Pumpkin Joy

Mornin' y'all, how goes the week?  I told Ryan we have to go run some errands today and he's not too happy about it, but we're going anyway : )  That's what he gets for being on fall break, I can't do grocery shopping when he's at school.  Ha!

Anyway, I got some time in my craft room yesterday to play along with some challenges.

I've got a mix of stamp sets happening today to go with the fun sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

And I love this week's palette from The Color Throwdown:

I used Summer Splash, Pumpkin Pie, and Mossy Meadow for my colors, with some Crumb Cake for a neutral background.  For the three panels, I was able to scrounge up some scraps in each of the challenge colors and put them on white die cut from the Perennial Postage dies.  I ended up with the sentiment from Merriest Trees because it fit in the die cut I wanted to use : )

Well, my cuppa tea is almost empty so I think I shall go brew another one.  And then my hubs just sent me a request for a card for someone at his work, so I'll be working on that.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Warms My Heart, Merriest Trees, Playful Ghosts
Ink:  Early Espresso, Stampin' Blends in Pumpkin Pie, Summer Splash, Mossy Meadow, Crumb Cake, Pecan Pie, Petal Pink
Paper:  Summer Splash, Thick Basic White, DSP scraps in Pumpkin Pie, Summer Splash, Mossy Meadow
Accessories:  Perennial Postage dies, Dimensionals, Candy Dots (retired)

Where Wolf?

Hey y'all, how's it going?  Today is going to be a laundry day : p But maybe while I'm waiting for clothes to dry I can get in some crafty time.  So let's start today with the beautiful Paper Players challenge:

I saw that and I was all set to do a beautiful, elegant card of fall leaves and then....

I saw that werewolf stamp in the set Boo to You.  So I colored him in shades of brown and made his clothes in Peach Pie and Cajun Craze, with a little bit of Pumpkin Pie for shading.  And then I just played around with some scraps of various colors of DSP until I found something that I liked, and this is the result.  Maybe I'll go back and do an elegant fall leaves card still...but in the meantime this werewolf is already off in the mail : )

That's it for me today, peeps.  Time to put the first load in the dryer.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Boo to You
Ink:  Early Espresso, Stampin' Blends in Pecan Pie, Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, neutrals, Flirty Flamingo (I promise his nose and the insides of his ears are pink)
Paper:  Early Espresso, Peach Pie, Thick Basic White, DSP scraps in Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Deckled Circles dies, Dimensionals, Early Espresso Candy Dots

Moon's Out, Brooms Out

Mornin' y'all!  I did my workout this morning (my arms are going to be sore tomorrow) and now I'm relaxing with a cuppa tea : )  Later today I plan to take Ryan out to Target to look at some new sheets...I have no idea how, but when we moved this summer all the fitted sheets disappeared.  Like, I have two or three flat sheets and no fitted sheets??  And I want to look at what they have for comforters too.

But first, a card to share!  I was intrigued by the sketch from Sunday Stamps:

I actually gave it an abortive try with Painted Lavender before my brain kicked in and said HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEN so here's what I made instead:

The broom stamp is from Cauldron Bubble; I've never even used it before and today it gets to be the star of the show.  My current Halloween cross stitch project is this one from Autumn Lane Stitchery and I love the "Moon's Out, Brooms Out" sentiment : ) I stamped my trio of brooms on a Wild Wheat wash from the Splendid Autumn DSP Stack and used the Deckled Rectangles dies for the main panel and the sentiment.  I actually started this card with the "Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble" stamp for the sentiment but I decided later that that only made sense with the cauldron image, not the broom, so I managed to detach it from the card and put Happy Halloween on there instead.

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm going to go try to figure out my fitted sheet situation : )  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cauldron Bubble
Ink:  Early Espresso, Wild Wheat
Paper:  Old Olive, Early Espresso, Thick Very Vanilla, Splendid Autumn DSP Stack
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Dimensionals, Neutrals Matte Dots

Wolfstein

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We had a good time yesterday visiting with our friends Krissy and Jessie who were in town for an indoor hockey game.  Then the hubs and I watched Across the Spider-Verse in the evening and that's always fun : ) Today we're taking a day trip to a small town in Colorado to see the fall colors and just get out and do something.

And today's scrapbook layout is from our visit to a small town in Germany.

Wolfstein is just one or two train stops from where we lived in Katzweiler and has not one, but two castle ruins (we only saw one though).  I bought the stamp set simply called Wolf during our time in Germany (twice actually, because the inept post office lost it the first time) and I used it here just because of the town name and also I like it.

Today's color palette:  Berry Burst, Starry Sky, Daffodil Delight, Smoky Slate, and white.  The Berry Burst is from the plaid pattern on my shirt and I was happy that it looked good for the page base here as I almost never use the pink colors like this for page bases.  Starry Sky matches the hubs' jacket and Daffodil Delight matches Ryan's, and then the Smoky Slate matches the castle walls.  And that's how I chose today's color palette.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Wolf, Just My Type from Unity
Ink:  Starry Sky, Smoky Slate
Paper:  Berry Burst, Starry Sky, Daffodil Delight, Thick Basic White, Them Bones DSP
Accessories:  None

It's a Full Moon

Happy Sunday, y'all!  I got to play in my craft room yesterday and made several cards and just generally enjoyed myself and look what I have for today:

It's the Sanderson sisters!  I've already watched both Hocus Pocus movies this year but I might do it again : ) (I watched the Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion yesterday!)  I couldn't resist inking up this stamp set from The Ink Road when I saw the challenge from Festive Friday:

I used orange, shaped embellishments, die cuts, full moon (well...the words full moon anyway!), and of course witches.  I turned the TGIF Challenges sketch on its side to accommodate the three witches:

This is such a fun sketch, love it.  The three rectangles gave me the opportunity to use up some scraps of Gorgeous Grape DSP to go behind my fussy-cut images.

That's it for me today, peeps.  My friend Krissy is coming to visit later today and I'm so excited to see her in person!  Hope you have a great Sunday too.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Full Moon from The Ink Road
Ink:  Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Gorgeous Grape
Paper:  Lemon Lime Twist, Thick Basic White, Gorgeous Grape DSP
Accessories:  Nested Essentials dies, Mini Dimensionals, Star Sequins

What Did You Do, Ray?

Happy Saturday, y'all!  We went out to breakfast this morning at a nearby diner.  The French toast was okay but the bacon was amazing.  Good thing all three of us ordered our own bacon or there might have been a scuffle : )

Anyway, I've been in my craft room for a bit and I just had to make a card based on one of my favorite movies ever:

IT'S THE STAY-PUFT MARSHMALLOW MAN!!!!  I have two Ghostbusters-themed stamp sets from The Ink Road and this is the first time I've inked them up.  (The stamps are now retired so you can't buy them, sorry.)  I made this for the Color Throwdown:

I've just been waiting for the perfect time to ink up these Ghostbusters stamps, so I'm a happy stamper now.  : ) And also I really want to rewatch the OG Ghostbusters now.  And the Haunted Mansion.  There's my afternoon sorted.

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Slime & Slime Icons from The Ink Road
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Stampin' Blends in Real Red, Blueberry Bushel, Flirty Flamingo
Paper:  Blueberry Bushel, Real Red, Thick Basic White, Real Red & Daffodil Delight DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Stitched Shapes dies, white EP, Dimensionals, Matte Dots

October Anniversary

Happy Friday, y'all!  We just had a parent-teacher conference with Ryan's teacher and she said he's very smart (no surprise there) and wiggly (also not a surprise).  She had good things to say about him and said that she's going to give him opportunities to do more challenging stuff, which is good because he gets bored easily.

Anyway, I made a card yesterday and here it is:

Okay, I was silly on Sunday and made a Halloween card for the Paper Players challenge, so I had to give it another go with a more traditional card.  The hubs and I have our 21st wedding anniversary coming up next week, and that sentiment from Silhouette Scenes felt particularly appropriate since he was deployed over our last anniversary.  So here's the Paper Players challenge:

And I love the mood board from Inkspirational:

This was actually the challenge I started with when I made my haunted house card, which is where the Azure Afternoon came in, but it ended up being pretty far away from this mood board which is why I had to have another go at it.  Once again the Thoughtful Journey DSP stack came to my rescue with the Lost Lagoon wash and the background with warm colors, plus just a bit of purple peeking out on one side which I liked because our wedding colors were royal blue and royal purple.  I decided to go with some florals and greenery thanks to the Atlantic Hearts sketch:

This is my first time playing along over there.  I didn't put a bow on my card because, y'know, it's going to a dude, but otherwise I tried to stick close to the sketch.  I did, however, cover the Cajun Craze flowers with Wink of Stella because I just have to glitterfy everything ; )

That's it for me today, peeps.  The hubs has an MRI this afternoon to check how he's healing after his surgery, and then we're taking Ryan to see The Wild Robot.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Regal Flora, Silhouette Scenes
Ink:  Night of Navy, Lost Lagoon, Cajun Craze, Peach Pie
Paper:  Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Thoughtful Journey DSP Stack
Accessories:  Regal Flora dies, Stitched Shapes dies, Stitched Rectangles dies, Dimensionals, Essentials Dots, Wink of Stella