Happy Birthday Ryan (4)

Scrappy Monday!  Ugh, it feels like a long time since I last got to scrap, I want to get back to it.  I finished stitching Ryan's duckling yesterday so I need to get it washed, pressed, and put in a hoop before the weekend since his birthday is on Saturday.  And I have a Ryan birthday layout to share today!

Ryan's favorite color was red (he changed it to yellow last year), so I used that for the page base and pulled the other colors from the Merry Bold & Bright DSP.  Yeah, that was a Christmas paper pack, but lots of the patterns are good for other stuff too as you can see here.

Today's celebratory color palette:  Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry, Shaded Spruce, Lemon Lime Twist, Blueberry Bushel, Pool Party, and white.

I'm off to do laundry and take Daph for her walk.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Retro Alphabet Upper, Party Wishes, Celebrate Today
Ink:  Lemon Lime Twist, Blueberry Bushel, Crushed Curry, Shaded Spruce, Pool Party
Paper:  Poppy Parade, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Pool Party, Thick Basic White, Merry Bold & Bright DSP
Accessories:  Balloon Dies

Birthday Balloon

Some days, it's just a fight to get anything done in the ol' craft room.  Seriously, it took me over an hour to get today's card made; I started something completely different, played around with it a bit, and even glued something down before I trashed the whole thing and started over with just the Tangerine Tango balloon I had cut out.  And then finally I got to here:

Which I kinda like.  I picked some bright colors that I thought would go well with Tangerine Tango (Cucumber Crush and Bermuda Bay) and then put all of 'em on a black card base to make it all pop.  For the streamers, since this is a photopolymer set I was able to scrunch it up a bit when I did the Bermuda Bay one so it doesn't look like an exact replica of the Cucumber Crush one.

This week's Global Design Project challenge is to party like it's 1999:

Maybe I should do a purple card in honor of Prince.  Or I could just jam to the song when I go back down to my craft room.  (Fun fact:  when I was six years old, my favorite song in the world was Raspberry Beret.  I'm sure that my parents thought it was hilarious that I had No Clue what Prince was singing about, I just liked the beat.)  I'm hoping that the scrapbook pages I plan to work on next are a bit less hassle.  And you know what?  Those ARE going to be purple!

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Celebrate Today
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, Cucumber Crush, Bermuda Bay, Basic Black, Whisper White
Paper:  Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Thick Whisper White, Cucumber Crush & Bermuda Bay DSP
Accessories:  White EP, Balloons Framelits, Dimensionals