Roaring Birthday!

Mornin' y'all!  I'm happy to report that I did have a better day in my craft room yesterday and that means my friend gets a BONUS birthday card!  Yep, I made yesterday's doggo birthday card for my friend Krissy, but she also loves dinosaurs and this happened:

I used two different dino sets for this--my T. Rex is from Dino Days, and the sentiment is from Dinoroar, which I had pulled out by accident when I was hunting for Dino Days.  But I loved the sentiment with this happy Rex!

I used the Global Design Project sketch:

I kinda like how they had placements for rhinestones/sequins/embellishments, I struggle sometimes figuring out where they should go.  I paired that with the Color Throwdown:

Do you ever see two colors and think Those Do Not Go Together?  That's me with the pink and coral shades on here.  After some hunting through my DSP hoard though, I found that New Horizons print that had three out of the four challenge colors on it--including Polished Pink and Calypso Coral!  So I just added a Rich Razzleberry card base and used it for accents on the dino and the sentiment banner.  Also I finally got the Deckled Rectangles dies and I'm kinda sorta totally obsessed with them.  I've been working ahead on design team challenges and I've used them so many times already!

That's it for me today.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Dino Days, Dinoroar
Ink:  Polished Pink, Rich Razzleberry
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Thick Basic White, New Horizons DSP Stack
Accessories:  Dino dies, Deckled Rectangles dies, Large Numbers dies, Fine Sparkle Adhesive Backed Gems, Dimensionals

Favorites Showcase 2012, Part 1

My humble little stamping blog here is less than a year old so I didn't realize the year-end favorites showcase was a thing until I saw everyone else was doing it and so I'm hopping on the bandwagon slightly late because I wanna go to the party too.  I'm a teensy bit hampered by the fact that it looks like I was a bit sporadic in uploading to my SCS gallery this year, but I've got a few fun cards from the first 6 months of 2012.  (Detailed supplies lists for all my cards are included in my gallery.)

This one uses Curly Cute and Mixed Bunch and I think that might be this year's SAB paper?  Hope I have a hoard of that somewhere ;)

Here's a Valentine card with nary a heart to be seen, but the Eiffel Tower is romantic, right?  This one uses Artistic Etchings, Grateful Greetings (retired), and En Francais.

I didn't have a whole lot in the gallery for around March, but I thought this kid birthday card was tolerably cute.  I like how the background came out--it's just scribbling on the acrylic block with markers, spritzing with water, and smooshing it around on the paper.  This one uses Dinoroar and I forget the alphabet.

So this uses the retired sets Bronc Buster, Wanted (which now live in the same stamp case because I almost always use them together) and Cute & Curly.  I needed an encouragement card for my dad who is a die-hard Oklahoma State Cowboy.

Here's something more CAS-y, again with Mixed Bunch and Curly Cute.  (I kind of love both those sets.)

I couldn't pick just one for June so I've got one manly card and one girly card.  Love this one with French Foliage and one of the retired All-Year Cheer stamp sets; I think I need to use this layout more often 'cause I love it.

One more CAS creation with Kindness Matters and the (sadly retired) Thank You Kindly.  That Beau Chateau DSP is now on the clearance rack...and I am resisting buying any more retired DSP because I think I've hit critical mass when it comes to patterned paper o.O

Stay tuned for the second half tomorrow and Happy New Year!