CCEE2040 ~ Mad Hatter Day!

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's a brand new month and our CCEE Stampers challenge hostess this month is Frances.

and as you may remember last week in my CCEE post, we are welcoming

Hazel from Handcrafted Expressions and Manal Habib from Miniscraft to our Design Team.

The 6th of October is Mad Hatter Day and the challenge this week ~ 

create a card inspired by the theme … hats, Alice In Wonderland, Mad Hatter. 

So let me tell you ....  I LOVE this week's theme!

OH. SO. MUCH!

My granddaughter, Alice, was named after Alice in Wonderland 

the second my daughter found out it was a girl :) 

Her mommy (my daughter) is a HUGE AIW fan ...

AND ... 

as if that wasn't crazy enough, Alice's birthday is October 6th ... Mad Hatter Day.

It was meant to be!

Okay, enough gushing ....

My card!

I've used a super old stamp from Kraftin' Kimmie called Gabrielle   

and I've had this stamp 10 years :/

The background was created by using another old school product - 

a Cuttlebug embossing folder in Argyle pattern.

I ran it thought a die cut first, and then the EB, and then watercolored it.

The sentiment is a computer generated one as the stamp doesn't have one

and I set is aside wonky, as with the entire card, because not much

makes sense in Alice in Wonderland!

 Be sure to stop by the CCEE Stampers blog today 

and see all the Mad Hatter cards

and link up yours, too, if you have one in the theme!

Big hugs, bigger blessings :)

~Kelly

Paeonia Japonica ~ Paint a flower series!

Happy Tuesday, friends!

You may remember from this post that I signed up

for a few creative new ventures. 

It was mostly to reclaim the creativity during this stay-at-home time

and just simply try. new. things!

 

That's always great fun!

Even more fun, I spent yesterday ....

1. Making a new video for my (teeny tiny!) YouTube channel

2. Making a TON of cards!

I won't dare say I've 'caught up' but I'm pretty close :)

This is one of the new ventures - 

Altenew's Paint a Flower monthly flower program.

I have a couple of them and they are just fabulous each month!

This is the Paeonia Japonica ..

say that three times fast :)

I actually did some research for this flower and what it looks like,

how it can be colored,

but in the end, decided to use this as my WCW card for Splitcoaststampers.

I think we are up to challenge #10 or #11 already!

Each technique has been very fun .. including the 'white flower' watercolor.

I've also combined it with the Color Challenge from a few weeks ago:

BUMBLE BEES  N' PEACOCKS EATING  CHERRY COBBLER!

That's it for me today!

Thanks for stopping by ~

Big hugs, bigger blessings!

~Kelly