NBUS Challenge #2

Well the fun loving, oh so entertaining, Miss Darnell has reached another milestone with her followers, bringing her up to a whopping 600 now! Wow! So she's having her second NBUS challenge! If you live under a rock ( I sometimes do) and don't know who Darnell is, check out her blog HERE. She's just one of the funnest blogging friends I have!

The only rule you have to follow is to use your NBUS - never before used schtuff, which I have plenty of.... 

Darnell set a little side option you can follow if you want:

1. Christmas
2. Make two cards using the same stamp.
3. Both of the above.
4. None of the above.

I liked her side option. I chose to do #3, because I love making Christmas cards, and I thought it would be fun to do two cards with the same stamp/stamps. 

So here's what I came up with! 

I did my first card in pretty traditional Christmas colors.

And my second one in soft wintery colors. I've always love blues and browns together.

I followed a fun tutorial by Danielle Flanders found here to make the neat off the edge cuts. I wanted to do this for Make It Monday when it first came out, but didn't have the time. I thought it worked out so fun with the snowflakes!

For the NBUS part, I used Festive Flurry stamp set and matching dies from Stampin' Up. I've had these since last fall and never used them. 

I won't go into how I created these cards, because you can just watch Danielle's video. I did exactly as she did just using the snowflakes instead of apples :)

Supplies:

Stamps: Festive Flurry- Stampin' Up, Snowflake Flurries- PTI, Happiest of Holidays - PTI

Dies: Festive Flurries- Stampin' Up

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great rest of the week!

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 :)

Festive Friday #31

Hello my friends!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful week!

It's time again for another challenge at Festive Friday!

Here is the gorgeous inspiration photo for this time around. Oh goodness! I love anything candy canish! My only problem was trying to decide which stamps to go with!

Here is what I came up with:

I decided to go with Papertrey Ink's Candy Cane Christmas. I stamped and cut out the mug and candy canes. I really wanted another candy cane facing in the opposite direction, so I stamped and cut out the one on the left from a set called Scentsational Season from Stampin' Up! The bow is from Avery Elle. The sentiment is from Snowflake Flurries- PTI. The stitched mat is a die from Lil Inkers. Seriously don't know what I did before the stitched mat dies came out!

Anyway there you have it!

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!

I hope you all have a safe and happy weekend!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Seize The Birthday #12

It is time for another challenge at Seize The Birthday! This week we have a brand new sketch! I really love this one. Had so much fun with it. Also this week we are creating cards for the girlies ;)

Here is the sketch: 

And here is my card :

I really had fun making this card. I love patterned paper and got to use lots :) The stamps are all retired from Stampin' Up! except the tiny flowers, they're from Printed Petals set. 

This week we are proud to sponsor Paper Sweeties! They are donating a $10 gift certificate to the winner!

  Paper Sweeties™ LLC is owned and illustrated by Debbie Marcinkiewicz, and offers hand drawn, high quality photopolymer acrylic stamps.  Our heartwarming images allow paper crafters to create adorable dolls with interchangeable outfits and accessories! We also have a wide variety of wonderful all-occasion sentiments, labels and accessory sets - perfect for every paper crafted project!  The Paper Sweeties Shoppe carries hand tea-stained seam binding too!  The Sweeties dolls, accessories and sentiments are so much fun to play with and are sure to bring back fond childhood memories!  You’ll enjoy using the Sweeties to create projects for card making, scrap booking, party invitations and favors, home decor, gifts and so much more!

Won't you join us at Seize The Birthday and add to your birthday card stash!

Check out what the other amazing team members have created!

Jen Nelson

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Stacey Schafer

I appreciate you stopping by and for all the sweet comments. My internet has been out for over two weeks now and I have been having to use my neighbors, so I haven't been online much to leave comments or do anything. They internet  fixers were supposed to come out yesterday and put me in a whole new bigger, better and faster satellite package, but they didn't show :( I have my fingers crossed that they'll come see me today and that soon I'll be back online!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Seize The Birthday #12

It is time for another challenge at Seize The Birthday! This week we are using the same sketch as last week, but this week it's a masculine card we are creating!

Here is the sketch: 

And here is my card :

I haven't had much time to create for the past week or so. My hubby had gallbladder surgery this past Friday right in the middle of a snow storm, so things were kind of crazy for me worrying about the weather and if we were going to make it to the hospital and back home. I am happy to say though that everything worked out real well. He's now gallbladderless and doing fine! haha! 

For this card, I used paper from Doodle Bug Designs. The giraffe is an older stamp from Stampin' Up, the small flower is from Stampin' Up, the leaf and die are from Papertrey Ink and the leafy image I stamped in the background is an older Hero Arts stamp. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up also.

This month we are thrilled to be sponsored by the Uniko Studio.

They are a small company based in the North East of the UK and they specialize in surface pattern design & clear stamps for the hobby market.

Won't you join us at Seize The Birthday and add to your birthday card stash!

Check out what the other amazing team members have created!

Jen Nelson

Lesley Croghan

Deanna Dean

Dawn Easton

Lynn Hayes

Kay Miller

Rose Miller

Stacey Schafer

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Kay :)