Deck the Halls

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Hi friends! It’s always a happy Monday when there’s a new Double Trouble challenge!

Thing 1 says anything goes! So we sure hope to see lots of you playing along and sharing the cards you are making.

Thing 3 wants to see snow!

I created a mixed media feel for this card, using the “Deck the Halls” stamp set by Gina K

Lots of bling and glitz to fancy up this monochromatic design! I chose to only use the colors red and white as that is the current monthly mix challenge at Gina K designs

Thing 2 always likes to see us partner with another challenge.

Heart2Heart has a theme of “Eat Drink and be Merry” to get the spirit of Winter holidays going. (Can you believe we are a day away from December?!) So they were a fun one to join up with for my inspiration

And with all that fanciness, my card was finished!

Thank you for stopping by to visit! I hope you will head to Double Trouble and share the card you are working on right now. We’d love to see it!

:)Kellianne

Altenew hello

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Anyone who follows me knows that I LOVE card challenges!! Today is one of the top reasons – I would never have thought to use these colors together! The blog over at Altenew has this color combo as their challenge

At first, I wasn’t sure I’d figure something out to pull this off. But I wanted to stretch myself past my normal borders and started playing.

I love jumping in on The Flower Challenge because using flowers in my stamping is always my favorite! Their current challenge is to use a sentiment.

I realized I really quite love this color combo! I used the “Flower Arrangement” stamps and dies by Altenew. The “hello” die is also by them and perfect for The Flower Challenge #50

I used a glimmer palette by Fine Tec to do the splatters and those drops are the clear Nuvo drops

The background panel and wonky stitched oval is by My Favorite Things. And both went perfect for the inspiration I gleaned from the sketch challenge over at TGIF

I loved how the the outline images on the flower and leaves came out with the silver embossing

Overall, I’m really happy with these colors and how my card turned out! If you want to see a short one minute video of it coming together, be sure to head over to my Instagram!

Thanks for stopping by to see it today!

Hugs 🙂

:)Kellianne

Thankful Tic Tac Toe

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Happy Monday everyone! Time for a new Double Trouble challenge and it’s one of my favorites – Tic Tac Toe!

I went with the top row across

Pumpkin, leaves, dies. I was also in the mood to make this a slimline card

I used the giant hot drink cup die by Catherine Pooler and made it part of this card front. Lots and lots of die cut leaves on this card!

I made the cup wrap fancy with leaf dies by Your Next Stamp and those cute little Autumn leaves all around the “thanks” are from the October Club Sursee by Catherine Pooler. You might be wondering where my pumpkin is! It’s on the inside of my card.

I’ll be adding a box of pumpkin spice hot cocoa mix with this card to thank a sweet friend of mine. So the big cup on the front and the pumpkin and cocoa sentiment are perfect

With the Tic Tac Toe taken care of for Thing 1, I needed to fulfill Thing 3’s request – a bold sentiment. This big “thanks” die is from Pink and Main. You might have noticed that cute little shaker element for the front of the cocoa cup

With the matching slimline kraft envelope, this card is ready to be given!

Thing 2 wants you to remember our partner for this challenge – The Paper Fun challenge! It’s “Anything Goes” with the optional twist of “Thankful”. Be sure to head to the Double Trouble blog for all the details to play along. We can’t wait to see what you create!

Have a wonderful day and may your week ahead be fabulous 🙂

:)Kellianne

Miss you much

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Hello! I hope you have all had a happy week 🙂

I’ve got a winter card today, using October Club Sursee products by Catherine Pooler. I got my layout inspiration from the challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches

I took that left column idea and moved it in just a little bit

Isn’t that ice skate just so cute?! I love all the winter foliage that comes in this stamp set

I found these jewel tones on a google image for color inspiration and the gold column is embossed with gold glitter, then some gold sequins for lots of glitz!

I’m loving all the cards I’m seeing with alternate Christmas colors and I played with that a little here. It’s a fun and different look!

Thank you for stopping by to see my card! I’m looking forward to posting some fun cards next week 🙂

If you head to my Instagram, I’m currently doing a giveaway where I enter your name in a drawing for a Catherine Pooler gift card if you’ll send a card to an amazing girl who could really use them! All info is over there.

Hugs!

:)Kellianne

Merry Christmas!

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Thank goodness it’s not actually time to say that!! But I’m here today with a Christmas card and it uses my very favorite Merry Christmas stamp of all time.

My inspiration boost came from the challenge over at Time Out Challenges

I loved that wood board and decided to replace that beautiful mandala with a poinsettia for my idea. Here it is

That beautiful poinsettia is from the Gina K set Year of Flowers 2 and is adhered to that cute board made from the Gina K set called Perfect Pallets.

I absolutely LOVE that Merry Christmas sentiment!! It’s so curly and cute and pretty. It’s also by Gina. I embossed it for dimension

I colored this card using ink from ink pads and refills

I made several of this card and it’s going out to some sweet crafty friends for a swap. You can also head to my Instagram to see a 3 minute video of it coming together! I just love the pink poinsettia. It’s been fun to play with non traditional Christmas colors the past couple of years and pink is my favorite color to do that with

Thanks for stopping by today!

See you again in a couple of days

:)Kellianne

2 sketches, 1 challenge

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Hello everyone! Happy Monday and happy November!

Today starts a new challenge over at Double Trouble Challenge Blog and it’s a fun one. We are teaming up with Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenges for their sketch this week as well as next and both sketches are fabulous

Here is their first sketch – #393

Thing 1 wants everyone to “stitch it up”! So I used lots of stitched die cuts

Thing 3 wants us to use a funny image or sentiment. I realized I really don’t have any funny sentiments or images. But I liked this silly pun with the cactus

The sketch for next week by Atlantic is another great one

I went with a Winter theme on this one and I love the clean and simple look

I used stamps and dies from the latest Catherine Pooler Club Sursee

I love this sketch and will be using it for a lot of different cards coming up. This is also a favorite color combo I found last Christmas during a Stamp Nation challenge. So pretty!

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you will swing by Double Trouble and Atlantic Hearts to play along in your cardmaking.

See you again soon!

:)Kellianne

Clean and Simple Autumn

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I’m here today to share a very clean and simple card to play along with this adorable sketch going on at Case This Sketch!

Of course the first thing I saw in my mind, was Christmas ornaments. So I challenged myself to think outside the box and here is what I came up with – leaves!

I added a few little dots of gold stickles to give some interest around those cute tiny leaves (which are from the September Club Sursee by Catherine Pooler – so is the sentiment)

I hope that wherever you live, you are seeing tons of Autumn colors that are as breathtaking as they are here 🙂

Thanks for stopping by to see this simple little card that is ready to send with love!

Big hugs

:)Kellianne

Happy Halloween Shaker

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Hello everyone! It’s a happy Monday and as well as a new challenge over at Double Trouble Challenge Blog!

Thing 1 gives you a list of colors, choose 3 of those and play along to make a Halloween card!

I chose green, orange, and purple. I also made it into a shaker, dressing it up (without using a bat!) for Thing 3’s challenge!

Those cute little images are from an old Paper Pumpkin by Stampin’ Up! The frame die is by Catherine Pooler and the words are from a die by Lil’ Inker Designs.

Thing 2 gives us a double dare to go partner up with The Paper Girls Halloween challenge. So after sharing your card with us at Double Trouble, be sure to go link it up with them too!

Thank you for stopping by to check my card out. I hope you all have a fabulous and happy week!

:)Kellianne

Honeybee Treat Shop

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I’m sharing a super sweet card today! Taking a break from Fall and Christmas card making to make this fun and happy card

Doesn’t it have the sweetest Summer vibe?! I was a little sad to be done with Summer this year. I really loved it. But we can keep Summer going on cards all year round!

I added lots of dimension with all the fun elements to go along with the current HoneyBee stamps challenge “Dimension”

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Lots of raised images and that cute little scalloped “awning” makes it feel like this little bistro set is right out front of an actual treat shop

Glitter goes perfectly with the feel of this scene

Makes me want to be sitting right there with a friend to enjoy a sweet treat!

Thanks for stopping by to see my card today! If you head to my Instagram, I have one of my quickie videos posted of this coming together 🙂

Inky hugs!

:)Kellianne

Hello Fall – Retro Guest

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Hi everyone! I’m excited to be the Guest Designer over at one of my favorite challenges – Retro Rubber Challenge Blog! This one is a Tic-Tac-Toe and those are really fun

I chose the bottom line across – using dots and sequins, pattern paper, and embossing

I used the stamp and dies from the “Sweater Weather” stamp set by Lawn Fawn. It’s from 2014 and is as cute as ever!

All the fun elements of pattern paper, leaves, and Fall colors are so fun!

The sentiment and tree trunk/branches are where my embossing is

The panel is mounted up on the card base for some good dimension and this card is finished!

Thank you so much for stopping by to see it! Be sure to go play along with Retro Rubber! It is always so fun to pull out stamps that don’t get as much love as our newer stuff.

Hugs!

:)Kellianne