TPB - You are AWESOME-SAUCE!

Hi friends!

I'm getting a late start this Monday morning ~ 

I've been sick since last night and struggling even get up :(

Today's card from The Project Bin was tons of fun to make ♥

This card is en route to summer camp for my son in his 'goodie box.'

I miss him soooo much,

but he's been having the time of his life making friends and memories :)

Since they allow care packages from home at the Scout camp,

I created this brightly colored, cheerful card 

reminding him that he is awesome and loved ♥

You might recognize the papers from yesterday's card ~

I'm keeping the theme going with summery, fresh colors.

The most important thing was the sentiment ~

so I used 2 different stamp sets:  Awesome-Sauce and In my Heart.

 

Remember ~ the fun starts this SATURDAY!!!

Our two day, Christmas in July palooza starts the 15th

at The Project Bin blog.

There will be cards, projects, holiday inspirations, and 2 give-away PRIZES!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

DDD ~ Be a Kid at Heart :)

 

Happy Monday, friends!

I hope your Valentine's celebrations were lovely ♥

Today is the day that we Dueling Darling post our cards.
The DDD = the Dueling Darling Divas or Dazzlers,

a card kit exchange friendship group.

{The Divas have one card kit to work with, while the Dazzlers have another,

however, the theme is the same

 It's always fun to see what we "duel" up in cardstock,

 papers and wonderful images!}

This month, Kadie and Paola are the hostesses 

and their wonderful theme is:  

Be a Kid at Heart!

I can do that! √   

Kadie sent the Divas our super cute kit this month ~

I had a hard time deciding which papers to use ;)

Here is the card I made with the adorable Mickey Mouse image,

matching fun image and sparkly sequins.

The second part of Kadie and Paola's challenge was to add a heart

somewhere on the card and give your card to a child ♥

The heart brad in the kit didn't make it to my card,

but I can definitely share my card with a child ~ my own!

My dd2 will be heading to Disney's casting call

next month for an audition ....
this card will be perfect tucked into her overnight bag,

filled to the brim with love ♥

Please be sure to stop by and see what all the DDD's

have created with 1 theme, 2 different card kits!

You can find all the links in my sidebar right over there →

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly
 

Card entries:   FanTastic Tuesday 124- Square cards/Cute

                    Die Cuttin' Divas #253- Die cuts and Kids's Theme (Hello ↑ is a die cut) 

 

Sending Harvest Blessings!

Hi, friends!

Gosh, it's been forever since I've had a chance to blog or get crafty!

We are a busy group, bustling from sun up to sun down ♥

Even now I'm scrambling to get my progressive

card done since it's the last day of the month ~

I've missed nearly all of October's crafting - eeeeek!

Now that's scary :)

This card is my entry into the FTHS using the progressive image.

There is a beautiful Thanksgiving sentiment that goes with it as well,

but I did not have time to do the inside of my card like I usually do *gasp!*

This gorgeous cornucopia image is a beautiful way to share a card with

just about anyone this upcoming Thanksgiving.  

 

 You can read all about FTHS and Faith's gorgeous digital images here

and I'll enter this into the challenge for the month of October :)

However, there is a card on my blog today for another progressive challenge

that trumps mine!

 This scarecrow beauty is from Deedee's Digis, a lovely little company

that I was blessed to DT for a couple of years ago :)

But I didn't make this card - my son did!

From top to bottom, from ink to paper and glue and YES!

  Even that button!

(he is his mama's son, lol!)

I printed it out a couple of weeks ago and left it on my craft desk.

He walked in and in the midst of telling me the exciting topic of the moment,

he spied it and asked if he could color it :)

Absolutely!

 

See, art is not his thing - although he would occasionally hand me 3 buttons,

3 different card stocks, etc and challenge me to make a card with it :)

This time, he colored this card, picked out the paper, lined it up (the best he could, lol), added a strip of burlap, a little button 

and even put in a handwritten sentiment, 

decorating the INSIDE of his card, too!

 

 I'm so proud of this little man :)

We'll enter this one into Deedee's Digis Progressive Challenge -

Before I go, I did want to announce the winner of my Blog Candy
Asian Girl coloring contest!
By an OVERWHELMING majority, blue and green won that challenge
and it made it so much easier to chose with help from friends!
With all the names from Instagram and here on my blog,
the winner chosen at Random is SHONA!
Please email me at Kelnkids@aol.com to I can get your prize package out to you!
Thank you to everyone who voted,  I wish I could have sent a prize to all :(

Wishing you a beautiful, safe Harvest and Halloween if you are going out tonight :)

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

A hop, skip and a jump! :)

 

Happy Weekend!

 

The 3 Musketeers are back again {the 9th of every month!}

with an adorable jump rope girl by Nellie Snellen.

Jeanette was our hostess and sent us this image to work with,

which is a new company for me as I hadn't heard of it before.

I do love how fun and whimsical it is.

 

Tom Stoppard said "If you carry your childhood with you,

you will never become older."

 

Isn't it wonderful when you can spend your day doing something

that brings you back to the 'good ol days' :) 

Growing up mostly in Europe,

 my brother and I spent our childhoods making the world our playground

and that's something I've tried to instill in my children as well.

I'm blessed that we've remained so close and have fun together ~

they know that I'm the first one in whenever there is

 a mud pie to be made, a bike to ride, sidewalk chalk to draw,

underdoggin' the swing to be the absolute highest!

Though somehow the jump ropes always ended up

 being Tarzan ropes in our house :)

 

After looking at the image,

I went in search of my childhood/play

papers and remembered an old mat stack I have had forever ..

it was a perfect match.

The bright colors, the whimsical papers ...

and a simple card design with buttons, of course!

 

I try to create the inside of my cards with the scraps of dsp

I have leftover so this card inside is blank and simple :)

 

You can see what Barb and Jeanette have made with this

same image by stopping by their blogs, too!

 

For all the moms and grandmas and moms at heart,

I sent you blessings and wishes

for a most wonderful, playful, carefree Mother's Day  ♥

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly