Polar Bear Pal

Hey hey, y'all!  I've got today and tomorrow off of work, it's rainy outside, and after running errands this morning I've been spending some time in my craft room with some new OLD stamps!  I recently went through all my old catalogs and whoops--I found several stamp sets that I just really wanted.  So I found some of them on Ebay and I had to make a card with one of those new to me/old retired stamp sets!

Once again Blogger is being a PAIN IN THE BUTT about uploading pictures but I think I've got it now.  Behold!

My friend Sarah is OBSESSED with polar bears and Cold-Weather Friends was in the very first catalog I ever got when I first started stamping.  I had forgotten all about it until I looked through that catalog, but I just had to have it!  In addition to the polar bear, there's a penguin pair (I typed penguin pear at first, yeah that's not a thing), a harp seal, and an arctic fox.  But of course I had to make Sarah a polar bear card for my inaugural Cold-Weather Friends card.

I used the colors from Color Throwdown:

I used some retired colors too!  I used Ruby Red, Baja Breeze (my favorite), Crumb Cake, and Very Vanilla.  If you're wondering where the Crumb Cake is, I lightly watercolored it on the polar bear for a bit of shading, while the snow around him is shaded with Baja Breeze.  The Ruby Red patterned paper was from a 6x6 pad that might have been a hostess option one year, so woo for using up more 6x6 paper too.

I used the sketch from Global Design Project:

And let's not forget the Animal Kingdom challenge from SUO Challenges!

I've got a bit more than an hour and a half before time to pick up Ryan so I'm going to go work on some more stuff.  After all, I have a couple other new/old stamp sets, plus some new/new ones that I just got in my latest SU order.  Cheers, peeps!

Supplies, all SU! (some retired)
Stamps:  Cold-Weather Friends, Friendly Words (unmounted wheel)
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Baja Breeze, Thick Very Vanilla, Ruby Red DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Stitched Shapes dies, Stitched So Sweetly dies (can you tell I like the stitched dies?), Dimensionals

Vasa Museum

Scrappy Monday, y'all!  Today's scrapbook layout is one I did a few months ago and I just didn't want to forget to post it here :)  Here it is:

These pics are from the day we spent in Stockholm, Sweden (see them here).  A friend of ours recommended we check out the Vasa Museum, which houses the raised shipwreck of a nearly 400-year-old Swedish navy ship.  The conditions of the Baltic Sea make it so the water preserves shipwrecks much better than in other places.

There's my title.  Uh, I think mixed-font titles are like my "thing" on scrapbook pages.

I love that lion shield stamp from Wing It, and it really fit here since the figurehead on the ship is a lion too.

Today's color palette is brought to you by Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist, Soft Suede and Whisper White.  Thanks for stopping by today, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Jayne's Type Alphabet, Rough Type, Friendly Words (unmounted wheel), Wing It
Ink:  Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist, Soft Suede
Paper:  Wild Wasabi, Marina Mist, Thick Whisper White
Accessories:  Deco Labels Framelits, circle punch

Friday Flashback: Happiness Always

Happy Friday, peeps!  Hope you've had a good week.  Today's Friday Flashback is for an old hostess set called Happiness Always.  For some reason, a lot of times I don't use hostess sets a whole lot...so at least they're free?  Let's flash back!

Once again, I did the Splitcoast index card for this stamp set.  It's kind of sad when I feel the need to include the index card in the flashback.

Also features Sweet Serendipity

And here's the only actual card I made with it back in the day...I was trying out the ink-spray-smash technique (and that might be the one and only time I tried it).  So that was short...here's the new project for today!

I do actually like this card and it's in the mail already to my friend Sarah.  I used the sketch at Create with Connie and Mary:

I actually stuck pretty close to it this time, go me.  And I had to play along in the three hundredth challenge at ColourQ:

Of course, I added a fair bit of Chocolate Chip to the palette, I just needed it to ground the bright colors on my card.

That's it for me this week, I hope you have a fabulous weekend!

Supplies, last card only:
Stamps:  Happiness Always, Friendly Words (unmounted wheel)
Ink:  Cameo Coral, Ruby Red, Daffodil Delight, Chocolate Chip
Paper:  Coastal Cabana, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Ginger Blossom DSP
Accessories:  Oval Framelits, Daffodil Delight 1/8" ribbon, Regals Candy Dots, Dimensionals