Inked Flowers

Hey y'all!  I'm back with a third Inked & Tiled card from my play session with this bundle last year.

I layered a couple of the stamps to make my distressed flowers and added some Polished Dots to the flower centers.  Again, just playing with the stamps, dies, and paper.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inked & Tiled
Ink:  Petal Pink, Calypso Coral, Pool Party
Paper:  Calypso Coral, Thick Basic White, Inked Botanicals DSP Stack
Accessories:  Nested Essentials dies, Polished Dots, Dimensionals

Inked Leaves

Hey y'all, how's your week going?  I'm back with another card I made last year and just never posted, once again with Inked & Tiled.

This one has a more masculine feel with Lost Lagoon and Mossy Meadow.  I kept it simple and just played with a few sizes of the Deckled Rectangles dies.

Have a great day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inked & Tiled
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Lost Lagoon
Paper:  Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, Thick Basic White, Inked Botanicals DSP Stack
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Dimensionals

Pressed Petals

Happy Wednesday, y'all!  Today's card is one I made right before we moved out of Germany in 2023 and somehow never got around to posting while the stamps and paper were current, but here it is now:

I really like the Inked & Tiled stamp set, it reminds me of several much older floral stamp sets in the same style and I had fun playing with it.  I was also working on ways to use those Nested Essentials dies.

Cheers, y'all!  Have a great day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inked & Tiled
Ink:  VersaMark, Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Sweet Sorbet (came out looking like Calypso Coral)
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral, Thick Basic White, Inked Botanicals DSP Stack
Accessories:  Nested Essentials dies, white EP, Polished Dots, retired Garden Green ribbon, Dimensionals

Friendly Flower Greeting

Mornin' y'all!  I had intended to post this card yesterday, but I was out all day and it just didn't happen.  I dropped Ryan off yesterday morning with his grandparents, and then I met up with two friends from middle and high school--we've been friends for over THIRTY YEARS!  Crazy.  Anyway, we hadn't seen each other in person in a very long time, so we ended up sitting in a restaurant talking about this, that, and everything else for nearly six hours while we watched the pouring rain outside.  Then I ran a couple of errands and didn't get back to my house until dinnertime.

Anyway, here is the card I had intended to share yesterday:

I bought the Radiating Stitches dies a while back and this is the first time I've used them, they're fun!  It gives a fun pattern on the edges without leaving itty bitty bits of cardstock on my Big Shot plates (looking at you, Everyday Details dies...tiny little circles everywhere!).  Here is the most recent Freshly Made Sketch:

And of course the Color Throwdown:

I used Real Red, Night of Navy, and a gold pattern from the Nature's Sweetness DSP.  I added a bit more gold with the embossed greeting and a few Festive Pearls.  The Night of Navy looks almost black in the photo but I promise it's blue--we had gray skies this week and a full day of rain yesterday so I couldn't get a better picture of the card.

Anyway, I think I might have enough time to make a card this morning before I pick up my spawn.  I always try to do as much crafting as I can when Ryan is otherwise occupied.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inked & Tiled
Ink:  Real Red, Night of Navy, VersaMark
Paper:  Real Red, Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Nature's Sweetness DSP
Accessories:  Radiating Stitches dies, Gold EP, Festive Pearls, Dimensionals

Pink Lavender

Mornin' y'all, who else is cold this morning?  It's not any colder today than it was yesterday but I'm wearing a full set of thermals and a fleece, sitting wrapped up in a cozy blanket, and drinking a cup of tea and still my fingers are cold.  Maybe it should be a bigger cup of tea.

Anyway, card for today.

I'll be honest, this is not my favorite.  Here is the new Freshly Made Sketch:

And the Color Throwdown:

I chose Polished Pink, Orchid Oasis, and Garden Green for my colors, though my picture isn't the best.  The rhinestones are Gorgeous Grape but seemed to blend well with the Orchid Oasis IRL.  Not sure why they look black in the picture.  I may have to give this color combo another try, I really do like it.

Anyway, that's it for me today.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Painted Lavender, Inked & Tiled
Ink:  Polished Pink, Orchid Oasis, Garden Green
Paper:  Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Painted Lavender dies, Perennial Postage Dies, Gorgeous Grape rhinestones, Mini Dimensionals

Friendly Pink Poinsettias

Mornin' y'all!  I got four batches of cookie dough made yesterday...they all had to chill for at least two hours so I didn't bake any cookies yet, but that will happen today.  And I'll be making pie crust this weekend and then REALLY getting going on Thanksgiving prep starting Monday!

In the meantime, I had just enough time after making all that cookie dough to make a card.

I really liked this sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday:

Which I paired with the colors from Just Add Ink:

I just missed the deadline to enter their Choose Two challenge so I'm getting my card in early this time ; ) I quickly realized that these colors are all in the Inked Botanicals DSP stack, which made me think of using Inked & Tiled, but I didn't like the looks of the flower from that set cut out so I stamped some poinsettias from Ringed with Nature and I liked that.  I'm sure the Christmas card juggernaut is coming soon, I usually try to delay as much as possible because I love fall and Thanksgiving so much : )

Okay, time to get the kiddo ready to go to school.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inked & Tiled, Ringed with Nature
Ink:  Pool Party, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral
Paper:  Pool Party, Thick Basic White, Inked Botanicals DSP Stack
Accessories:  Nested Essentials dies, Dimensionals, Fine Sparkle Gems

Friendly Foliage

Mornin' y'all!  Man, Ryan was SUPER angry this morning!  I don't know why but every once in a while he wakes up in a monster mood.  He was starting to come out of it by the time I got him to school but yeesh.  Usually he's pretty chipper by the time I get him back in the afternoons so I hope his day goes okay.

Anyway, I've got a card today that's a bit outside my normal stampy comfort zone but I liked how it turned out, here it is:

I don't do the collage look very often, I agonize over where to put every single piece, but I ended up pretty happy with this one.  And I hit no fewer than four challenges, starting with Festive Friday:

I used bright colors (does it count if it's just one bright color?), enamel dots, patterned paper, two of something (two stamp sets, two die sets), and a hello/hi sentiment.  I had this list simmering in the back of my mind when the other three challenges came up, so here's the Global Design Project:

So this challenge is why I decided to try my hand at the collage look, and did a mix of cardstock and stamped images, plus I did a wee bit of distressing on the edges of the DSP.  Next up is the Hand-Stamped Sentiments challenge:

I really liked this one, lots of possibilities and it would be fun to do something Christmasy with those colors.  I haven't played hardly at all with Pebbled Path so this was fun for me.  And finally, here's the Just Add Ink challenge:

Again, I have one bright, but this challenge led me to the foliage stamps from Nature's Prints, and happily for me Inked & Tiled has that "hello friend" sentiment stamp so with one stamp I was able to hit friend for this challenge and hello or hi for Festive Friday.  Strategy!

Okay, that's it for me today.  Tomorrow I'm going to start The Great Thanksgiving Prep because I had the brilliant idea to make cookies for everyone who's coming over, so I'll be doing that for a few days and start on pies next week when Ryan goes to his grandparents' house.  Gonna be busy so I'm going to try enjoy my stamping time today before the craziness starts to gain speed.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Nature's Prints, Inked & Tiled
Ink:  Berry Burst, Mossy Meadow, Pebbled Path
Paper:  Berry Burst, Mossy Meadow, Thick Basic White, Bright & Beautiful DSP Stack
Accessories:  Nature's Prints dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Tinsel Gems

Ink Blended Thank You

Mornin' y'all!  It's 9:30 in the morning and I already feel like I've accomplished something.  I got the kiddo to school, did my workout this morning, and I've got a rather large pile of boxes out on the front porch waiting for a charity to come pick up my donation.  There's so much more space in the front of the house with those boxes out of the way : )

Anyway, I do have a card to share today.

I really like the Inked & Tiled stamp set (I did not get the bundle this time, I didn't think I'd use the punch much) and I need to play with a bit more, so today's card was a good opportunity to do that and play with some pretty colors too.  I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

Love this one, lots of "scope for imagination" as Anne Shirley would say.  I paired that with this week's Color Throwdown:

That picture reminds me of when the hubs and I had morning glories at our first house in North Carolina about 18 years ago.  They were growing like crazy...up until he dumped undiluted Miracle Grow on them and they all died, ha!  We had four o'clocks and moonflowers growing with the morning glories so we had flowers all day long and into the evening.  The moonflowers were as big as my hand!  Anyway, for today's card, I used Bubble Bath, Mossy Meadow, and Berry Burst for my colors.

Okay, I'm off to tackle more on the ol' to-do list.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inked & Tiled
Ink:  Bubble Bath, Mossy Meadow, Berry Burst
Paper:  Bubble Bath, Mossy Meadow, Berry Burst, Thick Basic White, Bright & Beautiful DSP Stack
Accessories:  Decked Rectangles dies, retired Glimmer Dots, Dimensionals

Sea Turtle Salutation

Mornin' y'all!  After spending two days at home not feeling well, Ryan is back at school today, hurrah!  Unfortunately now I'm under the weather.  Might be moving a bit more slowly today, but I still have things to do.  But first, a card!

Sea Turtle is another stamp set I got in the recent one-day stamp sale.  I thought the larger sea turtle image would be perfect for the 600th Freshly Made Sketch:

Congrats to the Freshly Made Sketches team for making it to #600, that's amazing!  As is my custom, I paired the sketch with the Color Throwdown:

I used Smoky Slate (on the sentiment, I didn't use a lot I know), Lost Lagoon, and Garden Green for the colors.  I started this card last night while Ryan was in the tub, really all I got done was stamping the turtle and the sentiment.  I got up this morning and saw the theme at As You See It:

And my sea turtle fits the theme, serendipity!  One of my favorite ever beach experiences was when the hubs and I were visiting Hawaii, we were driving around and happened to stop at a beach to take some pictures, and we discovered that there were two or three giant sea turtles enjoying the beach as well.  We stayed back a respectful distance (I think there were people there from a wildlife conservation group to ensure the turtles' well-being) but we got some really great pictures of them with our zoom lens.  I think that experience is only trumped by the time that hubs and I were walking along a beach in Florida and that's where he proposed : )

Hope your day is beachy keen!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sea Turtle, Inked & Tiled
Ink:  Garden Green, Lost Lagoon, Smoky Slate
Paper:  Lost Lagoon, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Mini Dimensionals, Polished Dots

Friendly Botanicals

Okay, so far Ryan is 3 for 3 this week in getting out of school.  I know he wasn't feeling good on Monday so I kept him home, I think he had a legitimate reason for having the nurse call me on Tuesday to pick him up after he'd been there for only an hour, but yesterday I 100% think he bamboozled the nurse so he could get out of school.  Since I was fairly sure he was just fine, he got dragged along with me to do several errands so at least the day wasn't a total waste for getting things done.

And I got to pick up my little SU! order from the post office, and I made a fast card while Ryan was in the tub last night.

The new Inked & Tiled set reminds me so much of the old Petal Prints set, which I still love and apparently most of the cards I made for it predate this blog so just trust me on that one.  Anyway, I had to get this new stamp set, and though I opted out of buying the punches I did buy the coordinating paper.

I quite like this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And the springy Color Throwdown:

I used Petal Pink, Lemon Lime Twist, white, and just a smidgen of Calypso Coral for a darker pink hue.  My LLT ink pad is extra juicy so it always stamps darker than I expect.  Looking forward to playing more with this stamp set and the other three that I just got...but first I really DO have to get some stuff done, since Ryan has effectively kept me from doing much this week.  He'd better stay in class for the entire school day today...

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inked & Tiled
Ink:  Petal Pink, Lemon Lime Twist, Calypso Coral
Paper:  Petal Pink, Thick Basic White, Inked Botanicals DSP Stack
Accessories:  corner rounder punch, Faceted Gems