I will be missing in action for possible the entire month of March. My dad has terminal cancer and I am on the Mainland helping my family with all that's going on.
Dad has volunteered to participate in a Chemotherapy Clinical Trial at the Oregon Health Science University. His hope being that someone else will benefit from what the doctors learn from this particular Clinical Trial.
Dad's chemo treatments are almost everyday with the duration varying from 6-8 hours a shot.
If possible I will share pictures of Oregon slowing showing signs that spring is on it's way.
Stamp on and with Aloha!
Today's color scheme: Pumpkin pie (card base), Taken with Teal, Old Olive, and Sweet Pea DSP
There are days when making a card does not seem all that fun. That was not the case today. Maybe the Sweet Pea DSP (i.e. pumpkin pie with white polka dots) is what help make the card making fun. To me at least—there's something about polka dots—they usually give me a feeling of happiness. Crazy, huh?
I was browsing through the various sketch challenges that are out there in the blog-o-sphere and really got inspired by Sweet Sunday's sketch challenge (SSSC58). Once the craziest at the household settled down I huddled down in my stamp area and got busy with my take on the sketch.
To make the card I stamped a non-SU flower stamp with black ink on Sweet Pea DSP and cut it out. Next I stamped the flower on Whisper White paper ( 1 3/4 x 1 3/4") with Pumpkin Pie ink and matted it on to Taken with Teal paper. The cut out flower was attached with a retired SU! flower-shaped eyelet and my trusty Crop-a-Dile. Add some 1/4" Old Olive ribbon and Taken with Teal paper trimmed with a non-SU! border punch. Surprisingly it did not take that much time to make today's card. I embarrassed to say how long it takes me to make a card on some days. 
Today's color scheme: Pacific Point, Kiwi Kiss, Red Riding Hood (retired in-colors) FYI: Summer Sun coordinates well with these colors.
Yesterday I felt in the mood to take an on-hand 5×7" low-cost spiral composition notebook and personalize it with SU! paper. I chose my favorite SU! in-colors which are unfortunately retired.
To cover a notebook is pretty easy and does not take that much time—unless you decide to get real fancy. For me I like to keep the look pretty simple and without to much fuss.
The front, back, and inside cover pages of the notebook were covered with DSP cut to 5×7" and punched with holes that correspond to the notebook spirals. To do that I pull a page from the notebook and use dotto adhesive to temporarily adhere it to the DSP. I use the torn page as my guide to know where to use my small circle punch. After that is done I use my SU! scissors to cut a slit opening in each punched circle. The slits will allow me to gently thread the custom cut DSP to cover the notebook cover. I used Tombow glue to secure my custom fit DSP panels to the notebook covers.
A non-SU! BigZ die was used to create the cover's flower. A non-SU! border punch was used on the Pacific Point paper wrapped (2" x 7", folded in half, then border punch on the long edges) around the notebook's edge.
I also used my SU! round tab to punch out several tabs from the leftover DSP and Pacific Point paper. I'll attach these after I figure out for sure the specific use for my personalized notebook.
OK—now it is your turn to take an inexpensive composition notebook and make it your own! 
Yesterday morning started early with a phone call about Hawaii would be hit with a tsunami generated by Chile's 8.8 earthquake. First, an 8.8 earthquake?! Next thought was get busy in completing the precautionary steps to be prepared for whatever problems the tsunami could create such as no electricity or water for multiple days. We are fortunate that we do not live in an evacuation zone so that was one less worry to address.
Today's color scheme: Sweet Pea DSP colors! Old Olive (card base), Chocolate Chip (corduroy button), So Saffron, Taken with Teal, and Rose Red.
You will notice there is minimal stamping here—just the sentiment stamped with Taken with Teal ink and punched out with the Modern Label punch. The punch out was layered on to a slightly larger punch out (Taken with Teal Paper) created with my Magnetic Movers and Shapers die.
The flowers were made by running SU!'s Original die, Blossom Party (115971), through my Big Shot with three different paper colors: Taken with Teal, Rose Red, So Saffron.
One sheet side from the Sweet Pea DSP was used to accent the card's front including using SU!'s Scallop Trim Border punch.
Here's a cute picture of my assistant (Alice the cat) taking a much need snooze… 
Today's color scheme: Not Quite Navy and Sage Shadow
This is a note card (Not Quite Navy base) I made for a wonderful friend on the Mainland. She needs some cheering up and since she loves cats this Penny Black stamp seemed the perfect ticket. My note card dimension is 6 3/4 x 4 7/8" and then folded in half.
The Sage Shadow was texturized using SU!'s Perfect Details Texturz plate. I used some leftover card stock as a shim to help ensure a good embossed look. Spellbinder dies were used to create the scalloped ovals from Not Quite Navy and Whisper White paper.
I used my SU! write markers and blender pens to color in the stamped image. Can you believe the inner tube was colored in with Bravo Burgundy?!
Enjoy!
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Tuesday Midnight Madness
