Stellar Astronaut

Happy Sunday, y'all!  I am once again making lemon blueberry scones for breakfast...the ones last week turned out really dry and not that great, so this week I'm modifying a recipe for orange scones and we'll see how that works.  I've made the orange scones many times and we all love them, so I'm hopeful for this variation!

Ever since I went through my stamps last week, I've been dusting off some retired stamp sets to play with and it's been fun.  And here's what I made for today:

I had to get Reach for the Stars and the coordinating Stargazing DSP because it's different than anything else that SU! has had since I've been a stamper (which is about 20 years).  This suite  popped in my head as soon as I saw the Shopping Our Stash challenge for the theme Outta This World, which happily for me worked well with the Freshly Made Sketch this week:

I chose two patterns from the Stargazing DSP, stamped and die cut my astronaut, added a few Tinsel Gems and done!  And I've discovered that I need to ink up my Starry Sky ink pad; I've inked up quite a few pads since we moved here last July.  Not sure if that's because we're at a higher elevation and lower humidity, or if I just hadn't inked up my ink pads in a long time : )

Time to go glaze the scones and have breakfast with my two favorite people.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Reach for the Stars
Ink:  Starry Sky
Paper:  Tahitian Tide, Thick Basic White, Stargazing DSP
Accessories:  Reach for the Stars dies, Dimensionals, Tinsel Gems, Wink of Stella

Stellar Astronaut

Mornin' y'all!  Ryan let me spend time in my craft room yesterday ; ) so in addition to working on some scrapbook pages, I busted out a new-to-me stamp set for its maiden voyage:

Reach for the Stars caught my eye as soon as the catalog debuted last year, but I didn't buy it until it went on the retirement list.  I was intrigued by the color palette from Just Add Ink:

It seemed like a good match for this stamp set.  The Coastal Cabana doesn't show up too well in the photo, but I used it to add some shading detail on the astronaut.  I did Wink of Stella on the helmet and for once the sparkle is kinda showing up!

This outgoing set of In Colors has been my very favorite, hands down, and I've bought several packs of Starry Sky cardstock and ink refills in particular.  It's so great when you want something not quite as dark as Night of Navy.  I'm looking forward to seeing the incoming batch of In Colors; I haven't done an order yet as I was waiting for May 1.

Ryan also wanted to get in on the craft room action:

He wanted a 3D rocket, and we went around a bit about how to make it as tall as he wanted.  In the end, I cut a strip of cardstock into 1" sections, scored at 1/4" and 3/4" inch and folded them into a U-shape.  Then I glued them in between two stamped rockets, which Ryan stamped, die cut, and then watercolored.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Reach for the Stars
Ink:  Starry Sky, Coastal Cabana
Paper:  Berry Burst, Thick Basic White, Stargazing DSP
Accessories:  Reach for the Stars dies, In Color Pearls, Dimensionals