Paper Players: A Card for Ryan

Happy Sunday, y'all, and that means it's time for a new Paper Players challenge!  This week the jubilant Jan has a fun theme challenge for us to kick off August:

Jan wants to see cards for babies or kids, and as it happens I live with a not-quite-so-little-anymore kiddo who will be starting fourth grade this week, so this is a perfect time to make a card to slip into his backpack on that first day.  Here's what I made:

Ryan has been fixated on ducks for yeeeeeaarrrrs but after we went to Yellowstone and then to a nearby wolf sanctuary this summer, he is now also fixated on wolves.  He's read several books about the wolves of Yellowstone and I am all for anything that gets him to enjoy reading.  Anyway, this was also a fabulous opportunity for me to finally ink up my Wild Wolves stamp set from Lawn Fawn that I got last year.  I kinda took inspiration from a shirt that Ryan and I both have:

We took this selfie at Yellowstone this past May : )

Check out the other design team creations on the Paper Players blog, and you can hop through their individual blogs to leave some comments too:

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

you are here --> Christy Stanford

And then upload your card at the Paper Players blog!  Keep in mind a few simple rules:
1.  Create a new paper project
2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission
3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL
4.  Have fun!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Wild Wolves from Lawn Fawn
Ink:  Night of Navy, Stampin' Blends in So Saffron, Smoky Slate, Copper Clay
Paper:  Night of Navy, Basic White, Everyday Skies DSP Stack, Simply Marbleous DSP Stack
Accessories:  Wild Wolves dies

Winter Fox

Mornin' y'all!  It was Ryan's turn to pick Sunday breakfast so of course it was pumpkin coffee cake : ) Guess the kid knows what he likes.

Anyway, I have a card to share today:

And I started out with the Inspired By... Challenge:

I had planned to do Balmy Blue for my main color, but then I thought if the Let It Snow Specialty DSP that has all the blues with bright pops of red and pink so I took a little bit of a detour from the inspo pic, but hey it's supposed to be a starting point anyway.  I added some Wink of Stella to the fox's scarf to mimic the glitter that's on the trees in the DSP, and added a few rhinestones for more sparkle.

Daphne is more than ready for her walk today so I will have to go take care of that.  It's been very mild so far this winter so we're going to enjoy our nice days with temps in the 50s and 60s.  Ryan is too, he's out playing street hockey with his friends--guess he's enjoying the rollerblades he got for Christmas.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Winter Fox by Lawn Fawn
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Coastal Cabana, Stampin' Blends in Smoky Slate, Real Red, Coastal Cabana, Pecan Pie, Shaded Spruce
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Thick Basic White, Let It Snow Specialty DSP
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, Dimensionals, Rhinestones

Stargazing Foxes

Mornin' y'all!  Ryan brought home a recorder from school, do you remember learning how to play Hot Crossed Buns on the recorder in elementary school?  As I type this, he is tormenting poor Daphne who is Not A Fan of this new noisemaker.  Ryan is squeaking on the recorder, Daphne is barking at him, and I think I need to go get my noise-canceling headphones.  On the plus side, it will be time for Ryan to get ready for school in just a couple of minutes.

Anyway.  I made a scene for my card today.

I bought another Lawn Fawn set because I liked the images of stargazing animals, aren't these foxes adorable?  I chose a sky pattern from the Everyday Skies DSP Stack and then chose colors for everything else based on what I thought would look good--and that sky is pretty neutral so that made it easy.

I have three challenges for today, starting with Inkspirational:

This challenge has been percolating in my brain ever since it was posted.  Next up is the Inspire. Create. challenge:

I think this is my first Christmas card this year.  I do have some new SU! Christmas stamps to play with too so you'll start seeing more of those soon since I've finally gotten my fill of Halloween cards : )  (The last Hex-Travaganza card will be up at midnight tomorrow!)  Last up is this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I'm pretty sure I physically recoiled when I saw it, wondering what the heck to do, but then my brain went to work and put it together with the other two challenges and my new stamp set : )

Okay, I think I need to go confiscate the recorder or Ryan is never going to get dressed for school.  Last night the hubs asked me how much my brother and I tortured our parents as kids, given that we were both in band from middle school through high school.  Yeah I think a piccolo and a trumpet would be worse than a recorder...but Ryan has recently expressed an interest in playing drums.  OY.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Winter Skies from Lawn Fawn
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Craft Whisper White, Balmy Blue, Stampin' Blends in Peach Pie, Timid Tiger, Balmy Blue, Bubble Bath, Shaded Spruce, Ivory
Paper:  Balmy Blue, Thick Basic White, Shimmery White, Everyday Skies DSP Stack
Accessories:  Winter Skies Lawn Cuts, Dimensionals

Paper Players Costume Party!

Happy Sunday, y'all!  Are you ready for a fun new Paper Players challenge?  I hope so, because it's coming at you right...now!

This fun theme is brought to us by the lovely Claire and it was all the excuse I needed to ink up a set of Lawn Fawn stamps for my card:

I need to show this to my kiddo, he loves birds.  Anyway, I knew right off that I wanted to use a very, very old DSP pack called Sweet & Sour, which is that multicolored polka dot pattern (a quick Google search seems to indicate that this DSP is from 2011!).  I colored in my three costumed pals and put them on a circle of Granny Apple Green pattern so they'd stand out against all that pink and orange.  This is the first card I managed to make after my appendectomy surgery--it's been about 10 days and I still spend most of my time sleeping!  But I could NOT let Claire's challenge pass me by.

I hope you'll join in the fun and post your Halloween costume card at the Paper Players blog.  Don't forget to check out the fun creations my teamies made, too!  Lots of eye candy for your virtual trick-or-treat activities.

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

Eliz Stewart

  and now me : )

Supplies:
Stamps:  Fox Costumes Before & Afters
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Highland Heather
Paper:  Pretty in Pink, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Sweet & Sour Specialty DSP, Sunshine & Rainbows DSP
Accessories:  Fox Costumes Lawn Cuts, Circles Collection Framelits, Mini Dimensionals, In Color Resin Dots

Reading Rainbow!

Hey y'all, I told you I might be back for another card this afternoon and here I am!  And I'm pretty pleased with this card too, take a look:

IT'S THE READING RAINBOW!!!!!!!!  Y'all know I'm mostly an SU! girlie but I could not resist the Little Woodland Library stamp set from Lawn Fawn.  And books were the first thing to pop into my head when I saw the Inspired By... challenge:

Maybe because many of my books are currently piled on the dining room table and the kitchen counter since we still need to paint a wall in the living room.  I found the watercolor rainbow pattern in the Full of Life DSP Stack to mimic the stack of paper in the picture.

Then there's the Paper Players challenge:

Easter may be over for the year, but I have more bunnies to share so I will be playing in this challenge again, I already have a second bunny card made.  Anyway, once I put together the bunnies reading with the rainbow DSP, there's no way I could NOT make this happen!  I'm just tickled with how it turned out.

Okay, that really is it for me today as I need to go get started on dinner.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Little Woodland Library from Lawn Fawn
Ink:  Pebbled Path, Stampin' Blends in Pool Party, Granny Apple Green, Gray Granite, Flirty Flamingo
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Full of Life DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Tinsel Gems

Oklahoma, Part 4: S'mores

Scrappy Monday!  I'm continuing with the Oklahoma layouts from 2019 when Ryan was much smaller than he is now.  I keep telling him to stop growing but he just won't!

Coincidentally, last week I finished another layout about making s'mores on a different trip :) I chose Daffodil Delight as my page base color because the letters on Ryan's shirt are that color.  I tried Real Red, but decided the red looked better as an accent color instead (the red overpowered everything when I tried it as the page base).  I use a lot of Real Red and Blueberry Bushel on my scrapbook pages now--gotta love the bright colors on kids' clothes, right?

Today's color palette:  Daffodil Delight, Blueberry Bushel, Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Cinnamon Cider, and Whisper White.

Don't forget this also goes along with this week's Paper Players theme challenge!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Pure & Simple Alphabet, Wood You Be Mine?, Eat Chocolate, other stamps by Lawn Fawn
Ink:  Pacific Point, Real Red, Early Espresso, Cinnamon Cider, Cinnamon Cider Blends, Early Espresso marker
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, Real Red, Thick Basic White, Berry Delightful DSP
Accessories:  None