Two more cards today :)

Rainy day again so I made meatballs and sauce and spent the afternoon in my stamping room. Took a bit of time to get my wheels spinning but here is what I came up with:

This first card is for a featured stamper challenge at Splitcoast, combined with a DTGD challenge to make a single layer card with flowers.

I really love these flowers from There She Goes. I scored the "image panel" and then masked it off. I then created a mask for the flower and stamped that a bunch of times, coloring them with copics.

My second card is for a DTGD challenge to be inspired by fruit:

This bowl of cherries is from Taylored Expressions and I colored it with copics. The inspriation for this card was this paper from Cosmo Cricket.

Thanks for stopping by today!



Thanks for stopping by today!! Kelly

Taylored Expressions Blast From the Past Blog Hop

I am so excited to be part of the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop once again. This month the theme was to use red, white and blue for inspiration, and I did just that!! I chose to work with Taylor's Make a Wish stamp set, using only paper piecing for my card. I can't rememeber the last card I made without coloring the entire image and using designer paper! This card took a bit of time to cut out all of the different sections of the cake, but I like the end result. I added some stars, stamped out in the coordinating paper, and placed randomly around the image. I embossed the background with circles to match the bottom layer of cake and added a ribbon panel of red and white ribbon to finish the card. I needed a card for a little boy that turned five last month around Memorial Day and how perfect is this card for him!

Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions Make a Wish

Paper : Bazzill cardstock

Ink : Memento black, Stampin Up Pacific Point

Accessories : Cuttlebug EF, grosgrain ribbon, copics

Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge

I was so glad to see Taylored Expressions sketch challenges are back and now they are on Splitcoast!! Yeah Taylor!

When I saw the sketch, I knew I wanted to pop up some flowers from Taylored Expressions Friendship Blooms. I picked this flowered paper from Cosmo Cricket as my main background and the red accents were pulled from there. I originally had another designer paper under the flowers but it was too busy. I put the same paper as the background and loved it. I stamped the flowers on vanilla and cut them out using TE Friendship Blooms dies. I added some buttons tied with twine to the centers of these flowers. I finished the card with a grosgrain bow and some brads. I added a sentiment to the center to finish the card.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies Used:

Stamps - Taylored Expressions Friendship Blooms

Paper - Stampin Up Old Olive, vanilla; Bazzill red; Cosmo Cricket and Echo Park dsp

Ink - SU Red Riding Hood

Accessories - Grosgrain ribbon, brads, dimensionals, buttons, twine

Taylored Expressions February Blast From the Past Blog Hop!!

Welcome to my stop on the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past February blog hop!! I am very excited to be part of the celebration again! This month's theme is to go green, and I did just that! For my card I chose Taylor's CreativiTEA set and picked a soft green floral/birds designer paper for the background. I used this same paper to paper piece the teapot on the center image. For the banner panel, I embossed it with swirls and birds, and sponged all of the white with a soft green to take away the brightness. I added three brads below the center panel to match the sketch and instead of the top circle element, I added a bow (of course!!). Finally, I stamped a sentiment in the bottom right corner.

I also wanted to share a card my nine year old daughter made for this blog hop!! How cool is that! For the green theme, she went right to Taylor's globe from Make the Grade and colored it with copics. She used the circle Spellbinder's Nestibilities for her image panel and picked some awesome embellishments. Way to go Emily!!

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the blog hop!!

Supplies used:

Stamps - Taylored Expression CreativiTEA

Ink - Stampin Up Certainly Celery, Old Olive; Memento black

Paper - SU Old Olive, white, SU dsp

Accessories - Cuttlebug EF, Spellbinders Nestibilities, brads, sponge, satin ribbon

Paper Pretties Whatnot Release!

Happy Monday everyone! Kids are home from school this week for winter break so I am hoping the girls and I spend some quality time together, quality stamping time that is!!

Paper Pretties is starting off the week with a great new release of digital stamps, perfect for those spring and Easter cards that we are starting to make :). The first card (on the left) features Little Bear Peep, that cute bear Artish draws wearing a Little Bo Peep dress. I made this card for today's release and also for the Crazy 4 Challenges weekly challenge blog, which this week is to use dies on your card. The C4C challenge is being sponsered by Paper Pretties this week, so be sure to stop by!

This card features my daughter's flower bloom made from punches and die cut flowers, assembled with a brad. I have to give her credit. She found a bunch of punched flowers and scallop circles and created a few punched flowers similar to this one, so I put her to work using the papers I needed. She's quite a good paper crafter. I colored the bear using copics and cut it out with an oval die, sponging some more blue around the edges. The pink panel is embossed with swirls. Finally a double striped grosgrain bow treatment finished the card.

My next idea was to make a coordinating card, using the Peeps Sheep image. I kept this card layout more simple, but used the same dsp and ribbon treatment. I cut the image out using a smaller oval and sponged the same blue around the edges. I included a simple sentiment under the image and that finished the card. How simple but how cute!!

Supplies used:

Stamps - Paper Pretties Whatnots Digitals Little Bear Peeps and Peeps Sheep

Ink - Memento black

Paper - white, Bazill pink; Stampin Up dsp

Accessories - Copics, Cuttlebug EF, Spellbinders Nestibilities; striped grosgrain ribbons, brads, scallop circle punch, circle punch, Taylored Expressions Friendship Blooms dies

A Friend

Here is a card I made for the Sweet Sunday sketch challenge (SSSC102) using Taylored Expressions Friendship Bloom set. I flipped the sketch on its side and used a sentiment as my main image. I first stamped the branch and pink blooms, and then sponged some pink around the edges. I added some pink flowers cut with the flower dies for this set (how cool!! and popped them

up over the panel. The sketch called for the circle popped out, which I made into a spotlight. All of the panels are matted on black because of the bits of black in the designer paper. I added a black gingham bow to pop out the black a little more!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Supplies used:
Stamps - Taylored Expressions Friendship Blooms
Paper - Bazill pink, black; TE white; Basic Grey Urban Prairie dsp
Ink - Memento black, pink, Stampin Up Certainly Celery
Accessories - TE Friendship Blooms dies, gingham ribbon, circle punches

Taylored Expressions January Blog Hop!!

Welcome to my stop on the Taylored Expressions blog hop. I am so thrilled to be part of the festivities today!

For my card I chose to use Taylor's Berries and Cherries set to go with the "Love" theme this month. I also chose to use the wonderful sketch by Sankari Wegman, though I switched the position of the vertical panel. For the main image, I used a carton a strawberries and colored it with copics. I chose a perfectly coordinating designer paper from Cosmo Cricket and used reds and greens throughout the card. The red background is embossed with Swiss Dots. I used a scallop border punch for the horizontal panel and tied that up with some bakers twine. The sentiment and main panel have the green scallops as well. Some white brads are the finishing touch.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the blog hop!

Supplies used:
Stamps - Taylored Expressions Berries and Cherries
Ink - Stampin Up Red Riding Hood
Paper - Bazill green, red, white; Cosmo Cricket dsp
Accessories - Copics, scallop border punch, scallop circle punch, circle punches; brads, bakers twine, scallop scissors, dimensionals, Cuttlebug EF

Beautiful Things

Here is a card I made for today's Clean and Simple challenge at SCS to use sponging in your design. I used Taylored Expressions's Discover Your Wings (again!) because I love the sentiment as the focal image. I stamped that in SU Tempting Turquoise, stamped some Pretty in Pink Butterflies and then sponged Momento Cantaloupe all over the panel. The background panel is a simple white embossed with Swiss Dots. I used pretty in pink and some light teal for a card base. I stamped another butterfly on the pink cardstock, cut that out and added that to the top corner. A striped grosgrain tied with white grosgrain finish the card.

TFL!