I did two-for-the-price-of-one cards for the Color Throwdown:

Love those colors together.  And I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch:

And why, you may be wondering, did I call this post Cordelia's Cards?  Because, in an early episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cordelia Chase told someone else, "This may be hard to believe but I'm both a summer and a winter."  And for some reason I find that quote amusing.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  A Little Love
Ink:  Night of Navy, Pool Party, Pacific Point, Tangerine Tango
Paper:  Pool Party, Pacific Point, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Sycamore Street & Good Morning Sunshine DSPs
Accessories:  Circle & scalloped circle punches, Dimensionals, Tangerine Tango ribbon from SAB

Supplies, second card:
Stamps:  Festive Flurry
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Island Indigo, Sycamore Street & Quatrefancy DSPs
Accessories:  Festive Flurry Framelits, Pool Party EP, Dimensionals, Tangerine Tango ribbon from SAB, Brights Candy Dots

Friday Flashback: A Little Love

Happy Friday, peeps!  You know why I love the Friday Flashback?  It lets me dig back in my stash of retired SU! stamps and revisit some old favorites, and maybe make some new "old" favorites :)  Like today's set, A Little Love!  It's a cute little set of 12 bite-size images, so let's flashback!

Also features Ruff Day and All-Year Cheer

That little baby onesie with the "yeah, baby" sentiment under it is my FAVORITE stamp in this set.  I don't know why, but it makes me giggle every time I look at it.

Also features Loads of Love & Accessories and Something to Celebrate

I used the umbrella with the "showers of love" sentiment to make a background for this baby shower invite.  I think it can be difficult to come up with card ideas for such small images where they really take center stage instead of being more background elements like in those first two cards, so for today's new stuff I tried to really shine a light on the super-cute teeny stamps.

This quick little card was inspired by a couple of cards that Mary Fish posted not too long ago.  If the colors in the photo are off, I apologize--we won't get our new graphics card in for the Mac until next week, and sometimes I can't tell if a picture looks right on the laptop.  The card base of this one is Pink Pirouette and I stamped the little umbrella with Elegant Eggplant ink and then added a bit of color with markers.

When I saw the little candy machine stamp I thought hey, I have the perfect patterned paper to go with that!  So I had to make a bonus card for today's Friday Flashback.  Maybe I'll get crazy and make a few other cards with this set and next week will be A Little *More* Love?  Who knows!

Have a great weekend, peeps!

Supplies, last two cards:
Stamps:  A Little Love
Ink:  (first card) Elegant Eggplant, Pink Pirouette, Wisteria Wonder; (second card) StazOn Black, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Lucky Limeade, Smoky Slate
Paper:  (first card) Pink Pirouette, Wisteria Wonder; (second card) Pool Party, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Whisper White, Sweet Shoppe Specialty DSP
Accessories:  (first card) what's the name of the punch pack in the current catalog?; (second card) 1 1/4" and 1 1/2" circle punches, scalloped circle punch, Dimensionals