My card today is a simple and sweet one.  October is Pregnancy and Infant loss and awareness month.  It is a cause that is near and dear to my heart.

My brother and his sweet wife lost a baby at birth and I’ve had a friend lose a few babies.  These losses have impacted their lives immensely.  So I wanted to join in this card drive and send a sympathy card that can be used for this great cause.

I used the PinkFresh Studio  “Say it with Floral” stamps and die for my card

I used the Tic Tac Toe challenge board from Retro Rubber Challenge blog to get my inspiration. I love how Retro Rubber pushes me to use older stamps that I have in my collection.

Say it with Florals is a few years old but will always be a beauty that I love!   I used the top 3 in a row on the Challenge 121 board to bring my idea together

If you are interested in contributing a card to Layton’s Legacy or would like to know more, visit Lea Lawson’s blog.  May you forever be blessed with comfort, Lea!

:)Kellianne

 

 

Hello!  I want to start today’s post by thanking Try Stampin on Tuesday for picking my card as one of their top 3 for challenge 427!

My card for today is for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.  The theme is Christmas and the challenge is to use Neat and Tangled products.  I absolutely love this funky and fun little Christmas tree that I got a few years back in a Catherine Pooler Stamp of Approval box!

I’ve always loved the minty colors with silver when people add them to their Christmas trees! But since my tree colors are traditional, I’ll make one with this pretty combo on a card!

The shimmery glitter in this pretty color is a WOW embossing powder that matches the Aquatini ink pad by Catherine Pooler and it’s soooo pretty!

I have one of my cardmaking speed-through videos for this over on my Instagram page if you’d like to see it quickly come together!  Watching the embossing powder melt is my favorite part.

I have a little secret that I’m going to share early here on my blog.  So those of you who take the time to come over here have this scoop before my Instagram followers!  I am super grateful for the love and support of this little hobby that I’m so crazy about.  So when I saw that I had hit 500 followers over on Instagram, I decided I wanted to express my thanks with a giveaway!  So if you are reading this, make sure that you visit my giveaway post that will be on Ista within a day or two.  When you comment, add 3 red hearts to your comment and I’ll add your name in the drawing twice. Blogs aren’t a big place to visit for inspiration anymore because of how easy and fabulous Instagram and  Pinterest are.  So this is just my way of saying thanks to the few who might have visited today 🙂

 

Big hugs and lots of inky love!

:)Kellianne

The Fall Decor is going up everyone!! How about you?

But it was time to make a Christmas card.  I just bought the adorable stamp set “December Days” by PinkFresh Studio.  I opened it and immediately had to get my first Christmas card of the year going.  I used the sketch from Try Stampin’ on Tuesday for my layout inspiration

So with that sketch in mind – I came up with this card!

I have to say, PinkFresh Studio has the most amazing dies!  They are thin, already cut apart and so easy to line up.  The matching dies to this set sure made it nice to complete this card!

Thanks for stopping by!  This card has a speed-through video over on my Instagram if you’d like to check it out!

:)Kellianne

I absolutely love September!  The weather is so beautiful here in Utah!  I’m getting ready to put up all of the Fall decor this weekend and looking forward to it.

The current Lawn Fawnatics challenge is Awesome Autumn

And I had fun jumping in with 2 different Lawn Fawn sets – “Friendship Grows” and “Sweater Weather” with their matching dies.

I stamped and die cut the leaves in Sweater Weather for shaker bits

And the cute sunflower in the pot comes from Friendship Grows

It’s a warm and Autumn feeling card ready to wish someone a Happy Fall!

Thanks for stopping by to check it out! If you’d like to see my speed-through video of this card, head to my Instagram

Have a fabulous weekend!

:)Kellianne

The final category for the MFT Card Design Superstar Contest is “Innovation Master”

And this card was so fun to make!  It’s got s simple look at first, but it’s got some fun surprises that give the receiver an opportunity to interact with it

Those 3 little flaps on the front of the card have some sweetness waiting underneath them – just like the lift-the-flap-books that kids love!  The MFT dienamics “Interactive Stitched Windows” was how I created those cute flaps

This is also a tri-fold card.  So when you open it once, you see the sequins surrounded little bears that were seen through the flaps on the front

Those white scalloped panels were made with a die out of the MFT Blueprints 27 dienamics set.  It’s one of my favorites!!  I grab for it all the time.  With some very careful measuring, I was able to match up the Interactive Stitched Window frame die so that I could cut it out to fit nicely over the peek-a-boo openings

After both folds are open, there’s the cute little bears, looking all ready for a Christmas hello

This fun card with it’s little surprises was worth the fine details it took to bring it together!  And these sweet “Bitty Bears” are a set that is definitely in my category of favorites

The Merry Christmas sentiment comes from the MFT Birdie Brown Greetings Galore set, which is so versatile that I reach for it quite often as well!

After all the fun mixing and matching of different sets of MFT Stamps and Dienamics, this card was finished

Thank you so much for stopping by to see it!  If you check out my Instagram post today, you can see me interacting with this card.

Have a happy rest of your Sunday!

:)Kellianne

 

Today I’m doing the “Coloring Virtuoso” category for the MFT Stamps challenge

And I am so in love with this adorable set “Picnic Pals”!

I am on a big kick with the Zig Clean Color markers right now and that is what I used to color these adorable little friends.

Along with the Picnic Pals stamps, I also used the coordinating dies, as well as the Stitched Snow Drifts Dienamics to create this fun little summer picnic scene.

 

And that is my card for today!  If you would like to see a fun speed video of it coming together, go check out my Instagram!

See you soon with my 3rd and final card for this 2019 Card Design Superstar challenge!

Have a happy day!

:)Kellianne

 

My Favorite Things has another fun challenge going on!

There’s 3 categories to the contest.  My card today is for the “Clean and Simple Genius” category.  I used the adorable MFT “Happy Panda” stamp set and dies.

After the panda and his “Good Luck” banner stamped and die cut, I stacked them on two layered rectangles from the MFT Inside & Out Stitched Rounded Rectangle dies and then added just a few glimmery green sequins

And this cute little guy is ready to wish a friend Good Luck in a clean and simple way!

Hope you are having a happy day!

:)Kellianne

 

I’m here with another sweet card from one of my kids.  This one is made by Savi, who is 11, for the Simon Says Stamp Kid’s Challenge

As I said before with the submission of the card my other daughter, Koi, made – it always makes me sooo very happy to watch the stamping talents of my children!  And every time they stamp, they seem to get better and better and better!

Here is Savi’s card!  She went with a mermaid theme, just as Koi did

I love how she tried her hand at the distress ink blending with water splatters!

And to add sparkle, she put glitter on the mermaid tail and fishes.  Isn’t it so sweet?!

It made my day to see her work so hard to participate in this challenge.  I love that my kids love my hobby too!!

Thank you for stopping by!

:)Kellianne (and Savi too!)

 

It’s the 5th and final challenge for the My Favorite Things Camp Create and I love it!

I’m always blending an ombre on cards and card elements.  So this one was extra fun.  I made this birthday card using one of my favorite palettes ever – the shades of the ocean!

I used the Chevron Coverplate by MFT and the Bitty Bears stamps and dies

I made that tag using the adorable Fold-Up Tags dies as well.

I’m so happy I could participate in this challenge as well as all of the challenges in Camp Create!

Ea

 

Each one either taught me something new or gave me a great refresher!  There’s been some amazing projects to see throughout it as well.

If you want to see a fun speed video of today’s card coming together, visit my Instagram!

I’ll be back early next week with my next project.

Have a wonderful weekend!

:)Kellianne

 

I went with greens for the Camp Create Day 4 challenge of

This “Sweet Succulents” stamp set by MFT has been a favorite of mine since I got it

I used Zig markers to shade all these succulents in the varying shades of green to make it monochromatic.  Added a few sequins for some accents

And this card was complete!

I’m always needing a good card for someone going through a hard time so this will be nice to have on hand.  If you go to my Instagram, I did a fun speed through of me creating this card!

And that’s it for Day 4!  Tomorrow I’ll be sharing my card for the final day of Camp Create.  Hope to see you back!

:)Kellianne