Friday Flashback: It's Your Birthday

Happy Friday, y'all!  We are currently prepping for Snowmageddon, which is slated to start this afternoon.  But in the meantime, I have a Friday Flashback for you!  Today's stamp set is It's Your Birthday, and who doesn't need a great set of birthday greetings?  In fact, I'd used this set so much that I only picked about half of what I had in my archives to share otherwise we'd still be doing this flashback *next* Friday.  So let's giddyup!

Also features Bronc Buster, Paisley

First is a birthday card I made for my brother a few years ago.

Also features Floral, Roses in Winter

And here's one for my mother's great aunt...

Also features Baroque Motifs, Embrace Life

Honestly I don't know who I sent this to, it's a rare square card.

Also features Bloomin' Beautiful

This "someone like you should be celebrated every day" stamp is done in the same font as the "happy birthday" above so you could use them together.  Or just use this one for a card and it doesn't have to be birthday-specific.

Also features Dream Gardens

 I do love my Oriental stamps :)

Also features Pun Fun

Here's a cute little one I did for my mom, who loves hippos.

Also features Mixed Bouquet

I made this one for one of my favorite people in the world, who has sadly passed away.  Miss you, Neelu!

Also features Petal Prints

Let's be honest, this is one of my favorite cards.

Also features Wing It, Flannel Plaid

And one more kinda masculine card to round out the group.  Are you ready for today's new creation?  Here it is:

My friend Tiana (who doesn't read this blog, so I'm not giving away any birthday secrets) came out to visit at the beginning of the month and mentioned when we were out shopping that she wanted some super-soft comfy pajama pants.  And since her birthday is next week, I found her some ridiculously cute ones at Kohl's, they're black and have foxes on them and look kinda like this card :D  The jammies are more of a raspberry color than coral, but I only have Calypso Coral embossing powder so I went with that.  I loved these so much I ordered some for myself, and I also got her a set of Star Wars jammies because awesome.  The Star Wars ones have purple in them so this card kinda matches both.

Anyway, I used a sketch from the Retro Rubber challenge site, my very first time to play along over there!

If I got both It's Your Birthday and Fox & Friends when they first came out, then I've had It's Your Birthday for TEN years and Fox & Friends for 6.  And I still love them both :)

Ok, I'd better get moving before Snowmageddon starts.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  It's Your Birthday, Fox & Friends
Ink:  Basic Black, Versamark
Paper:  Basic Black, Lavender Lace, Lucky Limeade & Calypso Coral DSP
Accessories:  Circles Framelits, retired heart punch, Calypso Coral EP, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Whimsical Alphabet

Ok, I really didn't do it on purpose, but somehow I drew the names of three alphabet stamp sets when I was grabbing the next batch of Friday Flashback stamp sets.  So get ready for another scrapalicious (and long) Friday Flashback featuring the Whimsical Alphabet!  And maybe the numbers, too :)

Also features Beyond the Basics

Several years ago there was a challenge on Splitcoast to make a scrapbook layout for a family.  The wife/mom of four had died unexpectedly; she was an avid scrapbooker but like pretty much all scrappers, she had thousands of photos unscrapped.  So I emailed the project coordinators and got a couple batches of photos and made two layouts; I left the journaling space blank so someone who knew the family could write there.

Also features Darling Dragons, Background Basics

Do you remember the TV show Dinosaurs?  With the baby dinosaur who always said "Not the mama!" to his dad?  Welllll, dragons are kinda like dinosaurs, right?

Here's a layout from Okinawa, when the hubs took a cheapo underwater camera with him on a scuba diving trip to see whale sharks.

Also features Simply Spring, Bunch o' Bugs, Bold Basics

There's my kiddos dressed up for Halloween!

Also features Simply Spring, Bunch o' Bugs

Or should I say, HOWLoween!

Also features Ancient Asia

I know you've seen this one before, it does seem to keep popping up.

And here's a funny card for ya featuring the Whimsical numbers.

Also features Happy Hearts, Dream Come True

I don't much like the color scheme on this one, but I think the idea was cute and I do like how I stamped the "love" on it.

Also features Mixed Bouquet

I kinda miss Apricot Appeal.  Or Peach Parfait.  I wouldn't mind having another pale orange in the next set of In Colors.

Also features Lovely Leaves

I did this layout not too long after I started stamping, it's one of the first scrapbook layouts I made with stamps.  So you know I've had this alphabet for a long time.

Also features Wanted, Bronc Buster

I think this is the only time I've ever decorated a gift bag :)

Also features Sweet Treats, Background Basics

And this one was on here recently too, when I did the Sweet Treats Friday Flashback.  So yep, I think I've gotten some good use out of this alphabet, and for today's new project I have another layout:

Yay!  Love happy layouts!  This was from lil girl's first birthday party, and her daddy has a July birthday too so he got his own Over the Hill pie.

Closeup of the title.  Since I didn't do mixed fonts, I did two colors:  Pumpkin Pie and Rose Red.   This layout is also the maiden voyage for Be the Star, which I just got recently.  I think the sketchy style of the stars paired nicely with the alphabet.

And there's my color palette:  Pretty in Pink (retired), Regal Rose (retired), Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, and Gable Green (retired).  This is why I love my color swatch book, it reminds me to use retired colors for my layouts.  Searching through all my paper scraps for this layout is what made me organize all of them this week.  So glad THAT's done, it was ridiculous.

That's it for me, peeps.  Cheers to a great weekend!

Supplies, last layout only:
Stamps:  Whimsical Alphabet Upper & Lower, Be the Star
Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Green Galore, Rose Red ink pad & marker
Paper:  Pretty in Pink, Gable Green, Whisper White, Sweet Always DSP, Party Animal SSK
Accessories:  Stars Framelits

Friday Flashback: Measure of a Life

It's that time again!  This week's Friday Flashback stamp set is Measure of a Life, which is another one of those old SU! sets that I love and I think I've used a lot more than I really have, so perhaps I stamp in my dreams.  Because the "flashback" part of today's post is exactly one card, and I coulda sworn I'd used this stamp set more than that!

I love dragonfly images.  I know I totally CASEd this from someone else on Splitcoast, because I think that's the one and only time I've done that thing with the oval punch and the brad.  Not that I don't like it, it just never occurs to me to do that kind of thing.   Oh, looks like it was two cards, this one and this one.

So I felt kinda bad that I hadn't used this set any more often (though this was a stamp club card, so I did make multiples of it), and so I made two new cards for today's Flashback.

You might recognize this layout from an Easter card I did a while back, I'm kind of in love with it.  This is also for three Dare to Get Dirty challenges and don't ask me how my brain comes up with this stuff but I somehow combined ideas from two different inspiration pictures.

And this one is for four DTGD challenges plus an old color challenge.  If you count the Friday Flashback as a challenge (well, it is kind of a personal challenge), that means this card is for six challenges which has got to be a personal record.  I used Daffodil Delight and Old Olive for the polished stone, which kinda melted together a bit and sorta looks like I used Pear Pizzazz in there too which was a nice surprise.  I need to get a Pear Pizzazz ink refill.

And that's all she wrote today, folks!  Have a great weekend.

Supplies, sunflower card, all SU!
Stamps:  Measure of a Life
Ink:  Chocolate Chip craft & classic ink, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, More Mustard
Paper:  Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, retired Tempting Turquoise DSP, Sunshine & Sprinkles DSP
Accessories:  Apothecary Accents Framelits, More Mustard brads, clear EP, Dimensionals

Supplies, butterfly card, all SU!
Stamps:  Measure of a Life, Mixed Bouquet, Warmest Regards
Ink:  Versamark, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive, Daffodil & Olive ink refills
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Glossy White, retired Old Olive DSP
Accessories:  clear EP, Daffodil Delight brad