CCEE2030 ~ National Zookeepers Week!

Hi friends!

It's a ZOO out there!

And on the CCEE Stampers blog this week, 

quite literally :)

Lois is our July hostess and has asked us

 to create a card with at least one zoo animal on it.

Today's card is a slimline card, 

a card style quite popular in the crafting community!

I can't say I've 'caught the bug' fad just yet 

but I'm loving the inspiration I'm seeing everywhere.

This slimline die set is from Lawn Fawn and I've paired it 

with the super fun Zoo stamp set from Gerda Steiner.

To create the sky, I used the MFT Cloud stencil and
Ranger Ink Distress oxides in Tumbled Glass and Broken China.
For the hills, I used a stitched die
and added it like a puzzle piece to layer it.
Finally, I stamped the sentiment 'It's your birthday ..."
and on the inside "Go WILD!"

I'll be making a video of this very soon 
and you'll be able to see it on my YouTube channel ~
which was my happy news to share before I ended up sick.

I even have a wee giveaway right now that ends August 1st -
head on over if you'd like to peek!
I'm really new, really novice but excited to start this new venture
and I'd love to have you subscribe!

Here's a final look at my zoo card:

Be sure to stop over at the CCEE Stampers blog
and link up your zoo cards, too.

Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

You are all so very PURR-fect!

Hello friends!

Thank you so much to my wonderful blogging friends

 and my new blogger friends, too!

I {heart!} you!

Your support and friendship makes the crafting community a beautiful place!

A few have asked how to follow! 
← Right over there!

Again, many MANY thanks!

You. are. PURRfect!

 

How is your coloring for The Daily Marker coming along?

We're up to day 18!

February, being a short month, leads us up to 28 days 

so we're about 2/3 into coloring wonderment ♥

This is the card I made for today's coloring 

using the CAS challenge on Splitcoaststampers - use 1/3 of your space.

If you look at the A2 size card front, take 2/3 away 

and that's your creative space :)

What a fun technique!

I'll definitely be using this again!

 The sentiment to match is from The Project Bin ~

I chose one that was small, long and skinny to match the line of the paper decor. 

And that's it -   clean and simple but cute and sweet! ♥

And with 1/3 of the paper

and 2/3 of the way into the challenge,

it sounds like we are in math class! 

LOL!

Thanks for stopping by!

May your day be PURR-fect in every way!

Remember to color a little, 

color a lot .... 

make a card or just some creative time

 ~ just color and have fun!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

LLAMA tell you ...........

I'm going a little bit bonkers!

I opened my email today ~ while sitting at a long red light ~

and squealed so loud from pure delight, 

I am certain the cars next to me heard me!

Some super duper absolutely awesome fun begins in February!!

SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!

Meanwhile, just wanted to say .......

you are weird,

but I love ya!

I didn't get my Christmas cards out as I'd planned

so I've been making cards upon cards 

and trying to send out more snail mail and getting ahead of the game!

This stamp set is one of my first and favorites from Gerda Steiner!

These llamas!!

They are delightful!

Colored and fussy cut, popped up and stamped out ~

super easy card for a friend .... already en route!
I hope she likes it :)

Happy weekend!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CCEE1902: Happy Birthday, Elvis!

Hi friends!

 Liz has another fun challenge for us at the CCEE Stampers ~

Elvis Presley's birthday! 

 Liz is challenging us to make him come alive in some way on our cards this week.

(Maybe a rock and roll theme, records, an Elvis or guitar stamp,

 or perhaps even “Blue Suede shoes.”) 

Anyway you can think to let the world know “the King” of rock and roll.

Thank you, Liz!

What a fun challenge! 

For me, this was a challenge!
I don't own a single Elvis stamp.

I know, right?

What kind of self-respecting stamper am I!?  LOL!

And it didn't occur to me {in time} to find clip art ...

so I thought fast on my blue-suede feet and went with an Elvis song.

I think many of us remember Hound Dog!

"You ain't Nothing But a Hounddog!"

For my card today, I used my adorable Gerda Steiner puppy stamps

Howl are you and the sentiment is from another GS set, Gopher It!

I stamped and colored the image, then ran it through the Cuttlebug

with the matching die to get this hound dog ~ his expression is priceless!

I used a variety of dies and papers to create the card base,

and then popped the sentiment and image to the front.

That's my take on the hip-gyrating King of Rock 'n Roll!

You can see a delightful cache of Elvis cards on the CCEE blog ~

so. much. fun!

Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings! ♥

~Kelly

Mission ... Impossible (card!)

Hi friends! 

There's a new challenge at the CCEE Stampers and it's impossible.

The Impossible Card, that is!

Lynn, our hostess for the month of July, gave us this challenge
and I love her for that!

I don't think I would have trusted myself
 to even attempt this card fold on my own.
It did take a little wine research on YouTube 
and, llama tell you, it really isn't as hard as it looks!

It also helped that I got to play with my Gerda Steiner Llama Tell You
stamp set to set the stage for this Impossible Card.
I absolutely ADORE this stamp set
and llamas are at the tippy top list of my very, very, VERY favorites! ♥ 

Here's what it looks like from an aerial view ↑


With this card fold, I used a standard A2 size.
It's easy to adjust to a larger card size but for me, this works.
And it lays completely flat to fit nicely into an envelope!


I went with limeade splash cardstock to play off the outdoorsy theme,
and chose two Echo Park paper pads: Happy Camper and Summer Dreams 
to bring out the colors and create variety.
I colored all the cute critters with promarkers
and the sentiments were stamped on cardstock with Momento Tuxedo Ink.
The sentiments in this stamp set are hysterical!

To see all the of the DT cards, head over to the CCEE Stampers blog 

for more inspirations with the Impossible Card.

If you'd like to play along and make your own, no prob-llama!
You can link it up on the CCEE blog or by clicking here. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CCEE1727 ~ Masks

Hi friends!

It's time for a new challenge at the CCEE Stampers ~ Masks!

Our hostess, Maryann, asked us to:

Create a card using a mask, whether it is using a masking technique

 of a stamped image of a mask.

Since I don't own any mask stamps, I went the technique route :)

I needed to create a thank you card for a family

that recently invited my fun and crazy bunch over for dinner.

One comment we get often is "you guys sure are a fun bunch!"

So, naturally, I had to create a "fun" card *grin!*

The wonderful thing I love about the CCEE Stampers

is that we use our own stamps, any one from our stash.

It gets me inking them up again or for the first time.

Today's card is a combo of both:

one old, one new and both from Gerda Steiner Designs.

I used Llama tell you and How are Ewe?

To create this card, I stamped the larger ewe, then masked her off,

and stamped the smaller lamb behind her.

Same thing for the llama, masked off behind the larger one.

And the little birdie is just hanging out :)

I added faux grass by using Pink and Main dies,

stamped a quick sentiment and added enamel dots for grass divets.

You can see what all the designers have made using masks

by clicking the CCEE blog link or on their blogs.

Thank EWE for stopping by today :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly