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! 

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