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Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I went digging through my draft posts, of which there are many, looking for a scrapbook layout to share today and I settled up on this one:

This was from our trip to Italy in 2012 with my friend Sarah and her hubs.  It's so funny to see ancient ruins just plopped in the middle of a bustling city like Rome.  I looooooove that dark green print on the outside edges and I think the Cajun Craze print is a nice counterpoint to it.

Today's color palette:  Sahara Sand, Evening Evergreen, Garden Green, Cajun Craze, and Very Vanilla.  I use white probably over 90% of the time, but every once in a while a layout just needs something different.  I got another layout most of the way done yesterday with a Sahara Sand page base, I miss that color.  I feel like Basic Beige is trying to be like Sahara Sand but it's just much too green, and not a pretty green either.

That's it for now, hope your week is off to a good start!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rough Type, Well-Worn Alphabet, Travels Abroad, Travel Sketchbook
Ink:  Evening Evergreen, Sahara Sand
Paper:  Sahara Sand, Garden Green, Cajun Craze, Thick Very Vanilla, Bloom Where You're Planted DSP, Nature's Poem DSP
Accessories:  None

Schlossberg Caves

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Ryan had a friend over for a while yesterday so while they were playing I got a couple of cards made, so that was nice.  I wouldn't call it a quiet day though because KIDS ; )  And today is the beginning of the last week of the school year here.

Anyway, it's Scrappy Monday, let's see some scrapbook pages!

The hubs found information on this cave system that was not too far from where we lived in Germany, which started out as a quartz mine and is located under the ruins of yet another castle.  For some reason we seem to do a lot of underground tourism everywhere we go.  Ryan's favorite part?  The ice cream he got after we toured the caves.

Today's spelunking color palette is Cinnamon Cider, Daffodil Delight, Merry Merlot, Terracotta Tile, and Very Vanilla.  I took colors from the layers of stone in the caves plus the yellow hats we got to wear (which Ryan quite liked).

Time to get the boy off to school and try to make the most of my time while he's there.  I've got a list of things to do, as ever.  Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Rough Type, Well-Worn Alphabet, Sculpted Style
Ink:  Cinnamon Cider, Merry Merlot, Terracotta Tile
Paper:  Cinnamon Cider, Merry Merlot, Terracotta Tile, Thick Very Vanilla, Daffodil Afternoon DSP
Accessories:  none

Grimes Graves

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I didn't really get my day off last week since Ryan has been throwing up periodically for a couple of weeks, and then his daycare provider got sick.  The hubs took Ryan to get his hair cut yesterday and I ended up having a few hours to myself to play in my craft room!  Got a couple of cards made and worked on some scrapbook pages too, love that.  I find that I need that time to play with paper and ink to keep my mental/emotional balance.

Anyway, here's one of the layouts I made in January:

Pictures are from when we went in a Neolithic flint mine in England, see 'em here.  Sorry for the harsh shadows on the layout/palette pictures today; I usually try to take scrapbook pages out onto our balcony to take pictures.  Indirect light is best (so a partly cloudy day) but lately it's been super cloudy so all the pictures turn out blue.  The day I took these pics it was really sunny so then I ended up with fairly accurate colors but harsh shadows.  What can ya do!

Today's color palette:  Perfect Plum, Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, Marina Mist, and white.  The pattern on the DSP reminded me of the funky patterns on the ground in the pictures--the old mines in that area make the sheep fields above them look like Eggo waffles :)

Have a great day and stay healthy, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet
Ink:  Mossy Meadow
Paper:  Perfect Plum, Marina Mist, Old Olive, Whisper White, Hydrangea Hill DSP
Accessories:  None

Old Car City #1

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I think it's time to start sharing some layouts that I made last year.  We took a road trip to Old Car City in White, Georgia in 2015 and took hundreds of pictures of rusty old cars.  I never thought I'd get excited about hundreds of pictures of rusty old cars, and yet here we are.  I ended up making five layouts because I just could not whittle down my favorite pictures.

The Autumn Meadows DSP was absolutely *perfect* for these pictures, so I used various patterns from it on each of the layouts.  I'm only sharing the first one today, more to come in the next couple of weeks.  Those stripes are one of my favorite patterns ever; I loved Taken with Teal and it almost never featured in patterned paper, hence why I'd been hoarding it, but it was just waiting for these pictures :)

The color palette is all retired except for Very Vanilla, and it was taken straight from the DSP:  Taken with Teal, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, Creamy Caramel, and the aforementioned Very Vanilla.

Have a great week, peeps!  I'm going to try not to melt; we have no AC where I work and it was HOT last week.  Wish me luck!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet
Ink:  Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard
Paper:  Taken with Teal, Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Thick Very Vanilla, Autumn Meadows DSP
Accessories:  Garage Gears Thinlits

Okefenokee Swamp

Scrappy Monday, folks!  We're in Tennessee this week but I've made some cards to share this week while we're gone.  I decided to go with a theme, so welcome to the start of the CREATURE FEATURE!  Everything I share this week is going to have an animal on it, including today's scrapbook layouts :)

We're starting the week with alligators!  If you're so inclined, you can see the original pics here, here, and here. I just finished these layouts a week or two ago so they were fresh on my mind when I decided on the creature feature.  The photo of the layout came out a bit dark, sorry about that, I've never found a good place to take pictures of my scrapbook pages in this house. *shrug*  Maybe I'll have better luck at the next place.

Anyway, it seems like I use the Becky Higgins sketch book for the majority of my scrapbook layouts, but nothing in there was speaking to me for this one so I pulled out my personal sketch book.  I've got all the BH sketches in there plus lots more from Creating Keepsakes magazine (I had a subscription to that for years) and ones I came up with on my own.  I found a sketch in there really quickly that turned out to be perfect for these photos!  Once I had the sketch, the layout came together lickety-split.

My color palette is Tip Top Taupe (I love that color, it's another brown In Color that's different from anything else SU has had before or since), Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Mossy Meadow, and Pear Pizzazz.

But wait, there's more!

Audra, Frank, and I were in the swamp to do a photography workshop to learn how to take night sky photos with long exposure times, so here are my tree pictures from that.  And in keeping with the creature feature theme, I wrote about the extreme mosquito problem in my journaling :)

I used the leaves from Rooted in Nature as accents on my first layout, but I needed some larger leaves in a similar style for this one, so I pulled out the long, long, loooong-retired Lovely Leaves and French Foliage for this one.  No dies for those, so I just fussy cut the three leaves.

The color palette for the second layout is a little different:  still Tip Top Taupe, Sahara Sand, and Basic Black, but Mint Macaron and Mossy Meadow for the greens.  (Sorry again that the photo is so dark.). I've been doing a thing lately where if I have more than one layout for a specific event, I keep the same page base color and some similar elements, but I use different patterns or add different colors for subsequent layouts.  So for this one, I chose a different pattern from the Garden Lane DSP that had different greens than the first one.  They're similar enough style-wise that it's obvious they go together, but since I used different papers it's like they're siblings instead of twins :)

Have a great week, peeps!

Supplies, first layout:
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Rough Type, Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Tip Top Taupe, Sahara Sand, Pear Pizzazz, Mossy Meadow, Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Tip Top Taupe, Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Garden Lane DSP
Accessories:  Nature's Roots dies

Supplies, second layout:
Stamps:  Lovely Leaves, French Foliage, Rooted in Nature
Ink:  Mossy Meadow, Mint Macaron, Tip Top Taupe, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Tip Top Taupe, Sahara Sand, Mint Macaron, Garden Lane DSP
Accessories:  None

Dilapidated Shacks

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  And today I've got a layout that I made last week.  The pictures are from 2010, but the layout itself is hot off the presses, as it were.

Check out the original pictures here.  These pics are from the area of North Carolina where we live right now (we lived here from 2004 to 2007, and the hubs had to come back for a few months in 2010, we all moved back in 2018); there's a lot of farmland around us, and a LOT of old barns and houses that look like they're in imminent danger of falling over.  So in 2010, the hubs and I did a photo safari to take pictures of them, just because we could.  We used to joke about which shack was going to be our next house, and the two sepia-tone pictures we took just make me think of the Wizard of Oz.

Well, I was working on these pages last week, and I could NOT think of any stamp sets to use for embellishments on here.  I had the title done, but I needed something on the left page.  I went through all my SU! stamps and...nothing.  And then I remembered...I have Wizard of Oz stamps!  I got them years ago as a sheet of unmounted rubber, no clue who the manufacturer was.  So I used Dorothy and Toto for my stamped accents, and if you click the photo to enlarge, you'll see that Dorothy has the caption "There's no place like home."

I crack myself up.

A lot.

I don't care if anyone else thinks I'm funny, I know I'm hilarious.

Today's color palette is Marina Mist (blue for Dorothy's dress, which was a lovely coincidence since I had most of the layout put together before I got out the Dorothy stamp), Summer Starfruit, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, and just a smidge of Very Vanilla.

I've got two layouts that are about 85% done, and then my YTD total will be 98 pages.  Woohoo!

Hope your week is off to a good start, y'all.  We spent some time cleaning up yesterday and I'm feeling better about the world having a clean house.  Weird, huh?  I'd better do the dishes now though, the sink is already filling up again...cheers!

Supplies:
Stamps:  Rough Type, Well-Worn Alphabet, Wizard of Oz stamps (unknown)
Ink:  Marina Mist, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze
Paper:  Marina Mist, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Patio Party DSP
Accessories:  None

Hiking (Okinawa)

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Man, it was a whirlwind weekend.  We had friends visit whom we haven't seen for about 10 years, along with their 5.5-year-old son.  Uhh, why does one extra kid make the crazy level in the house rise by a factor of 3,000?!  It seemed like nonstop yelling and now we're having problems with Ryan throwing toys?!  He rarely did that before.  Yeah I'm glad the weekend is over; this introvert is peopled out.  I'm ready for some calm.

So today's layout is from Okinawa; the pics were taken in January but the colors I used ended up looking almost fall-ish.

Pretty easy-peasy layout and I had the hubs do the journaling since it was him hiking with two friends.  I love it when a layout comes together quickly and easily.

Today's color palette:  Early Espresso (I promise it's not black, just very dark brown), Grapefruit Grove, Island Indigo, Pear Pizzazz, and Whisper White.  The DSP is the Painted Seasons pack from this year's Sale-a-Bration.

Hopefully we're back to our regularly scheduled routine today, which means we've got to leave for the gym soon.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Gently Falling
Ink:  Island Indigo, Pear Pizzazz, Soft Suede, Early Espresso Marker
Paper:  Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Grapefruit Grove, Thick Whisper White, Painted Seasons DSP
Accessories:  None

Hadrian's Wall

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  I did get a bit of scrapping done over the weekend, I finished three layouts :) I've got a stack of layouts I need to take pictures of, but in the meantime here's one that I recently finished:

These pictures are from our first trip to Scotland, see them here.  I once won a game of Trivial Pursuit because I knew the name of the Roman emperor who build the wall between Roman Britannia and Scotland, and then years later I got to visit the wall in question!  How cool is THAT.

I admit I had some trouble coming up with a color palette for this layout, and I'm not at all sure I ended up with the "right" one.  I added the plaid pattern because Scotland but...I don't know?  Anyway, today's color palette includes Bordering Blue, Really Rust, Garden Green, Night of Navy, Basic Gray, River Rock, and Very Vanilla.

Kiddo has been barf-free since Friday morning (YAYYYYY!) so we're going to the Y!  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Rough Type, My Paper Pumpkin (apostrophe)
Ink:  Night of Navy, Garden Green, Basic Gray marker
Paper:  Bordering Blue textured, Basic Gray, Garden Green, Very Vanilla, Apple Cider & Prestwick DSPs
Accessories:  None

Toilet Paper Trouble

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Ryan and I are not going to the gym today because Sadie has a vet appointment in a little bit.  With that in mind, I chose today's layout from when Sadie was a teeny pupster getting into trouble left and right.

This is the one and only time Sadie tried shredding the toilet paper in the bathroom.  I caught her doing it and I was laughing so hard I couldn't properly scold her, so instead I took these pictures.  The Sea of Textures DSP seemed appropriately watery for my pictures and other than that I kept it super simple, just a stamped title and some journaling.  And the pictures that still make me giggle when I look at them, 12 years later.

Today's color palette includes Soft Sea Foam, Tranquil Tide (even my color names today are aquatic), Fresh Fig, and Balmy Blue (though there's only a smidge of the blue in the patterned paper).  Have a great day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Well Worn Alphabet, Rough Type
Ink:  Tranquil Tide, Night of Navy marker
Paper:  Soft Sea Foam, Fresh Fig, Sea of Textures DSP
Accessories:  None

Kitty Hawk

Scrappy Monday, y'all.  I didn't get much sleep this weekend...on Friday afternoon I drove up to DC to see my friend Sarah, who was in town for 36 hours from Italy to see her grandfather.  She was on European time so we woke up at 4:45 on Saturday morning :p We watched the lead-up to the royal wedding but as soon as we saw Meghan's dress Sarah said FEED ME so we went to get breakfast.  It was a lot of driving in a short period of time but I'm glad I went up there.

Anyway!  Let's move on to today's scrapbook layout, one I finished quite some time ago but today seems like a good day to share it.

This layout came together pretty fast; I think it's very simple.  A couple borders of patterned paper, mat the photos and do a little stamping and then it's done.

I thought the biplane from Sky is the Limit was a great accent for a Kitty Hawk layout :)

Today's color palette is Soft Sky (because flying!), Always Artichoke (pretty much the color of flight suits), Night of Navy (the Navy has planes too), and Basic Gray (yeah...planes are gray).

I put Ryan in his playard so I could reorganize the books on the bookshelves--he keeps getting into this one particular shelf and I don't want him damaging my Chronicles of Prydain and Anne of Green Gables books any more than he already has.  But I figured I'd type up this post real fast while he's contained.  And now it's time to go feed him Cheerios...so, cheerio peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Sky is the Limit
Ink:  Night of Navy, Basic Gray
Paper:  Soft Sky, Basic Gray, Always Artichoke DSP
Accessories:  None

Ghostbusters

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Today I have a layout that makes me happy.  As it happens, this was the last set of scrapbook pages I made in 2016, and the pictures are also the most recent ones I've scrapped--they're only from last September.

I'm working on getting our NYC pictures up on my other blog; hopefully you'll be able to see them all here pretty soon.  So when we visited New York this time, one of the things I wanted to do was check out several of the sites featured in Ghostbusters (one of my favorite movies ever).  The public library on Fifth Avenue was just a couple blocks from our hotel (remember the first ghost the guys encounter in the library?).  Dana's apartment building is right next to Central Park so it was easy to find as well.  We found the Ghostbusters firehouse I think less than a mile away from the World Trade Center, but to my acute annoyance it's covered in scaffolding (I am totally pouting in that picture).  I was wearing a Ghostbusters shirt and everything!  I did take the pictures of the two Ghostbusters "patches" painted on the sidewalk outside the firehouse.  But I'm still mad I didn't get to see the firehouse itself in all its glory.

The three journaling blocks with red mats are quotes from the first movie, each of which has to do with the location we visited (shortest one:  "Your girlfriend lives at the corner penthouse...of Spook Central!").  I quote this movie all the time, but honestly the three quotes I used on the layout aren't ones I usually use ;)

Today's color palette:  Old Olive (like Slimer!), Real Red, Basic Black, and Whisper White.

Cheers, y'all!  And remember, we ain't afraid of no ghosts!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Rough Edges Alphabet
Ink:  Whisper White, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Old Olive textured, Basic Black, Real Red, Whisper White, Cast-a-Spell & Ghostly Greetings DSP
Accessories:  Hexagon punch for the banner ends

Spanish Steps and Boca de Veritas

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  How was your weekend?  Ours was very low-key.  I think I spent at least 75% of it on the couch watching movies and Pushing Daisies.  Which makes me want pie.  Lots and lots of pie.

So today's scrapbook layout takes us back to Rome, which is one place I'd love to be right now because it's amazing.  I only had two pictures each from the Spanish Steps and the Mouth of Truth (remember that from Roman Holiday?) so I combined them on one layout.  I used Island Indigo as the accent color on the left, and Elegant Eggplant on the right.

Hand-stamped titles on patterned paper.

Yeah, they took a while to do, but I liked how it turned out.

Today's hot color combo:  More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Island Indigo, Elegant Eggplant, Early Espresso, and Very Vanilla.  And that's it for me today.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU! but a bunch retired:
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Rough Type, Timeless Textures
Ink:  Early Espresso, Cajun Craze
Paper:  More Mustard, Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Elegant Eggplant, Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories: a sponge :)

2015 Scrapbook Showcase, Part 1

So the card showcase is already up, let's take a look back at the year's scrapbook layouts!  I'm very proud to say I made a whopping 154 scrapbook pages this year, not counting the ones I did for baby books.  I have enough draft scrapbook posts to do Scrappy Mondays through June.  So let's take a look, shall we?

January's pick is this hot layout from Greece.  It's funny, I don't really do a lot of pages with red or orange page bases, but half of my showcase picks feature just that.  Anyway, I love the Tangelo Twist base on this page because it reminds me how stinkin' hot it was in Olympia that day.

February's pick is this hot pink layout from our last days in Okinawa.  I need more Melon Mambo in my life.

My pick for March is this birthday layout, and that baby girl is now six.  Even more exciting is that my friend Tiana will be here in just a few days!!!

I just couldn't choose only one layout for April, so the first April pick is this comic-inspired layout from when my family accidentally got involved in a drug bust in London.  They seriously love telling that story, and props to Mom for taking the pictures of it so I could make this layout.

My second April pick is this layout from China, and is the genesis for a longstanding joke between me and the hubs and our friends.  I'm not in love with my fried egg embellishments on here, but I love the golden arches and the story behind this one.

For May's pick, I went with a Melon Mambo layout once again and these gorgeous pictures from Santorini, Greece.  This was the very first time I used Tip Top Taupe too.

And to cap off the first half of the scrapbook showcase, June's pick is from that same cruise and the island of Capri.  I think I've already scrapped about half of that cruise and I love looking at all the pictures (and I seriously want to go back to Greece).

Happy New Year, y'all!  Next week's Scrappy Monday will be the second half of the scrapbook showcase, and then we'll get the new year started with some new stampy projects.  Cheers!

Climbing Fuji

Mornin' y'all!  I'm a little late with my blog post but that's because I was talking to Missy this morning on Skype.  (HI MISSY!)  I'd been teasing her for a couple of days that she'd really really like the layout I planned to post today.  I gave her a sneak peek on Skype but here it is for everyone else:

Missy loves it because a.) she and her husband are on it, b.) it's Mount Fuji and c.) it's green and gold.  Because she thinks everything should be Baylor colors.  This is actually the first layout of FOUR that I made for all our Fuji pics, which you can see here.

There's my title; I love the Lots of Labels Framelits but haven't used them a whole lot yet.  Actually I've made a couple of cards with them that will be posted in the next couple weeks.  It's a nice shape.

And here's today's Baylor-iffic color palette:  Garden Green, So Saffron, Marina Mist, Early Espresso, and Whisper White.  I carried over the Garden Green and that So Saffron patterned paper on the other Fuji layouts too so all of them are Baylor-iffic.  See Missy, I love you.

Anyway, I've got lots of things to do this afternoon.  Not as many as Missy does, but still things to do, so I'd better go get started.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Rough Type, Circle Circus
Ink:  Marina Mist, Early Espresso
Paper:  Garden Green, Marina Mist, Thick Whisper White, Haiku DSP
Accessories:  Lots of Labels Framelits

Totally Busted

I love to participate in card challenges, which I'm sure you've figured out if you've spent any amount of time here at Snapdragon Stamps.  When it comes to scrapbooking, though, I prefer to just do my own thing and not try to fit my photos into challenges.  My scrappy muse is temperamental.  Every once in a while, though, a challenge just speaks to me, like this one from Cupcake Inspirations:

I have the perfect set of photos for a comic book scrapbook layout, so I set to work.

The pictures are from when my family came out to visit us and this was their last day in London; they got involved in an undercover police operation and helped subdue some dude who was high as a kite after he ran from the po-po and crashed into Laura.  You can read the whole story here or maybe if you click on the photo it might be big enough to read on the layout.  The border on the left page was cut off some patterned paper I bought, and the red mat on the left page is part of the piece that the Avengers came out of on the right page.

My color palette, and I think this might be the first time EVER that I've used Yoyo Yellow!  What's funny is I'd picked out these four colors, then went to the craft store to find some appropriate comic book paper.  Is it bad that I ignored the four sheets of Superman paper I had in my stash to go find something with the Avengers on it?  I'm more a Marvel girl than DC, though DC does have Wonder Woman and I love her.  Not that I read many comic books anymore, but I'm a huge fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC just hasn't done that great with Superman lately, and they haven't done anything with Wonder Woman yet, so Marvel is where it's at for my money.  Anyway, I picked out these colors, then went out shopping, and happily for me the colors worked with the paper I brought home.  Yay!

That's it for me today, peeps.  Have a great day...Pow!

Supplies, mostly SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Calling All Heroes
Ink:  Poppy Parade, Island Indigo, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Yoyo Yellow, Island Indigo, Whisper White, Marvel's Avengers paper from Sandylion
Accessories:  None

The 'Stache

So have y'all heard of Mustache March?  Thank goodness my hubs doesn't participate, I am not at all fond of mustaches.  But when he's on deployment, well...

Pics on the left are obviously fake mustaches, though he does have a real one under there.  I found a pack of silly fake mustaches (see Hulk Hogan's on the upper right?) and sent them to the hubs as a joke, and then I got these pictures back.  Pics on the right are from when he came back home, gave me one mustachioed kiss (scratchy) and then immediately shaved it off.  Thank goodness.

Seems like most alphabet stamp sets don't have an apostrophe, so I used my Sizzix alphabet to make a mask and inked one up that way.  Pretty clever, I thought.

And there's my color palette:  Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Suede, and little bits of So Saffron and Old Olive with Basic Black accents.  Manly mustache-friendly colors.  I told my hubs if he wanted to do Mustache March, then I would do Armpit April...

Cheers, peeps!  I wish I could stay, but I really must dash.

Supplies, mostly SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, non-SU smaller alphabet
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Basic Black marker
Paper:  Baked Brown Sugar, Soft Suede, Basic Black, Pocketful of Posies DSP
Accessories:  Mustache Framelit, Sizzix die (apostrophe)

Stonehenge

You know what today is?  It's Harry Potter's birthday!  So happy birthday to the Boy Who Lived, and many thanks to author J.K. Rowling for giving us such a wonderful story.  Love the Harry Potter books.

So today I thought I'd share a layout from a kinda magical place.  Alas, I haven't started scrapping any of our pics from the Harry Potter studio tour, but hey, Stonehenge is pretty awesome too.

See the original pictures here.  One of the stories about the creation of Stonehenge is that it was originally in Ireland, but Merlin saw it and liked it and used magic to transport it to England.  The main problem with that theory is that Stonehenge had been on Salisbury Plain for a number of centuries before Merlin and King Arthur arrived on the scene.

Yep, magical translocation?  Totally plausible.  But not unless Merlin also had a time machine.  Oh wait, didn't he live backwards, where he got younger as time went on?  So maybe it is still possible...

Anyway, there's my title, I love that Well-Worn Alphabet for nice grungy titles.  And Gorgeous Grunge, why did it take me so long to buy that stamp set?  Love it.  The speckles on the title block were accidental though, I dropped the inked-up stamp on the cardstock by accident and then thought oh why not, so I added more.

Smoky Slate embossing powder FTW!  I wanted just a little something in that corner and the embossing powder did the trick.

Have a magical day, peeps!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Well-Worn Alphabet, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink:  Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Versamark
Paper:  Basic Gray, Smoky Slate, Fall Flowers DSP (long retired)
Accessories:  Smoky Slate EP

Friday Flashback: Extreme Elements

Buon giorno and welcome to this week's Friday Flashback!  This week's featured stamp set is Extreme Elements, and I think I got it on sale and then never used it...until now!  And I made a scrapbook layout and managed to use every stamp in the set except one.

I bet you can figure out where we were when we took these photos ; )  Click here to see the photos close up on my other blog.  So here's a couple detail shots of Extreme Elements in action:

Stamp collages are difficult for me.  I wish I'd let the wing be a little darker on here, but otherwise I think it's at least moderately successful.

I used the now-retired textured cardstock for my page base, which made this stamped fleur de lis even more weathered-looking than usual.  I like it.

That's it for me, have a great weekend!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Extreme Elements, Well-Worn Alphabet, Rough Type Alphabet
Ink:  Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede
Paper:  Early Espresso, Island Indigo, Cajun Craze, Whisper White, Well-Worn DSP
Accessories:  distressing tool from the retired Cutter Kit