Lovely Dragonfly

Okay y'all, I think I'm starting to get tired of this whole pregnancy thing.  It's getting more than just uncomfortable.  About all I'm good for right now is sitting...so today I sat in my craft room :)

So here's a CAS card for today.  I think it might need a Sahara Sand dragonfly next to the sentiment, whaddya reckon?  I came up with this for the Global Design Project CASE the Designer challenge:

I kept Sahara Sand as the main color, but used Emerald Envy as my accent color.  I figured the tiny dragonfly from Swan Lake worked well as something similar to (but different than) the large polka dots, and instead of lace I used some linen thread.

I also used this week's As You See It sketch:

Instead of the doilies pictured on the sketch, I did a bit of paper piercing on the sides but honestly I wish I'd left that off altogether.  Hmm.

Anyway, that's it for me today; I'm now working on another scrapbook layout.  So far I've done 22 pages this year, which is quite the surprise to me...I know that's going to change very soon here.  But I'll enjoy the scrappin' while I can.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Swan Lake, Love & Affection
Ink:  Whisper White, Emerald Envy
Paper:  Sahara Sand, Emerald Envy, Whisper White
Accessories:  paper piercer, linen thread

Snowmageddon

Edited to add:  I set this up last night to post today, and woke up to two inches of snow outside.  How's that for good timing? ;)

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  How's it going today?  I'm hanging in there and still pregnant :p  Hubs and I are taking bets as to when Sodapop will arrive.

These pictures are from last year's giant snowstorm that was over my birthday weekend :)  Dang, why is this photo so dark of the layout??  Anyway, click to embiggen.  Hubs got almost an entire week off of work due to the snow, so we used the time to play with the dogs and build a giant snowbear and then we had to dig out the car because eventually hubs did have to go back to work.

There's a closeup of some of the letters and rest assured the dog hair is not a permanent part of the layout.  My friend Tiana made us a sign once that says "Home is where the dog hair sticks to everything but the dog!" and that is 1000000% TRUE.  Thanks, Sadie.

And here's a bonus second layout!  Sooooo I've got an album of pictures of my dogs because when my yellow lab Chewie died, I realized I didn't have a lot of pictures of him despite spending a LOT of time with him.  So we do make an effort to take pictures of our two doglets and yes I'm the crazy person with a dog scrapbook.  Anyway, we took so many cute pictures of them during Snowmageddon that I decided to make a layout for their book in addition to the other layout above.  But I figured why reinvent the wheel, so I did basically the same layout, except I squeezed in three photos on the top right instead of two.  Sadie wishes it would snow like this again because she totally loves the snow, but so far nothing doing.

The color palette that's much brighter in person:  Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Cucumber Crush, and Melon Mambo.  Seriously, why did the pictures of these layouts come out so dark?  Grr.

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Big Deal Alphabet, Merry
Ink:  Tempting Turquoise, Cucumber Crush
Paper:  Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Cucumber Crush, Melon Mambo DSP
Accessories:  None

Bear Book: November

Happy Saturday, y'all!  I'm here with another bear book layout, and we're back to another one I like a lot.  Check it out:

I tried to work in green and gold on as many layouts as I could, and can I just say how much I love Blackberry Bliss with the more traditional fall colors?  It just makes me happy.

There's my favorite SU! bear stamp from Thankful Forest Friends.  I looooooove that stamp set and wish it had continued in the big catalog, but regardless it's got a permanent place in my collection.  The leaves are from a much older set called Falling Leaves, and I seriously love that stamp set too.

More leaves on the journaling block.

And the color palette today:  Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, and Whisper White.

On another note, as of today I am officially 39 weeks pregnant; February 4 is my due date.  We're taking guesses as to when Sodapop will actually arrive, and in the meantime I am still trying to work on some scrapbook pages :D  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Thankful Forest Friends, Falling Leaves
Ink:  Rich Razzleberry, Mossy Meadow, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Soft Suede
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Thick Whisper White, Color Me Autumn DSP
Accessories:  On Film Framelits, Sizzix alphabet

Dragonfly Daydream

Or, Copper Foil Paper is Impossible to Photograph.

I took four pictures of this card, and the copper dragonflies either reflected back like this, or else came across just looking dark.

I promise the copper looks pretty great on the dragonflies IRL.  So anyway, this is my card for the new Freshly Made Sketch:

I got the idea to use the dragonfly die pretty much as soon as I saw this sketch, it just took a while to get the card put together because I was fiddling with the placement of the circles of patterned paper.  Those are all from the Moroccan DSP, love that stuff :)  The sentiment is the only thing that's stamped on here and let's be honest, that "Don't quit your daydream" stamp is the whole reason why I got Designer Tee (it's another Sale-a-Bration set).  I'd like that stamp in a bigger size too.

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Designer Tee
Ink:  Emerald Envy
Paper:  Emerald Envy, Dapper Denim, Very Vanilla, Copper Foil, Moroccan DSP
Accessories:  4 sizes of circle punches, Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits

CAS Flowers

Oooooooh look I made a card on a Wednesday!  Probably because I didn't go to the gym today.  I felt like I was busybusybusy all day long yesterday and I kinda felt like I needed a little break, especially since I did still take my doglets for a walk this morning.  But anyway, it's been good to spend some time in the craft cave today!  And still playing with new toys :D

Friends, meet the Sale-a-Bration set Avant Garden.  It's photopolymer, so I stamped the flowers without using my Stamp-a-ma-jig...except for the stamens part.  And the sentiment, because it's a pet peeve when my sentiments are crooked.  But the flowers, leaves and stems?  All unaided.

Thought I'd go with a nice, simple floral CAS card to go with the current Paper Players challenge:

And the pastel color palette at the Color Throwdown seemed like a natural match for that:

I used Mint Macaron, Pink Pirouette, and Pool Party for my colors.  Hmm, the swatch there makes the pink look more like Blushing Bride, but Pink Pirouette tends to be forgotten in color challenges and I personally like it better than Blushing Bride :p

At the last minute I had to add some teeny pearls to the flowers so once again I can enter at Cupcake Inspirations:

I have to say, it would be pretty awesome to have some darker half-back pearls from Stampin' Up! to go with the regular pearl-colored pearls.  Not black, but like a gunmetal color?  Preeeetttyyyy.

Well, if I leave now I can go pick up dog food before traffic gets too wild and crazy.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Avant Garden
Ink:  Pink Pirouette, Mint Macaron, Pool Party
Paper:  Pink Pirouette cardstock & DSP, Pool Party, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Pearls

On Cloud Nine

Hey kids!  IT'S MY BIRFDAY today and I've been really busy.  I had a doc appointment this afternoon with several other pregos (yeah, I do my OB appointments as part of a group, it's actually kind of fun) so I made cupcakes and some cookie dough dip for the appointment this morning.  But I managed to squeeze in some craft room time after I got home, despite my little girl dog laying down where she could be the most in the way.  I swear I made this card while sitting six feet back from my craft table...though I suppose with the beach ball belly I'm already having to sit at least a little ways back anyway ;)

More new goodies from Stampin' Up! that I got as a birthday present from ME ;)  This is the Lift Me Up bundle of stamps and Framelits, plus the coordinating patterned paper in the Sale-A-Bration catalog.  The inside of the card has the birthday sentiment from the same stamp set (Hope your day is on cloud nine.  Happy Birthday).  Anyway, the gang at As You See It is back after having their website hacked, so I wanted to play along in their first challenge of the year:

And I added some wee pearls to my balloons, so I can enter this in the current Cupcake Inspirations Challenge as well:

One of my bestest buddies has a birthday in a couple of days so I'll be sending this along to her in the mail tomorrow.  But for right now, my sweetie pie just got home so we're going out to dinner for my birthday.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Lift Me Up
Ink:  Mint Macaron, Island Indigo, Rich Razzleberry
Paper:  Mint Macaron, Island Indigo, Thick Whisper White, Carried Away DSP, Rich Razzleberry DSP
Accessories:  Up Up & Away Thinlits, Dimensionals, Pearls

Spain Shenanigans

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Today's layout is going to make Missy squee with joy because she's on it :)

Click to embiggen.  These are a bunch of goofy pictures we took while we were in Spain; I collected them all in one place and now they are immortalized on a scrapbook layout.  Those for pics on the bottom left?  That's Bennet doing a flying roundhouse kick (and then he had to take a lot of aspirin).  The rest are just shots of us goofing off...after a while you get tired of smiling pretty for the camera!  (If you're interested in seeing all the Spain pics, check them out here.)  I particularly like that last shot in the lower right of my hubs striking a pose.

I wanted a bright and fun color palette for these photos, so I went with a Gable Green page base and accent colors in Pacific Point, Poppy Parade, and Basic Black.  I've got the pictures out to do a couple more layouts for Spain...I'm trying to get as many pages done as I can before Sodapop arrives :)

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Tall Tales Alphabet
Ink:  Pacific Point
Paper:  Gable Green, Poppy Parade, Basic Black, Poppy Parade DSP
Accessories:  None