Paper Players: Floral Tea Blend

Happy Mother's Day!  Well, it's Mother's Day in America anyway.  The hubs and the spawn teamed up this morning to make orange scones for breakfast...Ryan very much wanted cinnamon chip muffins, but I had picked orange scones for breakfast days ago before I even knew that today was Mother's Day, so Ryan got overruled ;)  I'll make him muffins next time.  The hubs asked for help with part of the recipe but he just chased me back out of the kitchen, so let's take a look at the Paper Players challenge for this week!

This sweet color combo is from Joanne and I love it!  These three colors look so great together.  I couldn't resist inking up a brand new stamp set from the just-released Stampin' Up! catalog and I made this:

The Cup of Tea stamp set and matching dies are the very first bundle in the catalog, and you know that this tea-loving stamper bought it immediately :)  It took me DAYS to get a good picture of this card, not sure why that was so difficult.  The teacup might look black in the photo but I promise it is stamped on Night of Navy cardstock and embossed with white, and the rhinestones are dark blue too.  I didn't even realize when I made this card that the challenge was starting on Mother's Day, but the sentiment I chose is appropriate for that!

Hope you'll take some time to play along with the color challenge and share your card at the Paper Players blog.  I just heard the kitchen timer go off so it's time to see how the hubs and spawn did at making scones :D  Cheers!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Cindy Beach

Christy Stanford <-- You are here : )

Jennie Maier

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cup of Tea
Ink:  Versamark, Granny Apple Green, Fresh Freesia
Paper:  Granny Apple Green, Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Tea Boutique DSP Stack
Accessories:  Teacup dies, white EP, Waves of the Ocean rhinestones, Night of Navy baker's twine

CAS Floral Triple Challenge

Happy Friday, y'all!  I unexpectedly have the day off so I plan to play in my craft room as much as I can. Wooo!

But first, a card for today.  And it's a triple challenge card!

Check out the Retro Rubber challenge:

I did the left column, watercolor + flowers + die cut.  I did a very fast watercolor wash on the card base (had to be super quick to get this done before I had to leave to pick Ryan up the other day) and added some splat stamps for a bit of extra texture.  I've had Art Gallery for over a year, Painted Poppies is two years old, and Flowering Tulips (the sentiment) isn't retro...yet.

Here's this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And the Color Throwdown:

I used Mint Macaron, Sweet Sorbet, So Saffron, and Night of Navy, though the sentiment looks black in the photo I promise it's navy.  Kinda wish I'd used a different blue.  Also I really thought the second color here looked like Cajun Craze, but the challenge write-up said "strawberry", so I figured that was a good reason to use the new Sweet Sorbet.  It's very pretty and I also covered it in Wink of Stella because why not?

Hope you have a great Friday, peeps.  I'm going to go be productive!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Art Gallery, Painted Poppies, Flowering Tulips
Ink:  So Saffron, Mint Macaron, Sweet Sorbet, Night of Navy
Paper:  Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Floral Gallery dies, Dimensionals, rhinestones, Wink of Stella

Whisk It Good

Hola, amigos!  How's your day going?  I had a pretty good day in my craft room yesterday and got some cards AND scrapbook pages done!  So here's a card for today:

Yep, those are NOT Stampin' Up! stamps!  Every once in a while I buy from other companies and I couldn't resist these baking stamps from Newton's Nook.  I'm sure they'll come in handy for scrapbook pages in the future as Ryan likes to help me bake and cook.

I used the Sunday Stamps sketch:

I enjoy their challenges, though I don't always get the chance to play along.  Same thing goes for Festive Friday:

National Eat What You Want Day is a holiday I can really get behind, ha!  From the inspo list, I used food (uh, what's in the mixing bowl could be cookie dough...or oatmeal...TBH I'd eat either one but I'd go for cookie dough first), birthday, kitchen items, gingham, and pastels, assuming that means pastel colors and not pastels the coloring medium.

Hope you have a great Cinco de Mayo!  We will be making something holiday appropriate to eat for dinner tonight : )  Adios!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Made from Scratch (Newton's Nook)
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Calypso Coral, Daffodil Delight, Balmy Blue, Highland Heather, and Ivory
Paper:  Grapefruit Grove, Daffodil Delight, Balmy Blue, Highland Heather, Thick Basic White, Gingham Gala DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, Made from Scratch dies (Newton's Nook), mini Dimensionals

Conquering Hero

Happy hump daaaaaaay and I hope your week is going well.  My headache from yesterday is still here but I'm trying to ignore it until it goes away : p  It's not as bad as yesterday, which is good; I stamped a page title for a scrapbook layout yesterday and then accidentally chopped the bottom of the letters off when I was trying to trim it just a little bit, so I gave up on my craft room after that happened.  But I got back in there this morning and made a card for today:

Hail the conquering hero!  Sorry for the harsh shadows, it's super sunny here today (beautiful day, really) which makes it hard to get a good picture of my card.  Either it's outside with harsh shadows or I take the pic inside and everything looks blue.

Check out the color palette from CAS Colours & Sketches:

Just a coincidence that it shares two colors with yesterday's color challenge from Global Design Project.  In fact, I had stamped this Viking with the intention of using the GDP colors, but changed my mind and went with Artfully Layered instead.  But I kept the Viking and thought he'd look good in these colors today.  I did add some Gray Granite for his sword, shield, and helmet, but otherwise kept to the challenge colors.  Even his skin was colored with the light Pale Papaya Blend!  And I discovered that if I colored his beard with the dark Calypso Coral Blend and then went over it with the light Pale Papaya, the light marker acted almost like a color lifter.  I liked the effect on his beard.  Since this is a CAS challenge, I kept the layout very simple--in fact, I used the leftover scrap of DSP from my last CAS C&S card for the sentiment panel on here, then just fussy cut the warrior and popped him up on Dimensionals.

Okay, I'm off to redo that pesky page title from yesterday.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Brave Vikings
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Soft Suede, Stampin' Blends in Soft Suede, Calypso Coral, Pale Papaya, and Gray Granite
Paper:  Calypso Coral, Thick Basic White, New Horizons DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Dimensionals

Tropical Calypso

Hey y'all, how's your Tuesday going?  I'm glad I have today off because I have a nasty headache.  Took me a while to make a card for today because my brain no worky :p  Then I turned to my current favorite stamp sets and made this:

The cloud pattern is in the Flowering Fields DSP, you know the one with the tulips?  But I figured it would work just fine with some tropical not-green greenery : )  I do love stamping these leaves in colors other than green.

I used the Just Add Ink sketch:

And the Global Design Project color challenge:

That's it for me today, folks.  I might go lay down for a bit while my laundry is going...cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Artfully Layered, Happy & Heartfelt
Ink:  Calypso Coral, Pale Papaya, Soft Suede
Paper:  Pale Papaya, Pool Party, Thick Basic White, Flowering Fields DSP
Accessories:  Tropical Layers dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Stitched Rectangles dies, Mini Dimensionals, Happiness Blooms Enamel Dots

May 2018

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  At 6 this morning, Ryan (not really awake yet) yelled something, so I went to go see what he said...he was yelling "I WANT TACOS!"  Kid takes his tacos seriously, ha!  I told him it was morning and he rolled over and went back to sleep.

As it happens, I have pictures of Ryan eating (but not tacos) on today's scrapbook layout.

Pics are from May 2018 so Ryan was just over a year old.  I was telling my husband this weekend that I remember when Ryan was this little, but I don't remember some specific things like how much he talked or how well.  That's why I make scrapbooks I suppose, though at the moment I'm still working on 2019 so I need to get a move on.

Anyway, I think I chose the dinosaurs as accents on this because there's a blue T. Rex stuffy in Ryan's collection, and what little kiddo doesn't like dinosaurs?  Dino Days was--and still is--a great dino set.  Ryan climbed up on that glass shelf where we kept his stuffies in that house (focal point photo) just one time--I let him stay there just long enough to take his picture and then I got him down.  We intentionally put stuffies and nothing breakable on the shelves he could reach and his toy bin lived in the space below the bottom shelf.

Today's color palette:  Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry, Emerald Envy, Pacific Point, and Whisper White.  Something nice and bright to start off May.  I'm hoping I get some time to scrap this week.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Full Calendar, Dino Days
Ink:  Calypso Coral, Emerald Envy, Crushed Curry, Pacific Point
Paper:  Calypso Coral, Pacific Point, Crushed Curry, Emerald Envy DSP, Thick Whisper White, Party Animal DSP
Accessories:  Dino Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies

Paper Players: Let Me Tell You 'Bout...

Howdy, y'all!  How's your weekend going?  I am currently working on curating The Most Awesome 70s Playlist Ever : )  Bought my very first pair of bell bottoms a couple weeks ago too, not sure why I have suddenly discovered the 70s but I'm going with it!

And today it's time for a new Paper Players challenge with a great theme from Jaydee!

My brain immediately started singing "Let me tell you 'bout the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and the moon up above...and a thing called looooooooove!"  And then as I was looking through all my stamp sets with birds and/or bees included, my brain took a left turn and started singing the Tiki Room song from Disneyland, and here's what I made:

Apparently my left-turn brain was in the mood for fluorescent colors.  Sometimes I wonder about how my brain works ; )  Just Beakause has been in my collection for a very long time but I haven't used it a whole lot.  Every other time, I've used markers to color in the birds, but this time I decided to heat emboss two of the birds in white since apparently I am sorta obsessed with white embossing powder lately.  What do you think?  I used the brand new In Colors Tahitian Tide and Parakeet Party combined with Pumpkin Pie and the outgoing Magenta Madness.  That striped pattern is from the new Tea Boutique DSP Stack (and you *know* I got the coordinating tea stamps and dies!) and the sequins are from the retired Tutti Frutti sequin pack from a few years ago.  I like combining new and old schtuff.

Anyway, I had fun with this theme and I hope you do too!  Upload your creation at the Paper Players blog and go have some fun with stamps, ink, and paper today.  Cheers!

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Cindy Beach

Christy Stanford <-- You are here : )

Jennie Maier

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Just Beakause
Ink:  Versamark, Parakeet Party
Paper:  Tahitian Tide, Parakeet Party, Magenta Madness, Pumpkin Pie, Tea Boutique DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Stitched Rectangles dies, Tutti Frutti adhesive sequins, Dimensionals, white EP