CCEE2118 - Baseball!

Hi friends!

There's a new theme at the CCEE Stampers and it's all about baseball!

Liz is our hostess for the month of May.

She says:  "May 6th is Willie Mays' 90th birthday

 so make a baseball themed card or project in his honor. "

So - I decided to keep is simple 

and use one of my Snoopy stamps :)

Oh, how they are SUCH a treasure!

I think these will be in my collection for.eh.ver!

Head over to the CCEE Stampers blog here

and link up your baseball themed cards, too!

Thanks for stopping by!

CCEE: Sewing Machine Day!

 Hi friends!

You are SEW awesome!

Lois is the hostess for the CCEE Stampers for the month of June
and tells us that today is National Sewing Machine Day!

  She asked the team to make a card with some stitching on it --

 either actual stitching, faux stitching or stitch-edged dies.
I've not yet ventured into real sewing on my cards!

It's funny ~ my mum spent YEARS as a seamstress
and has created beautiful gowns for many ladies.
She said she learned to sew as a small child,
and as a teen in a small shop on the outskirts of London.
Foom wedding dresses to bridesmaids, proms, quilts and dolls for charities.
She handmade all of my dresses and rompers when I was growing up
and just is so VERY talented!

Me?

I can't even sew in a straight line with a handle needle and thread!
So, I took the route of using a die with stitching 
and a sewing theme, LOL!



I ran to Hobby Lobby this week 
and was lucky to find a small sewing machine stamp set for $1.60!
I've used just the sewing machine from the Stampabilities set on this card today,
and the Sew Raggedy doll and button jar stamps from Craftin Desert Divas.
The stitched die is from My Favorite Things 
and I waited a long time to add this to my collection!
It's one of MY favorite things :)
  I set aside my normal prismamarkers and colored with promarkers
and really love the soft look they have.

You can see what the DT created this week ~
it'll have you in stitches! ♥
You can find them on the CCEE blog ← here
as well as link up your card, too, if you'd like to play along!

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

I'll enter this into:  Passion for Promarkers:  Use Pink (the hearts!)

Crazies: Skating on Thin Ice!

 Happy Weekend!  

First, let me apologize for the late post - blogger didn't launch this yesterday

 (and it's my human error!  I had it scheduled, then edited the post,

 and then left it in draft mode!  SO sorry to the friends at Crazy 4 Challenges!)

 And the reason why it's a late post ...

my oldest daughter graduated from college yesterday!

SO SO proud of this young lady ♥ 
 She started University as an intended nurse, changed to being a special needs teacher, specializing in working with children on the Autism/spectrum and has really found her place in the world.
  It's a selfless job and she has such a true gift for the field. 

 So how appropriately on National Superhero Day, she is mine! ♥ 

She graduated with honors and with an exit scholarship

(either for further schooling or to use for whatever her heart desires!)

 and the best part:  DEBT FREE!  

Not a single penny in student loans!

 Her next step:  her Master's Degree ~ truly the 'world is her oyster'.  

Back to the Crazies!

This is my last card as a guest designer for the Crazy 4 Challenges C4C432.

It has been a fun ride, though landed at a truly CRAZY time in my life :)

THIS WEEK:   Play on words ~ Skating on Thin Ice!

I immediately thought of my latest addition to my Peanuts stamp collection ~
Charlie Brown as coach to Snoopy and the Peanuts gang playing ice hockey!

I paired it with a stamp from another stamp set from Some Odd Girl

because, at least to me, it seems like it went hand in hand :)

Here is my card ↓

Thank you to the Crazy4Challenges for chosing me as a GDT for April!
I will still use the challenges as a springboard to create cards of my own

 as they are very fun challenges!

Be sure to check them out, too, 

as it just may give you an idea for your next card :)

Enjoy the weekend, friends!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

DDD: What's Cookin'?!

 

Hi everyone -- I hope your weekend was fabulous :)

 It's the 15th of the month ~ our Dueling Darlings posting day!

Today we post our monthly card kits:

 Barb for the Divas and Debbie for the Dazzlers
 w/ this wonderful theme:

 Recipe Cards!

 

I was so excited to see Barb's kit this month!

First, she is one of the most generous ladies and her kits are always

so full, you could make cards for days upon days!

This kit was just stuffed full of amazing, wonderful papers and embellishments!

Second, the theme made me smile as my I've been making my

daughter a recipe book for a couple of years now.

She's quite an accomplished chef at just 19 and one day will

enjoy cooking for a husband and family of her own ♥

So when making my recipe card, I asked her for one of her recipes

that I haven't scrapped yet and she gave me her quick mac 'n cheese.

Yum! :) 
 

Recipe card is 6 x 6, scalloped



Here's the recipe since it's hard to read above! :)

 I was ambitious and actually made a place card as well ~

Barb's kit was stuffed full of goodies!

I think I pretty much used all but a few ribbons ♥

I just adored those wooden spoon and fork embellies :)

 

Barb also asked us to share why we picked this recipe.

Honestly, it's not the one I would have picked.
 Tt was the one my daughter gave me when I asked for one

so it's the one that was showcased. 
It is yummylicious though!
She makes a fried lasagna noodle dish w/ organic tomato sauce
that is out of this world! 
And, her homemade minestrone soup w/ veggies from her own garden will pretty much knock your boots off! ♥

I have always loved cooking and enjoy it so very much when time permits.
But it's also nice that when dd feels ambitious, that she gets her cookin' on!
And even though we are the busy, need to be too many places family,
and dh working longer/later hours,
we hold fast to one of our family commitments that no matter what, 
we make it home to have dinner together as family. 
 We eat dinner together - all 6 of us! -
EVERY.  SINGLE.  NIGHT! ♥\

 

Thank you, Barb, for fabulous kit to play with and to Barb/Deb for this theme.
Please be sure to hop on over to the rest of the DDD
Divas and Dazzlers to see what they've created
 with the dueling them of recipe cards ~ 
 you can find their links in my sidebar.

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly