More Gingerbread

Mornin' y'all!  My guys got up super early this morning to go on a day trip skiing, so me and Daph are going to bake cookies all day.  I made three cookie doughs yesterday and let them chill overnight, so now it's time to start baking...right after I finish this blog post : )

These are two of the cards I made for the hubs to take to coworkers last week.  I pulled out a whole bunch of Christmas stamp sets and DSPs, and I discovered that I had already die cut a bunch of the gingerbread elements from the Gingerbread & Peppermint DSP, so these two cards came together pretty quickly.  I started with the card on the right and I had Dimensionals on the back of the round ornament when I discovered that it wouldn't fit where I wanted it on that card, so I used the bell and made the green card to use the round ornament.

That's it for now, peeps.  It's still dark outside but I'm going to fire up the oven and get started on double chocolate crinkle cookies.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Frosted Gingerbread
Ink:  Old Olive, Real Red
Paper:  Old Olive, Real Red, Whisper White, Gingerbread & Peppermint DSP Stack
Accessories:  Gingerbread dies, Dimensionals

The Schilthorn

Mornin' y'all!  Here we are in July and I'm sharing a scrapbook layout with snow on it, but that's what happens when you go up in the mountains even in the summertime, so here it is:

Continuing our Swiss adventure, we took four gondolas up to the top of the Schilthorn, which has a restaurant that was featured in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.  We went up there twice and the first time it was so cloudy that we were playing peekaboo with the surrounding mountains, though it was pretty funny to watch a gondola go down and just disappear into the clouds.

Today's snowy palette:  Blueberry Bushel, Coastal Cabana, Taken with Teal (that looks very, very off in the palette photo), and white.  All the blues : )

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Frosted Gingerbread
Ink:  Pebbled Path, Blueberry Bushel, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Blueberry Bushel, Coastal Cabana, Taken with Teal, Basic White, Best Year Ever DSP
Accessories:  Gingerbread dies

In other news, the hubs put together the two new bookshelves this weekend, so on Saturday I had to reorganize all my books.

That's not all of them and this is after several big book purges.

There's the finished job in the downstairs bookshelves.  I left some open spaces on the left because I've already preordered three hardback books that will be released later this year, and the top left shelf has extra space for my growing Hardy Boys collection.  The right shelf, meanwhile, is all my Nancy Drews, finally spread out where I can see all of them instead of being double-stacked.  Makes my little book dragon heart happy : )

And here's the upstairs shelves, which aren't organized as well and are also still double-stacked but that's what I've got for now.  I need to clear out a few more books for sale but not right now, I was stupid when I was moving books around and hurt my back.  It's getting better but still not great.

Gotta take Ryan to camp.  Cheers!

You Get a Gold Star

Hey kids!  The hubs "surprised" me the other day by scheduling me for my Covid booster shot, so that's happening this afternoon :p  Here's hoping I don't feel as bad as I did with both of the other shots!

Quick and simple card for today.

I started with the Paper Players color challenge:

I keep forgetting that I bought the gold ribbon in the Blackberry Beauty suit, I could have used it for this challenge!  Oh well, maybe next time.

This week's Freshly Made Sketch is similar to the Global Design Project sketch I used yesterday:

Funny how that worked out!  I used the star as the pink circle in the sketch, and stamped the splatter from Gorgeous Leaves twice on the background for the other two circles.  I stamped them in Versamark and clear embossed so they would be shiny like the star but not be too dark on the Merry Merlot cardstock.  I really don't use Merry Merlot very often...

Cheers, y'all.  Wish me luck with my shot today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Gorgeous Leaves, Frosted Gingerbread
Ink:  Versamark, Shaded Spruce
Paper:  Shaded Spruce, Merry Merlot, Thick Very Vanilla, Gold Foil
Accessories:  Gingerbread dies, clear EP, Dimensionals

SUO Challenges: Christmas Is Coming

AAAAAAAACCKKKK I'm late with my SUO Challenges post!  I was deep in Thanksgiving prep mode today--I made FOUR pies and some Mississippi Mud (uh, we're having four adults and one kid for Thanksgiving).  And then a quick errand turned into an absolute odyssey when we got stuck in a 2 1/2-hour traffic jam this evening.  But enough about that, it's time for another challenge at SUO Challenges!

This time around we're doing Christmas projects!  I have several Christmas stamp sets that I haven't played around with much yet (or at all in some cases) and then...I made a card where the only stamp is the greeting on the inside, haha!

I could have used the Frosted Gingerbread stamp set for my images, but the Gingerbread & Peppermint DSP is just so cute that I had to use it.  So I used a stamp on the inside:

It's past 9 p.m. where I am so I think it's time to go to bed.  Make your own Christmas project and share it at the SUO Challenges blog.  Time to get your merry on!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Frosted Gingerbread
Ink:  Real Red
Paper:  Cinnamon Cider, Old Olive, Thick Basic White, Gingerbread & Peppermint DSP Stack
Accessories:  Gingerbread dies, Dimensionals