The Project Bin ~ Heart Hugs!

Oh friends, it's hard to believe in a few hours,
it will be 2019!

I'm thankful to Denise at The Project Bin Stamps,

for giving us time off to be with our families during the holidays :)

Thank you, Denise!

After a refreshing break,
and deep cleaning and organizing the craft desk,

I feel more organized for a successful start to the year.
And I'm getting my cards on!

For today's card, I've used the In My Heart stamp set ~

  it's one of my favorites ♥

The sentiments are so heart-warming and oh so sweet!

It was fun to use the F.Y.I. ~ Find Your Inspiration this year 
to springboard many of my card ideas ~ like this one!

I created my card by looking at this dress and put paper to paper,
added ink, foam, dies and instant card ♥
I love it when the unexpected things inspire our creativity!

                                                       

   My F.Y.I ~ Find Your Inspiration series 
was a wonderful backdrop for a creative year :)
I have something new, fun and different planned for 2019 ~
I'm super excited to share it with you!

You can find this fun stamp/die set that I used for my card
 in the shop as well as a view of it here ↓

And one final look!

Thanks for stopping by!
I'll see you next year! :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

2018 ~ My top cards in review!

Hi friends!

I'm so grateful to have shared this past crafty year with you all,

 getting to know you better as crafters and friends ♥
I have loved connecting through with you through blogging, social media 

and card/happy mail exchanges :)

Crafty friends truly are the BEST friends!

As we are nearly in 2019,

it's always memorable to take this time to look back 

at what our favorite cards were.

This is my 8th official year doing this on my blog :)

In 2019, I have a couple of exciting creative things planned, 
including a new and improved way that I blog/craft/connect!

I'm. so. excited!

I hope you'll be along for the journey, too!

Looking back, here are some of my favorites:

(a couple are not in the original month published)

January

Poppy Girl by Unity Stamp Co

February

Snuggle Bunnies by My Favorite Things

March

Best Buds by Paper Smooches

April

Going places by WPlus9

May

Color My World by Lawn Fawn

 

June

Summer Fun by The Project Bin 

 

 July

Harvest Mouse by My Favorite Things

August 

Classic Man by The Project Bin

September

 Super Boy by My Favorite Things

 

 

  October

 Frightfully Sweet by My Favorite Things

 

 November

Fall Friends by My Favorite Things 

 

December 

North Pole by The Project Bin 

 

Thanks for stopping by!

I'd love to see your year in review, too!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly 

Happy Birthday, Denise blog hop!

Hi friends!

 Today, the designers for The Project Bin have a birthday blog hop

in the style of Mad-Libs!

Mad-libs is a fill in the blanks style of fun

so grab your favorite morning drink and join the celebration!

 

Once upon a time, a creative and wonderful lady created a fabulous stamp company called The Project Bin! 

   Right away, we were in for a treat! 

 Her name is Denise and she is so sweet, is super creative 

and just make me smile!  

 Every day, she works hard, spends time with her loving family, 

 and always thinks of others! 

 And WOOHOOO! 

  Today is her birthday!  

 We, her design team, are so delighted to share this day with her

and celebrate this special lady that we are hopping like frogs and

 have planned a surprise BLOG HOP today!   

So follow the gingerbread crumb trail and

stop at each designer’s blog to see the card they have created for Denise!  

I’m the first stop on birthday hop and I am beyond excited! 

 Denise is an absolute gem and one of the talented designers I know!

I’m feeling delighted to be part of this birthday hop

 because birthdays are meant to be celebrated with our loved ones.

Denise, the wish I have for you on your birthday today is 

for you to take the time to do something wonderful for yourself as you are always thinking of others and a blessings to those that know you!

It will be fun to see Denise smiling and blowing out candles and eating her cake!

 

               I used the Born Yesterday stamp set to create this card today

 and the favorite thing about this stamp set to me is  

how versatile it is to make those super fun birthday cards!

I heat embossed the sentiment in pink embossing powder to match

the colors of a walk through a flower garden ♥

   

Here is the inside:

Denise, I hope you get to celebrate with your loved ones

 and squeeze them tight on your special day and make sure to   

give yourself a high five!

Your next stop on the hop is Dawn!

You can find her sweet blog Sunnyside Up here!

`Much love!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly 

Hello frosty friends!

Hello, friends!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas 

and Santa was good to you!

 

I'm still wishing for snow ~

so I'm still making snowy, post Christmas cards :) 

 

For this card, I used Frosty Friends by Hello Bluebird stamps.  

I went with colors that resembled a gingerbread theme ~ 

brown with white scallops, a lined frame and cute winter critters!

Here's another look at the card from it's aerial view ↓

 

 

  Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings! ♥

~Kelly

Wishing you a BEARY Christmas!

 Hello friends!

Christmas is nearly here and I already know you're on the good list!

I hope your stockings are filled with goodies

and lots of {crafty} toys will be under the tree!

 

We're baking cookies and Spanish pastries,

 filling boxes and taking treats to friends and neighbors :)

I'm sharing a card that I made using "Oh What Fun"

from Lawn Fawn for a simple snowy card!

I keep hoping for snow here in Miami, but so far, only sunshine!

 

This card is a case of one that I spied here on Instagram

and knew I wanted to create something similar.

I colored/die cut the santa bear and stamped the matching sentiment

with Ranger white embossing powder and heat set it.-

I used the new die-namics blueprints die from MFT 

to die cut/frame the sentiment.

The 'snow' was created from another MFT die.

Super simple but I do love how this card came out! 

Wishing you all the BEARY best holiday!

I hope you all have wonderful and cherished moments with family,

friends, loved ones ♥

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

3M: Wishing you a METAL Christmas!

Hi friends!

I'm still here!  Oh my goodness, life has been non-stop!  

I haven't had any free time to make cards :(

Between Christmas prep, 3 December birthdays, my daughter's college graduation, school, church and Boy Scouts events, we're hopping! :)

Our daughter is back home from college and all moved back in - she's starting her wonderful new job next week, so we've been enjoying so many outings and girl time ♥

Yesterday, I finally got to sit down for a few minutes and work on

my 3 Musketeers challenge card - YAY!

Barb gave us a wonderful challenge: Use Metal!

 Barb's challenge:  Since December is busy for all of us, I wanted to send a simpler challenge

and hoped it does not cause too much stress or planning for a card. 

 The challenge is to make a Christmas Card or a New Year’s card  and make it metallic! 

 You can use metallic paper or use metallic embellishments or emboss with metallic colors. 

 Use your creativity to make a shiny card!

  Ready?  Set.  Go!

My card is very simple ~ letting the gold foil paper shine through as an accent

color and highlighting the Happy Christmas!

I added extra metal but putting the silver metal snowflakes

 and added the metal gems to the center.

Simple but I do like this card - it's bright and shiny, just like holiday ornaments! 

 I do love how this came out :)
It's shiny and classic and simple!

What I learned about metallic foils and papers - 
they are hard to photograph! :)

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

Can you believe it's almost 2019!
I have a few more cards to post before the end of the year ...
stay tuned! ♥

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly