Gourd Dogs

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I'm taking a brief pause from the Maine layouts to share a Halloweenie layout today with the punniest title ever.

 
Think about it--gourd = pumpkin, but also gourd dogs ~ guard dogs ~ good dogs.  This was the last scrapbook layout I finished in Germany and I had to let it stew for probably a week before I came up with that title.  After all, I'd already used Pupkins, but as in that case, when I finally came up with the punny title I cackled gleefully.  Out loud.  A lot.  Anyway, today's pics are all from Halloween in 2014, I miss my sweet babies.  We are looking forward to adopting a dog or two (or three, if you ask Ryan, though I don't think he'll win that argument with my hubs) next year after we get settled in Colorado.

Today's color palette is taken straight from the Cast-a-Spell DSP:  Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Perfect Plum, and Basic Black.  Um, I just accidentally typed Perfect BUM instead of plum, ha!

Anyway, Ryan and I are going trick-or-treating with his cousins tomorrow night and I just bought my costume this morning.  Ryan says I need to have a costume because he thinks people would make fun of me if I don't, so here comes the No Drama Llama Mama.  Aww man, I need to get some heart-shaped sunglasses!  Cheers, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Carved & Candlelit, Headline Alphabet
Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Old Olive, Perfect Plum, Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Cast-A-Spell DSP
Accessories:  None

Here We Go Again!

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I was the busiest little bee last week.  I completed 7 scrapbook layouts and then on Saturday I took pictures of no fewer than TWENTY-ONE layouts so I have a bunch more draft posts waiting to go now.  Yesterday I finished another layout and started a new one so it doesn't look like I'm going to slow down much this week : )  I like it when I find a scrappin' groooove!

So today's layout is one that I made just last Friday.  Take a look:

I did order several more packs of that amazing Enjoy the Journey DSP so I was okay with cutting into this pack ; )  I wanted to do pink for this layout because of Vader's tongue in two of the pictures and this orange-and-pink chevron pattern just makes me happy.  Pics are from when we were getting them ready to go for their last overseas move, from the UK back to the States, in 2014.  Once I decided what the title was going to be, this came together super fast and I like it.  I added the hearts from Country Bouquet because that stamp set was still sitting on my table and I just liked it on here.

Put on your sunglasses for today's color palette:  Polished Pink, Melon Mambo, Mango Melody, Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, and Whisper White.  Cheerful, right?  I like it.

I'm off to work today for the only day in the next two weeks.  I'm also dropping off some (more) things to be framed, as if we don't have enough framed art/photographs to wallpaper the entire house.  Taking advantage while I work in a frame shop to get that done.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Headline Alphabet, Country Bouquet
Ink:  Polished Pink, Melon Mambo, Pacific Point, Merry Merlot marker
Paper:  Polished Pink, Pacific Point, Mango Melody, Thick Basic White, Enjoy the Journey DSP
Accessories:  Country Bouquet punch, Layering Circles dies

The Big Bad Wolf

Scrappy Monday!  And happy anniversary to me and my hubs, our marriage is officially an adult now ;)

Today's scrapbook layout is from Ryan's second Halloween.

The hubs was gone on Halloween, so when he was home the following weekend, Ryan and I dressed up again as Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf to do a little photo shoot.  I didn't take Ryan trick-or-treating on Halloween either (he was not quite 2, and he didn't need all that candy anyway), we just dressed up and handed out candy at our house.  Ryan loved that wolf costume though, at least once I told him to get something warm to wear as we were on our way out to the Y and he brought me the costume.  I let him wear it (in January) and everyone at the Y couldn't stop gushing about how cute he was.  It's true, he was adorable.  Still is, for that matter.

Today's Halloweenie color palette:  Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black, and Whisper White.  I wanted Halloween colors for the layout despite the red cape in the pictures :)

Hope you're enjoying spooky season!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Make a Difference, Headline Alphabet, Takeout Treats
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Basic Gray, Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Thick Whisper White, Spooky Night DSP, Ghostly Greetings DSP
Accessories:  None

Who You Gonna Call?

Okay, I shared the Halloween layout from Ryan's baby book on Saturday, so I have to share the layout from my regular chronological scrapbook today!  All the pictures except the two on the right were taken on Halloween.

The two on the right were taken at a Halloween event at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate.  I think that second picture from the left is hilarious, how Ryan is looking at me like WHAT does she have on her head?!  I made my colander hat myself :D

Today's color palette is Brilliant Blue, Real Red, Old Olive, and Whisper White.  I am running very low on Brilliant Blue cardstock, so it's a good thing I stocked up on Blueberry Bushel before it retired since they're very similar.

The first packers get here one week from today!  Still got a lot to do before they get here...

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rough Edges Alphabet, Headline Alphabet, Cauldron Bubble, Spooky Sweets
Ink:  Brilliant Blue, Old Olive, Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Brilliant Blue, Old Olive, Thick Whisper White, Brilliant Blue DSP, Summer Picnic DSP
Accessories:  Circle punches

Crate Expectations

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  And it was a relatively scrappy weekend too--I got one layout done start to finish yesterday, and a second one is about 75% done, which will bring my year to date page total up to 90.  Pretty dang good!

Since Blogger got over its snit and is letting me upload pictures again, I can share one of my recent layouts:

The pictures are from the end of December in 2010, so they're not new, but I just finished this layout in the past few weeks and I am *ridiculously* proud of my page title.  We had to get new travel crates for the doggos when we moved to England (even though they hadn't gotten any bigger since we moved them to and from Japan, the airline insisted) and I'm over her still giggling about crate expectations.

Today's color palette is a blast from the past:  Tip Top Taupe, Ruby Red, Brocade Blue, and still-current Basic Black and Very Vanilla.  Very simple layout, and not as many pictures as I usually cram in, but I like how it turned out.

Hope your week is off to a good start, y'all.  We're in quarantine day 156...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Headline Alphabet, Back to Basics Alphabet, Happy Tails
Ink:  Brocade Blue, Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Tip Top Taupe, Brocade Blue, Thick Very Vanilla, Holiday Lounge DSP
Accessories:  Dog punch

Super Dogs!

Happy Halloween!  When I did Monday's blog post, I forgot that I had this Howl-oween layout of my puppers, so I'm posting it today instead (and also, I didn't end up making another Halloween card yesterday).

I miss my sweet boy Vader so much.  As long as he got all the pets and we told him what a good boy he was, then he was perfectly happy to go along with anything, including Halloween costumes.  Sadie, on the other hand, has perfected the art of the silent doggo protest in regard to dressing up.  (If you can't tell, Vader was Superdog and Sadie was Batdog.)

Today's color palette isn't obviously Halloweeny, but it worked with the pictures:  Basic Black, Real Red, Crushed Curry, Smoky Slate, and Whisper White.

Happy Halloween!  Have fun, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Headline Alphabet, Moon Baby
Ink:  Smoky Slate, Real Red, Crushed Curry, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Basic Black, Real Red, Crushed Curry, Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Toil & Trouble DSP
Accessories:  None

The Pack

Scrappy Monday!  I made some progress on my scrapbook pages over the weekend, but it's still going to be tough to meet my 200-page goal for the year.  I may be making fewer cards and concentrating on scrapbooks for a while.

So here's a layout I made a few months ago, from when I moved temporarily back in with my parents prior to moving to Japan in 2008, and my brother and sister-in-law moved in at the same time because they were buying a house.  So we had my two dogs, their one, and my parents' dog all in the house at the same time.  (Sadly, my girl Sadie is the only one of these dogs who is still alive, and she's 13.)

Anyway, the advantage of scrapping pages with four dogs who are all neutral colors is that I was free to pick ANY colors for this layout.  So I chose a wild print from the Confetti Celebration DSP pack (on the bottom) and used it to pick the colors for my page base and mats.  And I used the dog punch and Happy Tails stamp set for an accent on the right page.

So here's my fun color palette for today:  Bermuda Bay, Strawberry Slush, Tangelo Twist, Crushed Curry, Basic Black, and Whisper White.

Have a great day, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Headline Alphabet, Happy Tails
Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Strawberry Slush, Tangelo Twist, Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Bermuda Bay, Tangelo Twist, Basic Black, Thick Whisper White, Confetti Celebration DSP
Accessories:  Dog punch, Stitched Shapes Framelits

Hey Now, She's an Allstar

Mornin' y'all!  Man, we stayed up WAYYYY too late last night...the hubs and I went to see Captain Marvel in the afternoon and went out to dinner (babysitter for Ryan FTW!), and then after Ryan went to bed I watched Wonder Woman just to complete the day of awesome women superhero movies.  Yeah hubs and I went to bed around midnight because we are stoopid.

But it's Scrappy Monday and it's also Sadie's 13th birthday today, so here's one of my Sadie layouts I made a while back!

Hubs' dad sent us a deflated basketball and football with no note or anything, so we assumed they were toys for Sadie.  She ripped the laces out of the football immediately and started pulling out whatever it is that's on the inside of footballs so that one didn't last long, but the basketball turned out to be a favorite toy for her.  We even still have it!  She was so tiny at first that when she picked up the basketball her back end would start lifting up off the ground to compensate.  We found out later that hubs' dad had sent the balls for us to inflate so that hubs could maybe play with the kid who lived next door while his dad was deployed.  Oops!

Today's color palette:  Tangerine Tango (for the basketball), Cucumber Crush (because I love it), Blueberry Bushel, Coastal Cabana, and Whisper White.

Well, I've got a kiddo who keeps saying "I want Mama" so I'd better go.  Cheers, y'all!  And happy birthday to Sadie, I love my girl even when she's annoying ;)

Supplies:
Stamps:  Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Headline Alphabet
Ink:  Blueberry Bushel, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Tangerine Tango, Coastal Cabana, Thick Whisper White, Cucumber Crush DSP
Accessories:  circle punch, stickers (basketball & football)

Vader

Hi, y'all.  It's been a while.  I haven't felt like getting in my craft room at all for the last several weeks because our dog Vader died three weeks ago.  He would usually follow me in to my craft room and lay down in there while I worked--mostly right behind my chair so I couldn't move :)  He got sick the week before we left for our Disney cruise, and we boarded him at the vet's office, hoping that he'd make it to at least when we got back, but he died while we were gone.  I'm having a hard time with it.

Last year I decided to make a concerted effort to scrap my older pictures, particularly the ones from before we moved to Okinawa, so from 2003 to 2007, and these two pictures are from the day we adopted Vader, Easter weekend of 2007.  He was 15 months old and had spent 12 of those months living at the Humane Society before he joined our family.  We brought Sadie up to the Humane Society to "interview" prospective playmates for her and Vader was the best fit, but he acted totally crazy so we really wondered what we were getting ourselves into--but the hubs and I figured that if we didn't take him, no one else would.  One of the best decisions we ever made.  Vader turned out to be a pretty laid-back dog...I mean, he'd get the zoomies in the yard when he was young, but for the most part he wanted to make us happy and just be close to us, like right behind my chair in the craft room, or right in front of the couch, or generally just within three feet of us.

I can't think of any other instance where I've done a two-page layout with just two pictures, but those were the only two from Vader's adoption day so I just went with it.  When my dog Chewie died in 2006, I realized that I didn't have a whole lot of pictures of him so over the years I've tried to take lots of pictures of Sadie and Vader.  I've scrapped a lot of their pictures, but it's going to be a little harder for me to do that now that Vader is gone.  Some part of my brain keeps trying to convince me that he's just snoozing in a different room or something.

Miss you, buddy.  15 January 2006 - 24 February 2019

Today's color palette:  Baja Breeze (my all-time favorite SU color), Not Quite Navy, Ruby Red, River Rock, and Whisper White.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Headline Alphabet
Ink:  Not Quite Navy, Whisper White
Paper:  Baja Breeze textured, Night of Navy, Ruby Red, River Rock cardstock & DSP, Western Star DSP
Accessories:  Stars Collection Framelits

Darth Sadie

Salutations and greetings, friends!  Since Halloween is just a couple of days away, I have to share this layout from Sadie's first Halloween with us back in 2006.  Introducing...

Darth Sadie!  Ahhhh I loved that costume, it was hilarious.  We didn't get our dog Vader until the next year, and he was a bit older when we got him so I never tried to put him in the Darth Vader costume.  The hubs staunchly refuses to help put costumes on the dogs; he says "This is why dogs bite people!" But he does take pictures for me.  Sadie did the toddler thing where she suddenly turns to a puddle of mush while I was trying to get the costume on her, but eventually I wrestled her into it and then she was a Very Good Girl and didn't try to eat her costume for an entire hour.  She did, however, flatly refuse to wear the helmet, but that's okay.  All the trick-or-treaters thought she looked amazing anyway.

Today's color palette is Basic Black, Real Red, Whisper White, and Smoky Slate.  And Sadie is very relieved that since Ryan got here, I'm more interested in dressing *him* up and she doesn't have to participate.  Ha!!  Vader would be happy to dress up as long as we tell him he's a good boy and give him treats.  Vader is such a Hufflepuff.  Sadie, though, she's a Slytherin.  I don't know which house Ryan would be in yet...

Supplies:
Stamps:  Headline Alphabet
Ink:  Real Red, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Basic Black, Real Red, Smoky Slate, Summer Smooches DSP, Smoky Slate DSP
Accessories:  Circle punch, hexagon punch, epoxy stickers from Creative Imaginations

Home Base

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I'm still trucking away at older photos.  Well, going back and forth between baby Ryan 2017 pictures and baby Sadie 2006 pictures, but every once in a while I throw something else into the mix and here's my layout for the house we lived at the first time we were in North Carolina!

The title is me being punny because we lived in a house on base (the hubs rolled his eyes at me, he just doesn't appreciate puns).  These pictures are from way back when we used cameras that had FILM!  And we've moved around a lot in the last almost 15 years, so I've saved at least one address label from each place we've lived and I think I've got pictures of moving in to most of the houses.  Those pics get more interesting as time goes on because it's harder to remember what each house looked like.  The one in these pictures got torn down right after we moved out so at least no one else was subjected to those ugly yellow cabinets after us.

And all of the colors on this layout are now retired except for white.  Say hi to Blue Bayou (I've been reaching for this several times lately), Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi, and Chocolate Chip.  And Whisper White, which I think it's safe to say will never retire because he's a workaholic.

Hope your week is off to a good start, y'all.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Headline Alphabet, Good Neighbors
Ink:  Chocolate Chip, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Wild Wasabi
Paper:  Blue Bayou, Wild Wasabi, Thick Whisper White, Soft Sky DSP
Accessories:  Circles Collection Framelits

Heian Shrine

Scraparrific Monday to you, peeps!  If you recall, I said on last Monday's post that I had forgotten a 5x7 photo and I just really didn't want to redo the pages.  So instead, I incorporated it into this layout, which will go right in front of that one in my book:

See the original pics here.  Sorry for the glare on that 5x7, it's been two years and I still can't find a place in this house to take reliably good pictures of scrapbook layouts.  But anyway, that was the 5x7 in question :)

This layout is a little different for me...I nevereverEVER arrange my pictures so they are flush against each other with no mat in between, but for those three pics on the left-hand page, I just COULD NOT trim even a little bit off and so there you have it.

After wanting it for YEARS, I finally bought the Headline Alphabet off eBay.  I think when it first came out, I decided that I would only get either the Letterpress Alphabet or this one, and I chose Letterpress.  Of course now I want ALLLLL the alphabets :)

Today's color palette:  Rich Razzleberry, Mint Macaron, Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, and Whisper White.  There was a LOT of Tangerine Tango in the pictures, so I only used a teensy bit of it for narrow photo mats and then of course the page title.

Well, I've got dishes to do while Ryan is asleep.  Have a great day, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Headline Alphabet, Empire Alphabet Lower, Kanji
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, Basic Black
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Thick Whisper White, Succulent Garden DSP
Accessories:  None