24 Hour Blueprints ~ October!

 Hi friends!

Happy Inktober!

This is truly one of my favorite times of the year ~

the beauty of fall, the crisp change to the air,

 the colors, tastes and smells!

AND today is my granddaughter's 3rd birthday!

YAY! <3

And oh - there's a new segment to the 24 Hour Blueprint challenge, too!

You can read how it all started here on the first post  ~

the challenge is the hostess creates sketches for cards,

sends it to us 7 am the day before and we have 24 hours to make them!

Jeanette is our hostess for this round and 

these are her 3 amazing sketches:

And now here are my 3 cards ~ but before I show them to you,

I have to apologize to our hostess, Jeanette!

I didn't read the instructions clearly and didn't see that the theme was

seasonal - meaning all 3 cards were to be a different season!

So, we'll just pretend my cards are different seasonal coffees ...

I've got some chesnut, spiced vanilla chai and pumpkin spice lattes!

:)

For all 3 of my cards, I've used Pretty Pink Posh "giving thanks" stamp:

Here's card #1:

Card #2:

and card #3:

This will be the last of this series for 2021

and we may/not resume in 2022 but it was a fun challenge to try!

I think anything that inspires you to create and make some cards

is a wonderful thing and I'm thankful to my friend Shiela 

for introducing me to this fun concept!

Be sure to see what Jeanette and Barb have created with the sketches

and here's a final look at my 3 cards:

Thanks, Jeanette, for a fun round!

Have a beautiful day everyone ~

it's party time around here!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mission Impossible - Possible 03.15.21

Hi friends!

For today's card, you may need some sunglasses 

- it's BRIGHT!

I hope you're having a great start to your week!

I'm one more day into my exercise/weight loss journey and ...

I'm. Tired.

LOL!

But it's a good kind of tired :)

And ..

it also makes me late for things - like making cards and blogging.

So, let's get into it ...

this card is for the Mission Impossible Possible card challenge

that my fabulous friend, Jeanette, came up with.

Her idea is:

You pick a mystery item and mail it to the others in the group

and we create a card based on that mystery item.

We (Barb, Jeanette and I) had a lot of fun with it last year that we're

doing it again - except we'll take turns chosing/mailing the mystery item!

I was first up this year and mailed out a brand new Pretty Pink Posh

birthday stencil which stole my heart the moment I saw it!

It was HARD to wait to use it but here we are!

Okay, enough ramblin' .....

here is my card, made with distress oxide inks, the stencil

and the super cute stamp set from Your Next Stamp Photo Booth.

I used oxide inks in Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers

since this card will be for a boy and made it fun, cheerful, silly!

And here's the inside:

For the panel that was stenciled with the Pretty Pink Posh birthday,

while the oxides were setting, I spritzed them with water.

It gave it a little more of a mixed looked to the blending.

Barb's card with the stencil is here

and Jeanette's card is here!

This will be a quarterly challenge between us so the next one

will be in a couple of months - and I can't wait :)

One final look - and thanks so much for stopping by!

Lucky charm (my dog Buddy!) - Your Next Stamp

Happy 4th of July, USA!

Hi crafty friends!

Here in the USA, it's Independence Day!

The kids are enjoying our gorgeous sunshine and the pool,

the hubby is getting the grill ready and prepping the buffet he has planned,

and I'm back and forth and back and forth cleaning and cooking ♥

And I also got into a scrap!

Not that kind of scrap!

Just my scrap PILE!

There's a new challenge at the CCEE Stampers this week:

Freedom Week!

Vicki is our hostess for the month of July 

and she's starting us off with this theme:

Hi, Vicky here . . . it is my turn to play hostess for the month of July.
Since both Australia and the USA have red, white and blue for their colors,

 let's use those colors to make a card. 

  It does not have to be for a holiday, just red, white and blue....

but, of course, if you send out patriotic cards, go for it!

Thanks, Vicki! 

I used paper left over in the scrap pile and ran it through my die cutting machine

using a Pretty Pink Posh die to get the stripes.

The square is another die from Spellbinders

and the outside frames are from My Favorite Things. 

The sentiment is from the Moose and friends stamps from Hello Bluebird ~

it was fun to find it hidden among the celebratory sentiments 

and ended up being just perfect! 

You can link up your cards celebrating

Freedom Week

by heading over to the blog and scrolling to the end of the post.

Thanks for stopping by and wishing you a safe, wonderful holiday!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Entering this to SSSWednesday Challenge 

:  Stars and/or Stripes