Eagle's Nest

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Hope you had a good weekend.  Ours was good up until we went on a bike ride yesterday and Ryan took a spill; he skinned one knee pretty good.  So then we spent the rest of the afternoon on the couch and watched a movie together.

Anyway, how about a scrapbook layout for today?

I put together all my Alpine Adventure layouts and then went back and added the titles, embellishments, and journaling.  When I first put together this one, I had intended to do a beer glass for the embellishment to go with the pic of the hubs and Ryan with the beer, but I forgot and ended up doing feathers to go with the Eagle's Nest page title.

Today's palette:  Dapper Denim, Garden Green, Delightful Dijon, Soft Suede, and white.  The patterned paper I used is from the Painted Christmas DSP, I liked the pine branches to go with all the trees in the pictures.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Hope your week is off to a good start!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, Fine Feathers
Ink:  Garden Green, Soft Suede, Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Dapper Denim, Garden Green, Delightful Dijon, Thick Basic White, Painted Christmas DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies

Testing 1-2-3

Happy Friday, y'all!  Ryan is off school today for some unknown reason, but he's just hanging out quietly with his iPad for now.  In a little bit we'll have to go grocery shopping which I'm sure he won't like, but it's gotta be done--we're having friends over for dinner tomorrow and I'm making lasagna : )

So here's my retro card for today:

Anyone recognize that stamp set?  I've been considering whether or not I want to add the new Tune In bundle to my collection, but I've had Stay Tuned since 2007 and only used it once before this.  It is very retro--17 years!--for the Retro Rubber Challenge:

I have three tic-tac-toes: diagonal from top right, bottom row, and right column.  I dug out a bunch of DSP scraps for the background and just kept cutting out shapes until I liked it.  The TV screen is embossed with clear powder to give it a bit of shine even if it doesn't show up in the picture.  A couple of silver Festive Pearls on the TV dials counts for metallics, and I used another taffeta ribbon since I had the box out for yesterday's card.  And I suppose I'll count fussy cutting for the "your choice" block.

I also used the mood board from Inkspirational:

Love the fun colors on this one!  I used Coastal Cabana, Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, and Daffodil Delight, with Early Espresso for my TV and a light Pool Party blend to color the screen.

So that's it for me today.  I have several things I want to do around the house as well as wrangling Ryan to go grocery shopping, so I'd better get with it.  Then Ryan is going to a parents' night out at the local community center and the hubs and I are going on a date : )  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Stay Tuned
Ink:  Early Espresso, Granny Apple Green, Pool Party Blend, Versamark
Paper:  Granny Apple Green, Thick Basic White, DSP scraps in Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Coastal Cabana
Accessories:  Nested Essentials dies, white taffeta ribbon, clear EP, Festive Pearls, Dimensionals

GrumPEA

Mornin' y'all!  Hope your week is going well.  I'm feeling pretty good, I've started working out again this week, starting slow with some yoga and stretching and then a more intense workout today.  It's good to get back in that routine again!

I also love getting back in the stampin' groove and for today's card I *finally* got to break in a stamp set I got ages ago and just hadn't inked up yet!

This is me whenever I have to pick up my kid from school, not because I don't want to see him but because it's so chaotic and the school administration does nothing to make it work better.  Anyway, I left my little grumPEA on a pretty CAS design lifted from this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And I was happy to see green in this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, and Garden Green for my colors, though the blends are Shaded Spruce because we don't have Garden Green blends.  Why??  I busted out some old kraft taffeta ribbon; it is my favorite ribbon ever and I've got an entire photo box of it so I might as well use it.  The die I used is long-retired too.

That's it for me today, peeps.  I've already got a card for tomorrow's post too so maybe I can work on a scrapbook layout today!  After I finish that cookbook project from yesterday...cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sweet Peas
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Shaded Spruce and Crumb Cake
Paper:  Garden Green, Thick Basic White, Daffodil Delight DSP
Accessories:  Deco Labels dies, kraft taffeta ribbon, Dots for Days, Dimensionals

Happy Little Rainbow

Hey y'all, how's your Wednesday starting off?  I spent some time yesterday organizing our storage closet (for the third time!) and today's plans include grocery shopping and organizing my personal cookbooks.  I have two giant binders of recipes; ones I've used and liked, I type up on the computer, print them out, and put them in plastic page protectors in the binders.  I tend to make a mess when I cook, so the page protectors keep the recipes clean : )  And then any recipes that I find on the internet that I want to try, I print them out and put them in the appropriate section of the binders so I can find all the chicken recipes in one place.  But I have a giant stack of recipes to try that I haven't put in the cookbooks yet.

Anyway, enough yapping about my cookbooks.  I have a card to share today!

A couple of months ago, I joined a group on Facebook for buying and selling retired Stampin' Up! products, thinking that I would thin out some things that I just don't use...but really all I've done so far is buy several stamp sets ; )  Rainbow of Happiness was the first thing to come to mind when I saw the Paper Players color challenge:

I used Gray Granite for the greeting stamp on my rainbow and otherwise kept strictly to the challenge colors.  I thought that Stitched So Sweetly die shape was perfect with the rainbow, so I floated that on some stitched rectangles but the card still needed something.  Happily I found some Lemon Lolly baker's twine in my stash, which was just the touch this card needed.

When I was little (like under the age of 7), my bedroom was painted yellow very similar to Lemon Lolly, and I had an accent wall done with rainbow wallpaper, so this card reminds me of that bedroom.  It's already out in the mail to my parents.  Adult me absolutely loathes wallpaper though so good thing there isn't any in our house or I'd be stripping it off post haste.  Still want to paint everything though.

Okay, time to get the kiddo ready for school.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rainbow of Happiness
Ink:  Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lolly, Soft Sea Foam, Gray Granite
Paper:  Lemon Lolly, Soft Sea Foam, Thick Basic White, Flirty Flamingo DSP
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, Stitched Rectangles dies, Dimensionals, Lemon Lolly baker's twine

SUO Challenges: Favorite Technique

Happy Tuesday y'all, are you ready for a new challenge from SUO Challenges?

'Cause here it is!

I had to think about this one for a while because I don't really think I do a lot of techniques per se.  I mean, does coloring with Blends count as a technique?  (Maybe not the way I do it, I know there are a lot of way more incredible alcohol marker artists out there.)  But as it happened, when I made this card back in June (I was working ahead, knowing that we were moving to Colorado in July), I had done a couple of cards with watercoloring.  My StazOn stamp pad is bone-dry at the moment, so I have to use something different to stamp with.  Memento ink is great for alcohol markers but not watercoloring, so I like to ink up my outline stamp with Versamark, then whatever color I want for the outline, stamp it, and then emboss with clear embossing powder.  (Here is a card where I used different colors for the outlines so you can see what I mean.)

So having chosen my technique, I needed to choose a stamp set, and here's what I made:

I totally love Musical Jamboree, which is hiding out on page 125 of the catalog.  This singing coyote and his musical compatriots just make me smile every time.  So I used Versamark plus Early Espresso to stamp the coyote and the campfire, embossed with clear EP, and then went to town watercoloring everything.  Basic White isn't a great choice if you want your watercolors to actually blend, but it worked for the style I was going for on this card and I am particularly proud of the freckly texture on the coyote's fur.  So there's my technique!

I hope y'all have lots of techniques to share with us on the SUO Challenges blog, I'm always down to learn new things.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Musical Jamboree
Ink:  Versamark, Early Espresso, Pebbled Patch, Peach Pie, Lost Lagoon, Pretty in Pink, Pumpkin Pie, Pecan Pie, Misty Moonlight
Paper:  Pebbled Path, Gray Granite, Thick Basic White, Lily Pond Lane DSP Stack
Accessories:  Deckled Rectangles dies, clear EP, Dimensionals, In Color Shimmer Gems

Salzbergwerk Salt Mine

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I just did my first workout in over a month so now I feel like we're finally getting back to a "normal" routine.  I'll have to start back kinda slow since it's been so long, but it feels good to get moving in the morning!

Okay, on to today's scrapbook pages.  Today's adventure:  a salt mine.

This is not our first visit to a salt mine; the hubs and I went to one in Krakow in 2014 (and I've scrapped that too, see it here).  This mine was cool because you ride around on a little train (hence my train accent), you slide down two giant wooden slides, and you take a little cruise across an underground salt lake.  I don't think we were allowed to take pictures in the mine itself, which is why we bought the two pics from the salt mine; the other four pics are of the front of the building and then the mountains across the way.

Oh yeah, just like his dad, Ryan had to lick the wall in the salt mine to see if it really did taste like salt.  (It did.)

Today's color palette:  Petal Pink, Grapefruit Grove, Cucumber Crush, Shaded Spruce, Basic Gray, and white.  I don't use Petal Pink as a page base very often since I live with two dudes, but it seemed to work here.

Ryan will be off to school in about a half hour and then I'll be sorting through some things that we want to sell, so I've got a busy day ahead.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Alphabest, All Aboard
Ink:  Shaded Spruce, Basic Gray, Evening Evergreen marker
Paper:  Petal Pink, Grapefruit Grove, Shaded Spruce, Cucumber Crush, Thick Basic White, Painted Seasons DSP
Accessories:  None

Strawberries for You

Hey y'all, happy Friday!  We had some drama last night--Ryan bonked a loose tooth with his toothbrush at bedtime last night, and after a lot of tears he managed to pull the tooth himself.  And I think he totally forgot to check this morning if the Tooth Fairy came to visit or not!

Anywha, I've been having fun getting settled in my new craft room and today I played with a retired stamp set.

I had strawberries on the brain from the Color Throwdown inspo pic this week, but I decided to use the Hand Stamped Sentiments inspo pic for my colors:

I love having Basic Beige as a color, I think it fills the hole left when Sahara Sand retired and I like that it's softer than Crumb Cake.  I also used Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Lemon Lime Twist, and Granny Apple Green to mimic the colors in the inspo pic.  And I had to have another go at the Freshly Made Sketch:

That's it for me right now, peeps.  Ryan is off school today as they're doing assessments for all the elementary schoolers; his appointment is in an hour and a half so he could have totally slept in this morning, but nope, he was up at 6:30.  We're going to run some errands after his appointment and tonight we get to have dinner with some friends.  Hooray!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sweet Strawberry
Ink:  Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Lemon Lime Twist, Granny Apple Green
Paper:  Basic Beige, Thick Basic White, Bright & Beautiful DSP Stack
Accessories:  Perennial Postage dies, Strawberry builder punch, In Color Shimmer Gem, Mini Dimensionals