Gratitude with the Nachos

Forget all the crazy stuff on the news today, the Nachos have a great theme challenge for you!

I always, always, always seem to need thank you cards, and I love fall cards, so here's what I made:

I haven't used vellum in no kidding YEARS but for today's card that's what I went to immediately.  I'm holding it down so you can see the background leaves, here's what it looks like just by itself:

Think maybe I should use vellum a little more often :)  And of course I've got some copper on there too, I do enjoy all the copper stuff out now.  I still have my old embossing powder from the last time SU! carried it, and the copper foil sheets are just so pretty.

So make your own gratitude-themed project and share it with the Nachos.  And whatever you do, don't turn on the TV today unless it's to watch a movie.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Vintage Leaves, One Big Meaning
Ink:  Versamark, Dapper Denim, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Dapper Denim, Crushed Curry, Very Vanilla, Copper Foil, Vellum
Accessories:  Copper EP, linen thread

Charming Sunrise

GUESS WHAT, Y'ALL.  Today is the 1,000th post here at Snapdragon Stamps!  One THOUSAND!  And I think that just about every single one of those posts has at least one card or scrapbook page, so that's a lot of ink and paper and stamps.  Dude!

I don't have any special celebration planned for today (oops) but I do have a new scrapbook layout for you.

Pics are from our trip to Ohio's Amish country last year; see them all here.  Our last morning in Ohio, we got up a little early and drove around taking pictures as the sun came up.  This is the last chronological layout for the Ohio trip but it's the one I made first (stay tuned for the other two coming up on our next Scrappy Mondays).

I got the Brushwork Alphabet stamp set when it first debuted this summer, but this is its maiden voyage.  You know I love me some mixed font titles.

Today's color palette:  Bashful Blue, Peekaboo Peach, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede, and Whisper White.

Okay, I'm off to do all the things today...walk dogs, grocery shopping, go to gym, you know the drill.  And also play with the new camera we got this weekend! :D  (Maybe that's my 1,000-post prize?  No, this is hubs' and my Christmas gift for ourselves!  Squee!)

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Brushwork Alphabet, Letterpress Alphabet, Gently Falling
Ink:  Bashful Blue, Peekaboo Peach, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede
Paper:  Bashful Blue, Peekaboo Peach, Cherry Cobbler, Fruit Stand DSP
Accessories:  Stamp-a-Ma-Jig

Bear Book: Poland

Hey, it's Saturday!  I'd pretty much finished posting my niece's baby book a while back, so today we're starting on a brand new book.  It's done like the regular baby books I make, but this one is special because I made it for a 4-year-old little boy that my good friends adopted earlier this year.  Because he needed a book too even if he wasn't a baby anymore :)

The first layout is for pictures they took while they were in Poland, where li'l boy is from.

Throughout this book, you'll see a lot of green and yellow, and bears on every layout.  And you'll see pretty quick that I think Whipper Snapper bears are pretty much the cutest on the planet when it comes to stamps.  This book took me quite a while because I had to color in alllll the images with colored pencils and I was trying really hard to make it all look nice.

Today's color combo:  Daffodil Delight, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Marina Mist, and of course Whisper White.  I wish the letters had shown up on the Wild Wasabi DSP a little better, but otherwise I like this one.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Rockin' Teddy from Whipper Snapper, Stars & Swirls
Ink:  Basic Black, Daffodil Delight
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Garden Green, Marina Mist, Thick Whisper White, Wild Wasabi DSP
Accessories:  Circles & Deco Labels Framelits, primitive star punch, Sizzix alphabet, Prismacolor Pencils

Friday Flashback (Sort Of): Falling Leaves

DANGIT!  I was all set to do today's Friday Flashback post, got a birthday card made for my brother and then I discovered this morning that I'd already DONE a Falling Leaves Flashback three years ago!  Must be a glitch in my system.  But at any rate, I liked the card I made for my brother so I'm sharing it today anyway.

I don't know what it is but the last three cards I've made, I've really really liked (if I can toot my own horn a little bit).  I think I'm getting back in my stamping groove...and I'm doing a lot of scrapbooking too which is also great.  Anyway, for this card I started out with the color combo from ColourQ:

The Candy Dots are technically Tempting Turquoise, but IRL they look like a shade in between Bermuda Bay and Island Indigo so I used them.  The sketch from Freshly Made Sketches made this come together really quick:

So there's another card I need to get in the mail ASAP.  :)  Hope y'all have a good weekend, I think the hubs and I are going to look at new cameras.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Falling Leaves, Sweet Cake
Ink:  Really Rust, Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, Hello Honey
Paper:  Really Rust, Island Indigo, Thick Whisper White, Hello Honey DSP
Accessories:  Brights Candy Dots, Dimensionals

Independent T-Rex

So I sat down this morning to make a birthday card for my brother, and instead, I got...this.

Uh, not what I was expecting but I rolled with it!  This T-Rex just *insisted* on being the focal point for today's card.  I used the great sketch from Fab Friday:

I didn't want to add a black cardstock border around all my layers, but I did want them to have a bit more definition, so I lightly dragged the edges of the layers in Basic Black ink which is just the look I was going for.  I didn't do the top edge and maybe I should have?  But I think it makes the colors play nice together.  Speaking of colors, they're courtesy of the Color Throwdown:

Love that picture too.  I used Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, and Soft Sky for my SU!-ified colors.  Other than cutting out Miss Independent, this card came together PDQ.  And I know just who should get it, so I think I'll go write a message in it to Emma and Abby and get this in the mail today :)  What 5- and 8-year-olds don't like getting mail?

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  No Bones About It
Ink:  Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black
Paper:  Soft Sky, Thick Whisper White, Wild Wasabi & Pumpkin Pie DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Thank You...Now With Bamboo

I blame Rysa Walker.  Here I was all set to spend lots of time in the craft cave yesterday but while I was eating breakfast I started reading The Delphi Effect and next thing I know the hubs is getting home from work (oops).  I stopped reading long enough to make dinner and do some stitching, but let's just say I finished the book last night.  #WorthIt

And today I finally made something!  Now if I could just finish the scrapbook layout that's been 75% done since the weekend....anyway.  New card.

I had to do the sentiment twice; the first time I had too much ink on the stamp and the insides of the teeny letters on the bottom line were all filled in, so I used a sponge to ink up the stamp this time and that's like my new favorite technique.  Anyway, I started with a fun color combo from Cupcake Inspirations:

I used Old Olive and Elegant Eggplant for SU! versions of the colors, plus added in some crumb cake because I thought my card needed it.  I used this week's CASE the Designer challenge at Global Design Project as a jumping-off point:

I used the same layout (my "main" bamboo stalk is even tilted to the left like the bear) but my layers are a bit different sizes.  The length of my sentiment stamp dictated that the main image panel had to be wider than in Brian's card but I still think mine is balanced fairly well.  Bonus:  it's got Dimensionals, but other than that it's flat and easy to mail :)

So that's it for me today.  I now have three choices:  a.) eat lunch, b.) go to the gym, or c.) finish that scrapbook layout.  Decisions, decisions....

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  One Big Meaning, Artistically Asian, Touches of Texture
Ink:  Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Elegant Eggplant, Crumb Cake, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Carving Pumpkins

Happy Halloween!  Most years, hubs and I don't really do much for Halloween (next year, when we have the baby to dress up, it's ON like DONKEY KONG) but I do have a Halloween layout for you today!  I think these pictures are from October of 2004?

Click to embiggen and sorry for the glare on the photo.  I was already into Stampin' Up! by this time, if you notice that the pumpkin I carved matches one of the stamped faces pretty well :)  The smallest pumpkin is a pup-kin with a dog face for Chewie, my sweet furbaby that I had before I got married.  I actually made this layout last year but never posted it to the blog (I have several layouts that haven't been shared yet, whee!).  I have NO idea what made me think of this color combo, but I think it works:

Long-retired Gable Green along with still-current Tempting Turquoise, Pumpkin Pie, and of course Basic Black.  I only did one strip of Pumpkin Pie DSP across the layout because I figured that I had enough orange in the pictures with all the pumpkins to get the Halloween point across.

Have a spooktacular day, y'all!

Supplies, mostly SU!
Stamps:  Carved & Candlelit
Ink:  Gable Green, Basic Black
Paper:  Gable Green, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise, Ghostly Greetings DSP
Accessories:  Sizzix alphabet