Too Kind Birthday Wishes

DUDE.  I've discovered my new favorite color combination:  Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, and Gumball Green.

However, I cannot claim that this combo was my idea; I found it on a new challenge site, As You See It.  This is their first color challenge, but I looked back through their first few (sketch) challenges and I liked them too so I'll have to add this one to my list of challenges to chase.  Here's their very cute challenge graphic:

I like the bird pic.  I got the sketch from Unscripted:

Though instead of the two circles on the left, I put some Candy Dots on the edges of my main image panel.  Not sure how successful that idea was, but I was trying for something different.

I already know who will receive this birthday card, and I know she won't see it beforehand because she's practically unplugged (and thus probably smarter than I am, since I lose hours on the Internet all the time).  Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Too Kind, Simply Sketched
Ink:  Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Gumball Green, Chocolate Chip
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Sweater Weather DSP, retired Gumball Green DSP
Accessories:  Circles Collection Framelits, Brights Candy Dots, Dimensionals

Nachos: Starfruit Halloween

Happy Nacho day!  This week it's a color challenge:

And I could not resist doing another Halloween card.  I'd forgotten I had this "Happy Halloween" stamp until I pulled out Seasonal Sayings to make a different card that I haven't posted yet.  Anyway, I thought that stamp would be great with this color combo, so lookie:

I had a time getting the spiderweb to show up--it's the retired SU spiderweb embossing folder.  I meant to emboss it the other direction so it would be raised instead of impressed, but oops.  Didn't want to do it again so I just kept it.  I cut out the Labels Framelit shape before I did the embossing, then adhered that piece onto my stamped chevron paper with dimensionals before I added the sentiment banner.  Whatcha think?

Go check out what the other Nachos have done with these colors and then join us for some fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Seasonal Sayings, Positively Chevron
Ink:  Summer Starfruit, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Basic Black
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories:  Spiderweb EF (retired), Labels Collection Framelits, Dimensionals

Raspberry Birthday Medallion

Monday again, but let's soften the blow with a nice birthday card, shall we?

This is for my friend Melissa, whom I've known for a ridiculously long time now : )  Since middle school, in fact.  The colors are from the Just Add Ink color challenge:

I think there should be more color challenges with Raspberry Ripple, I really like that color.  I'm not sold nearly as much on Primrose Petals, but I know I'll miss Raspberry Ripple when it retires.  And it's nice to see Sahara Sand in a color challenge since it rarely gets any love (though I quite like it) and of course Coastal Cabana is just awesome in general.

The sketch is from the folks over at Freshly Made Sketches:

I figured this sketch was just begging for me to use Daydream Medallions and the coordinating Framelits, so I did.  A bit of Afternoon Picnic DSP and a flower accent, and this card was done!

Thanks for stopping by, and go have a stampy Monday : )

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Daydream Medallions, Best of Flowers, Bring on the Cake
Ink:  Raspberry Ripple, Coastal Cabana, Sahara Sand
Paper:  Raspberry Ripple, Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla, Afternoon Picnic DSP
Accessories:  Floral Frames Framelits, 1 1/4" scallop circle punch, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Grateful Greetings

Welcome to this week's Friday Flashback!  Today's randomly chosen featured stamp set is Grateful Greetings, which has lots of great sentiments for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Valentine's Day.  Just so happens that I have cards for all four of those holidays today!

How do you like this Parisian Valentine?  (I still just like the word Parisian, it's fun to say.)

One of these was up on the blog last month when I did the Falling Leaves Friday Flashback, so I thought I'd show you the two different versions I'd made of this card.

These were the Christmas cards we sent out the last year that we lived in Japan.

And for today's brand-new card:

Toldja I'd do another Halloween card.  The only problem I had while making this was that I'd picked out a sketch to use, but my main image panel ended up being too large and in charge to work with the sketch, so I kinda just went with this layout based on some DSP scraps I had (yay for using up more scraps).  Weirdly, it's almost identical to the Parisian Valentine card, and I didn't even look at that one before I made this one.  Regardless, I rather like the layout, what do you think?  I think I know who to send this one to.

The jack-o-lanterns' faces are stamped in craft Basic Black and embossed with Iridescent Ice EP, which looks really fun IRL but is kinda hard to capture in a photo.  Well, you can kinda see the sparkle, but it's better in person.  This was the first time I'd used my craft ink pad in quite a while and it looked like the Exxon Valdes in there--I think I re-inked it last time and it's now really, really messy.  Oops.

Anywha, I used the brand new color challenge over at Fab Friday:

Great Halloween colors, don'tcha think.  I like a good purple in the mix for Halloween.  Thanks for stopping by for today's Friday Flashback, have a great weekend!

Supplies, last card only, all SU!
Stamps:  Carved & Candlelit, Grateful Greetings (both retired)
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive, Basic Black craft
Paper:  Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, Whisper White, scraps of Howlstooth & Scaringbone and Cast-a-Spell DSP (both retired)
Accessories:  Iridescent Ice EP

Two Bats

My husband knows this woman who has the nickname "Two Bats" because she sounds like the Count from Sesame Street when she laughs.  He just told me about her and her laugh this week, so perhaps I still had two bats on the brain when I made today's card.

This card was super-easy to put together; those patterned paper squares (from last year's Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP) were direct from my scrap pile, so I made this whole thing in under, like, 5 minutes.  Easy-peasy.  And it was fun to break out the ol' bat punch again : )  Plus it's always a bonus to use up some scraps.

The sketch is a modified version of the current Fab Friday challenge:

I think I can manage another card for the Friday Flashback tomorrow to make this whole week Halloweenie.  Ta-ta for now, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Best of Halloween
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Howlstooth & Scaringbone DSP (retired)
Accessories:  bat punch (retired), Dimensionals, Tangerine Tango EP

Inky Fingers!

Think we've got a bit of a Halloween thing going this week, so let's just keep it up shall we?

I made this one a while back for a combo SCS sketch/color challenge.  For the background, I embossed plain ol' Whisper White cardstock and then fingerpainted the ink on the embossed chevrons--it was messy and oh, so fun!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bootiful Occasions
Ink:  Rich Razzleberry, Midnight Muse, Gumball Green, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:  Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, retired DSP in Rich Razzleberry, Midnight Muse & Gumball Green
Accessories:  Chevron EF, Dimensionals

Nachos: Frankie Says Boo!

Happy Tuesday and hooray for a new Nachos challenge!  This time it's a sketch, and this sketch is ripe with possibilities...

And here's my take on the sketch:

The colors are a bit off again, but I used Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry.  I'm not sure why but I really like that chevron stamp with Halloween stuff so expect to see that again : )

For now, go check out what the rest of the Nachos have in store for you and then give the sketch a whirl.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Googly Ghouls (retired), Positively Chevron
Ink:  Old Olive, Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White
Accessories:  Corner rounder punch, a retired punch that does a shape like a Good 'N Plenty candy that I can't remember the name of, and Pumpkin Pie taffeta (also retired)