A Floral CASE for SUO Challenges

Goooood morning stampy friends!  It's time for a new challenge from SUO Challenges, and this time around we are CASE-ing a page from the new catty, check it out:

So I pondered this one for a while.  I don't have any of the stamps, dies, or patterned paper featured on these cards, but I do have a lot of other stuff ; )  I do have the Lovely Blooms DSP that Joanne convinced me to buy, and it has flowers and some pink patterns (Petal Pink, but still pink...ish), and I do have a different stamp set (that's even current right now, whaaaat) that features the word "smile", so here's what I made:

Since I didn't buy the stamps that coordinate with this particular DSP, I fussy-cut some flowers and leaves from one piece of patterned paper and plopped them on a Petal Pink pattern, and I free-hand cut the banner bottom because I don't have those giant pennant dies.  It's a little wonky but that's okay.  The greeting is from Nature's Symphony, simply punched out with a 1 3/4" square punch and popped up on Dimensionals; I had some leaves from the edge of the paper that I was able to cut out and place behind the greeting where you can't see the edge of the paper, how's that for thrifty.  The diamond pattern is another sheet of this DSP so Joanne was right, it's a fun and useful pack of paper to play with, haha!  And since I have approximately eleventy billion Petal Pink embellishments, I added a bunch to coordinate with the card I CASE'd.

We hope you'll have fun with this challenge and post your card at the SUO Challenges blog.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Nature's Symphony
Ink:  Secret Sea
Paper:  Petal Pink, Thick Basic White, Lovely Blooms DSP
Accessories:  1 3/4" circle punch, Dimensionals, Dear Dots

Super Quick Tulip

Mornin' y'all!  I said last week that I was having a bit of a tough time focusing in my craft room and getting things done, but on Friday something clicked and I made a bunch of cards.  I think it's because I convinced the hubs to hold off on painting the bathroom ; )  Here's the card that kicked off my streak:

And it all started because of the speed challenge at As You See It:

As soon as I saw tulips + speed challenge, I thought I HAVE PAPER FOR THAT and here's how long it took me:

I would have been even quicker but I hemmed for a bit about whether to put another Mossy Meadow mat around the polka dot layer, and then when I went to stop the timer I accidentally paused my music instead of the timer so really I was under six minutes which is pretty dang speedy.  The latest Freshly Made Sketch also helped speed things along:

A classic sketch that made my card a cinch to put together.  And for just one more challenge, I have Just Add Ink:

There are lots of pretty patterns in the Flowering Fields DSP pack, so I was going through them prior to starting the timer to plan out my card and when I found the Poppy Parade polka dot pattern that really solidified my choices.  A few die cuts, one stamped greeting, and then some embellishments to finish it off all well below the 10-minute time limit.

The only thing that might have slowed me down was Daphne, who was SURE that I should be paying attention to her rather than my card making:

So I played with her for several minutes before I started the timer because I loves her.  We've had her for a year and a half and I am still SO HAPPY she's here, I really missed having a dog in the house.  Even if she sometimes surfs the counters or dumpster dives the trash can looking for food she's not supposed to have, she's a champion snuggler and a great companion.

That's it for now, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Flowering Tulips
Ink:  Mossy Meadow
Paper:  Pool Party, Mossy Meadow, Thick Basic White, Flowering Fields DSP
Accessories:  Rectangles Stitched dies, Dimensionals, Pearlized Faceted Circles

A Friendly Sketch for The Paper Players

Happy Sunday, y'all!  Did you like Ann's food challenge last week for The Paper Players?  We're back again and this week LeAnne has a fun sketch for us:

I decided right off that this sketch would be a great way to showcase some patterned paper, but none of my recent purchases were speaking to me and for some reason I really wanted to do bright colors.  Last year's Friends of the Ocean DSP was exactly what I needed, and here's what I made:

I went through the scraps first and immediately picked that piece in the top left, and as it happened the Pumpkin Pie pattern is the flip side of it.  The lobster was die cut from another pattern because that was easy and I layered it on some seaweed die cut from Lemon Lime Twist cardstock and added a bit of ink for shading.  The only stamping is the greeting from the coordinating Ocean Friends stamp set.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Ocean Friends
Ink:  Summer Splash, Lemon Lime Twist
Paper:  Summer Splash, Lemon Lime Twist, Thick Basic White, Friends of the Ocean DSP
Accessories:  Ocean Friends dies, Rectangles Stitched dies, Stitched Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Sunny Day Iridescent Dots

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

Anne Marie Hile

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!

Mystery of the Glowing Eye

Mornin' y'all and welcome to the Nancy Drew Challenge!  Today's adventure is Mystery of the Glowing Eye, and buckle up because it's going to get WEIRD in here:

This cover reminds me somewhat of Crooked Banister, and actually the book does too but we'll get into that.  Crooked Banister's cover is all about hot pink and we do have some hot pink here too with Nancy's shirt, but more red around the creepy eye.  I can't think of another book cover that has words on it like the "warning" and "cyclops" here either, but Nancy's hair is on point.

Case file:  Ned Nickerson's science lab partner at Emerson College goes mad scientist and kidnaps Ned, then sends a remote-piloted helicopter to Nancy's house (so he can fly it like a drone, but it's a full-size helicopter).  Mad scientist also has a spotlight that can temporarily paralyze people?  And rigged up a wall in a museum that can make you stick to it like a magnet?  Crazy stuff.  Nancy and the rest of the Drew Crew try to investigate Ned's kidnapping, but Nancy is distracted by the new lady lawyer in dad Carson's office who has her sights set on Nancy's amateur detective gig AND Carson's affections.  Oh no!

So the villain of the story is obsessed with cyclops from Greek mythology, and he's got that helicopter, but my stamp collection was curiously devoid of cyclops or helicopters.  Actually I was even looking for eyeballs and came up empty, which was surprising to me given my extensive collection of Halloween stamps.  Luckily Whimsy Stamps said "Eye got you, girl" so here's my first card:

Yep, I have eyeball stamps nooowwwww : )  I did just a single eyeball for this card because cyclops, and I colored it in green because Nancy is jealous of the new lady lawyer.  Actually I just recently acquired the Rays of Light background stamp and I just HAD to use it for this book cover.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Jeepers Creepers from Whimsy Stamps, Rays of Light
Ink:  Real Red, Basic Gray, Stampin' Blends in Smoky Slate & Granny Apple Green
Paper:  Real Red, Poppy Parade, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Stitched Nested Labels dies, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

More eyeballs for my second card:

The eyes have it!  Yeah this stamp set will be making another appearance when we get closer to Halloween, it's so much fun.  I did the same Rays of Light background stamp on this one but discovered I liked it in Real Red ink on Poppy Parade cardstock to match the book cover a little better.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Jeepers Creepers from Whimsy Stamps, Rays of Light
Ink:  Real Red, Basic Gray, Stampin' Blends in Smoky Slate, Granny Apple Green, Pecan Pie, Balmy Blue
Paper:  Poppy Parade, Basic Gray, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Rectangles Stitched dies, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella, Basic Gray Pearls

And this time I have one more card because I just couldn't stop:

Again with the Rays of Light background, but this time I decided to go with It's a Science for the atomic panel, which is Mango Melody to match Nancy's hair.  Plus I wanted to do a science-y card since this whole mystery started when Ned invented something to do with lasers in science class and his lab partner decided to abduct him and hold him hostage in a swamp.

Supplies:
Stamps:  It's a Science, Rays of Light
Ink:  Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Gray
Paper:  Poppy Parade, Mango Melody, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Nested Essentials dies, Dimensionals, Milky Dots

Like I said, this book is just plain weird, and we don't even have the charm of Robby the Robot from Crooked Banister to make me laugh this time, so I give it two stars.  It's the paralyzing spotlight and the weird glowing eye at the museum that make this feel like a bad 70s sci-fi nightmare instead of a Nancy Drew mystery, but I still had a good time making cards for it precisely because it IS so bizarre.  And now I have eyeball stamps, which is a plus.  If this strange adventure inspires you, please leave me a comment!  And check back next week when Nancy is on the trail of The Secret of the Forgotten City.

More Glitter Dragonflies

Mornin' y'all!  It is Ryan's last day of school (whaaaat) so I will be picking him up for early release day and probably taking him out for ice cream to celebrate.  Hubs and I really liked Ryan's teacher this year and I hope we are as lucky next year.

Anyway, I did what I said I was going to do yesterday and remade my glitter dragonfly card with the colors reversed.  Only I thought I'd play with more than one shade of purple so I have two:

That's Highland Heather on the left and Orchid Oasis on the right, which purple do you like better?  Or do you like the purple dragonfly from yesterday?  I like that I have several friend cards to mail out in the near future : )

Once again I used the Color Hues Challenge:

And the Retro Rubber sketch:

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm going to take Daphne out for a walk and then put up the laundry that I washed earlier this week.  See you tomorrow for the Nancy Drew Challenge!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Dragonfly Dreams
Ink:  Highland Heather, Orchid Oasis
Paper:  Highland Heather, Orchid Oasis, Basic White, Granny Apple Green glimmer paper
Accessories:  Detailed Dragonflies dies, Dimensionals, Purple Fine Shimmer Gems, In Color Pearls

Glitter Dragonfly

Mornin' y'all!  Hope your day is going well.  I am hoping to get some Serious Card Making done today because tomorrow is Ryan's last day of school so I won't have as much uninterrupted kid-free time after that and I will be doing my taxi service for a good part of the summer.  So I gotta craft now, right?

Okay, here's my card for today:

This week I have been having trouble connecting to challenges and actually sitting down to make things, it happens sometimes.  So I was looking through my stamp shelves yesterday and I was thinking about a couple of themes from different challenges and nothing was clicking and then I saw Dragonfly Dreams and it works for *two* challenges, neither of them the themes I was looking for to start with, but the idea for this card popped in my head fast so I'll take it.  DONE.  I had a hard time photographing this card though, the first picture showed the Highland Heather glimmer paper on the dragonfly better but made the Lemon Lime Twist card base look radioactive, so I used this photo.  Imagine the dragonfly is more purple, but hey, you can see the sparkle this time!

First up is the Retro Rubber sketch challenge:

I had no idea in mind for this sketch when I was looking through my stamp sets, but that dotty fill-in stamp in Dragonfly Dreams ended up working nicely.  I just checked through my older posts and I got Dragonfly Dreams about a month before Ryan was born, so it is also nine years old, which is retro in stamp years but not kid years.

Next up is the Color Hues Challenge:

I used Lemon Lime Twist and Granny Apple Green for two hues of lime green, and Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape for two hues of violet.  I wanted to do something not-floral with these colors and had kinda been thinking about going for a Halloween card (it's never too early for Halloween at my house), but I do like the dragonfly with these colors.  Ooh, I have Granny Apple Green glimmer paper, I could make this card again in reverse!  I might just do that.

Daphne says it's a nice day out and she wants to go for a walk.  We've gotten some rain this week, which is great, but it's been so cool out it feels more like March than May.  So I'll take some nice sunny weather before I go up to the craft room, which is my reward for doing four loads of laundry yesterday.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Dragonfly Dreams
Ink:  Granny Apple Green, Gorgeous Grape
Paper:  Lemon Lime Twist, Basic White, Highland Heather glimmer paper
Accessories:  Detailed Dragonfly dies, Dimensionals, Tinsel Gems

Midnight Moths

Mornin' y'all!  Yesterday turned out to be a bit on the crazy side and it's looking like today is shaping up to be more of the same.  Daphne is on a bland chicken and rice diet while we try to figure out why she doesn't want to eat her normal food (and knowing her, she's probably just holding out for treats and there's nothing wrong) but she's acting like she feels perfectly fine.  Anyway, I do have errands to run and laundry to switch out and other things to do, so let's get to it.

Here's my card for today:

I just had to break into more of my Midnight Flora DSP and I definitely need another pack of this just to hoard it, and possibly a third pack because I am a paper dragon.  I let the paper do the work for the Sunday Stamps sketch:

The only stamping is the greeting block and the moth I colored with Golden Glow Blends and then went over with the Golden Glow glitter brush.  I got that color and the Hydrangea Hue one, they're basically Wink of Stella but colored.  I like it.  I had stamped the poppy bouquet to put on the card somewhere but I ended up wanting more of the patterned paper to show, so those poppies will have to wait for another card.  Oh, I almost forgot, I put the two patterned paper panels on Peaceful Pine mats, but I wanted the green to be a bit darker to match the front pattern more, so I simply colored the edges of the cardstock with my dark Peaceful Pine Blend.  Et voilà, a darker shade of Peaceful Pine.  Simples.

Okay, looks like it's drying up a bit so maybe if I take Daph out now we won't get rained on too much.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Fern & Flora
Ink:  Secret Sea, Golden Glow, Stampin' Blends in Golden Glow & Peaceful Pine
Paper:  Secret Sea, Peaceful Pine, Thick Basic White, Midnight Flora DSP
Accessories:  Fern & Flora dies, Dimensionals, Golden Glow glitter brush, In Color Flat Pearls