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

The Twin Dilemma

Happy Saturday and welcome back to the Nancy Drew Challenge!  Today's book is #63, The Twin Dilemma, and this time we have FOUR covers:

For this one and the next book, Scholastic released an edition that was maybe for a book club or something?  I don't know, it's only those two books, and they're stylistically different from all the other Drews.  Anyway, I like the vibe of the arch cover on the left and the one on the far right has a magnificent 80s vibe, but in my opinion Nancy's hair is terrible across the board.  I'd probably pick the last one as my favorite just for that 80s prom dress that Nancy is wearing.

Case file:  Aunt Eloise invites Nancy, Bess, and George to NYC for a charity benefit fashion show, and when the main model disappears, Nancy gets on the runway because of course she does.  The model turns up quickly but says her brother has been kidnapped, so Nancy starts investigating that as well as stolen designs for a fashion designer with all the emotional regulation of a spoiled two-year-old at the end of a day at Disneyland.  Her main adversary isn't the bad guys but an investigative journalist who keeps trying to get her out of the way because he thinks he can do the job better.  It's very sexist.

All of my cards this week are dedicated to Bess Marvin, because she loves fashion and she deserves much better friends than Nancy and especially George, more on that later.  Here's my first card:

We're in New York and this book is all about fashion so you know I had to ink up this fancy dress from Haute Couture.  I don't think any of the dresses described in the book are this color, but I matched it to the colors on the cover and you can't see it but I covered it in Wink of Stella for some shimmer.

I used Cherry Cobbler, Crisp Cantaloupe, and Taken with Teal for my colors and of course I got the arch shape on there.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Haute Couture, Fabulous Flowers
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Crisp Cantaloupe, Calypso Coral, Cherry Cobbler, Coastal Cabana
Paper:  Cherry Cobbler, Crisp Cantaloupe, Basic White, Sweet Pea DSP Stack
Accessories:  Everyday Arches dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Glossy Garden Dots

Next up:

The spoiled man-child fashion designer practically attacks a photographer in the book, so I had to make a camera-centric card for this one.

I used Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Real Red, and Pear Pizzazz for my card; I chose that chevron pattern because it matched the colors on the book cover pretty well and it's just a fun pattern.  Also it's odd that they added "Mystery" to the title of this one, especially when it says "Mystery Stories" right above that on the cover.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pun Intended
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMark
Paper:  Basic Black, Real Red, Basic White, Greenhouse Gala DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Layering Circles dies, white EP, Dimensionals

On to card #3:

Nancy wears a lilac gown in the fashion show at the start of the book, so I managed to work that in for this card and I found a floral pattern with colors that reminded me of the fire on the cover:

I used Pebbled Path, Fresh Freesia, Daffodil Delight, and Pumpkin Pie for this one and somehow I still don't have any stamps of burning buildings.  Closest I've got is the campfire from Musical Jamboree.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  All Dressed Up, Simply Fabulous
Ink:  Fresh Freesia, Pebbled Path
Paper:  Pebbled Path, Basic White, Bloom Impressions DSP
Accessories:  Dress Up dies, Potted Succulents dies, Dimensionals, Opaque Gems

And here's my final card:

Bess gets a makeover in this book, and when she comes back to Aunt Eloise's apartment Nancy and George both laugh at her and George mocks her mercilessly.  Really, Bess deserves far better treatment from her supposed friends.  Anyway, you may be asking if I purchased the Dressed to Impress bundle on eBay specifically for this challenge, to which I say SHUSH.

I used Berry Burst, Night of Navy, and Balmy Blue for my colors and dang, I could have done a disco ball card but that thought only just now occurred to me and I like the bold lipstick statement on here anyway.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Dressed to Impress
Ink:  Night of Navy, Balmy Blue, Berry Burst
Paper:  Berry Burst, Basic White, Regency Park DSP Stack
Accessories:  All Dressed Up dies, Spotlight on Nature dies, Dimensionals, Purple Fine Shimmer Gems

Y'all, I don't like this book.  The fashion industry concept could have been a really cool backdrop for a mystery, but this book is chock-full of fat shaming and comments about how even super-slim and athletic George is too big for the couture clothes.  None of that has any place in a book marketed to tween girls!  I mean, there's always comments about Bess's weight (and in the illustrations, she's depicted as being pretty much the same size/shape as Nancy and George!) but this time around it's much worse, I hate it.  One half star because I did have fun making all my cards for this book and also Aunt Eloise is always awesome.  If you're inspired to make a card based on this book or any of the four covers, leave me a comment below!  And I'll see you here next week when Nancy investigates a Captive Witness.

Purple Thoughts

Mornin' y'all!  I just had a pumpkin spice English muffin for breakfast and it was goooood.  I am definitely going to get out all my fall and Halloween decorations this weekend and I can't wait.  The weather may still be hotter'n heck out there but I am going to turn it into autumn in my house!

But I think my card today is more springtime than autumnal, what do you think?

I saw the Colour Inkspiration palette on Jan's blog and had to give it a go:

I pulled the Sale-a-Bration set Beautifully Happy out of my To Sell? boxes to make this card and somehow I have never used that stamp set before?  Which is probably why it was in the To Sell? boxes, but let's be real I'm probably keeping it.  I like the mixed font greetings in this set and it was just the thing for making a card for a cousin who's undergoing cancer treatments now, she's on my weekly sunshine card list and this will go out to her next week.

That's it for now, peeps.  I think I'm going to make myself a Dolly playlist and buy her Rockstar album to enjoy this weekend while I'm decorating for fall.  Have a good 'un, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautifully Happy
Ink:  Blackberry Bliss, Stampin' Blends in Blackberry Bliss, Fresh Freesia, Soft Sea Foam
Paper:  Fresh Freesia, Blackberry Bliss, Basic White, Favored Flowers DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Transparent Dots

Dolly's Butterfly

Mornin' y'all.  I found out yesterday that Tim Curry also passed away on Tuesday, but I don't have any Tim Curry stamps so I made another Dolly card.  Here it is:

When the hubs and I went to Dollywood like 20 years ago, they had a professional photographer take your picture when you came in the park and they'd CGI a butterfly on your photo, so I thought a butterfly would be a great choice with that particular quote.  And it made for a cheery card for the Color Hues Challenge:

I used Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie with some Early Espresso for a neutral.  Happily for me, the old Beyond the Garden DSP has both those colors in it and I chose a fun floral to back my butterfly.

Super easy challenge at Retro Rubber:

I'm pretty sure my Dolly stamp set is more than a year old, but I'm not sure how long I've had it since I hadn't inked it up before now.  However, I do know that Watercolor Wings is eleven years old and the last time I used it was 2019, so it was fun to dust it off.  I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I maybe should have done the smaller butterfly image and added another square element to my card, but I like the big butterfly image.

I bought The Essential Dolly Parton yesterday even though it has several songs that I had on a different album, but my new favorite Dolly song is Dumb Blonde, the first one on the album, and the last one is a cover of Collective Soul's Shine which is pretty cool.  So I listened to Dolly yesterday and then watched Clue last night while I worked on my stitching project.  My first Tim Curry movie was Legend (one of my three favorite movies as a tiny child, along with Labyrinth and The Last Unicorn) and I did think about watching that, but there's a limit to how much Tom Cruise in hot pants I can take, and I just love the sly humor of Clue.  Maybe next I'll watch The Three Musketeers.  I don't think I've ever seen 9to5 either and I don't want to watch Steel Magnolias because I would have to buy Kleenex in bulk for that one.

Anyway, that's it for me today.  Cheers,  y'all.  I will always love you.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Watercolor Wings, Dolly from The Ink Road
Ink:  Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Basic White, Beyond the Garden DSP
Accessories:  Bold Butterfly dies, Tiled Garden dies, Dimensionals, rhinestones, Wink of Stella

For Dolly

Well, this isn't the card I thought I would be making yesterday, but here it is:

News of Dolly Parton's death yesterday was totally unexpected.  I've had this Ink Road stamp set for a while but hadn't inked it up yet.  It has the image of Dolly and a variety of quotes, I just chose the one that fit in my die the best.

I used a Color Dare Challenge:

I used Berry Burst, Bubble Bath, and Parakeet Party for colors, though there's a bit of yellow in the floral pattern too.  And here's this week's Atlantic Hearts sketch:

I moved the sentiment a bit because I didn't want to cover up the image of Dolly.

I think I have just three of Dolly's albums in my music library, as I was never much into country music I am mostly familiar with her biggest hits.  The hubs and I did go to Dollywood about 20 years ago, and of course I know about her Imagination Library and philanthropy.  She was an extraordinary woman, and extraordinarily kind.  The world could use more people like Dolly.

If you'll excuse me, I'm going to go listen to the Dolly album I just bought.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Dolly from The Ink Road
Ink:  Berry Burst, Bubble Bath
Paper:  Berry Burst, Bubble Bath, Basic White, Delightful Floral DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Charming Shimmer Faceted Dots, Dimensionals

Blue Spruce

We need to talk,  y'all.

If you've been around here for a while, you know I am a Fall Girl.  I love everything fall:  the colors, the leaves, pumpkin spice everything, cozy sweaters, fall baking, Halloween and Thanksgiving, you name it.  I have been actively attempting to manifest fall for weeks now.

Which is why I am at such a loss to explain...this.

Okay, this isn't exactly a Christmas card, but it's definitely wintry with the pine branch and the colors.  I am absolutely 100% not ready for anything winter or Christmas, so how did this happen?!  I'll tell you how, it was CAS Colours & Sketches.

I looked at those colors and blue spruce just happened.  If you're wondering where the Berry Burst is, take a look at the gems--they're Berry Burst though it's not showing up super bright in my photo.  It gives the impression of holly berries without any actual holly here.  And while I do love last year's Branching Out bundle, I do wonder at its audacity showing up here on my blog in AUGUST.  The nerve.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go make something seasonally appropriate.  By which I mean fall.  Not winter.  Perhaps something in the Halloween genre, just to clear my card-making chakras.  Because this felt weird.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Branching Out
Ink:  Misty Moonlight, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso
Paper:  Misty Moonlight, Basic White
Accessories:  Branching Out dies, Purple Fine Shimmer Gems

Pumpkin Glow

Mornin' y'all, how's your week starting off?  Ryan is feeling a little not-so-great this morning, I think because he ate so much junk when we went to see the new Paw Patrol movie yesterday.  (It was okay, but maybe not as good as the first two...Ryan liked that this one focused a bit more on Marshall, who's his favorite pup.). Haven't made a decision on if he should stay home or not yet.

Anyway, I have a card to share today and man I cannot type this morning, hopefully I catch all my typos before I publish this but whatever.

This month's Product of the Month is the Glow of Harvest specialty DSP and it's gorgeous with a pearlized finish.  It's single sided and we have several fall-centric designs that are so pretty, I cut the pumpkins out of one sheet and the floral background is another pattern.  I thought this DSP was a good choice for the TGIF Challenge from last Friday:

I have been loving Golden Glow lately, it's such a wonderful autumn color and it's in several of the new autumn DSPs that are coming out soon.  And you know fall and Halloween cards are my very favorites to make : ) Trying to encourage the fall weather to get here already, I want summer GONE.

That's it for now, peeps.  Have a great day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Words of Beauty
Ink:  Early Espresso
Paper:  Golden Glow, Cajun Craze, Very Vanilla, Glow of Harvest DSP
Accessories:  Words of Beauty dies, Spotlight on Nature dies, Dimensionals, Radiant Gems

Sketch Milestone for The Paper Players

Mornin' y'all and happy Sunday!  I hope you had fun with Claire's fall challenge last week, and it's time for a new challenge today.  The amazing Ann is hosting our sketch challenge this month, and it's a milestone number--800!  So we are bringing back our very first sketch:

Isn't that fun?  I couldn't resist playing with the Painted Pumpkins suite again (hurry up fall!) and here's what I made:

I really love that dark pattern with the pumpkins so that's where I started and built the card around that.  I chose two other patterns to complement the first one, and then I had to add some thin mats around the layers, and I stamped my greeting directly on the stripey pattern as a little variation on the sketch.  This time I stamped just one of the pumpkins with Secret Sea ink and used Golden Glow Blends to color it in, just for something different than what I've done with it before, and I added a couple of leaves and vines behind it and then some Painted Patch Dots to finish it off.

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:  Painted Pumpkins
Ink:  Secret Sea, Stampin' Blends in Golden Glow & Pool Party
Paper:  Calypso Coral, Golden Glow, Whisper White, Painted Patch DSP
Accessories:  Painted Pumpkins dies, Dimensionals, Painted Patch Dots

The Kachina Doll Mystery

Mornin' y'all and welcome back to the Nancy Drew Challenge!  Today is book #62, The Kachina Doll Mystery: 

We have three pretty great covers this time and at least Nancy is strawberry blonde on the third one.  I don't have a favorite cover this time around, I love the colors on all three and had a good time making my cards for them...maybe because this book is one of my favorite Drews!

Case file:  Nancy, Bess, and George are invited to Arizona by their friend Heather McGuire to investigate strange happenings and sabotage at the ranch resort her family is trying to get started.  Suspicion has fallen on a young boy who's living at the ranch with his aunt.  In addition, there have been sightings of a Kachina doll ghost (pictured on the first two covers) and rumors of a long-lost treasure.

Here's my first card:

I didn't want to be unintentionally disrespectful of First Nations cultures so I decided to stick with the desert setting for my cards, starting with Desert Details which I dearly love.  When the girls arrive in Arizona, they talk a lot about how Heather and her family have made the desert bloom at their ranch, so desert blooms it is for this card!

I used Merry Merlot, Blushing Bride, and Just Jade for my colors and I was surprised at how much I liked them together.  I've never been a fan of Blushing Bride but I really like how it plays together with the other two colors.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Desert Details
Ink:  Merry Merlot, Blushing Bride
Paper:  Merry Merlot, Just Jade, Whisper White, Awash in Beauty DSP
Accessories:  Desert Details dies, Everyday Arches dies, Dimensionals, Regal Foiled Dots

Here's card #2:

At one point in the book, Nancy and a large group of people take a trail ride out into the desert and have dinner and sing songs around a campfire, and there are several mentions of coyotes so Musical Jamboree was a natural choice for this one.

To match this cover, I used Lovely Lipstick, Azure Afternoon, Tranquil Tide, and Cinnamon Cider.  I used an Azure Afternoon watercolor wash pattern for the color of Nancy's dress and would you believe that Tranquil Tide piece on the bottom is from the Classic Garage DSP stack?  I just stamped some grassy bits on it.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Musical Jamboree
Ink:  Early Espresso, Azure Afternoon, Tranquil Tide, Stampin' Blends in Cinnamon Cider, Ivory, Lovely Lipstick, Golden Glow
Paper:  Lovely Lipstick, Early Espresso, Whisper White, Bloom Impressions DSP, Classic Garage DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

And for my third card:

One of the acts of sabotage that was blamed on the innocent kid was burning a huge cactus, which almost fell on Nancy, Bess, and George when they went to check it out and I will not miss an opportunity to make a fun cactus card.  Plus this gave me an excuse to use the frame dies from Desert Details since I didn't use them on my first card as I was focused on the arch shape.  One of the clues that Nancy finds is an old journal, so I used a piece of patterned paper with a lot of words on it.

Another color combination that was very fun to work with:  Shy Shamrock, Pool Party, and Fresh Freesia.  This particular book has some water damage along the right side, so if I find a copy in better condition I will probably grab it, but this one is otherwise in pretty good shape.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Flowering Desert
Ink:  Shy Shamrock, Fresh Freesia, Pool Party
Paper:  Shy Shamrock, Whisper White, Pool Party DSP
Accessories:  Desert Details dies, Dimensionals, Tinsel Gems

This book definitely hearkens back to Shadow Ranch which is one of my all-time favorites, I wish they had done some kind of callback to that book but they didn't.  This book also has an incident with a scorpion, which is the second book in a row that I don't have scorpion stamps for so maybe I should look into that.  The sabotage mystery was a no-brainer to solve; it's the missing treasure and the Kachina doll ghost that are more interesting and delightfully spooky.  I think this book is more respectful of First Nations cultures, by which I mean that Nancy doesn't dig up any bodies this time (yeah that bar was low), but we get a little bit of talk about Hopi culture and artwork, which is nice.  Also I have seen Kachina dolls in person, they are amazing and beautiful!  I'm giving this one five stars, I love it.  If you're inspired to make a card for this book, please leave me a comment!  And I'll see you next week when Nancy takes on The Twin Dilemma.

Radiant Bouquet

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday.  I'm so happy that yesterday I finally inked up the third new stamp set I got in my last SU! order, Radiant Sunflowers!

I have the coordinating DSP too, but today I used something different to go with the inspo pic at Just Us Girls:

I put my bouquet on a Night of Navy pattern from the Nature Walk DSP and used Peaceful Pine as my card base, going with the darker colors to make the flowers pop like on the pic.  And I had some fun coloring in the flowers, I did each one a bit differently with a mix of Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, and Cajun Craze.  And I kinda sorta used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

My bouquet image is a little pointier at the top and bottom and wider in the middle, though I wish I'd cut the ribbon a little differently to match the sketch a little better.  And obviously I stretched this into a regular A2 card because I don't like making square cards.  But I did just get the new Tiled Garden square dies, which are like the square version of the Spotlight on Nature dies that are circles.  Those teeny cutout bits are annoying as all get-out to get off the cutting plate for my Big Shot, but they sure look good on the card!  I backed the cutouts with Daffodil Delight to make them stand out more.  I thought the sparkle dots were Daffodil Delight but they're actually Darling Duckling, we have hardly any embellishments in Daffodil Delight or Pumpkin Pie and I don't know why.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Radiant Sunflowers
Ink:  Night of Navy, Stampin' Blends in Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Peaceful Pine
Paper:  Peaceful Pine, Daffodil Delight, Basic White, Nature Walk DSP
Accessories:  Radiant Sunflowers dies, Tiled Garden dies, Dimensionals, Night of Navy bordered ribbon, Low-Profile Sparkle Dots, Wink of Stella

How about a little extra cute today:

BLEP.  Daph was snoozing on the love seat next to me while I was working on my stitching project and watching the end of Wonder Woman (the movie, though I do own the 70s TV show as well).  She's a good couch time companion.

Sew Crafty

Mornin' y'all.  I was not as productive in the craft room yesterday because I was busy running back and forth to the store.  The hubs had requested lasagna for dinner, so after I took Ryan to school, I went to the store to get ingredients for lasagna and orange Jello because we always had orange Jello with lasagna when I was a kid so they go together in my brain.  Then I got home and made the orange Jello so it could set in the fridge and sat down at the computer and realized that I had forgotten the ground beef for the lasagna, so I had to go BACK to the store to get that and then I assembled the lasagna and put it in the fridge until time to bake it for dinner last night and then most of my kid-free time was used up.  I was grumpy.  That lasagna was sure good for dinner though, and Ryan refused to eat it because he's crazy.

Anywha, I do have a card to share today:

I used this week's sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

And the speed stamping challenge from As You See It:

And here's my time:

I pulled out the very old Sweet Stitches DSP, Handmade for You and Button Button stamp sets and I'm sure this card will be going to my mom, who does like to sew and is the one who taught me how to cross stitch when I was younger than Ryan is now.  I've had that DSP for many many moons (I think it's over ten years old) so I'm glad to use up even a little of it.

Ryan and the hubs have a Donuts with Dads thing at Ryan's school this morning, so Daph and I will be going for our morning walk while they're doing that.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Handmade For You, Button Button
Ink:  Chocolate Chip, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Basic White, Sweet Stitches DSP
Accessories:  3/4" circle punch, Layering Circles dies, Dimensionals

A Couple of Corny Cards

Mornin' y'all!  Man, Ryan was in a MOOD again this morning, he must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed.  Hopefully he'll be over it by the time I pick him up from school.  Meanwhile, I'm pretty happy because I had a very productive session in the warcraft room yesterday and made SIX cards.  So let's start with a couple of corny cards, shall we?

I thought of my old favorite set Perfectly Preserved when I saw the AAA Cards Challenge:

So the central theme is on the farm, and I went with the left spoke of crops of fruit or veg.  I've used the apples from Perfectly Preserved much more often than the corn, so today it's the corn's time to shine.  And I actually stamped three ears so I I decided to make a second card while I was at it:

I also used up some scraps of my also favorite Orchard Harvest DSP and I think I still have several unopened packs of it because I am a paper dragon.

Two quick cards that started off my crafting session yesterday.  And these also fit with the theme at the Paper Players of looking forward to fall : )

Okay, the hubs asked for lasagna for dinner tonight so I had to go to the store this morning and I just realized as I typed this sentence that I totally forgot to get ground beef, ugh!  There was someone standing in front of it and so I detoured to pick up the mozzarella cheese and then forgot to go get the beef.  Okay, guess I'm going back to the store.  I even had it written on my list!!  Maybe I'll wait and go get it when I pick Ryan up...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Perfectly Preserved, Country Home
Ink:  Early Espresso, More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Old Olive
Paper:  More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories:  Cannery Framelits, Textured Notes dies, Dimensionals