Week 2: Inky Paws Challenge #247

 Hi friends!

I am happy to share another inspiration card

from the current Inky Paws Challenge

@ Newton's Nook Designs.

This week, I am inspired by the light blue sky

and snowflakes and created a sending you joy card.

Here is the inspo:

This is one of my FAVORITE Newton's Nook Designs stamp sets!

This is Holiday Post clear stamp set and matching outline die.

I paired it with the 6 x 6 patterned paper pad Christmas Time.

Remember, the NND paper pads are great for mix and match, too!

Be sure to stop in here to link up your sparkle and shine

cards before December 19, 2025!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

Added to: 

Artful Journey - Winter

Die Cut Divas - Christmas/Winter

Inky Paws Challenge #247

 Hi friends!

I can't believe we are in December!

2025 has been a whirlwind, magical year

but honestly, I'm blinking and we are in a new month.

And .....

we have a new challenge at Inky Paws Challenge blog 

with Newton's Nook Designs.

Here is the inspiration photo to be used through-out

the month and duration of the challenge:

You have from Monday, December 1, 2025 to Friday, December 19, 2025 (Midnight, CST) to play along. Each DT member will pick a favorite project to showcase, AND one RANDOM entry will win a $20 store credit to Newton's Nook Design online shop!  The winners will be announced on the NND blog the following Monday.  Make sure you check the challenge rules page before you link up your project. 

And my card!

 I used the Snow Flurries paper pad makes for a gorgeous backdrop for the snowman from the Snowman Greetings 

stamp and coordinating die set. 

 I also used the Forest Scene Builder die set 

to add a trio of trees in the background.

My inspiration was the purples and snowflakes!

Thanks for stopping by!
~Kelly

Week 4 with Newton's Nook Designs!

 

Hi friends!

It's week 4 with Newton's Nook Designs 

Inky Paws Challenge!

This month is a fun sketch challenge:

For my festive card this week,

I chose Puppy's Bubble Tea stamps and dies.

I have A LOT of birthdays in December

so I'm getting a head start! :)

I started with a base card using Christmas Party paper pad 6 x 6

and love how it's versatile enough for the holidays and birthdays!

If you'd like to see the mini REEL on Instagram

 it's here!

and

Link up your cards here on the Inky Paws Challenge Blog!

Thanks for stopping by!
~Kelly

Christmas Cheers!

Hi friends!

If you celebrate, Christmas is 2 months away!

And I am SURE you are all on Santa's nice list :)

I wanted to share a fun card I created for the current

Inky Paws Challenge @ Newton's Nook Designs.

It's a wonderful color challenge and such dreamy colors!

I had a pile of itty bitty papers and scraps on my desk

and added them in a creative away to create a whole card :)

Using the Simon Says Stamp and NND Stamptember collab

"Happy Paw-lidays" and colored him with my prismacolor markers.

You can see the REELS here on Instagram!

And my card 🠋

We have several amazing rescue cats that now live with us

for various reasons #rescuecatsrock !

So this one will be a terrific card for the vet assistants 

that we just LOVE so much at our vet!

Head over to the Inky Paws Challenge blog and link up your 

cards inspired by the color challenge, too!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

Also linking to these challenges:

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - AG

We love to Create - AG

52 Christmas Card Throwndown - 30 minutes (see my reel above!)

Send A Smile 4 Kids - AG

A Year of Peace ~ February

 Hi friends!

My word for 2025 is Peace

(you can read all about that here if you like!)

and this is my February PEACE-ful creation 💓

One of my goals for this year was to find my way back

to finding what brings me joy and inner peace.

Cardmaking is definitely on that list! 

I wanted to create a that reflected peace in some way 

and decided to have fun with some primitive crows!

They are now ............ winter cardinals!

I envisioned a serene, peaceful, calm snowy winter scene.

I chose several @Whimsy Stamps for this one:

* A Murder Of Crows die set +

* Snowy Trees die set 

(which is one sale right now!)

I did light watercoloring and die cut the trees

and paint splattered the background for faux snow.

My monthly card group that I was invited to join

had a theme to create a Christmas card with a matching envelope

and I carried over the designer paper (the crows) 

to the inside of the card and as an envelope flap, safe for mailing.

Looking at it now, again, it seems 'unfinished.'

Since the Merry Christmas is on the inside, 

I didn't put much thought

into a message being missing from the front.

I'm second guessing that now but now it's out there, LOL!

Thanks for stopping by!

GNOME for Christmas!

Hi friends!

I hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving, if you celebrate!

Our home has been bustling and busy and OH SO FUN

with all the kids/signficant others ~ 

lots of food, laughs and memories made!

This mama's heart is full and we are truly blessed <3

Speaking of blessings, I have some SUPER news to share ~ soon!

*Stay tuned!*

But I can share my newest card feauturing Whimsy Stamps

Gnome for the Holidays!

 

To create this adorable little winter scene,

I stamped/die cut and colored the gnome.

I added a background of a winter snowy scene with the 

Mountain Majesty die set.

  One more holiday card done!

Thanks for stopping by!

I'll see you on my next post :)

~Kelly

I'll be Gnome for Christmas!

 Hey friends!

Dashing by with a quick hi and an even quicker card to make 

~ clean and simple!

 My friend Brennan had a challenge for a One Layer Christmas Card 

~ yikes!  I don't do one layer very well often 

so this was a LEAP outside the box!

I settled on the adorable Gnome for the Holidays from Whimsy Stamps 

and I let the whismical colors and MERRY letters be the stars :)

Here's the really skinny side view!

Life is settling down to quieter moments here with the storm leaving,

birthday girl is officially 6 and 

tomorrow The Kid and I are heading to his college.

So see - simple is good after all :)

Thanks for stopping by!
~Kelly

Linking to: BYSH Cardmakers!

Christmas, a new year and plans!

 Hello friends!

I hope you all had a magical Christmas 

and are looking forward to a brand new year soon upon us!

Ours was absolutely wonderful, 

especially through the eyes of our 3 year old granddaughter, Alice!

She weaves a light ~ and love ~ into our families like no one else <3

I am SO EXCITED for 2022!

I adore even numbers and can't help shake the feeling 

"it's going to be a good, really good  year!"

Let's see ...

my word of the year has already chosen me.

I say that every year on my WOTY blog post ~

and it's always true.

I don't choose one - it choses me.

And for the 1st time ever,  my 2022  Word Of The Year makes history!

I also have my One Plus Twelve stamp ready for 2022.

That one I did fight just a little bit 

 mostly because it's been with me for about 8 months!

I kept thinking "This one? Are you sure?  Like REALLY sure?"

every time I'd see the stamp.

And I swear, if stamps could smile, this one does.

I'm convinced of it.

Like a gentle reminder ......... I'm still here.  

I'm also scaling back on my card groups 

and focusing more on my YouTube channel.

If you are interested, you can follow my crafty adventures there!

I have some grand plans for my channel 

and am really excited for my 2022 YT goals.

Shown above are some shaker polaroids I created just for fun -

and more things like these will be on my channel next year.

Stay tuned!

Honestly, I can't wait!

2022 - I'm comin' atcha :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Word of the Year: 2021

TPB: Masculine Christmas!

Happy Monday, friends!

I hope you had a most wonderful Thanksgiving/break!

Ours was simply delicious (in so many ways!)

While doing some Black Friday shopping,

I was able to scoop up some really good deals,

including some gifts for the guys in my family.

And it got me thinking ...

a masculine style card for Christmas!

Since Mondays are the day that I post for The Project Bin blog,

I knew right away how/where/when I was going to do my card :)

And ended up making TWO! :)

(the sentiments from The Project Bin are easy to do that!)

I immediately thought of the rustic deer from the Deer Mom stamp set,

and paired it with a different holiday stamps:  North Pole.

Both of them offer a simple holiday greeting that was perfect.

 

After stamping out the deer, I added a sentiment to each card ~

giving it a slightly wonky look to the image and cardstock.

This beautiful Deer Mom stamp is shown here as another way to use the 

stamp set to extend the life of your stamps from The Project Bin 

and use them in a creative way!

 I hope you enjoyed the cards today!
You can see the stamp sets in entirety here:

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

3M: Santa's Coming to town ..

... and he's riding in a pick up! 

Happy Fri-Yay, friends!

The 3M - that would be Barb, Jeanette and I, 

post cards once a month based on an image.

This month, I was the hostess and chose this darling Santa and reindeer

image and sentiment from Stampendous called Santa's pick up.

 

They were on time posting on the the 9th ...

I've been swamped with family/commitments/events

but hopefully I'm still on Santa's good list!

I'm sure I am!

*wink! wink!*

 

If I had to decribe my card making style - 

I'd have to say I'm drawn to whimsical, colorful, and critters!

Anything that has cute animals, I am immediately pulled in

and start looking for it ♥

This stamp found me!

I was wandering through a store, waiting for my son to finish school,

and there it was - a ton of new stamps from Stampendous, each a delight!

Here is the inside of my card:

You can see what Barb created here and Jeanette's card here!

Thanks for stopping by today!

 And just in case ~ only 39 days left until Christmas!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Growing in Unity - Day 3!

Hi friends!

It's Day 3 of the Growing in Unity sharing posts

 and I'm back with a holiday card!

 

I thank you all for stopping by each day to see the how the Unity stamps

are made into cards.

Remember to leave a comment for your chance to win 

a generous and wonderful prize package from Unity Stamp Co!

Today's card is using one of my very favorite holiday images ♥

Most of you know, I'm a HUGE Charlie Brown and Snoopy fan

and when I spied this 'small stuff' Unity stamp awhile back, 

I scooped it right up!

 It reminded me so much of Charlie Brown's tree

but more importantly, the matching sentiment stamp really spoke to my heart.

 

Thanks for stopping by today :)

Be sure to see what tomorrow brings using another wonderful

Unity Stamp Co stamp and sentiment ♥

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly 

 

 

Patchwork Christmas ♥

Good Morning, friends!

Just one more week and it's Christmas!

How fast this year flew by.

But I am happy to say, this year I'm ready :)

Today's card using The Project Bin stamps is a little bit different.

I've seen quite a few of these types of Christmas tree cards

and decided to try one, putting my own touches on it.

Since I've been making Christmas cards, I've had a lot of little holiday scraps.

And buttons. 

Oh, I have lots and lots of buttons!

 

I'm so guilty of tossing the scraps most of the time due to limited space.
However, here's a way to use them up!
Using those smaller pieces, odds and ends and tidbits,
add them to a card in a creative way.

 

I created this card by gathering up all the little tidbits of papers
that had been collecting in my little basket.
I first cut white cardstock in A2 size, then ran kraft cardstock through 
the cuttlebug with a die cut.

Carefully layering the papers in a random pattern,
I measured out the angles and cut those to size with my trimmer.
Once in place, I added tombo to keep them from moving
and added buttons from my big container, again, just randomly.

The wonderful Merry Christmas sentiment is on the inside of the card ↓
and it's from Maybe Christmas stamp set from The Project Bin.
It's stamped out using the stamping platform
 and Altenew Crisp Black ink for a bold look.

This card reminds me of how unique the holidays are ~

different for everyone. 
As I was creating this card, I kept singing to myself a song I grew up with

that has special meaning to me.
The song Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton was on the radio so often

when I was a child and I could often relate to it ~

sometimes not having enough WAS enough ♥

 
The true meaning of Christmas often gets lost in the shuffle
and giving from the heart is what matters most ♥
 

 To see more inspiring cards from The Project Bin,
stop by the blog here.
I hope this week brings you merriment and holiday wonder!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly