Bright Birthday!

The instant I saw the latest Freshly Made Sketch I knew exactly how to use it for my husband's birthday! I had my youngest pick colors from Stampin' Up!'s Brights color family and I used strips that were already in the packs! That's all there was to it! Happy, colorful, done!

Supplies:
Paper: Melon Mambo, Pacific Point, Granny Apple Green, Coastal Cabana, Gorgeous Grape, Mango Melody, Basic Black & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Well Written dies, Big Shot, Glue Dots

Graduating Boys

Of course I know a ton of graduating kids, but I have two boys that we need to mail a card to, so today I'm sharing what I made for them! I used the Mojo Monday sketch for the layout, altho it might be a little hard to see. The stack of books is a fun idea but I think it might be too bright for this card. Oh well! I fussy cut the graduating owl and popped him up on Dimensionals so he could stand out a bit. This sweet stamp set is sold out! Hurry and order those retiring items so you don't miss out on anymore!

Supplies:

Stamps: Check You Out (SOLD OUT!)
Ink: Soft Suede, Gray Granite, Real Red, Pacific Point, Balmy Blue, Pear Pizazz, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie & Granny Apple Green

Paper: Real Red, Pacific Point and Very Vanilla card stocks

Accessories: Dimensionals

And here's some close ups of these cute graduating owls! 

Daddy Birthday

Today I have another masculine card for you, and again with the retiring products! (Seriously tho- they are selling out so hurry and order if you want it!)
I combined the sketch from The Paper Players and the colors from the As You See It challenge for this sweet card for my daughter to give her father for his birthday. For the girl's hair I used Soft Suede lines and then went over it with So Saffron. Stampin' Blends work better, but that's what I had, ha! I did sneak in a tiny bit of blue marker for the water at his feet, but I like how it turned out.

Supplies:
Stamps: A Good Man, Sending You Thoughts (retired)
Ink: Memento Black, Soft Suede marker, Lovely Lipstick marker (retiring!), Call Me Clover marker (retiring!), So Saffron marker, Blueberry Bushel marker (retiring!)
Paper: Soft Suede, Call Me Clover & Whisper White card stock
Accessories: Dimensionals

This Bee!!

My mom loved this bee bundle ever since she opened the Occasions Mini! She wanted to order it for ages but the dies were on backorder for what felt like forever, darn this virus! She finally got it and neither of us has had a chance to play with it! I finally did, in making a bunch of masculine thank yous! And now it's on the retired list! Aaaahhh! So if you love it too, snag it HERE, now, before it's gone!!
Also- there are a lot of retiring products here today! The orangey shade is Grapefruit Grove and that is also retiring! You can order it HERE before it sells out! The Pattern Party decorative masks are retiring and you can find them HERE! And the white baker's twine is sold out!

Supplies:
Stamps: Honey Bee (retiring!)
Ink: Memento Black, Grapefruit Grove marker (retiring!)
Paper: Very Vanilla, Grapefruit Grove (retiring!), Copper Foil
Accessories: Pattern Party decorative masks (retiring), Embossing Paste, Silicone Craft Sheet, Palette Knives, White Baker's Twine (SOLD OUT), Detailed Bee Dies (retiring!), Big Shot, Dimensionals

Nautical Thanks

I need a number of masculine thank you cards right now! A bunch! So I went scouting challenges and picked this Sailing Home set that I love for the "travel" theme issued by the TGIF Challenges blog. I would definitely have to do some traveling to see the ocean from my house, and it is totally on my bucket list! And I think it works fantastically for a guy! I had a lot of fun putting this one together.

Also, that super great Night of Navy/Sahara Sand twine is retiring and on sale HERE, and that very cool washi tape is also retiring and on sale HERE right now!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Sailing Home
Ink: Memento Black, Pacific Point, Smoky Slate
Paper: Whisper White, Mossy Meadow, Early Espresso card stocks, Come Sail Away DP (retiring!)
Accessories: Navy/Sahara Twine (retiring!), Pressed Petals Washi Tape (retiring!), Watercolor Pencils, Smooth Sailing Dies, Big Shot, Glue Dots

Swim Banquet

Today I have another scrapbook layout for you! This one is of the end-of-season Swim Banquet. I thought it was odd that it was so early compared to the last two years, but if they hadn't held it at the end of February, it wouldn't have happened, huh? So PHEW for that!!!

Supplies:

Stamps: Skinny Mini Alphabet

Ink: Memento Black

Paper: Pacific Point, Seaside Spray, misc scrapbook store

Accessories: misc sticker

Journaling font: Throw My Hands Up In The Air

The paper across the bottom came from the local scrapbook store, but it features his high school and it looks very cool so I had to use it. There's one sticker from the store, and the rest of it comes from Stampin' Up!

Texture!

I need several of all sorts of cards right now, so the other day I got seven made! That means you don't only have to see scrapbook pages when you visit my blog, haha! I pulled out the embossing paste and played with three of the Decorative Masks that are on the retiring list, and a bunch of other retiring products! Check it all out HERE, choose me as your demonstrator if you don't already have one, and place an order before it's gone!

Here are two of those cards...
This one uses the sketch from the Fusion Card Challenge.

Supplies:
Stamps: Silhouette Scenes, A Good Man
Ink: Night of Navy
Paper: Balmy Blue, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Navy/Sahara Sand twine (retiring!), Pattern Party Decorative Masks (retiring!), Embossing Paste, Silicone Craft Sheet, Palette Knives

And then I made this stamp-less card. This one used a challenge that ended last night, but I'm posting it now. I used the colors from the card to make mine.

Supplies:
Paper: Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Basic Black, Granny Apple Green card stocks
Accessories: White Baker's Twine (sold out!), Pattern Party Decorative Masks (retiring!), Embossing Paste, Silicone Craft Sheet, Palette Knives, Circle dies (retiring!), Well Written dies, Big Shot, Dimensionals, Glue Dots

What are you making??

Graduating Girl!

Posting today because I try to share my cards with you asap AND I wanted to post that I played with a challenge in time, haha. This card is a double challenge- I used the SUO Challenge for focusing on women, and the Freshly Made Sketch for the layout.

Also, I just checked, and this stunning DP is ON SALE so run place your order HERE now! It is GORGEOUS and so versatile! I have used it over and over and over! (I'm kinda proud that I can say that, hahaha!)

Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Moments, Silhouette Scenes
Ink: Memento Black, Blackberry Bliss
Stampin' Blends: Light & Dark Night of Navy, Dark Blackberry Bliss, Dark Old Olive, Bronze, Ivory
Paper: Night of Navy, Very Vanilla card stocks, Perennial Essence
Accessories: Very Vanilla Scalloped Lace Trim, Pearl Basic Jewels

This card is for my niece's graduation. SO many kiddos graduating right now!! She and my son are the same age, just a few weeks apart, so we had to get a cap and gown pic of them together.

Because like, last week, they looked like this....

April Fools!

I really don't do anything for April Fools Day. One year that my son told me he was really looking forward to it "tomorrow" I made him a weird lunch, haha, But that's it. This year, being quarantined, I thought it might be a good and simple "break" from everything. So I had to scrap it for my son too!

I used these strips of this old, but fun and bright DP (so old I don't know what it was called...) and I mixed up some alphabet stamps for the title to keep the silly feeling. Then the journaling is my instagram post. Super simple, and something fun.

Supplies:

Stamps: Peachy Keen, ABC123 Sketch alphabet, Whimsical Upper alphabet, Taffy Alphabet (all long retired)
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive

Paper: Daffodil Delight, Sweet Taffy DP (retired)

Journaling font: Kristen

and a couple close ups...

Senior Pictures

Since he's graduating now, here's his senior pictures. I took them in that two week window when school was first closed. Ha.... These pages are super simple, I wanted the focus to be the photos. I did the pages in MDS, even tho that's long retired now too.

We used all but one shot on his graduation announcement. There was no "plain" background at the location we picked so that was a little exasperating, but the point of going there was for the train stuff, so it worked out okay. And I'm happy with a lot of these photos anyway. So that's a fun layout for him.

6th Grade Graduation

Well that was a crazy day! I got 17 pages done yesterday for my son AND we got his 12x12 pages all sorted and put in his albums in order! It was a lot of work and it was exciting to see it all together. It also made me realize how much is not yet scrapped! Sheesh! His final album (at the moment) is literally just his senior year, up til Easter. The album before that goes from 2012 - last May! YIKES! And my totals are all at the bottom of my sidebar. I've done a LOT! And there's a bunch more to do of the next few days!!!

So for today, here is his 6th grade graduation, which I only did in the last two weeks! It has a mix of new and old and I'm really happy with how it turned out!

Supplies:
Stamps: Check You Out 
Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Dapper Denim (retired), Always Artichoke (retired)
Paper: Cherry Cobbler & Sahara Sand card stock, Treehouse DP (retired in 2006!)
Journaling is typed with the font: Little Days

And a couple closeups. Glossy photos are hard to photograph!

Off to make more memories!!

Pep Band!

It's down to the wire- graduation is THIS week! I had hoped to spend today sorting his pages and putting them in order, but first I gotta keep scrapping! This page has pics he took at three different basketball games where he was in the Pep band. I especially love the poster from the cheerleaders!!

Supplies:
Stamps: Letterpress Alphabet (retired), Just Perfect Alphabet (retired)
Ink: Crushed Curry, Pacific Point
Paper: Blueberry Bushel, Crushed Curry card stocks, misc scrapbook store DP
Accessories: retired buttons, Glue Dots
Font: The Serif Hand Extrablack

The stamping is wonky, but here's a close up anyway. I like the idea even if my delivery isn't all that great, ha!

And there's another page for my boy!