Bear Book: Gotcha Day!

Whoops, I forgot to get this bear book layout posted yesterday!

Once again I used green and gold for the main colors, but I figured even though this is for a boy bear that I could get away with some Flirty Flamingo photo mats.  It looks like a LOT of pink now, but when pictures are on there it won't be a lot at all :)

Plus pink is good for hearts.

Today's color palette:  Garden Green, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo, Basic Black, and Whisper White.  Though I think maybe Basic Gray would have been a better choice for the letters, to be a little less stark than the black.  Too late now!

Supplies:
Stamps:  All-Heart Bear from Whipper Snapper, Cuddles & Kisses
Ink:  Basic Black, Garden Green
Paper:  Garden Green, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo, Basic Black, Thick Whisper White, Sunshine & Sprinkles DSP
Accessories:  Circles Framelits, Sizzix Alphabet, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Prismacolor Pencils

Friday Flashback: The Free & the Brave

Happy Friday, folks!  And if you're a government employee, happy three-day weekend.  Today's Flashback stamp set is The Free & the Brave, which might seem an odd choice for November but today is Veterans Day so it makes sense.

The main image and the words are from today's stamp set, paired with Sanded on the background and I noticed as I set this up that I seem to ALWAYS use Sanded with this stamp set.

See?  This eagle is my favorite stamp in the set.

Here's a scrapbook layout that was posted not all that long ago with my favorite eagle.

And when the set first came out, I used that eagle for swaps.  With Sanded.

So for today's new projects, I've got some scrapbook pages:

The pics are from November 2005, my first visit to DC.  Unfortunately this was before I started my other blog, so I'm left with what I can remember from the trip...and I've slept since then :p I might have just written on the journaling what I could tell from the photos (okay I totally did that).

The words again, I like it.

There's the second layout since I couldn't fit all the pics on one spread.  You can't tell from the photos, but the stars are lightly stamped with Sanded in Smoky Slate and then sponged a bit on the edges to kind of grunge them up a bit to match everything else.  I used Gorgeous Grunge on the Smoky Slate textured cardstock borders because it seemed to jive really well with the grays in the photos.

There's the regal eagle again, stamped tone-on-tone with Cherry Cobbler.

Today's super patriotic color combination includes Cherry Cobbler, Night of Navy, Smoky Slate, and Whisper White.  And because it's Veterans Day, please please pretty please express your thanks to any veterans you know.  They work so hard to protect our freedom.

Supplies, scrapbook pages:
Stamps:  The Free & the Brave, Sanded, Larger Than Life Alphabet, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink:  Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Smoky Slate, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, Smoky Slate textured, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  retired star punch

Bitty Baby Baylor Bear

If you've been checking out the blog for any length of time, you know that I make a LOT of cards.  This week though my husband requested a specific card, which he almost never does...there's a guy who works for him whose wife is due with a baby girl sometime this month, and both of them are Baylor grads too.  So the hubs asked me for a baby card, but I know this couple is *not* going for the all-pink super fluffy frou-frou girly-girl stuff so here's what I made:

I scribbled on my largest acrylic block with Crushed Curry and Wild Wasabi markers (I tried So Saffron at first but it came out way too pale), spritzed with water, and "stamped" it on my background panel.  I suggested green and gold when the hubs asked for the card, and he said a teensy little bit of pink would be okay.  The little teddy bear is from the now-retired Baby Bundle stamp set, but that was what I needed for this card.

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

So there you go, I can make specific cards on commission ;)

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Made with Love (sentiment), Baby Bundle (retired)
Ink:  Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Wild Wasabi, Blushing Bride (just a teeny bit on the bear's ears)
Paper:  So Saffron, Blushing Bride, Thick Whisper White, Wild Wasabi DSP
Accessories:  Layering Circles Framelits, Dimensionals

Get Well Tree

Mornin', y'all.  So....I really don't know what else to say, 'cause I don't want to talk about the election or anything.  People be crazy.  Let's just ignore that and have a go at today's card.

I've discovered that if left to my own devices for a sketch, I tend to go very simple.  But I dunno, this card seems a little too plain to me?  I started with the color challenge from Global Design Project:

I admit it kinda stumped me until I put it together with the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge:

I pulled out the tree from Thoughts & Prayers just because I hadn't used it in a long time and I liked how you could fit a sentiment under it...thought about going with a sympathy card (because it's always good to have one or two on hand) but the colors seemed too bright for that, so I thought a get-well card would be better.  And I usually don't have a lot of those in my stash so that seemed a good idea.

So yesterday I spent a good chunk of time working on more scrapbook pages, and when I get some journaling done I will have met my 2016 scrapping goal, yay me!  And I really liked the layouts I was working on yesterday so all I wanna do today is more scrappin', but I should probably go to the gym first just because I had cinnamon rolls for dinner last night.  Told the hubs I just didn't feel like cooking up a "real" dinner :p

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Thoughts & Prayers, Greatest Greetings
Ink:  Basic Black, Emerald Envy, Sweet Sugarplum
Paper:  Sweet Sugarplum, Thick Whisper White, Emerald Envy DSP
Accessories:  Corner rounder punch

Gratitude with the Nachos

Forget all the crazy stuff on the news today, the Nachos have a great theme challenge for you!

I always, always, always seem to need thank you cards, and I love fall cards, so here's what I made:

I haven't used vellum in no kidding YEARS but for today's card that's what I went to immediately.  I'm holding it down so you can see the background leaves, here's what it looks like just by itself:

Think maybe I should use vellum a little more often :)  And of course I've got some copper on there too, I do enjoy all the copper stuff out now.  I still have my old embossing powder from the last time SU! carried it, and the copper foil sheets are just so pretty.

So make your own gratitude-themed project and share it with the Nachos.  And whatever you do, don't turn on the TV today unless it's to watch a movie.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Vintage Leaves, One Big Meaning
Ink:  Versamark, Dapper Denim, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Dapper Denim, Crushed Curry, Very Vanilla, Copper Foil, Vellum
Accessories:  Copper EP, linen thread

Charming Sunrise

GUESS WHAT, Y'ALL.  Today is the 1,000th post here at Snapdragon Stamps!  One THOUSAND!  And I think that just about every single one of those posts has at least one card or scrapbook page, so that's a lot of ink and paper and stamps.  Dude!

I don't have any special celebration planned for today (oops) but I do have a new scrapbook layout for you.

Pics are from our trip to Ohio's Amish country last year; see them all here.  Our last morning in Ohio, we got up a little early and drove around taking pictures as the sun came up.  This is the last chronological layout for the Ohio trip but it's the one I made first (stay tuned for the other two coming up on our next Scrappy Mondays).

I got the Brushwork Alphabet stamp set when it first debuted this summer, but this is its maiden voyage.  You know I love me some mixed font titles.

Today's color palette:  Bashful Blue, Peekaboo Peach, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede, and Whisper White.

Okay, I'm off to do all the things today...walk dogs, grocery shopping, go to gym, you know the drill.  And also play with the new camera we got this weekend! :D  (Maybe that's my 1,000-post prize?  No, this is hubs' and my Christmas gift for ourselves!  Squee!)

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Brushwork Alphabet, Letterpress Alphabet, Gently Falling
Ink:  Bashful Blue, Peekaboo Peach, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede
Paper:  Bashful Blue, Peekaboo Peach, Cherry Cobbler, Fruit Stand DSP
Accessories:  Stamp-a-Ma-Jig

Bear Book: Poland

Hey, it's Saturday!  I'd pretty much finished posting my niece's baby book a while back, so today we're starting on a brand new book.  It's done like the regular baby books I make, but this one is special because I made it for a 4-year-old little boy that my good friends adopted earlier this year.  Because he needed a book too even if he wasn't a baby anymore :)

The first layout is for pictures they took while they were in Poland, where li'l boy is from.

Throughout this book, you'll see a lot of green and yellow, and bears on every layout.  And you'll see pretty quick that I think Whipper Snapper bears are pretty much the cutest on the planet when it comes to stamps.  This book took me quite a while because I had to color in alllll the images with colored pencils and I was trying really hard to make it all look nice.

Today's color combo:  Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Marina Mist, and of course Whisper White.  I wish the letters had shown up on the Wild Wasabi DSP a little better, but otherwise I like this one.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Rockin' Teddy from Whipper Snapper, Stars & Swirls
Ink:  Basic Black, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Garden Green, Marina Mist, Thick Whisper White, Wild Wasabi DSP
Accessories:  Circles & Deco Labels Framelits, primitive star punch, Sizzix alphabet, Prismacolor Pencils