Tiger Sunflowers

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday!  My boys are both off work and school today so we're going to have a little adventure, but first I have a card to share!

It's the Radiant Sunflowers bundle again, but this time I decided to use the dies for something different.  Check out this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And I paired that with this week's Creative Colour Challenge:

This is why I decided to use the dies for today's card since we don't have Garden Green Stampin' Blends (still annoyed about that, SU!).  I do think I should have done the flowerpot in white so it didn't disappear on the Berry Burst polka dots but everything was already stuck down by the time I had that thought and I didn't have time to make the whole card over.  Still, I like the sunflowers in Timid Tiger and I had fun playing with both the colors and the sketch together.

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

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Radiant Sunflowers
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Timid Tiger, Berry Burst, Garden Green, Early Espresso; Berry Burst, Garden Green, & Early Espresso DSP
Accessories:  Radiant Sunflowers dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Earth Tone Shimmer Gems, white EP

Oh I lied, I have to share this picture of Daphne who chose to lay like that for several minutes and my neck hurts just looking at her.  Okay bye for reals this time!

Release the Bats!

Mornin' y'all, I've got another busy day ahead and I just started the electric kettle for my first cuppa.  After my tea, I shall march forth and conquer the day.  I hope...glad that I took yesterday to rest a bit and recuperate, I did all the things I said I was going to (reading and crafting and even some stitching) so now I'm ready to get after it again today.

Anyway, I saw this on Facebook the other day and I cannot agree enough:

So that was flying around in my head when I saw the CAS Colours & Sketches sketch:

So then those two things were flying around in my head and they combined to form this:

Oh, you can kinda see the sparkle on the stamped bat, how about that!  I do hope the CC&S team will forgive me for adding some layers...I was just going to do the orange and black, but then I needed that thin white layer to go with the stamped bat.  At first I was going to do three stamped bats but then I noticed the batty die in the bundle so I decided to mix it up a bit.  And that bat's face is still adorable.

Got my cuppa tea and when I finish that it'll be time to head out to start running errands.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Oh My Fright
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Gorgeous Grape
Paper:  Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Gorgeous Grape, Basic White
Accessories:  Oh My Fright dies, Textured Notes dies, Mini Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

Birthday Sunflowers

Mornin' y'all.  After two very busy days, I am hoping that today I can kinda rest and reset at the house and just chill for a bit, especially since I woke up with a humdinger headache today.  I am going to enjoy my cuppa tea and pumpkin spice English muffin before I take Daphne out for a walk and then I'm hoping to spend a good chunk of the day reading and crafting.

But first, here's today's card:

I had a great time playing with the Radiant Sunflowers suite for my pal Krissy's birthday card.  (I also had fun shopping for her and may have gotten a thing or two to add to my fall decorations!)  This week's Atlantic Hearts sketch was perfect for sunflowers:

So the DSP and sunflower stamps are new, but I had to dust off my old favorite Perfectly Penned stamp set for the birthday greeting, isn't it pretty?  And my trusty corner rounder punch that I used on the larger layers to echo the shape of the die in the middle.  I just had to add some Cajun Craze Blends to my SU! shopping cart, the light Blend I have has suddenly turned more brown and icky, which is weird because I swear it was fine last week.  I've had to replace probably at least a half dozen Blends pairs and it's not like I'm using them hard.  I'd rather be spending my crafting dollas on NEW things rather than replacing markers that shouldn't be acting that way.

Anyway, I think I'm going to get a second cuppa and think fall thoughts.  Cheers, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Radiant Sunflowers, Perfectly Penned
Ink:  Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow, Stampin' Blends in Golden Glow, Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, Mossy Meadow, Old Olive
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Very Vanilla, Sunflower Fields DSP
Accessories:  Radiant Sunflowers dies, Dimensionals, corner rounder punch, Radiant Gems

Fall Inspiration from SUO Challenges

Mornin' y'all!  I had a very busy day yesterday and today promises to be even busier, but let's get started with a new challenge from SUO Challenges!  Check it out:

Something about this photo made me think of the Glow of Harvest DSP that was the August Product of the Month, so I decided to really feature one of the patterns in a super quick card:

Once again, the idea came to me in the shower (where all the best ideas hang out) and I put this together in probably less than five minutes when I got to my craft room.  I am loving Golden Glow right now, it's going to be fantastic for fall cards...probably Christmas cards too!  So the DSP has a pearlized finish to it and I accented with the Calypso Coral and copper ribbon even though Calypso Coral isn't listed in the colors for the DSP, it kind of reads as a lighter hue of Cajun Craze to me.  A couple of Painted Patch Dots to accent the greeting and it's done.  You could make this card with pretty much ANY patterned paper and whip up an entire army of cards in no time.

I hope you'll join us for this challenge and upload your card to the SUO Challenges blog.  Don't forget to keep it to Stampin' Up! products only--it's in the name of the challenge after all.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Natural Artistry
Ink:  Early Espresso
Paper:  Golden Glow, Glow of Harvest DSP
Accessories:  Calypso Coral & Copper ribbon, Painted Patch Dots

More Dolly Quotes

Hey y'all, extra post this afternoon because I decided that everyone on my weekly sunshine card list is getting a Dolly Parton card this week.  I just wasn't ready to put away my Dolly stamp set yet and all of the quotes in it are fabulous, so I made five quick cards.

And three more...

I'm really hoping that Lara at The Ink Road will re-release this stamp set and/or better yet a new one with more quotes.  She had a Dolly Christmas stamp set but I didn't get that one since I already had this one.  Anyway, I kept with the butterfly theme since that was Dolly's emblem and now I just have to decide who on my list gets which card.  These are going out today.

I spent the weekend listening to my new Dolly albums (um, I've bought three in the past week to go with the three I already had) and I also watched 9 to 5 for the first time, it's on Disney+.  I'm also working on two Dolly books, Songteller and Behind the Seams, which have been fun.  To honor Tim Curry, I also watched the '90s Three Musketeers where he plays the dastardly Cardinal Richilieu, he always looks like he is having more fun than everyone else when he plays a villain.  Love it.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Dolly from The Ink Road, Sketched Butterflies
Ink:  Berry Burst, Blackberry Bliss
Paper:  Bubble Bath, Blackberry Bliss, Delightful Floral DSP
Accessories:  Chalk Talk Framelits, Textured Notes dies, Dimensionals, Brass Butterflies

Blossom Birthday

Mornin' y'all, hope your week is off to a good start.  Ryan informed me this morning that he thought I should get a tattoo so that I would "look tough and people would respect you more, like Daphne."  I presume he means Daphne would respect me more with a tattoo, not that she has a respect-garnering tattoo of her own (if she does, it's well hidden in her fur).  I politely declined, more emphatically when he said I should get the tattoo on my face.  Where he comes up with these ideas.

Anyway, I have a birthday card to share today:

And I used the fun sketch from As You See It:

Which dovetailed nicely with the Inspire. Create. challenge:

I have lots of scraps of the Lovely Blossoms DSP so it was just a matter of choosing which scraps to use.  Even the flowers are cut out of a partial sheet of the paper...in fact, every bit of paper on this card started as a scrap except for the card base.  Joanne mentioned on her post for this challenge that she'd thought of using the Sending Smiles bundle before changing her mind and using something else, so I took her idea and ran with it.  After all, it's her fault that I have that DSP pack so it's only fitting : )

Time to get the spawn ready for school and then take Daphne for a walk.  I'll ask her about the tattoo.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sending Smiles
Ink:  Secret Sea
Paper:  Cloud Cover, Basic White, Petal Pink, Secret Sea, Lovely Blossoms DSP
Accessories:  Sending Smiles dies, Mini Dimensionals, Low-Profile Dots

Our Daphne likes to lay down with her head at a 90-degree angle to the rest of her.  Spinal alignment?  Never heard of her.

Tic-Tac-Toe Halloween for The Paper Players

Mornin' y'all!  It's Sunday which means it's time for a new Paper Players challenge.  I hope you enjoyed Ann's anniversary sketch last week, I do love to see all the different interpretations of a good sketch!  Since today is the fifth Sunday of the month, Jaydee has a fun tic-tac-toe board for us:

After thinking about it for a spell, I decided to go across the top with Patterned Paper - Things That Fly - Layers.  And you know what flies?

BATS!!!  It's the end of Augtober, y'all, and Pre-October starts on Tuesday which I am very excited about if only the weather would cooperate and start cooling down.  Bring on the -BER months!  Really I'm surprised that I haven't made more Halloween cards yet but they're coming, believe me ; ) Anyway, before now I'd mostly used the cute little kitty spooks from this DSP instead of using the Oh My Fright stamp set for more than greetings, but today I stamped bats on the DSP and one big happy bat to adorn my greeting.  Isn't his little face so cute??  I managed to get six layers on here not counting embellishments and I had fun playing with some different patterns.

Check out the other design team creations on the Paper Players blog, and you can hop through their individual blogs to leave some comments too:

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Ann Schach

Jan Clothier

Stef Perry

you are here --> Christy Stanford

And then upload your card at the Paper Players blog!  Keep in mind a few simple rules:
1.  Create a new paper project
2.  Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us and provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge submission
3.  Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL
4.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Oh My Fright
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Old Olive
Paper:  Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Frightfully Fun DSP
Accessories:  Oh My Fright dies, Nested Essentials dies, Old Olive twine, Bats Ghosts & Dots, Dimensionals