Hanging with my gnomies!

 Hi friends!

I hope your weekend is going super!

The sun is out - the sun it out!

I'm super happy that we can actually be outdoors again :)

 Today's card is the last day of Spring online card camp ~
taught by Jennifer McGuire.

The theme was window weaving and I did several of these types of cards,

including this one just for fun.

I was curious to see how it would 'weave' through the my heart die

from MFT Stamps ~ peek-a-boo dienamics and it worked!

I did as she did in class and worked with vellum ~

coloring the clear vellum with my copic markers.

Once dry, I ran it through my trimmer and cut it in varied sizes.

I stamped, diecut and colored the gnome and added him to the front,

and the sentiment is heat embossed from the OG gnome stamp set from MFT.

 I just think this is a fun card and interesting technique!

Wishing you a great start to your weekend!

Big hugs, bigger blessings :)

Simon Says Stamp - AG challenge
Crafty Catz - 2 layers
Crazy 4 challenges - Gnomes

~Kelly

Eyeballs and Olives - Day 12!

Hi friends!

Today is Memorial Day and soon,

my son and I will head to the V.A. Cemetary

to place flags on the graves of those that served in the Armed Forces.

It's always an sight to look back at the rows upon rows of flags ~

memorable indeed!

 

Today's cards are from Day 12 at Spring Online Card Camp

with the hilarious Laura-Fadora!

Speaking of funny,  my son saw my pile of shapes and asked me

"why did you make so many eyeballs and olives?!"

:)

 While that wasn't what I was going for, now I can't unsee it ~ ROFL!

This class was a lot of beautiful geometric shapes for our cards ~

something I don't own a lot of in smaller sets,

so I thought outside the box.

My cards are triple layers of shapes - one circles and one wonky rectangles.

For the first card, I used the wonky rounded rectangle dies

and since this is heading to my sister-in-law, who served 12 years in the Army,

I chose red, white and blue as the colors.

For the second card, I went with a few of the layered circles
(the eyeballs and olives, hee hee!)
and created a floral/color wheel pattern.
I still have so many left over, I'll definitely try this again :)

 

                                                  Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly 

 Card entered to:  Word Art Wednesday - AG
Simon Says Stamp - circles 

Anti-coloring ~ Day 11

Hi friends!

Just a quick post today 

to share my camp cards from the Spring online card camp 2!

 This class was about anti coloring -

or not coloring an image as a focal point.

I adore coloring so this class was actually a bit of a stretch for me

but they can't all be a favorite :)

 I used stamps from The Greenhouse Society 

from Technique Tuesday  ~ a monthly stamp program.

These flowers were from their last year's release 

 so they were perfect to not color just for this class.

 Here's the  one I made for class

and as per my goals with crafty friends, I'm making 2 of each!

 And done!

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

CCEE2021 ~ Mother MAY I?

 Hi friends!
I'm back with a card for the latest challenge at the CCEE Stampers 
and I'm picking the challenges for this month.

Since we are in the month of May, I thought a play on words would be fun!

Mother MAY I?  

Challenge:  Create a card based on the popular children’s game 

or feature children playing or create a card for a child.

My card is based on the popular game "Go Fish!"

 

For the fun part ....

everything on my card is something that was laying on my desk ~

leftovers!

I had a watercolor panel from camp,

a cut out, front card panel from an igloo (flipped upside down for a fish bowl) 

and an uncolored image from my intention to use it

 for The Daily Marker (and didn't!) 

 The nod to Go Fish is using a goldfish ~

this stamp is from The Greeting Farm's Down By The Pond.

I've colored it with prismacolor markers

and added some floral sequins from Taylored Expressions

that reminded me of the colorful rocks you see at the bottom of fish bowls!

The sentiment is from My Favorite Things

and embossed with Ranger white embossing powder.

AND!!!
This is my card for Spring Online Card class with Kristina Werner
to create a simple shaker card!

You can see all the cards over on the DT blog at CCEE Stampers.

 You can link up your cards with the LINKY button.

If you share to an online gallery and Splitcoaststampers, use the keyword CCEE2020 ~ 

 we look forward to your cards!

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Smiling for dip dye ~ Day 8!

Hi friends!

 It's Friday night and officially the weekend!

It's pouring rain here in Miami, Florida

and has been for 3 days in a row with more in the forecast.

Which might be a good thing since I'm not going anywhere ~

 I'd rather it rain while I'm indoors anyway :)

Today I'm sharing Day 8 of the Spring online card camp ~

so the 8th class card and it's taught once again by Kristina Werner.

 Since this is my 2nd camp, it's really the 28th card 

and can. we. just. say .........

this was hard!

Fun. but challenging!

For this class, we did faux dip dye and I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi

watercolors, including mixing a few of the colors together to get 

exactly the colors I wanted.

Kristina mentioned in the class that her panels took about 1.5 hours -

mine took 4 hours!

Thankfully, the rain stopped just long enough yesterday to get a couple of pictures ~
here is one of the two cards.

 As per each class, I'm making 2 cards -

and I even made a 3rd one one, slightly different,

which I absolutely love!

I'll be posting that later on in the week ♥

I'm off to lay down and get some much needed rest and relief ~

wishing you a great start to your weekend!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CCEE2020 and Day 7 ~ All about balloons!

Hi friends!

 

*I'll have to edit these photos later when I have natural light -
I was unable to sit or stand and just had to wing it late tonight!

I'm continuing as the hostess for the month of May with challenges

at the CCEE Stampers challenge blog.

With 3 asthmatics in our home, we take note that

May is Asthma Awareness Month.  

So let’s bring the awareness to 339.4 million people  worldwide 

affected by asthma by creating a card where you need to use your lungs! 

 Think blowing up a balloon, blowing out birthday candles,

 a dandelion, a whistle, etc.

 I chose:  Balloons!

 Since I am moving and shaking with the Spring Online Card Camp,

I decided to use a balloon image for class #7 and combine the 2 requirements.

It was taught by Caly Person and she had techniques on using 

vellum and framed overlays.

I created one card for the class and 1 as per my personal goal

with my IG friends to do 2 or more ♥

Some are doing 4 - even 6!  

My. hat. is. off!

Card #1 for the CCEE Stampers ↓

I've used the MFT Stamps Balloon dienamic ~ isn't it cute!

 

Card #2 - for class ↓

Same MFT Stamps balloon dienamic, different look.

Here are both together:

We'd love for you to play along this week with 

Asthma Awareness Month!

You can link up your cards below with the LINKY button.

If you share to an online gallery and Splitcoaststampers, use the keyword CCEE2020

and we look forward to seeing your cards :)

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

~Kelly

Shaded Stencils ~ Day 5!

Hi friends!

I hope you are all doing well ♥

Spring card camp is still going strong - and fast!

This camp is kicking my cardmaking up a few (hundred) notches!

It moves quick and it's easy to fall behind 

so I created these two cards while throwing a little shade.

As in ... Stencil Shading!

It was taught by Lydia (from SCS) and

here's. where. it. gets. funny!

After camp #1, I placed some orders for new toys and they've all arrived ...

except for one, which has the flower stencils in it.

But no biggie ~ we are in a quarantine and safety first!

I figure if that is the worst of it then I'm good!

I have quite a few stencils, but no florals so I had to improvise ...

so I used a notebook ~ an older one from my stash from The Dollar Tree.

The plastic covers are cut through and they look like a stencil

so why not!

When in Rome, amiright?

I went from this ↑

 And got this! ↓

I used Ranger Ink distress inks and Picket Fence Studio Life Changing Brushes

(the tiny ones for nooks and crannies)

and lightly blended through the stencil (notebook) area.

In order to keep the colors from blending together, 

I blocked it off as I blended to keep the colors separate.

The THANK YOU sentiment is from Concord and 9th

and I popped it up on 3D foam and added a few sequins.

I love that these are made from things I had right here at home :)

Shelter in and shop your stash!

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

GRADuation cards ~ Day 4!

Hi friends!

Wishing you all a blessed and wonderful Mother's Day ~

if you're a Mama, Grandma, Auntie, Fur Mama, etc ...

I send you blessings for a wonderful day of celebrating YOU!

I have several cards to post 

including my Stamp What?! card ~ 

but catching up in order ...

Day 4 of the Spring Online Card Camp!

We have been celebrating non-stop since Friday

so it's been harder this time around getting my cards blogged!

For this class, we're using saying it with sentiments! 

This class was taught by Nina Marie

and I love that it uses up scraps most of all ~ right up my alley!

 I signed up on Facebook last month for a quarantine Art Club 
And the FB group asked us to send cards to graduates - anonymously :)

So many won’t have the chance to enjoy the graduation walk

or the pomp and circumstance that's the milestone for so many.

I've used Paper Smooches Smarty Pants sentiment

and kept it super simple using scraps and WOW Embossing white powder.

These cards were harder to put together than they look, LOL!

I had to get out the t-ruler and they are still a little wonky :)

For me, I had to ad-lib a little bit with the cutting ~

and I'll show you (a little tip!) the way I did it to make them (mostly) straight!

Eyeballing it - the far right was crooked ...

I just added washi tape to the back

then ran it through my trimmer to cut off the excess. 

It worked!

I'm devastated to see now that when I was photographing these yesterday,

a small drop of water landed on the card ~

it's long dried and the card is perfectly fine, LOL!
 

So we'll just pretend it's not there :)

 Such a fun to make and once you get the process rolling,

it's easy to make an assembly line of these! 

 That's card class #4!

I have another card to blog 

and then you'll see card class #5 :)

Hugs to you all on this special day for mamas!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

AAA: 1/3 - repeat stamping
The Paper Players - color challenge

Be the Em-Boss! ~ Day 3

Hi friends!

There's paper,

there's embossing,

there's stencils ...

put them all together

and you get some pretty fancy backgrounds for cards!

 

 For Day 3 of online card camp, our homework was to create a card

but per my personal goal, I'm making 2!

At least that is the plan :)

For this set, I used my the Taylored Expressions stamp set

 called Beautiful Blossoms.

It's so lovely and has so many possibilities.

I did forget to add the matching dies to this one to my recent order ~

so I used my Scan N Cut ~ it didn't cut it out exactly perfect but that's okay :)

For the sentiment, I've used TE Simple Strips - Friendship.  

Here's a little peek at the stencils ↓

The wonders of cardmaking ~

always something new and fun to learn!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

All lined up ~ Day 2

Hi friends!

It's Day 2 of Online Card camp - 

and I got my cards done earlier today and edited them at the 11th hour :)

This class was taught by Jennifer McGuire 

and her theme was Make Your Own Stripes!

My IG friends and I are continuing Camp #2

and we've all decided to keep making 2 cards for each class :)

Each day, for 20 days, we'll make our cards and it moves fast!

Here are mine from Day 2!

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 I've used Waffle Flower stamps for these two cards ~

One is the large flower 

and the second one are palm trees from the shark stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Marvelous masking ~ Day 1

Hi friends!

I hope you are all doing super!
I had a small biking accident over the weekend

and am supposed to be on limited bed rest.  

Impossible, I say!

So I'm calling it limited bed rest

and I'm so glad my friends live in my computer - all of you!

Your cards and creativity just keeps on inspiring ♥

Online card camp continues!
I loved Camp #1 so much 
that I signed up for the continuing camp!

This morning's class with Kristina Werner was fun ~
new to me supplies and technique! 

Here are 2 of the cards I made this morning!

The distress ink combos I used are:
Squeezed Lemonade
Spun Sugar
Dried Marigold
Shaded Lilac
Wilted Violet
Peacock Feathers
 

 .

I used these two letters specifically because Mother's Day

is right around the corner

and two of my favorite mama's start with J and K!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly