I am so excited and honored to be a guest designer for this month’s Retro Rubber Challenge Blog!  I have been a big fan of their challenges because they are specifically geared toward using the stuff in the stash you already have!  And we all have a stash, much of which gets ignored – right?! lol

Their challenge this time is a color challenge

 

I looked through my old Valentine’s stamps and landed at the “Love You Much” stamp set by Stampin’ Up!  This set is at least 10 years old, although I couldn’t find the exact year of release.  I had really fun playing with and using the challenge colors!

Anyone remember that set?!  I’m glad I kept it!

I added fun dimension to give it good interest and dimension

And those little love birds are on the inside of the card when it’s opened

Made me feel good to give this little set some love!  What’s in your stash that would make a fun Valentine’s card using the Retro Rubber challenge?  Stretch yourself and play along!

Thanks for visiting today!

:)Kellianne

Hello!  Today I’m sharing another Valentine’s Card using an adorable set called “I love chocolate” by Your Next Stamp.  I’m participating in their current challenge called “Share the Love” as well as the challenge over at Time Out Challenges with the theme “Affectionate”

Here’s my card

Aren’t these sweet treats so cute?!  With a little “Wink of Stella” there’s some shimmer touching up the card

Thanks for stopping by to see it!  Hope it’s been a happy Monday for everyone!

:)Kellianne

 

Hello and happy Tuesday!

My card today features one of my all-time favorite stamp sets with it’s coordinating dies.  It’s from a Monthly Hero set by Hero Arts that came out last year.  So I’m joining their monthly challengewith it

And I was inspired by a new challenge I found for my design!  The Flower challenge!  Their current challenge is “Shaped cards”.

So I used the chalkboard dies in the kit to create a little chalkboard stand card!

With the cute little pots and crate of flowers and the heart balloons, this is just the perfect little card to write a message of love in!

I used Zig Clean color markers for my coloring and to add a fun touch to the balloons, I covered them in glossy accents and touched the gloss with heat from my heat tool.  It gives them a mylar balloon look!

If you’d like to see a little video of this card quickly coming together, visit my Instagram!

Thanks for swinging by my blog to see it!  Have a great day!

:)Kellianne

I love the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches! 

I pulled out this super cute die from The Stamp Market and it worked perfectly for the sketch!

The square shape added a fun element

There’s no stamping on this card – just the cute die cuts and a few enamel dots

A simple “Thanks” card is always good to have in the stash!

Thanks for stopping by!

🙂 Kellianne

Hello!  It’s time to get the lovey dovey cardmaking mojo going! Valentines Day is on it’s way and I was inspired by 3 different challenges to pull a fun, heart-filled card together.  The first challenge is the Wednesday Sketch Challenge by My Favorite Things 

The second challenge was also by My Favorite Things!  It’s their current Color Challenge which is PERFECT for Valentines Day cards!

And finally, over atTime Out Challenges, their inspiration photo was just adorable.  I absolutely loved the banner and really bounced off that!

So with those 3 challenges in front of me, I got stamping!  Here is my first Valentines Card for the year

I used the birthday set by My Favorite Things “Sending Sweet Celebration Wishes” as well as the coordinating dies.  The artist, Stacy Yacula, creates the most adorable images!!  In order to alter this little guy, I simply omitted the birthday hat when inking and then carefully cut off that hat part once I had cut it out.  It worked perfectly!

It was really fun to use these 3 challenges on one card!

Thanks for stopping by to check it out!

Happy Stamping!

:)Kellianne

 

I haven’t played along with C(ASE) this Sketch in a long time! And this sketch looked so fun to use with some new products that I’ve been excited to pull out

 

One of those products is the new Catherine Pooler Mini Snowflake cover die, and with the sketch and this die, I had an idea come quick!

With the sketch in mind, I used the rectangular shape of the die instead of an oval. 

I need to make a few of these! I have several loved ones with winter birthdays and this was such an easy card to whip up

There’s a video on my Instagram of it coming together! Go check that out to see just how easy it was.

Have a wonderful day!

Big hugs

:)Kellianne

I’m so excited that I was picked by Sugarpea designs as one of their top 3 for their last challenge!

How exciting!

And I’m also sharing one more card with the Lucky Me floral stamp by Catherine Pooler

I was so excited to be invited to be a guest Club Ambassador for 2 months for the CPDesigns Club Sursee! This amazing floral bouquet came in the December Club Sursee and is just gorgeous. 

I used paper from the Spring in Bloom paper pack and the little embellishments are from the Springfield sequin mix

And I love how perfectly the Melon Ice glitter matches! Added such a nice sparkle to this card

So grateful I had the opportunity to play and share with these products! I will definitely be using them more in the future!

Go check out the Club Sursee program if you haven’t! Catherine Pooler always has fun products and inks that are out of this world!

Thanks for stopping by today!

:)Kellianne

Happy New Year!! I had so fun sitting down to my stamp desk after the busy holiday season.  I pulled out one of my new stamp sets by Gina K to join in on her Monthly Mix Challenge for January!

The challenge is to take an old card and use at least one element from it to make a new card. I chose an old card that I made nearly 3 years ago. Here’s my “then” card

I took the idea to put a floral arrangement on an oval with a die cut word and here’s my “now” card

I used the beautiful “Something Good” stamp set by Gina K as well as the “friend” die

I’ve always loved doing floral arrangements and have done several for different events.  Doing these types of cards reminds me of that other kind of designing I love to do!

And that’s my “then and now” for this challenge.  Thanks for stopping by to check it out!

🙂 Kellianne

This is my first time playing along with the SugarPea Designs Mix it up Challenge and I am so excited!  I love the sketch and I love the color combo!

So here’s my take on the challenge

I used the adorable Eskimo Kisses stamp set and just love the little penguins in it!

I used Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers to color the sweet images on my card

And that’s it for today!

Thanks for stopping by 🙂

Hugs!

:)Kellianne

When Erika, over at Stamp Nation, posted this weekend’s color challenge, I had to try it out!  It just looked so pretty to me!

Isn’t that gorgeous?!!

So I pulled out my November Club Sursee and used the “So Much Possibility” stamp set to add some pretty diamonds as a background.  Then I used the Boughs and Berries stamp set from the Catherine Pooler Christmas release to create some pretty foliage and flowers as a little cluster of these colors.

I just love how it came together!  I would never have thought of these colors together.  In fact, I don’t think of grabbing blues and purples nearly enough! It was so fun to stretch myself with this challenge!

I love being part of Stamp Nation because of these challenges and the other fun things to be part of over there!

Happy Monday!  I hope you have a wonderful week!  I’ve got lots of fun stamping projects planned for this week and can’t wait to share!

Inky hugs

:)Kellianne