Friday Flashback: Tea Party

Happy Friday!  Once again I've waited until late in the day to work on my card, but I got there in the end.  Today's Friday Flashback stamp set is Tea Party, and you know how I love my tea!  If you're here just to see today's new card, scroll to the bottom; otherwise, let's take a trip down Memory Lane :)

Also features Artistic Etchings, Curly Cute

The scallopy border stamp on this card is from Tea Party.

Also features Petite Petals

And I bet you can figure out from the picture which stamp on this card is from today's set :)

Also features Fabulous Phrases

A fabulous teapot planter colored with markers for a nice effect...

Put a couple of these together very quickly for my cohosts when I did a Mad Tea Party a few years ago.

Also features Swallowtail

The thank you tag is also from today's set, and of course you recognize Swallowtail.  Who doesn't love that one!

So here is today's brand new creation:

I just loved the sketch from Fab Friday today so I had to use it:

And I'm also entering this over at Retro Rubber:

I have approximately 7 gabillion brads in different colors, and given that I jabbed myself under the fingernail with one while working on my card I remember why I was so happy to switch to Candy Dots.  But perhaps I should do this challenge lots more times to whittle down my brad stash a bit?  Anyway, in the spirit of retro-ness, Tea Party came out in 2013 and I had to have it immediately so it's 3 years old.  The brads are older than that :)

Well, the hubs is here and wants to go out to dinner, so who can say no to that.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Tea Party
Ink:  Always Artichoke
Paper:  So Saffron, Thick Whisper White, Tea & Crumpets DSP
Accessories:  Ovals & Labels Collection Framelits, Rich Regals Brads, Dimensionals

Double the Flowers

Hey, y'all.  I continue to be somewhat lacking in the card-making mojo but on the plus side, I *did* make some progress on my purple-licious scrapbook pages yesterday.  But you won't get to see those for a little bit so here's a card for today:

I think this one worked out a little better in my head than it did on paper.  I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge to use flowers:

I even used the same palette of colors as in this inspiration picture for my card.  As an extra bonus, this one dovetails nicely with the SUO Challenges' Delight in Nature challenge.

Just wasn't thrilled with the first card so I made this one:

It was *supposed* to be a one-layer card, but I got some fuzz on the sentiment stamp the first time I stamped it, so I had to cover it up.  The hazards of living with two dogs, especially one who is extra-super-ridiculously fluffy.  Anyway, this one also fits in the Create with Connie and Mary color challenge:

The piercing template and the oval Framelits I used on these cards are both retired now, but I don't have the new Layering Ovals Framelits yet and no sense not using perfectly good craft supplies.

Well, I'm off to run some errands.  See you back here tomorrow for the Friday Flashback!

Supplies, first card:
Stamps:  All About Everything, Crazy About You
Ink:  Mint Macaron, Blushing Bride, Calypso Coral, So Saffron, Perfect Plum
Paper:  Thick Whisper White, Perfect Plum
Accessories:  Ovals Framelits (retired), Hello You Thinlits

Supplies, second card:
Stamps:  Love & Affection
Ink:  Peekaboo Peach, Tangelo Twist, Cucumber Crush
Paper:  Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Occasions paper piercing template, Dimensionals

Birthday Balloon

Some days, it's just a fight to get anything done in the ol' craft room.  Seriously, it took me over an hour to get today's card made; I started something completely different, played around with it a bit, and even glued something down before I trashed the whole thing and started over with just the Tangerine Tango balloon I had cut out.  And then finally I got to here:

Which I kinda like.  I picked some bright colors that I thought would go well with Tangerine Tango (Cucumber Crush and Bermuda Bay) and then put all of 'em on a black card base to make it all pop.  For the streamers, since this is a photopolymer set I was able to scrunch it up a bit when I did the Bermuda Bay one so it doesn't look like an exact replica of the Cucumber Crush one.

This week's Global Design Project challenge is to party like it's 1999:

Maybe I should do a purple card in honor of Prince.  Or I could just jam to the song when I go back down to my craft room.  (Fun fact:  when I was six years old, my favorite song in the world was Raspberry Beret.  I'm sure that my parents thought it was hilarious that I had No Clue what Prince was singing about, I just liked the beat.)  I'm hoping that the scrapbook pages I plan to work on next are a bit less hassle.  And you know what?  Those ARE going to be purple!

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Celebrate Today
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, Cucumber Crush, Bermuda Bay, Basic Black, Whisper White
Paper:  Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Thick Whisper White, Cucumber Crush & Bermuda Bay DSP
Accessories:  White EP, Balloons Framelits, Dimensionals

Nachos: We're Back!

Ack!  I thought I had this post all set up and ready to go live last night and when I checked it this morning it wasn't there.  So I'm fixing that really fast!

So, after a six-month hiatus for blog hopping, Nacho Average Challenges is back!  And we're starting off with a great sketch:

I know the 4th of July was yesterday, but stars are great any time, and of course you could use a different shape if you wanted to.  However, since I made my card in advance and I still needed ones with stars, here's what I did:

This is for my mom, whose birthday was on the second.  She seriously has multiple outfits of all stars and stripes stuff to wear at this time of year so I know she'll like this :)  And she likes shiny things so glimmer paper and rhinestones for the win!

There's the inside of the card...sadly she didn't have a fabulous birthday, she woke up with a bad case of the flu.  She's feeling better now and we'll just have to celebrate her birthday again next month when the hubs and I fly out to Texas.

Okay, kids.  Check out the Nacho Average Challenges blog for more inspiration and don't forget to post your sketch-tastic creations there!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Happy Happenings
Ink:  Real Red
Paper:  Pacific Point, Thick Whisper White, Gold Glimmer Paper
Accessories:  Stars Framelits, Lucky Stars EF, rhinestones, Dimensionals

Touring the Tower of London

Happy 4th of July!  It's supposed to be rainy here all day so I think we're just going to stay at the casa and chill with our dogs this year.  Which is fine by me :)

I don't have any scrapbook layouts to share that are really Independence Day-related, so here's one from London instead:

This was from 2011, when Bennet and Missy visited us in England.  The hubs had to work this day so I took our visitors down to London to visit the Tower of London, and then afterwards we got back to my car only to discover that my battery was dead.  It took us an hour to find someone with jumper cables to help us out, so after that Bennet bought me a set to keep in my car (Merry Christmas to me).  And I never ever ever killed a battery again :)

The "London" stamp is not an alphabet, it's all one stamp and I so wish whatever company that was had made ones like that for Rome and Paris and all kinds of other cities but apparently it's only London because I looked a couple months ago.  Since the pics were taken in December, I decided to put a couple snowflakes on there but I think maybe I should have used a more saturated blue color because the Bashful Blue is washed out.  Too late now.

Today's color combination:  So Saffron, Old Olive (green and gold for Missy!), Baked Brown Sugar, and a bit of Bashful Blue.

Have a great holiday, y'all, and stay safe!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Flurry of Wishes, non-SU London stamp
Ink:  Old Olive, Bashful Blue, Soft Suede marker
Paper:  So Saffron, Baked Brown Sugar, Thick Whisper White, Ski Slope DSP
Accessories:  Snow Flurry punch

A-Team Baby Book: Game Day

Happy Saturday, kids!  And a holiday weekend to boot.

I accidentally blew past this layout in my baby book posts...I think I put it after November but before December because that's when the Texas Christian vs. Oklahoma State football game is (which is where baby girl's parents went to school; they always go to the game).  My mom sent me some TCU and OSU supplies, so I chose gray for the page base since that's neutral for both schools, and accented with purple and white for the TCU side and orange and black for the OSU side.  I had to buy the football stamps and now I have football stamps that I will probably never ever ever use again :p

I usually don't use stickers on my scrapbooks anymore hardly ever, but these worked!

Mom sent me enough stuff to do practically a whole OSU/TCU album but I just needed a few things for this layout, so she got the rest of the stuff back.

See look, football stamps.  Maybe I'll send those to Mom too!

The patterned paper isn't SU!, but I put down the colors that it corresponds with and came up with a color combination of Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Lovely Lilac, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, and Basic Black.

Have a great holiday weekend! And happy birthday to my mom!

Supplies:
Stamps: football stamps from Echo Park
Ink:  Smoky Slate
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Basic Black, Whisper White, non-SU patterned paper
Accessories:  Sizzix alphabet, college logo stickers

Friday Flashback: Starburst Sayings

Happy Friday!  It is time once more for the Friday Flashback, and today's featured stamp set is Starburst Sayings, which seems kinda appropriate to kick off the 4th of July weekend.  So let's take a whirl through the archives, and if all you want to see is today's new card then scroll to the bottom :)

Also features World Map

Starting off with this lovely map card.  I wish that SU! had done some more stamp sets (or even just one more!) to coordinate with the Starburst dies before they retired them all, but oh well.

Also features Perfectly Penned

That little starburst stamp on the left is covering up a booboo on the embossing powder at the bottom of the H :)

Also features Something to Say

Ahh, my favorite stamp from this set.  What's not to love about a giant Happy Day stamp!

Though apparently that little starburst stamp is the runner-up for favorite stamp from Starburst Sayings.

Works on any color combination!

And lots of different card layouts.

Also features Alphabet Rotary, Gorgeous Grunge, Positively Chevron

This is quite possibly my favorite card in the history of ever.  The inside says "You know the rest!" and I sent it to my dad :D

Also features Wood You Be Mine?

And here's a little lumberjack thank you card.

Also features Too Kind, My Paper Pumpkin (tiny chevron stamp)

Last one, another brightly-colored thank you card.  Now for today's new creation!

My SIL's birthday is on July 5th, so I'm going to send this out to her ASAP for her birthday.  Hey, it looks like this is the first time I used the little celebrate stamp so woohoo for me!  The fireworks and star stamps are from a stamp set called July Fourth.

And I stamped on the inside of the card too.  My patriotic color combo is courtesy of Fab Friday:

And of course I re-used the Freshly Made Sketch that I used yesterday:

And that's it for today.  See you back here tomorrow for another baby book layout :)

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Starburst Sayings, July Fourth, Happy Happenings
Ink:  Tempting Turquoise, Pacific Point, Night of Navy, Real Red
Paper:  Temping Turquoise, Night of Navy, Pacific Point, Shimmery White, Whisper White (just for the inside)
Accessories:  Starburst Framelits, Dimensionals