Coastal Mermaid

Hey y'all, how's it going.  I managed to do some organizational work in my craft room yesterday and I made a couple of cards too :)  Still having problems getting good pictures of them though, it took me four tries to get a photo of the card to share today.

I like this little mermaid and I always want to fussy-cut her.  I used a piece of the just-retired Simply Marbleous DSP stack, which reminds me very strongly of a whole LOT of patterned paper from when I first starting scrapbooking mumbledy-mumbledy years ago.  Anyone else remember the Paper Pizzazz stuff?  I chose this pattern because I needed a Coastal Cabana background for my mermaid for the Just Add Ink color challenge:

I used those colors, plus some neutrals for her skin and hair and just a wee smidge of Just Jade for the leaves on her flower.  At the last minute I decided she needed something else, which is how I ended up with the Coastal Cabana foil circle behind her, which is part of the new Waves of the Ocean promotion.

Hope your week is off to a good start!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Pirates & Mermaids
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, various Stampin' Blends
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Thick Basic White, Simply Marbleous DSP Stack, Blue Foils
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Wink of Stella

March 2019

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  After a good start in January, I pretty much got nothing done in February for scrapbooking.  I spent most of last week with Ryan at home all day because of daycare issues and then our daycare provider quit entirely...here's hoping that we find a long-term solution to that soon.  Just need to make it to when school starts in August...

Anyway, I have a layout to share today that I made over a year ago now.

All pics are from March of 2019, this is another one of those layouts where I take the month's random snapshots and put them on one layout.

Today's palette:  Old Olive, Certainly Celery, Terracotta Tile, Chocolate Chip, and Whisper White.  I like the contrast of the Terracotta Tile accents with all that green :)

Okay, I'm going to try to make the most of my day off today.  I've got some packages to get ready to mail and some laundry to start (always laundry!) and then it's off to my craft room to do some work.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  My Paper Pumpkin, Fox & Friends, Bugs & Kisses
Ink:  Terracotta Tile, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip Marker
Paper:  Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, Terracotta Tile, Thick Whisper White, Certainly Celery DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes Dies

Paper Players: Happy Spring

Here we are at Sunday again already and that means a new Paper Players challenge!

It took me a while to decide what to make for today's challenge, there was so much to be inspired by with the challenge graphic!  In the end, I pulled colors from the two pics on the left, and chose to stamp a tulip because of the pic on the top right, and here's what I made:

The patterned paper was a scrap left over from a previous project, so I designed my card around it.  I decided to showcase just one grand purple tulip and must admit I've been a little obsessed with embossing my sentiments in white on colored cardstock of late :)  I love the crocuses in the inspiration pic and I just acquired a stamp which has crocuses on it, but I couldn't resist playing with this tulip suite for today.  The ribbon was a Sale-a-Bration offering a few years ago but I never get all the way through a roll of ribbon before it's retired.

Now it's your turn to make a spring-inspired card and upload it at the Paper Players blog.  Have fun!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Flowering Tulips
Ink:  Granny Apple Green, Mossy Meadow, Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape, Mango Melody, Versamark
Paper:  Granny Apple Green, Gorgeous Grape, Thick Basic White, Flowering Fields DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Thoughts dies, Potted Succulents dies, Highland Heather ribbon, white EP

The Paper Players Design Team

Jaydee

LeAnne Pugliese

Claire Broadwater

Joanne James

Laurie Schmidt

Anne Marie Hile

Ann Schach

Cindy Beach

Christy Stanford

Jennie Maier

You Matter Spring Bouquet

Hey y'all, happy Friday!  Even though I was home with Ryan all day yesterday, I did manage to make a quick card while he was playing video games.

We've had a whole lot of sunshine here this week, which is great weather-wise but it makes taking pictures of my cards a challenge.  Can't really do anything about the harsh shadows on here.

Had to have another go at this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

And this time I paired it with the CAS Colours & Sketches soft spring color palette:

And since that challenge is specifically CAS, I didn't add any embellishments except a bit of Wink of Stella in the flower centers, which doesn't show up in the picture anyway.

And with that, I'm going to grab Ryan and go outside to enjoy the beautiful weather, even if it is still chilly.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Hand-Penned Petals,  Happy & Heartfelt
Ink:  Soft Suede, Stampin' Blends in Soft Sea Foam, Fresh Freesia, Flirty Flamingo
Paper:  Soft Sea Foam, Flirty Flamingo, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  Wink of Stella

Viking Encouragement

Hey y'all, what a week this has been.  We implemented a new computer system at work starting Monday and it is...not great, shall we say.  And now we're having daycare issues too and I might have to bring Ryan to work with me today?  That should be interesting.  In the meantime, I feel like the message on today's card is kinda for me today...

I got Brave Vikings on a whim (to go along with my Pirates & Mermaids set, also bought on a whim) but how cute is Sigrid here?

Check out this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

Definitely a keeper.  And check out this week's Color Throwdown:

I used Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, Bermuda Bay, and Crumb Cake for my colors, though somehow the Bermuda Bay Blends ended up looking more like dark green?  Oh well.

Have a good day, peeps.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Brave Vikings, Way to Goat
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Granny Apple Green, Versamark, various Stampin' Blends
Paper:  Bermuda Bay, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Sunshine & Rainbows DSP Stack
Accessories:  Tasteful Labels dies, white EP, Dimensionals

SUO Challenges: Get Inspired

Hey there friends!  It's time for another challenge from the SUO Challenges crew!

This time around, we've got an inspiration pic for you, check it out:

There's a LOT to be inspired by in that picture!  My little brain kept noticing the animal print pillows and the pink walls, which reminded me of a particular piece of patterned paper in the Pattern Party DSP pack, and here's what I made:

If the layout of my card looks familiar, it's because I based it on the current Paper Players sketch : )  But I used a totally different set of papers, stamps, and dies for this one.  Okay, two of the die sets are the same (the stitched rectangles and Hippo Friends dies).  Elle Woods of Legally Blonde would like to remind you that pink is absolutely a fierce color!

So what inspires you from the picture?  Upload your creation to the SUO Challenges blog!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Wild Cats
Ink:  Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark
Paper:  Pool Party, Flirty Flamingo, Thick Basic White, Pattern Party DSP
Accessories:  Big Cats dies, Stitched So Sweetly dies, Hippo Friends dies, Rectangles Stitched dies, White EP, Dimensionals

Dunskey

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Today's layout is another castle in Scotland; are you tired of castle pictures yet?  Hope not, because we took more last weekend ; )

I started this layout in 2020 and didn't finish it until a couple of weeks ago because that's how long it took me to order a 5x7 print for the left hand page.  And I added the round accent on the right page, too.  It wasn't until I was taking pictures of the layout that I realized I had done the title and accent on Very Vanilla but the journaling on Whisper White.  Horrors!  I'll have to redo the journaling but I won't redo the picture here.  Probably.  It bothers me to have both white and vanilla on the layout though.

Today's color palette features a variety of retired colors:  Concord Crush, Blue Bayou, More Mustard, Vintage Violet, and Very Vanilla (and soon-to-be-not-there-anymore Whisper White).

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Lovely Letters Alphabet, Best of Shelli
Ink:  Blue Bayou, Concord Crush marker
Paper:  Concord Crush, Blue Bayou, Vintage Violet, Thick Very Vanilla, Blue Bayou DSP, Autumn Traditions DSP
Accessories:  Layering Circles dies