Visiting Santa!

This page comes right after yesterday's pages, altho it took place in the middle, ha. The line for Santa was pretty long, so she stood in line before seeing the trains. 
This page uses die cuts from a DP pack, that I featured last December. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Just Perfect Alpha

Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Cherry Cobbler, Pretty in Pink, A Little Bit Festive punchouts

Dance & Trains

Last December, my daughter's dance class had a mini show at a little community event. It was held in the same building as a very small model train show we always visit at Christmas. It was a fun little morning as a family and I think the page turned out pretty fun too. Something about letting the DP do the work, ha. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Sparkly Seasons

Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Cherry Cobbler c/s, Santa Express

Happy December!!

December is in full swing around here! We put up the tree on Friday, decorated the house on Saturday and got our first snow on Sunday! Hooray!! Monday the kids got new jammies (and slippers for the one who needed them) and this week is when all the things "to kick off the season" are crammed! ha! 

So for today, here's a scrapbook layout I made earlier this year about a Christmas event! We did this in 2010 and the photos were printed in 2011, ha. Hooray for getting it scrapped!! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Alphabest

Ink: Early Espresso
Paper: Rococo Rose, Real Red card stocks, Candy Cane Lane DP

Accessories: Rococo Rose Scalloped Linen Ribbon, Real Red ribbon

Journaling Font: Cinnamon Cake

Father's Day!

Hello! I hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving, or just a fantastic November 27th! At our house, the day after Thanksgiving means we decorate for Christmas, so I'll just scoot over to the next celebration, while looking back at this happy day.
And a fantastic layout if I do say so myself. Because I used someone else's idea...! This was for a challenge to scraplift someone, and I found a really good one HERE. 

Supplies:
All MDS

Paper: Well Worn, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Chocolate Chip Button Latte
Journaling Font: Baskerville Old Face

Mother's Day!

My brain is scrambled with Thanksgiving cooking and cleaning and and and... but today here's a different family-themed event to inspire you if you get creative time today!
Quick and simple, especially since it was digital, ha. 

Supplies:
All MDS: 

Stamps: All Holidays

Ink: Rich Razzleberry
Paper: Rich Razzleberry Blooms. So Saffron Small Polka Dots
Accessories: Rich Razzleberry Brads

I am thankful I get to spend time creating in my life. I'm thankful you're here! I hope you have a happy and peaceful tomorrow, whatever you're doing! 

Another Back To School

The week of Thanksgiving is upon us, and we are hosting for the first time ever. Not a huge group, there will be 11 diners. But still, I haven't done this before. *I am not even doing it- my husband will be cooking three kinds of meat. I'll do mashed potatoes in the Instant Pot and sweet potato casserole, haha. But I will be doing a lot of the cleaning before people arrive. 

Which means I will not be stamping. Possibly anything this week at all... ha. So here are some pages I've already made, starting with another day of going back to school! 

Supplies:

Stamps: ABC Alphabet Upper & Lower

Ink: Basic Gray
Paper: Azure Afternoon, Rococo Rose card stocks, Storytime DP

Accessories: Rococo Rose Scalloped Linen Ribbon, Transparent Adhesive Backed Dots 

Everything is long-retired except the base. This one is pretty basic, but it's in her books! I also re-sorted her books last week and put everything in order for her! Yeay! 

Colorful Christmas Trees!

Today's card was super fun too! Love when an idea works! haha! 

This time I used The Paper Players challenge to use your favorite holiday image. Thaat's hard to decide but I really do love these trees. I combined it with the SUO Challenge and took their inspiration photo literally. And I am SO happy with how it turned out!
There's some Cloud Cover ink blended around the background. I don't know if it's CAS enough but I had a great time putting it together! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Peaceful Evergreens, Itty Bitty Christmas

Ink: Rococo Rose, Delightful Dijon, Gray Granite, Evening Evergreen, Cloud Cover

Paper: Cloud Cover & Basic White card stocks

Accessories: 2025-27 In Color Flat Pearls, White Baker's Twine, Peaceful Evergreen dies, Blending Brush, Big Shot

Also, btw, haha, when I say "I used scraps", this is what I mean: 

And I only even used two of those white trees, ha! 

Artistic Autumn Leaves!

Today has been a FUN stamping day! I've gotten several things going and I got to ink up this pretty, new stamp!
I used the colors from Color Throwdown (I will miss you!!!!) and the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments. I liked the result so much I made it twice with different shades! HA! (also because I couldn't decide between bold colors or pastel...)

This one was done first and I loved it...

Supplies:
Stamps: Artistic Leaves

Ink: Peach Pie, Lemon Lolly, Pear Pizazz, Pumpkin Pie

Paper: Basic White, Peach Pie, Lemon Lolly, Pear Pizazz card stocks

Accessories: Amber Gems, Circle Dies, Dimensionals

but then! I *really loved the second! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Artistic Leaves

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Always Artichoke, Pecan Pie

Paper: Basic Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Always Artichoke card stocks

Accessories: Amber Gems, Circle Dies, Dimensionals

I super love those Amber Gems. That's one of those things I actually do regret not getting more of! 

I switched sides of the orange paper because everything here was made with scraps, other than the bases. I think I like the richer colors card, but actually I think it's because of where I put the sentiment, and I think the little specks add a lot! 

Do you have a favorite?

First Day of School

Hello again!
Life has been so busy!
Also I think I was sick... a couple of my kids had a five day, nasty, stay-in-bed cold and I got a five day migraine that kept me pretty much in bed... Very, very little got done last week, of any thing. So first thing today, I got some scrapping done! 
Pretty simple, but uses stash and kinda fun. :)

Supplies:

Stamps: Number of Years

Ink: Pacific Point
Paper: Fresh Freesia, Pacific Point card stocks, Just Kiddin' DP

Accessories: Regals Candy Dots

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Good morning, haha! I thought these bright colors would be fun for a little boy but wow- HAPPY BIRTHDAY! haha! 

Today's card uses the latest CAS Colours and Sketches altho it prrrobably is not super CAS... Oh well, I liked the sketch and I like how it worked out.

Tho I do need to re-ink my Granny Apple Green pad....

Supplies:

Stamps: Party Wishes

Ink: Mango Melody, Poppy Parade, Granny Apple Green

Paper: Basic White & Granny Apple Green card stocks

Accessories: Transparent Dots 

Halloween Cookies!

Another late-in-the-day post, but I got a card made! This will go out next year. But I made paper cookies!!

I used the SUO Challenges inspiration photo. I didn't really have the Halloween images in the photo, but I do have a cookie cutter set, haha, and I have the shown colors. I stamped the cookies on Basic Beige hoping they'd look like lightly browned sugar cookies. They do not, but it's okay, hahaha....the colors show up better on Basic Beige than they would on Crumb Cake. I am not a coloring perfectionist and I decided to lean in to that and call it icing! And then the circles that come with punching out the gingerbread shape became sprinkles that are scattered on the table with the cookies! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Cookie Cutter Halloween, Buffalo Check

Ink: Memento Black
Stampin' Blends: Dark & Light Granny Apple Green, Dark & Light Pumpkin Pie, Dark Basic Black, Dark Highland Heather, Light Blackberry Bliss
Paper: Basic Beige, Basic Black & Granny Apple Green card stocks

Accessories: Cookie Cutter Punch, Dimensionals, Glue Dots 

A Covid Halloween

Halloween just keeps inching closer! 

Today I have a page from Halloween of 2021- which was the first time covid managed to get in our house. My older kids had bought pieces to be their then-favorite cartoon characters (Dipper & Mabel from Gravity Falls), but on the 28th, they went to get tested instead. My son got a negative and he was SICK for weeks. My daughter got a positive and she was sick for two days. mmkay. But she was still in high school and they were being pretty strict so they were stuck in their own bedrooms a while. I did make them have lunch outside in the sunshine, with human interaction, every day, and we did this little photo shoot. 

They got to wear the costumes the following year, haha, so it worked out, but it was a bummer that day for sure. 
The colors on the page came from mostly her clothes, but the definitely the photos. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits, ABC Alphabet Lower

Ink: Misty Moonlight, Berry Burst, Memento Black, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Berry Burst, Misty Moonlight, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Classic Matte Dots 

Haunted Graham Cracker Houses

Happy Monday! 

I have another Halloweeny page for you today- this time I used pink with the very subtle orange dots! I don't think you can even see them in the photo, but they're sprinkled with the bats on the "top" edge of the DP. But her "haunted house" was pink, so pink it is! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Straight Up Alphabet & Numbers Mini set

Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Basic Black & Melon Mambo card stocks, Halloween Night DP

Accessories: Regal Foiled Dots

Happy Jacks!

hello! Late posting today, but here's something new to look at anyway, ha! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Jar of Haunts, Skinny Mini Alpha

Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Pumpkin Pie, Dark Granny Apple Green, Bronze

Ink: Memento Black, Timid Tiger
Paper: Very Vanilla & Timid Tiger c/s

Accessories: 2025-27 In Color Flat Pearls

Witchy Halloween!

Happy Wednesday, apparently, ha. It's been a while! And I lost a day or two or something... 
But I'm back today with more Halloweeny scrapping! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Just Perfect Alpha, Greeting Card Kids

Ink: Memento Black, Soft Seafoam
Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Pumpkin Pie, Light & Dark Highland Heather, Light & Dark Granny Apple Green, Bronze, Light Basic Black, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Petal Pink

Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green card stocks, Halloween Memories Two Tone card stock, Halloween Spells DP

Accessories: Shades of Green Hexagons, Pool Party Ribbon, Blending Brush

I stamped the pumpkin girl on a post it to cover my colored image. I used the Blending Brush to surround the girl with Soft Seafoam ink. It didn't turn out perfectly, but it's fine. The Granny Apple Green Hexagons are so transparent, they don't look at all green on the Gorgeous Grape base... Oh well. This kiddo loves Halloween and will be happy to have a new Halloween Day scrapped! 

Trick or Treat!

Happy Monday to you! It is definitely getting to be autumn! Cold mornings and evenings, and the mountain tops have snow for a second time! 

Here's another Halloween night layout. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Alphabet Appeal Lower
Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Bumblebee & Basic Black card stock, Monster Bash DP
Accessories: Amber Gems

Happy Trick or Treaters!

Happy Thursday to you! I hope your week is going well! 
Today's card is a fun one! I used the colors from TGIF Challenges, the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments, and the theme from The Paper Players! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Scary Cute

Ink: Memento Black, Gorgeous Grape

Paper: Gorgeous Grape, Daffodil Delight, Basic White card stocks, Halloween Night DP

Accessories: Iridescent Pearls, Spotlight On Nature Dies, Circle Dies, Dimensionals, big shot

Halloween Scarecrow!

I don't make a lot of Halloween cards, but I do send a few, which means I need a few! 

Today I used the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches, along with the Autumn/Fall challenge from Inspire.Create.Challenges. I colored this cute little scarecrow to match the plaid DP I could find. (as I was coloring, I remembered that my other plaid stack is with my Christmas DP...)  

Everything I used is from the waayback. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Cookie Cutter Halloween, Good Greetings

Ink: Memento Black, Island Indigo
Stampin' Markers: Smoky Slate, Island Indigo, Lost Lagoon, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Strawberry Slush

Paper: Lost Lagoon & Basic White card stock, Adventure Bound DP

Accessories: Bumblebee 2020-22 In Color Ribbon, Metallic Pearls, Cookie Cutter Punch, Dimensionals 

Autumny Notes

Happy Monday! We had a good weekend reset and we're back to life today! 
I really wanted some cards made so that's what I'm doing today!

First up, this happy autumny card! I used the latest Freshly Made Sketch and the latest from Color Throwdown and I love it! When this set came out, it was one of my very favorites. Turns out, still a favorite! I haven't made anything I haven't liked with this set- it's a keeper!!  

Supplies:

Stamps: Wishing You Well
Ink: Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green & Basic White card stocks, Adventure Bound DP
Accessories: Spotlight On Nature dies, Dimensionals

Jack O Lanterns!

Hello again!
I've got another Octobery page for you today! This time, the DP is so old it's single sided! The button is so old I can't guess what it's called. And the stamps are also quite old. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Sparkly Seasons
Ink: More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Memento Black
Paper: Basic Black, More Mustard & Basic White card stock, Halloween Night DP
Accessories: buttons, Linen Thread, Glue Dots

One Halloween Night

Playing catch up, sharing older Halloween projects I haven't shared before, and here's a page for you! Half the supplies came from Stampin' Up! (some while they were partnered with Becky Higgins' products) but the other half came from a scrapbook store, where this boy bought me scrapping supplies for a Christmas gift! So yes, I'll be using that! 
I think it made for a fun page! 

Supplies:
Paper: Basic Black & Pumpkin Pie card stocks, LSS DP
Accessories: Seasonal Snapshot 2015 SU/Project Life

Pumpkin Juice

Happy October to you! Let the holiday season begin!! Hopefully it will cool all the way down very, very soon! 

Today I have a layout. The first page was a CASE for a challenge. It took some time but it was fun to make! that circle is all stamped! Then I stamped the border of the second page to match. 
The photos are the oldest part of this layout. My husband was making pie with a fresh pumpkin, and let the kids try fresh pumpkin juice- just like Harry Potter drinks! it was not a hit, haha!! 
The pie was much tastier than the juice. I intend to add the pie recipe in the empty rectangle space.

Supplies:

Stamps: Scenic Pumpkin Patch, Seasonal Snapshot 2015, Alphabet Appeal Lower

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Peach Pie, Granny Apple Green, Mossy Meadow, Pecan Pie
Paper: Very Vanilla card stock

Accessories: Amber Gems 

Grassy Friendship

Today's card uses the latest challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches. 

I liked these colors together, I just wasn't sure what direction to go in... I recently rearranged some of my craft room and remembered this set. It was a Sale-A-Bration freebie, in 2019. I was surprised I only used it once- I used it to make a card I really like! But here's something new with it! 

I inked up a stamp block to get the strip of blue on there. Then I tore off a corner and threw some Mossy Meadow card stock under it, ha. 

Suppleis:
Stamps: Home To Roost (2019)

Ink: Secret Sea, Pecan Pie

Paper: Basic White, Secret Sea & Mossy Meadow card stocks

Accessories: 2025-27 In Color Pearls 

A girly page

Hello again! 

Here's a page I made a few months ago but haven't shared. As is often the case, everything here is long retired. But still super useful and fun!
I just thought this was funny. I needed my daughter's hair done 'fancy' for portraits and she didn't want it done at all. Then she was thrilled with how it turned out. okay, haha. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Girlfriend Accessories
Ink: Soft Suede
Paper: Basic White & Perfect Plum card stock, Soft Suede Paper Patterns DP
Accessories: Everyday Enchantment Brads, Colored Pencils, Square Punch
Journaling Font: Bell MT

Thinking of Trees

Hello again!
Today I have an autumny card that used the latest from Freshly Made Sketches, the colors from As You See It and the theme of Trees from Inkspirational!  

Supplies:

Stamps: Winter Woods, Simply Said 
Ink: Secret Sea
Paper: Basic White, Secret Sea, Cloud Cover, Timid Tiger, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: Transparent Adhesive Dots 

We had a couple good fall days, but we're back to the 80's this week. Next week looks better and I hope it stays that way! 

A happy hello!

I made a card! I combined the sketch from Just Add Ink with the colors (shades of blues and greens) from Inspire.Create.Challenges. This DP was perfect for this challenge. I found a happy greeting and some old ribbon and there it is! 

Supplies 
Stamps: Sunny Sentiments 
Ink: Lost Lagoon 
Paper: Soft Seafoam, Basic White, Lost Lagoon card stocks, Full of Life DP 
Accessories: Lost Lagoon silky taffeta ribbon, Earth Tones shimmer gems, Circle Dies, big shot

More scrapping...

I did this layout a couple weeks ago and am finally sharing something here, lol...
I wasn't kidding- LIFE! There's just too much going on. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Skinny Mini Alpha (retired)

Ink: Misty Moonlight

Paper: Pecan Pie, Misty Moonlight, Basic White card stocks

Accessories: Flowers For Every Season Ribbon (retired), Tinsel Gems 3Pack (retired)

Cute Hair

Man! Life!! I tell you what! My daughter has had pretty bad hives for almost a month now, and she had a cold for a few days in the middle of that. I had a solid week of migraines, and still had commitments in there, aside from the normal mom and wife things. Our 26th wedding anniversary came and went while my husband had some pretty awful dental issues going on... Something is going on with my van sliding door making school drop off adventurous. And every Saturday from here to Halloween is packed. And that's just the extra stuff! Needless to say, crafting has taken a back seat to life at the moment. 

But here's a quick page I put together for my youngest. Only the black paper and ink are current, ha. This page was actually for a challenge to use some old accessories you've maybe forgotten about. DONE. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Alphabest

Ink: Memento Black
Paper: Crisp Cantaloupe (long retired), Basic Black card stocks
Accessories: 2013-2015 In Color Sequins, retired Washi Tape, Glue Dots, Take Your Pick Tool

I added some handwritten journaling in the blank spot. She'd been asking for weeks, but decided she wanted her hair cut closer to school starting. She's loving it! 

School Picture

I did finally get a little crafty time this weekend. That was really nice- I haven't made anything with paper for weeks! Hooray for September! Ha!

Today I have a school themed page for you! It's actually part of a double layout, but the second page is her class picture that year, and I'm leaving it off, ha. It's annoying to hide 25 kids and titles and all the things, so here you go.
This scrapping kit is ancient, but I loved it! I can't believe it is from 2007. Everything on this page is ancient, ha. It's good to use your stuff!! I liked More Mustard and I love it with this blue too. 

Supplies: 
Paper: Basic White c/s, Primary Colors SS Kit (2007!) (More Mustard, Brocade Blue)

Accessories: Regals Round Buttons, Glue Dots 

Single Layer Birthday!

Happy Labor Day to you! 
Today I have a super quick card that needs to be in the mail! I used the latest challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches (barely making it...!) and that was that! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Happiest Day (retired)

Ink: Flirty Flamingo, Lost Lagoon & Pool Party

Paper: Pool Party, Basic White

Accessories: Subtles Candy Dots (long retired- they're Pool Party, I promise!)

Daddy Daughter Date

Today I have a super quick layout for you!
This one is a page for my daughter. The paper almost matched her shirt so of course I had to use that, ha. And the title was kinda fun too, haha! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Letterpress Alphabet, Just Perfect Alphabet (both retired)

Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Paper: Flower & Field DP (retired)

Journaling Font: Throw My Hands Up In The Air

Anniversary Trip!

Happy Monday to you! 

My wedding anniversary is coming up, so here's a layout I made of a trip we took a couple years ago. We actually went back to where we spent our honeymoon, which was fun. However, it was a little amusing because we liked it a lot better twenty something years earlier, than on this day. Is it because we were younger? or because we cared less? Or maybe it was just hotter this year than the first. haha... We had a relaxing evening anyway!

This page was originally made to match a challenge- using green on a celebratory page.

Supplies:

MDS
Paper: Well Worn, Early Espresso Text, Glorious Green, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Button Latte
Journaling Font: Book Antiqua

Summer Fun!

Hello again! Today I have the digital images of some scrapbook pages I've been putting together.

A couple years ago, two of my children loudly complained that "we didn't even do anything fun all summer" ...and they got a LOOK, and handed our list that we had come up with to maybe do over the summer, and all the things crossed out with a highlighter were things that we had done! Sheesh!

With that in mind, I made a four page layout for my youngest (one of the complainers) of the fun she had this summer. I chose one photo a day (two photos, twice), and skipped some days, including our big trip, and it looks like she did lots of fun stuff to meeee! This does not include countless afternoons out with neighborhood friends, nor a few bigger activities she went to elsewhere without me, that I don't have pictures of. 

I also used a lot of images of the sun to fit Challenge #1 on Splitcoaststampers.com to put the sun or flames on a page. It was a perfect match, ha! 

Supplies:

MDS:

Stamps: Days in December

Paper: Pool Party "mats", Sunny Day DP, "pocket cards" from Persnickety Prints
Accessories: Baja Breeze grosgrain ribbon, knot

Camp!

Barely the second week of school and we're already home sick. There has not been much time at all for crafting.
So today I have a triple page layout I made a few months ago. It is photos of years ago... and every single thing here is long retired. I love using my stash for scrapping! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Just Perfect Alpha

Ink: Soft Suede
Paper: Pear Pizazz, Sarah DP
Accessories: Regals Candy Dots (all the Garden Green!)

Journaling Font: Artistamp Medium

Petroglyphs!

I didn't mean to drop off the face of the earth. We spent an amazing week in Oregon, and then came home to me "having" to make peach jam for two days and my husband and big kids started framing the rest of the basement. We have two bedrooms finished down there and the rest is unfinished. But it's on it's way now! Also elementary school started this week and college starts next week and there's just been a LOT going on!! 

Today was the first time in a while I've gotten to be crafty! I made some more pages of a trip we took last year, because of course I really want to do the latest trip, haha! 

This was our second stop on this trip. We found several panels of petroglyphs, and the internet says they are from four different times periods, so that's pretty cool to me. We couldn't find the mining ghost town, but we did find it's cemetery. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Just Perfect Alpha (retired)

Ink: Pebbled Path (retired)
Paper: Copper Clay, Wild Wheat (both retired)

Accessories: Mini Alphabet Dies, 2023-25 In Color Dots (retired), Circle Dies (retired)
Journaling Font: Arial Rounded MT Bold

That's all, folks!

Hello again and happy Thursday to you! 

Time to make a little announcement here. 
After 21 years and five months, I am choosing to no longer be a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. Look how little some of us used to be when I started this journey! 

My start date fell on my birthday! You can see my friend and her daughter made me a cake, my husband brought home Taco Bell and fancy fudge, and flowers...put in the only pitcher we had at the time....weird. And the 2004 Annual Catalog! Happy birthday to me! 

So, this means I won't have the latest catalogs or deals featured here anymore, but I will keep stamping. I have way too much in my craft room to just stop! Plus I don't expect to ever stop scrapbooking (31 years of that so far...) and I haven't bought a card from the store in yeears, obviously. 

Case in point: a birthday card that has been mailed out already! It goes with the Inkspirational Challenge about "birthday"! DONE! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Arched Wishes

Ink: Bermuda Bay (retired)

Paper: Basic White card stock, Cherry On Top DP (long retired)

Sand Hill!

Today I have another hybrid layout from the same trip. This spot was a huge hit for all the kids but especially my youngest. That girl loves dirt and sand in any form. The little dots up the hill between mine and my husband's heads in the center picture are our kids and some other people, ha. It was big and fun and sooo sandy and dusty! 

The title has been in my head since I created this page so it had to be done! It comes from a Wiggles song of the same title, haha! Some of my kids were huge fans of The Wiggles.

This page was also for a challenge to use hot colors, liiike red, orange and yellow. DONE! I actually scanned in the now-retired Delicate Desert DP for the background. Then I added digital mats in Calypso Coral, and the cardstock for the title is also Calypso Coral. 

Supplies:
Ink: Calypso Coral mats
Paper: Calypso Coral, Delicate Desert   - scanned in

Accessories: Mini Alphabet Dies

Green River

Happy Monday to you! 

We are going on a big fun trip so I wanted to scrap the last big fun trip before that, ha. I've got about 1/3 of it done so far, but that's something! 

This first layout was done in the long-retired MDS, then printed, then I die cut the letters for the title and glued it all down! I love MDS for fitting a BUNCH of pictures on a single layout.

Supplies:

Paper: Always Artichoke card stock (retired) Everybody's Business digi recolored to Always Artichoke

Accessories: Mini Alphabet Dies

The alphabet dies are new to me, and this was the first go. I have been wanting them a while...but also hesitating because how tedious is it to cut out allll the extra letters I may never use?? (this is why I haven't bought alpha stickers in actual decades...) The first run I used a sheet about the same size as the die. But this card stock is retired, which means I have a bunnnch of scraps. This pack happened to have a number of strips that were just the right width! Handy!! I tore off strips the length of the letters I needed and voila- no extras! (there were extras, lol, but not when it got down to the end) Anyway! If you're on the fence too about this die- here's my solution for you!
Also, I used the green liquid glue or the fine tip glue pen to adhere all those letters, haha! 

I hope you're off to a great new week! 

The Journey

Good morning and happy Friday! Busy weekend for me, as we prep for a fun trip! 

Today's card looks like a very similar color scheme as yesterday, but it's not. The only same color is Daffodil Delight, but I did use that for both card bases.... hmm.

But for today, I combined the colors from CAS Colours & Sketches, the theme from The Paper Players, and the theme from Hand Stamped Sentiments! You can totally do "things with wheels" with "summer vibes"! The first thing with wheels I spied in my stash was this VW Bug with road trip suitcases. Yep- that says summer to me! 

Lots of fussy cutting here! I meant to color the wheels, but I forgot. I did scuff up the car with a bit of Crushed Curry ink on a Blending Brush. I tapped it more than blended. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Beautiful Ride (retired!)

Ink: Memento Black, Crushed Curry, Garden Green

Paper: Basic White, Strawberry Slush, Daffodil Delight, Garden Green

Accessories: Blending Brush, 2025-27 In Color Flat Pearls, Perennial Postage Dies, Dimensionals, big shot (retired)

Another Floral Thanks

(I feel like I've  used that title before...maybe a lot?)

Anyway, today I have a triple challenge card. I used the colors from Color Throwdown, the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, and it fits the SUO Challenge to make something! Simple and cute- my favorite kind! 

Supplies:

Stamps: Spotlight on Nature, Elements of Text

Ink: Melon Mambo, Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight

Paper: Daffodil Delight, Melon Mambo, Basic Gray, Basic White card stocks

Triple Celebration

Happy Monday! 

My first born celebrated another trip around the sun this past week, so when I had a minute, I pulled out his photo box that needs scrapped and decided to scrap this previous birthday! I started by trying to fit these pages into a specific challenge, but that didn't work out, so it's just a layout, ha. But done is done and I think this turned out fun with a bit of uniqueness for me. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Skinny Mini Alphabet (retired)

Ink: Timid Tiger

Paper: Sweet Taffy DP (long-retired), Basic White card stocks
Accessories: Blending Brush

Journaling Font: Courier New

Summer!

Happy Monday to you!

 
Today's layout looks more like today, that's for sure.

This is actually of the last two days of school this past May. I helped at what was supposed to be a beach-theme party, but I was the only parent who signed up that day (they had a LOT going on and other parents signed up for other things, just not that day). I decided to sort of "dress up" like I was at the beach to help make it a little bit more fun. That meant I had to go to the store and buy a floppy beachy sort of sun hat, and exaggerated sunglasses. I didn't find a shirt or skirt... Mostly I just felt like an idiot, but that's how I remember class parties when I was a kid, so whatever, ha. The kids were seated on their beach towels instead of desks, and we played several rounds of bingo. I had bought prizes and the teacher had some too, and I think they all got two, maybe three, lol. 

The second page was the last day of school which was done at noon. I had bought some surprise treats to kick off summer, and I also went to the thrift store several times during May looking for some new-to-her books (contributing to incomplete series' we own) that she enjoys. She got 21 chapter books that day, ha! That would make a serious impact on summer reading! And I always let my kids choose a special treat after the first and last days of school. I used to make a treat, but this week was too busy, so she got a donut and "special" milk, and was more than happy with that, ha. 

Everything on this page is long retired, except a couple markers, and the white card stock, ha. 

Supplies:

Stamps: ABC-123 Sketch Alpha (retired), Sunny Fun (retired)   

Ink: Bermuda Bay (retired), Memento Black

Markers: Pool Party, Crushed Curry, Bermuda Bay (retired), Cucumber Crush (retired), Watermelon Wonder (retired), Tip Top Taupe (retired)

Paper: Bermuda Bay (retired), Basic White card stocks, Cherry On Top DP (retired)

Accessories: Misc Paper Pumpkin