CYS: Think Pink!

 

Hi friends!

Happy Friday!

I'll be babysitting most of today so I'm looking forward to a day of Alice :)

Earlier this week, we created cards with the CYS card group 

on Splitcoaststampers with a theme of: 

Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness. 

I knew I wanted to use my Altenew stamp set Courageous You.

The main stamp is really big so I countered it off to the side

and only used part of the stamp and then colored it loosely.

Tomorrow is Halloween and it's going to be a lot different this year!

We will be a lot of fun at home since Trick or Treating

 is cancelled in our neighborhood.

We're planning on having a festival of fun instead - YAY!

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings :)

~Kelly

A card for mum!

 

Hi friends!

Today's card is one that I made for my mama!

She's affectionally called mum by many of her friends as she is English born.

My love of flowers (and flower stamps!) was inspired by her

and her amazing green thumb!

I'm a member of the Altenew Paint-a-Flower subscription.

Awhile back, I signed up for it and said let's give it 3 months :)

This is the Calla Lily flower and

 it made me smile as they were part of my wedding bouquet.

I'm waiting to see when mum gets the card, if she notices!

For this card, I did a watercolor wash with the Altenew pans,

let it dry and then popped it up on foam for dimension.

The sentiment is embossed with WOW white embossing powder 

and a few enamel dots finished the card!

I have to say, and I don't say it too often, I adore this card!

I don't know if it's because it's for mama or that I made with 'love in the stitches'

but it is just so lovely to see!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings :)

~Kelly

I'll enter this to:  Word Art Wednesday

Paeonia Japonica ~ Paint a flower series!

Happy Tuesday, friends!

You may remember from this post that I signed up

for a few creative new ventures. 

It was mostly to reclaim the creativity during this stay-at-home time

and just simply try. new. things!

 

That's always great fun!

Even more fun, I spent yesterday ....

1. Making a new video for my (teeny tiny!) YouTube channel

2. Making a TON of cards!

I won't dare say I've 'caught up' but I'm pretty close :)

This is one of the new ventures - 

Altenew's Paint a Flower monthly flower program.

I have a couple of them and they are just fabulous each month!

This is the Paeonia Japonica ..

say that three times fast :)

I actually did some research for this flower and what it looks like,

how it can be colored,

but in the end, decided to use this as my WCW card for Splitcoaststampers.

I think we are up to challenge #10 or #11 already!

Each technique has been very fun .. including the 'white flower' watercolor.

I've also combined it with the Color Challenge from a few weeks ago:

BUMBLE BEES  N' PEACOCKS EATING  CHERRY COBBLER!

That's it for me today!

Thanks for stopping by ~

Big hugs, bigger blessings!

~Kelly

Flowers make a "Statement!"

Hi friends!

It's Friday ~ I can feel the weekend in the air :)

I absolutely ADORE flowers,
especially home grown garden flowers.
But my VERY favorite are literally the ones picked from fields
and growing in the wild.
My sweet husband brings me gorgeous flowers from the store
but I am crazy about one just handpicked :)

Flowers are also fun to color!
I had signed up for a couple of monthly subscriptions recently ~
Altenew's mini stamp club which is super cute,
and their Paint-A-Flowers stamp club 
which I haven't had a chance to color yet - but soon!
The 3rd one is a completely different company with something new to me 
that's a little out of my wheelhouse but since we are homebound
and it's a creative venture - I thought, why not!
  It just arrived and has me so nervous!
and saying HMMMM!
I'll be posting a video soon on YouTube ...
 although I'm slightly terrified, stay tuned for that!

My card today is for Watercolor Wednesday #5
which I missed when I was sick.
I'm finally inking up one of my favorite purchases ~ 
Statement Flowers from Altenew.  

I loved it when I saw the debut here on Therese Calvird's blog
and her no line coloring of the gorgeous stamp.
I did some watercoloring since I'm not that fancy, LOL!
I used my Zig Clean Color Brush markers
after white heat embossing the panel.
The WCW #5 was wet layer on layer
 so I went back and did a second layer of paint.

I had a lot of fun with this card!
I added a sentiment from another Altenew stamp set Amazing You.

And that's it for today!

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

Best Mom ♥

 Hi friends!

Taking a small break from this weekend's home projects

to get some DT work done for the week ahead!

.

 

Today's camp cards were from Day 16

taught by Kathy Rac ...

Yes!

From The 30 Day Coloring Challenge!

 

I have to say - this was amazing!

It took forever and the first set of cards spelled disaster :)

But try and try again - and I ended up with 3 cards!

Here are 2 of them ↓ 

For this flower card, I used Altenew Best Mom 

and the sentiments are from an MFT Stamps set.

I heat embossed them with WOW Embossing powder 

and popped them up on foam tape.

 Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

 Entered into:  Simon Says Stamp:  Anything Goes!

Grateful for crafty friends!

Hi friends!

As someone who loves to write,

words make me happy!

 I'd definitely call myself a wordsmith :)

This homework for Spring Card Camp with this set of cards

was super duper fun!

 I noticed a couple of days ago that almost all of my cards from camp

are blue and teal!

So I decided to switch it up a bit and go for hot pink :)

 

 I used 4 Ranger Ink distress oxide inks to create this set ~

blending them with the TE Blender Brushes.

One is a die cut inlay and one is popped up ~

and I really wish I knew where this grateful die was from.

I bought a destash stamp set from someone and she included it

as a free gift to me - isn't that sweet!

I've long forgotten the who and how as it was a year ago ~
so if it looks familiar, please let me know!

I used the word grateful as my word 

as that's certainly how I feel amidst the Covid19 craziness ~

and I'm certainly lucky to have crafty friends like all of you!

And that's it from this class 'homework!'

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

 

 

CCEE: Embossing ~ wet or dry!

Hi friends!

I'm so excited it's Thursday - one day closer to the weekend!

It's been a whirlwind of a week for us 

and I'm hoping for some quiet stamping time ♥

I did get a card done quickly today for the CCEE Stampers.

The theme this week is:

Embossing ~ wet or dry!

For my card, I decided to go with wet embossing

and ink up one of my larger flower stamps from W Plus 9.

It's called the Christmas Rose and

 look.  at.  these.  samples! 

*Christmas Rose* 

Wow!

 

My simple card is using WOW embossing powder in white

and Ranger distress inks.

After stamping the flower with Versamark and heat embossing it,

I blended 3 colors of Ranger Inks and added iridescent sequins.

The panel was cut with my MFT die-namic and adhered to black cardstock.

 

For the final piece, the sentiment is from an Altenew flower set

by the same name as the words:  You Are My Inspiration.

It was fitting for the person that I'll be sending this card to ♥

 

And that's it from me!

You can see what the design team created this week

by heading over to the CCEE blog here.

If you'd like to play along and link up your cards,

follow at the bottom of the post where the LINKY sign up is!

We'd love to see what you make!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Strawberry festival time!

Hi again!

 Cardmaking, for me,  is a funny thing.

Some days I work forever on a card ...

just. one. card!

And I look back at it and think you have got to be kidding!

And then there are other times an idea pops into my head

 and I crank it out superfly quick,

 faster than my eyeballs can gather all the supplies

 and my hands can get it together!

Today's card is the latter :)

Florida has an AMAZING strawberry festival

  right smack dab in the middle of our state. 

 It's filled with a fair with rides, booths with strawberry goodies of every kind, concerts, a rodeo and petting zoo, a large open air market to shop 

and so much more! 

We haven't gone in years but we have such fond memories 

and would bring back bushels full of strawberries! 

Bunny Love from Altenew is such a sweet spring stamp set

and fun to bring out at Easter time!

I used hues of red white and a pop of blue ~

the red gingham was a nod towards the farmers markets.

 

 I created this card with the Challenge Your Stash card group 

where we were to create a card with a bunny on it.

There so many cute bunnies on this one to chose from!

 

What's your favorite way to have strawberries?

I love them sliced and tossed into my salads,

smothered in chocolate,

even skewered and added quickly to the grill with my summer veggies!

Thanks for your visit today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly