When you're on a roll.......

Well, When you're on a roll... you're on a roll! When you're not.. well.. you're not!

I thought I'd show you what I've been working on this summer! I had signed up for a couple of craft shows this summer, and had been furiously trying to churn out cards. All in all, I made over 200 cards. I wish I SOLD 200 cards, but I did rid the stash of a number of them!! Here's a bit of a spread of some of the cards I made. I stuck to simple layouts and use up some of the DSP I have been hoarding. Now if I could only be so productive when I swap... or remember to send birthday cards... I would be golden.

Here's one more spread, and shows some of the wedding cards I did up. I completely am in love with the 5x7 size white bases for wedding and anniversary cards. In fact, I am in love with 5x7 cards period! I bought a whole whack of envelopes in this size, so I see some bigger cards in my future. What do you think??

Well, that's what I have been busy doing this summer!!

A little something......

A quick post today with a couple of things to share. I found this bird stamp in the dollar fifty bin at Michael's. There's another one that faces the other way with a different pattern on it and I picked that one up too so I'm working on a layout with the two birds. For now, here's something I whipped up. I'm just LOVING white card bases right now. I am in LOVE with PTI's white cardstock since its so heavy. I wish I could find some locally as the shipping is insane!

The sentiment is from a CTMH set and the ribbon is from the dollar store. I recently have discovered CTMH after years of being curious about it. Now, I am still a rubber lover. My first preference I think will always be a wood mounted red rubber stamp. I was going to give up on clear stamps until I discovered that not all clear poly is alike! CTMH stamps are very pliable and they come off the backing without a fight. Unlike the cheapie dollar fifty bin stamps that come from Michael's, the cheapie Imaginesce and not so cheap Inkadinkadoo stamps that I have that I feel I have to fight with to get off the backing. There are a few other clear stamp companies that have this same particular texture & I'm starting to wonder if the material is different altogether?! Now if only I could find the "perfect" storage solution......lol

Onto the next....!

Some time ago, I made a couple of quick kid's frames and gave them to bf's cousin for her kids. They were in place of a birthday card to accompany birthday presents. They loved them! She sent a message not long after asking if I would please also make a frame for her step-daughter and so I was quite happy to oblige. I picked up the frame at Michael's and a little tube of paint and anything I could find in my stash that was purple. I didn't want the frame to be too busy so i did up some flowers, used my new-to-me Sizzix lollipop dies for the letters and voila! I hope she likes it! (thought it will be some time before we see them next).

Well, that's me for today! Thanks for stopping by!

XOXO K

Card Kit Fun!

Hello!
It has been so busy around here, which accounts for my lack of posting!

A while ago, I was really getting into the card kit swaps. I ended up with quite a collection of all sorts of kits. And when I'm in a funk, its a great way to get my mojo going again. So - the other day when I needed some inspiration, I reached into my stash and pulled out this kit. Here is what the contents had in it:



The kit consisted of a cute little fairy, and sentments - with some great papers and embellies... I pulled out some copics and here is what I ended up with.. whatcha think? I went a little outside of my comfort zone. I realized when looking through old cards that i'd made, that I rarely use more than one design of patterned paper on my cards. Well, this lovely kit helped me get over that one! Don't you just LOVE the matching ribbon?????!!!!!!




I needed to snazz up the wings, and I'm pretty sure the inclusion of "fairy dust" in the kit was meant JUST for this purpose, so I used some crystal effects and shook on the sparkle. I love this stuff! Its not as messy as glitter, but gives you a twinkle all the same! here is a bit of a close up on the wings....

Thank you to all the kit swap hostesses over the last oh.. year and half I guess....!

Thanks for stopping by!