Mornin' y'all! We had a much quieter morning here today and Ryan got ready for school in time to ride his bike, so he's happy. I've already taken Daphne for her walk and I've got a load of dishes in the dishwasher, so after I eat breakfast I can go out and run some errands and hopefully by the time I get back my new fall SU! goodies will be here : )
In the meantime, I have a tropical card:
For reals, y'all, I am posting lots of FALL stuff starting tomorrow, bring on the warm colors and the fall leaves and the pumpkins and apples and Halloween everything, I am READY. Anyway, I had to go tropical for the new challenge from Retro Rubber:
As soon as I saw it, Artfully Layered and the coordinating Artfully Composed DSP (both four years old) popped in my head and I had to use them for a card. The dark strip on the right and the Pale Papaya script pattern were both scraps, but this is the first time I cut into the leafy pattern on the left and I am working on my goal to Just Use The Paper. I like this week's sketch from Atlantic Hearts:
Once I had chosen that leafy pattern, I had to decide how to use the three green shades. I chose Just Jade for my card base and main image just because I love that color, Pear Pizzazz is the only one that I had ribbon for so that choice was easy, and then I used Evening Evergreen for the greeting, background die cut, and gems. All of the greetings in Artfully Layered are pretty large, so I found a teeny-tiny hello in All Year Cheer I and used that. I think I got all three All Year Cheer stamp sets in the first year I was stamping so they're about 20 years old, how's that for retro!
That's it for now, peeps. After I finish my tea it's time to start running errands and hopefully that won't wipe me out so bad that I can't work in my craft room afterwards. Cheers!
Supplies, all SU!
Stamps: Artfully Layered, All Year Cheer I
Ink: Just Jade, Evening Evergreen, VersaMark
Paper: Just Jade, Evening Evergreen, Basic White, Artfully Composed DSP
Accessories: Artfully Layered dies, Pear Pizzazz taffeta ribbon, clear EP, Dimensionals, In Color Gems














