Baylor Butterfly!

Monday again already, but I'm not sad about that because my headache is finally gone (it hung in there for quite long enough, thank you!) and I've got a fun card to share today.  Lookie!

It's a Baylor butterfly, large and in charge!  It just so happens that the latest Dynamic Duos challenge is pretty much my college colors:

My husband and I are both Baylor bears, though neither of us is really rah-rah Baylor, much to Mom's dismay.  Hey, I'm happy to wear Baylor shirts and stuff, but I couldn't give a flip about sports teams, mmkay?  But I am digging my Baylor butterfly here, and I do have a really good friend who DOES bleed green & gold...ha!

This wonderful sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches, this card was so easy to put together!

For reals, the only thing that took some time was watercoloring the butterfly.  I embossed it with Early Espresso EP (after I got silver EP all over everything trying to put that up so I could use the Espresso stuff...FYI, embossing powder does not belong on your eyeball, it is most uncomfortable) and then watercolored the butterfly with Daffodil Delight and Garden Green ink refills so the color would be more saturated.  I love Garden Green, I've used it quite a bit on scrapbooks but not so much for cards.  We need more Garden Green color challenges!

For the sentiment banner hoopydoo (it's a technical term), I stamped the sentiment in Garden Green and then sponged it with Daffodil Delight to make it stand out from the white background on the butterfly panel.  I swear, I do have sentiment stamps that are not in Curly Cute or Sweet Essentials, but with the banner things so uber-popular right now in sketches, I seem to reach for those two sets the most often.

Enough chatter from me, go forth and stamp happy!  Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies (all SU!):
Stamps:  Swallowtail, Curly Cute
Ink:  Versamark, Garden Green, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Garden Green, Whisper White, Early Espresso, Sunshine & Sprinkles DSP scrap
Accessories:  Early Espresso EP (it's EEEP! ok, I entertain myself anyway), Daffodil Delight seam binding

Tangerine Dream

No Friday Flashback today...I spent part of the day finishing an essay for a class, and then kinda got knocked out by a headache and never did get a Flashback post written.  But I can't leave you cardless, so here's one I made a little while back.  Enjoy!

I love bright colors, I really do.  Get out your sunglasses!

This was for a color challenge on SCS, to use Tangerine Tango, Lucky Limeade, and Whisper White.  I added the black in there because I think it provides a great contrast with the two bright colors.  Whaddya think?

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies (all SU!):
Stamps:  Fabulous Florets, Petite Pairs
Ink:  Lucky Limeade, Tangerine Tango, StazOn Black
Paper:  Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Whisper White, Summer Smooches DSP
Accessories:  black taffeta, oval & scallop oval punches, rhinestone, Dimensionals

Triple Challenge

Oyy, I haven't been doing so hot this week with getting things up here in a more timely manner.  I was doing so good for a while there, too.  Nevertheless, I have at last got a card for today!  And it's a triple challenge.

I won't lie, this card was a bit of a pill to make.  I decided after I'd already stuck down the DSP that it needed something else to go behind the circle punch, so I had to mask the DSP before I started sponging and stamping.  My Baja Breeze ink pad was in need of a refill too so the background coral isn't 100% there, but it kind of works for that bit of the card.  I did hunt up my ink refill though for the sand dollar because it was getting overpowered by the plum starfish.  Still is, even though the sand dollar is popped up and has the pearl accent.  Ehh.  At that point I'd already stamped and cut out four images from By the Seashore so I just decided to stick a fork in it and call it done.

I've been meaning to get to last week's Sketch Frenzy Friday challenge all week and just managed to squeeze it in before the next sketch goes up tomorrow.  Here's the sketch:

And here's the Fab Friday color combo, also at the eleventh hour as the next challenge posts tomorrow as well:

And the third challenge is Still Addinktive's Spot that Stamp Set, to use By the Seashore or By the Tide.  I used both so I'm awarding myself extra points :)

Here's a bonus for you if you're still with me at this point:  a very fast baby card.

Out of curiosity, I timed myself and had this one done in about 7 minutes.  Would have been under five, but several of the toes didn't show up on my stamped image as well as I wanted them to, so I had to touch up with a blender pen.  This is for the very lovely lady who cuts my hair, and is expecting her second boy to arrive soon--I whipped up this card really fast this morning and then ran up to the salon to give her a little gift (baby booties my mom crocheted) as the salon was having a shower for her today.  So yep, there it is.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies (all SU!) for the first card:
Stamps:  By the Seashore, By the Tide, Curly Cute
Ink:  Baja Breeze, Perfect Plum, Wild Wasabi
Paper:  Baja Breeze, Sahara Sand, Whisper White, retired Halloween DSP because it was plum and I used up almost all of the current plum DSP I have
Accessories:  2 1/2" circle punch, pearls, Dimensionals

Supplies (all SU!) for the second card:
Stamps:  Baby Prints, Sweet Essentials
Ink:  Island Indigo, Gumball Green
Paper:  Whisper White
Accessories:  Gumball Green ribbon

Indigo Love

Wow, today is the first day in like two weeks that I haven't had my post written and scheduled the day before.  I was being a good girl yesterday and working on my last essay for my class, so I whipped up today's card real fast this morning.

This is another one of SU's "Best Of" stamp sets--in this case, Best of Love.  I admit, I got it because I really like that heart image and I didn't get whatever stamp set it was originally from.  It kinda reminds me of Little Orphan Annie's locket, anyone else think that?

I made this one in blues partially because I was thinking of my hubby, whose favorite color is blue, and also to participate in a challenge (I think I'm an official challenge junkie).  The color combo (with the addition of Sahara Sand) is courtesy of this week's Dynamic Duos challenge: 

I have begun building my hoard of both Island Indigo and Pool Party cardstock :)  I wish they'd just keep introducing more and more new colors and never retire any, but I'm weird like that.

The layout is from Unscripted Sketches, this is the first time I've played in their challenge:

Ok, so my card is a little bit off the sketch when it comes to proportions and placement, but you can still tell I used this particular sketch.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies (all SU!):
Stamps:  Best of Love
Ink:  Island Indigo
Paper:  Sahara Sand, Island Indigo, Whisper White, In Color DSP Stack
Accessories:  Island Indigo baker's twine, Dimensionals

Seize the Birthday!

I finally did a Seize the Birthday challenge on time!  And I like my card pretty well, lookie:

I was inspired to grab Fabulous Florets by this beautiful card by Marleygo that I saw last week on Splitcoast, though I'm not sure I'd consider this an out-and-out CASE.  Still, she did inspire me so I wanted to give credit.  And hey look, two cards in a row with the Top Note die!  Just a coincidence; this week's Seize the Birthday sketch also featured it:

Ok, so I did alter the sketch slightly to make it a standard A2 card instead of square, but the rest of the sketch is pretty spot-on.  And I didn't add brads to yesterday's card, but this time I did.  It seemed to need a bit more Daffodil Delight on that side.  The fun and sunny color combo is from Create with Connie and Mary:

Glad I got a new pack of Melon Mambo cardstock, what with the Sunshine & Sprinkles DSP I used quite a bit of Melon Mambo making swaps a while back.  That's okay though, bright colors cheer me up, especially when we've had a lot of overcast skies here lately.  It keeps trying to snow but doesn't get very far, but it's still cold, so I drink a lot of tea ;)

Happy Tuesday and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies (all SU!):
Stamps:  Fabulous Florets, Curly Cute (seriously, what did I do before I got this stamp set?)
Ink:  Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Melon Mambo, Basic Gray, Whisper White, Sunshine & Sprinkles DSP
Accessories:  Top Note die, Brights brads

Fabby Dress

You know, I really think that Stampin' Up! is on to something with having the not-really-mini catalogs last longer.  At first when I got the spring occasions catalog, I saw some things I liked, but not a whole lot that I really, *really* needed.  Fast forward a couple months and I'm well on my way to acquiring at least half the catalog (nobody tell my husband!).  I really wasn't going to get the All Dressed Up stamp set and Framelits until I saw all the dress cards that Lyssa Zwolanek was making with it (mostly here, but also here and here...and here) and then, lemming that I am, suddenly I found myself in possession of all the dressy stuff.  Oops.

Ok, really, I'm not sad about that.  'Cause cuteness!

Perhaps I should have switched around the colors and done a Raspberry Ripple dress with a Wisteria Wonder card base...I think the Raspberry would pop better against the Basic Gray patterned paper but whatever, I still had fun making this.  It's been a while since I dusted off my Top Note die, and this is the maiden voyage not just for the All Dressed Up Framelits but also the Notable Alphabet.  I had originally planned to cut the dress out of some patterned paper but then I found a scrap of Wisteria Wonder that was already embossed, so I decided to roll with that.

The sketch is from Freshly Made Sketches:

I thought about adding some white brads to the lower right corner like in the sketch but I thought maybe it was okay without them?  The color combo is from Still Addinktive:

Obviously I only did the color challenge part of that one :)  Though I suppose maybe I could have still used the dress die cut on that sketch, but I really wanted to get that FMS one done by the challenge deadline.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies (all SU!):
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Raspberry Ripple, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White, Neutrals DSP Stack
Accessories:  All Dressed Up Framelits, Boho Flowers punch, rhinestone, Top Note Die, white EP, white taffeta, Square Lattice EF

Friday Flashback: Sense of Time

Happy Friday and welcome to this week's Friday Flashback, Sense of Time.  This is kind of like an older version of Clockworks, which I also have :)  However, I haven't used Sense of Time very much because I bought it right before it retired.  Anyone else do that?  I just couldn't pass it up when it went up for retirement, but a lot of times I don't use my retired sets that much.  Hence the Flashback post each week.  So let's see what we've got:

I made this one for my friend Missy a couple of years ago because I gave her a clock for her birthday.  (She has a thing for clocks.)  The clock was neat, it had twelve 2x2-inch spaces around it for pictures, so I put in pictures from our time in Japan and all the places we went and things we did together.  She says she gets comments on it every time someone comes in her office.

Anywha, here's the brand new card today:

I didn't look at my other card before I did this one, it mighta been nice with the Sanded background on it too.  Oh well.  I got the layout from this week's Retro Sketch:

The only thing I changed was I did three small brads instead of the larger circle embellishments on the sketch.

Thanks for joining me on this week's Flashback!

Supplies for last card (all SU!):
Stamps:  Sense of Time
Ink:  Soft Suede, Basic Black
Paper:  Soft Suede, Basic Black, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Neutrals brads