3M: Garden Nancy :)

Hi friends! 

I have a simple and colorful card for today

featuring this cute little gardener, Nancy! 

 

School starts in 2 weeks here ~

 how I WISH I was happily toiling in the garden,

 not a care in the world like Nancy :)

Except I don't garden, ROFL! 

Both mom and dad had an amazing green thumb,

 sadly one I did not inherit ;)

But I do have a gardening card to share!

 My card today is for the 3M (Three Musketeers) which is Barb, Jeanette and I.

You can see Barb's card here and Jeanette's card here

and the basic idea is we all have take the same stamp and create a card.

 This month's image is CC Designs' Nancy Gardens.

 My card is pretty easy with the plaid base and simple design,

and she is colored/cut and popped up on foam with a base of kraft.

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CCEE: Embossing ~ wet or dry!

Hi friends!

I'm so excited it's Thursday - one day closer to the weekend!

It's been a whirlwind of a week for us 

and I'm hoping for some quiet stamping time ♥

I did get a card done quickly today for the CCEE Stampers.

The theme this week is:

Embossing ~ wet or dry!

For my card, I decided to go with wet embossing

and ink up one of my larger flower stamps from W Plus 9.

It's called the Christmas Rose and

 look.  at.  these.  samples! 

*Christmas Rose* 

Wow!

 

My simple card is using WOW embossing powder in white

and Ranger distress inks.

After stamping the flower with Versamark and heat embossing it,

I blended 3 colors of Ranger Inks and added iridescent sequins.

The panel was cut with my MFT die-namic and adhered to black cardstock.

 

For the final piece, the sentiment is from an Altenew flower set

by the same name as the words:  You Are My Inspiration.

It was fitting for the person that I'll be sending this card to ♥

 

And that's it from me!

You can see what the design team created this week

by heading over to the CCEE blog here.

If you'd like to play along and link up your cards,

follow at the bottom of the post where the LINKY sign up is!

We'd love to see what you make!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Crafters of Faith: Skyline!

Hi friends!

Sending you SMILES

  across the MILES! :)

Today's card is for the Crafters of Faith card group,

a faith based group on Splitcoaststampers.

Our hostess this month is Jen

and she's given us this lovely scripture and theme:

Scripture: I've chosen part of the scripture that I read at my Gram's funeral this April.  

 It will always have special meaning to me. 

  Revelation 21:2-3 "I also saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem,,

 coming down out of heaven from God..."
Challenge: is to use a cityscape or some other landscape on your card.

My card was made Paper Smooches Sweet Escape.
I love this stamp set!

I stamped the cityscape on cardstock, die cut and then colored it
with prismacolor markers in cool tones.

I repeated the same with the clouds and the bird ~

and stamped the sentiment directly onto the card base.

Using Scrapbook Adhesives foam and ez runner,

I glued the base and popped up the city/bird/clouds!

The colors are based on our recent vacation ~

we saw a lot of blues and greens in the skies and ocean!

This card will be for the Paper Smooches WORDS challenge ~
and the skyline reminds me of sending her to college with the big city background!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

TPB: New Release ~ Merriest Christmas!

 Hi friends!

Today's forecast:  SNOW!
And an adorable snowman with love from me to you!

It's new stamp release at The Project Bin stamps

and today I am showcasing Merriest Christmas.

 

This darling stamp set has world's of possibilities ~

and has the cutest sentiments to match.

It has 10 stamps and 2 matching steel dies for the snowman and tree!

For my card today, I used a background that I'd previously made.

As I looked at it, I realized it could be for an underwater scene

or a nighttime sky with falling snow outside a window.

I colored the snowman with prismacolor markers

and heat embossed the sentiment with WOW embossing powder.

All cardstock is from Recollections #110 white.

 

 Thanks for stopping by today!

You can see more stamps from The Project Bin in the shop,

and each weekeday there are inspiring cards and samples on the blog.

Big hugs, bigger blessings!

~Kelly

One Plus Twelve: Foxy's August Adventures!

Hi friends!

Today's card is one I made with a little bit of alcohol :)

 As in ... 

alcohol inks!

This technique is one of my VERY favorites to do ~

Ranger alcohol inks and yupo paper!

You never quite know what going to create

and each time is a unique color and new surprise!

This is my card for the One Plus Twelve ~

a card idea I had to use ONE stamp 

- just one stamp -

 and create a card once a month to stretch the use of the stamp

and find creative ways to use it :)

The stamp I'm using all year is Warm Wishes from Honey Bee Stamps. 

I asked Barb and Jeanette to play along and you can see their cards, too.

For this card, the background medium I've used Ranger alcohol inks

 in Valencia, Citrus and Patima

and added them directly to the yupo paper.

As it was moving around, I used alcohol blending solution

to give it the bubble splatter shape.

Once it was dry, I used my MFT stitched wonky die-namics.

I use them often on many of my cards because I really love them ♥

Foxy, as I've lovingly called him this year, is colored with prismacolor markers

and I paper-pieced his shirt with a sheet of Lawn Fawn dsp.

I left the inside of this one blank as I'm not sure what I'll do with it yet :)

I do know that I have a lot of fun backgrounds still to use,

so I'll think of fun cards to make.

I have to get my thinking cap on for the catch up cards I have to make, too!

 If you would like to see my previous cards, they are:

here

here

here  and here! ♥

 Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Card entered into:  Less is more/color challenge
Cut it up/critter

 

Sweeter than a milky way! ♥

Hi friends!

There's a brand new stamp set at The Project Bin ~

and it's simply out. of. this. world!

The Design Team has been introducing the new stamp + die set all week.

I'm up on the blog today at The Project Bin with my take :)

Introducing .... Milky Way!

I've made 2 cards for today

(always fun to have a twofer!)

and they are just the 'sister card' to each other :)

 To make these two cards,

I started with a base of black and a base of white cardstock.

Using the white, I used my distress inks and created a galaxy background

by blending and blending and blending some more!

and then spritzing it with water and heat gun embossed it dry.

I used a spellbinders circular die to cut the round shape

and just used the inlay as one design, the reverse for the other!

 

Here's a close up ↓

 

For the adorable aliens, I stamped them in Ranger Ink:

Twisted Citron and Broken China.

They are propped up on 3d foam dots,

Finally, the sentiments were made using Ranger white embossing powder 

and Versamark and embossed as well.

There's a small stamp on the inside of the card that says 'far out there.' 

I ADORE this stamp + die set!

Oh the possibilities .... cards of love, thank you, missing you!

So so sweet :)

 

 Milky Way

 

You can find this stamp and more in the shop,

 as well as a gallery of card samples.

Just click on any stamp set and it will take you there!

Thanks for stopping by my blog!

 Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CCEE1930 ~ National Moth Week ;)

Hi friends!

There's a new challenge at the CCEE Stampers this week:

National Moth Week!

Vicky is our hostess this month and said:

Who knew the moth would have a whole week dedicated to it!!  Use a moth (or butterfly) on your card today.  Extra credit if you actually have a Moth stamp/digital you can use.  

This is an opportunity to add to your Birthday, Thank you, Thinking of you or just all-occasion card stash.  LET THE INSECTS FLY!

 

Moths ~ that's one stamp I'm sure I don't have! ;)

Vicky gave us the option to use a butterfly so I chose that

as I have plenty of those!

I created a card today using Lawn Fawn's Butterfly Kisses.

I used the two critters and several of the butterflies in alternating colors.

I've blended a trio of Ranger inks:

Squeezed Lemonade, Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick 

and decided to do just a strip of color for this card instead of the whole base.

With thick washi tape, I masked off the sides - off center on purpose ;)

and peeled it off when I was done to have a stripe of color.

I then ran it through the Gemini Jr with a die to create the panel

and added the critters and butterflies.

Super quick and fun!

 The sentiment is from the set, too, and it's using WOW white embossing

powder with a heat gun on #65 black cardstock and a MFT banner die.

You can see the themed cards here on the blog

as well as link your cards if you'd like to play along :)

This week's Lawn Fawnatics challenge is to use 'little things'

so I'll enter my card into challenge #57
and Cute Card Thursday 592 - no patterned paper!
 

Thanks for stopping by!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

I'm sorry for the things I said ....

Hi friends!

 We're home from vacation!

It was SO. MUCH. FUN!

My kids are so energetic and a blast to hang out with ♥

I managed to barely keep up ride every roller coaster at all the theme parks, enjoyed the sights of our fun side trips, relaxed,

enjoyed the surf of crystal blue waters and sandy white beaches,

  ate ridiculously yummy foods 

AND!!

checked off a couple of scrapbook/stamp stores off my bucket list

that I'd wanted to visit in my state of Florida ~ yay!

(post on the 'road trip' coming later!)

If you ever get to Whim-So-Doodle, be sure to meet Doug!

He's an absolute gentlemen and the "fluffiest" salesman in the biz :)

Isn't he adorable!

He sold me a lot of crafty goodies! :)

Photo: Whimsodoodle on Instagram

 I'm back to card making and still in summer mode :)

Using 'Summer Fun' from The Project Bin ~

this sentiment right here, LOL!

It's hysterical! 

I love being on the design team for Denise, owner/creative genius behind TPB.

She's such a sweetheart and innovative in her stamp line ~

truly unique for what's out on the market.

She's always coming up with fresh, new stamp sets so

be sure to see the new ones in the shop!

On our trip, I saw some of the most AMAZING sunsets on the opposite

coast of Florida and that was the inspiration for my card today ↓

 

In addition to the stamp from The Project Bin,

 I used a die from Lawn Fawn and distress oxide inks from Ranger ~ 

Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio and Mermaid Lagoon.

The black ink for the sentiment is from Picket Fence Studios:  Intense Black.

I almost always use Momento Tuxedo Black but I noticed

 it was not as vibrant of a black with the distress oxides -

 as soon as i used the PFS, it was much more prominent. 

We were blessed enough to swim in an ocean

 just as beautiful as this blue

~ isn't it marvelous how things around us inspire us!

 

Here's a look at the entire Summer Fun stamp set ↓

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I hope it's sunny and gorgeous or perhaps, cooling off, where you are :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

CCEE ~ Use those stencils!

 Hi friends!

And much like this unicorn,

 I'm absolutely on cloud 9 to be on vacation :)  

There's a new challenge from our hostess Vicki

at the CCEE Stampers blog: Stencils!

 

 It's so funny, 

I was just talking to a dear friend about using stencils

the other day and how they are quite popular right now.

For me, they are my most under used stamping tool!

I do have quite a few - 

yet never really seem to use them that much!  

My card is using Picket Fence Studios darling unicorn - For You.

The stencil is geometric grid from MFT 

and I've used the amazing Distress Oxide Inks from Ranger.

The sentiment is from a different stamp set as I needed 

a small font so I used my Hello Bluebird sentiment stamp.

Be sure to stop by the CCEE Stampers 

and see what the DT has made using the stencil theme! 

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

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

RSG ~ More than one way!

 Hi friends!

Yippee Skippee ~ I'm on vacation!

    By the time this posts,

 we'll already be off on our second summer adventure! ♥

Today's post is for the RSG card ... 

and that's the Ready, Set, Go Challenge! 

This is a group that I created as a spin-off to the 3M (3 Musketeers)

 it's a card created with a challenge that's a little more extreme

 and makes us think WAY outside the box!

This month, our theme was chosen by Jeanette and she said:

I am always impressed when crafters use a stamp or die

 in a way other than it was intended.

Make a card using a stamp or die in a way other than it was originally intended.

Ready? Set? Go!

I LOVE this challenge.

I think it has great potential to do something I always love to do ~

get more use of the stamps and dies!

so while I love the challenge ......

my card?

Meh.

Not so much!

 I had a great idea to re-use my Catherine Pooler Never Forget Fern stamp

that you may have seen in this post. 

When I first ordered it, along with several colors of green ink,

I thought it looked somewhat like a Christmas tree :)

For this challenge, I remembered that although it looked better in my head!

I added multi colored tiny buttons as the twinkling ornaments

and one yellow one at the top representing the topper!

The ink I used for the fern (tree) is Spruce by Catherine Pooler

and the sentiment is from an MFT Stamps holiday set

which I heat embossed with Ranger white embossing powder.

You can see Barb's card here and Jeanette's card here!

 

 Next time,

 if I were to redo this card,

  I might try sequins instead :) 

Happy Christmas in July! 

 Thanks for stopping by :)

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly 

The Project Bin ~ Snuggle up!

Hi friends!

Happy Tuesday!

It sure is hot outside and my card may seem a little .... out of season :)

But ..... 

it's Christmas in July!

It's also the day I post on The Project Bin blog!

Denise, owner and creative mind behind this stamp company,

has been busy designing some wonderful new stamping goodies :)

And today ~ Denise is debuting a brand. new. stamp. set!

It's simply out of this world!  

It's called Milky Way and it's absolutely adorable and now available in the shop.

Now that's far out!

 

 

For my card today, I'm sharing the 'scraps' that were on my desk 

from this weekend's cardmaking mess creating!

Christmas in July - continues!

 For today's card, I'm using one of my favorite winter set:  North Pole.

 I love the look of rustic Christmas cards ~

blues and browns and cranberry colors ♥

I've used a leftover piece of designer paper from Suzy's card kit

and heat embossed the sentiment using white embossing powder. 

The final touch was a few crystal gems added for extra bling!

 I'm pretty sure this card will be for my husband this year ♥

 You can see this stamp set and more on the blog ~

and if you click on any photo, it takes you to a gallery of card samples.

Here is the stamp set I used:

 

Head on over to The Project Bin and look around ~ it's an amazing place!

Thanks for stopping by!
Big hugs bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly