I'm the Sandcastle Stamper! :)

 

One of the fun things to see while visiting in blogland

is to see the creative, wonderful and often witty titles
people have come up with for their blogs ♥

Me?
I'm the Sandcastle Stamper!

 

When I was new to blogging, I knew I wanted to combine my love
of the ocean and playing at the beach with my kids ~
 collecting shells, swimming, surfing, and making sandcastles, of course! :)

My card today reflects a few 'favorites!'
Jeanette is the hostess of this round of card making in the SOTC,
a crafty group of friends over on SCS.
She challenged us to make a card based on her words:

 

 

My theme for September/October is inspired by those very thoughts. The theme?

 

Favorite and Fabulous!

Let me explain:
Favorite = Use one/s of your favorite things on your card. It might be your favorite stamp/image, your favorite embellishment, your favorite color, or any other “favorite” that you choose.

Fabulous = I know we always use at least two layers and one embellishment, but for this time I want you to do something a little extra to make your cards fabulous. It might be simply adding another layer to your card, using a handmade embellishment, creating your own designerpaper,using a unique fold, or any other “fabulous” feature you choose.

 

And here's my card based on that theme -

a Sandcastle with a fancy fold paper card design!

Another favorite:  This gorgeous Sandcastle die-version die was a gift

from my super sweet friend, Carol! ♥

It's so me and I love love LOVE it ~

 Thank you so much! ♥

 

I let the sandcastle die cut be the focal point of the card

and the different scraps of paper, folded into a design,

became the 'unique fabulous fold'.

I hope that's what Jeanette meant and I won't be in the 'sand' doghouse :)

A few little tiny pearls scattered in the dsp finish it off.

 

 

And the inside of my card, of course!

I kept the same design going for the smaller layer and left it blank

so the recipients can write any message they like :)

And that's my contribution to the SOTC cards this month ~

Sandcastle Stampin :)

 

We're out to the park today enjoying this GORGEOUS 60* weather!

Definitely not beach weather but it's still fabulous!

I hope you are enjoying it, too!

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly



 

Card entered into:  Dragonfly Dreams - Girly and Use a Die Cut!

Quirky Crafts - Film "Beaches"

Sentimental Sundays - Anything Goes

Sunshine Mail - Anything Goes

 

 

Summer time fun!

Wow, it's Monday!  How did that happen! :) 

 

 

One of the greatest joys in crafting is the friends I've made

along the way and the crafting we do together!

While we are miles apart, I love that we chat everyday

via threads, texts, groups, etc ...

it just makes the whole crafting hobby that much more of a blessing!

 

I'm also usually rushing to the mailbox

and forget to take pictures of my swap cards!

But this time, I got lucky! :)

 

For today's card, sistah Gael from the SOTC hosted the swap this month

and her theme was ... ready for this! .... Non-masculine masculine!

Wowza!

This had me thinking outside the box!

Rather than the traditional 'guy' cards like sports and motorcycles,

she asked us to think outside the box and send a masculine card

not representing the obviously male .....

I thunk, and thunk some more .........

and reached for super cheeky Riley zipping along through the forest!

The new Riley and Company Challenge, hosted by Sandye,
is to show off some Summertime fun!
This will be my DT card for the week ♥

We actually had the opportunity to zip line in the Great Smoky Mountains
last year ~ oh, can I tell you how much fun I had :)
I would truly love to do that more often! 
 We were HIGH UP, zipping through trees - not open spaces!
Super exhilarating and energizing and oh. so. fun!

I hope the other swappers like my humble offering to the swap :)
I hope today is a summer play day for you!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings! ♥
~Kelly

I'll enter this into:  Come and Get it - Animals

 Pile it on 26 - Outdoor Fun
Love to Create 122 - Three or More DSP!
 

I'm on the CASE!

Hello beautiful friends!  Today's post is one that gives me *warm fuzzies* :)  I'm in a group of lovely and talented women called the SOTC, created and founded by our fearless, beautiful leader ~ Kadie!  Every other month, the chosen hostess picks a theme for a card and this month, our hostess was Sweet P and guess what she picked ... to CASE a card made by Kadie!  How ingenious!  

And a wee bit tough :/  Kadie is immensely talented and to go through her blog/gallery and chose just ONE card? Eeeeek!  That's like picking just one dessert!   You want ALL of them, right?  Because they are ALL so fabulous!
So after much debate, I finally narrowed down which card I wanted to CASE.  I have some of the same stamps, some of the same papers of some of her cards but what made this one stand out most of all was the vibrant, bold colors and the "fun-ness" of it - I just had to make one!  So I picked her card HERE over all the others and just had so much fun creating this one :)
One thing about Kadie's card above all things is this girl can color!!  Oh me oh my - she has some mad coloring skills!  Mine isn't even anywhere close, rofl,   so here is my humble offering ... using Clyde from Bugaboo digi stamps!

Here's Kadie's gorgeous card!

And here's Clyde! :)

Thank you Sweet P for this creative twist to card swapping this round!  I absolutely love the idea and hope I did a little bit of justice to her card :)
I wouldn't normally have tried this card design and learned something new while playing around with the papers and layout - woot!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!

~Kelly