Fright Night Halloween

Mornin' y'all!  We went school supply shopping for Ryan yesterday and got to meet his teacher last night.  I really like her, she's very structured and won't let Ryan win arguments with her : )  Excited for him to start school on Monday!

I also got a bit of craft room time last night for the first time in about a week so that's always a good thing.  Here's my card for today:

I bought ALLLLL the Halloween stuff when it showed up in the online exclusives and this is the first time I've used the Fright Night stamps (I did use the dies once before).  I thought this week's Creative Colour Challenge was the perfect excuse for a Halloween card:

I love the look of the stamped image on the Timid Tiger DSP, super super easy and it looks cool.  I used this week's sketch from Atlantic Hearts:

Well, maybe it's a modification of the sketch, I'm counting the words and images on the big stamp as the floral elements on the sketch.  I think it's close enough that you can still see how the sketch was my starting point.

And yesterday I opened up the world's most boringest Stampin' Up! order ever.

But somehow I had totally run out of Stamin' Dimensionals (no!!), so I got a bunch of those, a couple packs of envelopes, and three packs of white cardstock.  The most boring order ever, but necessary staples.

Time to take Daph-Daph for a tour of the neighborhood.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Fright Night
Ink:  Blackberry Bliss, Garden Green, Versamark
Paper:  Blackberry Bliss, Thick Basic White, Timid Tiger & Blackberry Bliss DSP
Accessories:  Fright Night dies, white EP, Mini Dimensionals, In Color Flat Pearls

Totally Buggin'?

Mornin' y'all!  For the next 15 minutes where I am, anyway.  We were out of town for a few days on a trip to California and I got to fulfill a bucket list item and see the redwood forests!  It was awesome.  We were unsure if we were going to go or not because of Ma's heart surgery, but she and my dad insisted that we go and she came through the surgery fine so we went.  She's still doing well and hoping to be out of the hospital in the next couple of days.

We got back home after midnight last night and I didn't have a post scheduled to go up today before we left.  Well, we all got to watch movies on our second flight yesterday and I chose...Clueless!

This movie is still awesome, I love it.  Can't hardly believe it had its thirtieth anniversary this year!  The stamps are retired Ink Road stamp sets and of course I had to have plaid on this card since so many of Cher's outfits feature plaid.

Anyway, I just took Daph for a walk and now we need to go school supply shopping for Ryan as he meets his new teacher tonight.  Cheers!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Buggin' & As If from Ink Road Stamps
Ink:  Versamark, Rich Razzleberry
Paper:  Melon Mambo, Thick Basic White, Plaid Tidings DSP Stack
Accessories:  White EP, Dimensionals

Charming Hello

Mornin' y'all!  I got a new pack of DSP and I just had to cut into it for today's card:

I thought the current Paper Players sketch allowed for several patterns:

I stuck with the circle on the sketch rather than doing a different shape and let the patterned papers be the star of the show.  The only stamping is on the greeting and I finished off with some Blackberry Bliss dots.  Can't wait to play with this paper some more!

Cheers, y'all.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Sweet Blooms
Ink:  Blackberry Bliss
Paper:  Berry Burst, Thick Basic White, Floral Charm DSP
Accessories:  Layering Circles dies, Perennial Postage dies, Dimensionals, Blackberry Bliss Dots

Hulk SMASH

Y'all, I have been looking for an excuse to use some superhero stamps I bought from *coughcough* NOT Stampin' Up! and LOOK HOW CUTE HE IS!

In fact, Hulk and his three companions are so cute I accidentally bought this stamp set twice.  I also have another set that includes Wonder Woman, I almost went with her but I could not resist inking up the Hulk for the TGIF challenge:

Supplies:
Stamps:  Universe by C.C. Designs
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Basic Black, Old Olive, Highland Heather, Pretty in Pink
Paper:  Highland Heather, Thick Basic White, Highland Heather & Old Olive DSP
Accessories:  Nested Essentials dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Neutral Matte Dots, Dimensionals

Schneebas

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Time for another Swiss-Capade layout and here it is:

I let that top left picture with the gremlin-looking little thing stand in for the title on this layout, which is kind of a random collection of photos taken on the way down from the top of the Schilthorn.  And in an unusual twist, this layout has no stamping, just some die cut pseudo-eidelweiss flowers.

My nature-inspired color palette:  Gumball Green, Evening Evergreen, Granny Apple Green, Crushed Curry, and white.

That's it for me today.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  None
Ink:  Evening Evergreen
Paper:  Gumball Green, Evening Evergreen, Granny Apple Green, Crushed Curry, Basic White, Flowers & More DSP
Accessories:  Simply Zinnia dies

A Llama?!

Mornin' y'all!  My mom came through her surgery okay and is in the ICU for a few days to recover.  Hope that all goes smoothly for her.

I have a CAS card to share today:

I'm not sure how much I like my coloring job but I did like the color combo from Creative Colour Challenges:

I decided to have another hack at the Freshly Made Sketch for this week and keep it more CAS this time:

Because the CAS on Friday challenge is to make a card featuring an animal, so of course my first thought was this adorable llama.  I just went with die cut letters for the greeting because I wanted to keep that strip pretty narrow.

That's it for now, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Long Time No See
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Gray Granite, Petunia Pop, Pool Party
Paper:  Gray Granite, Pool Party, Petunia Pop, Thick Basic White
Accessories:  alphabet dies, Dimensionals

The Message in the Hollow Oak

Welcome to the Nancy Drew Challenge!  Today's book is number twelve, The Message in the Hollow Oak.

This time, the revised text is completely different from the original and both of them are a trip.  This is where the revised text covers start going with more of a collage effect rather than a scene out of the book.  Let's take a look at them, starting with the original text.

Quick side note:  I love the horse playing peekaboo by Nancy's hip, I didn't notice him at first and now he makes me giggle every time I look at the cover.  Peekaboo!

Case file:  Nancy wins a radio contest and the prize is the deed to some land in a super remote part of Canada, so she, Bess, and George head for the border with an older lady to chaperone them.  They're involved in a pretty serious train accident but keep on going anyway, only to discover that unscrupulous men are digging for gold on Nancy's land.  She manages to trick the thieves and ends up with a bag of gold and along the way she saves a kidnap victim and reunites two people who had been separated by a misunderstanding years before.  Those two used the titular hollow oak as a letter drop to pass notes to each other.  Lots happening here.

Here's my card for the OT:

We have lots of big, burly lumberjack and gold prospector types in this book, but I was thinking of the one whom Nancy reunites with his long-lost sweetheart when I made this card.  And it was a great excuse to bust out my Wood You Be Mine stamp set!  I put some Cajun Craze Faux Glass Dots on there for accents but they kinda fade into the background. 

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Wood You Be Mine?
Ink:  Early Espresso, Old Olive, Stampin' Blends in Old Olive, Neutrals, Pretty in Pink, Cinnamon Cider, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Gray Granite, Boho Blue
Paper:  Bumblebee, Old Olive, Boho Blue, Beauty of the Earth DSP
Accessories:  Dimensionals, Faux Glass Dots

Now let's look at the revised text:

Case file:  Aunt Eloise's PI friend dares Nancy to solve an old mystery that he and his buddies couldn't crack on their vacation--find a message left by a French missionary in a hollow oak tree and follow the clues to find a treasure.  She stays with Ned's cousin as part of a university archaeological dig and not only does she do some digging with them, she does find a series of hollow oak trees and finds the treasure despite another treasure hunter harassing her.  No gold prospectors in this one but it's still pretty wild.

Here's my card:

The cover of this one looks super spooky and Halloween-y, but the book isn't set around Halloween and the only skulls in it are the fragments that the archaeological dig find.  Still, I couldn't get the idea of a skull card out of my noggin so I made this one.  I did cover up the jack o' lantern on this stamp with a flower that's meant to represent Nancy on the cover.

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  From the Crypt, Thoughtful Expressions
Ink:  Versamark, Island Indigo, Timid Tiger, Whisper White
Paper:  Island Indigo, Basic Beige, Beauty of the Earth DSP, Beautifully Penned DSP
Accessories:  Thoughtful Expressions dies, black EP,, Dimensionals

Since the book doesn't really have much to do with skulls despite the cover illustration, I made a second card:

Pretty sure that's Nancy's family motto right there.  I happened to see Textured Timber when I got out Thoughtful Expressions for the first card and I just had to use the tree images for a second card.  Still have orange flowers for Nancy though.

What's funny is that when I first sat down to make a card for this book many weeks ago, I hit a creative block and couldn't figure out what to do.  That's about when I snapped up the OT versions of the books and went back to reread from the start, gave it a few weeks and when I came back to this one I ended up with TWO cards for the book that was giving me a block.  Hooray!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Textured Timber, Thoughtful Expressions, Feathered Flight
Ink:  Early Espresso, Pecan Pie, Island Indigo, Stampin' Blends in Old Olive & Timid Tiger
Paper:  Island Indigo, Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige
Accessories:  Thankful Labels, Thoughtful Expressions dies, Dimensionals, In Color Flat Pearls

I'd be delighted to have you play along, just drop a link in the comments to your Nancy Drew inspired creation.  You can check out Hey, Nancy Drew for more chatter about the books, and stop by next week for lucky #13, The Mystery of the Ivory Charm!