Lighthouse Triptych

Mornin' y'all!  I had a good time in my craft room yesterday and I have a couple of cards that you'll be seeing in the next few days, but let's start with this one:

We are kicking it old school for the Retro Rubber Challenge:

Okay, I pulled out Coast to Coast for The Card Concept (graphic below), and it is 19 years old so definitely retro.  So for Retro Rubber's tic-tac-toe challenge, I went across the top with die cuts, stripes, and my choice (stamping directly on patterned paper).  And now I have a story to tell because I can't believe this worked.  I pulled out the old Nautical Expedition DSP to go with my lighthouse, and I wanted to stamp ON the patterned paper but I only had a few small horizontal scraps of the pattern I liked best for that, so how to solve that...think think think...I cut three of the scraps with a Textured Notes die, then adhered them to some solid cardstock in a line and held my breath when I stamped the lighthouse on top since I didn't have enough scraps to do it twice.  Success!  BUT then I noticed I had used Night of Navy for my mat, and the paper is actually Not Quite Navy (long-retired color that I still love).  Oh, calamity!  The lighthouse is stamped in Night of Navy, but that didn't bother me like the cardstock did.  Maybe no one else would notice it, but *I* noticed it, and now I'm really in a pickle because the paper is stuck down.  So what did I do?  I got some dental floss and gently worked it between the layers of paper and I was able to remove the patterned paper *without* it getting warped and creased and unusable.  I can't believe that worked!  So then I put my lighthouse triptych on the correct color cardstock and thanked the stamping muses for blessing me.

Here's The Card Concept that inspired me to break out Coast to Coast after many years:

I'd say my card is in the clean and layered style.  As I was finishing up my card, I decided at the last minute to add some twine as an accent, and because of that I just realized this morning that my card also counts for the Just Add Ink Challenge:

Time to get Ryan to his camp for today.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Coast to Coast
Ink:  Night of Navy
Paper:  Cherry Cobbler, Not Quite Navy, Nautical Expedition DSP
Accessories:  Textured Notes dies, linen twine, Dimensionals, watercolor pencils

National Lighthouse Day

Mornin' kids, how's it going today?  You may have noticed that I've been having a lot of fun lately playing with my retired stamps rather than just what's new (though who doesn't love new stuff?).  I don't have any SU! customers and no one I send cards to is going to notice or care if the stamps I use are retired :)  And it's great when a challenge comes up and I have the perfect stamp for it!  Like, for instance, the new Festive Friday challenge:

As soon as I saw the inspo list I knew which stamp set to use.  Here's my card:

Pretty sure I acquired Coast to Coast in my first year or two of stamping, so it is now at least fifteen years old and guess what, it still works :p  I kept my card super simple--with an image that big, it kinda limits layout ideas so I went with a classic and just tore the bottom edges of my main image panel and mat because I like that look.  From the challenge inspo list, I used a lighthouse, water (water on the image plus I watercolored it, so I had *literal* water on it), blue, and red.  I was going to put some twine on there but I forgot.

We spent a week in Maine in 2019 and I need to get those photos scrapped.  It was gorgeous!  And we did see multiple lighthouses while we were there, too.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Coast to Coast
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Tip Top Taupe, Sahara Sand, Ruby Red, Terracotta Tile, Soft Succulent
Paper:  Blue Bayou, Tip Top Taupe, Thick Basic White, Ruby Red DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Oh yeah, guess what?  The Festive Friday team chose my card as one of their faves for the last challenge.  Thanks, y'all!

Friday Flashback: Filigree

Happy Friday!  This week's Friday Flashback stamp set is Filigree, which was one of my favorite background stamps for a very long time...oh who are we kidding, I still love me some Filigree.  But I don't want you to spend all weekend trying to make it through the entire Flashback, so I just picked out a few favorite older projects with Filigree.

Oh wow, I just saw in the Splitcoast gallery that Filigree retired in 2005!

Also features Roses in Winter, Hugs & Wishes

Wow, way back in the archives for this one:  that's Vintage Violet!

Also features Best of Brides & Babies

Here's a wedding card with one of the "Best of" sets they did a couple years ago.  Filigree is stamped with Versamark and embossed with clear EP; it also looks pretty fabulous done in metallic EP or Iridescent Ice.  Which is on the retiring list, to my great surprise.  I love that stuff!

Also features Land That I Love

Here's a patriotic eagle card.  Oy, back in the day when all I had was cheap big box store ribbon.  I don't have much current SU! ribbon, but I do have a laundry basket full of retired stuff :)

Also features Petal Prints, Happy Everything

Aww, this one's sweet.  I miss Regal Rose sometimes.

Also features Coast to Coast, Sincere Saluations

You know what?  I think a lighthouse makes for good symbolism on a thinking of you or sympathy card.

Also features Print Pattern, Wonderful Wings, Sincere Salutations

Okay, one last one with the kissing technique and a fabulous butterfly.  Of course you recently saw a Filigree-kissed sun on my Here Comes the Sun layout this Monday.

So that's all I'm sharing from the archives today, otherwise you'd be here until next Friday.  Here is today's new creation:

Today's colo(u)r combo is from ColourQ:

It's been a really long time since I busted out the Cool Caribbean, I still have quite a stash of 8.5x11 cardstock which makes me happy.  Sadly, the year that Cool Caribbean was an In Color I wasn't scrapbooking much at all so I never got any 12x12 in the In Colors.

I also used this week's Mojo Monday sketch:

I had a Goldilocks moment with the gold circle element--I wanted to use one of the gold doilies I have, but the smaller size was too small and the larger size was too big, so in the end I just die-cut a plain circle and it was juuuust right.

Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend, peeps.  I think we're supposed to get thunderstorms today and tomorrow, so that means it's a good opportunity to stay home and work in my craft cave!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Filigree, Stippled Blossoms, Thank You Kindly
Ink:  Cool Caribbean, Calypso Coral, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Cool Caribbean, Basic Black, Thick Whisper White, Gold Foil
Accessories:  Circles Framelits, Hexagon punch, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Weathered

Welcome to this week's Friday Flashback!  Today's stamp set of choice is Weathered, a great background stamp.  I was kinda surprised how big the SCS gallery for it is, usually background stamps aren't the ones that people choose to upload cards under.  Anywha, let's flash back!

 Ah yes, before I learned to tie pretty knots :)  I'm not a huge fan of this card but I do like the color combo (Elegant Eggplant, So Saffron, and Wild Wasabi).  The main image and sentiment are from A Beautiful Thing.

Here's an older card I do still quite like and it might possibly still be in my card stash somewhere.  The beautiful butterfly is from Wonderful Wings, and the sentiment is from Fancy Flexible Phrases.

How do you like how Weathered looks when stamped with white craft ink on dark cardstock?  I like the crackle effect.  The main image is from the wonderful lighthouse set Coast to Coast.

Here's one that features Touch of Nature (I know lots of people were gaga over that set, and I liked it okay but it was never one of my favorites) and Amazing to Zany.

Stippled Stencils and Sincere Salutations for this one, and you can't tell from the scan but the sentiment was embossed in gold.

Another Touch of Nature card with a sentiment from Short & Sweet.

And apparently I really liked using Touch of Nature with Weathered, 'cause here's a third bird.  Sentiment on this one is from All-Year Cheer III, and the harlequin is Print Pattern.

Ready for today's brand-new card?

I admit, I had to do another fall card before Thanksgiving...I figure that starting next week I'll be doing Christmas stamp sets for the Friday Flashback but I refuse to start that before Turkey Day :)

The color combo on this one is courtesy of the challenge over at Create with Connie and Mary, lovely fall colors:

And the sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches:

I kind of wish I'd used some kind of pattern for the Tangerine Tango strips on my card, but maybe that would have been too busy with the Weathered pattern on both the card base and the main image strip.  Regardless, I'm not going to redo it now :)

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Weathered, Lovely Leaves, Vintage Verses
Ink:  Sahara Sand, Always Artichoke, Tangerine Tango, Chocolate Chip
Paper:  Sahara Sand, Tangerine Tango, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  None