Color Scheme: Pink Pirohuette (Card Base), Choc. Chip, Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss
I am trying to use some of my 'older' card making supplies every other day or so. Just trying to be a little bit frugal and also gives me a mini-trip down memory lane. What I typically find myself doing though while digging through my stash is chastising myself for not labeling DSP (i.e. coordinating colors in the package) and other such self mumblings. Someday I will be a good stamping citizen and have everything labeled and in its place…that is when pigs are flying around in the skies!
The retired SU! DSP is from the Kiwi Kiss In-Color era. The stamp set (K is for Kindness???) is from an old, and long since retired, SU! card making kit. The flower punch used on this card is also retired…WOW…I just realized how much retired stuff I used in making today's card!
Today I spent several hours doing summer cleaning of my closet and desk area. It always feels good to weed out what is no longer used and toss whatever is no longer important or relevant. Now I just need to get the courage to go through all the 'stuff' I have shoved underneath our bed.
Here's a picture of me with a King Salmon I caught off of Admiralty Island, AK in the area known as Danger Point. Kevin, the boat's captain, is standing on my left.
Rubber hugs to all,
Color Scheme: Wild Wasabi (card base), White, So Saffron, Soft Sky (?)
It may be several more days before my mind is willing to take on a card layout with complexities. For now my brain just wants to do simple card layouts that do no tax the gray matter too much.
The SU! DSP used on the card is retired and comes from the time period when Wild Wasabi was an "In-Color". Fast forward a few years and Wild Wasabi is back as a core SU! color. That works out well for me because I have lots of Wild Wasabi paper on hand!
The stamped, punched-out flower (using Scallop Circle punch) and decorated with non-SU! bling is from the Printed Petals stamp set. The Printed Petal flower stamp was stamped using So Saffron ink on a scrap piece of Whisper White paper. This is a SU! stamp set I want to play around with more because the flower stamps look so fun! 
The stamped sentiment is from SU!'s retired Vintage Labels stamp set. What a bummer that is a retired stamp set. I just love that stamp set! Hmmmm, I cannot readily remember if the striped So Saffron ribbon is retired or not… I also used my 3/4" (Soft Sky?) and 1" (Wild Wasabi) circle punches to create the flower's center piece.
Ready for another Alaskan venture picture? Here's me with my catch that's called a Yellow Eye or Red Snapper fish. Oh, these are yummy tasting fish! We had some grilled Yellow Eye fish last night and it was de-li-ci-ous!
Rubber hugs,
Color scheme: Cajun Craze (card base), Pear Pizzazz, Choc. Chip, More Mustard, Vanilla
It has taken me a few days to acclimate to being back on the Big Island instead of being in Alaska. Maybe the slow acclimation is a sign that it was a good vacation?!
Today was the first day I truly had a chance to stamp and felt I had some brain cells to work with. The card's layout was inspired by Clean & Simple card sketch 103 which was just the ticket to help me ease back in to stamping. SU!'s Ornate Blossom stamp is the card's focal point and was stamped using Cajun Craze ink on vanilla paper. SU!'s Perfect Details Texturz Plate was used on the Pear Pizzazz paper layer to give it visual interest. Instead of using ribbon as an embellishment I used my Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch on Chocolate Chip paper and layered on top a 1/4" strip of Pear Pizzazz paper. 
The "Oh My" from today's blog header was triggered by my wrestling match with our 'networked' printer that went AWOL (to long to go into as to why). Have you ever had a situation where you made the problem worse than it was originally?? I had to give myself a 'time out' to collect my thoughts and wits as well as to stop griping at myself for really screwing things up. The time out must have helped because the printer finally agreed it wanted to be part of the networked gang. I did pull out a few tufts of hair in over that printer!
Ready for a couple Alaska pictures? The two photos were taken in Chatham Straits west of Admiralty Islands (SE Alaska). We had anchored to do some fishing for Halibut and yummy rockfish. I love to jig for halibut which by the way is also a good workout. Also, here's the link to the fishing lodge we stayed at: Whalers Cove Lodge (http://whalerscovelodge.com/)
Rubber hugs!
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Tuesday Midnight Madness
