Pinkety Pink Pink

Howdy folks!  Gotta type fast so I can hit the road and get to work.  Today's card is brought to you by the color pink.

I busted out some old Pink Pirouette for this one!  I flipped this week's Freshly Made Sketch by 180 degrees just because of how the rose image is done, this made more sense to my brain.

And the pinks are for this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Very Vanilla, and Sahara Sand for my colors.  I stamped the roses I think 3 times to darken up the Pink Pirouette a bit, and then I sponged some around the image panel too.  Beautiful Friendship is on the retiring list, and it's a gorgeous stamp set so get it now if you don't have it already! :)

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautiful Friendship, Waterfront
Ink:  Pink Pirouette, Sahara Sand, Melon Mambo
Paper:  Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Thick Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette DSP
Accessories:  Tasteful Labels dies, Dimensionals

SUO Challenges: Designer's Choice

 Hey y'all!  Are you ready for the first challenge of the year from SUO Challenges?

We're doing something nice and easy for our theme this time:  Designer's Choice :) That means you pick anything you want to make and as long as you use only Stampin' Up! products, then it counts for our challenge.  So here's my card:

I will be sending thinking of you cards to my mom all year as she undergoes chemotherapy, so here's the first one of the new year.  This is one of those cards that doesn't look like much on the computer screen but is really lovely in person--after I stamped the sentiment, I painted over it with Wink of Stella and that just makes this card so much prettier IRL!

Hope you'll join us to kick off another great year of SUO Challenges.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautiful Friendship, Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Soft Sea Foam, Petal Pink, Shaded Spruce
Paper:  Soft Sea Foam, Thick Whisper White, Peony Garden DSP, Regals DSP
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, Dimensionals, retired Basics Sequins

Mixing Blooms

Mornin' y'all!  Yesterday morning while Ryan was at the babysitter's house, I sorted through a bunch of stuff for the kitchen for our upcoming move, and in the afternoon I got a bit of time in my craft room to make a card.  Productive day!

My Petal Pink ink pad is extra super ridiculously juicy!  The flowers came out darker than I thought they would.  The leaves are Pool Party and the flower centers are Misty Moonlight, which I stamped off once to make it a bit lighter; the sentiment is full-strength Misty Moonlight.

Once again I had a fun time choosing elements from the Festive Friday challenge:

I'm a bit of an overachiever so I picked more than three:  friendship sentiment, pink, flower, sparkle (I used Shimmery White cardstock, though it doesn't show up in the picture), ribbon, and a die cut.  I don't use up ribbon very quickly, so a few years back I stopped buying it; I still have quite a bit of ribbons but they're all retired.  No one I'm liable to send cards to will know or care if the ribbon is retired, so I used it!  The sequins are retired too.

I chose my colors based on the Global Design Project color challenge:

I am more inclined to pair Misty Moonlight with Seaside Spray (see here), so it's nice to see how it pairs up with Pool Party instead.

For my next trick, this card also fits in with the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge:

I already had the flowers and the colors chosen, and when I saw this challenge I remembered that I had some self-adhesive Petal Pink sequins so I used some of those on my card too :)

We've got a busy day ahead--Ryan has a dentist appointment this morning and then we have several appointments this afternoon to get ready for our move.  Better wear my roller skates today so I can move faster!  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Blossoms in Bloom, Beautiful Friendship
Ink:  Petal Pink, Pool Party, Misty Moonlight
Paper:  Shimmery White
Accessories:  Ornate Frames dies, retired Sycamore Street ribbon, retired self-adhesive sequins, Dimensionals

SUO Challenges: Girl Power

Okay, I'm trying to get back in the swing of things, and to help me along with that, we have a new challenge starting at SUO Challenges.

This time the challenge is to make a card for a lady in your life--I know Mother's Day was last weekend, but that doesn't mean we can't make cards to celebrate all the women we know:  moms, daughters, nieces, friends, whoever.

I decided to go with Beautiful Friendship for my stamp set because I love the floral images and it's so easy to make a pretty (and feminine) card with them.  I had pulled out the striped pattern in consideration for something else and didn't use it, so I started with that on here and let it dictate the colors for my card--Lovely Lipstick, Petal Pink, Purple Posy, and Mint Macaron (not in that particular pattern, but still featured in the Best Dressed papers).

Play along with the challenge at the SUO Challenges blog.  Have a great day, stampers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautiful Friendship
Ink:  Lovely Lipstick, Petal Pink, Purple Posy, Mint Macaron
Paper:  Petal Pink, Thick Whisper White, Best Dressed DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Stitched So Sweetly dies, Dimensionals

Healing Hugs

Mornin' y'all!  The hubs got home early from work yesterday, and when he got here, I was dithering between working in my craft room or doing some stitching.  He shooed me into my craft room for a bit and I can't say I'm sorry about that :)  I made a quick card and started on another scrapbook layout, and I still got a bit of stitching done after dinner so yay!  Here's my card:

 I'm entering this in three challenges that I think were just made to be combined.  First up is the Global Design Project CASE the Designer challenge:

I used several elements from the inspiration card on my card: large floral image, yellow, sponging, the Stitched Nested Labels die, and the pair of rhinestone accents.  And look how well this pairs with the Fab Friday sketch:

It would be SUPER easy to quickly make a bunch of cards with this sketch and a stack of DSP, then choose a variety of sentiments.  I stamped the floral layer on my card, so it took a bit more time than doing a die cut of DSP, but I like that idea ;)

Last up is the Paper Players color challenge:

I really like these colors together and quite enjoyed playing with them.  I thought the yellow gingham background made for a nice cheery card, but it's got kind of a warm hug feel that's great for a get well card.  At least that's what it felt like to me!

Hope y'all have a great day.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  So Sentimental, Beautiful Friendship
Ink:  Seaside Spray, Gray Granite
Paper:  Seaside Spray, Thick Whisper White, Subtles DSP in So Saffron
Accessories:  Stitched Nested Labels dies, Stitched So Sweetly dies, Dimensionals, rhinestones

Elegant Hydrangea

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday!  I've been working in my craft room, but still focusing on scrapbook pages, so I've made just one card this week.

I was inspired by the Color Throwdown challenge to pull out these elegant colors!

I used Night of Navy, Pretty Peacock, and Crushed Curry for my colors.  I stamped off once for the Pretty Peacock leaves or else I think they would have overpowered the Crushed Curry hydrangea.  Which reminds me, I need to re-ink my Crushed Curry and Night of Navy ink pads.

I also used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I traced a dinner plate and just cut with scissors to get the curve.

I chose the birthday sentiment so this would fit with the Global Design Project theme challenge:

And as luck would have it, Just Add Ink is doing the same theme!

I like the picture on their graphic, maybe I'll make time this weekend to make a card using the picture as inspiration.

Hope you have a great weekend, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautiful Friendship, Seaside Notions
Ink:  Crushed Curry, Night of Navy, Pretty Peacock
Paper:  Night of Navy, Shimmery White, Pretty Peacock DSP
Accessories:  rhinestones

Heartfelt Hydrangea Sympathy

Hey y'all!  It's been a busy week here.  We live in North Carolina, so we've been preparing for Hurricane Dorian.  We're far enough inland that we don't expect it to be too bad where we are, but when a hurricane is coming you have to prepare for the worst-case scenario, so that's what we've been doing.  I managed to carve out some stamping time yesterday and made this:

I started with the sketch from Fab Friday:

Added the colors from Global Design Project:

And finished with the theme challenge from Inspire. Create:

I like this particular challenge because I hate to make sympathy cards when I actually need to send one, so it's nice to have a couple in my stash.  Usually I stick to blues and greens for sympathy cards because I find those colors soothing and comforting, but I thought the GDP challenge colors would still work for sympathy.

Have a great day, peeps.  At least Ryan and I get to go to the Y this morning like usual...they've already decided to close on Friday morning so there goes my yoga class : /  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautiful Friendship, Well Said
Ink:  So Saffron, Rococo Rose, Mint Macaron, Soft Suede
Paper:  Rococo Rose, So Saffron, Thick Whisper White, In Color & Subtles DSP
Accessories:  Basics Adhesive Sequins, Dimensionals

Hydrangeas for a Friend

Hey kids!  How's your day going?  I managed to injure my left wrist yesterday and you'll never believe how--I was swatting a mosquito!  I mean, that's pretty silly, and yet here I sit, typing with a wrist brace on.

At least I'm right-handed so it didn't stop me from stamping!

If you don't have it yet, run and buy Beautiful Friendship right now!  I love this stamp set, it's so pretty.  This is a real KISS card--Keep It Simple, Stamper ;)  I stamped the flowers, added in a few leaves and some yellow sprigs, and then added a bit of sponging--Balmy Blue to fill in the flowers a little, and So Saffron around the outside to give the little bouquet a warm glow.  The sentiment is stamped in Night of Navy, even though it looks black in the picture.  Then a bit of linen thread, some sequins, and boom!  DONE.

Love this retro sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

Just for funsies, I looked up the card I made with this sketch the first time around and you can see it here :)

This time around, I paired the sketch with the Color Throwdown palette of the week and planned the card out in my head while I was at the gym yesterday.

I used Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Balmy Blue, and Crumb Cake for my colors.  Rather a springy palette in my opinion, but so pretty.

That's it for now, peeps.  Have a great Thursday!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautiful Friendship
Ink:  Balmy Blue, So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz, Night of Navy
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Balmy Blue, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  linen thread, Iridescent Sequin Assortment, Dimensionals

Sorta Happy Hydrangea

Happy Saturday, y'all!

Okay, I admit, the card in my head came out nicer than the one that I got on paper, but I tried?

Those circles are rhinestones, which almost never photograph well.  All these stamps are in the new set Beautiful Friendship, which I love, and I must play with it more and make a card I like better.  To be fair though, this card definitely looks worse in the photo than it does IRL.

Check out this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Petal Pink, gold embossing powder, and Memento Tuxedo Black.  Yeah, the leaves are actually GOLD, not brown.  Does embossing powder expire?  'Cause I think mine is super old.

I also used this week's sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch:

So yep, there you have it.  Maybe next time I get in my craft room I'll make something that makes me a bit happier...cheers y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautiful Friendship
Ink:  Petal Pink, Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Gold EP, rhinestones