A Frightfully Good Color Combo from SUOC

Mornin' y'all!  Get ready for a new challenge from SUO Challenges!

It's comin' at ya right...NOW!

Now that we are officially in Spooky Season (because in my reality that officially starts on September first), I had to give these colors a Halloween spin.  Here's what I made:

I used the blendy thingies I can't think of the name for right now to apply Timid Tiger and Melon Mambo ink on some plain white cardstock, just kinda randomly, and then I flicked a bit of water on it and dried it with a heat tool because I'm impatient.  Then I stamped the Fright Night stamp on top, cut it out, et voilà, a custom-color background for my main image piece.  I played around with different elements and eventually landed on a few spiderwebs on some Spooky Sweet Specialty DSP, a few Melon Mambo Faceted Gems and done.  I've been in Michaels a couple of times recently and it seems like there is a LOT of Halloween decor out there with hot pink, so now I'm trendy (first time for everything).

Hope you'll play along with the challenge over at SUO Challenges.  You don't have to make it Halloween, just remember to use SU! only supplies and have fun.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Fright Night
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Timid Tiger, Melon Mambo
Paper:  Timid Tiger, Basic Black, Melon Mambo, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Fright Night dies, Dimensionals, Solid Faceted Gems

Appel Happel

Scrappy Monday, y'all, and welcome to SEPTEMBER which kicks off my favorite time of the year, fall!  Squeeeee!  I'm so excited for cooler temperatures and autumn colors and many, many cups of tea and also apples.  I love today's layout!

In 2021, we went apple picking at a place called Appel Happel in Germany despite having two apple trees in our own yard, and I wish we had done it every year because it was fun.  I made pie and muffins and my first-ever attempt at homemade applesauce and I love that picture of Ryan just stretched out at his leisure in the wheelbarrow.  Love love love love love.

Today's color palette is courtesy of the Orchard Harvest DSP, one of my favorites and one of the first that I can remember SU! having on the clearance rack after it had retired.  Like, when the clearance rack was introduced, this paper was on it and I happily snagged several packs of it because I had already used most of my first pack (which rarely happens, I buy DSP faster than I use it even with how much stuff I make).  Anyway, the colors are Raspberry Ripple, More Mustard, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Early Espresso, and white.  I had a mishap while creating this layout though; I wanted to ink up my Island Indigo ink pad and I accidentally used Pacific Point ink instead.  Since then I've been using a Stampin' Spot (like a mini ink pad), but I do have a full-size one in my eBay cart to replace the one I messed up.  Harrumph.

I have a bag of apples on my counter right now, I think some apple muffins would not go amiss to celebrate the beginning of September.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Big Deal Alphabet, Perfectly Preserved
Ink:  More Mustard, Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, Early Espresso marker
Paper:  Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Basic White, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories:  Cannery Framelits

Flamingo Flowers

Mornin' y'all!  How's your weekend going?

I've got a one-layer card to share today.

I kept this one very CAS for the Just Add Ink challenge:

The Thankful Garden masks are the only stencils I own, so that was an easy choice for this challenge, and I paired it with the CAS Colours & Sketches colors:

Lost Lagoon has been in a couple of color challenges lately and I am here for it.  I like these colors together, this was fun.

Have a great day, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Thankful Garden
Ink:  Flirty Flamingo, Pool Party, Lost Lagoon
Paper:  Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Thankful Garden masks

Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk

Hey hey, welcome to another Nancy Drew Challenge!  We're up to number 17, The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk.

Again, we have a very slight title change.  The OT on the left gets the colorful cover and a scene from the book; the RT right is another collage and I find it curious that the cover for a book that takes place almost entirely at sea is nearly devoid of sea colors.  Interesting artistic choice.

Case file:  Nancy, Bess, and George are planning to take a trip to South America with the students of a girls' school (which none of them attend), when a pretentious and rude lady appears and Nancy's house and insists that she can't go with them and that her darling daughter Nestrelda (what a name!) cannot associate with people like Nancy.  Meanwhile, Carson wants Nancy to talk to the daughter of a friend of his and convince her to marry the guy that her parents have picked out, which is super ick on Carson and the parents' part but at least Nancy isn't fond of this idea either.  The girls all do go on the trip and Nancy's trunk gets mixed up with Nestrelda's, which her crooked stepfather has been using as part of a jewelry smuggling operation.  Quite a bit of the book takes place in Buenos Aires, which was fun.  Also, Nancy gets struck by lightning in this one.  What?!

Here's my card:

At the start of the book, when Nancy is packing her stuff in her new trunk, we get a return of Effie from Password to Larkspur Lane though this time instead of just being flighty and hilarious she's actively stupid and packs Nancy's passport in the trunk, so Nancy is worried she won't get to go on the trip as the trunk got shipped to the port separately.  So I had to include a passport on my card for this one.  Also I think it's weird that Nancy is so keen to go on a trip to South America when she was nearly an unwilling passenger on a cruise ship heading there in the OT version of #16, The Clue of the Tapping Heels.

I wanted to use Nancy's smart blue skirt suit as the main color inspiration, so I went with Island Indigo for my card base with Pool Party for the sky, and just a touch of Sweet Sorbet to echo Bess's red jacket.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Next Destination, Post Script
Ink:  Island Indigo, Pebbled Path, Pool Party, Sweet Sorbet
Paper:  Island Indigo, Pool Party, Thick Basic White, Shades & Hues DSP Stack
Accessories:  Perennial Postage dies, Dimensionals, Sweet Sorbet pearls

Now let's take a look at the RT:

Case file:  Nancy, Bess, and George embark on a transatlantic cruise from Holland to New York and meet Nelda Detweiler, who shares their cabin.  Nancy's trunk goes missing while another similar one with the initials ND is delivered to the cabin in its place.  Nelda had been wrongly accused of stealing jewelry in South Africa; Nancy and the other girls open up this trunk that doesn't belong to them and discover that the trunk is being used to smuggle jewels; Nancy has the bad guys arrested as soon as they dock in New York.  And along the way there's a meteor and she and Nelda get thrown overboard, no big deal (by which I mean this is totally bananas).  Also, fun fact, this book was a gift to me from my cousins for Christmas 1989.

Here's my card:

I admit, I bought the Traveler stamp set on eBay specifically for this Nancy Drew challenge.  I had to do a monochromatic card to match the cover, and I included some antique pearls for the jewelry on the cover.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Traveler, Scenic Adventure, World Map
Ink:  Cinnamon Cider, Early Espresso
Paper:  Cinnamon Cider, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Antique Pearls

But wait, there's more!  I couldn't resist making a second card for this book:

There's a costume contest during the cruise, and George dresses up as an old lady in a nightgown with mice embroidered on it and I could NOT let that opportunity pass me by so here's a mouse card!

I still kept the colors similar to the cover, though I worked in some of Nancy's orangey hues for the cheese.  Still got some jewels on there with the Frosted Iridescent Dots.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Mischievous Mice
Ink:  Early Espresso, Stampin' Blends in Cinnamon Cider, Daffodil Delight, Peach Pie, Pretty in Pink
Paper:  Cinnamon Cider, Bumblebee, Thick Basic White, A Flower For All Seasons DSP, Bumblebee DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Mini Dimensionals, Frosted Iridescent Dots

Hope you enjoyed this peek at The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk and if you'd like to play along, write a comment here with a link to your card.  You can read more about Nancy's adventures on my other blog, Hey Nancy Drew, where my posts just keep getting longer and longer but I'm having fun.  Stay tuned for next week's adventure, The Mystery of the Moss-Covered Mansion!

Dino-Mite Birthday

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday!  We have had a LOT of rain here for the last week or so, and last night I woke up at around 2am to quite the thunderstorm happening outside.  Lots of lightning and heavy rain.  Daphne likes finding all the puddles when we take our morning walks.

So, it's been a while since I made a dinosaur card and I have one for today:

Krissy, my dino-loving pal, has a birthday coming up so of course this is for her.  I used this week's Creative Colour Challenge:

I did sneak in a bit of Cloud Cover for some details, but that color reads as a neutral gray to me so I think it's allowable.  I also used the Atlantic Hearts sketch:

Easy peasy.  That's it for me today, peeps, hope you have a great holiday weekend.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Darling Dinos
Ink:  Secret Sea, Stampin' Blends in Darling Duckling, Strawberry Slush, Cloud Cover
Paper:  Darling Duckling, Secret Sea, Thick Basic White, Secret Sea & Strawberry Slush DSP
Accessories:  Darling Dinos dies, Textured Notes dies, In Color Flat Pearls, Dimensionals

Spooky CAS Bats

Mornin' y'all!  The closer we get to September, the more ready I am to get my spook on (she typed, while listening to the score from Casper) and once September 1 hits, that is the official start of Spook Season at least where I live : )  So we're in the pre-game show right now and I have spooky bats:

Mixing some old and new here, this year's Spooky Sweet Specialty DSP and the greeting from Fright Night, with my punched out bats from Spooky Sweets from 2018.  Really Spooky Sweets is such a little unassuming stamp set and I LOVE IT and I think it makes an appearance almost every year for Halloween cards.  Anyway, I turned this week's Freshly Made Sketch 90 degrees for my card:

You can see the sketch inspiration, right?  I added a few Shimmer Star foam stickers for accents and put some Wink of Stella on the bats, which of course doesn't show up.

I need to get my pal Krissy's birthday present ready to get shipped off and I have an appointment in a little while to be fitted for a bite guard, fun times, so I'd better vamoose.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Fright Night, Spooky Sweets
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Timid Tiger
Paper:  Petunia Pop, Thick Basic White, Spooky Sweet Specialty DSP
Accessories:  bat punch, Fright Night dies, Mini Dimensionals, Shimmer Stars

Leaves, Double Time

Mornin' y'all!  Today is the day that Ryan has extracurriculars after school so I get extra crafty (and laundry) time.  But first, I have a couple of cards to share today!

I love the new Gathering Together Specialty DSP and it's perfect for the speed stamping challenge at As You See It:

I planned out what I wanted to do and gathered up my supplies before I started my timer, and I ended up at:

Comfortably within the 10-minute time limit : )  I used the Sunday Stamps sketch:

I was starting to clear off my craft table from that card when I looked at the other paper scraps I have from that DSP and I looked at the jumbo leaf dies in the Gathering Moments bundle and wouldn't you know it, another card happened:

This one was even quicker:

Then I was side-eyeing the negative from the giant die-cut leaf but...I haven't made a third card yet : )

Guess it's time to take my naughty girl Daphne out for a walk.  While I was doing my workout this morning, she got into the craft room trash can and grabbed a piece of foam and rubber and ran back downstairs with it.  I knew she'd been trash surfing because she had a Dimensional backing piece stuck to her nose, and then she thought it would be superfun to play keep-away and not let me take the rubber away and she ate it.  So she's in trouble, but the weather is so beautiful today that it would be a punishment for ME to not go walk in it.  Grr.  That's it for now, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  Gathering Moments
Ink:  Early Espresso, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Early Espresso, Basic Beige, Gathering Together Specialty DSP
Accessories:  Gathering Moments dies, Dimensionals, Cajun Craze & Gold Dots

Supplies, second card:
Stamps:  Gathering Moments
Ink:  Early Espresso
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Basic Beige, Gathering Together Specialty DSP
Accessories:  Gathering Moments dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Cajun Craze & Gold Dots