Purple Mountains' Majesty

Happy Friday, y'all! I'm happy that I was able to get a good picture of this card yesterday so I could share it today :D

I don't use Waterfront very often but I ended up really liking this card when I finished with it.  I need to work with Shaded Spruce more, I love that rich green.  I started with this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And chose my stamp set based on the theme challenge from Global Design Project:

And then I picked some colors I thought would look good together and just went to town making my mountain landscape.  I love mountains, hubs loves the beach, so I guess...we should live in Hawaii?  The sentiment is from Happiness Surrounds, which was a limited time only stamp set from last November I think, and for the Shaded Spruce piece on the bottom, I inked up the Marbled background stamp with a sponge before stamping tone-on-tone with Shaded Spruce ink.  It gave me juuuust enough texture without distracting from the main scene.  I love my background stamps.  I think the epoxy drops are retired but I've got them so I might as well use them.

Hope you have a great weekend, friends.  I'm hoping to get some more scrappin' done in the next couple of days...I finished a layout that I really liked yesterday, and got started on another one.  Having some fun in the ol' craft cave!  Cheers, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Waterfront, Marbled, Happiness Surrounds
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Highland Heather, Mint Macaron, Balmy Blue
Paper:  Thick Whisper White, Shaded Spruce
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes Framelits, Rectangle Stitched Shapes Framelits, Mini Dimensionals

A Bright Birthday

Mornin' y'all!  How's your week going?  We're still trying to get used to the time change here...I'm working on sliding Ryan's schedule to the right, so hopefully by the end of the week we'll be back to a regular schedule.  Can we please not ever do Daylight Savings Time again?  'Cause that would be great.

So for yesterday's card I brought out a few old favorites; for today, I've got one brand-new stamp set only available this month, plus a few newer faves.

The floral images are from Happiness Surrounds, which is part of the Snowflake Showcase promotion and obviously it's more versatile than just snowflakes (though the snowflakes are to-die-for gorgeous!).  I'm looking forward to playing more with both of the stamp sets *and* the super awesome Thinlits!

So for challenges, I'll be entering this one in the SUO Challenge to use die cuts, which is ridiculously easy because I love my Big Shot and all my dies and I have a LOT of dies.  Next up is the Just Add Ink color challenge:

I'll probably be too late to enter the challenge but that's okay, I liked these colors together so much that I couldn't let it pass me by.  I really loved the old Brilliant Blue, and Blueberry Bushel is pretty close to it so it's fun to see it used in a color challenge.  On the bad side, I've discovered that my Berry Burst ink pad has succumbed to the Dreaded Gold Sheen, ugh.  I'll have to buy a new one before the color retires this summer.  And technically the glitter dots I used on my flowers are Melon Mambo, but I thought they worked pretty well here (they look better in person than in the picture).

Next up is the Fall-To Layout:

I was very tempted to use the snowflakes and the Snow is Glistening stamp set for the main image panel, but that color challenge from above made me change my mind :)

Last up is the Just Us Girls challenge:

I don't use the Sheet Music background stamp nearly often enough, so it was nice to have an "excuse" to ink it up for today's card.

And that's all she wrote, folks.  Have a great day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Happiness Surrounds, Beautiful Day, Sheet Music
Ink:  Lemon Lime Twist, Blueberry Bushel, Berry Burst
Paper:  Lemon Lime Twist, Blueberry Bushel, Berry Burst, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Snowfall Thinlits, Glitter Enamel Shapes, Dimensionals