CYS: Leaves!

Hi friends!

Happy Saturday!

It's Operation Christmas Time in our home with putting up the tree,

decor and making it the North Pole!

Eahh year, we have a themed Christmas and this year is 'The North Pole'

and it will (hopefully) look like a whimsical wonderland after it's done :)

I also have gotten a second 'spring cleaning' wind

 and have taken apart our walk in closet.

I thought it would be a few hours ~ yikes!

It's been nearly 2 days!

Sorting, purging, taken to church, more sorting, washing, folding ...

shelves and boxes - oh my!

Anything that 'Oh, I'll fit into this again!"  - gone

"Oh, I remember this from 1999!' - gone

"Oh, maybe my daughter's might like this one day!" (from 1989) - gone!

But - lucky for me - the end is in sight and it's brighter and fresher :)

Onto my card!

The Challenge Your Stash card group on Splitcoaststampers

asks us to look through our STASH (not buy anything new)

and make a card to stretch the use of our supplies.

I've used a unity stamp from one of their past KOTM

and watercolored stamped it.

This card was fun to make - it's always nice to relax and paint!

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings :)

~Kelly

CYS: Cajun Mango Flowers!

 Hi friends!

I have another card today ~ for the CYS card group.

The Challenge Your Stash began as a way to inspire us

to use our older, perhaps forgotten, stamps!

Nothing new can be used and we dig through our stash

and create a card with a chosen theme.

This month, Joyce chose a theme of flowers!

Critters are my absolute favorite stamps of all time

but next in line - flowers!

I paired my card today with the color challenge at SCS ~

 Cajun, Mango and Poppy!

The colors lend themselves to a fall or autumn feel to me :)

 

I've used my older Reverse Confetti Cotton and Thistles stamp set

which I just love!

I purchased this from a crafters destash for just a couple of dollars

last year and was so excited to add it to my collection :)

I've used just the flowers from the set

and colored the flowers and cotton stems to match the color theme.

I've added a small sentiment that was on my desk already

from a previous cardmaking session - I went with a white embossed version

so I'm putting this little guy to good use ~ no throwaways!

 

 Thanks for stopping by again! :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

CYS: I BEE-lieve In You!

 Hi friends!

I'm buzzzzzzing by today with a fun card for the 

Challenge Your Stash (CYS) card group.

I'm the hostess for August and many of us are back to school

 (or about to be!)

so I chose a very simple theme:

Stencils!

At the time of choosing a challenge, I picked something that would be easy.

But I had NO IDEA how many stencils I own!

I started going through them to decide on a card design

and kept finding one after another :)

  

We crafters are funny that way!

Sometimes I surprise myself - shopping in my own stash, ROFL!

 I decided on today's stencil:  Burlap by Stamp Anniething.

I actually purchased this stencil for an upcoming project.

I tried it out - liked the results -

 so it became the stenciled background for this card :)

Don't you just love my worn out blending tools!

I'll let you in on a secret ....

I. Love. Them! 

They are so smooth and effortless and glide across the paper when I blend!

I just replace the little circle dauber thingies as/if needed.

The market seems to have many companies coming out with their own,

and I have some fancy blending brushes

but these are my absolute favorites.

  

Using distress oxide inks (tumbled glass, scattered straw),

I used a light blend to get a mixture of both colors.

I added the stamped/die cut bees and hive from MFT Meant to Bee

including a matching sentiment.

Overall, it's a very clean and simple look

but I'm Ha-BEE with it! :)

 Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings! ♥

~Kelly

CYS: Happy National Hamburger Day!

 Hi friends!

Today is National Hamburger Day!

 

 

  

The wonderful thing about summer is ...... grilling outdoors!

We're pretty lucky that we get to grill year round here in South Florida ~

which is good since I LOVE fruits and vegetables on the grill!!

My husband and son-in-law know the way to my heart

is with Starbucks

is with fresh vegetables like squash, eggplant, zucchini and asparagus 

grilled 'til it's pipping hot!

I won't actually partake in hamburger day literally,

I'm happy to get a card created for the CYS card challenge group!

The theme, from our hostess Jeanette, is

 include a hamburger or some other food on your card.

Oh boy!

I had to search and search through my stash for anything hamburger

related and even missed it on my first run through. 

Alas, I remembered my Newton's Nook 'Winston's BBQ' stamp set 

from my guest designer spot and it has ......

a hamburger!

↓

Even better ........

my son-in-laws Father's Day card is now complete!

I'm pretty sure he doesn't read my blog, tee hee!

but just in case, I won't spoil the inside of my card - yet :)

This theme must be popular ~

you'll see it twice this week on my blog for card challenges.

Stay tuned later this week for more hamburger/grilling fun! 

 Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥ 

~Kelly