Existential Doggos

Mornin' y'all, the hubs is back at work today and Ryan and Daphne are both being a bit obstreperous.  Daph is in doggo jail until we take her out for a walk (which will be right after I finish writing this blog post) and Ryan is just being highly argumentative about everything.  Grrrrr.

Anyway, I have some happy doggos on today's card:

Check out the first Freshly Made Sketch for the new year:

And the Color Throwdown:

You know I don't make an all-neutral card unless it's for a challenge ; ) I used Basic Black, Whisper White, and Smoky Slate for my colors and I chose the Doggone Friendly stamp 10000% because of the inspo pic on here.  When we're ready to get a second dog I hope we get a black one, Daph is only a little bit black so her hair shows up more on all my black and navy shirts, ha!

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm hoping that after our walk the kiddos (two-legged and four-legged) will settle down so I can do some crafting.  I got started on some new scrapbook pages yesterday AND I started a new stitching project for Ryan.  Always creating, that's me.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Doggone Friendly, Saying Hey
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Smoky Slate Blends
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, white EP, Dimensionals, Transparent Dots maybe?

Doubled Up (Again)

Hey y'all, happy Thursday.  Apparently this is my week to do double duty on certain challenges because I made two cards with the same sketch yesterday : ) Here's the first one:

We are going DEEP into the vault for this one!  Check out the Retro Rubber Challenge:

Fall Whimsy (the leaf stamp) was one of the first stamp sets I ever bought; the oldest card with it in my Splitcoast gallery dates to 2006 but I think I've had it even longer than that, so let's just say it is probably approaching 20 years old.  Print Pattern (the diamonds) dates back to at least 2006 as well; French Foliage is at least 13 years old, and Bright Blessings is a wheel that I unmounted and turned into a stamp set and it is also 13 years old.  We are definitely retro today, and I very much enjoyed playing with these older stamp sets.

Speaking of Retro, Atlantic Hearts is going retro and revisiting some of their earliest sketches to celebrate their 600th challenge, so here's the retro sketch:

That is a classic sketch and I couldn't resist making two cards for it, so here's the second one:

I wanted a doggo-riffic card to send to my friend Krissy and this sketch made it super easy.  I kept it really simple with this one, stamping directly onto the card base for both the dogs and the sentiment, then adding some ribbon from my stash.  We might be visiting the Humane Society this weekend to check out puppers for adoption : )

That's it for me today, peeps.  I'm going to work on getting a few more things listed on Ebay to sell...wish me luck!

Supplies, fall card, all SU! (mostly retired)
Stamps:  Fall Whimsy, Print Pattern, French Foliage, Bright Blessings unmounted wheel
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Versamark
Paper:  Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Gold EP, Sycamore Street ribbon in Crushed Curry

Supplies, dog card, all SU!
Stamps:  Doggone Friendly, Lighthearted Lines
Ink:  Early Espresso
Paper:  Crumb Cake
Accessories:  Early Espresso 3/8" taffeta ribbon (retired)

SUO Challenges Celebrates Dads & Grads

Surprise, it's a double post day!  Okay, I wrote out the first post and blithely published it and didn't remember that it's SUO Challenges day until I went to go look at Cynthia's blog and she's on the ball and did her SUO Challenges post for today and I FORGOT.  So it's a double post day now!

And here is our theme this time around:

No one in my immediate circle is graduating this year, so I went for a Father's Day card:

And I made this weeks ago, not tracking that the annual catalog was coming to an end so the DSP I used is retired.  Actually so is the stamp set I used for the sentiment, but I'm happy that Doggone Friendly is in the new catalog!  Not that it matters since I keep my stamps forever.  Anyway, I decided to go with Doggone Friendly for my Father's Day card because the hubs and I were the parents of two fur babies for many years before Ryan entered the chat, AND we'll be getting a new doggo (or two) after we move next month.

Your turn!  Make a card for the dad or grad in your life (or both, if applicable), and upload it to the SUO Challenges blog.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Doggone Friendly, He's All That
Ink:  Pebbled Path
Paper:  Misty Moonlight, Pebbled Path, Thick Basic White, Fresh as a Daisy DSP
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, Deckled Circles dies, In Color Rounds, Dimensionals

Friendly Doggos

Mornin' y'all!  Guess what?  Today is Ryan's SEVENTH birthday!  He's growing so much, so fast.  He's got two giant teeth coming in where he'd lost his front two teeth, and he's gotten so tall that one of the people at his martial arts studio thought he was turning 8 rather than 7.  So for today he gets to bring in cookies for snack time at school, and after his taekwondo class tonight I promised to take him to dinner anywhere he wants to go (he says hibachi).  On Saturday, we're having all the fam over for tacos and ice cream cake : )

Anyway, I have another new stamp making its debut here today and I don't know what took me so long to ink this one up because I LOVE IT!

All the doggos!!!!  I know exactly who's getting this card too, definitely my friend Krissy who might possibly love doggos even more than I do, which is saying a lot.  Anyway, I kept this simple and just stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black on Crumb Cake cardstock, and then used a blender pen to add just a smidgen of color.  It's Tongues Out Tuesday somewhere.

Check out this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And the Color Throwdown:

I used Real Red, Crumb Cake, white, and black for my card.  I was actually looking for my Sweetest Cherries stamp set when Doggone Friendly caught my eye and I knew I had to use that instead.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Doggone Friendly, Biggest Wish
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Real Red, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Much Adored DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, linen thread, Dimensionals


And now the conclusion to yesterday's wayward stuffie story!  If you missed it, Ryan was giving his duck stuffie, Peking, "flying lessons" and Peking went off course and landed in a light fixture that is way too high for us to reach.  So my dad came over yesterday morning, took one look at the situation and said "Nope!" so we called the fire department.

Fifteen minutes later, three firefighters showed up and studied the situation.

Then they busted out the big guns...er, big ladder...

And succeeded in reaching Peking's landing spot.

Of course I took pictures for future scrapbook pages : D  Ryan was very excited to have his ducky sidekick back yesterday afternoon, and he'll be writing a thank you letter to the fire department.  A happy ending for Ryan and Peking, and hopefully he'll stick to lower altitudes going forward.  Ha!