Rudy

Mornin' y'all.  How are you enjoying this weird limbo time between Christmas and New Year?  The hubs and I spent ALL DAY yesterday painting in Ryan's room...got the ceiling and the closet done and then we painted the accent wall BRIGHT YELLOW (hubs has commented on how bright it is at least 20 times and I have reminded him as many times that it's not his room and this is what Ryan chose) but for some reason the yellow paint isn't covering the ugly greige.  We did three coats and maybe we weren't waiting long enough in between?  But we can still see the greige coming through.  The rest of the room and Ryan's bathroom are all supposed to be a paler yellow so we may have to do primer before we paint those.  'Cause I don't want to do four coats on that much wall space.

Anyway, a while back I cut out two reindeer for a card and I ended up using just one, and while I was making cards for the hubs to take to work I figured I might as well use the second reindeer.  So here's my new reindeer card:

The only stamping is the greeting.  I was keeping it simple since I had to make a bunch of different cards but I'm not sure how much I like this one.  Oh well, done now and like I always say, not every card can be your favorite.

Okay, I'm off to either take Daphne out for a walk or attack the walls in Ryan's room again, that's a tough choice.  It's in the 30s and super windy outside and Daph just got herself all comfy in her chair so...maybe it's painting for a bit.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Snowflake Sentiments
Ink:  Real Red
Paper:  Garden Green, Real Red, Thick Basic White, Reindeer Fun DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Christmas Sweets

Mornin' y'all!  Well, my craft room time is going on hiatus today, Ryan has early release at school and I have to figure out how to entertain him until he goes back to school after the new year.  I think maybe we'll go to the Fort Worth Zoo one day...we went in the summer with his grandparents, but we only saw like half of it.  Hmm.

Anyway, I busted out some retired paper and stamps (okay, one stamp) for today's card:

Here is the Sunday Stamps sketch that I started with:

Though I admit I strayed from the sketch a bit once my card decided that it needed to have a tag.  Check out the Festive Friday challenge too:

From the list, I used white, brown (two actually, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake), red, embossing, gingerbread, and candy canes.  Not too shabby.  What's funny is that I have *another* DSP that I could have easily used for this challenge, so maybe I should make a second card.  Guess we'll see how much I can accomplish in my craft room before Hurricane Ryan starts his winter break.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Snowflake Sentiments
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Real Red, Candy Cane Lane DSP
Accessories:  White EP, Merriest Trees dies (tag), Stitched Rectangles dies, Real Red taffeta ribbon, Dimensionals

Proud Merry

Y'ALL.  I am completely incapable of passing up a good pun!  I was trying to think of a title for this blog post, and since the sentiment on my card is so large I was going to say "Loud & Proud" and then...

PROUD MERRY, Y'ALL.  I'm not even sorry.  And even if no one else thinks it's funny, I'll sit here in my little corner and cackle maniacally to myself because I think I'm hilarious.

So yeah, this started with the Just Add Ink challenge:
 

I think I have that covered.  In fact, the Large Letters Framelits are SO large that this is a 5x7 card to accommodate them.

Add in the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge:

Once again, turned on its side (I rotated the sketch I used for yesterday's card too).  Last up is the Color Throwdown:

I used Real Red, Coastal Cabana, and silver foil for the colors.  It took me a few tries to get a picture of this card (not least because it was rainy all day yesterday so not much natural light), so here's one where the silver foil isn't reflecting the camera flash:

This is the maiden voyage for Signs of Santa, which has lots of other cute little images and such in it, and also Birthday Backgrounds (on the red strip) which I got during the Stampin' Up! birthday sale in October.  The "Christmas" stamp is part of a longer sentiment in Snowflake Sentiments; I just inked up the word I wanted with a marker and stamped it.  I'm kind of in love with this card, it turned out exactly how I imagined it.

Well, I've gotta run.  Cheers and happy Friday, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Signs of Santa, Snowflake Sentiments, Birthday Backgrounds
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black & Coastal Cabana markers, Stampin' Blends in Real Red, Smoky Slate, and Petal Pink
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Real Red, Thick Whisper White, Silver Foil
Accessories:  Large Letters Framelits, Santa's Signpost Framelits, Dimensionals

Pink Champagne

Mornin', y'all.  I'm going to do Scrappy Monday later this week because I've got a card to share today!

I started out with the photo inspiration at Inkspirational:

Mostly I went with the colors for inspiration (Flirty Flamingo, Champagne glimmer paper, Very Vanilla and Basic Black) and of course the glitter was straight out of the inspiration photo.  I paired that with the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches:

(The reason I'm posting this card today, so I can enter it there before the challenge closes!) And finally, all that glimmer paper means I can enter this at Just Add Ink too:

This card took a little longer than I expected to put together and it was because of the snowflakes.  They're from the Seasonal Layers Thinlits.  I don't have the precision platform for the Big Shot, so I ran the glimmer paper through with some waxed paper between the paper and the die, and I ran it through several times to help it cut cleanly.  Even so I had to redo the largest snowflake and run it about eight times.  There's a coating on the back of the glimmer paper that's like waxed paper, so you have to use a paper piercer to punch out the fiddly bits on the insides of the snowflakes from the glitter side of the paper.  If you press from the back side, you end up with bits of that paper coating in all the little holes and it just doesn't look good.  And even though glimmer paper is the most mess-free way to add glitter to a project, I still have glitter all over my craft room and probably had it all over me last night too.

Okay!  Gym time.  Hugs and kisses, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Snowflake Sentiments
Ink:  Flirty Flamingo, Basic Black
Paper:  Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Watercolor Paper, Champagne Glimmer Paper
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes Framelits, Seasonal Layers Thinlits

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)

One Giant Gold Snowflake

Seems like I haven't been able to manage my naptime usage very well this week, but I finally managed to squeak out one more card today.  (Kiddo only slept for an hour this morning, and then this afternoon I *knew* he was tired, but he rolled around in his crib like a one-man circus for over 20 minutes before sleep finally won him over!)  Anyway, I hate it when I only have a teeny tiny window to stamp, and I get down to my craft table and....nothing.  Nada.  Zip.  Zilch.  Zero.  No idea what to do.  Which is what happened on this card yesterday, so I worked a little bit on some scrapbook pages but didn't get very far before I had to go back upstairs.  I had the sketch and color challenges for this picked out already, and then I went downstairs today and this took ten minutes.

Figures.

Not my favoritest card ever, but it's okay.  I do like those metallic snowflakes.  I've been having so much fun of late revisiting Agnes, Frankie and Vlad that I hadn't played with my brand new toys since I got them a week ago.  A whole WEEK ago!  Anyway, the first attempt for this card was going to be with Merry Patterns but I couldn't get that deer to agree with a circle so I traded him for the aforementioned gold snowflake.

Here's the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

And the color challenge from Global Design Project:

Like 90% of the time there's nothing stamped on the inside of my cards except lately I have been stamping the insides.  My husband *always* looks even when I tell him there's nothing on the inside, ha.

We've got some bright late afternoon sun here that's making the Old Olive card base look a little radioactive but what can ya do.

Well, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do--I'm going back downstairs while the baby is still asleep!  Maybe I'll actually finish up one of the four scrapbook layouts I've been working on for what seems like forever...

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Snowflake Sentiments
Ink:  Old Olive, Basic Black
Paper:  Old Olive, Thick Whisper White, Merry Little Christmas DSP
Accessories:  Metallic Snowflakes, Stitched Shapes Framelits, Dimensionals, Metallic Enamel Shapes