A-Team Baby Book: One Year Old

Ya know, with big projects like baby books, a lot of the time I get project fatigue as I get to the end and the last couple layouts just aren't my favorites.

I like the bright colors okay, but the layout as a whole just isn't really doing it for me.

The cake is a little too high to be centered, but I'm not sure that matters since the design is so much fatter on the bottom than the top.

Today's '80s Day-Glo palette includes Strawberry Slush, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, and Whisper White.  And only one more page left for this book to share!!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Something to Celebrate
Ink:  Basic Black
Paper:  Strawberry Slush, Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise, PTI White, Party Animal DSP
Accessories:  Apothecary Accents Framelits, Floral Framelits, Sizzix Alphabet, Prismacolor Pencils

Friday Flashback: Clockworks

Howdy, kids.  Today's Friday Flashback is even more time-oriented than usual because the stamp set is Clockworks!  So let's flash back.

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I made this for one of those super-annoying no-color "color" challenges.  I like colors.  Lots of colors.  Not just neutral blahs.

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Something CAS...

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And something not CAS at all.

Also features Teeny Tiny Wishes

I think this one is my favorite; I used the long-retired Brushed Copper cardstock and copper brads to make this one.  So that's it for the archives, here is today's new creation:

The main character in Doctor Who is an alien called a Time Lord, so I figured there was never a more appropriate time (teehee) to use Clockworks.  I convinced the hubs to take me to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff when we were in Wales in 2014, even though he thinks that Doctor Who is the weirdest show ever put on television.

After I stamped all the pocket watches and gears, I realized that I had lined up the numbers so the I is at the top of the clock face instead of the XII.*  #DUH.  I'm just going to pretend that's what a Time Lord's watch looks like.  Oh, for the DW logo, I just Googled for an image of it and printed out one that was line art, then I stuck it on top of Very Vanilla cardstock with removable adhesive and cut it out with scissors.  It's a little crooked but hey, handmade.

*I just looked back through the cards and I did the same thing on Card #3.  #DoubleDuh.

Today's color palette:  Very Vanilla, Brilliant Blue (for the TARDIS, naturally), Early Espresso, Baked Brown Sugar, and a fair bit of embossed copper.  All the watches and some of the gears are copper EP, which I still have from the last time SU! sold it so hey, I'm one up on the trend.

Okay kids, time for me to go back down to the basement.  Got some projects I need to work on.  Have a great weekend!

Supplies, scrapbook layout only:
Stamps:  Clockworks, Sense of Time, Rough Type
Ink:  Versamark, Brilliant Blue, Early Espresso, Baked Brown Sugar
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Brilliant Blue
Accessories:  Copper EP

Okay, That's Better

After yesterday's misfire, I decided to go back to the flamingo since I'd made a card with it that I liked lately and I thought maybe it would be good luck.  So here's what I have today:

I do like it a heck of a lot better than yesterday's mess.  Here's the latest from Freshly Made Sketches:

I used the Layering Circles Framelits to cut a circle out of some scratch paper, and then used the negative as a mask for my card.  I really thought about adding some stripey Melon Mambo DSP to the card, but in the end I decided to stick to the sketch and I added some of those Metallic Enamel Shapes.  They're not exactly where I wanted them, but those little boogers are sticky.

Just had to play along at What Will You Stamp? again:

I wasn't going to buy that stamp set at first, but I'm glad that I got it on a whim because I have had fun playing with it (except for yesterday).  Well, I'm off to go work on the next scrapbook layout and spend some time in the basement with little Vader man.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pop of Paradise, Sunshine Sayings
Ink:  Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo
Paper:  Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories:  Layering Circles Framelits, Hello You Thinlits, Metallic Enamel Shapes

Meh.

I have just not been having a happy time in the ol' craft cave lately.  I feel like I'm in a rut and aside from the flamingo card I made a little while back, I haven't much liked anything I've made.  And the disappointment continues today.

It's just...meh.  For once though you can actually sorta see the sparkle on the Shimmery White cardstock I used for the watercolor wash panel.  I used this week's color combo from Cupcake Inspirations:

There's no good SU! analog to the magenta, so I ended up using both Rich Razzleberry (for the watercolor wash) and Sweet Sugarplum (for the patterned paper).  The other two colors were easier--Night of Navy and Pumpkin Pie.

And here's this week's Global Design Project sketch:

And the folks at What Will You Stamp? cycled back to a stamp set I have:

Maybe I shoulda used the flamingo and then I'd like today's card better.  Well, I'm going to keep wrestling with my mojo until I make something I actually do like.  Cheers, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pop of Paradise
Ink:  Night of Navy, Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry
Paper:  Night of Navy, Shimmery White, Sweet Sugarplum DSP
Accessories:  Banners Framelits, Sunshine Wishes Thinlits, Rhinestones

A-Team Wedding 4

You know what, I'm just not going to get a card done for today so here's a layout I made two years ago.

I'd done three layouts for my brother's wedding when I found an envelope with more pictures in it, so I ended up having to make a fourth.  I think I was out of creativity though, this one is just...lacking.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  None
Ink:  Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Certainly Celery, Riding Hood Red, Night of Navy, Bella Rose DSP
Accessories:  None

Our House (England)

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  How was your weekend?  We went to see Star Trek Beyond yesterday (I wanna go see it again already!) and other than that it was pretty quiet.  This afternoon we take Little Man in to get his leg brace, looking forward to that.

So on to this week's scrapbook layout!

Since hubs and I move around a lot, I try to take pictures of each house we live in--about six months ago I was scrapping some photos from North Carolina and I kept looking in the backgrounds of the pictures and thinking oh hey, we had a Harry Potter calendar! or I forgot we used to have that picture hanging in the dining room.  Hubs and I will have our 13th anniversary this October, and in that time we've lived in seven different houses.  So this is our England house, which was my favorite of all.  Oh, see the little Big Ben sticker next to the stairs on the right-hand page?  That was one of my address labels--I always try to include one of those on the scrapbook pages too.

I think I go in cycles with alphabet stamps for my scrapbook pages, and lately it's been all about the Letterpress Alphabet.  I have another layout sitting on my craft table right now, and the title on that one is done with Letterpress too.

Today's color palette:  Island Indigo, River Rock, Primrose Petals, Early Espresso, and Whisper White.  I chose Island Indigo because we painted a wall that color in the living room after we moved in this house; the Primrose was kinda taken from the curtains that were hanging up in the room that became my England craft room, and River Rock seemed to go with those two colors together.

I'm excited to get back to work in my craft room today.  It's so nice having a clean table that's dog hair-free!  And since I cleaned the table, I also finished updating my personal stamp catalog and rearranged my stamps, putting all the newly retired ones in with the older ones and making sure all my alphabets and current stamps are up front.  I have two five-foot-tall cabinets for stamps and I'm thinking I need to upgrade to some 6-foot-tall bookshelves because I'm double-stacked.  Guess I know what I should ask Santa for this Christmas!

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Spencerian Alphabet, Letterpress Alphabet, Circle Circus
Ink:  Island Indigo, Early Espresso
Paper:  Island Indigo, River Rock, Primrose Petals, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Oval & scalloped oval punches

A-Team Baby Book: March

Y'all, we are almost at the end of this baby book--just a first birthday layout and the last page are left.  Woohoo!  So let's check out March:

I admit, my March layouts often look very similar across multiple baby books.  I just don't have a whole lot of St. Patrick's Day stamps, and I really do love that patterned paper.

And I love O'Leary.  And I was sneaky:  the A-Team are super rah-rah for their respective college teams, and this page is yellow and green and has a bear on it, which are the colors and mascot for MY school.  Teehee!  Well, what other colors would you use for a St. Patrick's Day layout?  By the way, the accents on this layout are Night of Navy, not black, though they look black in the photos.

One more shamrock.

And here is today's color palette:  Pear Pizzazz, Garden Green, Night of Navy, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, and Whisper White.  In other news, I *did* get my craft table cleaned off yesterday and it looks so nice and sparkly that I really wonder why I waited so long to clean it.  I got to work yesterday updating my personal stamp catalog and I'm hoping to start another scrapbook layout today.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Pinch Proof, bear from Whipper Snapper
Ink:  Basic Black, Garden Green, Night of Navy
Paper:  Pear Pizzazz, Garden Green, Night of Navy, PTI White, Country Club DSP
Accessories:  Deco Labels Framelits, circle & scalloped circle punches, Sizzix alphabet, Prismacolor Pencils