Christmas Shepherd

Good morning! I think today I have my first Christmas card this year! I ordered this set several weeks ago and haven't gotten to use it til now. There are other sets I want, but I snagged this one first. It's so quick and simple to make a beautiful card with!

Once again I used a color challenge from Splitcoaststampers.com.

Supplies:

Stamps: Shepherd's Care

Ink: Pretty Peacock, Pool Party

Paper: Lost Lagoon, Pretty Peacock, Basic White

Accessories: Tinsel Gems Three Pack

Trick or Treat!

A bonus weekend post for you! 

This time I combined the SUO Challenge for "tricks or treats" with the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments.
I pulled out a long retired greeting set because its just SO perfect, lol. Annnd I think this card is a bit too busy for me, lol, which is why I added the layer of Pecan Pie. But that's okay, I'm going to send it to someone and then it doesn't matter what I think. hahaha! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Kiddin' Around, Good Greetings (retired)

Ink: Memento Black

Stampin Blends: Bronze, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light & Dark Night of Navy, Light & Dark Pumpkin Pie, Ivory, Light Flirty Flamingo, Color Lifter

Paper: Basic White, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie & Pecan Pie card stock, Full of Life DP

Accessories: Dimensionals

Pumpkin Patch

Good morning! 

I really love how today's card turned out! I combined the Freshly Made Sketch with the Color Throwdown (altho I used two shades of orange) and this is the fun, festive result! It also fits the TGIF Challenge, because this is about as Halloweeny as I'm going to get this year. The card is quick and cute and that's my favorite kind anyway! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Scenic Pumpkin Patch, Simply Said

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Peach Pie, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige

Paper: Peach Pie & Very Vanilla card stocks

Accessories: 2024-2026 Resin Dots

Then I decided to make a slightly different version, that we'll do at my upcoming card class! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Scenic Pumpkin Patch, Simply Said

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Peach Pie, Basic Beige, Lemon Lime Twist

Paper: Pumpkin Pie & Very Vanilla card stocks

Accessories: Transparent Adhesive Backed Dots

Thank you or Christmas?

So, I have a card class this week, and since it's still "only" October, I did more of a thank you theme. I do have one Christmas card and then this one has the option of being whatever they need more of right now! 

This time I used the prompt from The Paper Players to make a tag, but I do not ever use tags so I stuck it on a card, haha! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Oct 2024 Paper Pumpkin / Simply Said

Ink: Old Olive, Real Red/Copper Clay

Paper: Basic White, Old Olive card stocks

Accessories: Iridescent Striped Trim, Exposed Brick embossing folder, Dimensionals, big shot, stapler

The line of trees is a little hard to see behind the tag, but I still think it adds something.

I think it also shows a bit of versatility in these pines- it doesn't just have to be a wintery, Christmas card.

But I'll show you something... I was struggling to decide which color I wanted to use for this class vs next month's class (because of COURSE we will use this stamp set for a Christmas card class!) so I decided to test it out. I "tested" it with all the greens, blues, grays and browns I own, plus some purples! I like a LOT of the results and I might like more if I used the right supplies, haha..... I think I need to play with this tree set more than I usually get to play with a single set! It's gonna be FUN.

Autumn Wreath!

Another day, another leaf, haha! 

This time I used another color challenge from Splitcoaststampers.com. Honestly, I haven't had a lot of luck with their color combinations, but I used a few this week! 

I am definitely using this for my upcoming card class! I love the pop of blue here! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Encircled In Nature

Ink: Cajun Craze

Paper: Crushed Curry, Basic White, Coastal Cabana card stocks

Accessories: Earth Tones Shimmer Gems, Encircled In Nature Dies, Glue Dots, Dimensionals, big shot

Just a tip for you- I add glue dots to the wider part of the dies, so in this case, on the leaves, and on the sticks in the wider sections where they branch off. You can see the part I hadn't peeled off below, and if you reeeally look closely, you might see the other one on the third leaf from the top. I only used two per die on this card and it will stay just fine.

You can also use glue dots when the adhesive just won't stick to the dot embellishments we have so many of right now. That happens sometimes...

Leafy Thanks

Hello! Today I have a simple autumny card for you! 

I used the sketch from Inspire.Create.Challenges, along with a color challenge from Splitcoaststampers.com. 

And I think this is going to be part of my next card class! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Spotlight On Nature

Ink: Poppy Parade, Night of Navy

Paper: Night of Navy, Very Vanilla & Wild Wheat card stocks

Accessories: Iridescent Foil Gems

Wood Flowers

Today's thank you card uses this wood DP and this flower, which I have combined before. This time I focused on that blue chippy paper. I used the latest SUO Challenge, and CASED the red package actually... on the top right. But I made mine a card. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Spotlight On Nature, Simply Said

Ink: Pool Party, Wild Wheat

Paper: Basic White card stock, Country Woods DP

Accessories: White Baker's Twine, Brass Butterflies, Dimensionals 

Butterfly Birthday

Today's quick and simple card uses the latest sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches. I cut out the strip separating the corner, and added a bit of ribbon in there too. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Butterfly Basics (retired), Places You'll Go (retired)

Ink: Gorgeous Grape, Blackberry Bliss

Paper: Basic White, Gorgeous Grape card stocks

Accessories: Gingham Ribbon (retired)

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.