On a Bicycle Built for Two

Morning, y'all!  How are you on this fine St. Patrick's Day morning?  Got your green on?  I do.  I even picked out a green tank top to wear to the gym for my kickboxing class :D

Today's card is wearing green too.

All stamps except the red hearts on the bottom are from the Sale-a-Bration latecomer addition Pedal Pusher.  I think the images are cute (the bike, birds, basket, and hearts in the basket are all separate stamps) but I don't think my card is really selling it.  Well, not every card can be your favorite, right?

I started out with the color challenge from The Color Throwdown which I just love and adore:

I used Wisteria Wonder, Real Red, and Cucumber Crush.  I wish the Wisteria Wonder wasn't so gray though, I miss our old purples still and I'm hoping to get one in the next batch of In Colors.

I also used the interesting sketch this week from Freshly Made Sketches:

I was tempted to do a bouquet of flowers for the circular element, but I was inspired by the CTD challenge graphic to get out the bike design.  Hubs and I rode a bicycle built for two when we were in China, but my seat was way too far down so I looked pretty goofy in the pictures.  But still a fun memory!

See you back here tomorrow for the Friday Flashback.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pedal Pusher, Lovely Amazing You
Ink:  Basic Black, Wisteria Wonder, Real Red, Cucumber Crush, Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Cucumber Crush, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Circles Framelits (to make a mask)

Lovely Amazing Butterfly

Happy Thursday, y'all!  I'm sitting here snarfing down some scrambled eggs and trying to mentally psych myself up for my appointment at the gym today...a personal trainer is going to give me a workout and I haven't worked out in MONTHS.  Oy.  I'll be hurting tomorrow, but hopefully I'll still be able to walk. o.O

Anyway, I have a quick little card to share today.

I still like Pink Pirouette better than Blushing Bride, but Blushing Bride is errywhere right now so what can ya do.  The sequins are something new and different for me, I snagged them out of this month's Paper Pumpkin kit which is SO adorable I really need to actually put it together.  Anyway, for this card, I started out with this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And the Global Design Project CASE the Designer challenge:

I kept the butterfly and Crumb Cake card base, and chose a sentiment in a scripty font, but I used the color palette from the Color Throwdown:

Cute and springy.  I used the aforementioned Crumb Cake as well as Mint Macaron and of course Blushing Bride.  And just a smidge of Basic Gray for the butterfly's body.

Well, guess I'd better get my workout duds on.  Wish me luck...cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Watercolor Wings, Lovely Amazing You
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Blushing Bride, Basic Gray
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Mint Macaron, Thick Whisper White, Birthday Bouquet DSP
Accessories:  Chalk Talk Framelits, Butterflies Thinlits, sequins from Paper Pumpkin kit, Dimensionals

Baby Girl Wishes

Mornin, y'all.  I'm tired this morning, but I'm fighting the urge to go back to bed :)  Lucky for me, I finished the card for today's post yesterday when I was fully awake and hopped up on chocolate, which is the only way to craft.  Note to self:  need more chocolate.

It's a soft and sweet baby card!  All the patterned papers are retired; I was using scraps of older patterns because I've got a lot of them in those colors and I don't have the new DSP stack in Subtles yet.  So what inspired this card?  The inaugural challenge and a new blog, the Global Design Project:

Seems like it's been a long time since I used a palette that was only soft subtle colors.  Guess I like my bright, vivid tones :)  Anywha, I paired the colors with this week's Mojo Monday sketch:

This one has so many layers that it's a little out of my comfort zone, but I gave it a shot after seeing what Mary Fish did with it.  Somehow she can take even the most complicated sketch and make it look easy to work with, much to my consternation.  But I keep trying :)

In other news, I finished the last few pages in the twin boy baby books yesterday!!!  Woohoo!!!  Now I just need to take pictures of those last few, and put the books together so they can go out in the mail.  I'll have a little bit of a break before I start the next one, but as of right now I've made FIFTEEN baby books, not counting smaller albums I've made for baby showers.  That's a lotta babies.

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Something for Baby, Lovely Amazing You
Ink:  So Saffron, Pink Pirouette
Paper:  Whisper White, Smoky Slate, retired DSP in So Saffron and Pink Pirouette
Accessories:  Baby's First Framelits, corner rounder punch, Dimensionals

Nachos: Love You More than Chocolate

Hey, Nacho fans!  What was up last week, where was everyone?  We only had two players for last week's fun color challenge.  This week the Nacho Average Challenges crew has a fun sketch for you, so I hope you can carve out some time to get stampy.

Remember, you don't have to use circles.  You could use flowers, or hearts, or butterflies, or seashells, or whatever else your little heart desires.  So here's what I made:

See, only one of my elements on here is a circle :)  This is going to a friend of mine who got some not-so-fun news (not necessarily *bad* news, but just not what she was hoping for) so I'm going to send her this card with some brownie mix, because sometimes you just need brownies.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Your homework assignment is to make a card with this sketch and post it on the Nacho blog...there might be a quiz later.  ;)

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Lovely Amazing You
Ink:  Crumb Cake
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Sweet Taffy DSP
Accessories:  Circles & Deco Labels Framelits, Sweetheart punch, Dimensionals, Brights Candy Dots

Lovely Amazing Butterfly

As advertised, it is much cooler out today--in fact, according to my phone, it was 18 degrees warmer first thing this morning when I went running than it was after noon when I took my dogs for a walk.  Not raining as much as expected though.

So anyway, let's have a bright fun card for today, shall we?

I continue to love the Butterfly Thinlits, they are awesome.  The trick is to run them through the Big Shot with some waxed paper between the cardstock and the die, and to run it through twice to ensure it's all cut out.  For this card, I did that and then used the waxed paper cutout as a mask on my card front, so I still have a perfectly good butterfly die cut to use later.

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

Though obviously I made it an A2 card size.  And then I couldn't resist the inspiration photos at Just Add Ink:

I suppose I could have used some retired Pool Party baker's twine, since the bit of blue in the butterfly photo is much lighter, but the Bermuda Bay twine was more accessible.  I got it a few weeks ago when it was one of the Weekly Deals from Stampin' Up! and I like the brighter pop of Bermuda Bay with all that Melon Mambo.  The sentiment I used is from the new photopolymer stamp set Lovely Amazing You.  I love the one that says "I love you more than chocolate" but it's a pretty select group of people that I could send a card like that to.  I do love my chocolate.

Anyway, I'm off to go work on a scrapbook layout and enjoy being in a nice warm house.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Lovely Amazing You
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black (kind of in love with it), Melon Mambo
Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black, retired Melon Mambo DSP but I was using up scraps
Accessories:  Butterfly Thinlits, scallop border punch, Bermuda Bay baker's twine, rhinestone