Thankful

Hello! I have a card to share with you today that I just made for fun and to play along with the 30 Day Coloring Challenge over at The Daily Marker! It's been way too long since I've piddled with my stamps and dies, and I've missed it.

 I'm in a fall mood, even though it's been unusually warm here. I have my Scentsy going with pumpkin spice filling the air, and I'm pretending it's cool outside. 

This was made with an older die from Cottage Cutz. I have a lot of their dies and love them, but they are time consuming, although tons of fun!. I cut all of the pieces out of #110 white card stock and colored them with Copic markers. I did a tiny bit of shading, but not much.

After I colored them, I sponged a small amount of Vintage Photo Distress Ink around the edges and then I speckled them with white acrylic paint and more Vintage Photo.  For the background, I blended some Peacock Feathers Distress ink onto watercolor paper, speckled with water and then with some ore Peacock Feathers.

The Thankful die is from Penny Black. I cut three out and layered them together then added it on top of the die cuts with some liquid glue.  All of the dies were glued together with Tombow Mono Adhesive.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you are enjoying your fall!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Autumn Centerpiece Cottage Cutz Die

Words of Gratitude Penny Black Die

Cozy Christmas

Hello Friends!

It's Friday! Yay! And even with all the snow on the driveway and the roads, the girl and I are going to McDonalds for breakfast! That may not sound that exciting to you, but we love to take the iPads with us and get coffee, hot chocolate and Egg McMuffins, and just relax and chit chat. 

So I managed to make a Christmas card this week! I'm going to do my best to post at least one Christmas card a week. That's the plan anyway.

For this card, I used a die from Cottage Cutz that I got for Christmas. Am I the only one who gets Christmas stuff for Christmas? :D Anyway, I cut a piece of watercolor paper out with one of my rectangle stitched dies, and sponged a small amount of Antique Linen distress ink in the center. Then I smooshed my ink pad down on an acrylic block mixed it with a little bit of water and flicked some little speckles on the piece.  The holly and bow, I cut out of white card stock and colored with my Copic markers. I had never tried this before, but I loved the way it turned out, so this is a technique that I will for sure being doing again. I layered the holly and bow with foam tape and glue dots, stamped the sentiment and added the little gold enamel dots last.

Supplies:

Holly Branch w/Bow - Cottage Cutz

Sentiment - Papertrey Ink

Stitched dies - Lawn Fawn

Well that's it for me today! We have a warm up on the way, so hopefully some of this snow will melt, and we'll be able to get outside and play more. Until then, I'll just make cards and clay things, because that's real fun :)

Have a great weekend!

Hugs,

Kay :)

Curtain Call Challenge, NBUS, and a Clay Peek!

Hello and happy Sunday! 
I hope you all are enjoying the day! I have a card to share today for the Curtain Call challenge and Darnell's NBUS Challenge, and a little peek at what I've been doing with my clay.

I think .... that this might just be my favorite card I have ever made. If you've noticed lately, I have been enthralled with winter scenes with little animals in them, and preferably foxes, but I do love most cute little critters :) Everything on this card, except for the Hello was under the tree this Christmas, and what a fabulous Christmas morning it was! haha! 

I started this card by stamping the white snowflakes in the background in Versamark and embossing them with clear embossing ink. I then sponged some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink over it. The little village scene is from Cottage Cutz. I love it! It looked funny with the snow showing through the windows though, so I cut another one out of yellow and glued the yellow pieces in the windows and doors. I colored the adorable little fox with Copic markers and the Hello is cut from glittered Fun Foam. Love that stuff! I don't know about you, but I absolutely detest glueing layers of word dies together. I do it, but I don't like it. There's got to be an easier way!! 

Supplies:

Snowy background-My Favorite Things

Village Die- Cottage Cutz

Snowy Hill- My Favorite Things

Fox- WPlus9

Hello die- Serendipity Stamps

So this card is going to the Curtain Call Challenge which is Soft Scarf. My little fox has a soft scarf on, so I hope this qualifies. It's also going to Darnell's NBUS Challenge, because this is all NBUS! 

Now if you are still reading, here's a peek at what I've been working on with my clay. I took December off from my clay work , because it's an insanely busy month, and I wanted to be able to enjoy the holidays. I just recently got the clay back out and you'll notice in my photo that my clay work has been heavily inspired by my card making! I have been creating little winter scenes with animals in them! I've been having a lot of fun with these!

Allright! That's all I have for you today! It's going to get up to 60 degrees today and the sun is shining, so yay for that! The boys are out cutting trees down, so it's just the girl and me for most of the day. We're going to do some fun crafty things and maybe take a nice long walk with the dogs.

Hope you have a wonderful week!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Kay :)

NBUS and 200 Weeks of Inspiration Challenge

Hi friends!

Today I am playing along with a couple of challenges!

Darnell's NBUS challenge 
and
Kara's 200 Weeks of Inspiration Challenge

I got so much fun new stuff for Christmas I couldn't resist using some NBUS, and I am always so inspired by all of the gorgeous cards I see on Pinterest, that I really wanted to play along with Kara's challenge too.

For Kara's challenge I chose this absolutely adorable card by Kim. When I first saw this on Kim's blog I thought it was the cutest thing ever, so of course when I saw it on Kara's Friday Inspiration board I knew that was the one I wanted to CASE.

I didn't have the little Taylored Expression's Fox that Kim used ( but I will) so I used a cute little fox I got for Christmas from Cottage Cutz. The little tree is from Taylored Expressions.

Supplies:

Tree-Taylored Expressions

Embossing Folder- Taylored Expressions

Fox- Cottage Cutz

Stitched snow hill- Lawn Fawn

Sentiment- Papertrey Ink

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Hugs,

Kay :)

A Little Sparkle and Shine

Hello friends!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We had a very nice one, but the kids did get sick. One on Christmas eve and one the day after Christmas. It wasn't bad enough to stop them from participating in all of our Christmas activities, just made it not quite as much fun for them.  I am the only one in the family that has managed to escape the bug and I have my fingers crossed that it stays that way :)

I got a lot of new fun stampy/crafty things for Christmas! Yay! One of the things I got was this cute snowglobe die from Cottage Cutz.  I haven't had a lot of time for crafting, but I just had to get in my room and try it out. I just love the way it turned out! I am still very much into Winter and Christmas. Still have a lot of new Christmas stamps and dies  I want to play with :)

Everything is inlaid so it's all nice and flat. I used some Peacock Feathers distress ink on the background. I cut the snow globe out of that and then again out of the white. I inlaid the white back into the distressed piece that I had cut the first one out of. I then added the background from the distress inked piece back into it and cut out the holly and berries out of green and red and added them into the design too. This is a tedious process, but this card really didn't take me long at all. I was surprised how quickly it all came together. I stamped and embossed the greeting with white embossing powder. I also added a little bit of color to my snowman with Copic markers. 

Supplies:

Snowglobe- Cottage Cutz

Sentiment  - Winter Wonderland- Mama Elephant

Peacock Feathers Distress Ink

Stitched Rectangle die- Lawn Fawn

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs,

Kay :)