Hi everyone! I wanted to start out by saying thank you to Retro Rubber Challenge Blog for the top pick in their last challenge! I’m excited to be a guest designer for them in the future!

Today we start another fun challenge over at Double Trouble Challenge Blog!

For this challenge, Thing 1 wants us to make a scene! I wanted to play with the sketch challenge going on at My Favorite Things so I used that as my initial inspiration and made that front square the main space for my beachy scene

These adorable stamps come from the MFT set called “Sunny Vibes”

The fun pattern paper on that back square is also MFT and comes from the Christmas paper pack “Plaid Patterns Merry and Bright”. The colors were perfect for the colors I chose for the images!

I used Zig Clean Color markers to color everything, as well as a bit of ink blending for the sand and sea. Thing 3 wants to see a mode of transportation on your card! Isn’t that little van with the surf board propped against it so so cute?!

Thing 2 wants everyone to join up with The Paper Girls “Around the World” challenge. In my opinion, all travel should include someplace close to the beach ha ha! So this little scene could be a lot of places! But if I had to pick a top fave, I’d say the Southwest gulf of Florida.

And that’s my card that incorporates these challenges! It’s so fun to have all the different inspiration to pull a card together. Head over to my Instagram to see my video of this card coming together!

Big hugs!

🙂 Kellianne

I can’t believe it’s been 13 days since I’ve stamped!  Well, I can believe it – life has been busy with back to school stuff!  But it sure was fun to sit down and make this card for the new Double Trouble challenge that starts today!

It’s an “Anything Goes” type of challenge so we sure hope you will share what you’ve been making!

Thing 2 says to partner with any previous partner.  I chose Retro Rubber Challenge Blog.  Playing with that challenge helps me get use out of older stamps! Their current challenge is a sketch

So with that sketch in mind – I got stamping!

Thing 3 wants us to try the optional twist of including a phone.  In all my stamps I’ve collected over the years, I only have ONE stamp that is a phone!  This one is from the Stampin’ Up! set “Girlfriend Accessories” made back in 2002!!

It’s got such a fun teenager theme so I went with bright and funky colors

A bright green envelope to put it in finishes this off nicely!

And this fun phone card is done.  Ready to say hi to someone!

Look through your stamps and see if you have a little phone waiting to be used.  Be sure to go link up at Double Trouble!  

Thanks for stopping by today –

Hugs!

:)Kellianne

Happy Friday everyone!  I’m here again with another card.  The color inspiration over at Lawn Fawnatics is absolutely amazing!

The sunsets where I live have been so breathtaking lately.  I had to try this color palette out to create a little sunset on a get-well card.

It was fun to take on this challenge because it is very bold and bright and that usually stretches me!  I tend to go for softer colors and cards with quite a  bit of white space.  But these sunset colors are just so pretty

I used Distress Inks to blend this sunset together and that adorable potted sunflower comes from the Lawn Fawn set “Friendship Grows”

I made one of my quick videos of this card coming together!  You can find it on my Instagram.

This is why I’m so crazy for card challenges – they stretch me to try things I probably wouldn’t have!  Thanks for stopping by to see this one today!

Have a super happy weekend!

:)Kellianne

Hello!  Today starts a new challenge over at Double Trouble Challenge Blog.  It’s a little earlier this time because we are playing with Color My Heart Color Dare and this fits their dates a little better.  Here’s the fun that Thing 1, 2, and 3 have in store for us

My inspiration started flowing when I saw sketch #385 over at CAS(E) this sketch!

So with my clean and simple thoughts for a card, I pulled out an good ol’ stamp set (you know I love doing that sometimes!) called “Blooming with Happiness” by Stampin’ Up!

“You make me happy when skies are gray” is what Thing 1 says – so we needed to use gray on our card and make it an encouraging card to share some happy with a friend who could use it

Thing 3 says to add 2 more colors and that also qualifies you for the extra dare over at Color My Heart!  So with my gray card base and some gray flowers in the umbrella, I added some soft peach and mossy green

Some wink of stella always adds the right touch!

And with that, this clean and simple card is finished!  Be sure to head to Double Trouble to play along with this challenge!  These kinds of cards are always fabulous to have on hand 🙂

Hugs!

:)Kellianne

 

 

 

I loved the new sketch over at My Favorite Things!

I went with my first idea that came to mind and that was to add those stripes to a banner on my card front

All the stamps and dies on my card are by My Favorite Things

And this card is ready to send sunshine to someone soon!

Thanks for stopping by to see it!

:)Kellianne

 

What an exciting milestone! My Favorite Things is celebrating their 500th sketch and I’m excited to play along

I used the adorable new Fun Flowers stamps and dies by MFT

The MFT cover plate in the background gives my card some extra interest. With a few sequins added, it’s complete

Thank you for stopping by to see it!

🙂 Kellianne

Happy Monday!  We’ve got a new challenge over at Double Trouble and hope you will all play along!

Grab your embossing goodies and critter images and get creating!  Thing 3 has a twist to grab your favorite dog or critter.  As I went through my stamps, I saw this cute set from Clearly Besotted that I haven’t used in forever!  The tigers are what stood out to me so I got stamping with them

Aren’t they so cute?!  I dry embossed the background to go along with Thing 1’s challenge

This card is going to my sweet little neighbor who always makes homemade suckers for the neighborhood kids.  We want to thank her for such sweetness 🙂

Thing 2 wants us all to pair with the challenge at 2 Crafty Critter Crazies, so if you’ve added a critter to your card, be sure to share there too!

Thanks for stopping by to see my card.  Head over to Double Trouble to play along!

Hugs!

:)Kellianne

I hope you are all having a wonderful and relaxing weekend!  I have a fun card for you today and if you head to my Instagram, there’s even a quick video of it coming together!

It came together with 3 inspirations in mind.  First, the Lawn Fawnatics challenge

Lawn Fawn has one of my favorite beach themed stamp sets ever – “Life is Good”

The layout was inspired by the sketch challenge at Try Stampin on Tuesday 

I loved that banner behind a tag!

And since I’m so into slimline cards lately, I had to stretch the sketch into one!  Freshly Made Sketches inspired me to do that with their current challenge

 

Isn’t this little beach scene on a tag fun?!  I am crazy about seashells (those you see around my card are ones I collected from Florida!) so adding them to a card is a delight 🙂

The cute waves are embossed to give some texture and all that pretty sky and sea blending is done with the beautiful Catherine Pooler inks

With a few simple sequins added for some sparkle, this slimline card is finished!

Thanks for stopping by to see it!  Remember to head to my Instagram to see the video of it coming together!

hugs

:)Kellianne

 

Today is a very good friend’s birthday!  Happy Birthday Renee!  You can check her adorable cards out on Instagram @241CreativeStreet – you’ll be glad you did!  So of course I had to make her a super fun card.  I used the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch to get my inspiration going

When I first looked at the sketch, I knew I had to make those circles into shakers!  I used MFT stitched circles to do that

 

These new cupcakes in the “All the cupcakes” set are so scrumptious!!

I did the coloring with alcohol markers and made sure the cupcakes had sprinkles on top!

The MFT stencil in the background made for a fun confetti look

And this fun birthday card is complete!  Thanks for stopping by to check it out!

:)Kellianne

 

It’s Monday and a new challenge over at Double Trouble Challenge Blog! 

I haven’t made one card for Christmas in July so it was perfect timing for this challenge!  I also made it a one layer card!  Lot’s of masking pulled this little scene off

 

I used the “Signs of Santa” stamp set by Stampin’ Up since Thing 3 wants to see an elf on our card.  These 2 cute elves look busy at the North Pole 🙂

Thing 2 has a double dare to use our favorite tool and partner up with Heart2Heart.  They are a challenge who loves to see Close to My Heart products used.  I don’t have any of those (I guess I need some!) but lucky me, they waived that requirement for this partnership with us at Double Trouble!  (Thanks Heart 2 Heart! )

Anyone who follows me knows that I absolutely LOVE Zig Clean Color Markers!  So the coloring is done with those.

There’s also Spectrum Noir glitter pen on here for the snowy ground.  I added some pale but sparkly snowflakes to give a subtle interest to all the white space

And now I can say I have a Christmas in July card done!  Do you start your cards early?

Hugs!  Have a great week!  I’ll be back with a few fun projects throughout.

:)Kellianne