Wintry Tree

Mornin' y'all!  How's your New Year's Eve starting?  I was once again super lazy and didn't get out of bed until late (which was lovely), and I am currently sitting here with my morning cuppa.  Looks like a nice, sunny day today, and substantially warmer than usual (in the 50s), so Daphne and I will go out to enjoy it here in a little bit.

But first, I have the last of the cards I made for the hubs to take in to work.

I'll be honest, I wasn't super thrilled with how this card turned out and I would have remade it if I hadn't been in a time crunch and the hubs' coworkers don't know anything about card design anyway so it was good enough for the job.  I am planning to get in my craft room this afternoon to have some fun on the last day of the year.  Side note, how is it the last day of the year when I only just got accustomed to writing 2025?

That's it for...this year I suppose, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Above It All
Ink:  Pool Party, Garden Green
Paper:  Pool Party, Garden Green, Thick Basic White, Snowy Scenes DSP
Accessories:  Snowy Scenes dies, Dimensionals

Reindeer Wishes

Mornin' y'all!  Hope your Turkey Day week is going well!  I've tried to stall as long as possible but I think it's time to start making winter Christmas cards in earnest...I try to stay with fall for as long as possible because it's my favorite season and Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  I flatly refuse to decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving, but I'll let a couple of cards slip in early I suppose.  All that to say, hey look reindeer!

I absolutely love last year's Reindeer Fun suite and I had to bust out the DSP for the new Festive Friday challenge:

I hit Christmas colors (traditional red and green), warm wishes sentiment, and reindeer.  I actually fussy cut two reindeer from the DSP, but when I started playing around with parts and pieces I ended up only using one of them.  You know that means I need to make another reindeer card, can't leave her out in the cold!  Anyway, the only stamping on here is the greeting from Above It All, and I didn't even have to cut the jingle bells and holly patterns I used for the backgrounds as they were scraps and the sizes worked for this card.

That's it for me today, peeps.  We're having a honey baked ham for dinner tonight, which has been a tradition in my family for the last several years--the hubs and the kid like ham better than turkey, but I flatly refuse to skip turkey for Thanksgiving, so we have ham the day before Thanksgiving and they can have leftover ham if they want and I get my Thanksgiving turkey.  (And pies!) Hope you have a great day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Above It All
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Garden Green, Real Red, Reindeer Days DSP
Accessories:  White EP, Mini Dimensionals, Gold Swirl Accents

Wonder & Cheer

Mornin' y'all!  Ryan is happy that he gets to wear jammies to school today, and they're watching The Polar Express so he gets to bring in a blanket and a pillow too.  Hmm, maybe I should get cozy on the couch and watch a Christmas movie while he's at school :)

Or maybe I'll spend some more time in my craft room.  Check out today's new card:

Okay y'all, I'm not really one to do a lot of different techniques and things like this card are the reason why.  The background is done with Stampin' Blends and 91% isopropyl alcohol, Ruth made it look easy when she described how to do it but it took me at least 4 tries and a full sheet of vellum to get this and really I gave up rather than keep experimenting because I only had a little bit of time before I had to go pick Ryan up from school.  I did do another technique on the green die cut trees though, I scrunched up a piece of plastic wrap from my kitchen, dabbed it on my ink pad, and then tapped it on the tree die cuts.  Gave them a nice texture that I think complements the style of the stamped trees.

So here is this week's excellent Freshly Made Sketch:

And here is the Color Throwdown:

I used Cucumber Crush (retired), Rich Razzleberry (also retired), Starry Sky (retiring next summer), and gold foil.  Part of my problem with the Blends background was that the Starry Sky kept overpowering the Rich Razzleberry, maybe I should have tried it with Blackberry Bliss instead.

So that's it for me today.  Ryan has his first taekwondo belt test this afternoon, I hope he does well for that.  And then we're going out for dinner at a hibachi restaurant per his request.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Above It All
Ink:  Cucumber Crush, Versamark, Stampin' Blends in Starry Sky and Rich Razzleberry
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Starry Sky, Vellum, Starry Sky DSP, gold foil
Accessories:  Above It All dies, Timeless Labels dies, gold EP, Wonderful Gems, Dimensionals

Winter Fox

Mornin' y'all!  Well, it's morning here for 32 more minutes anyway.  I had to wait for the sun to come up to take a picture of one of my cards today so I'm a bit later than usual with today's post.  But here we go!

Okay, y'all, I was doing such a good job of resisting the One Horse Open Sleigh DSP Stack but I kept seeing this fox all over and wouldn't you know my resistance crumbled and this paper magically appeared at my house yesterday.  I wasted no time in diving into it with this week's sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday:

And I figure my winter fox counts for the new challenge from Cupcake Inspirations too:

I used just two sheets of these papers, the Misty Moonlight dot is the reverse of the trees that are on the right side of my card.  I still had a big piece of the fox paper though so I did this:

Simple die cut, add a sentiment and a few Tinsel Gems and side note, I love those Tinsel Gems, I got both packs.  Anyway, I had a little strip of the dots left too so this card was made from the scraps of the first one.  And the DSP is 100% doing the work on both of the cards, the only stamping is the greeting on each card (and on the inside of the fox card, where it says I love you).

That's it for me today.  I kinda took some time off from scrapbooking last week when I couldn't seem to get focused on anything, but I did jump back in on that yesterday so I have two Christmas layouts in the works.  Trying to do all my paper crafting now since it'll be harder for me to get craft room time once Ryan is on winter break starting midday Friday.  Cheers!

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  Softly Sketched
Ink:  Pebbled Path
Paper:  Pebbled Path, Mossy Meadow, One Horse Open Sleigh DSP Stack
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Dimensionals, Brushed Metallic Dots in copper

Supplies, second card:
Stamps:  Above It All
Ink:  Pebbled Path
Paper:  Pebbled Path, One Horse Open Sleigh DSP Stack
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Dimensionals, Tinsel Gems

Sky Truck!

Mornin' y'all!  Hope your day is off to a good start.  I did get my Thanksgiving menu sorted out yesterday and I am going to be one busy baker next week!  It's ambitious, but I think I can do it.  So excited for PIE!

Anyway, I have a card to share today and I finally inked up a new stamp set I got weeks ago!  Take a look:

So, the hubs, kiddo, and I have ridden in gondolas like this in multiple countries, but the first one we ever went on was when Ryan was about two I think?  We were in Tennessee with our friends Bennet and Missy, I remember that.  So we were waiting in line to ride a big gondola up the mountain and Ryan was asking what it was, so I tried to explain it to him and eventually just said it's a sky truck (because he looooved trucks, his dad had a truck at the time, and I knew he'd understand that).  So then "sky truck" became the silly catchphrase of that trip and we still say it when we see a gondola like this!  So yeah, I tried to resist this stamp set but I just had to have it.  Also I really like the style of the trees in this set, just a fun artwork style.  And if we're moving to Colorado next year, I may be needing this for future scrapbook pages.  Or ones from being in the Alps over the last few years!

Anyway, I started with the Paper Players color combo:

I added Night of Navy as my extra color, and the Real Red and Shaded Spruce immediately made me think of the Wrapped in Plaid DSP and you know what?  I just discovered that it's Cherry Cobbler in the DSP, oops!  Well, I used Real Red for my gondola anyway.  I paired that with the awesomely layer-tastic sketch from Sunday Stamps:

That's actually my second attempt at this card, my first attempt was a little closer to the original sketch:

I just wasn't happy with the sentiment being bisected by the cables but I didn't really want to add a layer for it either.  I was thinking about it as I was trying to go to sleep last night and just decided to have another go at it this morning.  Plus I really like the adventure sentiment because in 20 years of marriage, the hubs and I have been on a lot of adventures!  Living in I think nine different houses over four states and three foreign countries and doing a lot of traveling.  I'm excited that my adventure buddy will be here for Thanksgiving next week!  He'll only be here for two days but we'll take it.

Anyway, I'm going to go get ready to get my hair cut.  Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Above It All
Ink:  Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Night of Navy, Versamark
Paper:  Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Wrapped in Plaid DSP
Accessories:  Above It All dies, Dimensionals, Gold EP