Basic Grey & Hero Arts NSD Challenge!

Back again with the Basic Grey & Hero Arts NSD challenge to use Basic Grey along with their stamps from Hero Arts! LOVE!
I stamped very simple to just add to the background of my layout. The kraft & red stamping of the branches on the left and the red stamping of the poinsettias on the right.

This is using Basic Grey's Jovial line. The BG/Hero Arts stamps are from the Nordic Holiday line.

Hugs- Kelly

Basic Grey NSD Split Challenge!

The next layout I've completed from Basic Grey's NSD challenges is to split your design down the middle either vertically or horizontally. This was perfect for pictures of my daughter going from her yellow to green belt. This was a very quick page. I just used some of the border stickers in the collection pack to split it down the middle between the two pictures.

Everything is from the Indie Bloom collection pack except the letters for "yellow" and "green".

Hugs- Kelly

Basic Grey NSD Sketch Challenge!

Here's another page completed for the Basic Grey blog. This was a sketch challenge & a great sketch- you should head over there and check out all the great sketches!

This is mainly the new PB&J collection - LOVE!

Hugs- Kelly

Basic Grey NSD Challenge!

Hello! I've finally had some time to finish up a few challenges from National Scrapbooking Day. First, I have a challenge from Basic Grey to use a mixed Font title.
For this page I mainly used the Wander line, but the "Fish" letters are from another collection.

Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

Jillibean Soup NSD Sketch Challenge!

Hello again! Jillibean Soup posted a NSD Challenge on the blog to use one of three sketches. I choose to work with this one (for now):


All three sketches are great, simple beginning sketches to really let your creativity flow!
I wanted to use a Jillibean kit I had bought awhile ago, but of course since I wanted to use it RIGHT NOW, I couldn't find where I put it! :) So I dug through my Jillibean papers and pulled out some of their kraft patterns (my fav!) from winter.

To go along with the winter theme, I printed out some 2x3 pictures using my little PoGo printer. They are pictures from my phone, so they are great for this small size. I first changed them to sepia tone because I thought it would be cute with the kraft patterns. These are pics from this years skating night with everyone from my daughter's school that her gym teacher hosts every year- so fun!

Thanks for stopping by! I'll have some more layouts posted throughout the week!
Hugs- Kelly

NSD Paper Smooches Cardstock Challenge!

Kim over at Paper Smooches issued a challenge for National Scrapbooking Day, cause it's for card makers, too! :) I will be finishing up some challenges for layouts over the week, so stop on back if you want some layout inspiration!
Kim's challenge was to use only solid cardstock- no patterned paper!
I made this card for my daughter's birthday- she loves animals and loves Kim's stamps!

I used the Zoo Crew stamp set for everything on this card. And ONLY solid cardstock, some markers and a little twine!
As soon as I first saw this set, I thought of making cute little banners out of that triangle party hat. Well, for this card I wanted to make something bigger and more prominent on the card, so I stamped it repeatedly to make that cute border!
The hippo was stamped on grey cardstock, the giraffe on yellow and the leaves on green.

Thanks for stopping!
Hugs, Kelly

PTI Make It Monday #55: Creating larger frames with smaller frame stamps

Hello! Ok, so I'm finally posting a Make it Monday project I do before the following Monday! I've played along with several of the challenges, but I can never seem to get it posted before the deadline. Well, I'm trying to change that starting now. :) I loved this challenge, it really got me thinking of lots of other ways I can use some PTI stamps already in my collection.

For my card I decided to use one of the Fillable Frames frames stamped twice to make my larger frame.

Along with my Fillable Frames image, I also stamped and cut out the rectangle label from Pretty Peonies and used the Heart to Heart #1 set for the coffee cups. The sentiment is from Framed out #1, which I think works perfectly in that long rectangle frame!

There are some really great creative projects people came up with for this challenge! Off to look at more :)

Hugs- Kelly