Showing posts with label Wreath of Roses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wreath of Roses. Show all posts

Monday, December 1, 2025

Rose Parade Practice

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We spent most of last week in Vail with friends, skiing (everybody who is not me or Lynn) and enjoying Thanksgiving together.  I managed a full Thanksgiving meal in our hotel suite kitchen : )  It was a lot less effort than I usually do, too, because I got heat and eat options for almost everything (but my homemade pies are much tastier than the frozen ones!).  I did a turkey breast in the crockpot that turned out much better than I expected, I will definitely use that recipe again.  I did use an entire can of chicken broth instead of a half cup, and Ryan and I didn't measure the mustard either, just coated everything he could reach with it.  Then I flipped the turkey breast a couple of times during the cooking process so that we wouldn't end up with one side much juicier than the other--this turned out great!

Okay, enough turkey talk.  How about a scrapbook layout?


These pics are 15 years old, oof.  My high school band was invited to march in the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, and I happened to be in Texas that December so I went out to watch them practice with my sister. (I call my brother's wife my sister; their besties are my other brother and sister, and the hubs' sister and her husband are my SIL and BIL.  Keeps everything straight in my head!)  We never got to do anything that cool when I was in high school, but on the other hand I got to be snug in my house watching the parade that year.


Today's sorta-Christmas palette includes Certainly Celery, Real Red, Blueberry Bushel, and white.  My high school colors are orange and black, so not Christmasy at all but you can see the balloons where Adrienne and I had our picture taken on the bottom right.  I found some Christmas DSP with roses on it and I thought that was just perfect for this.

That's it for me today, peeps.  The hubs is coming down with a major cold or something and I am trying very hard not to do the same...but my girl Daphne still wants to go for a walk and it's been a week since I last took her since we were in Vail last week and she was with a dogsitter.  We got our first snow last night too so we have to go out : )  I swept snow off the driveway this morning and I think most, if not all, of this will melt by tomorrow so we'll enjoy it while we can.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Broadsheet Alphabet, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers, Wreath of Roses
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Blueberry Bushel, Poppy Parade; Mossy Meadow & Blueberry Bushel markers; Mossy Meadow, Poppy Parade, Petal Pink, Calypso Coral Stampin' Blends
Paper:  Certainly Celery, Poppy Parade, Thick Whisper White, Christmastime is Here DSP
Accessories:  None

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Rosy Thoughts

Mornin' y'all!  How is your week going so far?  I've got a Valentine-adjacent card to share today.



Okay I may have thrown off the alignment on my picture here.  They changed the formatting on Blogger a while back and I still don't like it :p  But anyway, I saw a couple of challenges last week that made me dig out a very old set called Wreath of Roses.  First up is the Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch:


Which I paired with the Inkspirational inspo pic:


With an image like that, how could I *not* use Wreath of Roses?  I decided to go with a thinking of you sentiment instead of something Valentine-y though, I need more TOY cards than Valentines.

Have a great day peeps!  It's Taco Tuesday :)

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Wreath of Roses
Ink:  Early Espresso, Polished Pink, Stampin' Blends in Polished Pink & Just Jade
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Pink Pirouette DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals