Rodalbens

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We were actually gone last weekend; we drove up to Estes Park with friends.  We visited the Stanley Hotel (only to get a souvenir for my mom), walked around the town a bit, enjoyed some fall foliage, and did a really great Jeep tour up into the Rocky Mountains National Park.  We saw lots of elk, some deer, and the hubs caught a glimpse of a bear near our cabin.  He also got an unintentionally close look at some elk when he went out for an early morning jog.  We took many many pictures and I need to upload them onto the computer so I can see them larger.

Anyway!  Today's layout is also fall colors:

This was one of our early explorations in Germany in 2020, when pretty much all we were allowed to do was to go hiking while staying away from other people.  Rodalbens was only a short drive from where we lived and we got to see some pretty neat sandstone formations even though Ryan opined that "Hiking is just walking and trees are boring!"  Yeah, we're planning to go back to Estes Park and do some hiking around there.  I want to go to the national park again, it was amazingly beautiful.

Today's fall palette includes Wild Wasabi, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Close to Cocoa, and Very Vanilla.  I haven't done any scrapping in a while (as I've been preoccupied with the Nancy Drew stuff) but this is making me really want to bust out the 12x12 paper again.

Time to go walk the Daph.  I think she was happy to see us yesterday but she spent most of the afternoon sleeping--must have worn herself out playing with other dogs at the dog sitter's house.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Empire Alphabet Upper, True Friend, Coffee House Alphabet by Inkadinkado
Ink:  Really Rust, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze marker
Paper:  Wild Wasabi, Really Rust, Close to Cocoa, Thick Very Vanilla, Crushed Curry DSP
Accessories:  Layering Circles dies

Hello, Goodbye

Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere.  (No one is going anywhere!)  Hello, Goodbye is just the name of my scrapbook layout for today!

Pics on the left are from when a friend returned home from deployment; pics on the right are from when another friend got ready to leave for his next assignment.  I didn't want to do two separate layouts so this seemed like a good way to combine the two.

Today's color palette includes Bashful Blue, Melon Mambo, Concord Crush (how I wish I had gotten an ink refill for this one!  Somehow I missed getting ANY In Color refills that year), Lucky Limeade, and Whisper White.  The patterned paper is from Cheerful Treat, which I haven't used a lot but I loved it here!  I've been digging into some old, old DSP lately and having fun with it.

Well, Ryan just asked if he can please get up and since it's almost 8 a.m. I suppose that's okay ;) Hope your week is off to a good start, peeps.  Cheers!

ETA:  I was going to talk about color some more...I've been doing a lot of pages with Ryan on them, and the bright colors on kids' clothes means that my color palettes have been getting bolder.  It's a fun change, but I still have lots of older pics to scrap that will require colors not in the Crayola Bold Brights collection ;)

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, True Friend
Ink:  Lucky Limeade, Melon Mambo, Concord Crush
Paper:  Bashful Blue, Concord Crush, Lucky Limeade, Thick Whisper White, Cheerful Treat DSP
Accessories:  Circle punch, Circles Collection Framelits

Mykonos

Dude, it is POURING outside.  Like, our tiny back area is already ankle-deep in water and it's not letting up any time soon.  Maybe I should start moving all my craft supplies up from the basement? ;) Not that we've ever seen this house flood, but it is awfully wet out there.

Anyway, I've got some sunny pages today!

This is from our Med cruise in 2013 (see pics here), and after I finished these pages I realized that I'm now finished with all our pics from Greece.  I think that means we need to go back!  Click the photo above to see the layout bigger, I love that pic of the Rock Ness Monster :D

Stamped title and one of the fussy-cut flowers.  I've used Poppy Parade on a couple of scrapbook layouts lately, totally loving it!  I seem to go through color phases...I think I did three or four layouts in a row with Night of Navy pretty recently, and then it was a couple with Poppy Parade.  I love color.

And there it is!  Bermuda Bay, Pacific Point, Poppy Parade, Peekaboo Peach, and Whisper White.

Well, the squirt woke up so I should go feed his little face!  Cheers, y'all.  Stay dry.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Empire Alphabet Upper, True Friend
Ink:  Pacific Point, Poppy Parade, Peekaboo Peach
Paper:  Bermuda Bay textured, Poppy Parade, Whisper White, Pacific Point DSP, Birthday Bash DSP
Accessories:  none

Friday Flashback: Sincere Salutations

Thank goodness it's Friday, kids.  Not my best week ever.  I will neither confirm nor deny that I ate brownie batter for breakfast today.  Is it weird that I like brownie batter better than actual brownies?  Don't answer that.  Also, I laugh in the face of salmonella.

But anyway, I bring you today's slightly late Friday Flashback.  Today's retired stamp set of choice is Sincere Salutations, and I remember how excited we stampers were when it first came out--eight sentiments in a pretty classy mixed-font format, what's not to love?  So again, this flashback would take a week if I put up every single project I ever made with this stamp set.  Let's just select a few, shall we?

Also features Baroque Motifs

And right off the bat this one might be my favorite of the bunch.  I like the color combination :)  And of course Baroque Motifs can do no wrong.

Also features Natural Beauty

My long-ago SU! upline used to do that thing like on this card where a smaller-than-A2 card is folded and then backed up with a piece of colored cardstock; not really my thing but it did let me do a nice bow on the side of this card.

Also features Pretty Peony

Some pretty purple peonies for a birthday...

Also features Roses in Winter

And Christmas roses.  Yeah, Sincere Salutations has got you covered for most events.

Also features Stippled Stencils, Weathered

The sentiment showed up better IRL on this card than in the scan (and this was so long ago that it was a scan rather than a photo)--it's embossed in gold.

Also features Wonderful Wings, Filigree

One last card featuring one of the gorgeous butterflies from Wonderful Wings, and also last week's Friday Flashback set of Filigree.  And now for this week's new creation:

I'm pretty pleased with it.  I used the color challenge from ColourQ:

And apparently I was influenced by the picture in the challenge graphic too, because I think that's what made me reach for Medallion.  I also used this week's Retro Rubber Challenge sketch:

In the spirit of the challenge, I've had Sincere Salutations for I suppose 11 years because I think I got it when it came out; Medallion dates from 2011 so five years, and True Friend I've had for 9 years.  Yeah, I think I got the "retro" part of the challenge covered this time ;)

Well, hubs just got home and he's taking me out to dinner so that's it for me.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Sincere Salutations, Medallion, True Friend
Ink:  Marina Mist, Pear Pizzazz, Tangerine Tango, Night of Navy
Paper:  Marina Mist, Night of Navy, Whisper White
Accessories:  Circle punches, Regals Candy Dot, Tangerine Tango ribbon from Sale-a-Bration a couple of years ago

Friday Flashback: True Friend

Happy Friday, peeps.  For this week's Friday Flashback, our retired stamp set is True Friend which came out in the 2007 holiday mini catalog so this one's quite the oldie.  Grab your cuppa tea and let's Flashback!

Also features Hugs & Wishes

Starting off with a cute and simple set of cards that you could do in any color.  I like 'em.  (Mom, something like this might be good for your Christmas card project...)

Also features Priceless, Polka Dot

A fun and bright birthday card...

Also features Happy Everything & Boho Friend Wheel

And one more for good measure.  Can ya tell I like that big flower.

And here's a few of the other stamps in the set.  I do like the "true friend" sentiment but I haven't used it much.

Also features Wonderful Favorites, Flannel Plaid, Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Not my favorite card, it was for a combination SCS sketch and color challenge and this sketch just didn't do anything for me.

Also features Paisley, Warm Words

And the last card of the Flashback has lots o' layers.  I miss the ticket corner punch.

So for today's new project, I bring you a scrapbook layout:

Yay me getting more pages done.  This is the first layout I've made with pictures from this year; these were taken last spring in Alabama.  I wish I'd gotten the spacing a bit better on the stamped part of the title, and really the purple letters show up better IRL than they do in the picture (it was very overcast and kinda dark when I took the photo).  I do love the color combination I used:

Kiwi Kiss, Rose Red, Pink Pirouette, and Lavender Lace.  This layout came together pretty fast once I'd picked the patterned papers I wanted to use.

And that's all she wrote this week, peeps.  Have a great weekend!

Supplies, Spring layout only:
Stamps:  True Friend, Sweet Shoppe Alphabet
Ink:  Rose Red, Chocolate Chip marker
Paper:  Kiwi Kiss, Pink Pirouette, Lavender Lace, Bali Breeze DSP, Pink Pirouette DSP
Accessories:  non-SU lettering template