Mission Possible ~ 3rd Mission!

 

Hi friends!

I hope you had a great weekend and here we are!

Monday again!

You may remember from this post of mine that I mentioned

 the very talented artist Dina Kowal and the cloud edger stencil. 

I decided for today's card to use the cloud edger again 

since Dina was the inspiration for why I first purchased it :)

Now, onto the rest of my card!

Today's card is for the Mission Possible card group,

 started by my friend Jeanette who sends a mystery item quarterly.

The idea behind her group is:

Jeanette finds/buys 3 of 'something' quarterly 

and sends that item to Barb, myself and she keeps one for herself.

This time, she sent a Taylored Expressions Walking on Sunshine embossing folder!

To make my card base, I first created a rainbow cloud using the cloud edger

and alternated colors of distress inks in (almost) ROYGBIV order

 and I used my TE Blender Brushes. 

After each blend, I cleaned the stencil for the next color ...

this was quite laborious but worth the time it took :)

I created 2 panels - this one with the cleaner lines and less cloud blending

and a sentiment from Concord and 9th called Brighter Days.  

Finally, I placed the final rainbow background into the embossing folder 

- the Mission Possible item -

and created the background sunburst design in the cardstock.

You can see Barb's card here and Jeanette's card here 

and the Mission Possible will be back again in 3 months!

I still have one more card to show you with this cloud edger

and it's quite different than this one and I really like it :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings :)

~Kelly

RSG: Hello Suns{hi}ine!

Hello friends!  

Today's post is the card-that-almost-wasn't!

I'm in such a cardmaking funk and coming up empty 

everytime I sit down to make a card - or half cards!

I finally sat down today ~ watching the rain falling outside -

so calming and serene and oh. so. green!

I stared out that window for the longest time ..

half daydreaming, half hoping to come up with a card idea :)

Once a month, the Ready-Set-Go! card group has a theme

and we create a card.

It all started here and we call it challenges that are 'outside the box.'

This month, I was the hostess and mailed out a chipboard WORD 

 and said "make a card!"

We all have a different word:  Happy, Hello and Love.

They were added to an envelope without me seeing,

closed up and I mailed it to the other 2 ladies ... sight unseen.

My word: Hello!

I love the word Hello ~ and had NO idea where I was going to go with it.

I just grabbed a ton of stencils and some Distress Oxide Inks,

blender brushes and some paper! And got to thinking ....

  Hello - Blue Skies!

    Hello - Sunny Days!

                                              Hello - Pool Time!

I decided to go with the sunburst Ray of Light stencil from My Favorite Things.

Because I didn't really have a direction of where I was going, I dug through my stamps until I found something 'sunshiney' and found this sentiment from my Paper Smooches stamp set:  Spectrum.   I love that it says {hi} in the middle!

I never even noticed until photographing this card that it's holographic!

It looked silver .... and twist and turn it a littl bit ... and it's rainbow!

Groovy!

You can see Barb's card and Jeanette's card on their blogs.

Oh!

And if you have seen my mojo,

please sent it back my way! :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings 

~Kelly

Card entered to:  Word Art Wednesday #452-3

Little Red Wagon - Use a Stencil

I Myth you!

Hi friends!

It's Monday, 

even though I rarely know what day of the week it is anymore :)  

The sun is out, school is out, who's counting?!

I do so love the lazy days of summer

with an empty schedule and lots of time to just be.

I took advantage a few weeks ago of the one-day-only flash sale

at Taylored Expressions for this AH-DOR-A-BLE 

mythical grumplings stamp and die combo set.

Both were offered together for a wonderful sale price - yes, please!

It's so hilarious!

(I actually needed just the Yeti stamp 

so the other stamps are like a bonus!)

For today's card, I'm using the funny unicorn

and adding to a background of multi-colored rubber band stamps.

This is the technique lover's for today at Splitcoaststampers 

and I love Oldies But Goodies!

It's fun to bring back techniques we tried and are now trying again!

The idea to add a stitched cloud came from one of my earlier cards

back in May.

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I enjoyed making it for spring card camp ~

 and, as they say, if it works!

I paired my unicorn, colored with copics, with ranger distress inks

as I happened to have the colors needed:

Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet and Mermaid Lagoon.

I used an old acrylic block and borrowed some tinier rubber bands from

my granddaughter, Alice  

The center is cut with an MFT Rounded stitched die

and I left the rest of the card without a back panel because it's already busy!

And that's my mess my card for today!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

Card entered for consideration to
Crafty Cardmakers - make your own background
Get Creative - Fantasy characters

Mini card camp - Day 3 with Jeanette!

Hi friends!

Today is the 3rd of 4 days of mini card camp ~ 

tomorrow is our final class and wrap up day!

I hope you've been inspired by the cards, tutorials and inspiration 

from the 'camp counselors' :)

Today's class is taught by:  Jeanette!

Her theme for today is 

Modified Stencil - Modified Silhouette

For this challenge, the idea is to take a background die

and use the die cut as a stencil.

The addition is a stamp blocked out as a silhouette

and the contrast is really a great visual!

I've made 2 cards for this challenge ~ one per the requirement

and the other one with the negative die cut.

It was such a pretty background that I didn't want it to go to waste!

I used Pink Fresh Studio's Escape the Ordinary stamps and die background

and the Distress ink in Speckled Egg and Iced Spruce,

blended with my ranger ink mini tool.

Here are my 2 cards individually.

The required stenciled background card :

And the reverse using the die cut that was embossed:

When it came to my color selections,

and to highlight the colored mountains, I used black as a nod to Jeanette

who uses it often on her cards.

Here's a final look!

We invite you to play along and use the classes as a springboard

for your card making and inspiration!

The camp classes and dates this week are:

Monday/June 22 ~ Kelly (me!) @ Sandcastlestamper

Tuesday/June 23 ~ Darlene @ Accordingtobijou

Wednesday/June 24 ~ Jeanette @ Creativeplay

Thursday/June25 ~ Barb @ inkingintoretirement
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Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!

~Kelly