Be Happy

Here is a card I was able to make this morning before taking my kindergartener off the bus. One of the benefits of getting up at 5 to walk the puppy is that I was able to get a lot of my housework and dinner done in the morning - the only benefit!!

I made this for today's clean and simple challenge at Splitcoast to use Rich Razzleberry and white. I love this color so I definitely wanted to make a card for this one today. I went with the sketch from the Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge (SSSC153) shown here:

The sentiment is from MFT Pearls of Wisdom and are truly words I live by. I added a dimensional flower to the center circle and kept the rest of the card the deep pink and white. For added interest and texture, I embossed the rectangular panels with swirls. I love how this looks, especially matted with the dark pink.

Thanks for stopping again!

Supplies used:

Stamps - MFT Pearls of Wisdom

Ink - SU Purely Pomegranate

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, Basic Grey dsp

Accessories - MFT Pretty Posies Die-Namics, button, twine, Cuttlebug EF, Spellbinders Nestibilities, scallop border punch, ribbon

Song in Your Heart

Here is a card I made over the weekend for the Splitcoast fan club sketch challenge. I also made this card to fit the central theme of the month, which is Best Buds - using flowers to make a friend card.

The sentiment for this card is perfect for me because I always forget the words to songs (but sing it anyway!). The sentiment and flowers are from Taylored Expressions Friendship Blooms.

The sketch that I followed is here:

I used two coordinating papers from My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline and stamped the sentiment on the gingham. I then took the gingham, pink and flowered papers and used TE flower dies to make some flowers for the corner. The background panel is embossed with Swiss Dots. For the top horizontal element, I chose a simple scallop border using the background color and for the lower panel, I selected a twine wrap with a matching flower.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used:
Stamps - Taylored Expressions Friendship Blooms
Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME dsp
Ink - Stampin Up Ruby Red
Accessories - TE Friendship Blooms dies, scallop border punch, twine, buttons, Cuttlebug EF

Good Times

Here is my card for today, fitting two challenges - the featured stamper challenge at Splitcoast (FS264) and the Monday challenge at There She Goes to use animals (TSG144). I wasn't able to stamp much this week and spent last night chatting with the girls at the TSG release party so I was happy to be able to finish this one in time!

I chose a card of Janice's to case today, changing the great contrasts of her card to softer hues on mine. This sweet bunny is too adorable and makes me feel like spring. I used some newer paper from MME to bring on the spring. The bunny is colored with copics and I paper pieced her dress with two different dsp's. I softened the edges of the white with some pink sponged ink. A final gingham ribbon and bow were the finishing touches.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used:
Stamps - There She Goes Good Times
Ink - Memento black
Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME Miss Caroline Howdy Doody
Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Nesties, gingham ribbon, scallop border punch

Give a Smile

This is my first time down in my stamping room since bringing our puppy, Snickers, home. He joined me downstairs but shook like a leaf most of the time - he didn't realize we had a basement! He better get comfy down there because we'll be spending a lot of time down there! Here's a picture of my little Yorkie:

Now about the card.... here is a card I made for the Clean and Simple Design Team search on Splitcoast. The challenge was to make an encouragement card using nature images. The sentiments from this There She Goes Flowers of Happiness are so inspirational and perfectly fit the "encouragement" theme for today's challenge. And the flowers are a perfect nature image too. I paper peiced the flowers which took a bit of time given the amount of petals on each flower. I added a button center to the flowers and some petals around the bouquet. For the sentiment, I made a ribbon panel with a spring  - like gingham in yellow, matted in green to match the buttons and leaves. Easy clean and simple card for today. I hope to get back downstairs today if Snickers doesn't mind!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used:
Stamps - TSG Flowers of Happiness
Ink - Memento black
Paper - My Minds Eye Miss Caroline
Accessories - buttons, border punch, satin ribbon

Birthday Hugs

Here is my card for the featured stamper challenge today at Splitcoast. I chose a simple design by Becky to case, focusing on the scalloped flowers for this card.

I chose some paper from Crate paper for this card, making some scalloped flowers using MFT Die-namics. I embossed the white with Swiss Dots and matted all of layers in black.

Simple card today, but love the crisp black and white with the pink.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps - Stampin Up sentiment
Ink - Memento black
Paper - Bazzill cardstock, Crate Paper dsp
Accessories - MFT Die-namics Pretty Posies, Rolled Scallop Flower; gingham ribbon, Cuttlebug EF, scallop border punch

You're My Favorite

Here is a card I made for the featured stamper challenge today honoring Kathy. I was lucky to find my local craft store now carries MFT stamps (yeah!) so I picked up two new PI's and of course had to ink them up.

For today's card, I chose this adorable Primrose PI. I colored her with copics in shades of pink and green. I followed the layout of the featured stampers card, replacing the papers with some new ones from MME Miss Caroline. I added a ribbon to the horizontal panel and instead of a heart, I added a three dimensional flower.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies Used:
Stamps - My Favorite Things PI Primrose
Paper - Bazzill cardstock, TE white, MME Miss Caroline Dolled Up dsp
Ink - Memento black
Accessories - Copics, MFT Die-namics Pretty Posies and Oval Tab, grosgrain ribbon, brad

Cards on Etsy!

I've listed some new cards for sale at my Etsy store. You can visit there by clicking below:

KCsCards

Have a great day!!

Brighten My Day

How cute is this little lady?!! I made this card for the Free For All challenge at Splitcoast today (F4A103). I've been trying to do more challenges on that website because I think it's a great community of stampers. Today's challenge was to use a rainbow on our card. I didn't have any stamps like this and took the liberty of modifying this image from There She Goes to make the umbrella a rainbow pattern. The original design only had three panels on the umbrella. I colored the image with copics and popped her up on the white panel to add depth. I also did the same with the sun and the cloud. The coloring took a bit of time on the card but it's too cute (I think!). The rest of the card went together pretty quickly. The design for the layout is the sketch challenge this week at Splitcoast (SC371).

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies Used:

Stamps - There She Goes Under the Weather

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, Echo Park dsp

Ink - Memento black

Accessories- Copics, grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals

Let's Fly Away!

Here is a card I made for the inspiration challenge at The Cat's Pajamas (TCP196) and the Sweet Stop Sketch challenge (SSS144), shown here:

The Cat's Pajamas inspiration was the following picture:

I wanted to make a card using a stamp from The Cat's Pajamas with a lot of colors. This County Fair paper from My Mind's Eye Miss Caroline was a perfect choice and the card took off from there.I paper pieced the airplane with the background papers and put him on a blue sky. I popped up some of the clouds and the propeller too. The rest of the image was colored with copics.

Instead of the flower in the sketch, I chose to make a propeller out of the red cardstock with a button center (I hope that's what you thought it looked like :)  !!). I added a grosgrain ribbon across the background panel because I hardly ever make a card without a ribbon. I matted everything in red and white and added a final sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies Used:
Stamps - The Cat's Pajamas Take Off

Ink - Memento black
Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME Miss Caroline dsp
Accessories - copics, grosgrain ribbon, button, twine. dimensionals

Spotlight on Me!

What a thrill it is to once again be spotlighted by There She Goes!! Check me out on their blog today:

Trendsetting Spotlight - Kelly Collins

I just love that little guy in his boat :).

Check back later for another post - hoping to get in a little crafty time today.

Float My Boat

Here is my card for the weekly challenge at There She Goes to use a negative die cut (TSG142). This was a fun challenge. I really didn't know where I was going with this card but started out making a valentine! I took out the World's Best die to used the medal die for my heart. Then I tried the coordinating die and noticed a bit of a wave pattern. The card took off from there!

I stamped the image on white cardstock and colored it with copics, omitting the water from the image. The water here is made with the polka dot dsp, only I used the Worlds Best die to make the water's edge wavy. A little hard to see with the boat floating on top. I popped the boat up on dimensionals and added some waves to the water and some birds in the sky.

I layered two different papers (all from my new favorite MME Miss Caroline) and each layer is up on dimensionals to give it more depth. Both dsp panels have the cicle cut out (another negative die cut) to make a frame for the boy and his boat. I made the circle around the edge using two different size nesties together. Above the sentiment are two more negative die cuts using the Worlds' Best die to simulate a wave.

Hope you enjoy!  Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps - There She Goes Float My Boat
Ink - Memento black, SU Blue Bayou
Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME Miss Caroline dsp
Accessories - Spellbinders Nestibilities, TSG Worlds Best die, grosgrain ribbon, copics, dimensionals

Hearts

Splitcoast has a Clean and Simple challenge every Monday that I try to make a card for. I enjoy making cards to this style, and this week was no exception.

The challenge today was to use hearts in a clean and simple design. I chose this heart from Stampin Up Always. I cut out the heart and mounted it on red cardstock. The background white and kraft is embossed with birds and swirls. I wrapped this with baker's twine and added a bow and button combo. All of the corners are rounded to soften the edges.

Thanks for stopping by again!

Supplies used:
Stamps - Stampin Up Always
Ink - SU RRH
Paper - Bazzill cardstock
Accessories - Cuttlebug EF, twine, grosgrain ribbon, button, corner rounder

MFT One of a Kind

This week My Favorite Things is holding a guest designer challenge themed "Stamp Your Heart Out". Well I did just that!

For today, I made a card with a matching box, using their Oval Doily as the box top and bottom. So easy to make and such a cute way to surprise one of my daughters on Valentine's day. I'll have to make a few more and plan to put some chocolate in them.

Anyway, back to my projects! I used their Pure Innocence Paper Dolls stamp. I used a mask to cover up the paper dolls and punched out some matching hearts to make a paper chain of hearts instead. I paper pieced the dress and colored the rest of the girls with copics. I was lucky enough to get my shipment of the new MME Miss Caroline so that is the paper used throughout this project.

I borrowed the box idea from Frances Byrne's blog but changed the heart to the Oval Doily instead. Super easy and quicka but a really cute project. I added a ribbon across the bottom of the oval and put a rolled scallop flower with posies behind it.

The card has the same oval with the PI Paper Doll. I used a gigham here instead of the diamond pattern, opting to use that as my card background. I added another horizontal panel with the same paper as her dress and popped the sentiment onto this layer. I anchored it with rolled scallop flowers in red. The two background panels are stitched as well.

Front of card:

Inside of card:

Wish me luck getting the guest designer spot!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:
Stamps - MFT Paper Dolls
Ink - Memento black
Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME Miss Caroline dsp
Accessories  - MFT Die-namics: Oval Doily, Rolled Scallop, Pretty Posies; satin ribbon, heart punch, sewing machine, copics

Bowl Full of Cherries

Taylored Expressions is back with their sketch challenges after taking a holiday break. But they are back, and so am I, making this card for their latest sketch (TESC151), shown here:

I was totally inspired by the paper today. I have been meaning to do this for a while, but most of the time I start with the image and the card takes off from there. I love the whimsy of this cherry paper from My Minds Eye, and it went so well with this go-to set for me, Berries and Cherries from Taylored Expressions.

I stamped the image towards the top of the circle panel, leaving room for the sentiment. I colored it with copics to match the paper and then matted the panel with blue and red. I then stamped the sentiment on the bottom and added a small scallop border across the center with baker's twine down the middle.

I used the cherry paper as my background, cutting one corner off to give a pop of the green. I then stitched this panel and added the buttons. I added a ribbon to the center, with a tie and button. This card makes me think of summer on such a cold day here in the northeast.

Supplies Used:
Stamps - Taylored Expressions Berries and Cherries
Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME fine and dandy girl
Ink - Memento black
Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Nestibilities, scallop border punch, bakers twine, buttons, grosgrain ribbon