Seahorse Thoughts

Mornin' y'all!  All our guests have left, the hubs went to work this morning, and now it's just me and Daphne in the house.  She kinda wandered around a little bit and whined like she wasn't used to the quiet.  I'm going to take her out for a walk here in a minute, and then I will be taking things out of the craft room because we're going to paint that, the master bedroom, and the master bathroom this weekend.  So it might be a little quiet here while everything is topsy-turvy, but I hope to be back up and running in short order.

In the meantime, have a colorful under the sea card for you today:

I was looking for a stamp set for something else (this has happened a couple of times recently) when Seaside Notions caught my eye and I thought it would be perfect with the Color Dare colors here:

I missed the challenge deadline but oh well.  My added color is a whole lot of Pacific Point, and I had to do another card with the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge:

And actually I made this card before the teacup card I posted last week.  That's it for now, kids, check ya later!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Seaside Notions, On the Grow
Ink:  Early Espresso, Pacific Point, Stampin' Blends in Calypso Coral & Berry Burst
Paper:  Pacific Point, Basic White, Waves of the Ocean DSP
Accessories:  Merriest Trees dies, Rectangles Stitched dies, Calypso Coral bakers twine, Dimensionals

Roman Holiday

Mornin' y'all!  Daphne is eager to go for her morning perambulation so I need to type fast : )  Here's my card for today:

Check out the Paper Players challenge:

I don't have any current stamps featuring wheels, so I went through my retired stamps for a likely candidate and settled on the Vespa from On the Grow, which always makes me think of the movie Roman Holiday.  Since I was using an older stamp set, I decided to go with the color palette from Retro Rubber:

I've had On the Grow since 2011, so it's definitely retro.  I checked my archives and apparently I've only ever used this stamp set one other time?  (Here's that card if you want to see.)  There's a really pretty little bouquet stamp in the set too, so I should use that one sometime.  Anyway, I read the colors as Night of Navy, Lemon Lolly, Daffodil Delight, Shy Shamrock, and Mossy Meadow, and I used alllll of them on my image plus a bit of Gray Granite.  Since the Paper Players challenge is CAS, I didn't add any embellishments, just a few die cut pieces under the main image piece sponged with ink on the edges.  Simple.

Time to go take my crazy girl for a walk.  As far as she's concerned, this is shaping up to be the best day ever--the hubs fed her this morning and then Ryan fed her again, so she got TWO breakfasts.  Ha!

Cheers, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  On the Grow
Ink:  Night of Navy, Stampin' Blends in Shy Shamrock, Lemon Lolly, Daffodil Delight, Mossy Meadow, Night of Navy, Gray Granite, Pecan Pie
Paper:  Night of Navy, Lemon Lolly, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Nested Essentials dies, Dimensionals