Happy St. Patrick's Day!

 

Happy March 17th!

Being Irish, named Kelly, AND getting a GREEN Starbucks cup

 in the drive-through today,

all is right in my world! ♥

Another fun thing I got to do today

 is finally get my sweet bird image colored and create a card!

This cutie is from the Progressive Image challenge at 

From the Heart Stamps.

How it works is if you play along in the challenge,

 the next month's image is sent to you at no cost ~ everyone wins!

While I've been buying digital stamps from Faith for a couple of years,

I especially wanted to get back to playing the progressive challenge

to support Faith, owner and illustrator of these adorable digis.

She's currently undergoing chemotherapy as she battles cancer,

and her strength is admirable and courageous ♥

I chose today to post my card because it's St. Patrick's Day!

Lucky little birdie is colored with prismacolor markers AND copics ~

I snuck in a little hybrid coloring.

 A few enamel dots and the accopmanying sentiment,

some paper from my bin and this St. Patrick's Day card was done.

I hope today was a good one for you, too!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

I love you!

I do - I love you, friends!

Thank you for chuckling along with me and our camping adventures!
But, it's nice to be home and crafting again - that's for sure!
This was an incredible productive weekend at my little craft kiosk ....
I managed to make 8 cards - woohoo!

Today's card is from the progressive challenge at From the Heart Stamps,

 a delightful digital stamp company 

with some of the cutest lil digis you'll ever see ♥ 

 I've been playing along with their monthly progressive challenge since last year 

(and even before that ♥)

 and just love the stamps you receive each month. 

 I was too busy to play along in December,

 and as you can see by the late date, almost missed January! :/

Aside from being adorable, the image was very versatile, too ~

could be Christmas, or just winter, or and adorable love card 

based on the sentiments generously supplied with the digi.

I went with the latter - LOVE!

Here's my card submission, inside and out:

 This color combination is one of my all time favorites - 

from the day I put Kiwi Kiss, Pink Pirouette and Real Red together

one year making Christmas cards ♥

Thanks for stopping by ~

I hope your weekend was marvelous!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

Sending Harvest Blessings!

Hi, friends!

Gosh, it's been forever since I've had a chance to blog or get crafty!

We are a busy group, bustling from sun up to sun down ♥

Even now I'm scrambling to get my progressive

card done since it's the last day of the month ~

I've missed nearly all of October's crafting - eeeeek!

Now that's scary :)

This card is my entry into the FTHS using the progressive image.

There is a beautiful Thanksgiving sentiment that goes with it as well,

but I did not have time to do the inside of my card like I usually do *gasp!*

This gorgeous cornucopia image is a beautiful way to share a card with

just about anyone this upcoming Thanksgiving.  

 

 You can read all about FTHS and Faith's gorgeous digital images here

and I'll enter this into the challenge for the month of October :)

However, there is a card on my blog today for another progressive challenge

that trumps mine!

 This scarecrow beauty is from Deedee's Digis, a lovely little company

that I was blessed to DT for a couple of years ago :)

But I didn't make this card - my son did!

From top to bottom, from ink to paper and glue and YES!

  Even that button!

(he is his mama's son, lol!)

I printed it out a couple of weeks ago and left it on my craft desk.

He walked in and in the midst of telling me the exciting topic of the moment,

he spied it and asked if he could color it :)

Absolutely!

 

See, art is not his thing - although he would occasionally hand me 3 buttons,

3 different card stocks, etc and challenge me to make a card with it :)

This time, he colored this card, picked out the paper, lined it up (the best he could, lol), added a strip of burlap, a little button 

and even put in a handwritten sentiment, 

decorating the INSIDE of his card, too!

 

 I'm so proud of this little man :)

We'll enter this one into Deedee's Digis Progressive Challenge -

Before I go, I did want to announce the winner of my Blog Candy
Asian Girl coloring contest!
By an OVERWHELMING majority, blue and green won that challenge
and it made it so much easier to chose with help from friends!
With all the names from Instagram and here on my blog,
the winner chosen at Random is SHONA!
Please email me at Kelnkids@aol.com to I can get your prize package out to you!
Thank you to everyone who voted,  I wish I could have sent a prize to all :(

Wishing you a beautiful, safe Harvest and Halloween if you are going out tonight :)

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

If friends were pumpkins ...

 I'd pick you!  And you!  And you! :)

 

 

Hello, dear blog friends!  

Indeed I'm blessed to have connected with each of you 

in this wonderful blog world we share!

Now it's been a busier week than usual, 

and I've been trying to post this card since Tuesday!

  I recently purchased some digis at From the Heart Stamps including this one, September's stamp of the month image.  

I've played in their SOTM progressive challenge in the past, 

and then that busy little thing called life stepped in to curb my playtime :/

I'm happy to be back and just absolutely adore this month's image!

 and the inside of my card:

 I've finally got the chance to use up some of my supplies in addition to this

 first time using this digi, like the wonderful Crate Paper 'home' dsp and that little peek of River Rock ribbon that I've hoarded had for awhile!

I'll add my card to Darnell's NBUS #5 challenge

 (which I've also been trying to

do all week - tee hee!) 

I'll also enter my card in the monthly challenge at FTHS.

 I hope Autumn is bringing you wonderful moments 

and pumpkin everything! :)

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

*Peace!*

 

Hi everyone! 

 

Quick post today with a card for the current From the Heart Stamps challenge.

How I adore these beautiful digital stamps and the messages of faith

 and inspiration they have, like this one! 

 

The card I've created today is using one of the digis

called "Peace like a River" ~

 including one of the sentiments that comes with this delightful set

(see the whole set here!)

I thought it would be a perfect match to this fun paper 

called "Hippie Chic" from DCWV.

 

 

 

 

I followed their current sketch challenge,

which I flipped onto the side

and use the twist - Buttons!

 

 

 

And that's it for today ... short and sweet!

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings :)

~Kelly

 

I'll enter this into:  From the Heart Stamps: Sketch075

 Word Art Wednesday - AG

 

Hello, Friend! ♥

Hi friends!

I'm sure many of you can't wait for Spring after the long, harsh Winter you have had!  I see the temps are starting to get warmer in many areas

of the country so I'm really happy for you all ♥

 

Here is my card for the monthly image challenge at From the Heart Stamps!

This is for the progressive stamp challenge -

if you play along, you'll receive the next month's image so it's a win/win!

This month's image Hamlet PigWit Think Spring is just too cute!

 

 To create my card, I used the challenge from Sketch Saturday

from their current challenge of "Anything Goes" using an old sketch

from #s 215-302 .... I went WAY back to September

and #275 caught my eye :)

 

 

 

The papers are from a very old Basic Grey stack

that I've had in my stash for forever!

It was nice to finally use them up - especially

since I really struggle with pastels, especially pink ~

I just can't get my mind to work around the softer Spring colors ..

I'm funny that way, I suppose! :)

I'll enter my card into the From the Heart Stamps progressive challenge

and the Sketch Saturday (#275)

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

 

Just dropping you a line ;)

         Hi friends!

It's still a chilly winter out there ~ but it's February!
It feels more like Christmas ... yet it's Valentines!
It's like having a little bit of both .. together!

This is such a fun time of year for crafting cards of love for everyone ♥

I thought I'd try something different this weekend...

I made a card using a digital stamp by From the Heart.

This image is actually a holiday stamp -

 but I saw the little heart letter and my mind went right to Valentine's Day.

I didn't get a chance to use it during the busy holiday time

so I looked at it again this weekend and had a vision!

It's still very cold out there for most of the country, lots of snow

and people bundling up but it's still Valentine's Day this weekend.

So I combined the two and created a festive card with

bright, vivid colors and a group of feathered friends wishing lots of love! 

Happy Wintery Day of Love!  

 My friend, Imke, whom you read about on yesterday's blog post,

is on the DT of From the Heart Stamps - you should stop by 

and see all the cute thing they have in the store!

It's a fun place to shop!

Here's on last look at my card ....

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly