Paper Players: For the Guys

Hey y'all, happy Sunday!  Looks like Joanne's Tic-Tac-Toe challenge for the Paper Players last week was a big hit, judging from the size of the gallery : )  Today we're back and Stef has a great theme for us:

Need a card for Father's Day?  Know some guys with summer birthdays?  Now's your chance to make a card for them : )  So I'm still thinking Yellowstone (see here and here), but I thought I'd make a card featuring the animal we were most excited to see during our trip:

A grizzly bear!  (If you want to see lots of black bears, rent a cabin near Smoky Mountains National Park, we saw lots of black bears there!)  The bear and the trees are stamped directly on a pattern from the Nature Walk DSP (been a while since I had used it), and the big, bold greeting from Weekend Adventures is stamped on Basic Beige and popped up on Dimensionals.  I think Weekend Adventures was marketed as a scrapbooking stamp set (like I've ever had a problem using any and all stamps on my scrapbook pages) because it has a lot of large and in charge word stamps, but I've used it on a couple of cards instead.  I added a few Natural Matte Dots to finish it off.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Wildlife Wonder, Weekend Adventures, Outdoor Adventure
Ink:  Pecan Pie, Mossy Meadow, Secret Sea
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Basic Beige, Nature Walk DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Natural Matte Dots

Check out the other design team creations on the Paper Players blog, and you can hop through their individual blogs to leave some comments too:

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

you are here --> Christy Stanford

And then upload your card at the Paper Players blog!  Keep in mind a few simple rules:
1.  Create a new paper project
2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission
3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL
4.  Have fun!

The Scenic Route

Mornin' y'all!  Ryan had a GREAT morning at farm camp yesterday, he got to hold a baby duckling and chicks and a bunny and also they made pickles.  It's overcast and misty today but I'm sure they'll still do fun stuff.

I got some crafty time yesterday and I just really really really like today's card:

I will admit, I was inspired by our trip to Yellowstone as much as I was the Inspired By... Challenge (more Yellowstone pics at the bottom of this post if you're interested), but here's what I started with:

I used Very Vanilla, Soft Succulent, and Cinnamon Cider for my colors, with some Early Espresso for the greeting.  I flipped through all my newish stamp sets in the packaging that I haaaaaate and I came across Outdoor Adventure and Weekend Adventures and I quickly put this card together, I love it.  We did not see any foxes in Yellowstone, but I bet they were pretty close to us, they're just better at hide 'n seek.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Outdoor Adventure, Weekend Adventures
Ink:  Soft Succulent, Cinnamon Cider, Early Espresso
Paper:  Cinnamon Cider, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Outdoor Adventure dies, Dimensionals

Okay, so here's some pics from day 2 at Yellowstone!

We started out the day in the Norris Geyser Basin where we saw lots of (you guessed it) geysers, as well as steam vents, fumaroles, steam vents, and mud pots.  Pretty much looked like an alien landscape, and here we are in front of Steamboat Geyser.

What a difference a wooden boardwalk makes?

Then we drove up to the north to the Mammoth Hot Springs area.  Ryan got a good education last week in what sulfur smells like.

See, it looks like you're on another planet.

Daveeey, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier!

We drove west through Lamar Valley and isn't it beautiful?  Also Peking got to come and Ryan got a cardboard bus with his lunch, which he named...Bus.

More sulfur!

This buffalo was just chilling like 10 feet away from the boardwalk which made stupid tourists think they could go right up to the end of the boardwalk, as if a rickety little fence is going to even slow him down if he takes offense to the tourists right near him.  I felt like *I* was too close and I was at least 25 yards away.  Luckily he seemed disinclined to bestir himself to teach any lessons in respecting wildlife.

Ryan and I joked that this pic would go on this year's Christmas cards.

And the Yellowstone gift shops have a book to help you identify what creature left its mark in the park : )