CCEE1826: Sea-prise Sha(r)ker card!

Hi friends!

It's almost summer!

One.  More.  Day!

I think that's FIN-tastic :)

 

It's time for a new challenge at the CCEE Stampers blog

and Joanne challenged us to use our un-inked, never used stamps!

I knew right away that I'd be using this new cutie.

My son loves loves LOVES sharks!

Anytime I see a shark stamp, I'm giddy for the cards that I'll be able to make.

This Avery Elle shark looks like the happiest-shark-on-the-planet!

I knew I'd have to scoop up the stamp set and elle-ments die ♥ 

This card is a shark-er card - hee hee!

I mean a shaker card :) 

The something new I tried with this card was using frosted acetate

instead of clear to give it a slightly murky water look.

I also ran the Avery Elle wonky scalloped frame though the Cuttlebug

6-7 times to create a glued, super thick frame (this resembled a chipboard feel).

Next, I added some teal confetti/sequins to the inside and fastened it closed.

Next, I stamped/cut/colored the shark and added a sentiment.

I wanted to make waves for the outside of the acetate

and created a watercolor background using Royal and Langnickel watercolor paper and RL watercolors to create the ocean waves.

I'm off the school where I like to watercolor and then let the piece air dry

 for 24 hours but you can always use a heat tool for faster drying

 if you like to work all in one go!

 I die cut them with a stitched wave die as I was aiming for 

lots of movement and dimension in the waves.

This card was a lot of fun to MAKO! :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Be sure to stop over at the CCEE Stampers blog to see what the rest of the design team

has made using the un-inked stamps challenge!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

F.Y.I. ~ Everybody ....

 WHOOOOOO's a good friend?

You are! ♥

Hi friends and Happy Monday!
I hope you had a wonderful weekend.

This is our last week of school and then it's summertime!

Today's card is one from my F.Y.I. series,

inspired by my daughter's kitty. 

She's misses being outdoors and one day while outside on her leash,

we kept hearing a crying noise.

I looked for the sound, to no avail.

Finally, she spotted it in a nearby tree ~ a mama bird protecting her little nest. 

She watched curiously for a little while, disinterested in causing any harm.

Eventually we moved on to another part of the yard :/ 

It as such an awesome reminder of truly living in harmony.

It would be so beautiful if we were all surrounded by peace and unity!

And the idea for this card was born!

I said to myself ........ The Project Bin has a stamp(s) for that :)

I've created a simple framed card using not one ..

not two ...

but 3 

different The Project Bin stamp sets!

 For today's card celebrating togetherness,

I've used New Leaf, Feline Good and Bazinga.

How sweet if Everybody could love everybody!

Thanks, Andy Warhol ♥

Thanks for your visit today!
What inspires you?

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly 

 

I'll enter this into:  The Paper Players - Animals

Lawn Fawnatics #29 ~ Life is good!

Seas the day!

Indeed, life is good :)

 

 

One of my favorite places to be is practically right outside our door ~ the beach!

Lounge chair, umbrella, a good book  ...... 

well, kinda sorta :)

  I DO bring books to the beach

but to be honest, 

I get lost staring out into the beautiful blue sea, 

tilting my head back and

breathing in the salty air,

 and feeling the sand in my toes ♥

Next thing I know, 2 hours have gone by and I'm still 

on the same page, same chapter, same sentences :/ 

I LOVE the Lawn Fawn Challenge #29 mood board!

I knew right away I'd have to ink up LIfe is Good and play along ♥

I'm blessed to own this stamp and die set

and I wanted to make a beach scene inspired by the top middle photo 

↓

How I made this card:  I started with a palette of distress oxide inks

and sponged broken china, squeezed lemonade and wild honey 

 onto white cardstock and then ran that through a scallop die with the Cuttlebug.

After gluing that down, I stamped/die cut/colored each of the images

and popped those up with 3d foam.

Finally, the sentiment - stamped right onto the cardstock.

 This card truly makes me smile ~

and I hope in a few days that will be my for real view.

4 more days of school and then it's summer! 

I'll enter this into the Lawn Fawnatics challenge!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

 

Sunday Funnies ~ Giveaway winner ♥

Kapow!

Hi friends!

Thank you all so much for joining me in my 

Sunday Funnies ~ Comic series!

I so enjoyed having a fun month of comic strips

and taking that trip down memory lane ♥ 

(image courtesy of dreamtime - photo stock)

While it always makes me sad to have a giveaway

where only one friend can win,

I wanted to share that this is my year of kindness!

I have already had many giveaways over on my Instagram 
and I also send surprise, unannounced happy mails! :)

It might be a card, a package, or a combination of both!

So if I already have your address, it could be you!

Without further adieu, the winner of the new The Greeting Farm stamp set

(and other goodies!)

       is .......

Scrap and C!


Congratulations! 
Please email me at Kelnkids@aol.com
with your name and address
and I'll get this right out to you!

Thank you, everyone ...
For your visits, support, friendship ♥
Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

CCEE: You're the em-BOSS!

Hi friends and Happy Thursday ...... I think! 

Heavens to Betsy,  I love me a 3 day weekend 

but I can't for the of me remember what day it is!

I ran around all day today thinking it was Tuesday!

The CCEE Stampers this week have our final challenge with our hostess, Anne.

She asked us to create a card using embossing folders.

That's not a crafty element I use very often, if ever :)

I remembered I picked up 3 new embossing folder/stamp combo packs

at Michaels, one being a cactus folder/stamp ♥

I am so in love with succulents!

I have been going crazy for succulent stamps ~ 

anything with a cactus, potted plants, monstera leaves ♥

Naturally, this background called for a cactus so I used my 

Newton's Nook Cuppa Cactus stamps and dies
and colored it with my Zig clean brush markers.

Then, I heat embossed the funny coffee sentiment from the set.

I added a few colorful enamel dots and then let the card be ~

showcasing the embossing folder!

 

I'm not a big fan of embossing folders 

but I have to give props where they are due :)

These are not big 'name brand' embossing folders but definitely do the trick!

The responded very well to both #65 and #110 cardstock

and the stamps are an added little bonus.

I paid $1.10 in store (love those coupons!) awhile back

but they are online right now for $1.oo.

I bought 3 planning to do an review on my YouTube channel ..

stay tuned!

To see what the rest of the CCEE Stampers created,
stop by the blog ~ you'll be im'pressed' ... 
hee hee!

 Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

 I'll enter this into the Spring/Summer Coffee Lover's Hop!

Memorial Day Mouse ♥

 Happy Memorial Day!

To my friends and family near and far,

I hope this day brings you a moment of reflection

 and happiness and remembrance ♥

 

And to my 'boss', Denise, at The Project Bin stamps,

thank you SO MUCH for the day off! :)

 My card today warms my heart as it's one I recreated after receiving

the sweetest message via Facebook!

That's what I love so much about this craft of ours ~

the friends we 'bump into' by happenstance ♥

I was chatting with a sweet lady about the military and us growing up

all over the world in an Air Force family.

She mentioned her son is a new US Marine and stationed in Hawaii ..

and I sent her a package to her and one for her to send to him.

She received it as she sent the sweetest message via FB.

It prompted me to recreate a card that I had made 

previously, which you can see here.

i quickly got to work and changed a few things around

to meet a patriotic theme instead ...

and voila!

In case you were wondering why a mouse on a card for a soldier?

Glad you asked!

LOL!

Today's the day that we post our "Challenge Your Stash" cards

and Pansy - hostess for May - asked us to add a mouse to our cards.

It's her signature since she's C-Mouse - isn't that cute!

I used Harvest Mouse stamps and dies from My Favorite Things

and then added a sentiment from another MFT stamp set "Adventure is calling."
  The star designer paper was the requirement for the CAS challenge on SCS

and the sequins were added to finish off the look.

Now I just hope they make it on their long flight to Hawaii ♥

Be blessed today, friends.

Hugs your loved ones and thank a soldier ♥

Big hugs, bigger blessings!
~Kelly

Sunday Funnies ~ 4th Edition: You're SUPER, girl!

Hey girl! ← in my best Ryan Gosling voice,
 LOL!

 

You're SUPER, girl!

I so loved the soft, subtle colors from this week's MFT Card Challenge #94!

I normally make a bee line and zero straight in on brights, bolds, vivids!

This was such a refreshing change to color/create with a softer palette.

These colors - so yummy!

 

This is my final blog series in the Comics Sunday Funnies ~

it's been so much fun coming up with different themes

and the nostalgia of picking up the Sunday papers for the comics section ♥

 I grew up in the Wonder Woman era (go Linda Carter!)

and love how inspiring she was to my generation :)

I used my a My Favorite Things stamp You're Super by Birdie Brown

that I was super lucky to get during their $10 sale back in February.

Then I had to go back and buy the matching dies during another sale :)

 I've wanted this set since forever so I'm happy to know have both!

 I made this card by creating a 'city' with the city-scape stamp twice,

 stamped with mint green ink and 

then die-cutting both to make an elongated city in the background. 

 Then, i stamped/die cut and colored supergirl and her shield, 

coloring both in the colors of challenge #94. 

 Lastly, I stamped out the sentiment that best fit the friend

 that will be receiving this card from me ♥ 

 Thank you all for your visits, especially during the Sunday Funnies series!

 It was really SUPER!

Big hugs, bigger blessings!

~Kelly

 I'll enter my card into the current @mft challenge.

CCEE1821 ~ N.E.W.S!

Hello friends!

It's time for a new challenge at the CCEE Stampers 

and Anne has a new challenge for us.

She writes:

I wake up in the morning to the NEWS.
  Make a card using each of these letters ..... N, E, W, S.

Thanks, Anne!

Here is my card feauting the news:

N = Night

E = Evening, enamel dots

W = Windows, WHAM!

S = Superhero 

To make this card, I used a night time city space idea

but creation a cityscpape with the Tim Holtz dies.

I ran it through the cuttlebug twice, once in black and once in yellow.

After popping out the small squares for windows, I let the yellow shine through like light.

Next, I popped up the tiny hero from Mama Elephant

and added some glittery silver enamel dots.

 And if you'd like to be in the running for blog candy giveaway from me

with the comicbook/Sunday comics theme,

you can read about it in the first series post here!

Be sure to stop by and see what the other CCEE Stampers
made with this theme ~ it will be fantastic!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥
~Kelly

TPB ~ It's Summer somewhere!

Hi friends!

Happy Monday!

I hope your weekend was spectacular ♥

Today's card is channeling summer!

When I made it last week, we were packing our bags to head 

to the beach ourselves for our weekend getaway :)

 

This card was such fun to make.

It's a collaborative card using products from Eyelet Outlet

and The Project Bin from the Instagram hop they had this weekend. 

I used the Summer Fun stamp set, one of my favorites!  

I chose products that reflected a beach/summer theme

since I knew that's what my card would be.

Here's how I made this card:

I started by masking and blending my Tim Holtz Distress Oxides

in Broken China and Squeezed Lemonade and my mini blending tool.

I wanted to create the illusion of sand dunes 

and in order to do that, I created a template out of chipboard.

The palm tree brads were a bit smaller than I planned for

so I went with a 'in the far distance' look :)

And to finish it off the beach scene, I added seagulls,

the quintessential bird at the ocean!

 

Finally,  I created a frame to go around the image and 

popped the whole card onto 3D foam.

This card is really thick, measuring almost 1/4 of an inch!

I really love this card ~  it's so peaceful, serene, calming ♥

I do love living so close to the beach and visiting often ...

hence, the name of my blog :)

Thanks for stopping by today!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Sunday Funnies ~ 3rd Edition!

Hi there, friends!

KAPOW!
You're really super!

I got such a late start to the day for posting my card :/

We just got in from a vacation weekend

so I'm finally editing this post :)

I made this card using the tiny heroes from Mama Elephant ~
cute right?
I have so many ideas for this stamp set!
I wanted the super hereos to 'fly' in the scense I'm creating so 
I fussy cut the images.
The die cuts are from the massive Hobby Lobby clearance hall ~ $1.25!
It was a 3 pack of Momenta cityscape dies and a really wonderful find!
It was a perfect match for the scene building ..
I went with one in darker black for the background, 
and a lighter grey for the forefront.

And that's today's card!
Leave a comment below and I'll add it to the random selection 
after next weeks' card!

Big hugs, bigger blessings! ♥
~Kelly

and it was a 3 pack of Since this is a weekly contest and giveaway,

I didn't want you to miss out on an extra chance to win!

 

Kelly

Something Old, Something New ....

 Hi friends!

Today's card will be pulling 'double duty' on my blog today ~

one for the Ready, Set, Go! theme of mine

and one for the CCEE Stampers challenge!
We're heading out for a belated Mother's Day weekend to the beach ~
packing, getting gas, last minute preparations and details ...

Woohoo!

We've room for one more if you want to come along! ♥

 

I'm the hostess for the May theme for the Ready, Set, Go and

Anne is the hostess for the CCEE Stampers and asked us to create

a card/project using 'hoarded paper' ~ perfect!

The R, S, G is a challenge with the 3 of us that is not for the faint of heart :)

It's a bit more challenging and thinking (way!) outside the box!

I based my theme on my daughter's wedding a few months ago ♥

She was such a breathtaking bride and I couldn't help but think

of the old saying "Something old, Something new"

Here is your challenge:  It is based on my daughter's recent wedding--"Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and A Sixpence in your Shoe!" 

With the season of weddings upon us, I thought this traditional wedding saying would be a fitting challenge to create a card or project!  This tradition comes from an Old English rhyme and the four objects that the bride adds to her wedding outfit or carries with her on the big day are just good luck charms.  Of course, it is a folk tradition in that, for example, something old represents continuity; something new offers optimism for the future; something borrowed symbolizes borrowed happiness; something blue stands for purity, love, and fidelity; and a sixpence in your shoe is a wish for good fortune and prosperity, although this remains largely a British custom.

So this is where your card or project come in!  You may use this saying in any form you like BUT use at least 2 ways to transform this saying into a card.  For example, your card could use a borrowed stamp, one that's old or new ... you can make it in shades of blue .... you get the idea.  It does NOT need to be a wedding card ~ just as long as we see where the (minimum) of 2 things you chose are!  Ready? Set. Go!

Here's how I came up with my card (even if we only needed TWO of the above!)

1. Something Old ~ this paper!  Gosh, it's been in my stash, hoarded indeed.
I even bought a second pad because I loved it and didn't want to use the first one!  And, for Anne's challenge, ✓!

2. Something New ~  this beautiful stamp and die set from Gina K Designs called Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful ~ swoon!  This set is exquisite, and I love it so much because Barb and a squad of beautiful friends were there when I was able to buy it .... with a very kind, sweet, generous and soul touching gift! ♥

3.  Something Borrowed ~ This is skirting a little bit, lol, but I borrowed the idea of a bike ride from my friend Barb ~ she does love her bike rides, including long bike tours for miles and miles!  Impressive!  

4.  Something Blue ~ I purposely chose the paper for Anne's challenge to have hues of blue so I could use blue cardstock.  And I colored the bike blue :)  My bike in real life is green and her name is Jo-Jo!

No six pence in my shoe - but I"ll be thinking good thoughts with all the royal wedding watchers!  I'm SO excited to see Meghan's wedding dress most of all! 
My mum is from London, born and raised, so we're all super thrilled to see this wonderful event.

So here's my card!

So if you want to see what Barb made and Jeanette made with this theme,

 be sure to click their blog links. 

  Next month, it's Barb's turn and she already has an amazing theme picked out!

And, of course, the CCEE Stampers blog is here!  

What papers do you think they hoarded? :)

Thanks for stopping by today!

 Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly