My Favorite Things has a simple sketch for their current sketch challenge and I wanted to play along to make a couple of cards.  Here is the sketch

I’ve been in love with this Sweet Succulents set and the coordinating dies, so I just had to use them again.

Wink of Stella always adds a nice touch and I especially loved it on these cacti!  Cacti?  Is that a word lol!  I haven’t used it forever.

And just for fun, I flipped the sketch and the orientation of the card to make another.

And that’s a wrap for today’s stamping!

I’ve got my eye on several other challenges.  Can’t wait to see what fun stuff I’ll be pulling out to create with next!  Is it possible to be addicted to challenges? ha ha!  They are so fun to stretch my stamping!

Hugs!

:)Kellianne

I played along with sketch #328 over at Freshly Made Sketches for my card today.

I used amuse studio stamps with coordinating dies along with dies from My Favorite Things, Spellbinders and Hero Arts to create these cards

I love using the Freshly Made Sketches because I tend to love things clean and simple!

I love a good wreath and these flowers from amuse studio have kind of a wildflower look to them.  Made for fun floral on the wreath

I was having so fun with the flowers that I colored and cut a whole bunch of them.  So while I had all the supplies out, I went ahead and made a fancy wreath card too!

I’m always needing “Thinking of You” style cards so if I’m going to make one, I may as well make 2 while I’m at it!

With all the pearl accents, and the layered flowers and leaves, it made for a much fuller wreath.

Both cards were fun to make!  When I finish a simple one, I’m certain that’s my favorite kind.  Then I do a fancier one and think those are.  So I guess I really love both!

But if I had to choose a favorite, it’d probably be the clean and simple  kind.  Thank goodness I don’t have to pick one style with this hobby!!

:)Kellianne

 

I recently found this cute little machine called the Sizzix Sidekick on Scrapbook.com and had to have it!

The starter set for it comes with a little stamp set and a matching dies.  With those, I made a simple card set to give as a gift.

 

I’ll definitely be using this thing for a lot of the little die cutting there is to do!  It will be great for travel too!

Hope you have had a wonderful day today!

:)Kellianne

Hello again!  Today I’m played along with challenges to create my card –  Lawn Fawntatics and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.

The Lawn Fawnatics challenge is to try a new technique.

And the Simon Says Stamp challenge is to make your own background.

So I pulled out a couple of my Lawn Fawn sets.  Home Sweet Home and A Birdie Told Me.

I created my own background using a technique that I have never done but wanted to.  Watercolor.

It was fun to do!  I’ve always been a little too nervous to try watercolor for a background.  But that’s what a challenge is all about, right? It was time to be brave lol.  I stamped the cute little heart, star and flower images (A Birdie Told Me) on top of the dried watercolor to create the background.

Then added sequins to complete the fun theme of the card.

And that’s today’s card!  I just love love love challenges and how they get me outside of my regular stamping habits!

Until next time!

:)Kellianne

 

 

 

I decided to play along with Time Out Challenges this week.  I never have before but I love how they have a word and then an optional twist and I wanted to give it a try.  Here it is for this week, challenge 103

And guess who I thought of first?  Stella!!!!!  This sweet Stella Stamper stamp set tells you just how long I’ve been stamping. It’s from 1999 by Stampin’ Up!  And I had already been stamping for a few years at that point.  Yes.  Cardmaking is the best hobby in the world and home really is where the stamps are!

I just did simple colored pencil coloring on her.

Good Ol’ Stella.  She represents so many of us!  Ready to stamp at any given moment possible!! 🙂  I love love love this hobby and have for more than half of my life.  It’s fun to be sharing it now through this blog and on my Instagram.  Took me awhile to get it all figured out and stay consistent at taking pics and getting them up – but I’m really enjoying it!

I’ll be playing with some Lawn Fawn stamps next to participate in their current challenge.  See you soon to share what I come up with there!

Stamping hugs

:)Kellianne

Today I’m playing along with the Reverse Confetti Sketch For You to Try #57

 

Their adorable mermaid set “Mermaid Kisses” was so fun to craft with.  It’s coordinating dies made it easy to cut out all these adorable oceany images to bring my card together.

I wouldn’t mind making a splash – right back in to the Gulf of Mexico!  Specifically Passion Island!!  This was me exactly 2 weeks ago!

But with Winter making it obvious that it’s hanging on for awhile by dumping some good snow – I just have to dream of my day on this beautiful beach with my hubby.

Okay.  Back to my card.

 

The squares on this sketch made me think a little differently than I normally would when putting a card together and I loved it.  It’s why card challenges are my favorite way to stamp!  I angled the card toward the sun (it is out today, hooray!)  for this one so that you could see the pretty shimmer on all the cute images.  I used the Spectrum Noir sparkle shimmer brush pen for that.

 

And that’s the creation for my crafty time today.

Thanks for visiting!  Go play with your Reverse Confetti supplies and this sketch!  If you don’t have any – it’s time to get some.  Their images are always soooo cute!

Big hugs

:)Kellianne

I watched the funniest stamping tutorial ever!  I’m subscribed to Gina K’s amazing YouTube channel and love her tutorials.  Well, on there, she recommended that her followers take a look at her daughter’s new channel.  So I did.  I was laughing so hard!!  She is a total hoot!  It was her second video that really got me laughing.  But aside from the laughter, she demonstrated a card using the Gina K Foil Mates.  I ordered a package of those a little while back, but have I used them? Well of course not lol.  They have sat along with other products waiting to be used!

So after watching the fun tutorial, I was extra motivated to pull them out and make a card.

See all that pretty rose gold shimmer?  That’s a Foil Mates sheet cut and foiled.  So pretty!

That pretty flower, braches and sentiment are from the Gina K set called “A Year of Flowers 2”

I added some Nuvo Drops to the center of the flower and then some dots around the flower to give it a bit of embellishment.

And that’s my first “Foil Mates” card!  I can’t wait to play with it all again and I hope I get better and better at it!  But either way, peeling that pretty foil up to reveal the shine is just awesome!

Hope you’ve had a great start to your week and that it just keeps getting better!

:)Kellianne

Happy Valentines Day!  I decided to be a little extra fancy with my stamping for this one.  I’m participating in the February challenge over at “The Ton”

I actually used one of their Christmas stamp sets to accomplish my idea. The flourishes in their Holiday Flourishes set is versatile all year round! I filled up this heart with them.

The cute dots that coordinate so well are in the set too.  I embossed those in Wow platinum embossing powder, which I also did with the “love” die cut several times and layered up.

Some Wink of Stella colored hearts that are also topped with glossy accents, some ribbon and this extra fancy Valentine’s card is complete!

I hope it’s been a day full of lots of love for you!

:)Kellianne

Right now My Favorite Things has a color challenge going on.  I decided this would be one of the challenges I play with this week because it’s got blue in it and I always find that I have a hard time incorporating blue into my cards.  Here was an opportunity to really challenge myself!  Here’s the colors included in the challenge

And here’s my take!

I love the color blue and it was really fun adding it in to my stamping with this card!  I’ll have to be brave and add it in more to my designs.

Have a happy Saturday!

The next post will be a card I made for the current challenge over at “The Ton”.  See you then!

:)Kellianne

 

I have been craving my stamp desk!  We took our kids to Disneyland for a week.  Not gonna lie… I was designing cards in my head while waiting in long lines ha ha!  So it felt so good to sit down and make a card.

I just recently got my first order of Your Next Stamp products!  I’m in love!  The images are so cute.  The first one I chose to create with are the adorable chocolate strawberries in their “I love chocolate” set.  I also used some fun “your next die” cuts to create my card.  I used the current sketch challenge as my inspiration boost.

And here’s my card

I seriously can’t say enough about how much I LOVED this cute die set that is behind the strawberries – with the perfect little banner that fits right over the top!!!  I will definitely be using it lots!

I used sequins to add the little elements indicated by circles on the sketch.  It’s always fun to play with a sketch a see how I can creatively incorporate each detail.

Maybe I was drawn to use this stamp because my sister has a custom bakery and right now she is gearing up big time for her big load of orders she gets for Valentines chocolate strawberries!!!  Hers are the best cuz she uses real milk chocolate with no fillers so they are creamy deliciousness in your mouth with every bite!  Here, I’ll share some pics of her work so you can drool at the thought with me…

 

Yummy pictures huh!!

Anyway – I had so fun stamping today.

Hugs!

:)Kellianne