Fall Fox

Good morning y'all!  Turns out that I do NOT have strep throat, and as bad as I felt on Tuesday I'm feeling all better today so yay! And in other good news, today is the big 24-hour stamp sale from Stampin' Up! and I already took advantage of that ; )

I am also very happy that it's now cool enough in the morning that I can drink a cup of hot tea without feeling like I'm going to melt into a miserable puddle, so I've got my chestnut tea and some bread with butter and sour cherry jam and some nice music playing and oh yes I am living my best life.  So here is today's card:

I like getting new stamps for Sale-a-Bration but sometimes I don't get to play with the stamp sets much (or at all) before SAB ends.  So Stylish Sketches may be retired now but I had to ink it up for the challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

Obviously I was inspired by the fox in the challenge graphic, but I also glommed on to that deep green saucer on the bottom right.  I thought the color challenge from Sunday Stamps dovetailed nicely with the HSS challenge:

I used Evening Evergreen, Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze, and Merry Merlot for my colors; I actually did use some dark So Saffron Blend on my fox but ended up going over it with ivory, so for all intents and purposes I left out the yellow color from the challenge graphic.

At first, I moved things around on the card front trying to figure out where to put a sentiment, but in the end I decided to keep it simple and let the fantastic Mr. Fox be front and center.  I stamped "simply thankful for all the good things" from Country Home on the inside of my card but I didn't take a picture of that so you'll just have to trust me.

And with that, I've got about three hours before I have to go get Ryan to take him to an appointment, so I'm going to go be productive.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Stylish Sketches, Country Home
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Evening Evergreen, Stampin' Blends in Cajun Craze, So Saffron, Ivory, Mossy Meadow
Paper:  Evening Evergreen, Thick Very Vanilla, He's the Man Specialty DSP, Come to Gather DSP
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Dimensionals, Rustic Metallic Dots

Sketchy Ducks

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday!  I'm finally starting to feel like I'm kicking the Covid crud...I was still super tired yesterday but I decided to ignore it and get stuff done anyway.  That sort of worked?  I did six and a half loads of laundry and put the clothes up, plus I managed not to take a nap, and I'm feeling better today.  So yeah, we'll call that a success.  I even spent some time in my craft room.

How about some manly ducks?  The duck image is from the Sale-a-Bration set Stylish Sketches and I really thought I'd use the fox first, but the ducks worked better for my two challenges today.  First up is this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And next is the Color Throwdown, you know how I like to combine those two challenges:

I used Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, Memento Tuxedo Black, and white, plus some Soft Suede because apparently there weren't enough neutrals for me : p  I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then gave it a very quick watercolor with the other shades of ink, keeping it loose and quick to go with the style of the artwork.  This card came together very quickly and now I have a manly card, should I need it.  Always a good thing!

Got some work to do, so I'm off.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Stylish Sketches, Simply Succulents
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Basic Black, Soft Suede, Thick Basic White, He's the Man DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Potted Succulents dies, Dimensionals, Rustic Metallic adhesive dots