Ryan: One Month

Hey, y'all.  What a week.  Looks like we're going to be doing the shelter-in-place thing for another MONTH.  Crazy.  And for some reason I can't get Blogger to let me  upload new photos, so I haven't been in my craft room because I couldn't post anything anyway.  I do have a lot of scrapbook pages as draft posts, including all the rest of Ryan's book, but I'd like the option to put up something new, ya know?

Anyway, on to this week's baby book layout:  Ryan at one month.

That Yoda onesie was a hand-me-down from my brother's besties and we're all Star Wars fans.  I think I sent it to my brother and his wife for Baby Luke?  My mom made the green and brown striped baby blanket in the pictures, and I got the Yoda hat from an online friend.  This was our first monthly photo shoot and I think that top left photo is hilarious because it looks like Ryan's saying, "You're gonna do WHAT?!"

Today's color palette is Confetti White, Pear Pizzazz, Marina Mist, and Early Espresso.  This is the *only* time I've ever used Confetti White for a page base.  I never used it much for cards either, so I can see why SU! retired it so long ago ;) But it seemed to work here.

I'll be back on Monday with a scrapbook layout.  Still trying to figure out how to solve my photo uploading problem...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Nursery Necessities
Ink:  Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso marker
Paper:  Confetti White, Early Espresso, Coffee Break DSP
Accessories:  Star punch

Friday Flashback: Fall Whimsy

Happy Friday, peeps, and welcome to this week's Friday Flashback!  I am SO ready for the cooler temperatures and pretty colors of fall, and today's stamp set goes right along with that theme:  Fall Whimsy.  This was one of the first stamp sets I ever bought!

Also features Something to Celebrate

This was a baby shower invite for a friend; she named her daughter Autumn and she looooves fall leaves so there you have it.

Also features Priceless, Nursery Necessities

 And here's a baby announcement for a different friend who had her daughter ON Halloween!

Also features Tiny Talk, Print Pattern

Let's talk turkey...isn't this cute?  The turkey uses most of the stamps in Fall Whimsy; he's not hard to put together, just time-consuming to cut out.

Also features Sincere Salutations

 Seems like we have a lot of friends and family with birthdays in October.

Also features Print Pattern, Linen, All Year Cheer III

Oh, I like this one, it's a technique called crayon resist, a.k.a. finally a use for the white crayon.  You need glossy white paper (or photo paper now, since SU! doesn't sell it anymore) and you stamp your leaves in black or whatever color you want, draw in some highlights with the crayon, and then sponge on color.  The crayon resists the ink and you have white highlights.  Pretty cool, right?

So that's the flashback, and here's the brand new card for today:

This one took me a while to wrap my brain around.  I love the sketch I used, and the color combo, but I was just having trouble making it all work together.  I think the purple was messing with my fall leaves idea a little bit.  I do like how it turned out in the end though and I continue to be in love with my Sanded background stamp.

There's the color combo from ColourQ; I added just a bit of Soft Suede.

And there's the sketch from Pals Paper Arts.  I really like this one.

Well, I have a long list of things to do today so I'd better go get started.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Fall Whimsy, Sanded, Print Pattern, For All Things
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, So Saffron, Taken with Teal, Lovely Lilac, Soft Suede
Paper:  Tangerine Tango, So Saffron, Whisper White
Accessories:  just a pair of scissors :)

Friday Flashback: Baby Bundle

Welcome to another Friday Flashback!  This week's featured retired stamp set is Baby Bundle, so of course today's Flashback will be heavy on the baby projects :)  Ready, set, Flashback!

Another layout from baby books gone by, this one for my friend Sarah whose daughter was born on Halloween, hence the pumpkins in the upper right (which is from the set Give Thanks).

Sometimes I get asked to make a keepsake baby shower invitation for a mommy-to-be since people nowadays seem to do online invites instead.  The sentiment is from Warm Words.

This gonzo sketch was most definitely not my idea, it was for a Dare to Get Dirty challenge a couple years ago.  I think the pink and orange looked better IRL...the words are from Nursery Necessities.

Another keepsake baby shower invite, also using Paisley for the background.

Well, that Flashback was really, really pink.  So here's a change of pace!

This card was in the mail and on its way to its destination about two hours after I made it, which is probably a record for me.  I thought Tempting Turquoise might be gender-neutral, though maybe it could be construed as "boy"...these parents don't know the baby's sex yet but I can't seem to do gender-neutral baby cards.  Partially because I was using another old SCS color challenge.

So there you have it, thanks for joining me on today's Friday Flashback.  Have a great weekend!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Baby Bundle, Confetti
Ink:  Going Gray, Basic Gray, Tempting Turquoise
Paper:  Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, retired Tempting Turquoise DSP

Friday Flashback: Nursery Necessities

Are you ready for another Friday Flashback?  Today's stamp set is Nursery Necessities, which I bought because over the past four years I've made THIRTEEN baby books for friends and family.  So let's flash back!

This was a baby announcement I made for my friend Sarah, whose daughter was born ON Halloween (to Sarah's everlasting delight since she loves Halloween).  Ok seriously, the only stamp on this from Nursery Necessities is the sentiment.

And here's a baby book layout I did for Sarah's son (actually I made this one first but whatever).  See the little boat?  Nursery Necessities.

Next up are a few newer projects:

These are the front pages for Karyn's twin boy baby books.  My mom sent me two albums, one red and one blue, so I used the same colors on each but alternated them.  And woohoo for Crushed Curry's most triumphant return to the SU color lineup!  I've found myself reaching for it quite a lot lately.  Here I paired it with Brilliant Blue and Riding Hood Red, both retired, but together the three of them make some pretty awesome Superman colors.

Last up, this is a keepsake paper invitation I made for Karyn's shower.  People here usually do Evite for things like baby showers, but I thought it would be nice for Karyn (and her mom, I made two) to have an actual invitation for it.  I patterned it after the Evite so they look pretty similar.

And that's all she wrote today.  Thanks for flashing back!

Supplies, Karyn's scrapbook pages:
Stamps:  Nursery Necessities
Ink:  Crushed Curry, Brilliant Blue, Riding Hood Red
Paper:  Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Brilliant Blue, Riding Hood Red, retired DSP in Brilliant Blue and Riding Hood Red
Accessories:  large star punch (retired), old Sizzix alphabet

Supplies, last card:
Stamps:  Nursery Necessities, Cuddles & Kisses
Ink:  Crushed Curry, Versamark
Paper:  Pacific Point, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, retired Crushed Curry DSP
Accessories:  corner rounder punch, white EP