December 2005

Scrappy Monday, y'all.  Ughhh, I'm so tired!  We're taking care of our neighbor's dog and cat while they're traveling, and doggo has kept us awake the last two nights.  I know part of it is just getting used to being in our house overnight rather than her own house (she goes back to her house during the day when we leave to go to work or run errands or whatever, and the cat stays there all the time) but yeah, I could use some more sleep.  Here's hoping that the third night is the charm!

In the meantime, I have a seasonal layout to share.

Looking at this picture right now it looks like my letters kinda slightly trend upwards towards the end of "December".  Oh well, that's part of the charm of handmade stuff, right?  We only had a couple of pictures from different events in December, not enough for each one to get their own layout, so I combined them here.  I used the same DSP pack as I did for the Christmas Treats layout I posted a while back.

Today's color palette is straight from the DSP:  Baja Breeze (still my favorite), Blushing Bride, Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, and Whisper White.

I'm off to get ready for work, yawning all the way....cheeeeeeers!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Endless Wishes, numbers from Unity
Ink:  Garden Green, Baja Breeze, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Baja Breeze textured, Real Red, Garden Green, Blushing Bride, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Candy Cane Christmas DSP
Accessories:  None

Christmas Treats

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Wow, I haven't worked on scrapbook pages in a really long time.  I won't get the chance this week either since the hubs asked me to make 65 Christmas/holiday cards for his work.  No rest for the crafty!

These photos are from all the way back in 2008; we always gave Sadie and Vader some kind of treat or toy when we first started opening Christmas presents so they would be distracted by the treats and not try to "help" with opening the other stuff.  Man, I miss those two.  Anyway, I've got some nontraditional colors happening here thanks to the Candy Cane Christmas DSP and I like it.

Island Indigo, Blushing Bride, Real Red, Wild Wasabi, my favorite Baja Breeze, and Whisper White.  Well, there is a red and a green on there.

Christmas cheer, kids!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Endless Wishes, Tags Til Christmas
Ink:  Real Red, Wild Wasabi, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Island Indigo, Wild Wasabi, Baja Breeze, Real Red, Blushing Bride, Whisper White, Candy Cane Christmas DSP
Accessories:  None

Ski Trip

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We had a busy weekend with hubs' birthday on Friday and then Ryan's birthday on Saturday.  Our house now looks like Paw Patrol exploded in here ;)

Time for a new scrapbook layout!  Actually I made this one a while ago but we did this ski trip over Presidents' Day weekend years ago so it seems appropriate for today.

This is the only time I have ever been skiing and I am Not A Fan.  Hubs likes to snowboard, so if he wants to go again, we have a deal:  he can go out in the snow as much as he wants, I get to stay in the lodge with a good book and a hot cuppa.  (And when we were at Sapporo, he went skiing/snowboarding with friends while Missy and I toured a chocolate factory, so I definitely got the good end of that deal!)

I used the Layered Letters Alphabet for the page title (only I didn't layer the letters on rectangles or ovals, just simple stamping).  I haven't used that alphabet a whole lot, but I did just do a layout in the last couple weeks where I used it.  I do love to collect alphabets.

Today's color palette is mostly retired:  Ballet Blue, Pistachio Pudding, Summer Starfruit, Basic Gray, and Whisper White.

Have a great week, peeps!  Hope you stay away from the germs...poor hubs has been sick for daaaaaayyyys and it's still sticking around.  Hope that I don't get it...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Layered Letters Alphabet, Endless Wishes
Ink:  Ballet Blue, Pistachio Pudding, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Ballet Blue, Summer Starfruit, Whisper White, Sweet Sorbet DSP
Accessories:  None

Very Merry Christmas 2005

Scrappy Monday, y'all.  We've been busy since my parents arrived on Friday afternoon...actually even before that.  Our dog Sadie disappeared for two hours on Friday morning and I was looking for her everywhere and absolutely flipping out and then she just showed up on the front porch like she'd never disappeared.  It was a stressful morning.

So I haven't done anything in my craft room since I finished my future nephew's baby book (WOOO!) but I still have lots of draft posts of scrapbook pages and even lots of Christmas ones!  So here we go.

This was Christmas 2005; I used circle punches to punch out owls from the Snow Festival DSP to make my accents.  We got my brother this Darth Vader voice changing helmet; that thing was SO funny :)

I got the He-Man & She-Ra Christmas Special on DVD and literally no one else in my family has ever been excited about it :D  Three pics on the bottom right are from Christmas at my hubs' parents' house.

Today's color palette:  Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze, Wild Wasabi, and Whisper White.

Cheers, y'all.  Hope you have a good Christmas Adam ;)

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Endless Wishes
Ink:  Wild Wasabi, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso marker
Paper:  Cherry Cobbler, Baja Breeze, Wild Wasabi, Thick Whisper White, Snow Festival DSP
Accessories:  Snow Festival Tags, circle punches

Snow Day

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Well, I am a week in to my new fitness and diet regime, and I can proudly say I'm down five pounds.  Probably because I'm drinking an ocean of water every day and then of course I have to keep visiting the loo ;)  As I type this, it's 6:30 and I've finished my early morning workout.  Woo!

It *finally* cooled down here and in honor of our new low temperatures, I present this snowy layout:

Aww, Sadie as a wee pupster enjoying the snow!  And then, because she had all the energy then, she got in a wrestling match with the hubs.  Sadie is now a senior lady and spends most of her time sleeping, she has arthritis, and I love her and wish I could make her not hurt when she gets up or lays down.  My girl.

How about a fun PURPLE color palette!  Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, and Baja Breeze snowflakes and Whisper White accents.  Nice wintry palette.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Endless Wishes
Ink:  Whisper White, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, Whisper White, Candy Cane Christmas DSP
Accessories:  lettering template

Nachos: Stellar Christmas

Good mornin', Nacho Average Challenge chasers!  Do we have any of those?  I hope so.  This morning, we've got a great color combo for you:

Lost Lagoon and Pear Pizzazz are two of the colors in the All Is Calm DSP, so I had to use that for my creation:

I think it looks a little better IRL than it does on the computer screen.  And you might recognize the sketch from a few weeks ago:

So this is a double Nacho card :)  Check out the other Nacho DT creations and then go make something pretty for us!

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Endless Wishes (again)
Ink:  Lost Lagoon, Pear Pizzazz
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White, All is Calm DSP, Silver Glimmer Paper
Accessories:  Stars Framelits, Hexagon punch, Dimensionals

Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?

It may have been a balmy 72 degrees here in 'Bama today, but I did build a snowman. 

With circle Framelits and glitter, anyway :)  Not the best picture in the world, but this is what I get for waiting until after dark to make my card and get it photographed.

The technique I used is called Glitter Window, basically you cut a shape out of cardstock and put packing tape over the hole, with the sticky side facing up.  Cover the packing tape with glitter, and whatever is under the glitter window you can stamp or decorate or whatever.  I left my white cardstock alone since it's a snowman :)  I did put the black Candy Dots on the packing tape before I added the glitter, and really I used Hologram Highlights embossing powder because either a.) I can't find my glitter or b.) I got mad at how messy glitter is and threw it away, and then blocked the incident from my memory.

But anyway!  I used the brand new sketch from Retro Sketches:

Actually I got the idea for doing a snowman like this from seeing a card at Ruth's Stamping Corner.  Hers was a shaker card, but it's what made me think of trotting out the old Glitter Window technique.

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm off to Panera for dinner!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Endless Wishes
Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Pacific Point
Paper:  Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, Strawberry Slush
Accessories:  Circles Framelits, Neutrals Candy Dots, Hologram Highlights EP

Very Merry Wishes

Well, if I only have a small selection of current Christmas stamps, then you're gonna be seeing the same ones a few times over :)  And today it's Endless Wishes.

Which is okay because I never used it last year.  This color combo (very similar to the one I used on Monday's gift card box) is from the Color Throwdown:

I'm still not a fan of hot pink with red, but it does kind of make for a playful color combination.  If I'd had Garden Green baker's twine I would have used that, but instead I found the gold twine that I hadn't used since I made swaps months ago and I figured I'd use a gold button too.  Because Christmas cards should sparkle, right?

I used this week's sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

Fun sketch, I like it.  I like the white space on it...or in this case, Coastal Cabana space.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Hope you have a very merry day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Endless Wishes
Ink:  Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana, Real Red, Garden Green
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Real Red, Whisper White
Accessories:  Gold baker's twine, gold button, scallop border punch, Dimensionals

Celebrate the Season

Ok, I'm feeling much better today than yesterday :)  I laid down for a bit, then when the hubs got home we took the dogs for a walk and I felt better after that, and we did indeed order pizza for dinner.  And then we went to bed kinda early and I was even lazy this morning so I'm now headache-free and feeling pretty good :)  And I got a card made today!

I was working on something with this sketch yesterday that ended up in the trash so I'm glad it worked out today.  And it fits in several challenges, like this one from Around the World:

And this sketch from As You See It:

I was on the nose with this one, I even used a tree.  And finally, I tic-tac-toed with the Paper Players:

Go down the right side of the board, and I used white, snowflakes (stamped in my oval), and my favorite kind of glitter--the type that's not at all messy:  shimmery white cardstock.  It DOES have a sheen to it although it's hard to catch on camera.

And now I'm off to the store so we can have tacos for dinner tonight.  And maybe do some Christmas shopping :)  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Lovely as a Tree, Endless Wishes, November 2014 My Paper Pumpkin (snowflake stamp)
Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Pacific Point, Night of Navy, Mossy Meadow, Smoky Slate
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Shimmery White
Accessories:  Oval Framelits (used as a mask)

Cheerful Nachos

Happy TOOSday!  Anyone else get their online shopping done yesterday for Cyber Monday?  I totally couldn't resist ordering a bit of Bath & Body Works shower gel :)  Merry Christmas to ME, haha.  Anyway, it's Tuesday and that means it's time for another Nacho Average Challenge!  Check out this color combo:

Those three colors just happen to be in the All Is Calm specialty DSP in the holiday catalog, but you don't *have* to make a holiday card.  But I did!

It's hard to tell in the photo but all the snowflakes are stamped in Soft Sky; the first part of the sentiment is stamped in Smoky Slate and you can tell that "cheer" is Pear Pizzazz.  I think we should get rid of Soft Sky and bring back Baja Breeze, Soft Sky is just not saturated enough for me.  At least the ink.  But anyway!  I was one of the last people to get Endless Wishes last year....I ordered it, and by the time I got it in my hot little hands, it was sold out so I never used it before now.  I think SU! was smart to bring it back in the holiday catalog this year :)

So.  Christmas tree is up, Paul McCartney is singing about wonderful Christmastime, and it feels wintry inside my house this morning even if it's pretty warm outside.  Happy December, y'all!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to a.) be of good cheer, and b.) participate in the Nacho color challenge.  Check out the Nacho blog for more goodies and get to stampin'!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Endless Wishes (photopolymer)
Ink:  Soft Sky, Smoky Slate, Pear Pizzazz
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Shimmery White, All Is Calm DSP
Accessories:  Rhinestones