Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge, take 2!

Ok, as I was putting away my things from my last card I saw these great black/cream hexagon stickers from Jenni Bowlin & had to do another card! I mean, you don't need colors to use lots of pattern, right!?

Love it! And sooo quick!

Hugs- Kelly

Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge: Prints are Charming

This weeks Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge is a trend watch challenge: Prints are Charming.

Prints, prints, prints!!! They are everywhere! From tons of great patterned papers, to making your own with background stamps. Chevron, stripes, dots...anything goes!

For my take on this challenge I had a great idea for a card to give my daughter after her dance recital tonight. I always get her a little gift and make her a card for her hard work all year. This year is especially special because she earns her 5 year pin at dance!

Shelby is super into all the cool patterned nail transfers that are out now to have animal print, halloween, polka dot, ect nails. I thought, well, I can do the same thing with patterned papers and Kim's great stamps!

I love how it turned out and I know Shelby will get a great kick out of it! 

Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

PTI Monday Challenge!

This weeks Papertrey MIM challenge is to use some inspiration items, turned into sketches, for your design. There are several to choose from so I'm hoping to do more of them as the week goes on.

For now, I choose this one:

For Nicole's card, she did a folded effect that I definately want to do as well, but first I had to do a card using the first thing that came into my mind after seeing this, a starburst.

I used 2 yellow patterned papers to make first a triangle, than a starburst pattern. For the image panel I stamped images from "On the Farm". I stamped the grass/hills twice to fill up more space (in Simply Chartruese & Ripe Avacado), than stamped the checkered border in Pure Poppy along the bottom. The farm was stamped in black and the cow in Dark Chocolate.

The sentiment was stamped in Dark chocolate after stamping the checkered border again in Lemon Tart. The small circle from On the Farm was stamped on a die cut using the Ad Sence dies, than two small strips of denim ribbon were added.

Thanks for stopping!

Hugs- Kelly

Papertrey Ink May Blog Hop

This month's PTI blog hop challenge was to use the above photo as inspiration. Colors, patterns, textures...you name it! 

I often use this color combo as well as lots of others using black & white with one color to pop so I had lots of ideas in my head for this one! I ended up designing several cards, but had to make a new one yesterday when my May order arrived. I decided to do a pattern using True Black & Simply Chartreause with the new On The Farm set animals.

For the checkered border & Howdy stamps I stamped first in the Chartreause than stamped again a tiny bit over and down in the black. I left it as basically a one layer card because even though it's simple in the layers, the patterns very busy and fills up the space with activity! I just loved all the little animals from this set and I hope I showed a little bit more of an unconventional way to use them to get as much use out of them as possible! 

Can't wait to go see all the great inspiration from the other PTI crew! Enjoy!

Hugs- Kelly

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