Frosty & Peter and a Bit of News

Mornin', y'all!  GUESS WHAT.  I'm now a member of the Design Team over at SUO Challenges!  How's that for a fun way to start the year :)  So today is my first day as a DT member and our challenge is to make a winter project.  Of course the first thing that popped in my head was the snowman from Seasonal Chums...

I've decided this is Frosty the Snowman and his friend Peter Cottontail.  I stamped the snowflakes on a white card base in varying intensities of ink, and then sponged on a bit of Coastal Cabana just for fun.  Frosty and Peter are colored in with Blendabilities and regular markers and I decided on the combination of Coastal Cabana, Real Red, and Flirty Flamingo because as I was running at the Y track last Friday, I saw three coats hanging up and they were those colors and I liked how they looked together.  The sentiment is from the brand new Sale-a-Bration set Part of My Story, which has some great sentiments in it.

So that's it for me, kids.  I hope you'll head over to the SUO Challenges blog and play along in our winter challenge!  In the meantime, have a great day and stay frosty, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Seasonal Chums, Colorful Seasons, Part of My Story
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Coastal Cabana, Flirty Flamingo, Stampin' Blends in Real Red, Smoky Slate, Mossy Meadow, Mango Melody, and Crumb Cake
Paper:  Thick Whisper White, Coastal Cabana, Real Red
Accessories:  Seasonal Tags 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

Snowman Friend

Happy Friday, y'all!  And also surprise!  I did NOT use Magical Day for my card today.

Instead here's a happy little snowman!  I really need to do better about taking pictures in the afternoon rather than in the morning, the lighting isn't great on this.  Those sequins are silver, by the way.  The colors on the snowman came out more muted than I really intended, so I finally retired (read: tossed) my blender pen that I've had since I became a Stampin' Up! demonstrator over ten years ago.  Yeah, I think it was time for it to retire.

Anywha, for today's card I started with the Color Throwdown challenge:

I used Baja Breeze (sadly retired) and Crumb Cake for my colors.  Couldn't resist busting Baja Breeze out when I saw this picture, and I love that snowflake paper (happily, I have a LOT of it too!) that has made more than one appearance on scrapbook pages over the years.  This color combination seemed like a natural fit with the Cupcake Inspirations theme challenge:

Winter!  Most of our snow melted yesterday but it's still cold outside.

Finally I used this week's Fall-To Layout from Clean & Simple Stamping:

I even dusted off my Top Note die for my card.  The stamps are all current, even if the patterned paper and die aren't.  And the friend I want to send this to won't care if it's all current stuff anyway :p

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Seasonal Chums, Orange Blossom
Ink:  Basic Black, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Emerald Envy, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Gray
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Ski Slope DSP
Accessories:  Top Note Die, Seasonal Tags Framelits, Metallic Sequins, Dimensionals

Joyful Reindeer

Mornin', y'all!  Well, Ryan took some really good naps yesterday so I have cards for the next few days already.  Let's start with a darling little reindeer.

At first I wasn't going to get Seasonal Chums, but I'm glad I decided to do it.  This reindeer is adorable, and I like the snowman and jack o' lantern in the set too.  Plus the matching Framelits have some great shapes like that snowflake accent.  Can't argue with that.

Check out the new challenge at Fusion:

I used the sketch, and I used similar colors as the photo too.  I was hoping for a plaid but that particular pack of DSP is plaidless (what the heck, SU?  Needs more plaid!).

Here's the Global Design Project theme challenge:

The word "Joy" is in the sentiment I used on the front of the card, and I stamped "Merry Christmas" on the inside of the card.

And last up is the color challenge at Just Add Ink:

I thought those colors jived really well with the inspiration photo in the Fusion challenge.

Well, it's gym time for me and the tiny tyke.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Seasonal Chums, Snowflake Sentiments
Ink:  Versamark, Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Thick Whisper White, Garden Green, Be Merry DSP, Silver Glimmer Paper
Accessories:  Seasonal Tags & Stitched Shapes Framelits, White EP, Dimensionals, Watercolor pencils, Wink of Stella (on his bell)

You're Sweet, Jack

Hey y'all, how's it going?  I stayed up too late last night.  Oops.  But we're up and at 'em today and ready to go to the gym as soon as I finish my pumpkin baked oatmeal.

Speaking of pumpkin...

Isn't that a CUTE jack-o-lantern?  He's from the Seasonal Chums stamp set; this is only half the stamp.  The other half is the back of the pumpkin and you can cut it with the matching Framelit to make a tag.  I only stamped the front piece, then die cut it and trimmed off a bit from the top.  Then I watercolored him and you can't tell but I did clear Wink of Stella in his eyes and mouth to give 'em a little extra sparkle and shine.

I used this week's sketch from the Paper Players:

And that's all she wrote.  Ryan and I need to head out of here in the next ten minutes so I'd better eat this oatmeal.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Seasonal Chums
Ink:  Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Peekaboo Peach, Daffodil Delight, Soft Suede, Emerald Envy
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Thick Very Vanilla, Spooky Night DSP
Accessories:  Seasonal Tags Framelits, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella