A Sweet Escape

DCWV September Stack-a-Holic Sketch Challenge!

2011-09-29T19:02:00.002-05:00

Hello! Well, I finally got my DCWV September challenge entry done today- the last day! I knew as soon as I saw the sketch what I wanted to do. I've been waiting for the perfect sketch to use this goofy single picture of my oldest son wearing a fake mustache at our county fair last year! I used the "Guy" paper stack from DCWV.
For the title, circle and the mustache cuts, I used the Billionaire Lite Cricut cartridge & Cricut Essentials on my E2.

Thanks for stopping! Stop back soon, there may be a giveaway coming up shortly! :)

Hugs- Kelly

Doodle Monster!

2011-09-09T19:54:00.005-05:00

For the TTT Blog Hop CLICK HERE!

Hello! Well, I finally found the perfect match for my little monster's Halloween costume from 2008! Doodlebug's new Monster Mania collection- C*U*T*E!!!

Everything is from Doodlebug, including all the papers, stickers, rhinestones, button, twine (fab!) and that adorable 3 dimentional blue monster with the google eyes!

Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

Triplicate Trials Tuesday Blog Hop!!!

2011-09-06T08:00:00.001-05:00

Hello! Welcome to the Triplicate Trials Tuesday blog hop! You should have arrived here from Rochelle's blog.

When I first saw this challenge, I instantly thought of doing something "groovy"! :) I decided to use it as inspiration for a tag for my oldest son's back to school treat for when he comes home after the first day (today!). He's 14 and he always jokes that I raised him as a hippie! Perfect!

I first cut the circle images with my Cricut from the Groovy Times cartridge. I made a base from just white cardstock, stamped with the music notes & rounded the corners. The guitar die, banner die & stamps are all from Papertrey Ink.

I wanted to do a guitar in the three challenge colors, so I just used 3 teardrop ink pads to ink up the stamp, starting at the top with the lightest color & working down to red. I love the way it turned out & I know my guitar playing son will think it's pretty cool, too!

I used my project as a "topper" for a tube full of M&M's. Each of the kids will get their own when they get home today from school!

Thanks for stoppin & keep on hoppin!

Your next stop is: Janice!

Here is the Blog Hop list:

Tiffany Call owner of: http://www.bkfastattiffanys.blogspot.com/

Marie Otake owner of: http://www.ethansimprints.blogspot.com

Alberta Futch owner of: http://www.albertascloset.com/

Natasha owner of: http://www.craftingwithnatasha.blogspot.com

Caryn Kidwell owner of: http://www.thescorpiancrafter.blogspot.com/

Kate Blue owner of: http://www.kateblue.blogspot.com

Debby McGrath owner of: http://www.debblesdabbles.blogspot.com/

Lisa Foust owner of: http://www.islandhoppingfoustcrafts.blogspot.com

Rochelle Washington owner of: http://www.twotearsinmybucket.blogspot.com/

Kelly Braund owner of: http://www.kellystamps.blogspot.com YOU ARE HERE

Janice Coble owner of: http://www.twin2u2-scrapaddict.blogspot.com

PRIZES: Comment on all participating blogs AND create a project to win our GRAND PRIZE of TWO WILSON DESIGNS STAMP SETS of your choice! There will be ONE lucky grand prize winner. As an added bonus some of the Triple T Team will be offering blog candy on their blogs! Yaaay!

DCWV August Stack-a-holic Sketch

2011-08-29T21:48:00.010-05:00

This is the August DCWV Stack-a-holic sketch challenge! Great sketch and so fun & easy when you have a big stack that all goes together! All of the papers I used are from the DCWV Linen Closet stack & matching cardstock stack. Love that! I just pulled out all the papers I thought I might use from each stack, than went to work! A few added elements from some light colored stamping, circle punches, branch punch, a few buttons, die cutting my title (from the same stack paper) and wala! I'm just gonna finish it up with some hand written journaling on the stamped journal lines and it's goin in the book!

Thanks for stopping!
Hugs- Kelly

PageMaps Basic Grey & Flourishes Challenge

2011-08-28T21:04:00.003-05:00

Hello! I just saw this challenge on the PageMaps blog the other day using a sketch for a card. Well, when I saw Basic Grey on it, of course, I had to jump in!
I stretched out the sketch a bit to make room for my larger main image panel, but besides that it's pretty much by the sketch. I used all Basic Grey products from the Pyrus line.

I first took two labels (the one with the birds & the layer behind) and stamped the sentiment (also from the Pyrus line stamp set) into the birds "bubble", than layered that onto the brown shaped label.
Across the top is some beautiful doily tape (great stuff!). Basically, all the papers are just cut with my trimmer and put on in the pattern of the sketch. I also added those great stitched flower embellishments & 3 brads along the bottom left to balance it out.
Thanks for stopping!
Hugs- Kelly

*All products used Basic Grey (Pyrus)
patterned papers 12x12
Paper tapes
Labels
Pyrus stamps
brads
Flower embellishments

Make It Monday #29 & Lawnscaping #16

2011-08-24T21:44:00.002-05:00

For this card I used the Papertrey Ink Make it Monday challenge for this week of freestyle copic coloring as well as the Lawnscaping one-layer challenge.

I used Heart Prints and several colors of pink/red across the heart.
Hugs- Kelly

Lawnscaping Challenge #2

2011-08-24T21:41:00.003-05:00

Here's my 2nd card for the Lawnscaping one layer challenge:

I love using kraft cardstock in general, but I think with one layer cards it's especially great because it adds a kind of weight and depth.
Hugs- Kelly

Lawnscaping Challenge #16

2011-08-24T21:33:00.003-05:00

Hello! I just found the Lawn Fawn Landscaping Challenge blog today and decided to play along! Here is the first of 3 cards I did for their single layer challenge.
Not a great picture :) but I had to hold it closed so you could get the effect of seeing the other ghosts through the vellum card.
I love their stamps, but don't have any yet :( I'm sure after seeing everyone's adorable projects for their challenges i'll be getting some very soon!
Hugs- Kelly

CAS-ual Fridays #16

2011-08-24T18:54:00.004-05:00

This weeks CAS-ual Fridays challenge was embossing- any kind. I decided to use the cute candy Cuttlebug embossing folder (from the Mini Monsters companion set) on some Coredinations paper and sand it lightly for the background. Than I stamped Frankie there and colored with pencils and gamisol, cut and pop-dotted on above a cut banner with my sentiment.

I just love Halloween so when I got this new stamp set from Paper Smooches today I couldn't resist using it!

Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

SSD #89

2011-08-22T20:44:00.004-05:00

As soon as I saw this sketch from Skipping Stones Design this week I thought of a Polaroid picture. I decided to use these fun stamps from the Tropical Birthday stamp set to look kind of like a "wish you were here" vacation photo! The inside has the "may your coconuts never hang lower than your grass skirt" sentiment!
First I die cut the "polaroid" frame which is a quickutz die, to use as a frame for my scene.
I tore strips from Core'dinates cardstocks (2 tan, 2 aqua) to use as the sand & water. For the water, I ran them through my Cuttlebug with 2 different embossing folders.
I stamped & colored the tree & hula girl with gamisol, cut out and attached. The last touch was adding gems for her coconut bikini top!

Thanks for stopping!
Hugs- Kelly

Beachy Photo Albums

2011-08-21T23:54:00.003-05:00

Hello! Wanted to share a project I made for 2 of my nieces as a little gift for their end of the summer pool party. I wanted to decorate some small photo albums so they could each put in photos of their favorite summer memories. I found the 2 4x6 albums at Michael's for $3.99 ea.
I used my Cricut E2 to cut the crab, sand castle, beach umbrella and shells. For the sand, I simply tore two shades of Core'dinates cardstocks and layered. Since they are little girls after all, I had to add some stickles to everything for a little bling!

Since the photo albums are fabric covered, I used craft glue to attach everything to the fronts.
I took a cue from this months Cricut Circle challenge to "create a scene".
Thanks for stopping!
Hugs- Kelly

August Sparks!

2011-08-17T16:18:00.006-05:00

Hello! This month's Sparks challenge at Paper Smooches is an inspirational photo challenge of a beautiful handmade headband with different fabrics laying on a bark background. Beautiful! Lots of inspiration from this! This is my first project taking inspiration from it in using fabric on my card. I used a die cut border from felt, using floss to sew on red buttons in each of the circles before adhering to my acetate card.
I colored the images with pencils/gamisol, cut and adhered with pop dots.
The half circle with the sentiment is adhered on the inside.

I die cut another border out of red paper and adhered to the inside of card so I could use that to write my greeting/signature. When the card is folded tight, you can only see the felt border and the red is hidden behind it.
This is also going for the Fabulous Felt Challenge in the Moxie Fab World!
Thanks for stopping!
Kelly

Autism Speaks Walk

2011-08-08T19:57:00.004-05:00

Hello! I just wanted to quick share some info here. For those who don't know, we have a 6 year old son, Lucas, with Autism. He is the light of my life :) He is the reason I choose to work with kids with special needs. He is beautiful, loving & hilarious. He is our youngest child.

Autism is a tricky thing. A lot of people don't understand it, most don't know how truly different it can be from child to child. There are many degrees of Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD from very mild to extremely severe.

Lucas and I will be participating in the Walk for Autism Speaks at the Mall of America at the end of September. We would appreciate donations of any amount, which you can make online right HERE or by clicking the Autism Speaks Walk pic to the right/top, both will take you directly to our donation page where your tax-deductible donation will go straight to Autism Speaks!

If you are unable to donate, please visit Autism Speaks anyway and just learn something new so you can better understand people with ASD. There is tons of information for anyone on their site as well as info on how their donations are used.

Thanks so much!
Hugs-Kelly

Christmas in July- I mean August :)

2011-08-08T17:55:00.003-05:00

Hello! I just received a new die w/face stamps from Peachy Keen- the adorable Cottage Cutz penguins die with 2 Peachy Keen faces, sooo cute!
I wanted to make an entry for both the Peachy Keen Tuesday sketch as well as the CottageBLOG Christmas theme challenge, so I combined them both along with The Paper Variety challenge to use more than 4 circles. Whew! :)

The Peachy Keen challenge was the sketch I used as well as the color combo, now looking at it I mabey should have turned the penguins a bit because you can't see the green circles that are behind both their heads, but oh well! :) I stamped the plaid background paper on top using the 3 challenge colors as well and used a Cuttlebug folder to emboss the bottom blue paper. I just hand cut the small white border at the bottom for snow.
The small blue circles are stamped in white with a small snowflake from PTI- the sentiment is from the same set.
The CottageBLOG challenge was a Christmas card, so I couldn't wait to use my new penguins to fit right in with the theme! I used the same challenge colors for their feet/bowtie/buttons/mittens to go with the paper I made.
The Paper Variety challenge to use more than 4 circles just fit right in here because the PK sketch already had a row of circles!

Thanks for stoppin!
Hugs- Kelly

MojoMonday #202 Scrapbook Page!

2011-08-07T20:46:00.002-05:00

Hello! I was inspired after seeing a scrapbook school page by Heather Nichoels this week and after looking at the MojoMonday sketch- it was a sign! :) I had to use it to get one of my kids class picture pages done. I used my daughter's from 2nd grade.I used my Cricut for the penant cuts and all the stamps are from PTI.
Thanks for lookin'!

Hugs- Kelly

Paper Smooches July Sparks Challenge! Take 2!

2011-08-03T22:29:00.005-05:00

Please CLICK HERE for my Skateboard challenge card, thanks!

Ok, so I didn't get to do ALL the sketches (Paper Smooches) like I would have liked. Had to help my daughter make her teacher a card for the last day of summer school tomarrow, which kept me busy for some time (but sooo worth it!), than while finishing my 3rd challenge card, my husband had the nerve to want to do what??? Go to bed! :) The nerve! :)

My studio is at one side of our loft-like bedroom, so I can't have my lights on while he goes to sleep. Bummer.

Well, I did finish one more card that I'm just in love with using another of the sketches.

That gnome is one of my favorite images from Kim! Sooo stinkin cute! I just had to give him some plaid pants and matching hat! And of course his little birdie friend needed one, too. My oldest son has his hair long in the front, so he's constantly moving it out of his eyes, so I thought it would be funny if the birdie had a low-rise hat, too! :)

Well, thanks for stopping! I had so much fun playing along with Paper Smooches July challenge and now that I know where it is, I can guarantee from now on I'll get started on them a lot sooner!

Hugs- Kelly

Paper Smooches July Sparks Challenge!

2011-08-03T19:46:00.008-05:00

Hello! I just happened to stumble upon the Paper Smooches blog the other day and I can't believe I hadn't found it already! I've been a HUGE fan of Kim's stamps for a long time and have most of them from CHF and love them! I'm so excited that now I've got all new goodies from her to oogle and buy one by one! :)

Anyhow- they have a great Sparks Challenge going on that ends tonight! There are 10 different sketches along with a bunch of color combos-you can use either or both and do as many as you want. I'm trying to do as many as I can before time's up! Six hours and counting :)

Here are my first two based on some of the sketches. Since I don't have any of Kim's new stamps (YET!), all stamps used are from Kim's collection at CHF.

I made this card for my daughter for her first riding class in 2 weeks! LOVE it! The horse, sentiment, hat and boot are all from the same stamp set.

My oldest son is a big skateboarder, so this will definately be a note in his backpack when school starts! :) I made the background by repeatedly stamping the skateboard in red and blue, than stamped the "hey dude" sentiment- also from that set.

Hopefully i'll be able to add on more for this challenge tonight!
Hugs- Kelly

CPS #228, The Paper Variety & a new goodie!

2011-07-30T11:56:00.004-05:00

Hello! Today I have a card for this weeks CPS sketch challenge #228 and the weekly challenge from The PaperVariety in which I also got to use a brand new goodie! A new punch from EK-a dimentional flower punch! There are several different designs to choose from, the one I used is Dahlia. It's basically a large border punch. The challenge for The Paper Variety was a tic-tac-toe challenge. I picked the row with "faux or real stitching, make a card & use pink".

I cut 2 12" borders from coordinating papers, than you glue one on top of the other, offsetting the "petals" so they aren't lined up, than just keep glueing and rolling until it's all rolled up.

You than just start from the outside in, folding down the petals. So fun! Mabey 5 minutes tops. If you fold down all the petals including the very inside, than you'll have a small hole in the middle in which to put a jewel, button or other embellishment. I used a small pink Prima flower. I just hand cut the leaves.

Papers/Sticker are from Echo Park. Ribbon from Amuse.

Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

Happy Father's Day!!!

2011-06-19T02:23:00.003-05:00

This adorably funny stamp set is from Skipping Stones Design and I used their sketch challenge #80 as well for the layout of this card. On the inside it says "Happy Father's Day".

Hope all the Dad's have a great day!

Hugs- Kelly

Cricut Circle May Monthly Challenge!

2011-05-30T17:20:00.005-05:00

This month's monthly challenge is "tic-tac-toe". There's a tic tac toe board with different elements in each square and you need to pick three in a row and incorporate them into a project. I chose these three: Any patterned paper must be from Imagine, Use a bird shape, use buttons somewhere.

Here's what I came up with:

I used the Imagine Buccaneer cartridge for everything on this card except the black cardstock card base. It's a standard 4.25x5.5 card.

I used all the layers of the parrot to really make him pop out. I also pop dotted the "X marks the spot" just once and sew a button in the middle of the X. The treasure chest is cut in one layer.

For the backgrounds, I used the anchors pattern along with the top note shape on the machine. For the "sand" half circle, I used the parchment patterned paper to cut a circle (also on the machine) than just cut with my paper trimmer. Both patterns from the Buccaneers cartridge.

This cartridge is just so much fun to play with, I'm going to keep finding reasons to do "pirate" projects! :)

On the inside of this card, I used the sentiment stamp "Aye Treasure You" from Pink By Design.
Thanks for cruisin by!

Hugs- Kelly

Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge!

2011-05-26T19:02:00.003-05:00

Hello! This is my entry for this week's Cricut Circle blog challenge to use a sketch for a page/card. Here's what I came up with for my son's patriotic kindergarten show that was today :)All the papers are patterned papers from We R Memory Keepers. I'm going to add google eyes to the little flag-waver and (of course ) add the pictures of my son, but my printer isn't printing them well, so I'll have to do that tomarrow. I'll make sure to post again with the pictures added :) I think this turned out really cute, it's a great sketch! Thanks for lookin'!

Hugs- Kelly

PTI May Blog Hop!

2011-05-25T16:11:00.003-05:00

This month the PTI blog hop is all about flowers! I thought this was perfect to show this sweet simple card I made for my brother & sisster-in-laws anniversary! I used the new PTI 2010 Anniversay set, of course, which I just received last week (it's amazing!).

Super simple, quick card! I stamped the flower stems in VersaMark ink onto some dark chocolate CS, than the flowers and sentiment in white. So simple, but very striking with the white on chocolate.
Thanks for stoppin'!

Hugs- Kelly

Challenge Me Monday #60

2011-05-22T10:24:00.005-05:00

This weeks Challenge Me Monday at Fantabulous Cricut was to make a card/project using both a rectangle and triangle. Well, I had lots of great card layouts in my head to do for this, and this is my final card:

I recently got the Buccaneer Cricut Imagine Cartridge and couldn't wait to play with it! The papers and images are so great! The pirates also have lots of great layering (as you can see) so it makes them look even better!
I printed/cut the pirate with layers and popped up each layer. Same with the treasure chest. Than I printed/cut the rectangle and square (which I cut in half for the two triangles).
Before adhering the pirate, I used a scissor to snip around his hand/wrist so i could layer the treasure chest underneath.
The quote bubble is also printed with the old scroll pattern from the Buccaneer cartridge, the shape is on the Imagine machine itself, than I stamped that great birthday saying from the My Pink Stamper pirate stamp set. It's a really great stamp set! Great quality, great sizes and great price! I'm really happy with the quality of her stamps as well as the great sentiments to use with Cricut cuts!

This was one of 5 kids birthday cards I did with the Imagine on Friday/Saturday for my 4 nieces & 1 nephew's family bday party on Saturday afternoon. I snapped pics of them all quick with my phone before stuffing on sealing, so i'll share the rest later! :)

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #3

2011-05-09T22:41:00.003-05:00

Last one! I finally completed my last project for all of the My Pink Stamper NSD challenges! This is challenge #3- Breast Cancer Theme. Here's the link: My Pink Stamper

I decided to do a layout for the Race for the Cure. I don't have my pics yet, but I put mats for two photos on this page.

Sorry again if the colors look off, it's very dark now :) I used this fabulous Teressa Collins line that's all pinks, blacks & greys!

Have a great night!

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #2

2011-05-09T20:43:00.003-05:00

Challenge #2- Kraft cardstock. I LOVE using kraft paper both for cards and scrapbooking. I decided to use it with some "kraft" patterned paper from Basic Grey basics as well to make a simple "guy" page for my husband's hunting photo.

Here's the challenge link: My Pink Stamper.

I used the Cricut Wildlife Lite cartridge & Camp Out mainly. I can't remember which font the year was, I believe it may be the Gypsy font.

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #7

2011-05-09T20:40:00.003-05:00

Challenge #7- Scrapbook page. Here's the link: My Pink Stamper and here's my page:

I did the cuts for the tree freehand with a scissor. The "apples" is the Quickutz Yogurt alphabet dies.

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #12

2011-05-09T20:32:00.003-05:00

Ok, I'm gonna quick post the last 3 challenge projects I have done, I think I have one more to do if I can before times up! Challenge #12- Kid's Theme, found here: My Pink Stamper. Here's my page:

Sorry it's so dark, bad weather here so the lighting's not great :)

The title says "My favorite Monsters". Looks like a lot of work, but those cuts go together so easy it's pretty quick!

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #4

2011-05-09T19:02:00.002-05:00

Challenge #4- Mother's Day! Find challenge here:My Pink Stamper.
Since it was already Mother's Day when I started these challenges, I decided to try to make a simple card with a big bang. Here's what I came up with:

I used the Florals Embellished cartridge. All the main images on this cartridge are quite intricate, but it also has lots of great "mother" phrases, including this Happy Mother's Day. To kick it up a notch, I used some matching distressed stickles and stickled the word Mother nearly to death! :)

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #11

2011-05-09T18:55:00.003-05:00

Challenge #11- Pink, green & black! Well, I definately used pink & green with a tiny black thrown in! Find this challenge here: My Pink Stamper, here's my card:

This card came together in about 5 minutes! I was thinking of what to do for ths challenge and out of the corner of my eye, I saw this October Afternoon "Fly a Kite" paper pack. It included paper, a sheet of tags (including the one I used here with white polka dots) and 3 different sticker sheets. The "today" label is a sticker as well as the strawberry plant/flower in the upper right.

The only thing I added not out of the pack was to stamp "be Happy" (by PTI) and add on some ribbons!

I think for a 5 min card it's quite cute! :)

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #9

2011-05-09T16:05:00.002-05:00

Challenge #9- Glitz, Glam & Glitter! Here's the link to this challenge: My Pink Stamper and here's my card:

I used the Damask Decor cartridge for this along with black glitter paper and black diamond stickles for the dots around the edges. The stamp is from Papertrey Ink.

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #10

2011-05-09T15:41:00.002-05:00

Challenge #10- Pet! With Mother's Day on the brain, I had to make a card with a cat cause my Mom loves em! Here's the link: My Pink Stamper and my card:

Basic Grey papers, stickles added to words and bird wings. Used: Meow lite cartridge.

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #8

2011-05-09T15:38:00.002-05:00

Challenge #8- Summer Themed project! Here's the link: My Pink Stamper and my project:

I just got the Cherry Limeade Lite cartridge Saturday, so when I saw this challenge, this cut immediately came to me! I used vellum from PTI for the glass.

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #6

2011-05-09T15:32:00.003-05:00

Challenge #6- Incorporate a tag! Here's the link to this challenge: My Pink Stamper and here's my entry:

I LOVE how this card turned out! The circle borders are from Elegant Edges cartridge. It was actually extremely easy to put together! I cut strips of the different colors and put on cutting mat one after the other, than layed everything out on my gypsy to cut. One time through the machine and everything was cut. I put black paper behind the cut outs on the tags, just cut by hand.

I threaded the tags on some MS baker's twine and popped up the tags with foam tape. Little rhinestone on each tag top and done!

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #5

2011-05-09T15:28:00.002-05:00

Ok, next one! :) Challenge #5- 3D!!! Perfect to put my new pop-up cards cartridge to work! Here's the link to this challenge: My Pink Stamper and here's my card:

It took a minute to figure out the correct way to attach the pop up "thank you", but I love the effect!

Hugs- Kelly

My Pink Stamper NSD Challenge #1

2011-05-09T15:21:00.003-05:00

Challenge #1 for National Scrapbooking Day is "Anything Cupcake". Here's the link to challenge #1: My Pink Stamper and here's my entry!

I did one of my favorite things and made a shaped card by welding the solid cupcake image first into a card! Love it! How cute is that little smiley cupcake!?

I'll be back with another challenge entry!

Hugs- Kelly

Cricut Expression 2 Anniversary Edition!

2011-04-25T07:34:00.002-05:00

The new Cricut Expression 2 Anniversary Edition debuts tonight at midnight on HSN (11pm CST)! It's very exciting! This is the 5th year anniversary of the original and this one debuts with all the current gadgets plus a couple extra, a sleek new design & 4 pre-loaded cartridges! I entered a birthday layout contest for Provo Craft to have a chance at winning one of five of these new machines, so we'll see how that turns out when it airs tonight! :)
Another giveaway is on Everyday Cricut where they also get to give 1 machine away to a lucky follower, along with some other prizes!
Good luck to everyone in the contests, see ya on the couch at 11! :)

Hugs- Kelly

Awesomely Quick Cricut Imagine Card!

2011-02-08T19:08:00.004-06:00

Hello! I just got an Imagine machine delivered last week, which is an early bday present! My bday is the 12th, but I had to start playing with it as soon as it came! After working out a few kinks with updating it, everything was good to go and I've been messing around ever since.

There's a little challenge on My Pink Stamper to make something inspired by Spring (which is sure to come eventually!) or something that just makes you happy.
Well, playing with my Imagine sure makes me happy and the great colors on the Best Friends cartridge are definately Spring and happy! We have lots of girls bdays coming up so I made this super easy bday card.
I used the Best Friends cartridge, cutting the entire image as well as the clouds and red balloon seperately so I could pop them up. The stamps are PTI Bitty Birdy set as well as the Distressed Dots gold background paper and gingham ribbon.

This card probably took a total of 5 min. Mabey my quickest card ever! LOVE this! I, of course, love doing detailed, sweat and tears projects, but it sure is nice to be able to throw together a project in 5 min if you want some instant gratification! :)

While I'm here, I'll also share a giftbag I used the Imagine for the other day for my daughter's friend's bday present. I used the Birthday Bash Cricut cartridge along with the Imagine More Imagine cartridge for the paper patterns. I only used white paper for this entire project, gotta love that!

Thanks for stopping! Check back soon, I'm sure i'll have lots more Imagine projects to share soon!

Hugs, Kelly

PTI November Blog Hop & Happy Thanksgiving!!!

2010-11-25T16:13:00.003-06:00

This months PTI blog hop challenge was to make tags, which is funny because I had just made a bunch right before the challenge was announced! Here's some holiday tags using various PTI sets. Enjoy! Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Hugs-

Kelly

Vote for a Great Cause!

2010-08-30T16:16:00.002-05:00

I am loving this whole Pepsi project to give money to tons of great non-profits trying to get help! Check out this amazing little girl & vote for her project HERE. Also, get entered for a great giveaway at the same time.
Thanks!

Hugs- Kelly

Papertrey August Blog Hop Challenge

2010-08-25T17:34:00.006-05:00

This month's challenge is a brown bag challenge! Use a simple brown paper bag in your crafting project. I often use lunchbags for projects, so I was so excited about this and had so many ideas I couldn't keep them straight! Finally, today a new idea came to me & I had to do it.

I used my Cricut to cut a door hanger (black) I than cut another one smaller in Harvest Gold and just cut the top off to use as a layer. I stamped the Harvest Gold layer with the Alphabet background from School Time in Pure Poppy. I than attached the gold layer and stamped "lunch money" with Outlines Alphabet in Fresh Snow.

For my pocket, I cut the lunchbag to a single piece of 4x4 and scored 3 sides at 1/2 inch, folded and attached along the 3 edges to make a pocket.

I used the Fillable Frames #7 frame stamp and die and Simple Alphabet to stamp my daughter's name. The top circle and apple are from the School Time set as well, and I just stamped on Chartreause cardstock and used a circle punch to punch out. A little Harvest Gold ribbon is added on top.

Now, I can just put this on the door whenever my daughter needs to bring in lunch money for school or a special field trip! (By the way- she loves it!) :)

Thanks for stopping- I can't wait to see all the great projects for this fun challenge!

Hugs- Kelly

Challenge Me Monday #23: Lake Girls

2010-08-22T23:37:00.008-05:00

I don't know if I forgot about the great challenges at the Fantabulous Cricut: Challenge Blog or if I just haven't visited in awhile, but I had to finish this weeks challenge when I saw someone post about it today.

This weeks challenge was: The Great Outdoors. I've been very un-scrappy this summer- or just uncreative period. It's been such a crazy summer getting ready for all 3 kids to head off to school for the first time.

My youngest, Lucas, is developmentally disabled and is headed to kindergarten this year. It's been a big challenge dealing with all the issues that come up sending a young, special needs kid to school. He'll be attending a different school than his brother did & his sister does. So, i'll have 2 elementary kids at different schools, plus my oldest at Jr.High.

Anyway, for obvious reasons I've been a little preoccupied this summer and haven't crafted nearly as much as usual or as needed for my sanity :)

So, here's my challenge project:

The coloring's a bit off due to a late-night photo shoot :), but the papers are Cosmo Cricket's Snorkel line, the main polka dot paper for the background is yellow.

I used my Gypsy to put together my layout before doing all the cutting, so I used a few different cartridges. Grafically Speaking was used for the notebook edge largest circle as well as the plain circles. Life is a Beach for the wave border. The Girls is from the Farm Life cartridge. After cutting everything, I inked all the edges of my cuts with the Papertrey Ink tea duo inks.

Thanks for stopping! Off to view everyone elses amazing projects for this challenge!

Hugs- Kelly

Cricut Expression Giveaway!!!

2010-05-09T16:17:00.002-05:00

Hey everyone! In case you haven't already, head on over to the Everyday Cricut blog to enter their National Scrapbook Day contest to win a Cricut Expression! How awesome is that?! Just follow the link, leave a comment & subscribe... easy peasy! Contest ends tonight.

Hugs- Kelly

ScrapbookPal Design Team Entry

2010-05-05T23:19:00.003-05:00

I just found this great site ScrapbookPal.com, they have fab prices on Cricut products and I was very excited to find a call for Design Team members! I have been using my Cricut like crazy lately doing some much needed catching up on my thousands of pictures needing to be scrapbooked! :) For today, I'm going to share this layout which is my favorite lately! (Sorry about the pic- it's really dark here today! I'll fix it tomarrow) and my entry for the DT.

Love this! I used the new Cricut Easter seasonal cartridge as well as Opposites Attract for the font. Cosmo Cricket papers for backgrounds and PTI cardstock & patterned paper for "hunt" and the bunny's bow.

I cut the two grass pieces on a curve and layered them with foam to add some dimention and hide the eggs behind!

Tomarrow I will be back and share some other recent layouts with some Cricut love! :)

Hugs- Kelly

Cards, cards, cards!!!

2010-05-05T09:41:00.005-05:00

Hello! Like I said, I have been creating a lot, just not keeping up on blogging with our busy few months here. :) Fortunately, that is now over and I can get back to life as normal. Lucas is officially signed up for kindergarten in the fall, the school year is almost over (yikes...when did that happen!) and the kids are signed up for their list of summer activities!

Besides my cards, I have been catching up on some scrapbooking and falling in love with my Cricut all over again! I will be sharing some of those pages later today :) In the meantime, I'm posting some of the cards from my absence.

Thanks for lookin & come back tonight to check out some scrappy goodness :)

Hugs- Kelly

Hello Old Friends!

2010-04-10T11:55:00.008-05:00

Wow- it's been a long time since I've blogged! I have been creating, so I guess i'll have some catch up posting to do this week! It's been a crazy year here and the last few weeks have been tough. My youngest, Lucas, has special needs and is going to kindergarten in the fall. We've recently realized that our elementary school which is a block away & my daughter is in 2nd grade there, is not gong to be the right place for Lucas. Unfortunately, they just don't have the staff & resources for him to do his best. So, we've had to make the decision to send him to another school in our district about 5 miles away. Not too bad, it's just a bummer that he won't be at the same school as our other kids, which I also went to as a child. Ok, enough about that :)

I just had to blog today because Becky Oehlers posted a challenge today to make a new card with her CUTE stamp set "Wonderfully Whimsical". This is such an adorable set & with everything going on, I hadn't inked it up yet- so I had to today! I took inspiration from Becky's card today HERE and made another version using a boat from the PTI Tiny Treats Valentine set.

CUTE! I used the hill image from the set to make the grassy hills as well as the waves of the water. I inked the sky background with Spring Rain ink as well. The house image, boat, hills and waves are all stamped, cut and adhered. I used different foam dimentionals to attach the waves at different dimentions.

It's finally starting to feel like summer's coming here in MN, so I thought this card with the cute little boat would be a great thanks card for when we get to spend a day at the lake where my husband's parents live. It's so nice to spend time there and they are always so nice to have everyone over to play in the water, boat and fish!

Thanks for stopping and check back this week when i'll be posting some of the projects I've been working on lately!

Hugs- Kelly

Time for the PTI Bloghop!

2010-02-25T17:35:00.008-06:00

This months challenge was to find inspiration from a PTI design team member (not hard to do!). I love every single member of the PTI DT and find inspiration in all of them along with several past PTI DT members I still stop by to check out! I chose Heather Nichols as my inspiration today. I definately have a soft spot for Heather's style & always love her projects. Mabey it's because we're both Minnesotans?

I rarely used to make tags, but was inspired last year by Heather's adorable tags she does for each holiday for all the kids. I started last Easter doing the same for my kids and love the fun small scale of designing tags for each holiday! This is Heather's most recent tag project:

http://pinefeather.typepad.com/pine_is_here/2010/02/egg-hunt-easter-tags.html

My tags are for my two nieces birthday party tomarrow. I used the same papers to match their giftbags and stamped the butterfly tag image from Tags for Spring in white with their name's stamped in Plum. I also stamped the butterfly image from Egg Hunt (which matches the tag image btw) in white randomly on the tag-backs.
Thanks for stopping!
Hugs- Kelly

Ingredients (all PTI supplies):

Papers: Kraft, Spring Moss, Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon, Egg Hunt PP

Stamps: Tags for Spring, Egg Hunt

Inks/Ribbon: Fresh Snow, Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon ribbon

PTI 3rd Anniversary Sketch Challenge

2010-02-08T22:22:00.003-06:00

Another exciting day for the PTI 3rd Anniversary celebration! Today it includes a sketch/color challenge and here's what I came up with:

Head over to Nicole's blog for more info on this challenge & much more fun as well!

Hugs- Kelly

PTI 3rd Anniversary Technique Challenge!

2010-02-05T10:47:00.002-06:00

Papertrey Ink's 3rd Anniversary celebration is going strong! Everyday I look forward to what the new exciting news will be! Today's announcement was major to me- a new technique challenge every Monday from PTI along with a chance to save points to use towards PTI stuff just for trying! Very cool! Since becoming a PTI addict, I've often wished there was some kind of system to earn discounts or free merchandise for being a loyal customer (besides the yearly anniversary set, of course!). Anything to help feed the addiction :)
So, today Nicole put up a technique challenge to use the resist emboss technique. As soon as I saw some samples, I knew just what I wanted to do. I do LOVE using this technique with big bold images to just show through the background, but today's card is a little simpler. I wanted to use these cute hot air balloons and create the look of them floating over as the sun is rising.
I think it turned out pretty good :) I used 3 different PTI blue inks, yellow, orange & terra cotta.
Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

PTI 3rd Anniversary Day 2 Contest!!!

2010-02-02T23:04:00.003-06:00

Today is day 2 of the Papertrey Ink 3rd Anniversary Festivities! Today was the announcement of the stamp designers working with PTI for 2010. Can't wait to see what's to come! Each designer had a digital stamp/element to print and use for a birthday card. I got 7 of them done so far and here they are:

This was a lot of fun and now I've got some new bday cards done and ready to go just in case :).

Hugs- Kelly

PTI Blog Hop - A Total Package

2010-01-25T17:45:00.000-06:00

It's time for another PTI blog hop! Here's this month's challenge: A Total Package. Make whatever kind of card you want and step it up a notch by decorating the inside, back, envelope, ect. besides just the card front. I often stamp something smaller inside my cards to coordinate with the front, but I decided to really go for it with this challenge and do the front, inside & back.
I started with Hibiscus Burst as my card base (cutting the long way to make the card open at the bottom). I cut two pieces of Kraft cardstock at 4"x5.25" and stamped them both with the large background stamp from Simple Valentine using Versamark ink. I also stamped the card back using Versamark, starting about 1/3 of the way up the back. I than stamped the border image with Versamark under my background stamping and the "made by" stamp below that in black.

For my card front, I used the dotted heart from Simple Valentine and stamped it with Fresh Snow on Hibiscus Burst cs to make a flower & cut out. I stamped once on Pure Poppy cs and cut out. I glued the red heart to the middle of my flower and adhered a rhinestone. I used the large stem from Wishing You and stamped in New Leaf. I also stamped a sentiment from Simple Valentine in black and adhered my flower on top the stem.

For the inside, I repeatedly stamped the small stem bunch from Wishing You across the bottom. I topped the stems with flower hearts using hearts from Simple Valentine. The inside sentiment is from Everyday Button Bits, stamped in black.

This challenge was a lot of fun! Can't wait to check out what everyone else did, thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

Ingredients:
Stamps: Simple Valentine, Wishing You, Everyday Button Bits
Papers: Kraft, Hibiscus Burst, Pure Poppy
Inks: Fresh Snow, Hibiscus Burst, Pure Poppy, True Black, New Leaf & Versamark

Cards A Plenty! Bdays & CPS150

2010-01-20T20:46:00.006-06:00

I don't normally make New Year's resolutions because I just think if you want to make a change, you should do it when you make up your mind, not just because it's New Year's. So I don't have a resolution for the year, but I did make myself a challenge. My challenge is to make and send out (on time!) cards to all our family for birthdays, anniversaries, ect. for the entire year! I sometimes make cards and don't send them in time, or forget to check the calendar in time to get one out. Not this year! :) I've got everything down on the calendar as well as alarms set on my phone for a week before each birthday so I can get it in the mail.

So here's two of the bday cards I made for January:

There are some other ones as well, but the pics are on my other computer, so i'll share those next time.

The next card was for a challenge on PCP for Sweet'n'Sassy stamps, I used one of their digital images.

This card was created using this weeks CPS sketch 150 challenge.

LOVE that cute little bunny! For the heart background, I colored in the tiny hearts with a glitter pen, as well as the little heart bunny tail!

Thanks for stoppin'! I finished putting the pics in my Christmas mini album today and put the finishing touches on the cover, I just want to add some journaling and i'll be sharing the entire thing here.

Hugs- Kelly

Happy New Year!!!

2010-01-14T15:08:00.005-06:00

I hope everyone had a fabulous holiday and that your new year is starting out right! We had a busy Christmas with all the kids home, but so much fun! Playing with new toys, new games and just being able to hang out with the kids in jammies all day :)

I do have a few projects to share from the past few weeks, but for right now, I'd like to share the card I made using The Color Throwdown #75 challenge. These are not colors I usually use together so I was definately out of my color element, but I do love the end look.

Unfortunately, I needed to make a sympathy card for a dear old friend of our family who lost her husband over Christmas. As soon as I looked at these colors I knew what I wanted to do.

I used PTI colors that are similar for my project.

Thanks for stopping by, i'll be back soon to share a few other cards as well as a Christmas mini-album I'm finishing up.

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Royal Monday!

2009-12-14T01:00:00.001-06:00

If you didn't arrive here from Alex, you can start at the QKD blog to see everyone's project.

This weeks challenge was a color challenge, mainly to use blues & silvers/grey. I actually took these colors out of the inspiratin challenge a few weeks ago and made this tag:

I used my favorite Christmas set, Fancy Christmas! I decided for this challenge to show my Xmas tag today & tomarrow on the QKD blog I will show a coordinating project which also goes with this challenge.

Now hop on over to Helene and see what she's sharing today!

Hugs- Kelly

Here's a list of today's hop in case you get lost :)

Queen Kat Designs Store

QKD New Release Week!!!

2009-11-29T20:58:00.005-06:00

You should have arrived here from Vicki's blog, if not head back to the QKD blog to start the hop and not miss a thing! This week is New Release week at QKD! The stamps featured today will be available this Wednesday!

I can't believe this is the last new release of the year!!! Wow, this year went fast! With Christmas coming fast as well, I decided to use the new Mrs. Dashwood stamp to make a gift set for my Mom for a Christmas gift. My Mom loves cats so I knew she would love this stamp!

I will share parts of the set over the month until Christmas, for today I'm showing my magnetic fridge notepad.

Really, this is a very simple & inexpensive project. You just need a notepad, papers & some ribbon. You can either cut a piece from a magnetic sheet to glue to the back or use strips of magnets.

Current sale:

Cyber Days Shipping Sale Save on shipping rates!Spend $20 get $2 shipping...Spend $50 get FREE Shipping...Spend $100 get FREE shipping & a FREE stamp set!(Good today through12/1/09) Queen Kat Designs store

Now hop through to Helene!

Here's today's hop order:

Queen Kat Designs Store

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Royal Monday!

2009-11-23T00:01:00.004-06:00

If you didn't arrive here from Vicki's blog, head on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning so you don't miss a thing!
The inspiration photo for this weeks challenge reminded me of the soft creams & blues of winter & snow. Mabey it's because of Black Friday coming in 4 days (yippee!) or Thanksgiving Thursday, but I'm getting in the Christmas spirit this week! We have only had one snow this year so far which didn't last the day (very odd for MN) but I can still feel the excitement and wonder of Christmas. We even saw Santa for the first time of the season on Saturday.

So in honor of black friday coming, I'm gonna need tags for all those gifts, so I used a light blue cardstock for my tag, just rounding the top corners, edging the bottom with a scalloped border punch & punching a hole for some twine. I stamped that beautiful tree from Fancy Christmas in cream, than dipped in glitter before the ink dried. I added that fun ruffled ribbon & crocheted flower along the bottom. Now hop on over to see what Helene has done with today's challenge!

Today's Hop Order
QKD blog
Alex's blog
Vicki's blog
Kelly's blog
Helene's blog
Penny's blog
Meredith's blog
Linda's blog
Anita's blog
Sara's blog
Ashley's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Hugs- Kelly

Happy Birthday QKD Special New Release!!!

2009-11-19T00:01:00.003-06:00

If you didn't come here from Jules, head back to the QKD blog and start from the beginning- there's lots of great stuff to see!
Today is QKD's 3rd birthday!!!! In honor of the big bday celebration, there is a special new release happening today! You can purchase these fabulous new stamps by Kelly Kost today at the QKD store!
For today's special release, I got to play with the Wizard of Oz set, which includes the main image and one sentiment. I loved this stamp in particular when I saw all the fabulous stuff from Kelly! There is so much inspiration in that movie I didn't know where to start! It's also a favorite of my daughter and many little girls so this would be a great set to use on a special gift for a little girl or for birthday cards.

The first thing I wanted to do with this was make a card using the yellow brick road, of course! :) I decided that the easiest way to do that was to just take a piece of yellow cardstock and hand draw brown lines for the bricks using a ruler. After finishing my "yellow brick" paper, I free hand cut it with a craft knife. I colored the image with copics, added some glitter to Dorothy's red shoes :) and mounted on red paper. I popped the main image up on pop dots to add to the effect of the yellow brick road in the background.

Now, onto Sara!

Blog Hop list for today:
Alex
Meredith
Penny
Jules
Kelly B
Sara
Anessa
Lara
Linda
Anita
Nancy
Steph
Helene
Vicki
QKD Store

Hugs, Kelly

QKD Royal Monday!

2009-11-15T22:13:00.004-06:00

If you didn't arrive here from Vicki's blog, head on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning!

Today's challenge was a color challenge, the QKD colors ( whoop, whoop!!!). Pink, Purple, Grey & White. Make sure to check out the QKD blog to see how you can participate in this challenge & win a cute stamp set!
The only white I actually ended up using was the paper that I used to stamp & color the oriental girl on, so the white doesn't show, but it's there! :)
I decided to keep it a simple base and showcase the adorable girl by cutting her out and popping her up on pop dots. The "dream" is from the Prosperity Crane set.

I love how she pops out above the little strips of paper. It has a very peaceful feeling, I think. :)

You can see the Oriental Girl and Prosperity Crane sets through the links above or just head over to the store to check out everything!

Use coupon code BL10 in the store at check out and receive an additional 10% off your purchase!! this includes kits, clearance, stamps, and well.. EVERYTHING in the store!! (If you're purchasing a kit subscription, the discount applies to the first month only.)

Now hop on over to see what Helene has done with today's sketch!

Today's Hop Order

Queen Kat Designs Store

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Royal Monday!

2009-11-09T08:52:00.004-06:00

If you didn't arrive here from Vicki's blog, head on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning!

Today's QKD Royal Monday challenge was a sketch challenge. I changed it up by changing the card direction, using snowflake die-cuts as my main image, using a tag die-cut with my sentiment rather than the bottom small square and putting pearls on either side of my tag rather than either side of my ribbon. Lots of changes, but still the same basic layout! It just shows that the same sketch can inspire different ideas in different people, which is why I love sketch challenges so much!

I used the Fancy Christmas set for the Merry Christmas sentiment. You can head on over to the QKD store for that fab set and more!
We are extending the free stamp week for this week where you buy 2 stamp sets and get 1 separate stamp free or buy 3 separate stamps get 1 free!

Now hop on over to see what Helene has done with today's sketch!

Today's Hop Order
QKD blog
Alex's blog
Vicki's blog
Kelly's blog
Helene's blog
Penny's blog
Meredith's blog
Linda's blog
Anita's blog
Sara's blog
Ashley's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Hugs- Kelly

Another Family Post! :)

2009-11-08T00:05:00.002-06:00

Hello! Hope everyone's having a great weekend! We had conferences in our school district this Thurs-Fri, so no school from Thur-Sun. Matt & Logan left for deer hunting early Thursday morning, so it's just been me, Shelby & Lucas. Honestly, I'm starting to get exhausted :) Shelby is the least patient of all of us so Lucas can easily get on her nerves. But, we are having some fun moments while the old boys are gone! :)
Anyhow- Matt got a deer this morning! Yay! A pretty nice buck, too. They have 4 tags to fill, so they'll probably still be gone at least a few days. Logan shot & missed one today as well. Mabey tomarrow!

On a creative note :) Check back on Monday for the QKD Royal Monday bloghop!

Hugs- Kelly

Happy Halloween 2009!!!

2009-11-03T08:24:00.006-06:00

Just wanted to share today some pics from Halloween! My youngest, Lucas, was a fuzzy lion (perfect for Oct in MN!). It's probably the last year i'll be able to pick his costume out with him so that it's warm! Next year I'm sure he'll want some thin costume that he'll freeze in!
My daughter, Shelby, was a 50's waitress. She saw this costume in a catalog months ago and had to have it! My oldest, Logan and his friends all dressed as "punk zombie skateboarders". :)

Even though my husband stayed at home sick, we all had a fun night and could hear screams and chainsaws all evening from the Tunnel of Terror across the street!

Shelby, Lucas, Logan

My kids and 4 of their cousins at G'ma & G'pas. Lucas, Logan, Sierra, Elijah, Jordan, Lucy, Shelby.

Logan

Shelby
Lucas
Lucas is such a little ham!
Hope everyone had a fun & safe Halloween! Now onto Christmas! :)

Hugs- Kelly

QKD New Release Week!!!

2009-11-01T23:59:00.000-06:00

It's time for new release week at Queen Kat Designs! The official release will be Wednesday, November 4th, but the Monday blog hop girls get to preview some of these new releases to you today!

If you didn't arrive here from Vicki's blog, head on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning!

This month, I get to show you this adorable Oriental Girl stamp. It's such a fun stamp to color in the whole scene you can just do so many different things. For today's card, I colored the image with copics, cut and mounted. I found a great cut on the Slice Vintage Findings card of a flower on a swirly vine that looks similar to the flower vines in the bottom part of the stamp. I cut 3 out of black CS and glued onto blue CS, which I mounted on my black card front.

Now hop on over to see what Helene has to show today!

Remember- all these great new releases will be available at the QKD Store this Wednesday!
Special at the store: Buy 2 stamp sets get 1 separates stamp free ($3.99 or less) or buy 3 separates get 1 free.
We are also going to have a special Birthday/Special Release blog hop on November 19th!

Here's a list of today's hop in case you get lost :)
QKD blog
Alex's blog
Vicki's blog
Kelly's blog
Helene's blog
Penny's blog
Meredith's blog
Linda's blog
Anita's blog
Sara's blog
Ashley's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Hugs- Kelly

ONLY 1 1/2 DAYS TO GET IN YOUR VOTES!!!

2009-10-27T10:34:00.002-05:00

I am entered in the Cricut Gypsy 24 hr Design Challenge on Cricut.com. The grand prize winner gets a trip to New York for the Manhattan Michael's grand opening with a $2000 Michael's shopping spree! Second-Fifth place each win the full 50 cartridge library from Michael's! 50 Cricut cartridges for free!!! That's a $4000 value! I would be happy to get 5th place, but I know the votes are gonna be close for the top 5! I don't know if I even have a chance, but I would LOVE to win any place as I worked very hard on my project!

Please vote for me here:
http://www.cricut.com/gypsy/designchallenge/entries.aspx?did=273

Here's my project:

THANK YOU FOR VOTING!

Hugs- Kelly

New QKD Monday Blog Hop!

2009-10-26T01:40:00.004-05:00

We're switching it up at QKD! There will now be blog hops on Mon & Wed! I'll be sharing a project each Monday here on my blog- as well as my Tuesday posts at the QKD blog!

If you didn't come here from Vicki, well hop on back to the QKD blog to start from the beginning!
I wanted to share the CUTE card I did for a special QKD new release of these adorable new dragon stamps, in case you missed it on release day! This one is Thanksgiving Dragons:

I'm just so excited about this new artist & my son is a big fan of dragons so I can't wait to see more and more!

Now, hop on over to Helene!!! And when you're done with the hop...head on over to the QKD store!

Hugs-Kelly

PTI Blog Hop!

2009-10-25T19:43:00.004-05:00

Time for the PTI holiday blog hop! I wanted to share tonight my favorite PTI holiday card that I've done so far this year. It's also the simplest, but gorgeous in it's simplicity (I think!) :)

The poinsettias are simply stamped in 3 different pti colors and than gold sticky back gems are added to the middles in a cluster. I added a strip of paper along the bottom using a scalloped border punch.
Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

Unrelated- please vote for me for the Gypsy 24hr design challenge:
http://www.cricut.com/gypsy/designchallenge/entries.aspx?did=273
Thanks!!!!

QKD Royal Wednesday Blog Hop!

2009-10-21T00:01:00.001-05:00

If you didn't arrive here from Maria, start back at the QKD blog so you don't miss a stop! :)

This week's challenge was a color challenge: white, black, orange & purple. I used that awesome Punk Boy stamp from the October new release to do a Halloween card:

The papers are from Basic Grey's Eerie collection (LOVE that!) and the border was punched with the MS spiderweb border punch.

Check out yesterday's post for some special releases & sales!

Now hop on over to the WIS blog!

Here's a list for the hop:

Queen Kat Designs Store

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Welcomes New Designer Melia!

2009-10-19T23:59:00.000-05:00

Welcome to a Tuesday special release QKD blog hop! There is a new stamp designer in the house- Melia Newman! Fabulous! I'm thrilled to be part of this special release featuring her Thanksgiving Dragons!

You should have arrived here from Lara. If not, you can start back at the QKD blog so you don't miss anyone's creations! I decided to do an easel card because it was the technique challenge last week on Splitcoast and I didn't get a chance to play along then.

I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the base layer of the card front to resemble the scales of the dragons. Are they cute or what!? For the base of the easel I die cut a pumpkin and used some twine thread to sew a button on.

Now here's some info straight from Queen Kat!
The two stamps that we are releasing today are on sale for 30% off as well as the two alphabet stamps that Queen Kat used on the card for the QKD blog today. This sale will last through Sunday. Please come over and join our yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qkdstampco/ This is our new newsletter group. If you'd like to get the awesome sale info first, come and join our group!

Here's the blog list for today's special hop incase you lose your place!
QKD blog
Helene's blog
Lara's blog
Kelly's blog
Alex's blog
Meredith's blog
Penny's blog
Vicki's blog
Queen Kat Designs Store

Now hop on over to the fabulous Alex!!!

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Royal Wednesday Blog Hop!

2009-10-14T00:01:00.001-05:00

You should have arrived here from Maria, if not please start at the QKD blog so you don't miss a thing!
This weeks challenge was this sketch:

And here is my card (changed the sketch a little):

Isn't that bear adorable with it's little scarf!? I used the same velvet ribbon that's on the top as a scarf by cutting a piece in half to make it skinnier.

On the inside of the card I printed a sentiment with my computer "Wishing you a beary Merry Christmas".

Now, hop on over to the WIS blog!

Hugs- Kelly

Rubber Stamp & Scrapbook Expo!!!

2009-10-09T11:15:00.003-05:00

This weekend i'll be working at the Rubber Stamp & Scrapbook Expo in St.Paul, MN. If you're local, come on by! It's very resonable to get in, there's even a coupon on their website and there are fun free & low cost make'n'takes and lots of fun shopping! There is also giveaways every hour both days as well as a grand prize at the end of each day. I'll be helping out at the Rubbernecker booth this time and I'm sure it will be a great time!

Check out the show website HERE for more info!!!

And you can check out Rubbernecker at www.rubbernecker.com

Hugs- Kelly

QKD New Release Blog Hop!!!!

2009-10-07T00:01:00.001-05:00

You should have arrived here from Maria, if not head over to the QKD blog to start from the beginning!

I am sooo excited to see everyone's work today for the October new releases at Queen Kat Designs! Some cute stuff, fun stuff & amazingly drawn images! I got to play with one of these works of art "Punk Boy". You'll be seeing another card with him right here, Wed in 2 weeks! For today, I used some Basic Grey polka dot & plaid with him:

Is that image amazing or what!? It was so much fun to color him I did 2 cards right in a row! I cant wait to share the next one!

Here's some awesome release sales happening at the QKD shop!

27% off of all QKD stamps (excludes separates and customs)

15-20% off of all Past Kits (royal, get inked!, The findings and Take 3)

10% off of all paper packs

55% off of all clearance

10% off of all acrylic blocks

10% off of all grab bags

20% off of the scrapbooking kit section (does not include royal kits)

Now hop over to the WIS blog!!!

Hugs- Kelly

DZ Doodles WCMD Challenge!

2009-10-06T22:56:00.004-05:00

DZ Doodles had a WCMD Challenge to make a project using this free image, hope you like!They have some adorable new fall, winter & Christmas images including snowmen, elves & some beautiful bird images, so go and check em out!
DZ Doodles

Hugs- Kelly

PTI World Card Making Day Challenges!

2009-10-05T19:30:00.006-05:00

In celebration of WCMD, Nicole Heady over at PTI put forth 4 challenges. Each one was to make a card inspired by a different part of the world! I decided to keep with Nicole's theme from the September PTI release and do some simple, one-layer Christmas cards. Here's what I came up with:

Japan
Classic Japan black & red. I used a fuzzy brad & 2 glittered brads.

Mexico

I saw a lot of orange in the inspiration photos as well as the circle of the sombrero and the gorgeous floral embrodery (similar to this stocking).

India

The challenge for India was to use some bling (lots of jewels & gold in India inspiration). There are also a lot of gorgeous colors used together in India, so I choose to stamp in 3 different colors and than use simple gold dots in the center of each.

Australia

The challenge for Australia was both to use masking & white dot outlines. I masked the large poinsettia to stamp the dotted frame in white and than used a white pen to dot around the flower & leaves.

I hope everyone had a fabulous WCMD! Thanks for stoppin by! Lots of fun in store this week, so check on back!

Hugs- Kelly

Unity Friends With Flair Friday!!!

2009-10-02T09:00:00.002-05:00

I've missed the cut off for a couple weeks for Friends with Flair Friday & finally made it for today! :) I did this layout that I just LOVE using a sketch from 52 sketches...52 weeks. I love the sketch and I love all the fall colors, the fun new Unity set of pumpkins with that great leafy swirl & the ribbons & rhinestones!

Here's the sketch I used:

And this is the fab Unity set I used, Simple Blessings:

I also used a Quickutz embossing folder to emboss the long strip on the right side of LO. I just punched the circles with 2 different size circle punches. I used the "Simple Blessings" stamp in place of the journaling along the left of photo and circled 2 sized rhinestones around the first circle.Sorry I couldn't get a great photo, but it hasn't stopped raining here in 2 days!

Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Royal Wednesday Blog Hop!

2009-09-30T06:59:00.004-05:00

This week's challenge was to alter a frame. If you didn't come here from Maria, head over to the QKD blog to start so you don't miss a thing!

I used the Fancy Christmas set tree to stamp worn trees around a frame I white-washed. I promise now you will stop seeing this set every week! :) It's just such a great set to use!

Now, onto the fabulous KellyJean!!!

Hugs- Kelly

Cuting Above Debut!

2009-09-26T09:26:00.002-05:00

There's a blinkie on the right to link you right to the Cutting Above blog! Love it! And, in honor of the debut of the new Cricut Gypsy on HSN on the 24th, they are lucky to have 2 Gypsys to give away!!! If you love your Cricut or are new to it and need ideas, go check out this blog!

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Royal Wednesday Blog Hop!

2009-09-23T07:52:00.003-05:00

OK, back to schedule! :) Sorry about the issues this morning, I was gone working at Scrapfest at the MOA all weekend and didn't have time to upload project pics until yesterday afternoon when I realized my card reader wasn't reading! :)

Well, I've got it going finally so I can share my project for this weeks QKD challenge! I was struck mostly by the very neutral palette of colors with one pop of a brighter color. I decided to flip it to be a darker color with only neutrals on it. I was also inspired by the rows of pillows and repeated the happiness symbol stamp 3 times along the bottom.

Twine wrapped & tied around the top finishes it off. A very simple, clean one layer card.

Here's your next stop on the hop: Kelly Jean!!!

Here's the list for the day incase you lose your way:
QKD: http://qkd.blogspot.com/
Shannon: http://shannonssentiments.blogspot.com/
jules: http://julietds.blogspot.com/
Penny: http://penny-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Tina: http://woodedviews.blogspot.com/
Maria: http://www.riacreations.blogspot.com/
Kelly: http://www.kellystamps.blogspot.com/
KellyJean: http://dancingwithstamps.blogspot.com/
WIS: http://whimsicalinksorority.blogspot.com/
Andrea: http://www.mystampingheaven.typepad.com/
Victoria: http://eatstampsleeprepeat.blogspot.com/
Lara: http://www.youwantthecookie.blogspot.com/
Anessa: http://alienanessa.wordpress.com/
Helene: http://2amscrapper.blogspot.com/
nina: http://creatinginsolitude.blogspot.com/
Alex: http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Meredith: http://www.papercanteen.com/
Linda: http://linda-scrap-atc.blogspot.com/
Nancy: http://craftynancy.blogspot.com/
Anita: http://happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com/
QKD: http://www.katstamps.com/store---------

Hugs- Kelly

QKD Royal Wednesday Blog Hop!

2009-09-15T21:34:00.004-05:00

If you didn't arrive here from Maria, you can head over to the QKD blog to make sure you don't miss a thing!
Time for a color challenge! This weeks challenge was to use Olive, Yellow Bronze, Brown & Cranberry. Ok, you can't see the olive on my card because it's on the patterned paper and the olive part is covered up by the main image panel! But, you get the idea!
I used the Holiday Sweater Stamp Set and changed it up into a Fall sweater. I paper pieced the sweater and than colored some of the stripes with copics to match the patterned paper. I used Jenni Bowlin tiny letter stickers for the phrase "Cozy up" which I use with my kids a lot during movie nights! :)

Now head on over to Kelly Jean for your next hop stop!

Here's the blog hop list for today in case you lose your place:

QKD: http://qkd.blogspot.com/

Shannon: http://shannonssentiments.blogspot.com/

jules: http://julietds.blogspot.com/

Penny: http://penny-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/

Tina: http://woodedviews.blogspot.com/

Maria: http://www.riacreations.blogspot.com/

Kelly: http://www.kellystamps.blogspot.com/

KellyJean: http://dancingwithstamps.blogspot.com/

WIS: http://whimsicalinksorority.blogspot.com/

Andrea: http://www.mystampingheaven.typepad.com/

Victoria: http://eatstampsleeprepeat.blogspot.com/

Lara: http://www.youwantthecookie.blogspot.com/

Anessa: http://alienanessa.wordpress.com/

Helene: http://2amscrapper.blogspot.com/

nina: http://creatinginsolitude.blogspot.com/

Alex: http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/

Meredith: http://www.papercanteen.com/

Linda: http://linda-scrap-atc.blogspot.com/

Nancy: http://craftynancy.blogspot.com/

Anita: http://happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com/

QKD: http://www.katstamps.com/store---------

Hugs- Kelly

Birds With Style

2009-09-15T09:42:00.003-05:00

I just love penguins! I wanted to use the penguin from the new QKD Birds With Style set for my QKD post today so I decided to use it with this weeks Friday Sketchers sketch. I stamped 2 penguins with the Let's Fly Together sentiment, which is sweet- or course, but also makes me laugh because penguins can't actually fly! :)

Make sure to stop back tomarrow for the QKD Royal Wednesday Blog Hop!

Hugs- Kelly

Everyday Life

2009-09-12T18:57:00.003-05:00

Just wanted to share the first scrapbook page I've completed in over a month! I know! I just love all the fun sketches and inspiration at 52 weeks, 52 sketches and finally got one done and uploaded before the week was up! This is a great sketch and I will be using it again. For my page
I decided to pull out my new Unity scrapbooking kit of the month- their 1st one!

The stamp of the journaling strips was just perfect for this sketch and I used the tab stamp on top and bottom instead of brads.

Rather than a title, I added the beaver cut out (also from Unity) in the middle. A perfect fit for a photo of the kids with a giant beaver if I do say so myself! :)

The journaling reads "Everyday life...of summer. One of our many summer day trips to the MOA to Underwater Adventures. Today, this is life...everyday. Someday I will miss this everyday life. Summer 2009"

I can't believe the summer's over and the kids are back in school, even though I'm glad for their & my sanity! :) They get very stir crazy by September. I can't believe this is the last year I will have one of my babies home with me for at least most of the day. Next year they will all be in school FT during the day. I can't believe my oldest is in Jr.High already.

Everyday life...it moves fast- enjoy it!

Hugs- Kelly

Royal Wednesday Challenge Blog Hop!

2009-09-09T00:01:00.002-05:00

Hello! Welcome to another Royal Wednesday Blog Hop! If you didn't arrive here from Maria, head on back to the QKD Blog so you can see everything from the beginning! Today's challenge was this sketch:And here's my card:

I used the Fancy Christmas set again...I LOVE that tree! I distressed the edges of the paper strips and the main image panel. There is twine tied around the vertical strip and than tied through a button & tied in a bow. The letter stickers I used for my sentiment are Jenni Bowlin.
Cosmo Cricket paper.
Now, hop over to the fabulous Kelly Jean!

Hugs-Kelly
P.S. Here's a bloghop list in case you lose your way! :)

QKD: http://qkd.blogspot.com/
Shannon: http://shannonssentiments.blogspot.com/
jules: http://julietds.blogspot.com/
Penny: http://penny-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Tina: http://woodedviews.blogspot.com/
Vicki: http://qksc.blogspot.com/
Maria: http://www.riacreations.blogspot.com/
Kelly: http://www.kellystamps.blogspot.com/
KellyJean: http://dancingwithstamps.blogspot.com/
WIS: http://whimsicalinksorority.blogspot.com/
Bev (SG) http://getcreativesg.blogspot.com/
Andrea: http://www.mystampingheaven.typepad.com/
Victoria: http://eatstampsleeprepeat.blogspot.com/
Lara: http://www.youwantthecookie.blogspot.com/
Anessa: http://alienanessa.wordpress.com/
Helene: http://2amscrapper.blogspot.com/
nina: http://creatinginsolitude.blogspot.com/
Alex: http://www.paperandstring.blogspot.com/
Meredith: http://www.papercanteen.com/
Linda: http://linda-scrap-atc.blogspot.com/
Nancy: http://craftynancy.blogspot.com/
Anita: http://happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com/
QKD: http://www.katstamps.com/store

TEBB Challenge #12 Buttons!

2009-09-08T11:28:00.003-05:00

I love using buttons on my cards. Usually, I stitch them right onto the card or image panel. For this card, I decided to use buttons that coordinate with the patterned paper as the leaves on the tree branch holding the owl.

I know a round button isn't very realistic as a leaf! but, the owl is also very round, so I think it fits right in :) Stamps by Unity Stamp Co, Patterned paper & ribbon from Cosmo Cricket Boyfriend line. Image colored with Copics. Bazzill polka dot embossed paper. 5x5 card base,

7 down, 6 to go! :)

Hugs- Kelly

TEBB Challenge #2

2009-09-08T09:39:00.005-05:00

Challenge #2 is a sketch challenge. I wanted to use this cute new Archiver's exclusive stamp set with a little elf & cute sentiment.

On the inside is the other sentiment in the set "and a cozy new year". I used the new Cosmo Cricket holiday line patterned paper. The white brads are flocked and I used white flock on the elf's collar, cuffs and jacket trim as well. The bell & belt are colored grey & than have some sparkle added with a glitter pen to look like silver. The main elf image was colored with copics.

I'm still working on the rest of the challenges, so please stop back! :)

Hugs- Kelly

TEBB Challenge #7

2009-09-08T09:32:00.003-05:00

Challenge #7 was paper tole. Basically layering your stamped image by popping up different sections in layers.

I wanted to use this super fun new set from Our Crafts Lounge with the Turkey driving the car!

I used a natural paper with a little speckle to it for the background of the stamped images. I first stamped the car, turkey, leaf "breeze" & Gooble Gooble on to the paper and colored with copics. I than stamped the car image 2 more times. I colored one & cut out complete car and popped up on top of original car. I than colored just the tire covers of the 3rd card, cut out and popped those up on top of the 2nd car.

In real life, it really looks great with this image because it adds to the effect of the turkey actually sitting in the car!

Hugs- Kelly

TEBB Challenge #8

2009-09-08T09:29:00.003-05:00

Challenge #8 is a color challenge to use red, blue & yellow. I decided to use this great Cosmo Cricket holiday paper as well as that fabulous blingy Karen Foster brad!

Holiday Sweater stamp set from Queen Kat Designs for main sweater image & yellow background. Colored with Copics & popped up on pop dots.

Hugs- Kelly

TEBB Challenge #9

2009-09-08T09:26:00.003-05:00

Challenge #9 is an inspiration challenge. I took the pastel colors from the inspiration photos to use as inspiration for my card.I took the colors from this beautiful Earth Love paper from Cosmo Cricket. The stamp is from Unity Stamp Co. Pearl swirl from Basic Grey. I colored the image with copics and cut & mounted with the Spellbinder's die.

Hugs- Kelly

TEBB Challenge #13

2009-09-08T09:22:00.003-05:00

Challenge #13 to use stitching on your card. Since I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my sewing machine right now :) I decided to use some hand sewing on this card!

I stitched some X's in orange & black in the top left corner of my image panel to go with the Halloween theme. The stamps are from Unity Stamp Co. Paper from the new Basic Grey Halloween line (their first one ever!) I used a glitter pen on the candy corn & pumpkins in the tree as well.

Hugs- Kelly

TEBB Challenge #10

2009-09-05T22:11:00.002-05:00

Fabulous Bday celebration going on for Taylored Expressions at the Stamp a Sweet Impression blog! A day full of challenges, here's mine for #10:

More to come :)

Hugs- Kelly

Unity September KOTM Challenge!

2009-09-03T12:57:00.004-05:00

This month's Unity KOTM challenge is to use green, orange, purple & black. I love this color combo for Halloween! There's no Halloween images in the past 2 KOTMs so I improvised and used this cute pocket image & some Halloween colored candy!

The "candy" word is cut from a page of patterned vellum. I used crystal stickles on the candies as well as a black glittered dot from Mark Richards & orange ones on the pocket.

The orange jack-o-lattern strip on the inside is from Bazzil.

Thanks for stopping! I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with for this challenge!

Hugs- Kelly

Queen Kat Designs New Release Hop!!!

2009-09-01T23:30:00.008-05:00

Time for a great new release blog hop for Queen Kat Designs! I'm so excited about this month's releases, there is some great stuff! I can't wait to do the hop myself to see everyone's amazing projects with the new stamps!

You should have arrived here from Maria. If not, you can start back at the QKD blog so you don't miss a thing!
Today, I'm debuting the new set Birds With Style. This set includes 4 bird silhouettes & 3 cute birdie sentiments. I'm working on a scrapbook page using this set as well, but in the meantime, here's a card using today's SCS sketch:

I'm a big Cosmo Cricket fan and as soon as I saw this set I knew I wanted to use it with that cute birdie paper from the Earth Love line. This is a great clean, simple sketch and I thought it would go well with the silhouettes of the birds in this great new set!

Now hop on over to the fabulous Kelly Jean!

Here's the blog hop list in case you get lost :)

Tina's blog

Vicki's blog

Maria's blog

Kelly's blog

Kelly Jean's blog

WIS blog

Bev (SG's) blog

Andrea's blog

Victoria's blog

Lara's blog

Anessa's blog

Helene's blog

Nina's blog

Alex's blog

Meredith

Linda

Nancy

Anita

Queen Kat Designs’ Store

Hugs- Kelly

Your Next Stamp 1st Design Team Call

2009-08-29T23:23:00.003-05:00

Ok, so this company has some adorable stuff! Here's my 2 colored cards I'd like them to check out! :) I'm sure their Design Team will be awesome, they will definately have some fun stuff to work with!
Good luck to everyone!

Hugs - Kelly

Royal Wednesday Blog Hop!

2009-08-26T00:05:00.003-05:00

Today's Royal Wednesday challenge was to take inspiration from this photo:Of course, the beautiful striped chair covers just jumped out at me! I decided to make my own striped pattern in similar colors & use a large group of flowers rather than a main image.

Both of the patterns used for my stripes are from the Make Me Happy stamp set.

Now, continue your hop onto the fabulous Kelly Jean!

In case you get lost along the way, here's the hop list! :)

Hugs - Kelly

PTI Blog Hop!

2009-08-25T16:52:00.003-05:00

Time for the August PTI bloghop! I just love the monthly bloghops, it's so great to see all the different projects that come out of the same challenge. This month the challenge was all about Autumn! Using the Autumn season as inspiration in whichever way you choose. Well, I had another idea in mind, but after seeing hundreds of acorns under a huge tree at the park the other day, I was inspired to do this simple card:

Using Heather's Beyond Basic Borders for the leafy branches, I used brown rhinestones as little glittery acorns! I stamped the branches in New Leaf and the sentiment in Dark Chocolate. Some twine wrapped several times around the top & that's it!

A nice, simple, but gorgeous card. It would be fun to do the same pattern, but use different sentiments to make a card set as a gift.

Thanks for stopping! Till next hop! :)

Hugs- Kelly

Mojo Turns 100- Day 7

2009-08-23T21:11:00.004-05:00

Today's Mojo sketch is so much fun! I think these mosaic pattern card fronts always look fabulous in any number of squares. After finishing just the squares, I almost didn't want to cover it up with a top panel because it looked so pretty! I decided to stay with the square theme & used the square thank you stamp from PTI's squares set four times and than lined the bottom with some rhinestones from the same Taylored Expressions kit as the papers.

I used the rhinestones again on the lower left corner, added some ribbon(TE), crocheted flower (Fancy Pants) & button/twine(PTI).
Thanks again to all the Mojo team for a great week of sketches!
Hugs- Kelly

Mojo Bday Sketch 3!

2009-08-22T13:23:00.003-05:00

This week's Mojo Monday was the 100th! In celebration, all the designers are chipping in their own sketches to have a new sketch every day for the week! I love the Mojo weekly sketches & find great inspiration in all the girls work, so I'm sketching down these new sketches everyday to use as soon as I can! Thanks girls for the awesome week! This card is based on sketch 3, I had to flip it to fit my main panel.

I loved this fun sketch & am definately going to play with it again!
Hugs-Kelly

*All products used are from Taylored Expressions Aug.20th kit.

CPS129 Sketch

2009-08-22T13:16:00.003-05:00

I got Taylor's fab kit of the month from Taylored Expressions for this month and have been playing around with it using some sketches from the week. This is one using all stuff from the kit with this weeks CPS sketch:

The only stamping on this is the thank you sentiment. Usually stamping is the focus of my cards, but it's always fun to try something different, so I really tried to use the rub-ons from the kit and not stamp on everything! :)
Hugs- Kelly

Royal Kat Challenge Blog Hop!

2009-08-19T01:53:00.003-05:00

You should have got to me from Maria. If not, please start back at the QKD blog to stop by everyone on the hop!

This week is a color challenge: pink & teal. I have to admit, this was a tough one for me! I love pinks, but teal is just not a color I use a lot. It took a while, but than it dawned on me that those colors were in this rockin' paper stack that I got from Prima! Perfect!

I used one of the stamps from the new Take a Journey Greetings set. I think it goes well with the Rock On paper & Zebra hearts! Wouldn't this be a fun "Rock on with your heart" encouragement card for a teen?!

Now it's over to Kelly Jean!!!

Hugs - Kelly

And, in case you get lost somewhere along the hop... here's the hop list in order:

QKD: http://qkd.blogspot.com

Shannon: http://shannonssentiments.blogspot.com

jules: http://julietds.blogspot.com

Penny: http://penny-randomthoughts.blogspot.com/

Tina: http://woodedviews.blogspot.com

Vicki: http://qksc.blogspot.com

Maria: http://www.riacreations.blogspot.com/

Kelly: www.kellystamps.blogspot.com

KellyJean: http://dancingwithstamps.blogspot.com

WIS: http://whimsicalinksorority.blogspot.com

Bev (SG) http://getcreativesg.blogspot.com

Andrea: www.mystampingheaven.typepad.com

Victoria: http://eatstampsleeprepeat.blogspot.com/

Lara: www.youwantthecookie.blogspot.com

Anessa: http://alienanessa.wordpress.com

Helene: http://2amscrapper.blogspot.com/

PDD FRIDAY!!!

2009-08-14T11:02:00.003-05:00

It's time for PDD Friday & our focus of the month: Grungeboard! I love working with Grungeboard. It's similar to "naked" chipboard, but it's flexible & comes in some cool textured patterns as well. You can spend a lot of money buying different colors/patterns of chipboard to match projects you're working on, or you can use grungeboard and custom match it to your projects! I guess I'm on a Halloween kick right now, because this is my 2nd Halloween project of the week! It is my favorite holiday- dressing up, kids all over, candy...what's not to love?!

For today, I made a Halloween tag:

I used Grungeboard letters and painted with TH Crackle paint, than used a new Studio G stamp to stamp over the entire letter in black. That fun bat border is a new EK punch, I used the tiny bats that it punched out on the top of the tag as well (2 for 1!).

The whole Pez-A-Doodle team will be showing you fun ways of using Grungeboard this month as well as other projects, so make sure to go check them out!

And head on over to Pez-A-Doodle for Grungeboard, paint & new Halloween goodies!

Hugs- Kelly

Royal Kat Challenge Blog Hop!

2009-08-12T08:00:00.001-05:00

Today's QKD challenge is a sketch. Here it is:

And here is my version, using the new Cats set:

If you didn't come here from the hop, you can start at the beginning at the QKD blog.

Next stop on the hop is Kelly Jean!

Hugs-Kelly

PDD Tuesday!

2009-08-11T22:11:00.002-05:00

PDD Wednesday posts are now on Tuesdays! Sorry for the delay today, I had some camera card issues :) But now I've got my pics up and ready to post! Today, I have a card using the new Halloween Studio G stamps with this weeks Mojo Monday sketch:

The cute dangly spider and Happy Halloween spiderweb are from the same Studio G set. I used my TH foam tool to ink the edges with black ink. Patterned papers are from last years MM line.
Thanks for stopping! Come back for more PDD fun on Friday!

Hugs- Kelly

Pez-A-Doodle New Release, Take 2!

2009-08-08T14:15:00.003-05:00

Today the Pezzy girls are sharing projects with the new Nesties stamps - such a great idea & gorgeous stuff to see!
For my card I used the large Blackberry Nesties stamp. After die-cutting & embossing, I used my Tim Holtz foam applicator & Tea Dye distress ink pad to add color to the inside. This leaves a nice crisp edge around the die cut.
For the background paper, I used a Spellbinders Impressability (Butterfly) and again used the TH foam applicator to apply Tea Dye ink to make the embossing stand out.
For the card front, I cut it slightly shorter & used a border punch to finish off the bottom.
These stamps are so great for showcasing whatever image or sentiment you want to show off and frame them so nicely!

If you didn't check out the blog hop yesterday, see post below. Make sure to check out the other girls today & stop back soon for more using the fab new releases!
Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

Yay! Pez-A-Doodle New Release Day!!!

2009-08-07T00:40:00.007-05:00

New Release day is here for Pez-A-Doodle! Two new Princesses, two new Picnicin' Bugs & two great Nestie's Frames, how fun!
I am a sucker for cutesy stamps, so I am totally in love with the Princess & Bugs lines! The two new Princesses today are just adorable & I love the cute Bugs and the coordinating stamps that come with them.
Today the design team is working with both the new Princesses & Picnicin' Bugs, Princesses Priya & Isabella and Picnicin' Ant & Ladybug.
Tomorrow we will be showcasing the new Nesties frames as well as the Skittlebugs.

Here are my projects for today using Princess Isabella & Picnicin' Ant:

For my Ant card, I used pink flocking on the flowers to add some texture, cut out the main image and mounted with foam dots. (I decided to make a red ant) :)

For my Isabella card, I took her dancing as my inspiration, cut and mounted her on some sheet music patterned paper with foam dots.

Now, make sure to check out the rest of the Design Team's projects with the new releases today (they're all listed on my sidebar). We are also happy to have 2 fabulous guest designers for the new release:

Jessica Diedrich ( http://www.thewhimsicalbutterfly.blogspot.com )
Jeanne Streiff (http://inkypaws.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/)

After you check out all the projects, head on over the Pez-A-Doodle to get some new goodies!

Hugs- Kelly