Left is Night of Navy, middle is Enchanted Evening, right is Not Quite Navy. Not Quite Navy has more of a green tint, EE has a bit of a teal tint, NON is 'bluer'. In the hand, Enchanted Evening is closer to Night of Navy than Not Quite Navy.
Hope that helps!
I hope I didn't show you this one already, lol. When I come off of a streak of nights, I can't remember much! I saw this card while on our Shop Hop, it was at Absolutely Everything in Topsfield, MA. There are three sets used here, the onsie and the background stamps are from Denami Design, the round circle sentiment is from Technique Tuesday. Sadly, the Technique Tuesday image is poorly poured, and will need the be modified with a scalpel before I will use it again. The blue patterned papers are Bashful Blue DSP, and the ribbon is a SU Bashful Blue stripe. Little bit of glitter, little bit of white gel, and we are good to go!
My search for a cabin in the mountains with a babbling brook is going nowhere- the two I came up with went under contract within a week of being listed. Hmm, since I live in the woods near the beach, I wonder if this is just a silly exercise. Still, the DH wants to go out the door and into the mountains, so I will continue to search!
I did it. I bought some cupcakes. I have not been so fond of all of the cupcakes, but these spoke to me~ of course, it was the first stop on our Shop Hop, after the flat tire, and before dinner. Maybe I was hungry!
Sadly, my Mom's very good friend Edna passed away last week. Not a surprise, but still sad. We've suffered our share of losses this past year, but it doesn't make any of them easier. This was a card for Edna, but I didn't get it in the mail in time. She would have loved it, she loved all of my cards.
The background is Papertrey's Flourishes done in Papertrey's Dark Chocolate. Next layer up is a yellow/orange gradated paper. It's a very thin scrapbook paper, and it's thinness made it a bit difficult to work with. I am so spoiled with thick card stock!
The butterfly stamp is by The Artful Stamper. I paid $16.75 for it, so I really need to find lots of uses for it, lol! I stamped it once is Versamark and embossed with a gold embossing powder, then did just the butterfly in the same gold embossing powder on the gradated paper. It was when I cut out the butterfly that I realized how thin the paper is, but the wings curled just a bit, so that is ok!
On a cheerier note, we spent 4 days in Jackson, NH, in a small cabin borrowed from a friend. All of the grandchildren were there, and we spent 2 days at Storyland, did some hiking in the woods, and the DH went on 2 10 hour walks, right from the front door. At the end of the time, we agreed we should look into buying a cabin of our own in the White Mountains if we can. Not sure where this adventure will take us; now don't laugh, since I live in a cabin in the Maine woods... but not in the White Mountains National Forrest!
My Birthday entry used buttons from the Vintage Cream and White collection, I wish you could see the buttons in real life! The middle one is especially fun! I colored a printed paper from the Black and White collection with the Limepeel Prisma marker. The flowers are Hibiscus Burst and Raspberry Fizz, cut out with a Sizzix die. Little Savvy Stamps flowers were threaded through the button holes and glued on. Sentiment is from Birthday Basics, of course, with cream twill and a few more buttons to finish it off!
I do cookies the weekend before Christmas, and often put cards on the ribbons without envelopes. Bigger than a tag but smaller than an A2 card, this will work well if I just punch a hole on the inside, and thread some curling ribbon through.
The web is glitter through a brass stencil, held on with the Essential Glue pad tapped through the stencil. Polka Dot Basics 2 has the tiny dots; stamped on Summer Sunrise it sure makes for a wonderful Halloween background! I wrapped a bit of the darker twine around the corners of the web just for effect-
Well! On another baby card roll, here! this one mixes Papertrey's Bitty Baby blessings with SU's Bashful Blue. Found the folded card in my stash, so I can't tell you if it was purchased as a card or if I made the card from patterned and glittered paper. Either way, it sure is cute! I used Copic #'s B21 and B 91 for the shading. and Stickles Waterfall for the glitter on the carriage. The bottom Nestability circle is covered in Stickles clear glitter. The carriage circle is sponged with SU's Bashful Blue ink, and that's really wide Bashful Blue ribbon. I was lucky- I cut the ribbon at the top and bottom of the card, and it didn't fray!
Last weekend we went on our shop hop, and I got so many new to me baby stamps you would not believe it! I fell in love with some Amuse baby cards at The Paper Tree in Manchester, NH where I also bought some of the Amuse card stock. I have 4 made so far, and they look just like the ones in the store. Lol, I know that's not too original, but that's ok!
Now, the shop hop was a great thing, but only after we spent 45 minutes stuck in traffic only 15 minutes from the house, then went 10 miles and had a flat tire! AAA told us it would be 2 hours before someone could come fix it~ we would have done it but couldn't get the tire off of it's hinge under the car. Sigh. Luckily, a Knight In Shining Armour stopped and changed it for us! Took us 5 hours to go 66 miles, lol... Weren't we lucky the first stop- Stamping Memories in Belmont NH was open until 8 pm! Woo Hoo! More about our shopping trip next post!
A couple of weeks ago I did some rearranging in my stamping space, and bought these two Cropper Hopper black wire ink pad holders for my PTI & Palette inks. They can stack 4 high on each shelf, which makes it easy to pull out the one I want. I can fit 5 more on these, so that takes me to October's release. Not sure what I am going to do after that, lol!
These cards use all SU products, except the half pearls on the pink card. Stamp set is Teddy & Train. The bears were water colored with SU's crayons. The blue papers are Le Jardin, but the pink card uses papers from Candy Lane and Berry Bliss. Pink and blue ribbons are both taffeta. I'm not sure what I was thinking with the single pearl on the boy card except I couldn't afford to put pearls all down the scallops, lol! 
My phone line is messed up- using recycled things to build our house was a good idea, but sometimes things come back to bite you, and our phone wiring is one! And I am late for work, so I have to run!
If you are a Papertrey fan, you will recognize all of the products, but I'll be back a little later to add them in!
I absolutely swore I would never never buy another ribbon until I finished some up. But, what's a girl to do when she walks past a ribbon that matches exactly the image on a stamp? 
