Friday Flashback: Tags Til Christmas

Happy Friday, peeps!  It's time for this week's Friday Flashback, and this time around it's a pretty short one.  We're taking a look at Tags Til Christmas...well, one stamp from that set anyway :)

Also features More Merry Messages

That's my single solitary card using this set.  And I didn't look through my photos to see what I'd done before I made today's new card, so I used the ornament stamp again and even did it the same color!

Well, what can you do.  I do like the CAS feel of this card though, I like it better than I expected to.  I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And the current Pals Paper Arts color challenge:

DANGIT I just realized I did Crumb Cake instead of Baked Brown Sugar!  It's close enough I hope?  I added a smidge of Early Espresso for the sentiment, too but it's all still food colors.  And now I'm kinda hungry.

Hubs and the pups are all currently napping on the floor in my craft room, which presents a bit of an obstacle course when I'm trying to get to certain stamps and cardstock.  But hey, at least we're all hanging out together.

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Tags Til Christmas, Snowflakes, Four the Holidays
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Ornament punch, Pearls, Dimensionals

Celebrate the Season

Ok, I'm feeling much better today than yesterday :)  I laid down for a bit, then when the hubs got home we took the dogs for a walk and I felt better after that, and we did indeed order pizza for dinner.  And then we went to bed kinda early and I was even lazy this morning so I'm now headache-free and feeling pretty good :)  And I got a card made today!

I was working on something with this sketch yesterday that ended up in the trash so I'm glad it worked out today.  And it fits in several challenges, like this one from Around the World:

And this sketch from As You See It:

I was on the nose with this one, I even used a tree.  And finally, I tic-tac-toed with the Paper Players:

Go down the right side of the board, and I used white, snowflakes (stamped in my oval), and my favorite kind of glitter--the type that's not at all messy:  shimmery white cardstock.  It DOES have a sheen to it although it's hard to catch on camera.

And now I'm off to the store so we can have tacos for dinner tonight.  And maybe do some Christmas shopping :)  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Lovely as a Tree, Endless Wishes, November 2014 My Paper Pumpkin (snowflake stamp)
Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Pacific Point, Night of Navy, Mossy Meadow, Smoky Slate
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Shimmery White
Accessories:  Oval Framelits (used as a mask)

Getting Organized

I really wanted to share a card with you today, Mom.  But I didn't get one made yesterday, I was gone all morning with my stitching group, and now I have a headache and all I want to do is lay down...I actually started a card, but then it got messed up with ink everywhere it wasn't supposed to be and I just don't have it in me to start another one, OR finish the scrapbook layout I started yesterday.

So instead, I bring you these pictures from a month or two ago when I set out to organize my cards.

Yep, I've got a lot of cards, for almost every occasion imaginable (or no occasion at all).  You know those photo storage boxes they sell at the big craft stores?  I have a jillion of those (can't help it, every time I see them on sale more of them come home with me!) so I put them to use.  I divvied up my cards by general themes and then separated them into boxes.  Here were some of my themes:

• Birthday
• Thank you
• Thinking of you and Friendship
• Christmas and winter
• Fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving
• Love and anniversaries (includes Valentines)
• Miscellaneous holidays (Mother's Day, Father's Day, 4th of July, etc.)
• Kids and babies
• Happy (I had lots of cards that say Happy Everything or even just happy, so I went with it)
• Sympathy
• Blank cards that could be used for any occasion

There were more but I can't remember off the top of my head what they all were.  So here's what that stack looks like now:

Be still my heart, how I love organization!  I wrote what kind of card was in each box on the little tab that goes on the front of the box.  The four all-white boxes on the bottom shelf are actually full of photos and so are two of the boxes on the shelf above that, but the rest are all cards.  Yeah, some of them may only have two or three cards in them, but at least now if I need a card for a specific occasion I don't have to wade through fifty random cards before I find a birthday card.

I'm off to lay down for a bit.  I was going to do the grocery shopping this afternoon, but we might just be ordering pizza for dinner instead...

Cheerful Nachos

Happy TOOSday!  Anyone else get their online shopping done yesterday for Cyber Monday?  I totally couldn't resist ordering a bit of Bath & Body Works shower gel :)  Merry Christmas to ME, haha.  Anyway, it's Tuesday and that means it's time for another Nacho Average Challenge!  Check out this color combo:

Those three colors just happen to be in the All Is Calm specialty DSP in the holiday catalog, but you don't *have* to make a holiday card.  But I did!

It's hard to tell in the photo but all the snowflakes are stamped in Soft Sky; the first part of the sentiment is stamped in Smoky Slate and you can tell that "cheer" is Pear Pizzazz.  I think we should get rid of Soft Sky and bring back Baja Breeze, Soft Sky is just not saturated enough for me.  At least the ink.  But anyway!  I was one of the last people to get Endless Wishes last year....I ordered it, and by the time I got it in my hot little hands, it was sold out so I never used it before now.  I think SU! was smart to bring it back in the holiday catalog this year :)

So.  Christmas tree is up, Paul McCartney is singing about wonderful Christmastime, and it feels wintry inside my house this morning even if it's pretty warm outside.  Happy December, y'all!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to a.) be of good cheer, and b.) participate in the Nacho color challenge.  Check out the Nacho blog for more goodies and get to stampin'!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Endless Wishes (photopolymer)
Ink:  Soft Sky, Smoky Slate, Pear Pizzazz
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Shimmery White, All Is Calm DSP
Accessories:  Rhinestones

It's a Wonderful Life

With a title like that, you'd think that I'd be posting a Christmas card today, wouldn't you?  Nope.  Like Mary Mary, I like to be quite contrary, and today's card features one of those cockleshells Mary had in her garden.

But no silver bells.  When I was little, I don't know why, but I thought "cockleshells" was a bad word.  Anyway, I love that sentiment stamp from Perfect Pennants and I'm so glad I got Gorgeous Grunge, even if I waited about a year after everyone else bought it before I jumped on the stamp wagon.  I also love me some purple, so I was happy to see the palette provided by Colour Me...!

Not just one, but TWO purples, and Coastal Cabana to boot.  Be still my heart ;)  My coral stamp is inked in Perfect Plum and rock 'n' rolled in Elegant Eggplant, and I used Candy Dots in both colors too.  Because I love Candy Dots.  Man, this card is just full of things I love.

Speaking of that, here's one of my favorite sketch challenges, Freshly Made:

I think the thing that took the longest in making this card was fussy cutting the seashell.  Other than that, easy peasy!

Well, I've got a laundry list of things to do today so I'd better get with it.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  By the Tide, Gorgeous Grunge, Perfect Pennants
Ink:  Coastal Cabana, Perfect Plum, Elegant Eggplant, Rose Red
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Perfect Plum, Whisper White
Accessories:  Regals Candy Dots, white baker's twine, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Make a Mitten

I hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving yesterday!  Sweet potato casserole makes for good breakfast food :)  Anyway, it's time for a Friday Flashback, and now that Thanksgiving is over we can concentrate on Christmas cards!  Today's featured stamp set is Make a Mitten.  As usual, I think I need to use this cute stamp set more often!

Also features Snow Swirled

So let's start out with a baby book layout just for funsies.  These cute mittens are perfect for any winter-themed project, including a January layout.

Also features Snow Swirled & Bootiful Occasions

There are two different stamps that are patterned mittens, but the set also includes several stamps you can use to decorate your own mittens any way you want so that's what I did here.  I really need to use the adorable tiny reindeer stamp!  So here's today's brand new project:

I had planned to use the reindeer on this one but it didn't fit!  Oh well.  I found a scrap of that patterned paper in my stash and thought they, that's perfect!  I wanted to use some bright, fun colors today and it doesn't get brighter and funner than Tangerine Tango.  I used the sketch from The Paper Players:

That's it for me today...it's time to take the doglets for a walk and then get cleaned up to go to the movies.  Have a great Black Friday, everyone!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Make a Mitten, Snowflakes
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, Pacific Point
Paper:  Soft Sky, Old Olive, Whisper White, Frosty Day DSP
Accessories:  Mitten punch, Banner Framelits, white baker's twine, button, Dimensionals

Thankful for Friends

Happy Thanksgiving, friends!  I hope you're having a wonderful holiday :)  One of the things that I am most thankful for in the world is good friends, so I've got a friendship card for you today.

I got the Gold Soiree paper pack a while back, and this is the first time I've used it.  All hail Garden Green!  I love Garden Green, but up till now it was almost never used in Stampin' Up!'s DSP.  This pack also has gold in it and the papers are coated so they have a little bit of a sheen.  The two patterns I used happen to be the two sides of a single sheet.

I used the current Sketch Frenzy Friday sketch for my card:

Easy peasy!  And wouldn't it be nice to have Candy Dots in gold and silver?  I used brads on my card, but the Dots are wonderful because you don't have to poke holes in your card front to use them, and there's no brad legs on the inside to look at.

Anyway, time to go eat more pie :)  Have a great holiday!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Feel Goods
Ink:  Garden Green
Paper:  Garden Green, Whisper White, Gold Soiree DSP
Accessories:  Deco Labels, Circles & Banner Framelits, gold brads, Dimensionals