Winter Frost Colorblock

Scrappy Monday, y'all.  Hope you had a good weekend.  Hubs and I were wearing short-sleeved shirts all weekend, how is it in the 60s and 70s in mid-December?  So maybe today's Winter Frost scrapbook pages are wishful thinking.  Personally I like colder weather but hubs lives for summertime.  Actually yesterday was perfect, it was cool enough to be pleasant in short sleeves but not cold enough to make the hubs unhappy :)

So here's another Christmas card color block, this time from 2013.  Click the pics to see them bigger.

I've already got a handful of Christmas cards this year so I'll be making another one of these probably in January...have to account for all the people (like me, probably) who won't get their cards out on time.

Anyway, as usual I have a long list of things to do, so cheers peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Festive Flurry
Ink:  Island Indigo
Paper:  Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay, Whisper White, Winter Frost Specialty DSP
Accessories:  Key Tag punch (retired)

Friday Flashback: Joyful Christmas

Happy Friday, y'all!  And it IS a happy Friday:  my craft room is clean.  I feel so much better now :D  I cleaned up my stampy area yesterday and this morning I mopped up all the doggy paws on the floor and it looks great and I can't wait to get in there and mess it up again as I create something new.  Only without the doggy paw prints, I'm okay if it doesn't rain for a while.

Anyway, it's time for the Friday Flashback!  Ya know, sometimes I come across a stamp set that I just really like and I can't believe that I haven't used it more.  And I think that happens more with seasonal stamp sets because I, for one, don't make Christmas cards year-round.  But anyway, today's retired stamp set is Joyful Christmas.

ACK!  I love that poinsettia.  The grocery store here (how I love Wegmans!) has some special dyed poinsettias that are, I kid you not, royal blue.  So, so pretty.

Also features En Francais

This Wedgewood-inspired card is one of my favoritest creations ever, I just love it.  I embossed the poinsettia with white EP, and then I watercolored it with white ink.  It took quite a lot of time but I just loved how it turned out.

And that is all I had in my archives for Joyful Christmas, which is a shame because I love love love that poinsettia.  So here's my new creation:

TBH, this is my least favorite of the three cards.  Maybe I'd like it better if I had used Calypso Coral for the card base and then embossed the sentiment in white, I don't know.  I do like the color combination, it *can* be Christmasy with some creativity but it doesn't have to be, thank you ColourQ:

And I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

Okay, kids.  I need to go vacuum the rest of the house and then get going to the post office and the store.  Maybe I'll snap a pic of those royal blue poinsettias for you.  Cheers!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Joyful Christmas
Ink:  Blush Blossom, Calypso Coral
Paper:  Blush Blossom, Calypso Coral, Shimmery White, Gold Foil, Coastal Cabana DSP
Accessories:  Scallop edge punch, Dimensionals, Gold Glitz Dazzling Details

One Good Flake Deserves Another

Or, Snowpocalypse Part 2.

What?  It was still out on my craft table.  And let's talk about that for a minute.  My craft room is starting to look like Stampocalypse Central.  I'm working on yet another baby book, so I keep grabbing patterned paper and I've got stacks of it that I haven't put back up yet, and oh yeah I also pulled out about 20 stamp sets for different ideas and if I could stamp as fast as I come up with ideas, I'd be the world's most prolific stamper and I'd need a heck of a lot more cardstock.  And my husband already says my cardstock makes up almost half the weight of all our worldly possessions (he might be right but don't tell him I said so).  Plus I'm still making cards for the daily blog post so it's quite the mess.  My craft table looks like a kindergarten art room, only with less paste.  And also it rained buckets last week and I haven't mopped up all the dog paws all over the floor.  Uh, seriously, my craft room has never looked this bad (in this house, at least).

I'm gonna have to work on that.

But first take a look at this inspiration pic from Just Add Ink:

Oooh, ahh.  So pretty.  At first I was going to do aqua with a nice saturated green, like Mossy Meadow, but then I decided to keep it all in the blue family.  And silver.  Because they go together like peanut butter and chocolate.

Now I want a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.  Or three.

To distract me, let's look at the hot-off-the-presses Create with Connie & Mary sketch challenge:

Of course I thought of the snowflakes as soon as I saw the sketch, but that might be mostly because the snowflake stamps were still sitting on my craft table and hadn't been buried yet under a tower of other stamps.  I used the "hey there friend" from the My Paper Pumpkin welcome kit because I love that stamp and it fit better than the Christmas sentiments that come with the snowflake stamps. 

Okay, peeps.  I'm going to go clean up my craft room.  If you don't hear from me soon, please send chocolate.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Flurry of Wishes, My Paper Pumpkin
Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo
Paper:  Bermuda Bay, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Shimmery White, Silver Foil
Accessories:  Flower Medallion punch, Dimensionals, rhinestone

Snowpocalypse

Actually it doesn't really feel that wintry here at the moment--we're warming back up to the 50s and 60s.  The stamping world, however, is all about the cold.  And I haven't played much with my Flurry of Wishes stamp set, so guess what you get today.

Haha I should have done a big lead-in about snow and then shown you a card with a giant sun on it.  But the stamping gods are positively yelling SNOW at anyone who will listen, so I listened.  Anywha, I do like these snowflakes and the fact that they coordinate with punches--I think punches are easier for me to line up than Framelits.  But I puffy heart love Framelits too.

Today's card sketch is brought to you by the Global Design Project team:

I liked all the open space to add my flurry o' flakes.

Also check out this week's Cupcake Inspirations Challenge (and a ridiculously terrifically gorgeous cupcake):

And the word prompt from Inkspirational Challenges:

And the new theme challenge at The Paper Players:

Question:  is it cheating to count one card for three inspirational challenges if all three challenges are basically the same thing?  Because if it is, I think I'm about to get pelted with paper scraps again.

Well peeps, as usual I have lots to do today so I'd better get to it.  Hugs and kisses and stay warm!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Flurry of Wishes
Ink:  Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, Pacific Point
Paper:  Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, Pacific Point, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Snow Flurry punch, Lots of Labels Framelits, white baker's twine, Dimensionals, rhinestone

A Poinsettia for the Nachos

It's Tuesday again already!  Time for another Nacho Average Sketch Challenge, check this out:

This sketch is easy breezy beautiful if you need some fast cards, for Christmas or birthdays or whatever.  Seriously, I had my card done in 10 minutes!

Aww yeah.  When I did last week's Beary Christmas card, I didn't throw away the circle of patterned paper I'd cut out (because why would I?  I'm a paper crafter, that's like against our religion!).  So for today's sketch all I did was mat that pretty poinsettia on some Mossy Meadow and layer it on a strip of patterned paper.  Lemme tell you how much I LOVE the new thicker Whisper White for card bases.  And for anything I want to pop up on Dimensionals without matting on thicker cardstock.  Or for pretty much anything, really.  So yep, Whisper White card base and a quick sentiment from the most recent Paper Pumpkin kit.  I may never actually make the kits, but I do use the stamps ;)  I added a few rhinestones just to jazz it up a little bit but for real, less than ten minutes from start to finish.

Now it's your turn!  You don't have to be a speed stamper, but you do have to upload your creation on the Nacho blog.  Have a ball!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  My Paper Pumpkin November 2015 kit
Ink:  Basic Black
Paper:  Thick Whisper White, Mossy Meadow, Season of Cheer DSP
Accessories:  Circles Framelits, rhinestones, Dimensionals

Nordic Noel Colorblock

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I have enough Christmas pages done already that I don't have to make any new ones between now and January.  : D

A couple of years ago I came up with the idea to take all the photo Christmas cards we got and make a color-blocked layout for my scrapbooks.  I'd only done pages for a year or two, but after we moved to Alabama I found all the other years' Christmas cards.  So I made A LOT of pages all in a row, which is why I don't have to worry about my Scrappy Monday posts all month.  Teehee.

Basically I picked a different patterned paper pack for each year and just went to town.

And some years I have more cards than others.  This time I ended up needing to make five pages total.

I thought I had gotten all the cards in but then I found a couple more that had been hiding, so whenever the 2014 scrapbook pages make it into an album, this will be the last page.

Well, you know what they say...places to go, things to do.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Morning Post Numbers
Ink:  Garden Green, Real Red
Paper:  Garden Green, Real Red, Calypso Coral
Accessories:  Deco Labels Framelits, Itty Bitty Punch Pack star

Friday Flashback: Jewish Celebrations

Happy Friday, y'all, and welcome to the Friday Flashback.  I try to do all Christmas stuff in December, but let's not forget the other major December holiday--Hanukkah starts this Sunday.  One of my favoritest people in the world is Jewish so I bought today's Friday Flashback stamp set to make her a card every year...let's revisit Jewish Celebrations.

Last year's card was really CAS because I ran out of time to do anything complicated.

The year before that I did get more complicated :)  And really, this is all I use this stamp set for and so that's it for the Flashback.  Here's today's new creation:

Had I realized that I'd used the menorah on both of the other cards, I would have chosen the big Star of David stamp for today's card.  Oops!

I added rhinestones to the candle flames this year because my girl Sarah lurves her some bling.

To make this card, I started with the Fab Friday sketch:

I had to adapt the sketch a little bit since my circle element was so much larger than the sketch.  But I think you can still see the bones of the sketch?

And this one also meets tic-tac-toe criteria for the Paper Players:

Snowflakes (two!), sparkle or shine (rhinestones plus brushed silver cardstock), and a punch *and* two circle dies.  Whee!

Have a great weekend, y'all!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Jewish Celebrations, Flurry of Wishes
Ink:  Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue
Paper:  Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue, Brushed Silver, Whisper White
Accessories:  Circles Framelits, rhinestones, Snow Flurry punch