November 2018

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Hope you had a good weekend.  I'm hoping to spend some quality time in my craft room this week when I'm not working or going to the dentist for the first time in two years (oops).  But it's time right now for a new scrapbook layout!

Actually I made this one two years ago ; ) and pics are from 2018 when Ryan was a year and a half old.  This morning I just got to see his school pictures for kindergarten!  (They're so cute I can't hardly stand it!!)  I miss when Ryan was this little, but NGL I do not miss dealing with diapers and all that stuff.  Anyway, I managed to squidge TEN photos on this layout and I still had room for some journaling, patterned paper, and stamped accents.  #success

Today's lovely fall palette includes Dusty Durango, Dapper Denim, Bumblebee, Wild Wasabi, and Whisper White.  I made several layouts in a row with Dusty Durango and/or Dapper Denim, but since I frequently don't scrap chronologically that doesn't mean they're all in a row.  I have been scrapping all our photos since Ryan was born in chronological order, and I'm just about to start on 2020.  Better get off the computer and go work on that!

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Full Calendar, Falling Leaves
Ink:  Dusty Durango, Wild Wasabi, Bumblebee, Dapper Denim marker
Paper:  Dusty Durango, Wild Wasabi, Bumblebee, Dapper Denim, Thick Whisper White, Dapper Denim DSP
Accessories:  Rectangles Stitched dies, Stitched Shapes dies

Ryan & His Dad

Hey y'all, how's the holiday weekend treating you?  We got back from a weekend in Munich a couple hours ago.  It was still a bit cool out but we have ridiculously gorgeous weather today!  Finally warming up to 70 degrees where it's been in the low 60s, tops, for a long time.  We enjoyed getting out of the house, though I have to say Munich isn't our favorite.  It was fine, just not superfantastic.

Anywha, I've got a new layout to share today for Scrappy Monday and I forgot that I decorated it with fall leaves so whoops.  It's still cute.

When I work on a lot of scrapbook pages in a row, I tend to get in a groove and use one or two colors over and over.  So I made this layout and a couple of other ones with Dapper Denim and Dusty Durango (maybe not together).  It's fun to revisit retired colors on my scrapbook pages.  I haven't done much scrapping lately--I have FIVE layouts that only lack journaling and yet they've been sitting unfinished in my craft room for MONTHS.  Need to get back in the scrappy groove, but lately I've been distracted by my Friday Flashback project.

Today's color palette:  Dapper Denim, Dusty Durango, Wild Wasabi, Bumblebee (I think this was the very first time I used that color!), and Whisper White.

Have a great week, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Back to Basics Alphabet, Larger Than Life Alphabet, Falling Leaves
Ink:  Dapper Denim, Dusty Durango, Bumblebee
Paper:  Dapper Denim, Dusty Durango, Wild Wasabi, Thick Whisper White, Dusty Durango & Wild Wasabi DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies

Fall Leaves

Scrappy Monday, folks!  Okay wow, I need to take some pictures of more layouts I've completed.  I have *lots* of layouts to share, but I'm holding off on showing Ryan's baby book for a while yet (trying to get it finished) and I have a lot of winter and Christmas pages.

Well, we got our first taste of cooler weather this weekend--like, I was ready to throw a party because the high temperature was under 80.  Bring on the fall weather!  I even made pumpkin apple muffins for breakfast yesterday.  So with that in mind, how about a nice autumnal layout...

That's our little Sadie girl playing in a big ol' pile of leaves the first time we lived in North Carolina, I think these pics were from 2006.  She's now 13 years old, has lots of gray hair, and spends most of her time sleeping and I still love her to itty bitty hairy pieces.

Today's color palette is straight from the Autumn Traditions DSP, which may have been the *only* DSP to feature Elegant Eggplant (other than the ones where it was every color in the family).  So it's Soft Suede, Ruby Red, More Mustard, Elegant Eggplant, Always Artichoke, and Whisper White.  All of those colors are now retired except for Soft Suede and Whisper White.

I'm hoping the weather stays cool for a while.  We went out for a walk last night and I didn't feel like I was melting into a puddle the whole time!  The mosquitoes were still out, but I guess you can't have everything.  Cheers!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, Falling Leaves
Ink:  Soft Suede, Elegant Eggplant, More Mustard, Always Artichoke, Ruby Red, Early Espresso Marker
Paper:  Soft Suede textured, Elegant Eggplant, More Mustard, Ruby Red, Whisper White, Autumn Traditions DSP
Accessories:  lettering template

Bear Book: November

Happy Saturday, y'all!  I'm here with another bear book layout, and we're back to another one I like a lot.  Check it out:

I tried to work in green and gold on as many layouts as I could, and can I just say how much I love Blackberry Bliss with the more traditional fall colors?  It just makes me happy.

There's my favorite SU! bear stamp from Thankful Forest Friends.  I looooooove that stamp set and wish it had continued in the big catalog, but regardless it's got a permanent place in my collection.  The leaves are from a much older set called Falling Leaves, and I seriously love that stamp set too.

More leaves on the journaling block.

And the color palette today:  Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, and Whisper White.

On another note, as of today I am officially 39 weeks pregnant; February 4 is my due date.  We're taking guesses as to when Sodapop will actually arrive, and in the meantime I am still trying to work on some scrapbook pages :D  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Thankful Forest Friends, Falling Leaves
Ink:  Rich Razzleberry, Mossy Meadow, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Soft Suede
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Thick Whisper White, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories:  On Film Framelits, Sizzix alphabet

Friday Flashback (Sort Of): Falling Leaves

DANGIT!  I was all set to do today's Friday Flashback post, got a birthday card made for my brother and then I discovered this morning that I'd already DONE a Falling Leaves Flashback three years ago!  Must be a glitch in my system.  But at any rate, I liked the card I made for my brother so I'm sharing it today anyway.

I don't know what it is but the last three cards I've made, I've really really liked (if I can toot my own horn a little bit).  I think I'm getting back in my stamping groove...and I'm doing a lot of scrapbooking too which is also great.  Anyway, for this card I started out with the color combo from ColourQ:

The Candy Dots are technically Tempting Turquoise, but IRL they look like a shade in between Bermuda Bay and Island Indigo so I used them.  The sketch from Freshly Made Sketches made this come together really quick:

So there's another card I need to get in the mail ASAP.  :)  Hope y'all have a good weekend, I think the hubs and I are going to look at new cameras.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Falling Leaves, Sweet Cake
Ink:  Really Rust, Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, Hello Honey
Paper:  Really Rust, Island Indigo, Thick Whisper White, Hello Honey DSP
Accessories:  Brights Candy Dots, Dimensionals

Baby Books: November

Welcome to the start of another week, peeps.  Here's hoping this one starts out better than the last one ended...our lil boy dog hurt his leg and we found out he needs surgery (the same surgery our lil girl dog had a few years ago...twice) and *then* we found out he's got some kind of liver dysfunction we have to figure out how to deal with before he can have any kind of surgery.  It was an expensive weekend.

But let's talk baby books.  We're truckin' right along with the layouts here since I still haven't done any scrapping for myself since we moved.  But hey, I did make 64 total pages for the two baby books and the mama has received them and she likes them, so whee.

And here's the layout for November.  I used some of my favorite fall paper, Orchard Harvest.

And there's my favorite scarecrow from Happy Fall Y'all.  I got him the first year I started stamping and I have used him several times in baby books because he's just so cute.

There's the embellished journaling block with another fave, Falling Leaves.

And the rather large color palette: Cajun Craze, Island Indigo, More Mustard, Early Espresso, Raspberry Ripple, Old Olive, Soft Sky, Soft Suede, and Very Vanilla.  It happens that the patterned paper I used has a lot of different colors in it, and then I added a couple more to color in the scarecrow.

So...next up we take Vader to the vet for a sonogram, and let's hope we get some good news today.  Cheers, peeps.

Supplies, almost all SU!
Stamps:  Happy Fall Y'all, Falling Leaves
Ink:  Versamark, Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Raspberry Ripple, Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Soft Sky
Paper:  Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Very Vanilla, watercolor paper, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories:  Labels Framelits, Festive Paper Piercing Pack, Early Espresso EP, Sizzix Alphabet

Pumpkins, Two Ways

The day after I finished the baby books, a friend of mine asked if I would make invitations for her daughter's birthday party...and said lil girl is a Halloween baby.  She requested purple and pumpkins, so here's what I came up with first:

Halloween colors, and a pumpkin, but still girly with the swirls in the background.  I used this week's new Global Design Project sketch:

Buuut that wasn't exactly what Sarah was looking for so here's my second try:

Sarah really liked the pumpkins I did on her daughter's baby book, so she wanted something similar to that.  I think this needs some sponging around the white panel though...I did sponge on some Pale Plum ink but it's too pale :)  Anyway, baby book.

And a closeup of the pumpkins and swirls:

The space is much smaller on a card front, and I used the pumpkins from last year's Fall Fest instead of my old favorite Carved & Candlelit because of the matching Framelits.  But anyway, there isn't room on a card front to do the swirls the exact same way so I just did them on the entire panel, and we'll see if that meets with her approval.

Anywha, for the second card I used the new Freshly Made Sketch:

So that's your two-fer today, and now I'm craving pumpkin coffee cake.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  Fall Fest, A Dozen Thoughts, Soft Swirls
Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Whisper White
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Pale Plum, Whisper White, Cottage Garden DSP
Accessories:  Circles & Fall Fest Framelits, Dimensionals

Supplies, second card:
Stamps:  Fall Fest, A Dozen Thoughts, Priceless
Ink:  Tangelo Twist, Old Olive, Rich Razzleberry, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Pear Pizzazz, Whisper White, Old Olive DSP
Accessories:  Fall Fest Framelits, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Express Yourself

Happy Friday, peeps!  This week's Friday Flashback stamp set is Express Yourself, a collection of sentiment stamps that was a hostess set in the 2013-14 catalog.  A lot of times I don't use hostess sets a whole lot, but I do love this one so let's go!

Also features Hello Lovely

Something CAS to start off with; I think that Eastern Elegance DSP was one of my all-time faves.

Also features Falling Leaves

This was for one of the crazier Splitcoast sketches; I haven't done one of their challenges in a long time actually.

Oops, I chose the pic that doesn't have the entire card front on it but you get the idea.  Made this for the hubs for our 10th anniversary a couple years ago.

Also features Hearts a Flutter

Another CAS creation...

Also features Best of Autumn

And here's another fall card.  I like that leaf, it's a pretty image.

Also features Serene Silhouettes

I loved how the color wash looks on the silhouette image panel, and then right when I was finishing up this card I got a smudge on it.  Oops.

Also features Lovely as a Tree

Are you seeing a trend with the sentiment stamp yet?  The other sentiments are perfectly good too but I seem to be drawn to that "always thinking of you one".  And for my next trick:

Yup, I used the same sentiment on today's new card.  I do love how this one turned out though, I used the color challenge from Colour Q:

Those colors just screamed FALL to me so I went with it (though I do have some flower stamps that look like the images on that phone case).  Fall is my favorite time of year; I'm looking forward to cooler temperatures, sweaters and scarves without being absolutely frozen solid, and of course fall baking.  Because Thanksgiving.  And I just love baking.  Washing the dishes afterwards, not so much :p

I based my card layout off of this older Sketch Frenzy Friday sketch, but the linky is closed for it.

That's it for me this week, have a great weekend.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Express Yourself, Gently Falling, Sanded
Ink:  Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Taken with Teal, Rich Razzleberry, Sahara Sand
Paper:  Early Espresso, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Autumn Meadows DSP
Accessories:  Wide oval punch, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: French Filigree

Felicitations on this fine Friday!  And welcome to this week's Friday Flashback, featuring the background stamp French Filigree.  That's a lot of F's :)  But no failing grades today, just some cards!  So let's visit the archives for some French Filigree artwork.

Also features Falling Leaves & All Holidays

This was my little brother's birthday card one year.  You knew that I was only going to go without leaves for one day :)

Also features Fabulous Flowers

 This one was created when Fabulous Flowers was the featured Friday Flashback stamp set.

Also features Medallion & Occasional Quotes

And here's a birthday card for my hubs from a few years ago.

Also features Well Scripted & My Matryoshka

When we went to Russia, we looked long and hard at the matryoshka dolls and would have loved to buy them, but all the really pretty ones were SUPER expensive so we didn't do it.

Also features Sage Advice & Hearts a Flutter

And there's another former Friday Flashback card.  But now it's time for today's all-new creation:

Hubs' aunt and uncle are hosting us for a big Thanksgiving hooferah next week, so I thought it would be nice to make a card for them.  I used the color challenge from Create with Connie and Mary:

I admit, I was not at all sure about Tangelo Twist on my card...it's just so BRIGHT.  But I think it works because there's so much Hello Honey on there.  I also used the sketch from Just Add Ink:

Easy peasy!  I cut a piece of Hello Honey cardstock to 3 3/8" by 5", stamped it, and then cut it into three strips that were 1 1/8" wide for my background pieces.  Then I pulled out some other wonderful retired stamp sets for the sentiment and leaves, and bing bang boom my card was done.  Which is good, because now I can tackle some other items on my to-do list :)

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  French Filigree, Day of Gratitude, Curly Cute (all retired)
Ink:  Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss, Tangelo Twist
Paper:  Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss, Tangelo Twist, Whisper White
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Grateful Greetings

Welcome to this week's Friday Flashback!  Today's randomly chosen featured stamp set is Grateful Greetings, which has lots of great sentiments for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine's Day.  Just so happens that I have cards for all four of those holidays today!

How do you like this Parisian Valentine?  (I still just like the word Parisian, it's fun to say.)

One of these was up on the blog last month when I did the Falling Leaves Friday Flashback, so I thought I'd show you the two different versions I'd made of this card.

These were the Christmas cards we sent out the last year that we lived in Japan.

And for today's brand-new card:

Toldja I'd do another Halloween card.  The only problem I had while making this was that I'd picked out a sketch to use, but my main image panel ended up being too large and in charge to work with the sketch, so I kinda just went with this layout based on some DSP scraps I had (yay for using up more scraps).  Weirdly, it's almost identical to the Parisian Valentine card, and I didn't even look at that one before I made this one.  Regardless, I rather like the layout, what do you think?  I think I know who to send this one to.

The jack-o-lanterns' faces are stamped in craft Basic Black and embossed with Iridescent Ice EP, which looks really fun IRL but is kinda hard to capture in a photo.  Well, you can kinda see the sparkle, but it's better in person.  This was the first time I'd used my craft ink pad in quite a while and it looked like the Exxon Valdes in there--I think I re-inked it last time and it's now really, really messy.  Oops.

Anywha, I used the brand new color challenge over at Fab Friday:

Great Halloween colors, don'tcha think.  I like a good purple in the mix for Halloween.  Thanks for stopping by for today's Friday Flashback, have a great weekend!

Supplies, last card only, all SU!
Stamps:  Carved & Candlelit, Grateful Greetings (both retired)
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Basic Black craft
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Whisper White, scraps of Howlstooth & Scaringbone and Cast-a-Spell DSP (both retired)
Accessories:  Iridescent Ice EP

Friday Flashback: Falling Leaves

Happy Friday, ready to Flashback?  This week's stamp set is Falling Leaves, which I love :)  So let's get to it!

You'll see that I love to line up the leaves in this stamp set.  This was for my brother's birthday a few years ago (he was born in November).  I also used French Filigree and the sentiment is from All Holidays.

Here's a card that matches one of the kokeshi dolls in my collection :)  Sentiment is from the eponymous Grateful Greetings.

Here's a baby book layout which also features Wonderfall.

And another baby book layout.  I do believe that Autumn Traditions DSP is the *only* DSP that Stampin' Up! has ever had with Elegant Eggplant in it (aside from the monochromatic stuff that comes in every color).  It's a shame too because I love Elegant Eggplant.  I think I (and lots of other people too probably) would use it more often if it was in more DSP.

Here's a little CAS card; sentiment is from the Bright Blessings wheel that I cut up into a bunch of little stamps.

So that's it for the past projects, here's the new card:

Yep, I lined up those leaves again!  Though this time I think they're a little crooked, I was kinda in a hurry.  This is based on some old SCS sketch and color challenges; the sketch turned out much better than I thought it would (though it's still a bit overcomplicated for my taste) and I love the colors together.  Again, I used the Autumn Traditions DSP though even in that there's not a print that features Elegant Eggplant as the dominant color.  That Riding Hood Red print and the acorn print are two sides of a single sheet of paper.

That's it for today, hope you enjoyed this Friday Flashback!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Falling Leaves, Express Yourself
Ink:  Riding Hood Red, Elegant Eggplant, Soft Suede
Paper:  Soft Suede, Elegant Eggplant, Very Vanilla, Autumn Traditions DSP (retired)
Accessories:  Corner rounder punch, Elegant Eggplant brad (I'm using up some old brads instead of using the new Candy Dots)
Stamps:  Falling Leaves