Cousin Time

Hello again! 
A typical week in my life involves me at home during school hours- doing laundry, food prep and cooking, cleaning, and some crafting. A good week includes some family history. Maybe 1-2 days a week where I run errands and things during the day.
Last Thursday I was gone almost the entire day. I got home around 1030pm. Saturday I was gone almost the entire day. Monday I was gone almost the entire day. Tuesday I was gone almost the entire day. And yesterday I was busy more than half the day. Guys. I am tired. And I am missing my home-body life! LOL! I neeeed some crafty time! 
But today is not that day, either! Ha!   

I did make this layout sometime last month. (Did I even know it was March now? barely. Only because my birthday has been this week too, ha!) This was for our scrapbook challenges. The first page uses a layout sketch from my stampy friend Cheryl, which was the challenge. The second page was made to coordinate.

These photos have been printed for yeears, and the supplies are close to the same age, so it was well past time to get these done and in a book!

Supplies:
Stamps: Classic Alphabet
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Paper: Autumn Spice DP, Crumb Cake card stock
Accessories: Amber Gems, Sweetheart Punch 
Journaling Font: Cinnamon Cake

I hope YOU get to craft this week! I'm off again! 

Peace & Happiness

hola! My daughter is actively studying Spanish, and I took five and a half years of German, 30ish years ago, so we've all been throwing out non-English words this week, ha. And that's what came out of my fingers onto the keyboard just now, so hola! 

Today I have another layout for our scrapbook month challenges. This challenge was to focus on one or more colors. I chose green for peace and yellow for happiness, to go with these random, imperfect photos of my youngest and my husband. I used three shades of green and one shade of yellow.

Supplies:
Stamps: Taffy Alphabet
Ink: Always Artichoke
Paper: Parakeet Party card stock, Petals & Paisleys DP (2006)
Accessories: Old Olive grosgrain ribbon, 2022-24 In Color Matte Dots, PL Memories In The Making Accessory Pack

Did you get to make anything this week? I think you should...! 

Picnic Page

Hello again!
Today I have a quick layout (sort of- there's two fussy cut images there, that takes a minute, ha) that I actually made two of- one for each of my daughters. We just had a picnic lunch at a park together one day and I snapped some cute moments, so here's a page, ha! 

Supplies: 

Stamps: Choose Happiness, Alphabest

Ink: Wild Wasabi, Melon Mambo
Paper: Basic White card stock
Accessories: Regal Foiled Dots
Journaling Font: Ink Free

A Day Trip

So, I'm part of a little scrapbooking group on Splitcoaststampers, and this month they had a virtual scrapbook night month with a handful of challenges. This single day trip was scrapped using two different challenges, and still all goes together! 

First up, a wordplay challenge, with the letters L-O-V-E.
For this page, I chose Letters, Oval, Violet, Embellishments. ha. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes, Alphabet Appeal
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Basic White, Wisteria Wonder card stocks
Accessories: Oval Punch, Subtles Candy Dots, Neutrals Candy Dots
Journaling Font: Janda Elegant Handwriting

Then the second part of the day fit a challenge to try the smooching technique. I used the two purpley inks and spritzed them with water. Then I laid a small piece of white card stock on the ink, and cut out a scallop circle from it. Then I cut that circle in half for the layout. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Pocket Silhouettes, Alphabet Appeal
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant
Paper: Basic White card stock
Accessories: Subtles Candy Dots, Neutrals Candy Dots, Circle dies, Big Shot

Journaling Font: Janda Elegant Handwriting

And! with that third page, I finally (HA!) finished my pack of Subtles Candy Dots!! That was the green Stampin' Up! label, which came before the black label! haha! In some ways, it's about time! But in other ways, I like dots- they're so easy to use, and the adhesive stuck to those! 

Christmas Party Date Night

This is actually a Christmas event, but the photos look more like Valentines, and the page looks like winter, lol, so I'm sharing it now!

Altho it really hasn't looked like winter at my house. It SHOULD. I know most other places have had quite a winter. We are getting skipped. One weatherman posted that Utah is allergic to moisture. Seriously... It's a little scary, tbh. I want a garden this year AND I'm not in the mood for wildfires.... just sayin.  

Supplies:

Stamps: Classic Alphabet, Classic Alphabet Numbers

Ink: Smoky Slate
Paper: Basic White, Powder Pink, Peaceful Place DP
Accessories: Iridescent Ribbon, Metallic Pearls 

Purple Roses

Hello again!
Today I have the second card I made a few days ago with the pink roses. After I colored them pink, I thought it might work well to use the Blending Brush to color them instead. Maybe a slightly softer look...? So I tried it in purple! Four different shades of purple show up on this card! I brushed the roses in Wisteria Wonder and I drew a little bit using the Gorgeous Grape watercolor pencil on the daisies. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Layers of Beauty, PS You're The Best

Ink: Smoky Slate, Wisteria Wonder, Gorgeous Grape
Paper: Highland Heather, Basic White 
Accessories: Gorgeous Grape Sheer Ribbon, Regals Candy Dots (Elegant Eggplant), Blending Brush, Exposed Brick embossing folder, Big Shot

Epic Birthday!

I know a young man who is a biiig fan of EPIC: The Musical and when this long-retired stamp set (2018) was spied, it was suggested I couldn't make his birthday card without that greeting, ha! So I combined these two rock-music styled stamps with the latest challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches, and ended up with this: 

Supplies: 
Stamps: Epic Celebrations, Grunge Rock

Ink: Pretty Peacock, Pool Party

Paper: Pool Party, Soft Seafoam, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Shades of Green Hexagons

Pink Birthday Balloons!

Today I have some happy birthday balloons for a cute little birthday girl! Altho it could totally work for a grown-up birthday girl too! I used the color combination from TGIF Challenges for this one. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Arched Wishes, 2016 Paper Pumpkin, even older Paper Pumpkin

Ink: Bubble Bath, Melon Mambo, Memento Black

Paper: Bubble Bath, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Vintage Crochet Trim 

Pink Roses

Hello and happy Monday! ...still. I have a sickie home but I think she'll be at school tomorrow. I actually had two sickies home this morning but one was okay after some meds, lol... 'tis the season. And there's actually a storm blowing in, for once. I hope it brings a lot of water!!!

Today I have a card using the inspiration photo from SUO Challenges. I picked the colors and the roses. I started coloring with Stampin' Blends but I felt like that was way too bold. So I used Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pens to color in just the blooms themselves. I also distressed it a little with the Timeworn Type embossing folder.

Supplies:
Stamps: Layers of Beauty, Sunny Sentiments
Ink: Smoky Slate, Flirty Flamingo
Paper: Flirty Flamingo, Basic Beige
Accessories: Antique Pearls, Crochet Lace, Watercolor Pencils (Flirty Flamingo, Melon Mambo, Cherry Cobbler), Blender Pens, Timeworn Type embossing folder, Dimensionals, Big Shot

And, I liked, and had a variation idea, so I made another for another day, ha! 

A Valentine Layout

Hello! Lots going on around here, hardly any of it crafty. 
But just like on Monday, here's a scrapbook layout I made sometime last year and saved to share in February, ha! This one uses Cheryl's sketch EMS Sketch 121.

Supplies:
Paper: Bloom Impressions DP, Basic White, Melon Mambo & Blushing Bride card stock

Accessories: Sunny Day Dots, Sweetheart Punch, Jan 2016 PP kit (big heart)
Journaling Font: Chalk Hand Lettering, Book Antiqua, Cinnamon Cake

I hope YOU are getting time to create! 

A Valentine card

Hello and happy Monday to you!
It's Groundhog Day today, but we celebrated yesterday, haha. Yep, we celebrate! We've kind of always watched the Bill Murray movie every year, more like as an indoor date night. One year my daughter heard lots of people talking about the Super Bowl food they were going home to enjoy after church, ha, so we made Super Bowl food to celebrate Groundhog Day that year. And the tradition stuck! 

But most of February, especially in the crafting world, (and the mom world) means Valentines. So today I have a Valentine-y card that I made last year and never shared! Handy! ha! I am pretty sure I designed this for a class and changed my mind. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Perfect Pairs
Ink: Memento Black, Real Red

Paper: Basic White, Real Red, Basic Black card stocks

Accessories: Transparent Adhesive-Backed Dots

Trains! Round Two...

Hello again! Two days in a row- and the same thing, just scrapped a little differently.
This layout one is for my son, and I let him select which photos to scrap, and which DP to use. The first bit of DP is so old it's single sided! ha! The second one, I cut out the part of the map that applied to this engine. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Traveler, Just Perfect Alpha
Ink: Memento Black, Crumb Cake
Paper: World Of Good DP, Timeworn DP (single sided!)
Journaling Font: Courier New

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Another big project that has been keeping me from paper crafting was that we redid our main bathroom. Nine years ago we put together this Batman themed bathroom. What you don't see here are some metal signs we put in there later, next to the shower, and Batman cabinet knobs. You also don't see the Batman trash can hiding around the corner. Astoundingly, no photos exist of these things....which boggles my brain. But it was a whole thing.

It's been fun, but the fan has never been effective and it's a very small space with no actual ventilation, so it's gotten mildewy and smelly and not great. We knew we had to repaint with Kilz, and we needed to replace some things that had started to rust, so we went all out!

The biggest reason I'm sharing it here is that the paint color was created with a scrap of Seaside Spray card stock because that's my favorite shade of Stampin' Up! blue, ever! And it worked so nicely with the shower curtain we planned to return to! 

Cool, huh?? It's a dark room now, darker than we intended, but the people who use it the most love it, so that's good enough for me!