A Sweet Escape

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Unity September KOTM Challenge!

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

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Queen Kat Designs New Release Hop!!!

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

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Your Next Stamp 1st Design Team Call

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

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Royal Wednesday Blog Hop!

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

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

PTI Blog Hop!

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

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Mojo Turns 100- Day 7

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

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Mojo Bday Sketch 3!

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.