Ready for Snow

I woke up this morning with a headache and the song "Let It Go" stuck in my head.  No comment on whether those two things are related to each other.  In other news, since my Disney movie binge fest on Sunday, I've watched The Little Mermaid, Robin Hood, Brave, Sleeping Beauty, and Mulan.  I told my hubs when he was talking over Robin Hood that I was missing important plot points, and he just gave me eye mail considering he knows perfectly well that I have the dialog to that movie pretty much memorized.  And also lots of other movies.  I think about 87% of my brain is taken up with song lyrics and movie quotes.

So I was having some trouble in my craft room yesterday.  Ever have those days when things just don't seem to want to work out how you want them to?

This card is...okay, I guess...but not my favoritest card ever.  Which is a shame, because the Global Design Project challenge to CASE the designer is beautiful:

Perhaps I'll have another go at it for tomorrow's card.  I just had a giant piece of pumpkin coffee cake and the world's largest cup of tea, so I might just be ready to conquer the universe here in the next hour or so.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Christmas Cuties
Ink:  Basic black, Soft Sky, Night of Navy, Pink Pirouette, Real Red, Soft Suede, Mossy Meadow, Skintone Blendabilities
Paper:  Thick Whisper White, Soft Sky, Season of Cheer DSP
Accessories:  2 1/2" circle punch, Banners Framelits

Christmas Blessings from the Nachos

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Can ya believe that tomorrow is Christmas Adam?  Ya know, the day before Christmas Eve ;)  Anyway, it's time for another Nacho Average Sketch Challenge.  And here it is!

I think I've got just one or two more Christmas cards to make, so here's one of them:

I love the Christmas Cuties set, I'm a little sad it's retiring.  Doesn't mean it's leaving my craft cave though :)  I stamped lil miss angel with Versamark and Night of Navy, then clear embossed so that I could watercolor her without the ink smearing.  The colors on her clothes are a little washed out, but she's wearing a Pool Party dress and a Wisteria Wonder sash.  Can't take another picture because this one got sent out in the mail already.

So now let's see your take on the sketch!  Upload your creation at the Nacho blog.  Ta-ta for now, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Christmas Cuties
Ink:  Versamark, Night of Navy, Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Soft Suede, Smoky Slate, skin tone Blendabilities
Paper:  Pool Party, Wisteria Wonder, Night of Navy, Thick Whisper White, Season of Cheer DSP
Accessories:  Clear EP, rhinestones, Dimensionals

Going Polar with the Nachos

Mornin, peeps!  Are you ready for a Nacho Average Color Challenge?

Whabam.  Umm, this one was hard for me because I don't think Island Indigo and Marina Mist go well together (see also:  Melon Mambo and Real Red, or just about any gray and brown together, or navy blue and black, and I have a lot of nuh-uh color combos...).  But I did finally get a card made after some pondering:

I made the bear from Thankful Forest Friends into a POLAR bear!  I don't know if I'm the first to think of it, but I didn't see it anywhere else first.  And I have a friend who's obsessed with polar bears.  Anyway, the background is very lightly washed with Marina Mist ink, and then the little round snowflakes are stamped off twice in Island Indigo before I stamped on my card.  That color wash background was HARD to get though, this was actually attempt number five.

I was doing this by scribbling on my largest acrylic block with a marker, then spritzing with water and smooshing on my paper.  Attempt #1 didn't have enough water, #2 was darker than I wanted for this project (but it still looks kind of cool so I'm going to hold onto it for now), #3 started out fine, and I even put a sentiment on it but then I tried using the small splats from Awesomely Artistic and oh my gosh kill it with fire, and #4 was again not enough water.  So even though it came out paler than I wanted, by this point I was pretty much out of patience so I kept #5.

I also tried the polar bear on Smoky Slate and Sahara Sand, but the hubs picked Crumb Cake so that's what I went with.

Okay folks, now it's your turn to give it a shot.  Make something pretty and show me how to work this color combo by posting it on the Nacho blog.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Thankful Forest Friends, Christmas Cuties
Ink:  Versamark, Marina Mist, Island Indigo, Basic Black
Paper:  Thick Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Accessories:  Dimensionals, White EP

Stamping on Auto-Pilot

Usually I don't really post Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving.  Call me old-fashioned, but I like to concentrate on one holiday at a time, and I don't like it that Thanksgiving seems to be getting ignored more and more each year as Christmas turns into this six-month juggernaut of tinsel and lights.

But I broke the rule today because the Global Design Project theme this week is Christmas.  And I do love my Christmas Cuties set, so expect to see it in action a lot more after next week.  Anyway, I was working on this card and the whole time I was thinking I wanted to put "It's the most wonderful time of the year" as the sentiment but apparently I was on auto-pilot and then all of a sudden "it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" instead.  I do have one cousin who puts her tree up on November first.  My mom (HI MOM) is a total Christmas junkie, but she does at least usually wait until the day after Thanksgiving to go wild.  (Thanks, Mom.)  But for the whole month of December, she looks pretty much just like this elf.

I kept my card pretty simple so I could also enter it in the Paper Players' CAS Christmas challenge:

This card is the maiden voyage of the Season of Cheer DSP in my craft cave.  Love the watercolor look and there are some gorgeous patterns in there.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Christmas Cuties
Ink:  Basic Black, markers in Hello Honey, Smoky Slate, Real Red, Pear Pizzazz, Basic Gray; Skintone Blendabilities
Paper:  Real Red, Thick Whisper White, Season of Cheer DSP
Accessories:  Circles Framelits, Dimensionals

Nachos: Angelic Thanks

Happy Nacho day, peeps!  It is time once more for a fantabulous Nacho Average Sketch Challenge!

I love a simple sketch with loads of possibilities.  That scalloped oval might be the perfect place to put a greeting, but it doesn't have to be.  Lookie:

Heyyyy I got the sparkle on the glimmer paper to photograph!  Anyway, I stamped both the sentiment from Me = Grateful and the angel from Christmas Cuties on watercolor paper, which kind of made the ink spread out a tiny bit and the images aren't as crisp as they would be on Whisper White.  On the other hand, the watercoloring looks better than it does on Whisper White ;)

Does anyone else wish that Haunt Ya Later had a devil stamp so you could make funny cards with an angel and a devil?  Just me?  Oh well.

Link up your Nacho-riffic creation on the Nacho blog so we can all see what you come up with.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Me = Grateful, Christmas Cuties
Ink:  Basic Gray, Wisteria Wonder, Marina Mist, Soft Suede, Smoky Slate (on the wings), Crushed Curry (on the halo)
Paper:  Wisteria Wonder, Marina Mist, watercolor paper, silver glimmer paper
Accessories:  Sweetheart punch, dimensionals, skintone Blendabilities