I scream, you scream ....

... we all scream for ICE CREAM!

Ohhhhh donuts are my weakness but ice cream

 is a very close second!

Hi everyone!

I have a cheeky card to share

 that I created for a special birthday friend :)

I used the "Ice Cream Stand" stamp and die set from 2022 exclusive

 collaboration from Mama Elephant and Ellen Hutson, 

released as part of a Summer of Stamping event!

      For this card, I kept it pretty simple 

since the images were super bright and colorful.  

I purposely wanted a lot of 'white space' to highlight their FUN!

Thanks for stopping by and STAY COOL!!

~Kelly

 

Enjoy every moment! IPC #254

Hi friends!

Enjoy every moment!

Today I'm sharing a festive card for the Inky Paws Challenge

at Newton's Nook Designs.

And yes, there's pink!

I did switch up the orange for pink this week

so that I could make a birthday card for a special friend :)

I used these NND products for my card:

Cherry Blossoms clear stamps

Cherry Blossom die set

Basic Frames die set

Bookmark die set

Springtime 6 x 6 paper pad

Happy Easter 6 x 6 paper pad 

Head over here to link up your cards

and to see how you could win a $20 Gift Card 

to do some shopping! 

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

Linked to: Neglected Stuff (papers and markers!)

AAA Birthday - For the Girls

Beautiful Blossoms - flowers

MAWTT - Coloring medium

Let's PARTY! IPC #254

 

Hi friends!

If you have or ever had an ORANGE CAT, 

you'd totally get this card's pun, LOL!

                      For this month's Newton's Nook Designs

                                 IPC challenge, there is a fun 

color palette and inspo photo:

                    I used the colors to create a fun birthday card

for a special someone who has a mischevious orange cat :)

I used:  Naughty Newton clear stamps

Naughty Newton die set

Basic Frames die set

Circle Frames die set

I mixed and matched several designer papers as well

to acheive a fun eclectic look:

 Springtime, Happy Easter, and Coffee Shop paper pads. 

Head over here to link up your card using NND products

and you could be the random winner

 of a $20 store credit to do some shopping!

See you next week with our final color challenge cards!

Thanks for stopping by,

Kelly

Birthday wishes!

 

Hi friends!

Today I have a birthday card to share for our IG Birthday Bash

 card group hosted by my friend, Melissa!

We have an vision board to follow as inspiration

but the idea to to build-a-stash of birthday cards!

I am on a mission!

I have boxes and stacks of kits from virtual camps & classes 

that I have been desperately trying to catch up on

and my ProCRAFTinator's group is only x1 per month!

So I grabbed the PinkFresh Studio Scrapbooking retreat kit

and pulled out things to match the vision board, 

incuding the background patterened paper & ephemera.

The image is Darling Rosebuds and I colored it with my Olo Markers.

Thanks for stopping by today!

~Kelly

Challenges:  A Place to Start - Ombre

Neglected Stuff Challenge - Paper and ephemera from 2023

A Path of Positivity ~ spring

Love those pretty papers! - paper

As You Like It Challenge - Brights or Pastels - Pastels for SPRING!

F.Y.I #2 ~ Wonky cake :)

Hi friends and happy weekend!

As you may remember from this post, I have a new segment this year called Find Your Inspiration! (F.Y.I.) 

  This is actually post #4, but after I looked for the others, I realized I never launched them!

So I'm rearranging a few blog posts and now #4 is #2 - LOL!  

I'm in a fun group on Splitcoaststampers called the Creative Card Chicks.

This month, our hostess Barb, sent us a super cute card kit

including this wonky cake image from Whipper Snapper stamps.

Which I was SUPER giddy to see because when I went to visit 

the crafty gals at camp, we stopped by Creative Pals which is a store

that's wall to wall whipper snapper (and more) stamps!

What a fun store!!

But more than just the fun store and great card kit,

the minute I saw the image, I was immediately brought back to 

my oldest daughter's Sweet 16 ♥

She's now 23 and engaged to be married and So. Grown. Up!

When we were planning her party,

she told me of a cake she designed and it was bright and neon

and 'sort of wonky.'

When we explained her vision to the cake maker, 

she smiled and said "not a problem, I can do wonky!"

And she did!

Her cake was a vision and EXACTLY what she drew up and described!

See! ↓

I actually couldn't find the photo in my seperate hard-drive photo

and colored the image on my card from memory!

 Once we hooked that up to find these 7 year old photos,

I was so excited that I ALMOST got it right :)

Here's my card, which is a two-fer:

Creative Card Chicks kit  ✅

CYS January challenge per Jeanette

 - Use 3 pieces of patterned paper on your card: ✅

 

Thanks, Barb, for your wonderful kit and the walk down memory lane :)

Have a great weekend, friends!

I hope something inspires you today ♥

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Drive By Crafts ~ Hope Your Birtthday is a SMASH!

Hi friends!

*I have 2 posts today!

For my Growing In Unity Day 2, click here!

Today I'm posting on the Drive By Crafts blog 
and every Tuesday, I'll share with you a new card I've made
with the amazing products from the store! 

Are you ready to FIESTA?!
This cheerful, festive birthday card was created by
 products from Drive By Crafts online store!

Here's what I did ~

I stamped/die cut/colored the Lawn Fawn Year Seven stamp set 

and set that aside to assemble the card base.

Drive By Crafts has an wonderful assortment of Lawn Fawn stamps 

and what's fun is the ability to scoop up a few and mix and match :)

 

 

 

 

I propped up the images on 3d foam and glued the paper to the back

using my very favorite glue - Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive glue.

If you haven't used this glue, you need to and I highly recommend it ...

it drives fast and clear and the paper doesn't get warped or wonky!

Lastly, I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set 

onto white cardstock and used it as a banner.
Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, Bigger blessings!
~Kelly

Here are some of the products I used:
 Lawn Fawn stamps/dies 
Designer paper, 6 x 6 pad ~ check out the wonderful selection! 
Scrapbook Adhesive 3d foam 
Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive 

 

CCEE1730 ~ Walk on Stilts Day!

Happy Walk on Stilts Day!

How.  fun.  is.  that!

Maryann of the CCEE Stampers DT asked us to make a tall, thin card

for challenge #1730 in honor of this unusually fun day.

 What a clever idea for a card :)

My card measures 6.75 x 3.25 ~ both tall and thin.
 I stamped this darling Whipper Snapper image,
Beary Special Birthday ,
colored with my prismacolor markers.

I chose this image because it's a pretty large stamp.
I remember using this on A2 size cards and it reached end to end :)
Here, it fits nicely on a taller card and with room to spare.

The sentiment is from High Hopes rubber stamps 

and it's been in my collection for 7-8 years ~ 

and this is the first time it's seen ink!

The inside is blank with a little patterned paper 

to compliment the front.

 

Be sure to check out the CCEE Stampers Inspiration blog

to see what the other DT members made for

"Walk on Stilts Day!"

 

Big hugs, bigger blessings!

~Kelly

3M: Birthday Candles ...

Hi friends!

It's a little ironic that today's post features cards with a candle on them ~

as that's exactly what life is for me now in this moment :)

Burning the candle at both ends, 

each day blurring into the next with the busy-ness of our family life.

 

I'm holding fast to my year of Abide,

and with that, I'm embracing this busy time for us and learning to

 balance it with God's grace ♥

I take a few moments here and there to refresh ...

“Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

~Mark 6:31

and then I keep on going! :)

My card today is tons of fun!

It's the day the 3M post our cards ...

and that would be Barb, Jeanette and I whom all have this same image,

and we make a card without knowing what the others are making :)

Barb was our hostess and she sent us another interesting Tim Holtz image 

(you may remember this one with the coffee theme - yum!)

First, my card went off course.

Like.  Way.  Off.  Course!

You probably know that I'm a HUGE fan of watercoloring ~

I just love it!

I decided to go "old school" since I had school supplies out already

and use some good 'ol fashion 8 count Crayola watercolors.

{*Shout out to Office Max who had these paints on clearance for .10 cents!}

Unfortunately, I didn't count on the fact that the paper wouldn't hold

the weight of the water.

While I normally stamp/watercolor on watercolor paper,

this time it went in all kinds of directions from smears to major warping,

even with ironing.  Shucks!

 But I did get some really cool blending!

I made on in the 'cool colors' and 'warm colors' spectrums.

You will be delighted to see what Barb and Jeanette have made, too!

And here we are ~ aren't we purty?

                                 ↑ that's me!

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

Birthday Friendship ♥ (Carriers of Faith/Cornish Heritage Farms)

 

 

 

What a special day today is ...  

 Today our little man is 10 years old!

Our 'baby' of the family is turning another year old,

joining his 3 big sisters in the "double digits" category!

 

Though he is far from little .. I'm a wee 5'3" and he's already

passing my chin in height :)

Such an incredible little gentlemen he is,
with such compassion for the world, a gentle soul and incredibly bright
and funny ~ oh, how he makes me laugh on a daily basis!
 I'm blessed to be his mommy ♥

 

So imagine how practical it was that today is the day

 the Cornish Heritage Farms posts our challenge cards with a theme by Amber:  Boy/Masculine themed birthday cards.  Perfect!

 

And ...it's also the 9th of the month,
 which is the day that Carriers of Faithpost our cards, too
~ this month, our hostess is Jeanette.

Her challenge this month is a friendship card with the scripture
of Ecclesiastes 4:9-12.
In our home, we are very close to our children and they to each other
(though I must confess 3 teenage daughters was so not as fun as
I'd imagined it would be, LOL!).
Most of all, they are amazing with their little brother
and I'd imagine that if one falls down, they'll help the other up
as He intended for us to do with our brethren ♥
The scripture tells us that if one is overpowered, two can defend
themselves but a cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
I imagine my 4 together and hope that their close bond will be forever!

So, here's my card!
I used a digi from Cornish Heritage Farms called Teddy

  

 CHF61 - link it to the challenge blog

 

Time for a color Challenge! :)

Blessings, all!  

I hope your weekend is off to a good start :)   Forgive my quick post this evening ~ dh is out of town with one of our daughters at a chorus trip and we've been here, there and everywhere!  I still have a book to snuggle up with (personal) and one to review so I'm getting ready to put on my jammies, have a cup of hot green tea and prop up my feet! 

There is a new Color Challenge at Bugaboo Challenge blog and it's a beauty!  The colors are so elegant and striking and just drew me right in.  Take a peek!

My card using the color inspiration photo is using the digi Girl Bear.  I paired it with the vintage papers from SU - lovingly called "grandma papers" by my sweet friend, Tami :)  The flower is one from my hoarded supply that I picked up while walking into a stempel shoppe in Germany last summer :) 

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to check in over at Catch the Bug to see the rest of the DT card inspirations  and of course, link up your photo inspired creations - we'd love to see them!

Big hugs,

Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly

Entered into:  One Stop Craft Challenge - One for the kids

Just Dance!

 
Good afternoon!  Wow, I actually made a card! :)  Blogging/crafting at this time of year are next to impossible with our busy schedules but it's almost a busy birthday month for us - all 3 of our daughters :/

Today's card is one that I made for my daughter, Chrissy :)  I am so excited to ink this stamp up because I just received it in the mail from Kraftin' Kimmie as a stamp win from a challenge I entered (this card for my other daughter!)  Thank you, Kraftin' Kimmie, for your generosity and the unexpected blessing of receiving this fun stamp to ink up!  OMGosh, I adore Kraftin' Kimmie Moonlight Whisper stamps and this was absolutely perfect for my daughter!  She's a musical babe ... always singing, dancing, performing.  I thought this would be a perfect tribute card to her as she has been in so many shows, constantly trying out for dance numbers at school and audition after audition after audition ...... whew!  Through it all, she remains grounded and sweet as pie and just such a gentle, beautiful soul to all that get to know her :*) 

For my color palette, I followed the new color combo at SCS CC404 this week ~ a little out of my comfort zone, but that's exactly why I chose it!  Chrissy's favorite color is blue so I let that be the focal point of Holly Hip Hop! I added the coordinating sentiment to the inside where my dh and I will writer her a little note :)

Thanks for stopping by today! I know I am WAY behind in my visits and I hope you bear with me ... December is just crazy for us and I usually don't get to take a breathe til about January!  One birthday down ... 2 more to go!  (and did someone mention Christmas was this month? eeeek!) :x

Big hugs,

Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly