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

Every day is a BEACH day! ~ IPC 254

Hi friends!

There's a new Inky Paws Challenge #254 

with a fun color palette and inspiration photo!

💙💛🧡🤍

                    For my card, I used Newton's Nook Designs:

💙 Aloha Newton clear Stamps

💛 Aloha Newton steel dies

🧡 Retro Palms and Sunset double stencil set

🤍 Basic Frames die set

Here is where you can enter your card/project.

 We look forward to seeing what you create!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

Inky Paws Challenge - Week 3!

Hi friends!

It's Week 3 of the Inky Paws Challenge

at Newton's Nook Designs!

This month, the challenge is a gorgeous inspiration photo

with 4 colors to inspire you:

Magenta, Turquoise, Purple, and Bright Yellow!

I had so much fun this week creating

a fun scene with these playful kitties!

 

I used Newton's Nook Designs:

* Spring Heights stamps & dies 

* Cloud Stencil

* Sea Border die set (I turned it into grass!)

 

To ink up your cards, 

head over to the Inky Paws Challenge blog here!

You can find the supplies I used for this card here in the shop :)

Thanks for stopping by!
~Kelly

Entered to:  SSSWChallenge - Quite Quirky :)

Pammie's Inky Challenge - AG

Stamping Sensations: Nature

Inky Paws - Week 2!

I have 2 blog posts today ~

To see my 3M post, click here! 

 Hi friends!

It's the 2nd week of the Inky Paws Challenge #250

@ Newton's Nook Designs.

                     We hope you have loved the inspiration photo

to create a project with your favorite NND stamps and products!

Here is my card for this week!

I used:  Newton's Peeps clear stamp set

Newton's Peeps die set

Card Layout 4 die

Springtime 6 x 6 paper pad

Happy Easter 6 x 6 paper pad

Thanks for stopping by!
~Kelly

The non-colors of fall!

Hi friends!

The splendor of fall is here with changing leaves,

a crisp touch to the air and 

it's pumpkin everything! :)

I absolutely adore this time of year knowing that soon

our home will once again be filled with our family,

 visiting from all the parts of the globe for the holidays

in November and December!!

I have a fun card to share today with some

rather unusual colors for pumpkins ~

non-traditional colors of fall!

That's the challenge theme my sweet friend Traci

gave us this week in our Wednesday 

 Instagram card group here!

Her challenge:

"create a fall card with non-traditional colored leaves."

I ADORE green and teal together!

I had an idea to create a fall-ish, non-traditionalish card 

using Harvest Blessings from Trinity Stamps.

Since green might be considered a traditional fall color,

I grabbed my watercolors and used mostly purple and teal

and let the water do it's magic!

I added a simple splatter to the background 

and popped up the sentiment for some extra drama :)

Thank you Trinity Stamps for the shout out on Instagram

and resharing my card - I'm truly honored!

Thanks for stopping by today!
~Kelly

entered to:  Retro Rubber Challenge - TicTacToe

(watercolor, die cut and your choice

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Fancy Schmancy Fabulous Fabric!

 

Hi friends ~ Happy Friday! 

 Today is the day the Calendar Girls post our monthly card

creations with a chosen theme. 

I'm Miss February! 

That means, I'm hostess of this month's card group challenge ~ woot, woot! ♥
 

We girls have been together for a few years now and I thought
 it would be *sew* fun to challenge the girls to do something
 we've NEVER done before ~
Use Fabric!

 

I call it the:

 Fancy Schmancy Fabulous Fabric February Challenge! 

 I asked the girls to create a card using fabric – fabric scraps – fabric flowers, panels, and/or the whole card! Think flowers, trees, houses, even holiday ornaments, etc – BUT ....  no stamping our cards this month!

{sentiments are okay but the fabric/elements should be the focal point!}

 

Here is what I came up with this month ~ two cards!

and the fabric I chose: Burlap and lace!
 

I used burlap as my panel backdrop for my first card

with a panel of gorgeous 3" lace layered on the top.

I cut out a second piece of burlap to create the heart.

I wanted to keep the "rustic" look all through-out so I added

a wooden button and some jute string.

The inside is simple with a saying I chose for my dd19

(who inspired this card with her love of all things country!)

 

 

 

I grew up in a waste not, want not household

so I decided to make a second card with the cut-out of the heart!

I put the lace behind this one and used Really Rust

as a backdrop color. I also added some smaller hearts from

even more leftover burlap and a fabric orange button for some pop!

 

 

 

 

I'm tickled with how these cards came out :)  I plan to dabble with burlap again soon!   I love the rustic, romantic look this has. 

However, burlap is a tricky material.  It's finicky and unforgiving. 
If it starts to unravel, so will your project ;)  It will redefine the borders on your card if it starts to fray.  One trick I would say helped was having a small bottle of tombo all purpose glue on hand.  I placed a small dot of glue the palm of hand and rubbed to where it was not sticky but you could feel the substance and I lighted 'palmed' the edges all around.  Worked like a charm :)

 

Here is one last look at them together :)

Thank you for stopping by my blog today!  I hope you stop on in and see my other Calendar Girl friends and see what they 'stitched up!' 

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly



 

I'll enter this card into:  asyoulikeitchallenge (use 3d Texture - Love the country look!)
Charisma Cardz - Something not for crafting (Burlap paneling)
All About the Vintage - Use Lace
 

Dueling Darlings ~ Are you Game?! :)

Hello dear blogging friends!  I've missed crafting and visiting!  With lil man's school starting back up full swing and the girls being on the go-go-go with their last week of Summer, there hasn't been much time to craft and blog/hop!

First up .......  It's the Dueling Darlings back with another card kit creation and this month, the hostess for the Divas was .......... me! :)  I had so much fun putting this card kit together!!  Our theme for this card kit was "Are you Game?"

Here's the card front - I'm Game!

A wee side view :)

The card inside - I continued the theme here, too!

A Close up of the Diva Challenge ~ my snow shimmered glittered Flourish wooden die!

Now, gaming can be anything from sports to board games to just plain 'o takin' a risk!  So for this card kit, I thought it would be fun to bring back playing cards - Whipper Snapper style!  I fell in love with this WS image (okay, ALL the WS images!!  tee hee!) and added them to the card kit filled with papers with red, black, yellow hues.  I'm in love with the papers I found to match the image - Graphic 45's kraft paper "all decked out" (I think that was my fave part of the kit!)  I also added to cache of embellishments and ribbons including the challenge I put forth for the Divas:  Use their wooden die cut flourish in various shapes from the deck of cards and "be game" to craft it in a creative way!  I added some snow glitter from MS to mine for some added bling.  I'm actually really thrilled with how this card turned out ~ inside and out! :)    Be sure to stop in and see what the other Divas created with this identical card kit and then stop in and see what the Dazzlers were "game enough" to create with their card kits!  You can find them on my sidebar right off the side!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  

Big hugs,

Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly