SUO Challenges: Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Tuesday, stampy friends!  It's time for a new challenge from SUO Challenges!

Hope you enjoyed the coloring challenge from last time, but today we've got a new one for you: we're celebrating Thanksgiving!  So here's what I made:

The Painted Pheasant stamp set was pretty much made for this challenge, am I right?  I inked up the pheasant with Versamark and Cajun Craze inks, stamped, and heat embossed with clear EP.  Then I added the other stamped bits so he'd have something to stand on.  It's fun sometimes to use a color other than white or vanilla for the main image panel, what do you think?

We hope you'll upload your own Thanksgiving creation on the SUO Challenges blog.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Painted Pheasant, Wildlife Wonder
Ink:  Versamark, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry
Paper:  Mossy Meadow, Crushed Curry, Thick Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Potted Succulents dies, Rustic Metallic Adhesive Dots, Dimensionals

November 2018

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Hope you had a good weekend.  I'm hoping to spend some quality time in my craft room this week when I'm not working or going to the dentist for the first time in two years (oops).  But it's time right now for a new scrapbook layout!

Actually I made this one two years ago ; ) and pics are from 2018 when Ryan was a year and a half old.  This morning I just got to see his school pictures for kindergarten!  (They're so cute I can't hardly stand it!!)  I miss when Ryan was this little, but NGL I do not miss dealing with diapers and all that stuff.  Anyway, I managed to squidge TEN photos on this layout and I still had room for some journaling, patterned paper, and stamped accents.  #success

Today's lovely fall palette includes Dusty Durango, Dapper Denim, Bumblebee, Wild Wasabi, and Whisper White.  I made several layouts in a row with Dusty Durango and/or Dapper Denim, but since I frequently don't scrap chronologically that doesn't mean they're all in a row.  I have been scrapping all our photos since Ryan was born in chronological order, and I'm just about to start on 2020.  Better get off the computer and go work on that!

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Full Calendar, Falling Leaves
Ink:  Dusty Durango, Wild Wasabi, Bumblebee, Dapper Denim marker
Paper:  Dusty Durango, Wild Wasabi, Bumblebee, Dapper Denim, Thick Whisper White, Dapper Denim DSP
Accessories:  Rectangles Stitched dies, Stitched Shapes dies

Give Thanks with the Paper Players

Hey y'all!  It's Sunday and that means it's time for a new Paper Players challenge!

This week's theme is brought to us by Claire and it's a fun one!  Here's what I made:

I love that fall leaf pattern from the Rings of Love DSP from Sale-a-Bration, so I started with that and then built a little collage with some elements from Ringed with Nature and the Natural Prints dies.  I think what took the longest was playing around with the pieces to decide where each bit should go, but I like what I ended up with.

So now it's your turn!  Don't forget to upload your card at the Paper Players blog.  Have fun!

Stamps:  Ringed with Nature, Painted Pheasant
Ink:  Soft Suede, Evening Evergreen, Poppy Parade
Paper:  Crushed Curry, Thick Basic White, Rings of Love DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Natural Prints dies, Stitched Rectangles dies, Dimensionals

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

Tea With Lemon

The sun is going down here but I do have a card to share today!  And yeah this is pretty much the only sunshine we saw today.

May have been a gloomy day here but I can still make my own sunshine in my craft room.  I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

I realize I'm in the minority, but I don't *like* making square cards, so I made a standard A2.  As usual, I paired this challenge with the Color Throwdown:

I used Daffodil Delight, Polished Pink, and Mossy Meadow for my colors.  Actually I started with Crushed Curry (and that's what I used to stamp the lemon slice), but the papers seemed too dark so I switched out for Daffodil Delight.  And Polished Pink is a bit more intense than the challenge graphic, that was just my faulty memory : )

I'm going to go drag Ryan off his video game for some Avengers Monopoly.  Even though I always come in last place in that game...even behind the stuffies.  I have no idea how, but it happens every time...

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Cup of Tea
Ink:  Polished Pink, Crushed Curry, Mossy Meadow
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Polished Pink, Daffodil Delight DSP
Accessories:  Teacup dies, Layering Circles dies, Dimensionals, In Color Gems

Christmas Greetings from the Doggo

Hey y'all!  Ryan is off school today and tomorrow (seriously, they get so many days off, what is up with that) so my stamping time will most likely be limited.  But I do have a card to share today, check it out:

I swear the temperature dropped fifteen degrees yesterday so a wintry card feels appropriate!  Good thing I've got a big cuppa tea in front of me.  I used the sketch from Fusion:

And I worked in a bit of red as a nod to the strawberries in the inspiration pic.  The Global Design Project is what drove my stamp set choice though:

I hadn't used Trees for Sale much yet (well, I've delayed making anything Christmas related since I love Halloween and fall so much) so this challenge was an excellent motivator to ink it up this week.  I stamped the trees and sentiment, but it still seemed to need something so I added the happy doggo.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Hope I can make something to post tomorrow, we shall see...cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Trees for Sale
Ink:  Garden Green, Pool Party, Soft Suede
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Sweetest Christmas DSP
Accessories:  Tree Lot dies, mini Dimensionals, red rhinestones

And So It Begins

I've done a couple of wintry cards so far this year, but I pretty much flatly refuse to make anything Christmasy at least until Halloween is past.  So today I have the first Christmas-related card of the year.

And it's more seasonal than pure Christmas anyway : )  I got out the long, long, long-retired Scentsational Season for this one.  SU! sold scented embossing powder the year they had this stamp set and it was early days for their dies, too, but I didn't get the EP because that just seemed a bit weird to me.  Anywha, I made this for the current Festive Friday challenge:

I used hot chocolate, cookies (well, one gingerbread cookie anyway), and circles.  I have to say this inspo list led me down several rabbit holes before I finally settled on what to do.  It wasn't until I remembered that Scentsational Season had both the gingerbread and the cocoa mug stamps that I finally committed any ink to paper.  The sentiment is a sticker that was in the Gingerbread & Peppermint Memories & More card stack from just one year ago, and the patterned paper is also from the Gingerbread & Peppermint stack.  It's fun to mix different "eras" of SU! stuff I think.  Also I've had red rhinestones in my embellishments box for *ages* but this is the first time I've used any on a card.  And actually I've made a couple of other cards since using them this week.

Gotta get the kiddo ready for school and I work today.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Scentsational Season
Ink:  Cinnamon Cider, Real Red
Paper:  Real Red, Thick Basic White, Gingerbread & Peppermint DSP Stack
Accessories:  Holiday Collection dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, red rhinestones

Sending Fall Flowers

Waahhhh, no more Halloween cards for this year!  I think next year I might do a 31 Days of Halloween series just so I can have more fun with my Halloween stamps.  I have more than enough Halloween sets to use a different stamp set every day for the entire month.  Do I *need* 31 Halloween cards?  Nope, but it'll be fun anyway!

Well, if I can't do Halloween cards (I mean, I could, but I'm not going to), how about a fall card for today?

I was intrigued by the color combination at Sunday Stamps:

Been a while since I got to play along over there.  Anyway, I read the colors as Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, the long-retired Bordering Blue, and Basic Gray (which is the only one I didn't use).  The main color looks gray in my photo but IRL it's more bluish.  I CASEd a card on page 166 of the annual catalog; I don't even like the sample card but somehow I like my version better.

That's it for me today, y'all.  I'm hoping to finish a layout I started working on yesterday.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sending Smiles
Ink:  Bordering Blue, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Soft Suede
Paper:  Bordering Blue, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Thick Basic White, Crushed Curry DSP
Accessories:  Sending dies, Stitched Greenery die, Stylish Shapes dies, Mini Dimensionals, Polished Dots