Scrappy Showcase, Part 3

Mornin, kids!  While everyone else is New Years resolution-ing, I made scones for breakfast.  With a sugary glaze on top because of course.  I'm 8 months pregnant and I want to bake ALL THE THINGS.

But now that I've made (and eaten) the scones, it's time to get some things done today.  Aside from the giant pile o' dishes I washed this morning and the load of baby laundry in the washer (ooh, I should go switch that out).  But right now we're talking the last of the 2016 Scrappy Showcase!

I actually made this layout more like at least two years ago but it only showed up on the blog last October.  This was from Halloween in 2004 and was the first time hubs and I carved pumpkins.  Then we didn't do it again until last year ;)  Anyway, I love this layout and I still miss my little Chewie and he's been gone for over 10 years now.

Next up is this Tokyo Disney Sea layout, which I dearly love and maybe I should buy more of that patterned paper before it retires.  (Or maybe not, I have a giant stash of paper.)

And here's a fun Thanksgiving layout for you, I love the contrast of the dark blue page base with all the warm colors in the patterned paper.

And my last layout for the 2016 Scrappy Showcase is this simple one from the Great Wall Marfon.  Partially because I'm just tickled that I got the words "marfon" and "chompuns" immortalized in my scrapbooks since hubs and I still say them (and so do Missy and Bennet, for that matter).

So there you have it!  The 2016 Scrappy Showcase is now concluded.  And I need to get in my craft room today and see what new goodness I can whip up.  Cheers, y'all!

Happy Thanksgiving (2011)

Scrappy Monday!  I swear I haven't forgotten I was going to post my Ohio pages, but Thanksgiving is this week (already?!) and I had a Thanksgiving layout all ready to go!  I actually made this one a while ago (I forget when) but I have quite a few layouts in the pipeline to blog.

You can see the original photos here if you like.  I lovelovelove fall colors, but I used Not Quite Navy to balance out all the warm tones in the patterned paper and the photos to make them pop a bit more.

There's my title/journaling/main stamped accent block all in one.  I still love Day of Gratitude, that leaf is one of my all-time favorite leaf stamps.  I even made wedding invites with it once!

So there's the color palette:  Not Quite Navy, Cajun Craze (I seem to be using that A LOT lately), Old Olive, More Mustard, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.  Nice fall colors.  I'm enjoying this fall in Northern Virginia--it's nice that the weather has cooled off some (ignore my husband's whining) and we've got some nice colors right now so yep, my favorite time of year.

I'm off to finalize what I'm making for the big day....we're going over to the hubs' cousins' house.  Hope you have fun plans too!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Day of Gratitude, Holidays & Wishes
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Old Olive, More Mustard, Early Espresso
Paper:  Not Quite Navy, Cajun Craze, Old Olive, More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Autumn Spice Specialty DSP
Accessories:  None

Friday Flashback: French Filigree

Felicitations on this fine Friday!  And welcome to this week's Friday Flashback, featuring the background stamp French Filigree.  That's a lot of F's :)  But no failing grades today, just some cards!  So let's visit the archives for some French Filigree artwork.

Also features Falling Leaves & All Holidays

This was my little brother's birthday card one year.  You knew that I was only going to go without leaves for one day :)

Also features Fabulous Flowers

 This one was created when Fabulous Flowers was the featured Friday Flashback stamp set.

Also features Medallion & Occasional Quotes

And here's a birthday card for my hubs from a few years ago.

Also features Well Scripted & My Matryoshka

When we went to Russia, we looked long and hard at the matryoshka dolls and would have loved to buy them, but all the really pretty ones were SUPER expensive so we didn't do it.

Also features Sage Advice & Hearts a Flutter

And there's another former Friday Flashback card.  But now it's time for today's all-new creation:

Hubs' aunt and uncle are hosting us for a big Thanksgiving hooferah next week, so I thought it would be nice to make a card for them.  I used the color challenge from Create with Connie and Mary:

I admit, I was not at all sure about Tangelo Twist on my card...it's just so BRIGHT.  But I think it works because there's so much Hello Honey on there.  I also used the sketch from Just Add Ink:

Easy peasy!  I cut a piece of Hello Honey cardstock to 3 3/8" by 5", stamped it, and then cut it into three strips that were 1 1/8" wide for my background pieces.  Then I pulled out some other wonderful retired stamp sets for the sentiment and leaves, and bing bang boom my card was done.  Which is good, because now I can tackle some other items on my to-do list :)

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  French Filigree, Day of Gratitude, Curly Cute (all retired)
Ink:  Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss, Tangelo Twist
Paper:  Hello Honey, Blackberry Bliss, Tangelo Twist, Whisper White
Accessories:  Dimensionals

A Grateful Heart

Happy Thanksgiving!  Today seemed like the appropriate day to post some scrapbook pages from a past Thanksgiving, but first up I have to show you this:

I got this in the mail from one of my sweet SU customers and he was so cute, I knew I had to recreate him for a scrapbook layout.  So here's how my version turned out:

The photos are from Thanksgiving in 2009, when we lived in Okinawa and it was warm enough to wear short sleeves almost anytime of the year :)  I so wish I'd bought another pack or two of that Orchard Harvest DSP, because I don't have a whole lot of it left and I LOVE it.  This year's fall DSP just didn't grab me as much as this one did.

Anyway, I hope you have a wonderful holiday.  I'm off to make something dessert-y :)

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Day of Gratitude, Pursuit of Happiness
Ink:  River Rock, Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Raspberry Ripple, More Mustard, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Early Espresso, Raspberry Ripple, Cajun Craze, River Rock, Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories:  Top Note Die, Labels Collection Framelits, circle & oval punches

Friday Flashback: You're a Gem

Welcome to this week's Friday Flashback, which is the sentiment set You're a Gem.  There's a lovely selection of sentiments in this set, and they're all pretty small, and you know everything is cuter when it's little.  So let's take a look in the vault, shall we?

This card also uses Inspired by Nature for the flowers; I made it for a friend of mine who was ill.  Simple CAS layout to go with a simple sentiment.

This one went out in a care package with some pumpkin cookies.  Pretty good man card, right?

And now for today's new card:

I got the idea for the layout from a card I got in a recent swap and I'm kind of totally in love with it.  I'll probably use it again since we've got several new stamp sets with bitty images--sometimes it's hard to figure out what to do with the small stamps, so a layout like this is a fantastic help with that.  I also used some of my retired DSP, so yay!  Though I do love some of those older monochromatic patterns.  Wish they'd bring back those swirly flowers like I used on the top bit.

Wish I could have made more than one card for today's Flashback, but alas, I had to write an essay for my current class.  Only one more paper to go and this class is done!  Once my comprehensive exam is done this summer, then I'll be completely FREE of school and I can devote more time to fun things, like stamping, ha!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely weekend!

Supplies (last card only):
Stamps:  Artistic Etchings, You're a Gem
Ink:  Crushed Curry, StazOn Black
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Basic Black, Whisper White, retired DSP in Crushed Curry and Rich Razzleberry (trying to use up some of my gigundor DSP stash!)
Accessories:  1" square and postage stamp punches, black grosgrain, Dimensionals