CAS Christmas, Part 2

Hey y'all!  I had intended to write this post in the morning before I went to work, but I ran out of time :) I'm back with the other three card designs I made for my husband's work.

I got Lots of Cheer right before it retired and then didn't have a chance to ink it up, so I'm glad this cute boxy snowman finally gets his chance to appear!  The outside sentiment is from First Frost, and inside says Happy Holidays from Warmest Regards.

Kinda wish I'd done the mittens in blue and the sentiment in green, but I didn't have that thought until I'd already made most of the cards so oh well.  The mittens are from Merry (long, long retired!) and the sentiment is from Warmth & Wonder.  You may notice that all of the sentiments on the card fronts have something to do with warmth, guess that's my theme this year!

Last up is a cup of cocoa from Scentsational Season.  And that's all my cards!  I think making 65 cards in a single day is a personal best for me ;)  I was very productive at work for the past few days too, and I'd like to relax tomorrow for my day off but nope, looks like I'll be making desserts for a potluck thing in the afternoon.  I do like to bake though...

Cheers, y'all!  Stay toasty.

Supplies, snowman card:
Stamps:  Lots of Cheer, First Frost, Warmest Regards
Ink:  Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel
Paper:  Balmy Blue
Accessories:  None

Supplies, mittens card:
Stamps:  Merry, Warmth & Wonder, Warmest Regards
Ink:  Garden Green, Pacific Point
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz
Accessories:  None

Supplies, cocoa card:
Stamps:  Scentsational Season, Warmth & Wonder, Warmest Regards
Ink:  Real Red, Soft Suede
Paper:  Blushing Bride
Accessories:  None

Christmas At Our House 2004

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  How was your weekend?  I managed to finish a few scrapbook layouts and I have two that are only waiting on some new markers I need to order, and yesterday I made two batches of cookies to give to the ladies who run the nursery at the Y.  I wanted to give them a little gift because I am so grateful they're there to watch my kiddo so I can work out!  (And I neeeeed to work out, I taste-tested the cookies!)

But let's get to today's layout, shall we?  Here's another very retro layout from the first time we lived in North Carolina.

Okay I'm in love with the Wintergreen DSP.  I've had it for YEARS and I still bust it out on occasion.  Honestly, I'm getting pretty low on it, I wonder if they have any for sale on Ebay?  Anyway, it's come in useful on quite a few scrapbook layouts.  My page base is Blue Bayou, a long ago In Color, which wasn't in the DSP pack but I think it coordinates really well.

Click to embiggen if you want to see the title close up.  Hubs and I did our own Christmas thang at home before we went to Texas that year, and wonder of wonders, I did actually do the Texas layouts too (check back next week for those).

Today's color palette is comprised of Blue Bayou, Cranberry Crisp (another long ago In Color), Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, Sage Shadow, Soft Sky, and Very Vanilla.  Quite the list there, but they're all in the DSP except the first two colors.

Looks like a lot of challenges are going on a mini-break for Christmas, so I may be a bit more sporadic with posting.  I'm hoping to squeeze in some more scrapbook pages before the end of the year, though I know I won't get up to 200 (I'm currently at 164 I think?).  Lately I've set aside the baby Ryan and baby Sadie photos (the ones I was alternating working on) and I've been doing layouts of Christmases past.  I still have pictures pulled for at least five more Christmas layouts, I figure I might as well do them all now while Christmas is on the brain!

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Whimsical Alphabet Upper & Lower, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Warmth & Wonder
Ink:  Cranberry Crisp, Always Artichoke, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Blue Bayou, Cranberry Crisp, Always Artichoke, Thick Very Vanilla, Wintergreen DSP
Accessories:  None

Christmas Greetings 2010

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  And since Christmas is this weekend I'll go ahead and post a layout that's Christmas-related.

I started doing color-block layouts with the photo Christmas cards we get a few years ago.  Takes a bit of time and a ruler to snip out all the pieces, but I like having the photo cards on scrapbook pages and this is a pretty easy way to do it.  I just use whatever Christmas DSP SU! has each year to make however many pages I need.  I've got Christmas cards from this year in a little pile just waiting to be made up probably a few weeks into January, because some of my friends are about as good as I am about getting things mailed on time ;)

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Tall Tales Numbers, Warmth & Wonder
Ink:  Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Blushing Bride, Real Red, Candy Cane Christmas DSP
Accessories:  Sweetheart punch, hexagon punch

Baby Books: December

Scrappy Monday, peeps!  The hubs is off work today for Columbus Day which almost made me forget it's a weekday.  And to celebrate, we're painting the bathroom!  Yay?

Anyway, to my everlasting surprise, the twins for whom I made these baby books are still baking.  Seriously, I was surprised that mama made it to October first, much less today.

Preeeeetty sure they'll be here by Christmas though.

You might recognize this Santa Claus from last year's Santa Stache stamp set.  I love him, he's so cute.  I heat embossed him with Smoky Slate EP and then colored in his hat and face.

And of course Santa needs at least one reindeer, so there ya go.  Pretty sure this is Blitzen.

The color palette du jour:  Garden Green, Real Red, Midnight Muse, Marina Mist, Smoky Slate, and Whisper White.  And now my hubs is calling me to go start painting in the bathroom.  Wish us luck and cheers, peeps!

Supplies, almost all SU!
Stamps:  Santa Stache, Warmth & Wonder
Ink:  Versamark, Real Red, Midnight Muse
Paper:  Garden Green, Real Red, Midnight Muse, Marina Mist, Whisper White, Nordic Noel DSP
Accessories:  Deco Lables and Circles Framelits, Smoky Slate EP, Sizzix Alphabet

Cardinal Noel

Merry Christmas!  I hope you're having a wonderful holiday.

I made this recently for a sketch at Splitcoast, but it's one of those sketches that I think is just too complicated.  Hmm.

Regardless, this one went out in a package two weeks ago.  Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Warmth & Wonder
Ink:  Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Baked Brown Sugar, Always Artichoke
Paper:  Always Artichoke, Baked Brown Sugar, Whisper White, Season of Style DSP
Accessories:  Oval punch, Windows Collection Framelits, border punch whose name escapes me, Dimensionals

Hedgehog Snowman...Snowhog?

So, one of my friends lurves hedgehogs and her birthday is in December, so I whipped up this quick little card for her:

So what do you call that, is it a hedgehog snowman or is it a snowhog?  Snow hedgehog?  Maybe I'm over-thinking this.  It's cute, whatever it is, and I think my friend will like it.  She occasionally gets real live hedgehogs in her garden, but we never see any at my house.  Maybe my dogs scare them away, 'cause I'm closer to fields and stuff than she is, but whatever.  That heart patterned paper was a surprise find from a little 6x6 stack of DSP from several Sale-a-Brations ago.  Yay for using up more patterned paper!  Because I keep buying new stuff like a total crazy person.  I should never ever ever look at the clearance rack (but I'm so excited I got to get more Orchard Harvest DSP last week!).

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Best of Snow, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Warmth & Wonder
Ink:  Basic Gray, Wild Wasabi, Melon Mambo, Baked Brown Sugar, Pink Pirouette, Pumpkin Pie, Soft Sky, Sahara Sand, Whisper White Craft
Paper:  Wild Wasabi, Baked Brown Sugar, Whisper White, Welcome Neighbor 6x6 DSP (retired)
Accessories:  Deco Labels & Circle Framelits, Brights Candy Dots, Dimensionals

A Baby Frosty Nacho :)

Ya know, Tuesday used to be my favorite day because it was the regular time for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, back in the day when there was a new show every week.  But now Tuesdays means Nacho Average Challenge day, and this week it's a color challenge!

Since it's now December, I'm gonna go along with this whole Christmas thing...no more leaves for a while anyway.  Though those colors might be interesting with leaves.  Anyway, I bring you baby Frosty!

One of the stamps in Best of Snow is Frosty's MiniMe, isn't he cute?  And the way I die cut him in a circle and then painted on the background he kinda looks to me like he's in a snow globe.  I used last week's SCS sketch for this one, the idea just popped into my head.  What do you think?

Go see what the other Nachos have for you today and then get inky with this fun color combo!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Best of Snow, Warmth & Wonder (small snowflake), Christmas Messages
Ink:  Basic Gray, Pool Party, Island Indigo, Calypso Coral, Smoky Slate, Real Red & Garden Green (those last two were for the holly on his hat)
Paper:  Pool Party, Island Indigo, Whisper White, I Am Me DSP (oooh, didn't know you could do Christmas cards with that, didja?!)
Accessories:  Circle & Festive Flurry Framelits, Pool Party baker's twine (retired), Dimensionals