Today I’m pulling out the adorable Cool Treats stamp set and dies by Stampin’ Up! for a fun birthday card for a friend.  My inspiration came from two challenges.  The Global Design Project’s color challenge this week

And also this sketch over at Paper Craft Crew Challenges

And with those two fun challenges in mind, here is the project I made

I think this set is soooo cute!  And I love all the coordinating dies that come with it

One of my favorite accent products by SU! is their clear enamel dots!  I can take any color of alcohol marker and color them to coordinate with my card like I did here with the Coastal Cabana and Granny Apple Green!

Thanks for stopping by today!

My next card is going to be a “no stamping” card and I’m excited to share!  See you soon with that.

Have a wonderful day!

:)Kellianne

 

Hello!  It’s a baby card for today!  And the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge was perfect for a fun idea.  They are featuring Lawn Fawn products with this challenge so I pulled out the Hello Baby stamp set and dies.

The challenge is to make the card interactive!  I was really inspired by one of Jennifer McGuire’s recent videos teaching how to make a hinged card.  So with that idea, I got making this baby card

That front little frame is a hinged piece!

To add to the interactive theme, the inside also has a fun little movable piece – a baby onesie on a hanger!  It comes from the Little Bundle set by Lawn Fawn.  Their stamps are always so complimenting of each other! I used Zig Watercolor markers to color all the images very softly.  Doing my best to do color frequently with the fun reminder from the 30 day coloring challenge over at The Daily Marker 🙂

To see my card in action, head to my Instagram account to watch the little video in my post and on my story!

Have a wonderful day!

:)Kellianne

A quick drop in to share a sweet little card.  Right now the 30-day coloring challenge is going on with Kathy Racoosin!

This card was so fun to color using alcohol marker coloring.  And this sweet little set from W+9 is so sweet.

Monday is always a great day to mail a card!  I love to join Mail-it-Monday on Instagram.  Gotta use these cards we have so much fun making huh!

Hope you have had a great start to your week!

:)Kellianne

It’s time for a Valentines card!

I’m playing along with the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch challenge and the “Have a Heart” Wednesday challenge at Simon Says Stamp

And here’s the card

I just LOVE the little pocket made out of the mini envelope dies!

And that’s my card for today!

I’ll be back in couple days with a cute Lawn Fawn card that also has a love theme.  It’s just that time of year!

:)Kellianne

Hi!  I did something fun with this round of stamping.  I took the Stamp Nation Birthday Bash sketch challenge #3 and made 3 different birthday cards using the same color combo but 3 different stamp brands and slight variations of the sketch.  Here’s the sketch

For my first one, I used products by My Favorite Things to participate in their Birthday Project.

I used the Birdie Brown Greetings Galore and the Modern Blooms stamp sets and dies by MFT.  The stitched frames are from their stitched rectangles stax.  There’s a good chance I use dies by MFT on 90% of my cards!  They have so many useful and versatile dies, especially in their blueprints section.

My second card uses the Bits and Pieces stamp set by Concord and 9th.  Again, same color combo of the soft green, peach, plum and pink.

And for the 3rd card, I went very simple and clean.  I used Stampin’ Up! stamps and dies and it’s a pocket card

When you pull out the card inside, there is the “Birthday”! Such a cute pocket die set

This was such a fun challenge I gave to myself!  That’s one of my favorite things to do too – create my own kind of challenge to stretch myself and use my supplies in different ways.  Everything can be so versatile!

And now I have 3 cards to add to my birthday card stash!  And I definitely need more.

Have a wonderful evening!

I’ll be back tomorrow with a sweet little Valentine card.

:)Kellianne

Hi again!  It sure was a crazy December.  In addition to all of the holidays, we lost my husband’s sweet grandma.  So my cardmaking fun has been set aside.  But it has felt so good to sit down to it again this past week and today I’m going to share a fun project I made with the new Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit!  This might be one of the cutest kits EVER!  It is sold out now so I’m so glad I snagged it the moment I saw it.  It’s the first one I’ve ever bought but I’m certain it won’t be the last!  It was such an amazing deal and so adorable!

To kick off my inspiration again, I used the current Fusion challenge over at Fusion card challenges, which also happens to be their 5th Anniversary challenge!  I hadn’t heard of it before but I’m happy I came across it because it is so different!  Here it is.

How fun is that to have 2 options that can be used either separately or together?!  For my first time with this challenge, I used just the sketch.   I also made the card clean and simple to go along with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge which was to make a clean and simple card using Hero Arts products.

And here’s my card!

I used colored pencils to color the images

Then added a few little embellishments to give interest

Put it with a coordinating envelope and the card for today is done!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

:)Kellianne

 

 

 

There’s a lot of romantic love in the air!  We keep getting wedding announcements and that means I need to build up my stash of wedding cards!

For this one, I used the Freshly Made Sketches #367 challenge for my inspiration.  I love playing along with Freshly Made Sketches because I love a good clean card and this one usually can have a little layering or dimension.  I was so excited to be chosen as a Princess in their challenge last week with my Poinsettia card!!

So with yet another beautiful and simple design to work with, I started playing.  I ended up using this beautiful Happy Day set and dies by Concord and 9th. 

I chose colored pencils with Gamsol for the coloring

And I added Wink of Stella with Glossy Accents over the top on those flowers.  The little sequins with pearls tucked in added a sweet center to them as well.  I got those from Stampin’ Up! awhile back and it was fun to pull them out again for this

And that’s one wedding card down – 4 more to go!  What a sweet time for all these new couples.

Have a wonderful day!

:)Kellianne

 

 

I have a clean and simple card today to enter in the Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge and Design Team Call!

I had so fun playing with this sketch and this was the final design I decided on

That gorgeous poinsettia is from a stamp set by Gina K called a Year of Flowers 1

The joy stamp is from Spellibinders and the beautiful die behind it is by Sizzix

I brushed over the die with Wink of Stella and it gives a subtle and pretty shimmer when you turn the card just right.  Not real easy to catch in pictures but oh so pretty in real life!  I made the center of the flower stand out by using gold stickles and it brings out that shimmer from the Wink of Stella behind it

 

I love the clean simplicity of this sketch design and I love the way this Christmas card turned out!

I think it would be a blast to design for Freshly Made Sketches because I just love a good clean and simple card!  They pack a good “wow” into a very do able card.

Thanks for stopping by!  I’ll be playing in the next FMS challenge too.  Can’t wait to see what it is!

Have a super happy day!

:)Kellianne

I made this simple and pretty one layer Christmas card today for the Less is More one layer holiday card challenge.

I absolutely loved the “Merry Christmas” sentiment by Gina K!

And I loved turning back in time with the ornaments!  These pretty ones are from an old Stampin’ Up! set.

A little sparkle dresses it up just a bit more to give it some extra “pretty”!

I love good one-layer cards for Christmas!  Easy to reproduce lots of them!  I get so many ideas that I can’t do only one style though!  So a few of each of several different kinds is more fun to me

Thanks for stopping by today to see another clean and simple card.  My next card isn’t Christmas and has some fun dimension to it!  I’ll be back in a couple days with it.

Hope you are feeling lots of Christmas in the air!

:)Kellianne

Anyone who visits my blog or follows my Instagram, knows that I LOVE a card challenge!  I seriously live for them!  I see the challenge and can’t stop thinking in my mind all the different possibilities.

Well I found a new challenge blog!!  Yay!!  It’s AAA Cards.  A good CAS card always makes my heart pitter patter and this looks like a challenge blog for that.  Their current challenge is to make a card that is Mostly White

So with this new Pink and Main Snow Globe set that I’ve been loving, I went to work on a mostly white, clean and simple card!

I used very muted tones to color him and I added white Wink of Stella over the coloring, which softened it up even more.

You can’t see the tiny touch of glitter on the snowflakes very good but here is an angle that caught it just a bit.

I love how this little guy’s hat is about to fall over his eyes 🙂  It’s the perfect card for this day where I live – it snowed last night and it is super cold!

And that was so fun making a card that is mostly white!  I LOVED this concept of a clean and simple card with very little color.

And that’s my card for today!

I’ll be back tomorrow with another CAS card that is only one layer with no dimension.  Hope you’ll visit again!

Have a happy day!

:)Kellianne