Happy March!!! It’s been a CRAZY last month.  My daughter got engaged to her love of 3 years.  And the engagement was only 22 days!  We pulled off an incredible day and they are happily married!

So I haven’t really got to stamp any cards at all for what feels like forever. 

I was happy to sit back down to my stamp desk and create a card for the latest Double Trouble challenge!

Thing 1 wants to see you “Pinch Proof” and here is her 3-2-1 recipe to help you do just that

And here’s my card with this recipe

The color I added besides green and gold was pink for the butterfly plus a little blue sky.  The 2 stencils are the stripes at the bottom of the panel and the dots on top. And the “Love You” sentiment finished it up

It makes for a sweet March card!  The stamps and coordinating dies are from SugarPea Designs.  I don’t know what happened to that Stamp company!  Do you? I sure loved them!

We hope you’ll play along with the Pinch Proof fun!  Head to Double Trouble for all the details you might want in order to join the fun.

Thanks for stopping by today! 

🙂 Kellianne

It has been an extremely busy time around my place! Card making has taken a backseat and I miss it.  But I was able to sit down and make one for the new Double Trouble challenge that starts today!

Let’s start with Thing 1’s recipe this time around

Embellishments and layers are the biggest deal here!

My 3 embellishments are the pearls at the center of the flowers, sequins, and ribbon

Thing 3 wants to see flowers or the TSOT sketch (in the above graphic that Thing 1 is holding)

I did both.  My floral background was designed for the diagonal piece going down from the circle.  And I centered the circle a bit more than the sketch

And lastly, Thing 2 invites you to go add your card to TSOT if you played along using their sketch too

Thanks for stopping by to check it out.  This card gives me spring fever!!! I’m getting so excited for March to arrive! 

Big hugs

🙂 Kellianne

Back with a new Double Trouble challenge!

Thing 1’s recipe for 3-2-1 is this

I pulled out a card-of-the-month kit by Spellbinders that has been waiting for me to use it! It’s called “Wonderful Things”

Thing 3 says to include a heart or a sentiment.  I did both!

And thing 2 says to partner up with TSOT challenge and try their sketch out!  You can see the cute sketch in Thing 1’s hand in the above graphic.  I put the strips of paper inside the circle to switch it up a little.  I love the papers and images in this kit!

And that’s my card for today!  I’m excited to see what everyone does with this recipe.

Thanks for stopping by!

🙂 Kellianne

Double Trouble has a new challenge today! 

Thing 3 wants to challenge us to include a mouse or a food that goes well with cheese.  My second favorite thing to eat with cheese is BREAD!  (My first favorite is tortillas.  But I don’t have a tortilla stamp lol)

So how about this cute little cafe with a bread sign?

Thing 1’s 3-2-1 recipe is

3 images – mine is the cafe, the sign, the plant and the bread.  All from the Lawn Fawn set “Village Shops”

2 pattern papers – these 2 are from the Honeybee paper collection called “Autumn Afternoon”

1 sentiment that makes you smile – it’s so fun to have a friend or my hubby or one of my kids say “Let’s go out!” So that is the sentiment I chose.  It’s from the same set as the images

Here’s another angle to see the pattern paper.  I love it!

Thing 3 says to play along with TSOT by using their sketch

I flipped the sketch for my design and it ended up  turning out fun

Can’t wait to see the cards that everyone makes with these fun ideas!

🙂 Kellianne

Let’s start the new year off with a cuddly hug!

Double Trouble is back and has some fun new changes

3-2-1 will be a regular feature from Thing 1 now!  This time around, she wants to see at least

3 colors, 2 layers, 1 image

Thing 3 is giving you the added challenge of making that image a cuddly or warm one!

I love this cute Lawn Fawn image of a bunny and fox hugging.  I’ve got lots of layers, created with dies by Reverse Confetti

Thing 2 says to play along with either Try a Sketch on Tuesday or else Critter Crazy. I chose critter crazy since I took the challenge by Thing 3

So excited for a new year!  May it be full of stamping for us all😊

🙂 Kellianne

Hello and happy Monday!  And happy December!! Yay!!! Such a special month🎄🙏

Today starts a new challenge at Double Trouble and it’s time to get your Christmas supplies out, if you haven’t already!

Thing 1 says it’s up to you!  You decide what you want to make.  For a fun twist, try out Thing 3’s challenge – use a bow, ribbon, cord, twine, etc!

I did a die cut bow. This one is from Kat Scrappiness.

Thing 2 says to enter your card at Jingle Belles or any other previous partner

I love this pretty graphic.  Especially the candy cane tucked in the foliage.  So I did the same on my card with a tiny little candy cane, which is from Tim Holtz

The pretty foliage is from The Stamp Market. The slimline background die is from Catherine Pooler, the sentiment is from Gina K, and the gift card pocket is from Avery Elle. There are lots of different products on this card! I especially love the b little gift card pocket on the front

I can’t wait to see what everyone gets making with all the Christmas inspiration out there!  Thanks for stopping by to see my card today

Merry Christmas! 🎄

🙂 Kellianne

Double Trouble is playing with both sketches at Atlantic Hearts for their challenge round this time!  So it’s time for the 2nd sketch!

I thought that looked like the perfect sketch to do a Clean and Simple card

I thickened up the vertical stripe in the sketch and made it a bolder piece of pattern paper to coordinate with the flowers I used

Krafty Chicks is a challenge I recently came across, and if you follow me, you know I love challenges and supporting them!  So for this card’s clean and simple style is for Krafty Chicks

Does anyone remember Amuse Studio? I don’t know if they are around anymore!  I don’t think so.  But these floral stamps and coordinating did are from an old set by them that I haven’t used in forever. Was fun to pull out again!

And that’s my card for today!  I think the rest of my cards for the year will be Christmas themed! And I’m ready for it!

Thanks for stopping by!

:)Kellianne

I can hardly believe it’s Thanksgiving day!!! So here’s my last autumn themed card for the year. I made a set of them, each with a slight variation.  I don’t think I’m ready for winter!  But this set was fun to wish fall farewell

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I used Catherine Pooler Stamps and dies and focused around the theme of the challenge over at “A Cut Above” such is “Warm it Up” and use die cuts.  Nothing that says warm up like hot cocoa

I also loved the inspirational picture at Four Seasons. Especially the leaves.  So full of fall! 

I am so thankful for so many wonderful friends and family.  And I’m so thankful it has been such a beautiful autumn.  Time to prepare for Christmas!

Thanks for stopping by today!

:)Kellianne

Happy Monday! New challenge day for Double Trouble

Thing 1 wants to see you “stitch it up”

So break out the stitched dies, your stitching stamps, or anything else to do with “stitches”!

My card is full of stitched dies.  Double stitched around the edges, single stitched for the center panel, and stitched strips behind the sentiment. I did a “thanks” theme for my card to play along with The Flower Challenge (another one of my favorite challenges)

I tend to grab for similar colors all the time.  So, I looked through some favorite color challenges.  When I saw this pretty palette at Color Dare, I knew that was it

Such a pretty palette! Not one I would think of on my own

And finally, this sketch is inspired by the challenge partner that Thing 2 has us playing with.  Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge

It’s fun how many ideas can come from playing along with different challenges!  My card today was born of 4 different ones, and it was so fun. 

What’s YOUR favorite card challenge to play along with?

🙂 Kellianne

Hello and happy Sunday!  I have a card full of purple today!  Lilac to be exact

I don’t reach for purple very often!  And I don’t know why.  I love purple!  I also love products by Spellbinders.  So stern I saw their challenge, I definitely wanted to jump on the chance!

I grabbed a couple of different lilac hues and got to work with some fun Spellbinders dies

I used the Petite Floral Potpourri and Essential Arches dies. The sentiment comes from the Sending Sentiments stamps and dies

That pretty dry emboss folder is also by Spellbinders and I love the beautiful dimensional diamonds behind my floral arch center.  To add some sparkle, I added a mini diamond to the center of each flower

I have a friend who loves purple everything.  I’ll be saving this one to give to her for next birthday! 

Thanks for stopping by my blog! 

🙂 Kellianne