Clearly Besotted Colour Chameleon

Hi Friends!

I'm super excited to be guesting for Clearly Besotted Stamps this month! I have a fun card to share with you today featuring and adorable new stamp set called Colour Chameleon! My daughter loved this card because of the way that "Colour" is spelled. She and I often practice our British accents together and she has also decided she likes to spell some words with the British spelling too :)

This really is another fun little stamp set! The theme of the Chameleons with color is just so cute and creative! Lots of fun things you could do with this one.

I loved the paint swatches that are included in the set, so I stamped the straight one three times in the center of my card with aqua, green and yellow inks. I splattered a little bit of those three colors around as well, and then a little bit of white too. 

I colored the Chameleon with Copic markers and fussy cut him out, than added him to my panel with foam tape. I stamped the sentiment with black ink over the paint swatches.

I lastly added a few PPP sequins to match the colors of the paint swatches, then adhered the whole panel to a card base that I had covered with some striped patterned paper.

Make sure to check out the Clearly Besotted Blog to see some more inspiration from the Design team!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Kay :)

Clearly Besotted Best Friends

Hi Friends! I'm super excited to be guesting for Clearly Besotted Stamps this month!  I have another card to share with you today using the very sweet new stamp set called Best Friends. This set has the cutest little pairs of animals! 

Aren't they sweet? I love them! 

I stamped the fence directly onto Master's Touch watercolor paper with permanent black ink, and watercolored it with Peerless watercolors. I added a blue sky and some green grass too. I splattered a little bit of the brown paint around when it was dry. I colored the adorable little duo with Copic markers and fussy cut them out, and adhered them to my card with foam tape. I stamped the sentiment in black ink under the cute pair, and then added a few PPP sequins.

Make sure to check out the Clearly Besotted Blog to see some more inspiration from the Design team!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Kay :)

Clearly Besotted July Release Teaser Time

Hi Friends!

I'm super excited to be guesting for Clearly Besotted Stamps this month! They have some of the cutest stamps I've ever seen, and this month is no exception! Check out the card I created with the adorable new Trouble In a Tutu set! Even the name is adorable!

Is that not the cutest little hippo ballerina you've ever seen? And the sentiments included in this set are so fun! 

For my card, I stamped the cloud outline with waterproof black ink onto Master's Touch watercolor paper and painted it with Peerless watercolors. When it was dry, I splattered it with some of the same colors. 

I colored the little ballerina with Copic markers and fussy cut her out, than adhered her with foam tape. I stamped the cute sentiment onto a banner flag, and adhered it with foam tape as well. I added a few PPP sequins to finish it up.

Make sure to check out the Clearly Besotted Blog to see some more inspiration from the Design team!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Kay :)

#1 Just For Fun - Because It's Spring

Hello Friends!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! We got up to 70 yesterday and the sun was shinning all day. My favorite little girl ( well she is not so little anymore) and I got out for a very long walk in the woods, one of our favorite things to do.  We hiked and rested on big rocks, waded in the creek and laughed at the crazy pug who came along with us! It was great!

Today I have a card that I made over the weekend just for fun. I am going to start posting once a week, one card that I do just for fun. I buy way too many stamps and dies, I know a lot of you can relate to this, and so many of them get put away and never used. Sometimes you just need to dig though that box of NBUS ( from Darnell) and start playing with it. 

I have had Fresh Cut Flowers from WPlus9 ever since the set came out as a new release, and I have never used it. It's one of the prettiest stamp sets I have ever seen. I have SO many fabulous cards pinned on Pinterest with this set... but still it sits in my unused stamp pile.  Why? I have no idea! It's like I was saving it because it was too beautiful to use?? Weird, I know!

So anyway, that is the stamp set that I chose to use for my first "Just for Fun" post! I stamped and stamped and cut out and cut out all the little flowers and leaves from the set, and then I played around with lots of different card design ideas. I made 6  cards with this set!! They are so springy and happy and it was so fun!

This one was heavily inspired by this card, by Laura Bassen. I pretty much love everything she does, and when I saw the shaded circle, I mentally tucked that away in my "totrysoon" box. So here it is!

Pretty simple card, I just cut out a circle for a stencil and blended some Peacock Feathers distress in in it. I added the little strip of striped paper down the side. Wow, I love that! I have that tucked away in my idea box to use again too! I glued the two biggest flowers down with foam tape and tucked everything else underneath them with glue dots and Mono Adhesive. I cut out four of the Hellos and stacked them together for dimension. A tip here, I have found it SO much easier if I glue the first one down to the card and stack them from there. I was having a really hard time gluing them together before hand. Grrr...

Supplies:

Fresh Cut Flowers - WPlus9

Hello die - Clearly Besotted

Stitched Rectangle - Lawn Fawn

I will be back this week with some more of my Fresh Cut Flowers cards! I even have a Christmas one to share!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Festive Friday #39 Reminder

Hello my friends!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful week! 

Just a little reminder that there is still time to join in the challenge at Festive Friday!

Here is the inspiration photo for this time. 

And here is my second card with this gorgeous inspiration photo! Sorry no bunny this time :) heheh!

So this card starts off with a stitched panel of white card stock using one of my new stitched rectangle dies from Lawn Fawn! Love them! I added a rectangle of the dark green patterned paper to the side, then stamped the Merry Christmas along the edges. Next I added the stamped mat, wreath, and snowflakes with foam tape. Lastly I added a couple of little red enamel dots for festiveness! :)

Supplies:

Stamps: Wreath-Clearly Besotted, Sentiment- Papertrey Ink, Snowflakes- Papertrey Ink

Dies: Stitched mat- Lawn Fawn, dies that match the stamps are the same company, white snowlfake- Spellbinders

I hope you will play along with us at Festive Friday!

You can also check out the amazing talent from the other design team members at Festive Friday!

Thank so much for stopping by!

I hope you all have a safe and happy weekend! 

Hugs,

Kay :)

The Card Concept Challenge #17

Hello my friends!

It's time for another fabulous challenge at The Card Concept!

This weeks challenge is to create a card inspired by this lovely photo. As soon as I saw it, I thought of my Papertrey Ink Mighty Oak Tree Cover Plate. 

Here's what I did with it!

So I cut my Papertrey Ink Mighty Oak Cover Plate die and cut it out of the blue paper. I popped out all the cut outs,  then glued that down to my white card base. Next I cut out the trunk in brown and I cut the leaves out of several different shades of green. I then glued all of those back into the spaces on the blue piece. Next I cut out the stitched hill Landscape Trio from Mama Elephant, and  glued that down. I colored and die cut out my darling little Mama Elephant girl ( whom I love to pieces) In My Heart Stamp set, and mounted her on the little hill with foam tape. Lastly I cut out the hello sentiment ,Clearly Besotted, twice, glued them together and then glued that down to my card. There you have it! :) 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 Stop by and see what the other designers have created and  I hope you'll join us for the challenge at The Card Concept!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Getting To Know Me

Hello Friends!

I was recently tagged by the sweet and lovely Claire at Life on The Scrap Heap to do a Getting To Know Me post. If you've not already heard about this, the way it works is, you are tagged by someone to do your Getting To Know Me post, and then you in turn tagged two more people you admire and they do a Getting To Know me post also. And on and on it goes. Kind of like a chain letter except hopefully you don't have bad luck if you mess it up! haha! Which unfortunately I am going to have to do because all the people I asked to participate, were either too busy or had already promised someone else they'd do it. 

Before I begin I will share a picture of me with my two wonderful kids at the wedding last weekend. It turned out so nicely and I was thrilled with the way the photos turned out. I had to hand the camera to the hubby to get one of me though :)

Kaylea is not really taller than I am. We were on a hill. We're both short, but I still have an inch on her :)

So in this blog post I am going to answer these four questions that Claire provided me with to the best of my ability. Hopefully when I am done you will know me better ;)

1. What creative projects are you currently working on?

A Lot!! I always have many creative things going on in my life. That's what makes me the happiest. Right now I am working on several cards for my design teams. I'm trying to get ahead a little because we take our vacation in October, and I want to have all my posts scheduled ahead of time, so I don't miss anything. 

I am also working on my clay ornaments. It's coming up on the busiest time of year, and they are selling super good. I am so shocked and surprised at how well they have done. I never would have guessed it when I added those first ones to my store earlier this year. The last two times I have added ornaments to my store, they were sold within just a few hours. I didn't even have time to post about them on my blog. I do want to thank you all for that! I am thrilled!! And I have more stamp money! haha! I have had a lot of people ask me to email them when I add new stuff to the store, and I just can't keep up with everyone, so I added a newsletter sign up form just over there on the left of my blog if you want to know too :)

Another thing that I am working on is because of a gift that my very sweet friend Jeanne sent me. Her daughter does a lot of cute things with the Rainbow Loom, and  I'm always oohing and aaahing over them and saying how much I want one of those things, but I can't get my daughter talked into one, and I can't justify buying myself one, because I'm way over the age limit for those things! haha! So anyway, she surprised me with one for my birthday last month.  It was one of the sweetest most thoughtful things. She even sent extra rubber bands! I was thrilled! So I've been watching Youtube tutorials and making bracelets! Yippee!! They're fun! Now what am I going to do with all these bracelets, you're probably wondering?? I'm going to figure out how to hang them on the Christmas tree! Yep! Just about everything I do ends up being some kind of Christmas tree ornament. I'll probably make little wreaths out of them or a garland.

2. How and what inspires your designs?

 Well, the question should be more like What doesn't inspire your designs? I am inspired by everything! I am very inspirable!! I love Pinterest ( who doesn't) and I browse for about an hour every morning while I treadmill. I love looking at the little kids clothing in stores. I just love the pretty colors and cute designs. I always have to go up and down the card aisles in any store ( especially Target). Again love the colors and designs. I love brochures and ads. I'm always looking at them, thinking "that's a neat design for a card." And I am always inspired by visiting all of my card blogging friends to see what they are all creating. I love to CASE designs that I see, but usually by the time I'm finished it doesn't look even remotely close to my inspiration! haha! 

3. What method / process (if applicable) do you apply to each of your creative projects, and how long does each project take to complete?

Well I'm going to go with my card making process for this one. My very favorite thing to do when creating cards is, when I get a new stamp set and dies, I love to stamp a ton of stuff and cut it all out and then play with it. I lay it all out in a line above my work area and try different things with different pieces. When I get something I like, I glue it all down. I have this thing about making six cards with each set of stamps I get. Now, let me tell you, I am WAY behind on this. I have stamp sets that I bought two years ago, that I have never used yet, but sometimes the minute one arrives at my doorstep, I'm ripping open the package and inking it up. That's my favorite process, but not always the one I use. Being on my design teams, I would never get anything done if I cut out a hundred things and made six cards every time. So for my design team cards, I usually have some kind of idea in my head of what I'm going to do, or I cut out a limited amount of stuff and play around with it. Usually the latter :) I love to cluster little flowers and things.

So how long does it take me to finish a card? Well, I have been known to spend hours on one card, and then I can run in my craft room some days and throw something together in minutes. Matter of fact, just yesterday, I was working on my card for the Festive Friday challenge. I cut stuff out and moved it around and worked on that card for over TWO hours! And I ended up hating it. So I tossed it aside, grabbed some stuff I had already cut out for another project, threw it together in about three and a half minutes and I loved it! So you never know. I asked my Mom if she wanted the card I didn't like, because I was going to throw it away if she didn't take it, and she said she didn't know anyone she disliked that much! haha! She was joking of course, but it was funny!

4. If you had to describe your ‘signature’ style, what would it be?

I didn't really know I had a style until Leslie invited me to be on the design team for The Card Concept and put me in the Clean and Layered category. She hit the nail on the head! That's exactly my style. I do love a clean looking card with quite a bit of white space, but I love lots of little details. I love detail work. I'll sit for hours working on little die cut scenes or clay ornaments. I forget all about everything! 

Okay, I have answered my questions. I can't leave you without something to look at, so here's a card I made recently that I love how it turned out. I have seen this done by many card makers, so it's definitely not my original idea, but it's a cute one I think :)

That little umbrella is from Clearly Besotted, the sweet flowers are from Lawn Fawn, and the sentiment is from WPlus9.  

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you have enjoyed learning a little bit about me. Thank you Claire for tagging me:)

Have a wonderful week!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Curtain Call - Anything Goes

Happy Wednesday my friends!

I have been in love with flamingos since I was a young kid. When we lived in Florida, we owned a Marine Supply and Tackle store with a seafood market too. I was in charge of decorating the market and I did the whole thing in aqua and pink with flamingos everywhere. It was so cute! I even painted a huge mural on the wall opposite the seafood market of a beach scene with a flamingo. It was the only large scale painting I ever did. I took pictures, but somewhere along the way in our move north, they disappeared. 

Anyway, I still love flamingoes! As soon as I saw the new release from Reverse Confetti, with the flamingo set, I had to have it! 

This is just my first card of many that I will make with this cute little flamingo!

The flamingo, the scalloped mat and the striped mat are all from Reverse Confetti. The greenery is from Clearly Besotted. The flower is from Lawn Fawn and the sentiment is from WPlus9. I cut the flamingo body out with the matching dies and made a cut file for my Cameo to cut out the legs. 

I am adding this to The Curtain Call challenge. This challenge is anything goes and there are loads of wonderful sponsors! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

I hope you have a wonderful week!

Hugs,

Kay :)

The Cutting Edge #2 and Virginia's View

Hello all!

This is my second post for today, so if you are looking for my Verve post scroll down :)

I have so much going on this week, that I really didn't have time to create another card and do another post, but I just had to make something for the Cutting Edge challenge and a new one I just found out about, Virginia's View! Two new challenges all about die cuts, which I LOVE!

Here is the inspiration photo for The Cutting Edge Challenge, a very very artsy and creative card by Karolyn Loncon.

And here is what I did with it!

The neat background is a cover plate die from My Favorite Things. I cut it out in five different colors and then inlaid the different colored pieces back into the background cut out piece. I added the green strip along the bottom ( another die from MFT) and then cut out two of the hello sentiments ( Clearly Besotted) and glued them down. I then cut out the row of houses ( Taylored Expressions) and popped it up with some foam tape. I added a circle cut from the pale yellow with some foam tape to the sun.

I am adding this to:

The Cutting Edge

Virginia's View

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I'll be back tomorrow with some new Verve previews!

Hugs,

Kay :)

We All Scream For Ice Cream!

Happy Monday!

I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend!

Amongst all the birthday and Fourth of July festivities at our house this weekend, I did find some time to make a few cards. To keep my happiness level up to par, I must work in some kind of creative time almost daily, if not I start wilting pretty fast ;)

I recently received some new goodies from Clearly Besotted. ( surprise surprise! ) I loved the ice cream set and wanted to work with it in hopes that looking at something cold might actually cool me off during this warm weather. Well not much, but it sure was fun anyway!

Here's three cards that I made with this cute set. I mentioned it before, but just in case you missed that post, when I get a new set of stamps and dies, I like to make six cards with it before adding it to it's place in the craft room. I don't know why six, it's just a good even number, and they look so nicely sitting on my desk in two rows of three! haha!

This was a really fun set to work with and I love the cute sentiments that come with it!

The hello die and all of the stamps (Super Cool) are from by Clearly Besotted. The stitched mats, circles, and stitched scallops are from Lil Inkers. The pierced flag banners and scalloped border are from My Favorite Things. I colored the images with Copics and popped everything up with foam tape.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I will be back tomorrow with a super exciting post!!

Hugs,

Kay :)

You Are Special

Hello dear friends!

It's been a while since I've posted anything. I have been thoroughly enjoying the warm temperatures, spring flowers and not being on the computer quite so much. It's been lovely!

I have been making some cards though. I sneak away to my craft room every little chance I can and play. Actually I've been piddling a lot lately. I posted about piddling a while back, if you didn't read it, then what piddling means to me is, to just play with my stamps and card stuff with no particular goal in mind. No challenge to go by, no person I'm making it for, no reason, and no aim, just to get my stuff out, start coloring, cutting and gluing and see where it takes me. Sometimes I forget all about this, and get kind of serious about things I'm doing, and I lose my joy. When things start getting bogged down and I'm thinking , "this isn't as much fun as it used to be" that's when it hits me.... I forgot about piddling!!! Oh heaven's don't ever forget to piddle!!!

So I've been piddling again and it's soooooooo wonderful!

Here's where my piddling led me yesterday! 

I LOVE patterned paper!! I also love clean cards with white space. It's sometimes hard to combine the two you know? So I'm always looking and thinking of different layout ideas that will allow me to use a bit of patterned paper, and still have a clean looking card. I came up with this design which I loved so much I made two more just like it in different colors!

All of the flowers and leaves are from Papertrey Ink, the sentiment is from Clearly Besotted, and the arched dies are from Sizzix. 

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you are having a good week so far! I'll be back on Friday for a new Festive Friday post! Meanwhile, I am going to keep piddling away here! 

Hugs,

Kay :)

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's day to all of those wonderful mother's out there :)

I hope you have a fabulous day with your family.

I made this card for my sweet mother. I am so blessed to have the best Mom in the world for my neighbor and my best friend. We have so much fun together. She loves to stamp also, but doesn't blog. She just takes all of my cards home and copies them! haha! She also reads my blog so she's going to see this ;) Love you Mom!! I hope you have a wonderful day!

This is really my favorite style of cards to make. I love to just cut stuff out and kind of cluster and center it on a white background. I don't think you can beat that look ;) The two background stamps are from the set Day Dream Medallions by Stampin' Up! The flowers are all from Waltzing Mouse. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted and the swirly thing is from Papertrey Ink. 

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by. Have a wonderful Mother's day!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Curtain Call and Freshly Made Sketches

Hello all!

I had to pop in and post one more card before I finished my packing :)

I love sunflowers so I really wanted to do The Curtain Call challenge this time. Plus they are being sponsored by Clearly Besotted Stamps, and I bought my first set recently, so I wanted to use that for the challenge. So here's what I came up with.

I also used the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. The stamps are Fancy Floral by Clearly Besotted and that paper is more of my Happy Harvest paper by Doodlebug Designs. I am also entering this card in the Simon Says weekly challenge which is to use a product available in their store. I bought the Fancy Floral stamps from them ( along with a hoard of other stuff) and the Doodlebug Designs paper is available there also.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Kay :)

Added to these challenges:

Curtain Call

Freshly Made Sketches

Simon Says

Supplies:

Stamps- Fancy Florals by Clearly Besotted

Dies- stitched mats- Lil Inkers, Flags- MFT

Cardstock-MFT