Merry & Bright (Christmas 2006)

Welp, I missed Scrappy Monday by a lot, but I have so many Christmas layouts in my draft posts that I couldn't skip this week entirely.  Last week was really tough and this week started out a bit rocky, and then on Wednesday Germany went into lockdown again until mid-January BUT I discovered that the playgrounds are still open which makes me ridiculously relieved and I've taken Ryan there every day.  And yesterday afternoon I got a tentative job offer for work at the local arts & crafts store.  The pay is beans but it would be an excuse to have Ryan in daycare and it would be fun for me :)

Anywha, let's get to the scrapbook pages!

I really worked hard last year and this year to scrap older photos, so these are from Christmas 2006.  The paper is from a year or two ago though, I seriously love that reindeer print and I'm a sucker for a good plaid, so it makes me happy to use both of them on one layout.  The accents are poinsettias stamped and embossed with white EP on red cardstock, then cut out (because that stamp set was from before we had so many dies for different stamps).  I love that Christmas Deer stamp but I don't think I've hardly ever used him, so it's nice that he got to shine here too.

Today's color palette:  Crumb Cake (textured, even), Real Red, Shaded Spruce, Balmy Blue, Early Espresso, and Whisper White.  Nice and Christmasy.

Have a good weekend, peeps.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Christmas Deer, Watercolor Winter, Jolly Jingles (unmounted wheel)
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Early Espresso marker
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Balmy Blue, Shaded Spruce, Thick Whisper White, Under the Mistletoe DSP
Accessories:  white EP

Peace on Earth

Today's card was inspired by one I saw on Dawn Olchefske's blog, I love Christmas cards made with stamps that are not technically supposed to be Christmasy :)

Heyyyy, I made a CAS card!  :)  Super quick to put together too...or it would have been had I not gotten an ink smudge on it the first time around, so I had to make it twice.  Still, probably under 10 minutes.

Supplies:
Stamps:  The Open Sea, Jolly Jingles wheel (unmounted)
Ink:  Not Quite Navy, Gumball Green
Paper:  Sahara Sand
Accessories:  Gumball Green stitched satin ribbon

And just because I can't see the phrase "peace on earth" without this coming to mind, how about a music video.  Enjoy!

Merry & Bright...Now With Glitter

Ever spend all morning working on chores, then finally get up to your stampy space in the afternoon, sit down and NOTHING HAPPENS?  I kinda had that problem today.  Like a lot.  I think I just sat and stared at my Christmas/winter stamps for at least 20 minutes without moving.

After much work and too many brain bytes, I came up with this:

The color combo is from Fab Friday, though to be honest I would have preferred to have it *without* the Real Red.  Don't get me wrong, I like Real Red just fine, but not with Primrose Petals...I think they clash.  So I only used the Real Red on the smallest snowflake (yeah, I went back to Snow Swirled for this).  I wasn't originally planning on doing it but then somehow the whole image got coated with Iridescent Ice EP...I think I should find a sentiment that says something about sparkle.  It's much, much more sparkly IRL than in the picture...I took several pics and none of them really captured the sparkle.

There's the challenge color palette.  I suppose this also works for the SUO Challenge to use glitter, too!

Now to figure out what to do next...cudgel my brain to come up with another card, or do a workout at home?  The weather here is not too great so my sweetie pie asked me not to leave the house to go to the gym today.  As I have no desire to experience a car wreck firsthand, I'm inclined to agree with him.  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies (all SU!):
Stamps:  Snow Swirled, Jolly Jingles (this is a jumbo wheel, I unmounted it and cut it into individual stamps)
Ink:  Primrose Petals, Real Red, Pool Party, Gumball Green, Versamark
Paper:  Gumball Green, Whisper White, In Color DSP Stacks
Accessories:  Apothecary Accents Framelits, Iridescent Ice EP