The Cutting Edge Challenge

Hi Friends!

I hope you all had a nice Father's day! I spent a little time with my Dad before he politely let me, and the rest of us kids know, that he was ready for his nap! 

So have you heard about the new Cutting Edge Challenge? Jackie Rockwell started it, and she has a rock star line up of designers! It looks fabulous and right up my alley, as I LOVE dies and cutting stuff out! Anyway, they are having a little challenge ahead of time to pick a guest designer to join them for the first challenge. I'm adding my  card here to the challenge. I'm not a competitive sort, but I couldn't wait for the first challenge to start, so I thought I'd go ahead and play along :)

Here are the details if you want to play along too!

You have to use one of the designers card for inspiration. I chose the one in the lower right corner.

I had to add the rainbow... and the little house and trees, and the flowers and the .... Okay I had a hard time stopping adding things :D

Here's a list of all the dies I used :

Rainbow-MFT

Clouds- Lil Inkers

Sun- Lil Inkers

Stitched mat- Lil Inkers

Hills- Taylored Expressions

Flowers- Impression Obsession

Those nifty little enamel dots are some of my fabulous Perler beads melted in the oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes! If you decide to do this though, you need to open all the windows in the house! They are a bit smelly when they're melting :) 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you all have a fabulous week!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Hello and happy Wednesday!

I hope everyone is doing well! I had a wonderful weekend with my hubby. I took both of my Mac computers in to be updated with the new OS, I got two new pair of glasses, I picked up some new clothes for the kiddos, AND... I got to go to both Michael's and Hobby Lobby!! I have a great guy don't I? :) We did lots of other fun things too, but the best part of all was getting home and seeing my dear little family and my dogs... OH and making something!! I can only go so long before I have terrible creating withdrawals! haha! 

Anyway, it is time again for the wonderful Card Concept Challenge! Every week it's so fun to see all the different ways that each of you interpret the inspiration. 

  

So this week we're doing butterflies! How perfect for spring! Yes, Spring is going to happen this year. I have faith! 

I only have one butterfly anything and it's a new lovely die that I got for Christmas from MFT. Can you believe that I have not one single butterfly stamp? I don't know what's wrong with me!! I need to remedy that this year! :D

So anyway, this is what I did with my one butterfly die.

I just randomly cut up some patterned paper on the diagonal from some scraps that I had, and glued them down for the background. I'm sorry, I don't know where the paper is from. I love to cut up my paper and take it out of the packs and scatter it all around in different places in my craft room when I get it. So it's rare that I know, who, where it's from. That lovely butterfly is from My Favorite Things as is the nice little Hello Friend sentiment. So 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 :)

New Design Team Member at Festive Friday!

I am so so thrilled to announce that I am a new design team member at Festive Friday!! I adore that challenge! I played along on the very first on back in January of 2013 and thought it was wonderful! I have always admired the very talented team there and was totally shocked when Meredith invited me to be on the 2014 team! I didn't have to think about it very long before I said YES! haha! 

Do you know what this means? This means that I have a legitimate reason to make Christmas cards all year long! Not that I have ever needed a reason, because I always do that, but now I have a real bona fide reason! I'm happy :)

The first challenge starts on January 17th and I can't wait to share the card that I have already made! Yes, it's all made and ready! I am that excited! haha!  I hope you'll join in on the fun too!

Well, I couldn't just pop in here with an announcement and not share a card too, so I'm sharing a little purple snowflake number that I did this week. I got some wonderful new stamps and dies from My Favorite Things for Christmas and I have been playing around with them. I love snowflakes and purple is my very favorite color... so here you go!

That paper is ancient! I found it in my unknown origin box and I remember it from scrapbooking when the kids were just teeny! It worked well with my other purples though :) The Love die is from Papertrey Ink, the snowflake stamps and dies, and the button dies are from My Favorite Things.

One last thing before I go. I'm officially tired of winter and snow. I never thought I would utter those words, but this winter has been brutal! I love winter and snow, but I miss my sunshine, and the UPS man who can't deliver my two packages because our road is a sheet of ice :(

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Kay :)