Friday Flashback: Apple of My Eye

Friday Flashback, y'all!  Today's stamp set is Apple of My Eye and I have a few cards to share, all of which were inspired by this card that paired Apple of My Eye with the Color Theory DSP.  So let's go!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Apple of My Eye
Ink:  Pear Pizzazz, Cinnamon Cider
Paper:  Dapper Denim, Cinnamon Cider, Thick Basic White, Color Theory DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies, Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Apple of My Eye
Ink:  Versamark, Cinnamon Cider, Garden Green
Paper:  Real Red, Thick Basic White, Color Theory DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies, White EP, Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Apple of My Eye
Ink:  Berry Burst, Old Olive, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Old Olive, Thick Basic White, Color Theory DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies, Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Apple of My Eye
Ink:  Grapefruit Grove, Night of Navy
Paper:  Grapefruit Grove, Thick Basic White, Color Theory DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies, Dimensionals

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

Inked Leaves

Hey y'all, how's your week going?  I'm back with another card I made last year and just never posted, once again with Inked & Tiled.

This one has a more masculine feel with Lost Lagoon and Mossy Meadow.  I kept it simple and just played with a few sizes of the Deckled Rectangles dies.

Have a great day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inked & Tiled
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Lost Lagoon
Paper:  Lost Lagoon, Mossy Meadow, Thick Basic White, Inked Botanicals DSP Stack
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Dimensionals

Golling Waterfall

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I'm back with Alpine Adventure part 2 today, which features a waterfall.

The hubs had some fun playing with the camera settings to get the picture right under the page title, see how soft the water looks?  We did a short hike out to the waterfall, took some pictures, and then headed back out to get pizza for dinner.  And that was the first day of our Alpine Adventure, not counting the 7-hour car trip we started with.

I wanted to draw out the pretty blue-green colors in the waterfall, so I chose Tranquil Tide for the page base, Night of Navy for the photo mats, Mint Macaron and Whisper White for supporting colors.  For the dragonfly image, I inked it up with Mint Macaron and then daubed on some Tranquil Tide to the edges and somehow it ended up being a color in between Tranquil Tide and Mint Macaron.  That dragonfly stamp dates back to like the first year I started stamping, too!

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, All I Have Seen
Ink:  Night of Navy, Mint Macaron, Tranquil Tide
Paper:  Tranquil Tide, Night of Navy, Mint Macaron, Thick Basic White, Delightful Daisy DSP
Accessories:  None

Friday Flashback: Approaching Perfection

Friday Flashback!  Today's stamp set is Approaching Perfection, though I did pull in Wrapped Bouquet for a couple of cards as well.  And today I'm working on using up the Moonlight DSP stack.

Approaching Perfection is all greeting stamps, so I used the newsprint from Wrapped Bouquet as a background.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Approaching Perfection, Wrapped Bouquet
Ink:  Basic Gray
Paper:  Hello Honey, Thick Basic White, Moonlight DSP Stack
Accessories:  Rectangles Stitched dies, Stitched Shapes dies, Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Approaching Perfection, Wrapped Bouquet
Ink:  Basic Gray
Paper:  Lost Lagoon, Thick Basic White, Moonlight DSP Stack
Accessories:  Rectangles Stitched dies, Tasteful Labels dies, Dimensionals

Playing with a few different die shapes on this one.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Approaching Perfection
Ink:  Lost Lagoon, Hello Honey
Paper:  Lost Lagoon, Hello Honey, Thick Basic White, Moonlight DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Approaching Perfection
Ink:  Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon
Paper:  Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Thick Basic White, Moonlight DSP Stack
Accessories:  Tasteful Labels dies, Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Approaching Perfection
Ink:  Blackberry Bliss
Paper:  Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss, Thick Basic White, Moonlight DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, Tasteful Labels dies, Dimensionals

And that's it for today.  Cheers, y'all!

Pressed Petals

Happy Wednesday, y'all!  Today's card is one I made right before we moved out of Germany in 2023 and somehow never got around to posting while the stamps and paper were current, but here it is now:

I really like the Inked & Tiled stamp set, it reminds me of several much older floral stamp sets in the same style and I had fun playing with it.  I was also working on ways to use those Nested Essentials dies.

Cheers, y'all!  Have a great day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inked & Tiled
Ink:  VersaMark, Garden Green, Crushed Curry, Sweet Sorbet (came out looking like Calypso Coral)
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral, Thick Basic White, Inked Botanicals DSP Stack
Accessories:  Nested Essentials dies, white EP, Polished Dots, retired Garden Green ribbon, Dimensionals

SUO Challenges: Christmas in July

Mornin' y'all and welcome to a new SUO Challenge!

And heeeere we go:

As it happens, I only have one current Christmas stamp set, so that made my stamp set choice pretty easy.  So here's what I made:

I CASE'd a sample from a new Online Exclusives stamp bundle called Sophisticated Sled, which I am looking forward to adding to my personal stamp hoard.  I just wanted to wait until I could see alllll the new stuff in the Holiday Catalog before I started buying Christmas stuff, but I do love that sled set and I don't have anything similar. 

Anyway!  I digress.  Merriest Trees is still current, and don't let the new stuff distract you from how awesome this stamp set is.  I love how there's one tree stamp but multiple dies so you can choose how big your tree turns out.  I stamped off my tree with Garden Green ink, added some stars in Blueberry Bushel (my Blueberry Bushel ink pad is so juicy that it almost looks like Night of Navy), and then coated the entire thing with Wink of Stella for an easy way to step up the card.  I liked the new Basic Beige with the Winter Meadow DSP even though it's not listed in the colors for that paper pack.

Your turn!  Let's see your Christmas creations on the SUO Challenges blog.  Have a great day, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Merriest Trees
Ink:  Garden Green, Blueberry Bushel
Paper:  Basic Beige, Thick Basic White, Winter Meadow DSP
Accessories:  Merriest Trees dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Wink of Stella, Tinsel Gems, Dimensionals

Alpine Adventure

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  We're in Colorado now and since I don't have any Colorado scrapbook pages (YET), I thought I'd share some different mountain pics!  The last set of layouts I did in Texas before we packed out was our 2021 trip to the Austrian and German Alps, so here's the first layout:

We started out in Werfen, which is just across the border in Austria and not terribly far away from Salzburg.  The first thing we did was check out the Sound of Music trail, which seems like a misnomer because we didn't see a trail, but it DOES have the meadow where Maria teaches the Von Trapp children how to sing Do Re Me in the movie.  I absolutely LOVE being in the mountains!  I don't necessarily want to climb any ; ) but I just love looking at them, and the Alps are particularly spectacular.

Today's color palette:  Gray Granite for the mountain peaks, Primrose Petals for my capri pants, Granny Apple Green for the meadow, Night of Navy to frame the photos, and Whisper White for title and journaling.  This is the first layout out of...nine, I think?  And I used the same alphabet stamp set for all my pages so they look more like a set.  Actually I worked on all nine layouts concurrently too, which kind of bit me a little bit on some of them but it turned out fine.

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm gonna go look at the mountains some more : )  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, Lighting the Way
Ink:  Gray Granite, Granny Apple Green, Night of Navy
Paper:  Gray Granite, Night of Navy, Thick Basic White, Afternoon Daydream DSP, Friendly Hello DSP
Accessories:  Lighting the Way dies