CCEE: Cards of Encouragement

 Hello friends!

Because we've been preparing, shopping, stocking up,

I have a quick post for today.

 

Please keep South Florida in your thoughts ~

we've got a hurricane barreling towards us!

We've got all our supplies and will 'batten down the hatches'

and hope for the very, very best this weekend.

Storms are always so scary and with our baby granddaughter, Alice,

it just makes everything that much more nerve wracking :(

My post!

The CCEE Stampers theme this week:

create a card of encouragement and SEND IT!

 Today's card is for my daughter ♥

We have 3 young adult daughters and a teenage son,

and our middle daughter is a jet setter and amateur photographer.

She just returned from a week in Montreal, Canada and the Caribbean the month before that and her photographs are just stunning!
Lucky for me, she lives at home so I'll walk this card down the hall!

 

You might remember from this post that I fell absolutely IN LOVE 

with this stamp set from Unity Stamp Company

when I was a Unity gal last year.

One of the perks of being a Unity girl for a week

is at the end, you can pick a stamp - or stamp set - as a reward.

I chose Moments Between Moments last year because it spoke to my heart

and the girl with the camera is just sensational.

For this card, I tried something new - Canon watercolor paper.

I used my Zig clean markers to colors and they were super!

 

The encouragement is on the inside of the card:

This sentiment is one of the one in the same stamp set. 

You can see what the design team has created this week

 by heading to the CCEE Stampers blog.

There is also a link up where you can add your cards, too!

I'll try to hop on as long as the electricity stays on!

We have a generator and plenty of gas, just in case.

We have a full house - everyone heading here to weather the hurricane.

I'll have to go get my mom from her house and she'll stay with us, too. 

I jonkingly told my husband, while he is entertaining by candlelight

and cooking by sterno, I'll be making lots of cardmaking by lantern :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Adjust Your Focus!

 Hi friends!

I hope your weekend is off to a wonderful start!

How is your daily coloring coming along?

We're up to day #8 of the coloring challenge!

And as they say ...

if life gets blurry,

adjust your focus and capture the good times!

 

 I love 

- LOVE! - 

 stamped images with girls 'n cameras!

 I took photography in high school 

and spent hours developing my 35mm film in the dark room.
I had visions that I'd travel the world with my Nikon FA

taking black and white photographs like Ansel Adams :)

I even won First Prize and 25 bucks at the county fair

 for a picture of my kitty cat, Tiggy!

 ♥

But somewhere between developing fluids and figuring out the f-stops,

I think either my teacher,

  or perhaps my parents,

told me to quite daydreaming and go to college and get a real job.

So, there's that!

 My card today is a masking of 2 stamps.

I adore the images from Picket Fence Studios and font of their sentiment stamps!

They quickly caught my eye when one of my dear and very talented friends, Angela, started posting her design team cards.

I quickly purchased this camera stamp, called Beautiful Girl ~ Karen

at a time when life was on hyper-drive! 

This week, a new order arrived and I decided to add two stamps together

and spent the afternoon coloring all the little houses

 from this background stamp :)

While I debated adding a sentiment to the top,

it looks busy enough so I thought it would be better inside the card.

The inspiration challenge at SCS today was a great springboard ~

I saw this sensational Venice, Italy toile and my mind started clicking!

And yes!

I still take photographs ...

just on a digital camera now!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly