Retro Rose

Happy Friday, y'all.  My cold seems to be getting better, must be all the sleeping I've been doing the last couple days.  I've been napping every time Ryan does.

But for now, a card!

This is actually the first card I made for the Retro Rubber Challenge, but I just didn't like it as much on paper as I did in my head so I made the butterfly card.

Roses in Winter is really retro, I've had it since at last 2006.  Lots of Thoughts is almost as old, it's from Sale-a-Bration in 2008.  I also used the Freshly Made Sketch from a couple of weeks ago just because I liked it:

Time for me to go do dishes.  Ryan is unhappy that we picked up the dogs' water bowl so he can't go splash in it, but he'll just have to get over it.  He's a little grumpy this morning.

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Roses in Winter, Lots of Thoughts
Ink:  Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Peekaboo Peach, Wild Wasabi
Paper:  Garden Green, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla, Woodland Walk DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals

Give Thanks

Mornin', y'all.  How's your day going?  Ryan's not up yet so I'm taking advantage of the time to write this blog post.  And take cold medicine.  Hope I don't pass this along to the wee babe.  He had a good time last night playing peekaboo over the coffee table with his dada.  Very cute.

Anyway, even with a cold I managed to make a very quick card yesterday.  Not only is it quick, it's a quadruple challenge card.

So, one stamp, one piece of Color Theory DSP, and a couple of Framelits.  At first I was going to stamp something texture-y on that bottom left corner, but looking at it I thought this card needs ribbon!  So I had to raid my retired ribbon stash (I have a very limited selection of current ribbon and a very large selection of retired ribbon) to find that Chocolate Chip taffeta.  I loved the taffeta ribbon.

Anyway, on to the challenges!  First up is the What Will You Stamp? challenge to use Labels to Love:

I didn't ink it up in time to use the Halloween stamp but I love that this one has stamps for multiple holidays on up to Valentine's Day.  I got the matching punch too, but I picked one of the stamps that doesn't coordinate with that punch ;)

Next up is this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I made my card the standard A2 size instead of square just because I like A2 better.

Here's this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, and Crumb Cake.

Last up is the SUO Challenge to make a project that features thankfulness.  My dad has had some health challenges lately, but he got some good news from the doctor yesterday so we're definitely thankful for that, and this card will be going out to my dad later today.

Have a great day, peeps.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Labels to Love
Ink:  Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Tangerine Tango
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Tangerine Tango, Thick Whisper White, Color Theory DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes & Layering Circles Framelits, Dimensionals, retired Chocolate Chip taffeta ribbon

Colorful Seasons Leaves

Hey y'all, how's it going?  I'm getting a cold.  I have a feeling the next few days will NOT be fun.  At least the hubs has Friday off of work so if I need to I can spend most of Friday sleeping? Just got to make it to Friday....

At least it's already Wednesday.  I thought for a minute it was only Tuesday.

My brother's birthday is tomorrow so I need to get this card out in the mail today.  It won't get to Texas in time, but he's been in our family long enough not to expect birthday cards and presents on time ;)  Anyway, as an Oklahoma State alum, he lurves him some orange so I started with the color challenge from Fab Friday:

I'll be honest:  I like Tangerine Tango and Pumpkin Pie separately, but I'm not a fan of them together.  I sponged the ink on the leaf stamp to make it less concentrated, so it's more subtle that the three leaves are two different colors.  And then I stamped the fancy outline leaf stamp on the card front in stamped-off Tangerine Tango on Pumpkin Pie cardstock, which turned out okay.

I also used the latest sketch from Clean & Simple Stamping:

And then I combined those two challenges with the Global Design Project CASE the Designer challenge:

I kept the orange from this card, and the linen thread (I need to order more linen thread...), and I stamped a large image on my card front though mine is a lot more subtle than the pumpkins here.  I like challenges like this because there's a lot of "scope for imagination" as Anne Shirley would say.  Though I am extremely color-driven so a lot of my CASEd cards incorporate similar colors.

Sounds like kiddo is ready to get out of his bouncer for a bit.  Hope naptime comes quickly, 'cause I want a nap too...

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Colorful Seasons, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink:  Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie, Fresh Fig
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Fresh Fig, Whisper White
Accessories:  Petals embossing folder, linen thread, Dimensionals

Guest Designer: Retro Butterflies

Good morning y'all!  Today I have the honor of being the guest designer at Retro Rubber!  And this week's challenge is all about color.

Isn't that pretty?  The color that struck me first when I saw this picture was lots of GREEN, and I love green so I decided to make most of my card front Garden Green.  Then I pulled the plummy and peachy colors out of the photo and this is what I made:

You can see it just a little bit, but I added Wink of Stella to both butterflies so they sparkle.  That's also why the sentiment is smudged--I didn't allow sufficient time for it to dry before I started with the Wink of Stella so I got my fingers in it.  Dangit!  I didn't have time to redo the card so I'm chalking it up to the charm of a handmade item.  All my supplies today are still current, but Watercolor Wings is two years old and Work of Art (the sentiment) is three years old.

Hope you play along with the Retro Rubber challenge!  I had fun with it :)  And dyed my fingers green for a little bit.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Watercolor Wings, Work of Art
Ink:  Garden Green, Sweet Sugarplum, Fresh Fig, Peekaboo Peach
Paper:  Sweet Sugarplum, Garden Green, Thick Whisper White, Glossy White
Accessories:  Bold Butterfly Framelits, Beautiful Butterfly Thinlits, Rose Garden Thinlits, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

Helsinki

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  How's it going?  The recovery from LASIK has been a little harder than I thought it would be but I know I'm getting better.  Probably helped that I was able to take long naps both yesterday and Saturday while the hubs was on baby duty.  My eyes are still a bit uncomfortable, but it helps if I'm doing something so I don't think about my eyeballs.  So yesterday I worked on some scrapbook pages, but they're not quite done yet so today I'm sharing some pages I made a while back.

This is another layout from our 2014 Baltic cruise (pictures here).  Helsinki was probably our least favorite port, no offense to the Finns.  We didn't have anything specific we wanted to see and it was drizzly all day (and also what today's weather looks like).  We did like the Sibelius monument; he was a composer and what's funny is he didn't do organ music and yet the monument looks like an organ.  Heh.

Super simple stamped title on patterned paper.

Today's color palette:  Island Indigo, Cool Caribbean (reaching way back into the past for that one!), and Mint Macaron.  Island Indigo and Mint Macaron were in the Blooms & Bliss paper, and I was surprised how much I liked the touch of Cool Caribbean with those colors.

Anyway, Little Mister is ready to get out of his bouncer and start wandering all over the house again.  He got hurt last night--he was up on top of one of our end tables and slid down it, which he's done before but this time he banged his chin on the way down and his bottom teeth cut his upper gums.  He's fine but hubs did feel guilty about it since he was watching the kiddo.  But anyway, like I said, time for me to chase the baby all over the house until naptime.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet
Ink:  Island Indigo
Paper:  Island Indigo, Cool Caribbean, Blooms & Bliss DSP
Accessories:  None

Sunflower Thoughts

Mornin', y'all!  As I type this, I'm about an hour and a half away from my appointment time to get LASIK this morning.  I feel the same way I did when I went in for my induction--scared, excited, not at all ready but we're doing this anyway!

But anyway, I made a card yesterday afternoon to share today.

I started out with this beautiful inspiration picture from Just Add Ink:

I decided to use So Saffron, Crushed Curry, and Soft Suede for the flowers, and a mix of Dapper Denim and Tempting Turquoise for the background.

Once again I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch, this time in its original orientation:

I've been having lots of fun lately with watercolor backgrounds.  They're fun but my fingers are always turning different colors, haha.  The one on this card was the second one I made with these colors; the first one was a lot darker and more vibrant but I kinda wanted a softer feel.  And then I used sponges to ink up the flower stamps to match the softness of the background.  Maybe I'll make another card with that other darker background so you can see the difference.  Oh yeah, I almost forgot--I stamped the background with the dragonfly from Touches of Texture, but it's so light you can hardly see it even IRL.  I think it kinda adds to the dreamy effect of the card though.

Kiddo is up and eating his breakfast, and we're heading out the door in about a half an hour for my appointment to get my eyeballs lasered.  Wish me luck!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Painted Harvest, Hug in a Mug, Touches of Texture
Ink:  Dapper Denim, Tempting Turquoise, So Saffron, Crushed Curry, Soft Suede
Paper:  Dapper Denim, Thick Whisper White, Watercolor paper
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes Framelits, Dimensionals, Glitter Enamel Shapes

Bold Baby

Hey, y'all, how's it going?  I got this card made yesterday evening but I woke up a little late this morning so I didn't have time to do a blog post before Ryan and I headed off for yoga.  So here it is now:

The stamps in Letters for You are so large that they necessitated a 5x7 card.  I rotated this week's Freshly Made Sketch 90 degrees:

I thought the current Global Design Project theme challenge was interesting:

Lots of ways to interpret that, but in our house, well...we have a baby so that seemed like a natural fit :)

Here's this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Real Red, Bermuda Bay, and retired Cucumber Crush for my card.  I've said it before, but it's fun to play with bold colors for baby cards.

And finally, here's this week's What Will You Stamp? challenge:

I got this stamp set for scrapbook pages but so far it's only made one appearance.  I would have done a scrapbook layout for this challenge, but it's getting harder for me to do scrapbook pages while Ryan naps.  I keep trying though.

Speaking of my little one, looks like he's about ready to get up from his nap.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letters for You, Moon Baby
Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Cucumber Crush, Real Red, Basic Black
Paper:  Bermuda Bay, Real Red, Thick Whisper White, watercolor paper
Accessories:  Layering Circles Framelits, Dimensionals