Blue Daisies!

Happy Friday! Just one week left of school! And that's fine with me because this year has been rough! Let's get to some summer fun!!

This card uses the Inspired By... photo, with some happy white and blue flowers. (the blue might be hidden...) And I've got more of that gorgeous paper from yesterday, and some fun new dots. Those might be my favorite kind of embellishment... 

Supplies:
Stamps: Cheerful Daisies
Ink: Misty Moonlight, Smoky Slate & Balmy Blue
Paper: Basic White card stock, Country Woods DP
Accessories: Transparent Adhesive-Backed Dots, Dimensionals, Cheerful Daisies Dies, big shot

Forest Birthday Wreath

Happy Thursday! I was hoping that this morning I would get some cards made... it took til after 2pm because I've got a sick girl who came home from school early, but here's a card for you anyway!

Today's card combines the Freshly Made Sketch with the CAS Colours & Sketches color challenge. Altho it might not be so CAS...
This might go out in the mail soon, or it might sit on my display board a while... I haven't decided. But half the reason I wanted this stamp/die set was for those trees, ha, so I was glad to play with them.

Supplies:
Stamps: Encircled in Nature, Simply Said
Ink: Pebbled Path, Lost Lagoon
Paper: Basic White & Lost Lagoon card stocks, Country Woods DP
Accessories: Tinsel Gems Three Pack, Encircled in Nature Dies, Dimensionals, big shot (retired)

And here's a close up of this gorgeous paper! I often like the wood texture DP, and I loove chippy paint, and this is both! 

Lots of prints I am looking forward to playing with!! 

Whole lotta Zoo

Hello again! More scrapping for you today! 
A few years ago, we took our kids to the zoo for the first time in over a decade. First time for the youngest. 

I think we got a photo of every single animal we saw. It's not a huge zoo, but it does take most of the day to see it all... And that doesn't include all the other photos we took. For some reason that utterly escapes me, lol, a few months later, I printed a STACK of photos of this day. And I printed three sets so each child gets it in their book. That is a dumb lot of photos for one day...! Sooo these photos have all sat in their little shoeboxes of photos, making me feel overwhelmed and uninterested in scrapping them. ha. 
Until last week when I decided it was time to put them to paper for at least one of my kiddos! I had selected the DP within a year of printing the photos, and then used pretty much all the zoo animals my mom and I have.
(We won't talk about how many days it took me to put these NINE pages together. ahem. But we will talk about not printing that many photos of a single event that isn't Christmas, ever, ever again. And we'll question printing that many for Christmas too!) 

Supplies:
Stamps: Wild About You (2006), Noah (1996), Zoofari (2007), Gorgeous Grunge -all retired

Ink: wild: Flirty Flamingo, zebra: Memento Black, giraffe: Delightful Dijon, lion: More Mustard, elephant: Pebbled Path, Penguin: Balmy Blue, snake: Parakeet Party, camel; Cinnamon Cider, deer: Moody Mauve, alligator: Cucumber Crush, sheep: Chocolate Chip, birds: Melon Mambo, rhino: Pebbled Path, monkey: Pecan Pie, leopard: Mango Melody, splash: Soft Sky, bear: Seaside Spray - many retired

Paper: Cucumber Crush, Basic White card stocks, 2015-17 in color envelope paper -retired

Accessories: Alphabet a La Mode dies, Glue Dots, big shot

And at least that set is done! 
(and no, I didn't use every photo I printed. A few went into her photo album, which is where not scrapped photos go, lol!)

Bright Birthday!

Today is a Friday that thinks it's a Monday at my house... SO many things this morning. I was excited to make a card IN my craft room today (first time in months! - it's been way too messy!) buut that meant the card wasn't exactly like the things I was trying to follow. So we'll go with 'based on'... 

The sketch is "based on" the latest from Freshly Made Sketches. (the two panels don't line up)
And the colors are "based on" the colors in the inspiration from Just Add Ink. (should have used Crushed Curry instead)
And the result is happy and fun and it's fiiiine. I also mixed old with brand new, ha. The greeting is from the new catalog. Everything else is retired.

Supplies:

Stamps: Simply Said, Creative Elements (retired)
Ink: Calypso Coral, Lemon Lolly
Paper: Calypso Coral, Basic White card stocks, Bright & Beautiful DP
Accessories: White Baker's Twine, Dimensionals 

Makin' Music!

Happy Thursday!
Really, all I've made lately is scrapbook pages. I'm going to need to make cards soon, maybe even today, but at the moment all I have to share is pages. This is a fun one I did for my son. I used THIS sketch, but I flipped it. The piano and drum stamps just retired, but the guitar is a few years old now.

Supplies:
Stamps: Enjoy The Rhythm, Epic Celebrations, Whimsical Alphabet Lower (all retired)
Ink: Memento Black, Balmy Blue, Granny Apple Green, 

Stampin' Blends: Light Old Olive, Dark Balmy Blue, Dark Smoky Slate
Paper: Balmy Blue & Basic White card stock, Dandy Designs DP (retired)
Accessories: Circle dies, big shot

Book Worms!

Happy Saturday! It is National Scrapbooking day and I've been scrapping this week.
This DP just retired but it is still my favorite that they've ever put out. And I think that's saying kind of a lot..... ha.

For this scrapbook page for my daughter, I finally used one of the "rooms" part of the DP, and I fussy cut out four cute little reading girls! And I super love the scene! It just worked so nicely with pictures of us at the Book Fair, haha. The alphabet stamp is super old but I love the kid "handwriting" for school events when they're little, and that's what this is! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Crayon Fun Alphabet Lower (2002, retired!)

Ink: Starry Sky (retired)

Paper: Basic White card stock, Just Kiddin' DP (retired!)

Accessories: Dimensionals

Journaling Font: Dreaming Outloud Pro

Here's a close up of the scene I made. The room background was printed, but the four girls are all cut out- even the one cut in half because she was on the edge of the DP and now she's on the edge of the page! I think it still worked! And two are popped up on Dimensionals, which I don't usually do in scrapping, but I felt it needed to happen here.