The Daily Marker Day #1 ~ There is a rainbow!

Hello friends!

It's time, it's time!

This is one of my very favorite times in the crafting community ...

The Daily Marker 30 day coloring challenge!

I've participated for the past few years

 and it always brings me great joy to color a little

 - sometimes a lot! -

 each day ♥

 

For the first week of the challenge,

I've decided to have a themed stamp week!

My sweet son left this morning for Boy Scout camp

and before he left, I asked him to draw each week's letter out of a jar :)

 Today was 'L' so I'm choosing different Lawn Fawn stamps this week.

This is my card that I quickly colored after he left at 4:30 am :(

He'll be gone for nearly 3 weeks ....

While I miss him so very much,

it's long awaited crafty time for me!

Here's my card using 3 different Lawn Fawn stamp sets:

 

I've used rain or shine, Upon a star and butterfly kisses

to complete this card.

I've colored the images using promarkers

and the dies are from MFT Stamps and Pink and Main.

It was an honor to be chosen as an ambassador last round

and most likely one of the highlights of my stamping journey ♥

The idea behind The 30 Day is to color/paint/draw something

 - anything - 

for 10 minutes each day to spark creativity,

melt away the stress, try something new ~ whatever works best for you!

You do not need to make full cards

(I doubt I will be! LOL!)

You can color stamped images and have them on hand

for when you need to create a card ...

Just color!

Thanks for *hopping* by today! :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

 

DDD: Happy Hallow-June!

 Hello friends!

 Happy Hallow-June to you!

  It's June ...

 It's summer ...

It's HOT!

But, it's time for a new theme for the (DDD) Dueling Darlings.

Tami and Terry L chose:  Halloween in June.

How fang-tastic!

Here is my no-fuss, no-frills card :/

 The DDD = two opposing teams

that chooses ONE theme, 

and TWO different kits are mailed to either the Divas or Dazzlers

by the two hostesses.

I'm a Diva which means my kit came from Tami!

  I fussy cut the vampire from Red Rubber Stamps 

and added it to the card base of just one sheet of the designer paper,

and the rest is pretty simple and meh!

 

Better luck NECKS time :)

There are many of us dueling with the Halloween in June theme

and you can find their cards at the Splitcoaststampers thread here!

Fangs for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!

~Kelly

CCEE: Sewing Machine Day!

 Hi friends!

You are SEW awesome!

Lois is the hostess for the CCEE Stampers for the month of June
and tells us that today is National Sewing Machine Day!

  She asked the team to make a card with some stitching on it --

 either actual stitching, faux stitching or stitch-edged dies.
I've not yet ventured into real sewing on my cards!

It's funny ~ my mum spent YEARS as a seamstress
and has created beautiful gowns for many ladies.
She said she learned to sew as a small child,
and as a teen in a small shop on the outskirts of London.
Foom wedding dresses to bridesmaids, proms, quilts and dolls for charities.
She handmade all of my dresses and rompers when I was growing up
and just is so VERY talented!

Me?

I can't even sew in a straight line with a handle needle and thread!
So, I took the route of using a die with stitching 
and a sewing theme, LOL!



I ran to Hobby Lobby this week 
and was lucky to find a small sewing machine stamp set for $1.60!
I've used just the sewing machine from the Stampabilities set on this card today,
and the Sew Raggedy doll and button jar stamps from Craftin Desert Divas.
The stitched die is from My Favorite Things 
and I waited a long time to add this to my collection!
It's one of MY favorite things :)
  I set aside my normal prismamarkers and colored with promarkers
and really love the soft look they have.

You can see what the DT created this week ~
it'll have you in stitches! ♥
You can find them on the CCEE blog ← here
as well as link up your card, too, if you'd like to play along!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥
~Kelly

I'll enter this into:  Passion for Promarkers:  Use Pink (the hearts!)

CCEE: Graduation ... circa 1959!

Hi friends!

I'm late for the graduation party

from the CCEE Stampers!

 

 Lois is our hostess for the June challenges

and is reflecting on the 60th anniversary of her graduation from high school -- circa June 9, 1959!

  The challenge is to make a card depicting their favorite subject in school.

 

This was an easy one for me ~

Art Class!

Every time I got the chance, I would draw and doodle and paint ~

just like most of you, I'm sure!

Now here we are - still coloring and painting and making cards!

My card is using the Complimentary Colors kids from Neat and Tangled.

I thought it was a perfect match for the theme!

I created the gorgeous backdrop by blending distress oxide inks

and adding to the card base.

 

I can't take credit for the original design of this card :)

This week, the Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers is Wanda Cullen!

Her gallery is one I could just wander through and more than once!

You can see her card here.

I've kept the original design and changed the colors and the stamped images.

You can see the design team cards here on the CCEE blog

as well as link up to add your card, too!

Thanks for visiting today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

TPB: Summer = flip flops!

 Hi friends!

Happy Fun-day Monday!

Do you know what's better than a pair of flip-flops?

Several!

 

When I was just a child, my brother and I would watch

the tv show, Gilligan's Island.

Oh, how I loved it!

Every week, we'd tune in for "The 3 hour tour" jingle!

 Gilligan and his motley crew of friends always made

being stranded on a deserted island seem like an adventure.

From drinks in coconuts, sleeping in hammocks,

lazy days on the sand.

Sounds like a dream vacation!

While they were actually trying to discover how to get OFF the island

and engineer ways to do it,

we always thought it was a great idea.

Today, my card is channeling life in flip-flops.

I've used one of the original stamp sets

 from The Project Bin ~ Summer Sun!

This one is still a favorite of mine, perfect for kicking off summer 

(LOL ~ no pun intended!)

 And I'm pretty sure I don't really have them in every color ...

just pretty close :)

Here's the stamp set I've used 

↓
 

 

  If it's not summer where you are, I hope it will be soon :)

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

 

3M: Whooooo is awesome?

Youuuuu are awesome!

Hiya friends!

 Are you a night owl?!

I am :)

 

It's when I do my best creating!

(though sometimes when that alarms clock goes off - ouch!)

Today's the day that the 3M posts our cards 

with an image sent to us by the hostess for the month.
Barb sent us the image for us to use 
and chose these crazy party owls!

For my card, I had a vision of owls snuggled into their woodland tree
during the night.
I used Lawn Fawn's Knock on Wood designer paper as my card base
and created a cut out for the night sky backdrop to peek through. 
The sky was created using Mermaid Lagoon and Salty Ocean distress inks
and blended together.
In hindsight, I should have used darker colors 
but WHOOOO knew! :)

 

I've added the matching sentiment "wanna party?" to the inside

of the card ~ can't show that yet! 

 

You can see Barb's card here and Jeanette's card here

that they've created with this same image.

  

 

                                                           ↑ This is me!

 Fun Facts!

Did you know ....
There are almost 200 different species of owls,
a group of owls is called a parliament,
and they can rotate their heads nearly 270 degrees!

That's pretty OWL-some!

Thank you for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥
~Kelly

COF: Butterfly Kisses :)

Hi friends!

Fluttering by with a hi!

I couldn't be more excited that it is officially summer!

It's so wonderful to have carefree summer days,

not driving back and forth (and back and forth!) to school

and having a schedule that's much. more. relaxed!

My card is for the Crafters of Faith card group

and it's the first card I've made in almost 2 weeks :/

We have a wonderful theme from our hostess, Michelle: 

 Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Challenge: Keeping it simple with "feature butterflies on your project". I know how the summer months can be!

 And butterflies have always been a favorite of mine.

 I used Butterfly Kisses from Lawn Fawn to include butterflies on my card,

and the cloud die stencil from My Favorite Things

with tumbled glass distress oxide ink.

I also used my much loved and used hills die from Pink and Main 

 (these dies are PINK!)

 to complete the sweet and scenic look. 

This set is just SO SO cute ~ I can see a lot of cards ahead with it!

 Thanks for stopping by my blog today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly