Big Honkin' Thanks

Mornin' y'all!  Daphne says she is READY to go for her walk this morning so I'd better type fast.  How about a Silly Goose card for today?

I love this week's Creative Colour Challenge, I hadn't gotten to play along there in a bit:

I loved these happy colors together but I wasn't sure what stamps to pair them with until I saw Jaydee's Paper Players card for this week.  Yes, a goose is just what I need!  Then I had to tackle this sketch from Hand-Stamped Sentiments:

I did change the shapes of the two smaller horizontal layers just because my Stylish Shapes were right there and it made things easier.  I searched through my embellishments box and we need more stuff in Azure Afternoon, the only thing I have in that color is the recently retired Rainbow Dots and I only have two left in this color.  Also we need Crushed Curry Blends.  Get on that, SU!

Okay, Daphne has activated Puppy Dog Eyes Mode and I am helpless to resist, so we're going to head out on our walk.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Silly Goose
Ink:  Basic Gray, Stampin' Blends in Gray Granite, Daffodil Delight, Azure Afternoon
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Thick Basic White, Delightfully Eclectic DSP, Gray Granite & Azure Afternoon DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Textured Notes dies, Dimensionals, Rainbow Dots

Gaggles of Goose Greetings

Hey y'all, how goes it?  After I posted on Monday, I called the moving company to ask when our stuff was going to be delivered but they didn't give me a date, so the hubs called them in the afternoon and was Quite Unhappy at them for taking so long (our stuff arrived in the DFW area on July 20, but they still wouldn't give me a delivery date) and now we're getting it next Friday.  I am very much looking forward to having my bed and couch back.  Not to mention all the contents of my craft room.

So yeah, I have no furniture in my craft room, but I do have my current stamp sets and ink pads, plus a few sheets of all the current cardstock colors (#priorities) so I spent some time in there yesterday.  Ryan came to find me after I'd only been in there for like three minutes, so we both made cards.  This is the first card I've made since the middle of May!

Yep, that Bright & Beautiful DSP stack again, I do quite like it.  I also quite like this week's multilayered sketch from the Paper Players:

I'd only used Silly Goose once before this, so it was long past time to ink up some of the other stamps in the set.  Very soon I shall have to make a Goose Bumps card : )  For today, I'm happy to take fancy Ms. Goose out for a spin in her fashionable hat.  This will be going to my friend Beth who likes frogs.  Thanks to the Paper Players for giving me an excuse to use this stamp set again, and I am so happy to have created something after such a long hiatus.

Ryan wanted to make a card too, so here is his creation:

He wanted to make a card for his dad from Peking (his favorite duck stuffie) and decided that a goose stamp was close enough to a duck for his purposes.  This time he wanted me to do the stamping, but he did all the die cutting, coloring, and adhering.  I told him geese usually are white but he insisted that his goose had to be yellow (Peking the stuffie is {more accurately, was} yellow with orange feet and beak, so the stamped goose had to match him).

So there you go, two goose greetings for the price of one!  I'm hoping to get into my craft room on a more regular basis, but that might not happen until Ryan starts school next month.  At least by then we'll have all our stuff so I won't be stamping on a windowsill.

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!, my card:
Stamps:  Silly Goose
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Azure Afternoon, Berry Burst, Bubble Bath, Lemon Lolly, Lemon Lime Twist
Paper:  Azure Afternoon, Berry Burst, Bubble Bath, Lemon Lolly, Thick Basic White, Bright & Beautiful DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Rhinestone Waves Basic Jewels, Dimensionals

Talk to Me, Goose

Hey y'all, how's your week going?  Ryan's birthday was yesterday, which in the evening involved tacos, yet more cake, and opening presents.  He was excited to get whoopie cushions (really?) and a Nerf gun.  To be honest I'll be excited when the cake is gone, I ate way too much last night!

Anyway, I have a cute little card to share today and it just makes me happy, take a look:

I hadn't *planned* on getting the Silly Goose stamp set, but somehow it came to my house anyway (I was just far too tempted after seeing so many cute cards that other people were making!).  So for my first goose card, I turned to the Paper Players color challenge:

At first, the only Crumb Cake was a bit of shading on the goose, so I added some Crumb Cake Enamel Dot Essentials to make it more obvious that I had included the color.  I paired that with the excellent triptych sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments:

It's a looser interpretation, I'm counting the sentiment banner for the circle element in the sketch and the goose and his vellum circle are part of the sketch's center panel.  And the two patterns I chose for the panels happen to be both sides of the same double-sided sheet of paper, which just makes me happy for some reason.

That's it for me today, peeps.  I have been working hard on a series of scrapbook layouts this week, I've got three layouts done except for journaling, a fourth in process, and then one more to go for that particular series.  We'll see how far I can get today since we're going on a trip tomorrow.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Silly Goose
Ink:  Soft Suede,  Stampin' Blends in So Saffron, Petal Pink, Crumb Cake
Paper:  So Saffron, Thick Basic White, Vellum, Country Gingham DSP Stack
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Enamel Dot Essentials, Dimensionals