We’re hunting for gold at Project 64 this week, but last week it was burnt orange, a perfect fall color.
When I took my crayon out of the box, and my scribble from the baggie, they matched a card I had just finished creating nearly perfectly.
Some of the berries on the wreath on my front door are a good match, too.
But my favorite this week is the pumpkin filled with flowers that I purchased for the shower I had last weekend.
I love nearly every shade of red, so I’m always happy to see another red crayon emerge from the box over at Project 64! Because we’re in the midst of trying to get ready for a big weekend here, I didn’t have as much time to hunt as usual. The first two images were taken on the Cornell campus last Saturday. The ivy is turning red on the School of Industrial and Labor Realtions School.
And finally, the top to my new (big splurge) teapot for the new kitchen—a black and white checked teapot with a red top. Our new kitchen boasts white cupboards, black counters, and red is the accent (red kitchen chairs, a red message board, etc.) I couldn’t resist the teapot, and we hated our old one.
I’ve got some more beautiful photos of Sylar Rose to share as well as a photo of her tiny fingers wrapped around Tracy’s hand. I’m posting it at the I Heart Faces blog for their Hands challenge.
Skylar is one of the most contented babies I’ve ever known. I’ve only seen her eyes once in the times I’ve visited her; she’s a great sleeper and is giving Betsy four-five hours of sleep at night. Tomorrow she’ll just be three weeks old!
Off to the pediatrician’s
We think she’s just the sweetest baby ever! I can’t wait for Matt to get here this weekend to meet her.
Last week’s color at Project 64 was Periwinkle. I thought there was an unusual amount of variation in the photos posted during the week, and my first two photos were based on some blog posts rather than the crayon I had on hand or the photo above. They’re not far off, but I’m not sure they’re quite “on” either.
This one is a bit bright, but it’s definitely in the right family.
This one is closer.
But this is the one I’m linking at Project 64. It’s a flower along a walk at the Wild Center near Tupper Lake in the Adirondacks. We spent last weekend in Lake Placid and stopped here on our way. The weekend was quite an adventure, but that’s a story for another day.
The adventure started last weekend, but the craziness has persisted all week long and has kept me from the computer most of the week. I hope to get to a recap of all that’s going on sometime this weekend. I’ve not had time to post nor to visit many blogs, but I will catch up soon, I hope. Have a good weekend! It’s supposed to be absolutely lovely here—warm and sunny! We’re hoping to find some time to be outside and enjoy it.
The weeks are flying by, and I feel lucky to be keeping up with Project 64, even if it seems a bit harried at time.
I found some beautiful leaves this week on our walk that are a great match, and I think our homemade salsa is as well.
We have lots of friends and family with fall birthdays. Here are two cards ready to go. The first one is for two challenges. The CR84FN color challenge and the CPS Sketch Challenge. Here’s the lovely fall color combination at CR84Fn:
And the sketch at CPS:
Here’s what I came up with:
I made two of the following card, both for men with fall birthdays. I absolutely love this tree die by Memory Box. I hope you can see in the close-up the beautiful shimmer of the brown and gold cardstock.
Supplies
Leaves:
Cardstock: Autumn collection (American Craft)
Patterned Paper: “Sunshine” (My Minds Eye)
Dies: Nested Maple Leaves & Nested Eyelet Rectangles (Lifestyle Crafts) & Foliage (Spellbinders)
Distress Inks (Tim Holtz)
Stamps: Birthday Basics (Papertrey Ink)
Tree:
Cardstock: Fine Linen and Bazzil Shimmer
Patterned Paper: from the scrap drawer
Twine and Button: Papertrey In
Die: Memory Box
I’ve missed the last couple Papertry Blog Hops and I almost didn’t get anything made for this month although I’ve been thinking about it since I saw the inspiration post.
I knew right away that I wanted to mimic the strips somehow, but I don’t own the right inks. So I took a thin die from the pumpkin die (LifeStyle Crafts) and cut strips of Sweet Blush, Smoky Shadow, Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise, and Harvest Gold and created a pattern that runs both vertically and horizontally. Then to mimic what appears to be a rectangular pattern on the right, I stamped my sentiment (Star Prints) and die cut it with Spellbinder’s Classic Rectangles. I hand cut the border for the sentiment, popped up the focal image and adhered it to a Hawaiian Shores card.
Another birthday card for the stash!
I feel like I’m constantly behind again. There’s so much going on. So here I am, linking up to Project 64 at the end of the week again.
Once again the wrapper for the crayon is a different color than the actual crayon. I see shades of sepia here in these artifical flowers I bought to hang on my kitchen door once the kitchen in complete!
And in the woodgrain of my desk chair:
But my favorite from the week is Rocky, my niece Stephanie’s dog. We’ve been visiting since Tuesday and have had a lovely time. I’ll have photos later today or tomorrow of some lovely walks we’ve taken this week on two historic sites in Hyde Park.
Rinda threw out a photographic scavenger hunt challenge for the summer, and I’ve had a lot of fun trying to find all the items on it. I still have a couple of days, but I must admit I don’t hold out much hope for seeing a pirate or a unicycle before Friday. Here are the 19/21 I found:
1. A rooster 2. A town meeting 3. A castle 4. My self-portrait 5. A forest 6. My country’s flag 7. A painted mailbox 8. A wooden bridge 9. A roadside memorial 10. A campfire 11. Mt. Hope Cemetery (resting place of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglas) 12. Rain on the train window in Alaska 13. A tripod of handwritten messages 14. A glass and steel building (Vancouver Airport) 15. A woman sketching 16. A festival (The Clothesline Art Festival) 17. A museum (Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver) 18. A beehive 19. Graffiti art
Thanks, Rinda, it was great fun, and I look forward to another one!
The color for Project 64 last week was Blue Violet. I thought I had captured a few, but when I uploaded the photos, only the violet from my study window was the right color.
As you can see, the color of the wrapper isn’t exactly the color of the crayon. In the sunlight my violet more closely matches the wrapper, but away from the sun it is a good match, I think, for the crayon color. The blues and violets seem the hardest to match up. So here’s this week’s link-up:
Next, are four more pages in my LSNED album, the above photo being one of the photos.
Off to the dentist and two more appointments!
This week’s Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World gave me an opportunity to use my new Bloom Builders #3 die. As soon as I saw this delightful image, I knew what I wanted to do.
I used Papertrey’s Background Basics: Retro stamped in Brilliance Thyme to mimic the pattern in the chair cover and the color from the gorgeous flower pillow for the flower on the card. The center of the flower is an old button from La-Di-Dah. I often struggle to line up the background images, but this time it lined up perfectly the first time. A sentiment from Teresa Collins Celebrate finished it off.
It’s been a long time since I’ve participated in a challenge. I really like the sketch on the Simon Says Challenge blog, so I decided to pull out some new papers as well as some new dies and give it a go. Here’s the sketch:
And here’s my card, ready for a September 5th birthday:
I used the new Lifestyle Craft Nested Stars for the main image, creasing them from the points to the center to give them a bit of dimension. For the sentiment, I used the LSC nested scalloped rectangle, and trimmed it to fit the sketch. The papers are all from MME “Lost and Found: Rosy” 6X6 paper pad. The sentiment is PTI’s “Star Prints,” and the cool “pyramid stud” is from 7 Gypsies that came in a recent Studio Calico kit.
I had no way to post during our vacation, but occasionally I was able to get on the internet long enough to read email. If it was the weekend, I checked the color of the week for Project 64 so I could keep my eye out for the colors.
The most recent color was Cadet Blue, which is really as gray as it is blue. On our last day in Fairbanks, we took a paddleboat tour down the Chena River until it meets the Tanana River. Since glacier deposits color the Tanana River a steel gray color (Cadet Blue) there is an interesting marbling effect where the rivers meet.
Our lovely guide at a recreated Athabascan Indian village wore a native dress (I didn’t write down the name of it)–also in a print that was mostly Cadet Blue. Here she is demonstrating a horn used to call moose into the area.
Forest Green was everywhere in Alaska. This photo was taken outside of Skagway on our way to Klondike Summit.
Raw Sienna was also evident in lots of places. Here it is in a woodpile ready to heat a home during the long, cold Alaskan winters.
And a pair of snowshoes and a pelt hanging on the front of a log cabin.
I have a card for the new Moxie Fab World challenge, botanicals. The Garden Variety stamps by Papertrey seem a perfect match for the Pink Paislee Butterfly Garden papers. Edited to add this to the Simon Says Anything Goes Challenge.
The butterfly is part of the patterned paper, but I added some stamped grass to the bottom of the frame and some gems for some dimension.
Supplies:
Cardstock: Rustic White (Papertrey)
Patterned Paper: Butterfly Garden (Pink Paislee)
Stamps: Garden Variety (Papertrey)
Die: Seed Packet Frame (Papertrey)
Ribbon: Paper Source
Gems from stash
I’ve put this post off as long as I can hoping something better would show up for last week’s color. Sea Green was the hardest one yet for me. Several folks posted sea glass, and I have a jar filled with sea glass from our first trip to California fifteen years ago. None of my sea glass is quite right, but the jar itself is the closed thing I have to sea green. Since it’s nearly translucent, it’s harder to see in a photo. It’s much closer to the crayon sample than the crayon wrapper.
You can find more Sea Green here.
