It's a Dueling Darling Diva's Calendar Two-fer! :)

Evenin'!   Hope your long Memorial Weekend is off to a great start!   Today is the day the Calendar Girls shows off their card posts, and in my case, it's also combined with a VERY belated Dueling Darling Diva posts .... so would that make it a Duelandar card?  Or a Carling? LOL!  Either way, today I bring you a two-fer card from two-fer of my favorite peoples evah, Carol and Barb!! {*muah!*}

Before I get to my card, I wanted to announce the Riley Blog Hop winner of a Riley stamp - Yuki!   Please contact me at Kelnkids@aol.com with your name/addresss and choice of Riley - congratulations!

On to the DDD/Calendar Girls card!  Carol was the Diva hostess this month and sent us the most appropriate Kelly kit ever!  COFFEE!  Omgosh, I wish you could have heard the squeal of pure delight when I opened up this envie!  And the sweetest part of all is that the divas and darlings were asked to say something nice about us, the "leaders of the pack" and my eyes were brimming with the one or two posts I've visited (then quickly refrained, much to my sadness, but I didn't want to see any cards until mine was done!)  Truly sweet words and I'm honored to have been thought of as inspiration for the card kit and guess my Starbucks addiction is pretty widely known, tee hee!  Secondly, our hostess for the Calendar Girls this month was the fabulous Barb!  She challenged us to make  a different shape/folded card and I have not made one of these hopskotch cards in like 4 YEARS!  Seriously!!  This was one of the first folds I made in a card class over 4.5 years ago!!  Old Skool :)   But the second she challenged us to make a shaped folded card, this was the first thing that popped into my head and I totally went with the idea!  I have shamelessly had this card done for well over 2 weeks and I won't bore you with all the absolutely unbelievable things going on here, but suffice it to say, I'm glad ONE of these cards is posted on time and hopefully they haven't thrown me out of the group that I know of since I haven't been able to get to SCS either - eek!

Being from a military family, I salute our veterns past and present and hope you take a moment this weekend of silence and prayer to reflect on the wonders of this country! I'm so proud of each and every one of our veterans.   My Dad has been gone 5 years as of March and every single day I miss him dearly.  I will lay a wreath on his grave tomorrow and treasure the freedom granted to us by the sacrifices of so many and treasure this gift called Freedom! x0x0

Blessings!
xoxo

~Kelly

From Carol's scrumptious Kit, she sent us this yummi stamped image from StampingBella and the DSP you see on the front panels of this cards. I call it a hopskotch fold/card though I have no idea what the fold is!  You take 4 identical papers and after making the right incisions, you fold them into each other until you have a 4 squares card with flaps and a wide base. 

She also sent a cache of ribbons and buttons and I used one of the flowers meshed with some I had on hand and her buttons to create the flower accents and in case you might not have  noticed, the flowers also include a coffee sleeve cutout flower I made with paper shapers!  Too cute!! (and a great way to "Go Green"!)

I paired it with some Concord Grape and Kiwi Kiss to bring out the colors of the dsp Carol sent, and the rest I had in my stash.  She was so generous with her card kit, stay tuned for another couple of cards in the near future!

Thanks for stopping by - be sure to visit the other Calendar Girls this month and see what Barb inspired them to create!

x0x0

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