Hot Mess Success ~ You Color My World!

 

Hello friends!

Today's a super fun day!

It's the day we post our cards for the Hot Mess = Success card group.

And ... it just got bigger by 2!

What's more fun than making messy cards?

Doing it with friends :)

Welcome Carol and Darlene!

So the Hot Mess = Success ... 

Here's how it all got started.

 I actually considered recreating this card, just slightly different.

But, I ended up making a different mess card instead 

as part of a new YouTube series I'll be doing!

I can't show you how and why I made this just yet 

(you'll see something like it soon if you are on Splitcoaststampers!)

and this is from The OOPS File *wink!*

Let. Me. Just. Say....

I don't like messes.

Nope.

 Not at all!

But during the creative process, making cards, it's a riot!

I decided to get out acrylic paint for this month's messy card

(acrylic paint?!  Someone ... anyone ... please take my temperature!)

It turned out to be SO much fun!

It took a few tries ... and this was a piece that didn't make the cut ...

until now.

I used Lawn Fawn's Color My World

and 6 different acrylic paints to create a rainbow.

I stamped the sentiment at an angle on purpose to go with the symmetry

of the card and cut/colored the crayons, then popped them up for dimension.

Surprisingly, this card turned out kinda groovy!

  

I know that my friends made x1000 better cards 

so be sure to check out theirs, too!

Barb

Carol

Darlene

Jeanette

Kelly (you're here!)

Terry

We'll be posting our Anything Goes cards every 12th of the month ~
the messier, the better!

And I'll be sure to post the other card and video when I can :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings

~Kelly

I'd love to enter this to:  Word Art Wednesday - AG!

Butterfly Moments (Cornish Heritage Farms) ♥

The butterfly counts not months but moments,

and has time enough.

~Rabindranath Jagore

 

Hi friends ♥

Today's post is celebrating butterflies ~ for two reasons!

Today is the day the Calendar Girls launch our monthly cards

with a chosen theme.  This month, our hostess Linda,

asked us to create a card with butterflies - that's it, just butterflies!

Since that was the theme for my card, and today is also the day

the Cornish Heritage Farms DT post our bi-weekly challenge cards,

I knew the direction I wanted to go with my card ♥

Irit is our hostess this week and gave us this challenge ~

to use 3 different craft/coloring mediums on our cards.

Wow!

 

For my card today, I started with a butterfly digi image from CHF -

they not only carry a delicious variety of rubber stamps but

digital stamps as well, some of them as low as .99c!

I printed the digi on watercolor paper

so the Tattered Angels glimmer mist would stick the best (medium #1)

I colored the butterfly with both primsacolor markers in light shades

and outlined it with a watercolor colored pencil in white (medium #2).

Lastly, I brought my acrylic white paint out and painted over a piece of

corrugated cardboard I had on hand for the background piece (medium #3).

 

I've also added another CHF sentiment to the inside of the card

along with the small section of cardboard that was extra from the front.

I am all about using leftovers in crafting!

This sentiment can be found in the shop, too :)

 

Be sure to stop in and see what the rest of the Calendar Girls

have created with their Butterflies cards - you can find them

in my sidebar ......

 

And be sure to see what the Cornish Heritage Farms DT has made,

and you can find them listed in my sidebar!

That's a lot of inspiration right there!

If you upload your CHF cards using 3 craft mediums to a gallery

like Splitcoaststampers, please use the keyword  CHF58.

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Big Hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

I'll enter my card into: Make My Monday - Butterflies
Crafting when we can - Make your own background
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes