Who You Gonna Call?

Okay, I shared the Halloween layout from Ryan's baby book on Saturday, so I have to share the layout from my regular chronological scrapbook today!  All the pictures except the two on the right were taken on Halloween.

The two on the right were taken at a Halloween event at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate.  I think that second picture from the left is hilarious, how Ryan is looking at me like WHAT does she have on her head?!  I made my colander hat myself :D

Today's color palette is Brilliant Blue, Real Red, Old Olive, and Whisper White.  I am running very low on Brilliant Blue cardstock, so it's a good thing I stocked up on Blueberry Bushel before it retired since they're very similar.

The first packers get here one week from today!  Still got a lot to do before they get here...

Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rough Edges Alphabet, Headline Alphabet, Cauldron Bubble, Spooky Sweets
Ink:  Brilliant Blue, Old Olive, Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Brilliant Blue, Old Olive, Thick Whisper White, Brilliant Blue DSP, Summer Picnic DSP
Accessories:  Circle punches

It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!

Mornin' y'all!  Today's baby book layout has some of my FAVORITE pictures from Ryan's first year--his Halloween costume!  He was the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from the original Ghostbusters.

Ryan actually likes to watch that movie now; there are parts that I remember hiding behind the couch so I wouldn't see them (scary library ghost, I'm looking at you) but those are the parts Ryan thinks are funny and he asks to rewind and watch them again.  Love it.  Also, I believe the baby blanket he's sitting on is the one I was wrapped in coming home from the hospital when I was born--my mom had started making a pink one, but a friend told her, "You want a girl so much, this baby is going to be a boy!" so she made a blue one instead and the pink one wasn't finished before I was born.

Anyway, back to the layout.  Even in my vast DSP collection, I couldn't find a Real Red pattern I liked for this layout, so I used some non-SU paper.  Also it took me a long time to stamp that very long page title and I didn't realize until afterward that the lower-case T is supposed to be dropped a little bit.  Oops.  But I wasn't going to redo it.  There is a Ghostbusters Little Golden Book and one page has "It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!" in huge letters, which is what I was thinking of when I made this layout.

Today's color palette is Whisper White, Real Red, Blueberry Bushel, and Balmy Blue who was absent on school picture day.

Have a great weekend, y'all!  Maybe I'll get a smidgen of stamping time this week but I'm not holding my breath.  Moving is a lot of work. :p

Supplies:
Stamps:  Letters for You, Brushwork Alphabet
Ink:  Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel
Paper:  Whisper White, Balmy Blue, Blueberry Bushel, non-SU patterned paper
Accessories:  Rectangle Stitched dies

SUO Challenges: Full Color Flowers

Goooooood morning stampy friends!  It is time once again for a new challenge at SUO Challenges!

The challenge this time is to do some coloring--use markers, Stampin' Blends, watercolor pencils, whatever technique you like to color on your card.  Here's what I did:

I decided to go with Stampin' Blends this time, so I used Highland Heather, Just Jade, and So Saffron for my colors.  I used the color lifter to try to blend the shades together a bit since I used both light and dark markers for the purple and green.  I chose Inspiring Iris just because I hadn't used it in a while, and I liked the sentiment from Silhouette Scenes to go with it.  I want to send this off to the lady who dyes my cross stitch fabric :)

Now it's your turn!  Make a colorful creation to share at the SUO Challenges blog.  I mean, I guess you *could* use black and gray to make a monochromatic card and still use coloring on it *shrug* I just like lots of colors :)  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Inspiring Iris, Silhouette Scenes
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Gorgeous Grape, Stampin' Blends in Highland Heather, Just Jade, and So Saffron
Paper:  So Saffron, Thick Whisper White, Just Jade DSP, Gorgeous Grape DSP
Accessories:  Stitched So Sweetly dies, In Color enamel dots, Dimensionals

Sadie & Vader 2013

Mornin' y'all.  I'm dragging a bit this morning because Ryan got us up twice last night crying that there were bugs in his room.  The first time he just had a bad dream, but the second time there really was a bug on the wall (ick).  Of course Ryan is all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed today :p

The hubs and I took Ryan for a walk last night with his newly repaired Power Wheels truck and we met a doggo while we were out.  I miss our furbabies so much.  I'm sad that we're not going to be able to get any other dogs until after we're done in Germany.  In the meantime, I do still have a few layouts' worth of pictures to do for our much-loved Sadie and Vader, but I did do a lot before they both died.

Pretty simple layout.  I try to keep our pictures organized chronologically on the computer, but for any given year I usually have a folder of just random pictures of the dogs, so that's what these were.  I wrote the dates for each one.  The one on top left was after we brushed Sadie and there was hair everywhere.  The hubs vacuumed recently and commented that there wasn't any dog hair in the vacuum when he finished; he said, "It used to drive me crazy how we'd have tufts of dog hair flying around all the time, but now I miss it."  Yeah, me too.  Top right is both my kiddos under my craft table where they liked to hang out.  Or right behind my chair, like Sadie in the second photo down.  They always kept me company.

Since the main color in the photos was the carpet, I chose a color combination based on that (the advantage of having black dogs:  black goes with everything.  Except navy blue.)  I ended up with Primrose Petals (a bit underused in my house, I should break it out more often), Crushed Curry, Lost Lagoon (pretty much the carpet color), Basic Black and Whisper White.

We did a lot of work this weekend to get ready for the upcoming move, and since we sold the computer desk yesterday it really looks different in here.  Plus there's boxes all over the dining room.  The movers come two weeks from today and we still have a fair amount of stuff to do, but we're working on it.  Haven't had much time to stamp though.  Gotta get to work!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Notable Alphabet, paw print from PSX
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Primrose Petals, Lost Lagoon, Basic Black, Whisper White, Festive Birthday DSP
Accessories:  Starburst Framelits, Circles Framelits, Large Letters Framelits

Ryan: Eight Months

Oyyy what a morning we had.  Ryan woke us up at 4:30 with an upset stomach and it was quite a while before anyone got back to sleep.  I just finished eating breakfast and it's 11:00!  But Ryan seems to be feeling much better now so that's good.

And it's time for another layout from his baby book!

Ryan hit 8 months old during October, so for this photo shoot I picked a Superman onesie since that's sort of costumey.  It even had a cape!  I found some Superman stamps at a local craft store so that's what I used as embellishments on this layout.

The color palette was directly inspired by the onesie:  Marina Mist, Night of Navy, Cherry Cobbler, and Whisper White.

Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies:
Stamps:  all non-SU Superman stamps
Ink:  Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler, Versamark, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler, Thick Whisper White, Night of Navy DSP
Accessories:  Clear EP

Bird Ballad Blooms

Mornin' y'all!  I didn't get to stamp yesterday, but I did get a box of new goodies!  Demonstrators got to start ordering from the upcoming mini catalog at the beginning of July and my order *finally* got here.  I only bought one stamp set from the mini catalog, but I got a bunch of papers and some other fun stuff, so I hope to bust some of that out this afternoon.

In the meantime, I have two more cards that I made a while back while I was playing with Free as a Bird and the Bird Ballad DSP:

(See my other card here.)  SU! has SO many gorgeous patterned papers, it's fun to make cards like this that really show them off.  I was just playing around so I did the same card, same DSP, but different cardstock colors for the card base and sentiment panel.

I'm going to introduce Ryan to the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie (the one from the 90s) so that's what we're doing until the splash pad opens.  Hope he likes it, it'll be fun for me to watch that blast from the past again!

Cowabunga, dude!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Free as a Bird
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Pool Party, Petal Pink, Old Olive, Thick Whisper White, Bird Ballad DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Nested Labels dies, Dimensionals

Mixing Blooms

Mornin' y'all!  Yesterday morning while Ryan was at the babysitter's house, I sorted through a bunch of stuff for the kitchen for our upcoming move, and in the afternoon I got a bit of time in my craft room to make a card.  Productive day!

My Petal Pink ink pad is extra super ridiculously juicy!  The flowers came out darker than I thought they would.  The leaves are Pool Party and the flower centers are Misty Moonlight, which I stamped off once to make it a bit lighter; the sentiment is full-strength Misty Moonlight.

Once again I had a fun time choosing elements from the Festive Friday challenge:

I'm a bit of an overachiever so I picked more than three:  friendship sentiment, pink, flower, sparkle (I used Shimmery White cardstock, though it doesn't show up in the picture), ribbon, and a die cut.  I don't use up ribbon very quickly, so a few years back I stopped buying it; I still have quite a bit of ribbons but they're all retired.  No one I'm liable to send cards to will know or care if the ribbon is retired, so I used it!  The sequins are retired too.

I chose my colors based on the Global Design Project color challenge:

I am more inclined to pair Misty Moonlight with Seaside Spray (see here), so it's nice to see how it pairs up with Pool Party instead.

For my next trick, this card also fits in with the Cupcake Inspirations Challenge:

I already had the flowers and the colors chosen, and when I saw this challenge I remembered that I had some self-adhesive Petal Pink sequins so I used some of those on my card too :)

We've got a busy day ahead--Ryan has a dentist appointment this morning and then we have several appointments this afternoon to get ready for our move.  Better wear my roller skates today so I can move faster!  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Blossoms in Bloom, Beautiful Friendship
Ink:  Petal Pink, Pool Party, Misty Moonlight
Paper:  Shimmery White
Accessories:  Ornate Frames dies, retired Sycamore Street ribbon, retired self-adhesive sequins, Dimensionals