Speedy Spring Blossoms

Okay dude, I swear that ever since they "upgraded" the Blogger interface it is MUCH more difficult to upload several pictures and have them actually show up in the order I want them.  I started and trashed this post twice already, so here's hoping that the third time is the charm!

I spent a LOT of time in my craft room yesterday and I'm about to embark up on a project to go through all my retired stamps, so expect to see a lot of cards using older stamp sets :)  In fact, I chose two retired stamp sets for today's card:

I made this in 7 minutes, 54 seconds, and I timed it because I'm entering this in As You See It's speed stamping challenge:

I have cherry blossom stamps that I love, but I picked tulips because I've seen them in bloom near me.  We had freezing temperatures earlier this week and even a whole lot of snow (none of which stuck) so I hope the tulips and hyacinths survive the weather craziness.  I like tulips and flowers in general but I have two black thumbs.  We have three orchids in my kitchen because I adore them and my husband has figured out how to keep them alive ;)

Anywha, back to my tulip card!  I used the palette from this week's Color Throwdown challenge:

I used Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Bumblebee, and Flirty Flamingo.  Side note:  Stampin' Up!, why on earth didn't you name it Busy Bumblebee or something like that?  All your other colors are at least two words and it BUGS me (pun intended) that this one isn't!  Anyway.  I had trouble incorporating the Crumb Cake into my card, so in the end I just sponged a bit of it on the tulip panel.

I'm also entering this at the Paper Players:

There's going to be a new suite of products featuring pansies in the next SU! catalog...

Anyway, I'm off to spend more time in my craft room.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Tranquil Tulips, Suite Sentiments
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Mossy Meadow, Bumblebee, Flirty Flamingo, Early Espresso
Paper:  Bumblebee, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Tasteful Labels dies, Dimensionals

Earth Day

Hey y'all, how's your week going?  I worked three days in a row so today I am enjoying my day off.  Crazy thing though, it's been SNOWING all week!  It's been a good 10 degrees too warm for anything to stick at all, but that hasn't stopped it from snowing like it's midwinter.  But today it's all sunny and a bit warmer than it has been :)

I just finished a card to share today, so it's hot off the presses:

I was inspired to bust out a couple of long-retired stamp sets for this one because of the current challenge at Festive Friday:

I used green, blue, earth/globe (there's the map background image and the globe on the sentiment), and clean & simple.  I also used this week's sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

This sketch kinda threw me for a loop when I saw it yesterday, but I mulled it over a bit before I fell asleep last night and decided to use a background stamp for the middle part and let it play peek-a-boo under cardstock.  Really the card came together pretty fast when I sat down to stamp it today.

Hope you have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  World Map, Word Play
Ink:  Misty Moonlight, Mint Macaron, Seaside Spray
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Mint Macaron, Seaside Spray
Accessories:  Stitched Nested Labels dies, In Color Faceted Gems

Thoughtful Bee

Howdy y'all!  I managed to snatch a couple of minutes on Easter Sunday to crank out a really quick card to share today.

Just because it's quick, that doesn't mean it can't be cute!  I was inspired to pull out some retired stamp sets by the Fusion challenge:

I had intended to do the bottom part with Coastal Cabana ink, but I started stamping and didn't realize I'd actually grabbed Bermuda Bay until I'd already done the bottom part and I didn't want to start all over since I knew I wouldn't have much time to work on this.  Darker than I'd intended but I still like it.  I fussy cut the bee; Dragonfly Dreams has matching dies, but none that just cut the outline of that bee and he wasn't too bad to cut out anyway.  Since I'm mailing cards to my mom and my college roommate every week, who are both undergoing treatment for breast cancer, I need a lot of thinking of you or general hello/just a note cards lately.  I perused my personal stamp catalog until I came across Best of Greetings, which was from the 25th anniversary year and I just liked that font to go with my bee.  I swiped some Wink of Stella on his wings for a bit of sparkle and finished up with some retired enamel dots for my quick CAS card.

Hope your week is going well, peeps!

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Dragonfly Dreams, Best of Greetings
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Bermuda Bay, Mango Melody, Mango Melody Stampin' Blend
Paper:  Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Wink of Stella, retired clear enamel dots

April 2018

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Did you have a good Easter?  This was the first time Ryan got an Easter basket, and he says the Easter bunny loves him A LOT (spoiler alert: she does).  He got candy and Legos and a pop-up book and we did an egg hunt outside and then another egg hunt inside the house and he had a great time with it.  Then we had a nice Easter dinner with our neighbors, so it was a pretty great day.  Over the course of the weekend, I also made over 100 muffins that the hubs is going to take in to work tomorrow morning, so it was a busy weekend!

Moving on to this week's scrapbook layout!  Pics from April 2018 when Ryan was just over a year old.  Aww, he was so widdle!

Okay the middle picture on the left page cracks me up--Ryan would jab a pair of toy scissors onto his dad's chest and then the hubs would holler and make noise and yell "Kali maaaaaaaaa!" like on Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Ryan would laugh hysterically and do it again.  For a while there, my mom was trying to make lions a "thing" for Ryan because MY favorite toy as a child was a stuffed lion that talked when you squeezed him, so Ryan has several lion toys and she'd send him clothes with lions on them, like that shirt with the gold on the right page.  That gave me an excuse to use that cool geometric lion stamp :)

Today's color palette:  Island Indigo, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Crushed Curry, and Whisper White.  I love the Woodland Walk DSP pack and I'm glad I got more than one pack of it, I still bust it out every now and then.  Well hey, it's mostly greens and you know how I love greens!

I work today, but the hubs does not and Ryan's daycare is closed too so for once the hubs is watching Ryan while *I* go to work!  Something new and different after the last four years, haha!  Have a great week, peeps!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Full Calendar, lion from Geometric Menagerie by Altenew
Ink:  Island Indigo, Crushed Curry, Wild Wasabi, Versamark
Paper:  Island Indigo, Crushed Curry, Wild Wasabi, Thick Whisper White, Woodland Walk DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Nested Labels Dies, Geometric Menagerie dies by Altenew

Baby Luke: May

Hey y'all, happy Saturday.  I got my first Covid shot on Thursday afternoon and last night I was just So. Stinkin'. TIRED.  Lucky for me I have an awesome hubs and he let me sleep in until 10 o'clock this morning!  So I'm feeling better now which is good because I need to get my bake on today--he's asked me to make several batches of muffins for his work, and since I don't want to bake away Easter Sunday and I work on Monday, today is the day.  But first, a baby book layout.

Okay, this book is for baby Luke Walker (middle name not Sky, but...) and I could NOT resist doing a May the Fourth layout ;) The Star Wars stamps are from The Ink Road and I went with an Endor theme because Ewoks are cute and it still felt springy.

I'm off to the kitchen.  Hope y'all have a great Easter weekend!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Droid Please & Furball from The Ink Road
Ink:  Soft Suede, Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel
Paper:  Old Olive, Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie, Balmy Blue, Thick Whisper White, Fall Flowers & Summer Picnic DSPs
Accessories:  Sizzix letters, Stitched Shapes dies

Pinkety Pink Pink

Howdy folks!  Gotta type fast so I can hit the road and get to work.  Today's card is brought to you by the color pink.

I busted out some old Pink Pirouette for this one!  I flipped this week's Freshly Made Sketch by 180 degrees just because of how the rose image is done, this made more sense to my brain.

And the pinks are for this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Very Vanilla, and Sahara Sand for my colors.  I stamped the roses I think 3 times to darken up the Pink Pirouette a bit, and then I sponged some around the image panel too.  Beautiful Friendship is on the retiring list, and it's a gorgeous stamp set so get it now if you don't have it already! :)

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautiful Friendship, Waterfront
Ink:  Pink Pirouette, Sahara Sand, Melon Mambo
Paper:  Pink Pirouette, Melon Mambo, Thick Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette DSP
Accessories:  Tasteful Labels dies, Dimensionals

Shimmery Hydrangea

Mornin' everyone.  Kinda glad I'm not working today because my husband's phone was buzzing all night  last night and I'm tired!  I do have a card to share today though.

I started out with a sketch challenge but my card ended up morphing enough that it didn't look much like the original sketch, so I'll just stick with the Fab Friday color challenge:

I used Shimmery White cardstock for the white panel and the die-cut hydrangea, and then I upped the shimmer factor by painting the flowers with Wink of Stella.  I used the Stacked Stone background stamp done with Versamark and clear embossing powder for the background panel; I love that background :)  I made this card on Tuesday and it went out in the mail yesterday.

Tired or not, I've got some things to get done today so I'm going to get after it.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Hydrangea Haven, Stacked Stone
Ink:  Basic Gray, Misty Moonlight, Pear Pizzazz, Versamark
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Misty Moonlight, Pear Pizzazz, Shimmery White
Accessories:  Hydrangea dies, clear EP, Wink of Stella, Dimensionals