Nachos: Mosaic Greeting

Mornin', Nacho fans!  This week, Nacho Average Challenges brings you an awesome sketch:

So great for those stamp sets with coordinating punches!  Which is exactly what I did:

And I do believe I spy some new In Colors happening here!  Say hello to Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, and Blackberry Bliss.  It looks a bit extra-dark in the picture, IRL it's a scrumptious purple.  Hello Honey is close enough to Crushed Curry that I used CC Candy Dots on here.  Wouldn't it be nice if we could get Candy Dots in all the In Colors too?

Anyway, you know the drill!  Check out the DT work on the Nacho blog and then link up your own creation :)  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Mosaic Madness, Four You
Ink:  Blackberry Bliss, Lost Lagoon
Paper:  Lost Lagoon, Whisper White, Moonlight DSP Stack
Accessories:  Mosaic punch, Regals Candy Dots, Dimensionals, Lost Lagoon stitched satin ribbon

Tangelo Twist

Hellooooo in blogland!  Hubs and I just got back from a 10-day trip...a Baltic cruise with an extra day in Copenhagen...so this is the first time I've stamped in about two weeks.  It's kinda slow getting back into it at first, ya know?  But here's what I've got.

I realized that the *only* new In Color I hadn't really done anything with yet was Tangelo Twist, so here ya go.  I paired it with Daffodil Delight and Blackberry Bliss; I think this color combo could be fun for fall cards, but now Gently Falling is retired....so I wonder what kind of fall stamps we'll have this year?  Guess we'll find out in a couple of months.  But hey, we've got a brand new catty to play with in the meantime!

Anyway, I used the latest sketch from Freshly Made:

I keep forgetting that no matter which way I turn that one stamp from Gorgeous Grunge, the stripes still point the same direction.  Oh well.  I've got to get back to cleaning up the house and getting ready for the packers to arrive next week : p

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Flower Shop, Lots of Thanks, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink:  Tangelo Twist, Daffodil Delight, Blackberry Bliss
Paper:  Tangelo Twist, Daffodil Delight, Blackberry Bliss, Whisper White
Accessories:  Chalk Talk & Banner Framelits, Pansy punch, Delicate Dots EF, retired Daffodil Delight button, Whisper White baker's twine, Dimensionals

Friday Flashback: Baby Talk

Welcome to this week's Friday Flashback!  I tell ya, if there's one thing I need a lot of lately it's baby cards.  Lucky for me, today's featured stamp set is the baby-licious Baby Talk.  Let's flash back!

Also features Linen and Petite Patterns

I still miss Gable Green and Green Galore, they were great limey greens.  Fun for little boy cards :)

Also features Wild Hearts and Print Pattern

And here's a baby girl card.  You untie the ribbon at the top and use it to pull out the insert from inside the sleeve:

I also miss Orchid Opulence and Cool Caribbean, though Coastal Cabana is totally wonderful :)  What can I say, I just love colors.

Also features Bundle of Joy

You know that the baby books would make an appearance!  That's it for the Flashback, here's today's brand-new card:

I raided my scrap box for a couple of complementary patterns and I love these colors together:  Lavender Lace (retired), Regal Rose (retired), and Pumpkin Pie (not retired).  Just for funsies, I dusted off my Watercolor Wonder Crayons and went to town on that stamped image.  I have a friend who just found out she's having a girl (she has a 2-year-old boy and was hoping for a girl this time) so she'll be getting this card and a pair of baby booties before we move, which is fast approaching.

Thanks for joining me for this week's Friday Flashback, cheers peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Baby Talk
Ink:  Versamark
Paper:  Lavender Lace, Whisper White, DSP scraps from Flowers for You, Love Sparkles SSK, and Pumpkin Pie DSP
Accessories:  Black EP, Watercolor Wonder Crayons, Labels Collection & Banner Framelits, Dimensionals, Rhinestones

Trevi Fountain

I cranked out a lot of scrapbook pages in April and May, and I think today is a good day to share a layout from our first trip to Italy.

Legend has it that if you throw a penny over your shoulder into Trevi Fountain, you're destined to return to Rome (see the original pics here).  So there's the hubs pretending to throw his coin...he claims I almost beaned someone in the head with mine, but that's hardly my fault because a.) there were too many people crowded around there and b.) you throw the coin behind you so how was I to know and c.) apparently I throw like a girl.  Anyway, here's a detail shot for you:

Love me some alphabet stamps!  That one is Jayne's Type, and those dots under it are from Garden Greetings.  I tell you this because it took me over a half an hour to figure out what stamp set that line o' dots was in.  The shell is from the long-retired Stippled Shells...and this is why I don't get rid of my retired stamps, I used three retired sets on this one layout : )

Thanks for stopping by today.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Stippled Blossoms, Garden Greetings, Jayne's Type Alphabet
Ink:  Pacific Point, Cajun Craze, Peach Parfait, Soft Sky, Basic Gray
Paper:  Peach Parfait, Pacific Point, Smoky Slate, Whisper White, High Tide DSP
Accessories:  1" and 1 1/4" circle punches

Strawberry Slush Love

'Member I said last week that I'd made two cards for the Color Throwdown?  You remember this beautiful color combo:

Here's my second card.

I got Countless Sayings I and II (both photopolymer sets) sometime close to Valentine's Day but never used them...until now.  I stamped the giant Love with Versamark, embossed with black EP, and then thought I'd do a bit of shading on the letters.  Took a while, but it was kinda fun to play around with shading for the first time in a long time.

That's it for me today, thanks for stopping by!  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Countless Sayings I (photopolymer)
Ink:  Versamark, Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana
Paper:  Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Whisper White, Coastal Cabana DSP, Quatrefancy DSP
Accessories:  Basic Black EP

Nachos: Sunshine & Butterflies

Hellooooo Nacho fans!  Are ya ready for a brand-new Nacho Average Color Challenge?  Because here it is!

Three Regals colors, love it!  Have I ever mentioned how happy I am that Crushed Curry came back to the regular SU! color lineup?  Mah favorite yaller ever.  (You're supposed to read that with a fake cowboy accent.)

Anywha!  Here's my creation:

I used my paper piercing tool and a couple of piercing templates to do the butterfly toots.  I mean, why do we always draw flight paths behind butterflies and airplanes?  For the airplanes, it's exhaust or condensation, right?  So this must be butterfly toots.

I think I've already spent too much time thinking about this.

Go see what the other Nachos have made and then give it a whirl yourself!  Link up on the Nacho Average Challenges blog so we can ooh and ahh over your creation :)

Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Feel Goods, Mixed Bunch, Papillon Potpourri
Ink:  Island Indigo, Perfect Plum, Crushed Curry
Paper:  Island Indigo, Perfect Plum, Whisper White
Accessories:  Essentials & Occasions Paper Piercing Packs, Scallop Edge, Blossom & Elegant Butterfly punches, Dimensionals, Rhinestones

Seize the Cake

Happy new catalog day!  Ready to see some new goodies?

That is a greeting I can get behind 100%.  ("Seize the chocolate" would work too.)  I made this for a new catty swap and used the new sentiment stamp set Something to Say and the new Moonlight DSP stack, featuring new In Colors Blackberry Bliss, Lost Lagoon (those two are tied for my favorite) and Hello Honey (which is also nice).  The swaps were card fronts but I did make one full card and decorated the inside:

Yep, I think I'll have some fun with these new colors and new stamps and new papers :D  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Something to Say
Ink:  Lost Lagoon
Paper:  Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey, Whisper White, Moonlight DSP Stack
Accessories:  Banner & Label Framelits, Cupcake punch, Lost Lagoon ribbon, Dimensionals