Stamping Sisters Camp - Day 1!

 

Hello sweet friends!

Welcome to my blog and Day #1 of winter camp!

For the next 4 days, we 4 friends (Barb, Darlene, Jeanette and myself)

will be bringing you a 'class a day' with a fun, interesting,

and definitely unique technique!

We are sharing it to inspire YOU as well!

Maybe it's something you are familiar with

or will be seeing for the first time ~ like me!

This is our camp class line up:

Monday/January 24th  ~ Jeanette @ Creativeplay 

Tuesday/January 25th ~ Kelly @ Sandcastlestamper

Wednesday/January 26th ~ Barb  @ inkingintoretirement

Thursday/January 27th ~ Darlene @ Accordingtobijou

Jeanette gave us these directions:  The idea to feature embossing folders came to me as I was organizing (and purging) my huge collection of embossing folders. I realized I rarely ever use them. It is time they see some action so I knew for my challenge, three things had to be present...

1. The embossing folder/s MUST be the star of the card.

2. No stamped images are allowed on the card.

3. Sentiments are optional.

Today's class is taught by Jeanette and 

I was today years old when I learned AND tried luster rub on! :)

My set of luster rub on paints were definitely full of shimmer and sparkle

and I ended up buying a set that was a little brighter and colorful.

Because of that, I dug through my embossing folders

fully intending at first to do a floral 

(since the yellow/red/greens lended to that)

BUT it was absolutely hideous.

I had a house full of people, cooking, talking, laughing

and just absolutely could not think of another way to make it work.

So I tossed it, went back to the drawing board

(as they still ate, talked, laughed!) and thought 

Outdoors!

Grass, sun, sunburst!

And a ta-da moment was born ........
I used a Taylored Expressions starburst embossing folder

and white embossed a sentiment to match.

At first I used my blending brushes (da junky ones!

the luster is absolutely messy!)

but then just switched to my hands and did RUB it ON, as the name says!

And I. was. out. of. black. cardstock!

SO!

I used dark purple :)

This card is just okay - not my favorite but not my worst ;)

Definitely a learning curve!

As you can see from my pots, this stuff goes all over!

I need to wipe it down but it was get this up and blogged, first!

And that's it for Camp day #1!

I hope I get at least a C+ :)

This was fun!

Try it out!

And come back tomorrow - I'm the teacher.

Er'body gets an A!

Hugs!
~Kelly

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

You lift me up! :)

Hi friends!

Flying by with a quick hello

with the sweetest puppy!

I can't resist a puppy stamp 

and the moment I saw the Gus and Gertie set, it was 'gotcha day!'

For today's card,  I knew I wanted to make a whimsical flying card

so I thought why not make a sky background :)

I knew I'd use this set many many times so on release day over at Taylored Expressions, I purchased the limited time special for the stamp and die

and I'm so glad I did!

To create the sky background,

 I used the new Speckled Egg distress ink from Tim Holtz/Ranger Ink. 

 It's such a unique and lovely shade of blue!  

It's like a cross between Stormy Sky and Tumbled Glass, if I had to pick :)

I added the sentiment and popped it up 

just as I did for the image to give the card some dimension.

I just realized Gertie didn't make it onto the card ~

but it sure won't be my last!

Thanks for stopping by today!

I hope everything is okay where you are ~ 

the world sure needs a great big hug right now.

Sending mine to you!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!

~Kelly

Be the Em-Boss! ~ Day 3

Hi friends!

There's paper,

there's embossing,

there's stencils ...

put them all together

and you get some pretty fancy backgrounds for cards!

 

 For Day 3 of online card camp, our homework was to create a card

but per my personal goal, I'm making 2!

At least that is the plan :)

For this set, I used my the Taylored Expressions stamp set

 called Beautiful Blossoms.

It's so lovely and has so many possibilities.

I did forget to add the matching dies to this one to my recent order ~

so I used my Scan N Cut ~ it didn't cut it out exactly perfect but that's okay :)

For the sentiment, I've used TE Simple Strips - Friendship.  

Here's a little peek at the stencils ↓

The wonders of cardmaking ~

always something new and fun to learn!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Marvelous masking ~ Day 1

Hi friends!

I hope you are all doing super!
I had a small biking accident over the weekend

and am supposed to be on limited bed rest.  

Impossible, I say!

So I'm calling it limited bed rest

and I'm so glad my friends live in my computer - all of you!

Your cards and creativity just keeps on inspiring ♥

Online card camp continues!
I loved Camp #1 so much 
that I signed up for the continuing camp!

This morning's class with Kristina Werner was fun ~
new to me supplies and technique! 

Here are 2 of the cards I made this morning!

The distress ink combos I used are:
Squeezed Lemonade
Spun Sugar
Dried Marigold
Shaded Lilac
Wilted Violet
Peacock Feathers
 

 .

I used these two letters specifically because Mother's Day

is right around the corner

and two of my favorite mama's start with J and K!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly