Wishing Tree

Mornin' y'all!  I need to type fast because I think Daphne knows that I've finished my tea and she is more than ready to go out for her daily perambulation.  So let's get to it!

Once more I am playing around with some older, retired supplies even though I have four new stamp sets sitting on my table.  Let's start with the Just Add Ink sketch:

And then the Inkspirational word prompt:

And finally the AAA Colourful challenge that pulled it all together:

I honed in on the last three colors, which I read as Basic Black, Wild Wheat, and Calypso Coral, and that reminded me of the Softly Stippled DSP that I think was a Sale-a-Bration option a while back.  I inked up the tree image with markers so I could get a multicolored effect (RIP Stampin' Up markers), stamped a greeting right on my DSP and then added a few champagne Sparkle Gems to finish it off.

Okay, Daphne is doing the Care Bear Stare at me so I'd best take her for a walk.  Thanks to lots of fun challenges I may be back with a second card today, we shall see.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rooted in Nature, Gather Together
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, markers in Basic Black, Wild Wheat, Calypso Coral
Paper:  Basic Black, Thick Basic White, Softly Stippled DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Roots dies, Dimensionals, Sparkle Gems

The Bungalow Mystery

Welcome back to another Nancy Drew challenge!  Other than making cards, my personal Nancy Drew challenge has been to track down alternate covers of the later paperback books and thanks to some impulse spending I'm close to having a complete set.  And then I just had to buy two hardcover books with different covers than what I've always had and guess what?!  They're both the original text versions!  One was published in the '50s and the other in 1971, so when I get to those books in the card challenge I'm going to read both versions.  And now I really want to see if I can track down a set of the first 35 books with the original texts...*rubs hands together gleefully*  Yeah, I'm definitely obsessed!

Okay, without any further ado, here is The Bungalow Mystery:

Case file:  Nancy and Helen are tooling around Twin Lakes on a motorboat when a wicked storm blows up and their boat sinks; they get rescued by a girl named Laura Pendleton, and the trio immediately break into a ramshackle bungalow to take shelter until the storm passes.  Laura becomes insta-buddies with Nancy and Helen, and she confides that her mother recently died and she's supposed to meet her new guardians the next day at a hotel. (Who is letting this 16-year-old orphan hang out on her own until she meets up with her guardians?  That seems irresponsible!)  The three girls hang out together until the guardians arrive, and Nancy thinks they're sus so she keeps in contact with Laura, who soon runs away from her guardians to Nancy's house.  Nancy snoops and discovers that Laura's guardians are fakes and the real guardian is being kept prisoner because the fakes want to steal Laura's inheritance which includes a lot of fine jewels (it's the Drew-niverse, everyone has scads of jewels); they're using the titular bungalow as a hideout while they run the con on Laura, who took her stash of jewels with her to Nancy's house when she ran away because she's a smartie.  Nancy gets caught snooping but manages to get out of her restraints because she's Nancy Drew and that means she can do anything, and then she chases after the naughty people who drive off a cliff but they're not too seriously injured and they deserve it for being naughty anyway.  Nancy introduces Laura to her real guardians and Laura gives Nancy an aquamarine ring as a token of friendship.

Notes:  Helen is really only around for the beginning of the book and then she disappears while Nancy investigates solo and Nancy should know better than to snoop without backup (also, Helen will soon mostly disappear for the series).  In between snooping on Laura's guardians, Nancy also helps her dad with an embezzlement case (see what I mean about Carson doing all kinds of law things?) which of course is connected to Nancy's case.  Also, gotta love a kids' book that teaches the definition of embezzlement.  Nancy shows Laura her mementos from her two previous cases and one of them is a silver urn, I wonder if that was mentioned in the original version of The Hidden Staircase and edited out in the newer version?  Because it's not mentioned in the book I have.  Over the course of this book Nancy engages in a bit of B&E at three different locations...her attorney dad must be so proud.  Nancy and her dad both get knocked out by blows to the head, so they probably have matching traumatic brain injuries now, which might explain why Carson lets his teenage daughter go haring off into all these dangerous situations with just a mild "be careful, dear".  This book didn't really stick with me from childhood as well as the first two did (or even on this most recent reread) but I still think it's fun enough.  Four stars because it still keeps fading in my memory and I haven't even been knocked on the head...at least, not that I can remember.

So here is my Bungalow Mystery card:

I had to ponder this one for a while.  The only stamp set I have with a building that looks kinda like the bungalow on the cover is currently in the possibly to sell bunch on top of a tall shelf and I was too lazy to get it out, so I went with the lovely oak tree from Rooted in Nature.  The "Be Strong, Be Happy, Be You" is all one stamp but I cut apart the three phrases for my card.  I think that greeting is quite appropriate for our girl Detective Drew.  I chose the background paper because the Peach Pie bits remind me of Nancy's hair; the Garden Green and Cajun Craze patterns echo colors on the book's cover.

I quite like Nancy's green dress, she wears green on three of the first five book covers and it's a good color with her hair. 

If you'd like to join in the challenge, drop a comment on this post and I would be delighted to see what you make.  Up next week:  The Mystery at Lilac Inn!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Garden Green, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Garden Green, Thick Basic White, Meandering Meadows DSP, Everyday Skies DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Roots dies, Dimensionals, Faux Glass Dots

Retro Leaf Trio

Hey stampy friends!  I had kind of an off day in my craft room yesterday, it took a lot of work to get my brain to settle down and create something, but I got there eventually.  Hope today's crafty session is a bit less like pulling teeth.  In the meantime, I have a new card using some older stamps to share today.

I made this for the Retro Rubber tic-tac-toe challenge:

I managed to do both of the diagonals--and wow for some reason the word "diagonal" isn't playing properly in my brain, I had to try spelling it three times and it still looks weird but my computer says it's right.  Hmm.  Anyway, I've got circles, green, patterned paper, die cuts, and nature on here.  The leaves and sentiment are from Rooted in Nature, which is a fabulous stamp set that I've had for four years and I'm surprised they retired it as quickly as they did.  For the circles behind my leaves, I stamped on some texture with a stamp from Nature's Harvest, which isn't quite a year old yet so it doesn't qualify as retro.  I took my colors from the coordinating Nature's Poem DSP, with a strip of Blackberry Bliss pattern paired with Mint Macaron and the retired (but still beautiful) Tranquil Tide.  It was fun to break out that retired color again.

Time to head up to the craft room and try to be productive.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rooted in Nature, Nature's Harvest
Ink:  Tranquil Tide
Paper:  Mint Macaron, Tranquil Tide, Thick Basic White, Nature's Poem DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Roots dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Rustic Metal embellishments

SUO Challenges: Designer's Choice

 Hey y'all!  Are you ready for the first challenge of the year from SUO Challenges?

We're doing something nice and easy for our theme this time:  Designer's Choice :) That means you pick anything you want to make and as long as you use only Stampin' Up! products, then it counts for our challenge.  So here's my card:

I will be sending thinking of you cards to my mom all year as she undergoes chemotherapy, so here's the first one of the new year.  This is one of those cards that doesn't look like much on the computer screen but is really lovely in person--after I stamped the sentiment, I painted over it with Wink of Stella and that just makes this card so much prettier IRL!

Hope you'll join us to kick off another great year of SUO Challenges.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Beautiful Friendship, Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Soft Sea Foam, Petal Pink, Shaded Spruce
Paper:  Soft Sea Foam, Thick Whisper White, Peony Garden DSP, Regals DSP
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, Dimensionals, retired Basics Sequins

Niagara Falls, Part 2

Scrappy Monday!  As promised, I'm back with part 2 of Niagara Falls pictures, with two layouts for the price of one today.

I kept the same color combination as the first layout, but used Mint Macaron for the page base instead of Tranquil Tide.  The Frosted Floral DSP I used has a bit of a sheen to it, which adds a special touch to these pages.

I kicked myself a bit after I finished these; I had an 8x10 of that picture of the waterfall (bottom left) and I FORGOT I had the enlargement when I made the pages.  But I didn't want to redo any of this either.

Same color palette as last time:  Tranquil Tide, Mint Macaron, Blackberry Bliss, Night of Navy, and Whisper White.

Cheers, y'all!

Stamps:  First Frost, Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Tranquil Tide, Night of Navy, Blackberry Bliss
Paper:  Mint Macaron, Tranquil Tide, Night of Navy, Blackberry Bliss, Thick Whisper White, Frosted Floral DSP
Accessories:  Frosted Bouquet & Nature's Roots Framelits

Niagara Falls, Part 1

Scrappy Monday!  I've run out of draft posts of Europe scrapbook pages, so today we're going to Canada instead.

In September of 2017, we drove up to New York to visit our friends Scott and Tiana, and then all of us drove up to Niagara Falls and spent several days on the Canadian side.  (Ryan was only seven months old so he won't remember it at all.)  The Falls were *amazing* and I could totally have spent hours just watching the water.

The water is a really neat green-blue color, which drove my color palette choices:  Tranquil Tide, Mint Macaron, Blackberry Bliss, Night of Navy, and Whisper White.

Stay tuned for part 2 coming next Monday!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Brushwork Alphabet, Rooted in Nature, First Frost
Ink:  Tranquil Tide, Night of Navy, Blackberry Bliss
Paper:  Tranquil Tide, Night of Navy, Blackberry Bliss, Thick Whisper White, Frosted Floral DSP
Accessories:  Labels Collection Framelits, Frosted Bouquet Framelits, Nature's Roots Framelits

Okefenokee Swamp

Scrappy Monday, folks!  We're in Tennessee this week but I've made some cards to share this week while we're gone.  I decided to go with a theme, so welcome to the start of the CREATURE FEATURE!  Everything I share this week is going to have an animal on it, including today's scrapbook layouts :)

We're starting the week with alligators!  If you're so inclined, you can see the original pics here, here, and here. I just finished these layouts a week or two ago so they were fresh on my mind when I decided on the creature feature.  The photo of the layout came out a bit dark, sorry about that, I've never found a good place to take pictures of my scrapbook pages in this house. *shrug*  Maybe I'll have better luck at the next place.

Anyway, it seems like I use the Becky Higgins sketch book for the majority of my scrapbook layouts, but nothing in there was speaking to me for this one so I pulled out my personal sketch book.  I've got all the BH sketches in there plus lots more from Creating Keepsakes magazine (I had a subscription to that for years) and ones I came up with on my own.  I found a sketch in there really quickly that turned out to be perfect for these photos!  Once I had the sketch, the layout came together lickety-split.

My color palette is Tip Top Taupe (I love that color, it's another brown In Color that's different from anything else SU has had before or since), Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Mossy Meadow, and Pear Pizzazz.

But wait, there's more!

Audra, Frank, and I were in the swamp to do a photography workshop to learn how to take night sky photos with long exposure times, so here are my tree pictures from that.  And in keeping with the creature feature theme, I wrote about the extreme mosquito problem in my journaling :)

I used the leaves from Rooted in Nature as accents on my first layout, but I needed some larger leaves in a similar style for this one, so I pulled out the long, long, loooong-retired Lovely Leaves and French Foliage for this one.  No dies for those, so I just fussy cut the three leaves.

The color palette for the second layout is a little different:  still Tip Top Taupe, Sahara Sand, and Basic Black, but Mint Macaron and Mossy Meadow for the greens.  (Sorry again that the photo is so dark.). I've been doing a thing lately where if I have more than one layout for a specific event, I keep the same page base color and some similar elements, but I use different patterns or add different colors for subsequent layouts.  So for this one, I chose a different pattern from the Garden Lane DSP that had different greens than the first one.  They're similar enough style-wise that it's obvious they go together, but since I used different papers it's like they're siblings instead of twins :)

Have a great week, peeps!

Supplies, first layout:
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Rough Type, Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Tip Top Taupe, Sahara Sand, Pear Pizzazz, Mossy Meadow, Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Tip Top Taupe, Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Garden Lane DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Roots dies

Supplies, second layout:
Stamps:  Lovely Leaves, French Foliage, Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Mint Macaron, Tip Top Taupe, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Tip Top Taupe, Sahara Sand, Mint Macaron, Garden Lane DSP
Accessories:  None

Simply Wonderful

Mornin' y'all!  Ryan spent 4 hours at the babysitter's house yesterday so I spent that time in my craft room! :)  I took pictures of a bunch of recently finished scrapbook pages and finished up another new layout, and I also squeezed in a couple of quick cards.

Very CAS today and look how well Cinnamon Cider pairs with Shaded Spruce!  It's a good thing this card doesn't smell like the color names or this would smell like a cheap scented candle.  Haha!  I just used Rooted in Nature on a couple of scrapbook layouts so I had it on the brain and decided to use it for today's card as well.

Check out the Just Add Ink inspiration photo:

Crumb Cake might have been a closer match for the color in the photo, but I don't have the Neutrals DSP Stack (...yet) so that's why I went with Cinnamon Cider.  Plus I'm in love with the new color ;)

I paired that with the sketch from Fusion:

I like their inspiration photo too, so I might have to revisit that side of the challenge later this week.  In the meantime, y'all have a terrific Tuesday!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Cinnamon Cider
Paper:  Shaded Spruce, Thick Whisper White, Cinnamon Cider DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Roots dies, Dimensionals, In Color Enamel Dots

Punny Deer

Hey y'all!  I am officially more than half done with my nephew's baby book--9 layouts out of 17, so whoop!  Still bustin' a move to get the other ones done before Christmas but I'm feeling pretty good.

So I took some time out and made a card yesterday and it made me giggle because I love puns.

Do you see it?  "Hold most dear" with a DEER?!  I crack myself up, and that's what matters ;) I had started out with a different sentiment there, but I needed something narrower to accommodate the sketch I was using, and then the deer thing made me snort-giggle so I had to do it.  Also, the colors are off in the picture because it was dark when I took the photo and my Ott Lite is dying after many years of service.  So I'll retake this in daylight and edit.  (ETA:  Slightly better picture uploaded.)

Anyway!  The sketch from Freshly Made Sketches:

The deer is standing in (literally and figuratively, haha) for the teal strip on the sketch.

I also used this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Coastal Cabana (sponged sky behind the trees), Shaded Spruce (a bit darker than the photo here, but I think still acceptable), gold, and white.  Plus some Early Espresso for my deer.

Have a great weekend, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Nature's Beauty, Rooted in Nature, Greatest Part of Christmas
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Coastal Cabana, Early Espresso, Versamark
Paper:  Shaded Spruce, Thick Whisper White, Wrapped in Plaid DSP
Accessories:  Gold EP, Dimensionals, corner rounder punch

Rustic Bear

Hey y'all!  I mentioned on Tuesday that I had wanted to do a woodsy scene for a card, so here it is.  We spent a week in the Bar Harbor area of Maine earlier this month and there were GORGEOUS fall colors, with lots of evergreens mixed in, so that was my inspiration for this card:

I did the polished stone technique on the background panel; you wet a cotton ball with rubbing alcohol and then add drops of ink refill, then pounce on glossy white cardstock.  It starts out looking polka dotty but if you keep going it blends together and you get something like this.  Believe it or not, I had SIX drops of Crushed Curry ink on my cotton ball, and one drop each of Pumpkin Pie and Cherry Cobbler.  Maybe next time I'll try doing the colors in stages instead of all together at once and see how that works.  At any rate, that technique was a favorite of mine years and years ago and it's nice to pull it out again.

I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

The As You See It challenge has expired, but I was thinking of it nonetheless:

And my card also fits in with the Cupcake Inspiration challenge:

And here is just one of the pictures we took in Acadia National Park:

We took just over 1,000 pictures over one week, and I haven't gone through them all yet except to just quickly look but I think we got some really nice ones.  We were there for peak fall foliage and happily missed the storms that came through starting the day after we got home.  We didn't see any fauna larger than a squirrel; all the moose and bears were hiding I guess, though I did get a sweatshirt with a moose on it and I love it :)

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rustic Retreat, Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Early Espresso, Versamark, ink refills in Crushed Curry, Cherry Cobbler, & Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Shaded Spruce, Crushed Curry, Thick Whisper White, Glossy White, Vellum
Accessories:  Nature's Roots Dies, Stitched Shapes Dies, Mini Dimensionals, Clear EP

Fresh Fall Fusion

Hey y'all!  I think the worst of Dorian is past us, but we still have to figure out how to entertain a 2.5-year-old for the whole day without leaving the house.  Wish us luck.

Here are the results of yesterday's naptime crafting:

I loved the inspiration picture from Fusion:

I chose my colors from the photo:  Mango Melody, Cajun Craze, Memento Tuxedo Black, and Crumb Cake.  That tree stump cross section thing seemed like the perfect thing for the circular element on this week's sketch from Freshly Made:

At first, that circle was making me think of wreaths, but I just don't want to start Christmas cards yet ;)

Ooh, the power just flickered.  Maybe we should turn the computer off...

Stay safe, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Mango Melody, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Nature's Roots dies, Mini Dimensionals

Germany, Part 2: Partnach Gorge

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I haven't been in my craft room in like a week.  We went out to Texas and Oklahoma on the 16th, and over that trip is when we told our families that we're moving to Germany next year...and it's also when my brother and sister-in-law announced that they're expecting Baby #2!  And the due date is Ryan's third birthday, ha.

So!  Today I have Germany layout #2 to share:

See the photos close up here and here.  The gorge wasn't far away from where we were staying and it was a beautiful hike (says the girl who doesn't do hiking as a rule).  And it's also very LOUD in the gorge with all the rushing water :)

Today's color palette includes Pear Pizzazz, Garden Green, Bermuda Bay, Night of Navy (I promise it's not black), and Whisper White.  I'm going to have to get like a bazillion extra packs of the Garden Lane DSP, I love it.  Lots of different shades of green and you can add lots of other colors to it for a different look.

Okay kids, we're off to the Y.  Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Rooted In Nature, Tim Holtz Christmas Alphabet
Ink:  Garden Green, Bermuda Bay, Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Garden Green, Bermuda Bay, Night of Navy, Thick Whisper White, Garden Lane DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Roots Framelits

Japanese Maple Thanks

Mornin', y'all!  I am happy to report that my paper trimmer did not bite me yesterday, though I admit I was a bit trepidatious when I used it (and hello stupid computer, trepidatious is actually a word!).

I made a very fast card yesterday and only used the paper trimmer to cut my card base, though.

The Basic Gray strip was already cut to 1/2" wide ;)  This very simple and kinda masculine card is the result of the Sunday Stamps color challenge:

Skipping the first color, I used Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler (applied with a sponge to lessen the intensity), Basic Black, and Basic Gray.

And here's the Freshly Made Sketch:

The leaf stamp I used has always made me think of Japanese maples, so that's what I'm calling it--I have no idea exactly what Japanese maple leaves actually look like.

That's it for me today, folks.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black
Paper:  Thick Very Vanilla, Basic Gray
Accessories:  Nature's Roots Framelits, Mini Dimensionals

Going Green

Mornin', y'all!  I can't believe it's the last week of March already.  Yesterday I did an SU! order so I could get some of the newer Sale-a-Bration offerings...I can't wait to get my hands on the Painted Seasons paper and matching stamp set :D  But in the meantime, I pulled out some stamps I got last summer when the current catalog was first introduced.

Shaded Spruce, how do I love thee?  Let me count the ways!  Green is my favorite color, and Shaded Spruce is a particularly beautiful shade of green.  In our last house, we painted the computer room a similar color, and it had a white chair rail and white beadboard on the bottom half so the green wasn't oppressive.  I loved it. 

Anyway, today's card started with the Fab Friday sketch:

Love it, love it.  And then I couldn't resist the color challenge from As You See It:

I managed to resist using the Tropical Escape DSP and went with the beautiful Nature's Poem instead.  And I love Granny Apple Green, but I didn't want to to get too loud and overpower the other colors, so I just did a bit of watercoloring with it on my die-cut leaves.  Pretty pleased with how this turned out and happily for me it didn't take long at all to do.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Granny Apple Green
Paper:  Shaded Spruce, Soft Suede, Thick Whisper White, Nature's Poem DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Roots Framelits, Dimensionals

Gather Together

Mornin', kids!  This week is going by pretty fast but I'm glad because my husband will be home this weekend and I miss him.  In the meantime I've been getting my fingers inky!

Also I think I'm just going to steal a pack of Ryan's wipes to stay in my craft room.  I bunched up a wipe and dabbed it on my Crushed Curry ink pad for part of the background on here, and even before I stamped the leaves and the green splats it looked pretty cool.  I never did baby wipe techniques back in the day because I didn't have baby wipes...well, I do now!  Everything old is new again, right?

Anyway, just three challenges today.  First up is the Global Design Project challenge:

I used different images from the same stamp set (Rooted in Nature) and I used linen thread on mine, similar to the baker's twine the Krista used on her card.  My colors are courtesy of the Paper Players:

I love me a good fall palette.  And also I love the new Thick Very Vanilla cardstock, and the Thick Whisper White that's been around for a bit longer.  Other than occasionally using the thinner stuff to line the inside of a dark card, I use the thick stuff for like errythang.  It's great.

Last up is the Fall-To Layout from Palmtrees and Pogo Sticks:

That one's a classic.  I used the twine instead of buttons because a.) I had twine and not buttons, and b.) the card will go through the mail just fine with twine while buttons are problematic.  Cute, but post office problematic.

Okay kids, today we're off to the gym so I can take pilates and hope that my hamstrings will stretch out and quit yelling at me.  I did dead lifts on Monday and now my legs wish they were dead.  Ta-ta for now, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rooted in Nature, Painted Harvest, Touches of Texture
Ink:  Crushed Curry, Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Mossy Meadow, Thick Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Linen thread, Dimensionals

So Ready for Fall

Okay y'all, it still feels like a swamp where I live, but I'm keeping hope alive that temperatures will drop to something comfortable and I won't mind the 9000% humidity as much when it's not also 95 degrees.  I'm so ready for fall, y'all.

The good news is that my craft room is actually pretty chilly a lot of the time, so at least it feels like fall when I'm in there :)  So I made a fall card to share today.

I need to bust out Rooted in Nature more often.  I made this right before the hubs and I took the kiddo out to get dinner last night so I kept it pretty quick and simple, which I was able to do thanks to the Fall-To Layout I used:

It took me no time at all to choose colors for my card; I love the way Grapefruit Grove (the patterned paper strip) plays with Cajun Craze, and Mint Macaron plays well with almost everybody.  I was glad of a reason to use that big cross section stamp even if I did cover up over half of it with my leaves ;)  Actually I had to stamp the cross section and the leaves twice; some of my ink pads are still overly saturated so my first try looked like this:

You can't see nearly as much detail on these pieces, particularly the cross section and the Cajun Craze leaf.  For the cross section, what worked better for me was to ink up the stamp as usual and then use a sponge to take off a bit of the excess ink.  The Cajun Craze ink pad was SO juicy that I used a sponge to ink up the stamp rather than pressing the stamp into the ink pad at all.  I did the Mint Macaron leaf the same way I did the cross section, ink up then sponge off.  I love my sponges, but SU! changed theirs a few years ago to where they have sharp edges rather than tapering and I don't like them nearly as much.  I need to check out a craft store and see if they have any of the type of sponges that I like.

Anyway, y'all have a great weekend.  I just had to make a card for today since I missed posting on Thursday...I hope Ryan isn't trying to stop naptime altogether.  I am NOT ready for that!

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Mint Macaron, Early Espresso
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Thick Whisper White, Nature's Poem DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Roots Framelits, Dimensionals