Perseverence

Mornin' y'all!  I have a cup of chestnut tea in front of me and a slice of yesterday's apple coffee cake for breakfast, eating a bit late because I had to drive Ryan to school (he lost his bike helmet somehow yesterday) and then go to the store (the hubs ran out of toothpaste).  So maybe I'm a bit slow getting started on the blog today but we're moving now.

And here's my card for today:

I quite like the inspo pic at Inspired By... this time around:

I zeroed in on the turtle on the upper left, but that frog on the bottom right is super cute too.  And the new sketch from Sunday Stamps is a classic for sure:

For my main image, I inked up the turtle in Soft Succulent and then inked the outside edges with Early Espresso and stamped it.  Then I used blending brushes to apply Soft Succulent and Crumb Cake ink for a distressed look, cut it out, and put it on a scrap of Crumb Cake cardstock cut with the Deckled Rectangles dies.  A perusal of my greeting stamps led me to Stepping Stones and I liked that message so that's what I went with.  The card base is Soft Succulent though it's coming across a bit more blue in the photo.  Still can't find a place to take my card photos that works 100% of the time.

Anyway, that's it for now.  I have a list of things to do today so I'd better get started.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Nature Prints, Stepping Stones
Ink:  Soft Succulent, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso
Paper:  Soft Succulent, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Beauty of the Earth DSP
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Dimensionals

Tranquil Turtle

Mornin' y'all!  How's your week going so far?  I had a nasty headache most of the day yesterday but I didn't let that stop me from working in my craft room...I finally landed on a color combination for my problem scrapbook pages and they're 75% done now, plus I got a card made to share today.  Here it is:

So probably a couple of years ago now (I forget when exactly), I bought the very old retired stamp set Nature Prints on eBay (not to be confused with Nature's Prints, which just retired this year).  It's four images, the largest one being this sea turtle, and this is the first time I've used it for a card.  I was inspired to go with a sea theme by the inspo pic at Sunday Stamps:

I was actually looking for a specific stamp set with a sand dollar in it when I took a left turn and arrived at the sea turtle.  From the picture, I used the top three colors, which I translated as Copper Clay, Soft Sea Foam, and Mossy Meadow.  I stamped the sea turtle in Mossy Meadow ink that I stamped off once to get a lighter shade, and it's on a scrap of long-retired Tranquil Textures DSP just because I thought it would look cool.  This is another card where I didn't have a sketch so I kinda just played with pieces until I arrived at something I liked.  The background panel is from the just recently retired Earthen Textures DSP, I thought it kinda works for seaweed or something like that, and I just liked the texture with the style of the sea turtle stamp.  The sentiment is from Notes of Nature, which also just retired.

That's it for me today, y'all.  Have a good 'un!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Nature Prints, Notes of Nature
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Copper Clay
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Copper Clay, Soft Sea Foam, Tranquil Textures DSP, Earthen Textures DSP
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Matte Metallic Dots, Dimensionals