More Gummy Bears

Hey y'all!  When I was working on my design team card for the current Paper Players challenge, I actually made two cards, so I thought I'd share the other one today.

I actually made this card first, but I decided to tweak my design a bit and that's how I ended up with Emma's card.  So here is the prototype:

I used another jar cutout from the DSP and this time I used the label and coordinating die from Sweetest Thing.  I kept the same background patterns from this one on Emma's card though, and now I have an extra birthday card in my stash.  Never a bad thing : )

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sweetest Thing
Ink:  Gorgeous Grape, Melon Mambo
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Melon Mambo, Thick Basic White, How Sweet It Is DSP
Accessories:  Jar of Sweets dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Glitter Enamel Dots

Stonehenge (Again)

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Most of the time, I don't scrap chronologically; I prefer to jump around as inspiration takes me.  Since Ryan came along though, I've been scrapping everything from his birth chronologically, but I alternate between those pages and older ones that I hadn't gotten to yet.  So here's some older pics that just got scrapped this summer:

See the original pics here.  Not gonna lie, I'm ready for some cooler weather here.  I haven't even had any tea for over a week because it's been so hot!

Today's color palette was inspired by the sunset picture on the left page:  Purple Posy, Petal Pink, Pool Party, and Smoky Slate.  Haven't been able to scrap lately after being sick with Covid and I'm going to have Ryan home with me for the next couple of weeks.  Maybe when he starts school I'll be able to scrap more.

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Letters for You, Number of Years
Ink:  Smoky Slate, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Purple Posy, Smoky Slate, Perennial Essence DSP, Design a Daydream DSP
Accessories:  None

Paper Players Celebrates Birthdays

Hey y'all, happy Sunday and welcome to a new Paper Players challenge!

Love this one.  Everyone has a birthday so we all need more birthday cards in our stash, right?  The fun bright colors on the challenge graphic made me think of a retired stamp set with coordinating patterned paper, so here's what I made:

The stamp set is called Sweetest Thing, but I always try to call it Jar of Sweets, which is the name of the die set that goes with it.  The stamp set has three jars and a variety of things you can put in them, my favorite being the gummy bears.  HOWEVER, the How Sweet It Is DSP has a bunch of printed jars that coordinate with the dies as well (looks great and it's easy!), so the only stamping on my card is the sentiment.  I had fun picking and choosing which patterns to coordinate with my gummy bears, and this card has already reached its recipient.  I recently sent a giant box of German goodies (including quite a few varieties of gummy candies) to my honorary niece, just stuff that I can get here that they don't have in America.  So my gummy bear birthday card is extra appropriate for Emma's 13th birthday. 

Hope you'll join in the birthday fun and upload your card creation to the Paper Players blog.  And if you sneak a handful of gummy bears or a piece of birthday cake while you're crafting, I won't tell ; )  Enjoy!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sweetest Thing
Ink:  Granny Apple Green
Paper:  Melon Mambo, Granny Apple Green, Thick Basic White, How Sweet It Is DSP
Accessories:  Layering Circles dies, Jar of Sweets dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Glitter Enamel Dots

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Cindy Beach

Christy Stanford <-- You are here : )

Jennie Maier

Sketchy Ducks

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday!  I'm finally starting to feel like I'm kicking the Covid crud...I was still super tired yesterday but I decided to ignore it and get stuff done anyway.  That sort of worked?  I did six and a half loads of laundry and put the clothes up, plus I managed not to take a nap, and I'm feeling better today.  So yeah, we'll call that a success.  I even spent some time in my craft room.

How about some manly ducks?  The duck image is from the Sale-a-Bration set Stylish Sketches and I really thought I'd use the fox first, but the ducks worked better for my two challenges today.  First up is this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And next is the Color Throwdown, you know how I like to combine those two challenges:

I used Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, Memento Tuxedo Black, and white, plus some Soft Suede because apparently there weren't enough neutrals for me : p  I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then gave it a very quick watercolor with the other shades of ink, keeping it loose and quick to go with the style of the artwork.  This card came together very quickly and now I have a manly card, should I need it.  Always a good thing!

Got some work to do, so I'm off.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Stylish Sketches, Simply Succulents
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Basic Black, Soft Suede, Thick Basic White, He's the Man DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Potted Succulents dies, Dimensionals, Rustic Metallic adhesive dots

Bright Eyes & Bushy Tail

Mornin' y'all!  I got back in my craft room the other day and managed to make a card before I had to go take another nap : p 

Wish *I* was feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed...just still so tired and brain foggy.  Blecch.  Anyway, I made this for the Retro Rubber challenge:

Nuts About Squirrels is a year old, so just qualifies as retro.  Honestly I wasn't at all sure what to make when I sat down in my craft room the other day; I ended up CASEing a card from the holiday catalog.  Check out the card on the right:

The layout of the card caught my eye, so I grabbed the Butterfly Kisses DSP stack and started from there.  Had fun making this and it got me started in the stamping groove again.

Have a great day, kids.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Nuts About Squirrels
Ink:  Starry Sky, Crushed Curry, Parakeet Party, Versamark
Paper:  Fresh Freesia, Starry Sky, Thick Basic White, Butterfly Kisses DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, White EP, Dimensionals

OOPS!

Well here's a first...I forgot to post my SUO Challenges card yesterday!  I made the card weeks ago and in my Covid-induced haze I didn't realize that the challenge went live yesterday.  Oops!

This time around we have a sketch for you:

And here's my card:

I love the cute images in the Glad We're Friends set and just had to use this corgi keeping cool with his fan.  Since the image is on the larger side, and so are the sentiment and the patterns I chose, I made this card 5x7 instead of the standard size.  The patterns are from the hostess DSP set, Design a Daydream.

Hope you'll make time to play with the sketch and upload your card at SUO Challenges.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Glad We're Friends
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Blackberry Bliss, Petal Pink, So Saffron, Pool Party, neutrals
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Pool Party, Thick Basic White, Design a Daydream DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Stitched Rectangles dies, Dimensionals

August 2019

Scrappy Monday, y'all.  The hubs and kid are back to their regularly scheduled activities today and it's my last day of Covid quarantine, which I plan to spend resting (have I done anything else for the last five days?  Nope!).  I no longer feel like I was hit by a train, but I'm still tired.  My nap game has been strong the last several days.

Anyway, enough about that.  Today is August 1 and that means Ryan is starting school THIS MONTH!  I don't think he's excited about it, but that's because the poor kid doesn't deal well with change.  He had to go to a different classroom today at daycare and flipped his little lid, poor dude.  But for today's Scrappy Monday layout, let's take a look back to when Ryan was just two:

That's my cutie pie.  This is another one of my monthly catch-all layouts, random snapshots gathered together on one layout.  This time I put numbers on the pictures and then wrote about each one on the journaling.  I like these types of layouts because otherwise I wouldn't have recorded things like how Ryan liked to ride the elevator at the Y but he'd lay down on the floor to feel the vibrations as the elevator moved, or how he thought his Lightning McQueen light-up shoes made him run faster.

Today's color palette:  Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Real Red, So Saffron, Basic Gray, and Whisper White.  It was taken directly from the I Am Me DSP that I used as accents, I thought it worked really well with the pictures.

Aaaand now I think it's time to take a nap on the couch.  Maybe later I'll head up to my craft room, if I can be vertical for longer than an hour at a time...Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pun Intended, My Paper Pumpkin, Calendar Alphabet & Numbers
Ink:  Real Red, Calypso Coral, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Pool Party, Basic Gray, So Saffron, Real Red, Calypso Coral, Whisper White, I Am Me DSP
Accessories:  Hippo & Friends dies, 1/2" circle punch