Pines at Sunset

I really need more thank you cards, so today I combined the colors from The Paper Players with the sketch from TGIF Challenges. It is also a perfect match for the Just Add Ink challenge since I used trees and ink blending!

I ended up doing the rectangles too tall to fit a standard card, so I made a slimline card- maybe for the first time? I really don't like non-standard size cards because I don't know how to cut the cardstock without wasting too much... But I'd already stamped and blended this bit so thaaat's what I had to do! haha! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Layers of Beauty

Ink: Early Espresso, Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Copper Clay

Paper: Peach Pie, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Earth Tones Shimmer Gems

Cactus Scrapbooking

Happy Thursday! Still hot here.... soooo wishing for autumn to arrive on the tenth of October....! But we have Halloween decorations up now, so that much can feel like autumn. 

Anyway, I have a scrapbook layout for you today. These photos are several years old, so it was way past time to get them scrapped. This is the last time we went to my grandparents house, it was the trip for my grandmother's funeral. And then her kids went thru all the things and that was that. My grandparents lived in Arizona so these retired cactus stamps were absolutely required. I just fussy cut them all out and layered them on the page.

Supplies:
Stamps: Flowering Desert (retired), Desert Details (retired)

Ink: Pebbled Path, Mossy Meadow, Garden Green, Peach Pie, Flirty Flamingo, Parakeet Party(retired), Cucumber Crush(retired), Soft Succulent (retired)

Paper: Parakeet Party (retired), Peach Pie card stocks

Journaling Font: Garamond

I "need" to print hundreds of photos, because we just keep living life and doing things, but I also still have hundreds of photos printed from years ago for my older kids... And since I was in a scrapping mood, that's what I worked on. I did a few pages for my son and then discovered all of his books are full and his shelf is stuffed. Annnnd then after just setting the pages in one of his books to keep them flat and safe....his shelf collapsed. super. haha..... Guess what I'm asking for for Christmas? 

If you're curious, my girls share the bottom shelf, altho my youngest's current album is the sideways one at the top of this photo....
and my son has the collapsed shelf all to himself. 

Yeay scrapbooking!! 

Autumn Leaves!

I have not yet made it up to the mountains, where the leaves are usually much more colorful, and I am totally disappointed about that. I'm afraid I have missed our teeny window of color... There are trees around me, but for some reason the trees in our park strip tend to stay green and fall off in a heavy snow storm... weird. 

But today my card is full of colorful leaves! This is for the latest SUO Challenge (rats! I'm too late for this one too!) and the colors are all pulled from their inspiration photo. Like I actually held my ink pads up to the photo to pick the right shades. HA. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Spotlight on Nature 

Ink: Petunia Pop, Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Lost Lagoon, Crushed Curry

Paper: Cajun Craze, Basic White

Accessories: Linen Thread, Dimensionals 

Pastel Autumn!

Happy Monday once again! So many things going on in my world right now! (too much actually, white flag is up!) But I am in need of some thank yous so here I go! 

Today's card combined the Color Throwdown with the latest Freshly Made Sketch, and the theme for Inspire.Create.Challenges to do something for Autumn! Altho I just missed the deadline for FMS... I think it's fun and something a little different. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Simply Said

Ink: Lemon Lolly, Pretty in Pink, Peach Pie

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Basic White, Lemon Lolly, Peach Pie

Accessories: 2024-26 In Color Dots, Encircled in Nature dies, Glue Dots, Blending Brush, Stampin' Sponge (retired), big shot (retired) 

I used a Blending Brush to ink up the rectangle shape, and I used a retired Stampin' Sponge to add Peach Pie ink to the Peach Pie leaves. 

100 Years!!!

In just a couple of weeks, my father in law turns 100. Really, really. I shared about his 90th birthday celebration HERE, and there will be a celebration once again. 

I had discussed an idea with my husband and selected the paper and stamps I wanted to use to make him a birthday card, but hadn't sat down and done it. Then I saw the Color Throwdown colors and knew that was a match, so I got to work! Ordinarily, I probably wouldn't call Copper Clay a shade of red, but on the top strip of DP I think that looks red, so that makes it fit! These were the DP sheets I had planned to include! 

The stamps and dies are long retired, but the DP is in this catalog, haha... We do have current number dies (which I own, but they were too small for this design), and a current airplane stamp available, but this is what I used. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Sky Is the Limit (retired)

Ink: Copper Clay

Paper: Boho Blue, Night of Navy & Basic White card stocks, Take to the Sky DP

Accessories: 2023-25 In Color Dots (retired), Dimensionals, Large Numbers Framelits Dies (retired), big shot (retired) 
Font: Courier New

I actually stacked three sets of the 1-0-0 to make it bolder. The plane is popped up on Dimensionals, and the banner the plane is pulling was typed on the computer. I put a lot of time and thought into this card and got a couple other opinions too, ha. My FIL will simply love the thought, but I think the pressure was on because I've never made a 100th birthday card before! Have you?

Pink Pumpkins!

Happy Friday! I hope your day is better than mine.... I get to have some dental work done which I am dreading. Maybe that's an understatement.....

Anyway! Today's card combines the latest Festive Friday challenge (pink, brown, cream and ribbon) with the latest SCS Sketch Challenge. I'm not actually loving how the wreath turned out, stamped in layers, but it works and it's another needed Thank You on it's way to the mailbox! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Encircled In Nature, Scenic Pumpkin Patch, Simply Said

Ink: Crumb Cake, Bubble Bath

Paper: Bubble Bath, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla card stocks

Accessories: Iridescent Striped Trim, Iridescent Foil Gems

Colorful Forest

This is from the Inspire.Create.Challenges to CASE the designer. CASE in today's case, means "Copy And Selectively Edit". I used the sketch, but altered the angles, and I used the same colors for the trees, and changed the greeting. I could have die-cut them, but I wanted to stamp it instead. But you can definitely see the inspiration.

Supplies:
Stamps: Encircled In Nature, Beside Me
Ink: Misty Moonlight, Coastal Cabana, Daffodil delight, Soft Seafoam, Fresh Freesia
Paper: Basic White & Misty Moonlight card stock, Country Woods DP
Accessories: Tinsel Gems Three Pack, Dimensionals, Circle Dies (retired), big shot (retired)

All the pinks!

Today's card ended up more chaotic than I expected, but it will work for the birthday girl, haha. 

This one uses the sketch from The Paper Players and a whoooole lotta DP prints, lol. Three of them, in fact. I liked the strip that looks like a paint palette with this little artist, and I liked the watercolory-looking sheets too. But it's kind of a lot...! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Kiddin' Around 
Ink: Memento Black

Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Flirty Flamingo, Dark & Light Granny Apple Green, Light Petal Pink, Bronze, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Melon Mambo

Paper: Basic White card stock, Full of Life DP

Accessories: Dimensionals, Kiddin' Around Dies, big shot

Flower Die Cut

Hello! I am so excited for autumn! It started to cool off, and then it forgot to be autumn and should be around 90 most of this week. Rude. But the mountains are turning red and yellow so that's happy! 

Today's card uses the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches, along with the theme (wellll more the colors from the graphic...) from TGIF Challenges. It sort of looks like I took the sketch more literally, but really, I just stamped on a scrap rectangle, and then die cut the flowers out of that. Then I colored it!

Supplies:
Stamps: Layers of Beauty, Beside Me
Ink: Memento Black, Pecan Pie
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Pumpkin Pie, Dark and Light Old Olive, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Balmy Blue
Paper: Basic White, Pecan Pie card stocks
Accessories: Iridescent Striped Trim, Iridescent Foil Gems, Dimensionals, Layers of Beauty Dies, big shot

Friendship Flower

Happy Monday! Ready for a new week? 

Today I have a fun and quick card. I chose two of the newest In Colors for this idea. After I glued it down I remembered I had these in a set of three markers I got on my 12th birthday (plus pink), and now all I can see is the early 90's..... hahaha! It's fiiiiine, I'll just send the card to the friend who gave me the markers, ha! She won't remember, but if she sees this, she'll laugh too.

Supplies:

Stamps: Cheerful Daisies

Ink: Summer Splash, Petunia Pop

Paper: Summer Splash, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Cheerful Daisies dies, Dimensionals, big shot 

Thanks Pumpkin!

Happy Friday! We made it, again! Yeay! 

Today I have a three-fer! I used the sketch from As You See It, with the colors from Color Throwdown and the theme from Hand Stamped Sentiments! And I really like the result! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Scenic Pumpkin Patch, Simply Said

Ink: Cajun Craze, Mossy Meadow

Paper: Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze card stocks

Accessories: Dimensionals, Vintage Crochet Trim (Retired 2017?) 1 3/8 Circle Punch (retired)

That strip of Cajun Craze card stock was in my scraps, already torn, so that's why it doesn't go the full length of the card. And that is why I keep scraps! ha! But it still fits the sketch beautifully! 

Bold Birthday!

Today's card combines two challenges and I think the result is happy and fun and perfect for someone's birthday next year, ha!
I used the sketch from TGIF Challenges and the One Stamp challenge from SUO Challenges. I think it's a perfect match. Simple, but not subtle. 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Simply Said

Ink: Petunia Pop

Paper: Petunia Pop & Basic White card stocks, Unbounded Beauty DP

Accessories: Dimensionals 

What are you making today?