Purple Mountains' Majesty

Happy Friday, y'all! I'm happy that I was able to get a good picture of this card yesterday so I could share it today :D

I don't use Waterfront very often but I ended up really liking this card when I finished with it.  I need to work with Shaded Spruce more, I love that rich green.  I started with this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And chose my stamp set based on the theme challenge from Global Design Project:

And then I picked some colors I thought would look good together and just went to town making my mountain landscape.  I love mountains, hubs loves the beach, so I guess...we should live in Hawaii?  The sentiment is from Happiness Surrounds, which was a limited time only stamp set from last November I think, and for the Shaded Spruce piece on the bottom, I inked up the Marbled background stamp with a sponge before stamping tone-on-tone with Shaded Spruce ink.  It gave me juuuust enough texture without distracting from the main scene.  I love my background stamps.  I think the epoxy drops are retired but I've got them so I might as well use them.

Hope you have a great weekend, friends.  I'm hoping to get some more scrappin' done in the next couple of days...I finished a layout that I really liked yesterday, and got started on another one.  Having some fun in the ol' craft cave!  Cheers, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Waterfront, Marbled, Happiness Surrounds
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Highland Heather, Mint Macaron, Balmy Blue
Paper:  Thick Whisper White, Shaded Spruce
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes Framelits, Rectangle Stitched Shapes Framelits, Mini Dimensionals

Olaf Likes Warm Hugs

Happy Friday, y'all.  Dude, I feel like Ryan has declared war on me this week so I am very, VERY excited that my husband will be here this weekend.  I know Ryan doesn't feel good, and that's why he's been acting abby-normal, but DANG he's been tough on me.  So hallelujah for parental backup.

I know yesterday I was all like yay fall woohoo but today I made a winter card :p

I stamped the Marbled background stamp on the Coastal Cabana panel after inking it up with a sponge.  That made the stamp a lot more subtle, and I like that it kinda gives the impression of a blizzard with not a whole lotta effort and without overwhelming the snowman.  I cut out the snowflakes from Coastal Cabana cardstock and then sponged some ink on them to make them a wee bit darker than the background panel and they don't show up great in the photo but I used three glitter enamel dots on the snowflakes and IRL they look pretty fabulous.  Anyway, my adorable Olaf is from Seasonal Chums, which is this week's stamp set at What Will You Stamp?:

These little dudes are so cute, I was happy to ink one of them up for today's card.  I also used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I used ribbon in place of the gray rectangle, and my ribbon is retired but who's keeping track of that anyway.  That 1/4" taffeta ribbon was my *favorite* and I should use what I've got, right?

Last up is the color palette from Color Throwdown:

I interpreted this as Real Red, Crumb Cake, Coastal Cabana, and Pumpkin Pie.  Granted I focused more on the first three colors and Pumpkin Pie was relegated to the snowman's carrot nose.  Sometimes it's hard to work in four colors on a card.

Hope you have a great weekend, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Seasonal Chums, Marbled, Sheltering Tree
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Coastal Cabana, Pumpkin Pie, Stampin' Blends in Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake, Real Red, and Shaded Spruce
Paper:  Real Red, Coastal Cabana, Crumb Cake, Shimmery White
Accessories:  Seasonal Tags Thinlits, retired white 1/4" taffeta ribbon, Glitter Enamel Shapes, Dimensionals

I Believe in Mermaids

Mornin', y'all!  I almost typed "mermaid, y'all!"  Because today's card has a mermaid on it.

The mermaid has Wink of Stella on her so she's all sparkly, even though you can't see it at all in the picture (it's overcast here and it's notoriously difficult to photograph anything sparkly on a card).  And she's a triple challenge over-achieving mermaid.  First off, What Will You Stamp? has cycled back around to a stamp set I own:

So yep, there's my stamp set sorted.  Then I used the layout from this week's CASE the Designer challenge at Global Design Project:

And last of all I added in this week's Paper Players color combination:

Once I had those three elements, the card came together pretty quick.  I like that since I never know how long naptime will last :)

I've got breakfast in the oven (have I mentioned that I'm obsessed with apple cinnamon baked oatmeal...and generally I think oatmeal only belongs in cookie form!) so I'm going to try to vacuum up some dog hair while I wait for that to bake.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Magical Mermaid, Marbled, Seaside Shore
Ink:  Pink Pirouette, Pear Pizzazz, Smoky Slate
Paper:  Pink Pirouette, thick Whisper White, Silver Foil
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes Framelits, Dimensionals, Iridescent Sequins

Psychic Octopi

Hey y'all!  I mentioned yesterday that the current color challenge at Just Add Ink is, like, my favoritest ever color combo from the new catalog, right?  Here it is:

And as promised, I made something new for it...not just one, but two cards!

Having fun with the Message in a Bottle stamp set, from whence my wee mermaid came on Sunday.  I couldn't decide if I wanted the octopus to be Powder Pink or Tranquil Tide, so I did both...mostly because I messed up the Marbled background the first time I stamped it.  I stamped it a little too far down on the card front, so to salvage it, I cut it a bit to layer on a new card base (the card on the right).  The backgrounds look different too because for the right one (the first one I stamped), I inked it up, then used a brayer to spread the ink out a bit so I wouldn't have patches.  On the left card, I inked up the brayer itself and used it to apply the ink to the stamp, and that's how it came out different.  Interesting!  I like this Marbled background stamp for this because it looks wavy to me.  OH!  And check out my brand new iridescent sequins!  I ordered a few more embellishments than usual this last time.  You might even see RIBBON sometime soon.

So now to the psychic part.  I made these two cards on Sunday night, before the Global Design Project posted their newest challenge (#100).  All of their DT have posted cards and this time we get to pick any one we want to CASE.  And if you looked at Brian King's card, I bet you'd think I saw it before I made my cards...

It's just such a coincidence that I have to link it up over there even though I hadn't seen this card before I made mine.  I ended up with a similar layout, pink, and the Marbled background!  Weird, isn't it?  Well, okay, it would be spookier if Brian had used the same stamp set for his main image too, but whatevs.

Have a great day, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Message in a Bottle, Marbled
Ink:  Pool Party, Tranquil Tide, Powder Pink
Paper:  Pool Party, Thick Whisper White, Delightful Daisy & A Whole Lot of Lovely DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Iridescent Sequins