Baby Luke: Game Day

Hey y'all, happy Saturday!  After a week of mostly rainy weather, it looks like today is going to be beautiful!  We'll have to figure out something to do outside today.

Trucking along on Luke's baby book and we're up to the football layout.

My brother (Oklahoma State cowboy) and SIL (Texas Christian horned frog) go to the OSU-TCU game almost every year, so when I did my niece's baby book I made her a layout for the big game and had to do it again for Luke's book.  But I couldn't do the exact same thing again...and I think I got rid of my first set of football stamps anyway?  So I had to buy new football stamps *rolls eyes*  My mom sent me a bunch of OSU and TCU stickers so I used the mascot stickers on here and sent the 8 billion other stickers back to Mom.

Like Clara's layout, the page base is gray, but I switched up the accent colors for each side.  Clara got TCU on the left and OSU on the right; I switched it up for this layout even though I don't like having Pistol Pete staring off the edge of the page.

Have a great weekend, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Fall Family & Football by Joy Clair
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Smoky Slate & Soft Suede
Paper:  Smoky Slate, Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Gorgeous Grape, Thick Whisper White, Basic Gray DSP
Accessories:  Sizzix letters, OSU & TCU stickers

Baby Giraffe

Hey y'all, happy Friday.  I spent the morning catching up on NCIS and working on my stitching, but I'm about to go up to my craft room again.  And in a continuation of the retired stamp showcase I seem to be running here, today's card features two retired stamp sets.

D'aww.  I wasn't thinking about it as I made the card, but I totally made this gender-neutral.  Actually my first choice for the card base was Soft Sea Foam, and then I discovered that my SSF ink pad is in desperate need of a re-inking and guess who doesn't have that ink refill?  I have the Soft Subtles refills...but from *before* the last color refresh, so no Soft Sea Foam.  Guess what's going on my next order.

Anyway, the inspo pic on the current Fusion challenge is just too sweet:

I used the sketch as well, though I flipped it so all the elements are on the right rather than the left.  I didn't want my baby giraffe looking right off the edge of the card.  Did you know that giraffes give birth standing up?  Nothing says welcome to the world like a 6-foot drop I guess!

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Bundle of Joy, Bundled in Love
Ink:  Pear Pizzazz, Cinnamon Cider, Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Cinnamon Cider & So Saffron
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Cinnamon Cider, So Saffron, Thick Basic White, vellum
Accessories:  Stitched Nested Labels dies, Mini Dimensionals

Polar Bear Pal

Hey hey, y'all!  I've got today and tomorrow off of work, it's rainy outside, and after running errands this morning I've been spending some time in my craft room with some new OLD stamps!  I recently went through all my old catalogs and whoops--I found several stamp sets that I just really wanted.  So I found some of them on Ebay and I had to make a card with one of those new to me/old retired stamp sets!

Once again Blogger is being a PAIN IN THE BUTT about uploading pictures but I think I've got it now.  Behold!

My friend Sarah is OBSESSED with polar bears and Cold-Weather Friends was in the very first catalog I ever got when I first started stamping.  I had forgotten all about it until I looked through that catalog, but I just had to have it!  In addition to the polar bear, there's a penguin pair (I typed penguin pear at first, yeah that's not a thing), a harp seal, and an arctic fox.  But of course I had to make Sarah a polar bear card for my inaugural Cold-Weather Friends card.

I used the colors from Color Throwdown:

I used some retired colors too!  I used Ruby Red, Baja Breeze (my favorite), Crumb Cake, and Very Vanilla.  If you're wondering where the Crumb Cake is, I lightly watercolored it on the polar bear for a bit of shading, while the snow around him is shaded with Baja Breeze.  The Ruby Red patterned paper was from a 6x6 pad that might have been a hostess option one year, so woo for using up more 6x6 paper too.

I used the sketch from Global Design Project:

And let's not forget the Animal Kingdom challenge from SUO Challenges!

I've got a bit more than an hour and a half before time to pick up Ryan so I'm going to go work on some more stuff.  After all, I have a couple other new/old stamp sets, plus some new/new ones that I just got in my latest SU order.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Cold-Weather Friends, Friendly Words (unmounted wheel)
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Baja Breeze, Thick Very Vanilla, Ruby Red DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Stitched Shapes dies, Stitched So Sweetly dies (can you tell I like the stitched dies?), Dimensionals

Happy Little Sea Creatures

Mornin', y'all!  Man, yesterday afternoon was a little crazy trying to get home.  They started working on the road in two different places so I had a detour in between where I work and where Ryan goes to daycare, so I ended up getting there later than usual thanks to traffic.  Ryan and I did a bit of grocery shopping and then started to head home, only to find *another* detour!  It usually takes about 15 minutes to get home, but last night took us more like 35 to 40 because the second detour was longer and crazier and also it was pouring down rain.  Wonder what it's going to be like going in this morning...

Anyway, I have a new card to share with some old stamps!

I didn't get Fishy Friends when it first came out, and I kicked myself for that for years afterward, and then I finally found it (I think on Etsy, actually) and bought it for my Virginia Beach scrapbook pages, along with the coordinating Silly Sealife (click the label on the bottom of the post to see other Fishy Friends projects).  Gotta say, I love coloring in these old images with Stampin' Blends!  Super easy and quick.

Check out the awesome sketch from Inkspirational:

And the theme challenge from Less Is More:

I checked the rules over there, white space doesn't have to be white so woohoo Pacific Point white space! :D  Usually you can't really combine theme challenges unless they happen to both be exactly the same thing, but I think sea creatures dovetails with the Paper Players theme as well:

I chose the bright primary colors to make this card appropriate for a little boy.  Since my 4-year-old boy loves Finding Nemo, I think he'd like this card :)

Better go get ready for the day.  Oh, the funny part of yesterday--I got sent over to the Printing & Graphics shop to make license plates for a couple hours.  Hubs said that's good practice for if I ever go to prison, haha!

Have a great day, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Fishy Friends, All-Year Cheer II
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Stampin' Blends in Daffodil Delight, Balmy Blue, Real Red, Calypso Coral, and Pumpkin Pie; Pacific Point marker
Paper:  Pacific Point, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  White EP

New Blooms!

Hey y'all!  I had a nice, quiet day at work yesterday, which was nice since I started off the day by accidentally dumping half a bottle of water in my backpack (I thought the lid was closed...it was not).  How's your week starting off?

On Saturday, at long long long last, I got my new catalog preorder!  Ya know, for the catalog that goes live TODAY :p  This box, dude.  I hadn't gotten any shipping updates in two solid weeks, it just said it was "en route to the next facility", so finally on Thursday I gave up and called Stampin' Up! to say that it hadn't arrived yet.  They started looking into it but I finally got the notice from our post office that it had arrived on Friday, so I guess it was just waiting for me to call SU!  Then of course I couldn't pick it up on Friday because of our little jaunt to the ER for Ryan.

Anywha, I got a teensy bit of time in my craft room on Sunday and I couldn't resist busting out a new stamp set and some new colors!

I love, love, love the inspiration pic from Just Add Ink.

 
I was going to mask off the card front and sponge an ombre effect, but why reinvent the wheel when I have ombre DSP?  So the stripe is So Saffron from the retired Color Theory DSP stack (lookit me using up a bit of stash) and the flowers are stamped in three NEW In Colors--Evening Evergreen for the outline (I am going to looooooooooove this deep, dark green!), Pale Papaya for the flowers, and Soft Succulent (dear SU!, I am sure there are other adjectives that start with S, we already had Soft Suede and Soft Sea Foam and Soft Sky for Pete's sake) for the leaves and the sentiment, which is from the newly retired Butterfly Gala.  I added some Wink of Stella to the flowers but of course it doesn't show up much in the photo.

Hope your day goes smoothly, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Hand-Penned Petals, Butterfly Gala
Ink:  Evening Evergreen, Pale Papaya, Soft Succulent
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Color Theory DSP
Accessories:  Penned Flowers dies, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

Feed Me Now!

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I'm pleased to report that I am almost back to normal (or what passes for normal in these parts) after my second vaccine shot, and Ryan is doing fine with his newly perforated noggin.  We made him take it easy over the weekend, which he did not much like, and I had to dig through all his clothes to find shirts with buttons so he wouldn't have to pull a shirt on/off over the cut on his head.  But he's doing fine :)

I've got a funny layout to share today.

I seem to have a LOT of pictures of Wee Ryan eating, and that's because that was pretty much the only time he sat still long enough for a photo, and he is (still) occasionally very demanding when it comes to food.  So of course I had to make a scrapbook layout about it.  I read once that a lot of restaurants are decorated with orange because supposedly that color makes you hungry, so I picked a patterned paper that's a mix of orange and red, Ryan's favorite color.

Today's color palette:  Pineapple Punch, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Pacific Point, and Whisper White.  I never thought I'd be gaga about a super bright yellow, but man, I love me some Pineapple Punch!  I pulled out a real oldie for the accents--I'm pretty sure I got Tart & Tangy my first year as a stamper!

Hope your week is off to a great start, peeps.  I'm starting off with a nice yoga workout :)  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Taffy Alphabet, Larger Than Life Alphabet, Tart & Tangy
Ink:  Pineapple Punch, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Granny Apple Green, Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Pineapple Punch, Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, Thick Whisper White, See a Silhouette DSP
Accessories:  circle punches

Baby Luke: September

Hey y'all, how's it going.  I had my second Covid shot on Thursday and spent most of the day yesterday laying on the couch or in bed and I *still* feel like the floor of a taxicab.  And then we had some excitement yesterday afternoon--I went to pick Ryan up from daycare and the lovely lady who watches him for us hustled outside and told me that Ryan had hit his head and would probably need stitches.  So I called the hubs and then went inside to get Ryan, who all things considered was very calm about the whole thing.  He'd tripped and hit his head on a corner of the wall (an outie corner, not an innie corner, if that makes sense) and has about a 1" gash on one side of his forehead.  So we met up with the hubs and took him to the ER and eventually they put some strips on it and some glue to hold it closed, so no stitches, which was a major relief for Ryan (he was terrified of the idea of stitches).  To be honest, I'm surprised we made it four years before Ryan's first ER visit!  Given my klutziness and his dad's propensity for injuring himself doing random things, that kid was doomed from the start.  But he's doing just fine.

Anyway, it's time to post another layout from Baby Luke's book, so behold September:

I don't remember ever liking foxes particularly much before I had Ryan, but after he was born, I could not resist buying him clothes with foxes every time I saw them.  Heck, just a couple months ago I got Ryan a bright orange hoodie and the hoodie part is a fox face.  So of course I had to sneak some foxiness into this baby book.  And also some long-time favorite DSP, I love those weathered stripes.

Hope you have a restful weekend, friends.

Supplies:
Stamps:  Foxy Friends
Ink:  More Mustard, Really Rust, Chocolate Chip
Paper:  More Mustard, Chocolate Chip, Taken with Teal, Very Vanilla, Autumn Meadows DSP
Accessories:  Sizzix letters, Labels Framelits, Nestabilities oval die