Flutterby Fairy

Ready for another adorable Designed 2 Delight freebie?

"Flutterby Fairy" is the current digital freebie, if you missed out on recieving this image free, you can purchase it here.

By playing along, remeber you get the next image free!  You don't want to miss out on all the fun images from Faith!

Here's my card I made with the image:

 When I saw her I instatly thought it would be a perfect image for a little girl's birthday card!

I also had to use some of my Creative Inspirations Paint to add some shimmer to her tutu, heart and wings!!

Make sure to check out the Card Idea's Blog for some great inspiration from the DT!

Have a great weekend!

Kendra

Friend Layout

A layout for my little girl's album.  Pictures of her and her best friend!  They are so cute together, when we get together for play dates!



AJ the Racecar Driver

I used "AJ the race car driver" from The Stamping Boutique for this card.  My brother-in-law, who also is a racer in the family has a birthday coming up, so I found this image to be very suiting for him.

I created this card in February, but wasn't able to post it right away, as SNR (Scrapbook News and Review) published this card in their on-line magazine March 13th and ask for me to wait to show it off on my blog for 30 days!!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

Sympathy Card with Sweet Stamps

Sweet Stamps Challenge #12:

Sympathy

Here's my creation:

Opened up:

 Not a card I care to create often, but one that needs to be on hand when you need it.  So this was a great challenge, as I really don't have sympathy cards on hand.  Decided to try something different and make an accordian style card.

I used "Lovely Roses" for this card, which I found to be very fitting for a sympathy card. Another great stamps from Sweet Stamps!  The sentiment "With Sympathy" is also from Sweet Stamps. 

Make sure to join us on the Sweet Stamps blog, we'd love to see what you create.  You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some "sweet" things of your own!!  Also make sure to check out all the other lovely creations from the other DT members!!

Have a great day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Stamping Scrapping Challenge: Anything Goes
Alphabet Challenge: "Y" is for Yellow 

TSB Jade

When I saw this digital image I thought of my little sister!  I quickly made this card the other day for her to let her know I was thinking of her and that we needed to get together soon to do some shoping! :)

The image is from The Stamping Boutique called "Jade".

TSB is currently sponsoring Creative Inspirations, the challenge is "Digi Day" so you can use anything digi...in this case it's my image!  TSB is giving the winner a choice of 3 digital images from their shop!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

Happy Easter

Happy Easter Everyone!  I hope everyone has a wonderful day with their family!!

The weather here is actually okay, so we plan to be outside with the kids most of the day today!!

Kendra

CI Paints Inspired By: The Rainbow

This week's challenge at Creative Inspiration Paints is:

Inspired By: The Rainbow

Here's my creation, which I created earlier this month:

Not only bright, but I believe I managed to cover all the colors in the rainbow!

Hope you'll join in!

Another Easter Card From My Lil Guy

He was at it again the other day wanting to create some cards!!

Here's another Easter card he made.  He loved this image!

He did pretty much everything himself, but I had to help him cut the papers and spell "Happy Easter".  He's got the whole card making thing down!

He was so excited to be digging through my supplies and finding the flower bling!

He asked me again if I could take him shopping to get his own stuff! LOL  So since Hobby Lobby is having such a good sale this week, I told him we would go to pick some stuff out for him.  So that will be an interesting trip today!! :)

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Challenges for Sawyer's Card:

Simon Says Stamps: Anything Goes (Kids Aged 2-16) Sawyer is 2.5yrs old

The Latte Lounge: BFF (Best Friend's Forever) Made for Grandma

Stitchy Bear Kids: Bling It On

Prairie Fairy Challenge #51

Over on the Prairie Fairy Fun Friday's Blog our challenge for the next two weeks is:

April Showers Bring May Flowers

There are so many great Prairie Fairy flower digi's to choose from!

I used "Coneflower" for this digital layout.

This is the first time that I first printed the image and colored it in, then scanned it in my computer to use for this digital layout.  I'm really happy with the turnout!

I used some pictures taken in our yard last summer!

Make sure to check out the Prairie Fairy Fun Friday's Blog to see all the other wonderful creations from the other Prairie Princesses! 

Have a great day!!

Kendra

D2D Freebie Preview

You have a few hours to share your projects with this past week's freebie from Designed 2 Delight to get tomorrow's freebie.  If you missed on receiving this past week's image "Ladybug Balancing Act" as a freebie you can get it here.

Create a card with that image to get "Bullfrogs and Butterflies" free tomorrow.

Faith at Designed 2 Delight has such a wonderful progressive challenge each week.  All you have to do is create a card with the current image to receive the next one free!  A great way to build your digital stamp collection.  Faith's images are amazing!!

Here is a preview I created with the next image:

Have a great day!

Kendra

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Challenges:

The Sweet Shop: Sketch + Winged Things (Butterflies)
Simon Says Stamps: Emboss It
Incy Wincy Designs: Bold and Bright
Stamps R Us: Bugs and Embossing
Flutter By Wednesday's: Open Challenge (Have butterflies in image)
I Love ProMarkers: Anything Goes

Birthday Brew

Have you seen the new "Birthday Brew" from Designed 2 Delight!!!  What a perfect digital set for those manly cards!  You can make it a beer or a root beer!  I know I'll be using this one a lot!

A close-up of the mug:

Inside:

What a fun set! 

The current challenge at Card Ideas is "Let's Hear It For The Guys", you have few days to still enter for your chance to win!

Hope you have a great day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Simon Says Stamps: Emboss It
Claudia & Company: CAS (Clean and Simple)
Creative Craft Challenges: Embossing
Flourishes: Aqua, Brown, Yellow
Paper Take Weekly: Spots and Stripes
Top Tip Tuesday: Open Challenge
Tuesday Throwdown: Polka Dots
Craft Your Passion: You've Been Spotted

Frame It with Sweet Stamps

Sweet Stamps Challenge #11:

Frame It

Another fun creation for you today:

Side view:

I used "Rose Bow Bouquet", "Oval Lace Frame" and  "Special Day" for this card.  I think the sentiment can work good for Mother's Day as well!

I stamped the Oval Lace Frame and the cut it out.  I stamped it again and then used the Rose Bow Bouquet and stamped ontop of the frame.  I then cute around the oval center.

 Used a few pop dots to pop it up. I also popped up a few of the flowers and paper pieced them.

A way to extend the uses of your stamps....create your own borders!! I really like this oval lcae frame and thought it would make such a great border.

 After:

Sweet Stamp Products Used:

Rose Bow Bouquet

Oval Lace Frame

Special Day

"Brownie" Shades Dye Ink

Rose Pearls

Lavender Pearls

 I hope you've enjoyed my card today!

Make sure to join us on the Sweet Stamps blog, we'd love to see what you create.  You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some "sweet" things of your own!! 

Make sure to check out the other great creations from the DT members!

Have a great day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Totally Papercrafts: Springtime
Do You Stack Up?: Scallops
Pile It On: Smells Like Rubber
A Gem of a Challenge: Pearls and/or Swirls
Cupcake Craft Challenge: Lots of Layers
Karens Doodles: Lots of Layers
The Paper Variety: Flowers
Crafty Creations: Paper Piecing
2 Sisters: BINGO (Ribbon, Pearls, Flowers)
Alota Rubber Stamps: Mother's Day
A Spoon Full of Sugar: Let's Celebrate
Everbody Art Challenge: Pearls
Top Tip Tuesday: Open Challenge
Sweet Stamping: Chocolate (Ink is called "Brownie")

Layout for Ava

Ava's First Trip to the Park...

Another fun and quick layout for Ava's album!!  I'm starting to feel like I am finally going to catch up on their albums!! Yay!

CI Paints Inspired By: Eggs

This week's challenge at Creative Inspiration Paints is:

Inspired By: Eggs

I used CI Paints on the butterflies, egg and paint brush.

I used "Painting Eggs" from Designed 2 Delight for this card.  I just love the D2D digital images!!

Join in the fun at Creative Inspiration Paints for your chance to win some paints of your own!

Have a great week!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Catch The Bug: Easter
Craft Your Days Away: Easter
Simply Create: Egg-tra Special
Tellen's Place: Easter
Delightful Challenges: Easter
Creative Belli: Eggs/Bunnies
The Sisterhood of Crafters: Easter
The Crazy Challenge: Easter

Bright Layout

Here's a bright and cheerful digital layout for you today!!

 These were pictures taken last summer of the kids at a "Healing Garden" at a local hospital that I take care of.  My little guy just loves going to the garden and helping me water the flowers and see the Koi fish!  And I'm sure this summer won't be any different!

Here's some of my flower beds at home that I can't wait till they start growing...

 I'm so ready for spring/summer!

Bring on the flowers!! :)

Have a nice day!

Kendra



Sweet Stamps For The Ladies

Sweet Stamps Challenge #10:

For the Ladies

I thought this would be a great chance to make a Mother's Day card!!

Here's my creation:

One of the many flowers I love are Fuschia!

 I used "Hanging Fuschia Small" for this card, another stamp great stamp from Sweet Stamps! I also used "Happy Mother's Day" which I inked with Shades Dye Ink "Pansy Purple".  I also used some "Soft Pink Rhinestones".

Make sure to join us on the Sweet Stamps blog, we'd love to see what you create.  You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some "sweet" things of your own!! 

Also make sure to check out all the other lovely creations from the other DT members!!

Have a great day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Woodware USA: Anything Goes
The Rubber Cafe: Spring/Easter
Scrap N' Doodle: Girly
The Crafty Pad: Spring is in the Air
Pile It On: Say It With Style
Simon Says Stamps: Spring Colors/Easter
Tuesday Throwdown: Sparkle and Bling
2 Sisters: Spring
Stamp, Scrap & Doodle: Clean and Simple
Dutch Dare: Spring has Sprung
Fresh Brewed Blog: Flowers

CI Paints Inspired By: Chocolate

This week's challenge at Creative Inspiration Paints is:

Inspired By: Chocolate

I made a wedding card in browns, caramels and white chocolate! :)

Look at the shimmer:

I altered the pearls as well with the paints to make them match my project!

I used "Chocolate" on the flowers and "Caramel" on the pearls - the pearls were originally white. I used these paints for the above border punches as well.

So lets see your inspired by chocolate projects, maybe having some chocolate while you're creating to inspire you!! :)

Have a great day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Carisma Cardz: Wedding/Anniversaries
Oldie But A Goodie: Wedding/Anniversaries

D2D Kidding Around

I made this card a few week's ago for the Core'dinations DT call, but also had the challenge for Card Ideas in mind.

This week's challenge on the Card Idea's Blog is Kidding Around.  We were to create a card for a kid!

I used the "Dino-Mite Birthday" Set from Designed 2 Delight.  Such a great set for a little boy!  My little guy loves this image!

Have a great day! We hope you'll join in!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Crafty Catz: Embossing
Fussy and Fancy Friday: Card for a Child

Prairie Fairy Challenge #50

Over on the Prairie Fairy Fun Fridays Blog our challenge for the next two weeks is:

Favorite Nursery Rhyme

Well having a sweet little girl and boy that I just adore, my choice is...

What are little boys made of?

What are little boys made of?

Frogs and snails,

And puppy-dogs' tails;

That's what little boys are made of.

What are little girls made of?

What are little girls made of?

Sugar and spice,

And all that's nice;

That's what little girls are made of.

But I stuck more on the girly side with this card.  I have a ton of people I know that are expecting, so it was perfect to create a sweet little girl card.

I used "Baby Emily" for this card.  Isn't she adorable!?!?

Have a nice day!!

Kendra

I've Created a MONSTER!

So last week I mentioned to my little guy if he'd like "a" Easter card.  Oh course he said yes, as he always likes helping me!  Well that turned into 3!  He is now crazy for making his own cards!

His favorite is BLING!! hehe

Daddy isn't too impressed!

Oh well...It's cute!

Here's his creations:

This first card was created using "Painting Eggs" from Designed 2 Delight.  He thought the bunny was so funny painting an egg.

A fun Easter digi recently released from D2D.  Make sure to check out Faith's shop to see all her new images!  Also check out her blog and the Card Ideas blog for some inspiration and latest challenges.

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The next two images are from The Stamping Boutique:

"Rabbit in egg Boy"

This is the first card he created!! 

"Pocket Patootie Easter Bunny"

He loved adding the bling to these cards and using his new glitter glue he got!  Now he keeps asking me when I am going to take him shopping to get his "OWN BLING! B/c then he doesn't have to use all mine!" lol

Check out the TSB blog to see all the latest happenings!

For the most part he created these all by himself, I helped cut the paper down for him after he glued them on the card.  But he loved coloring, picking out papers....and so forth all by himself!  It was so cute to watch him!

Have a great day!

Sweet Stamps Challenge #9

Sweet Stamps Challenge #9:

Recipe

1 Ribbon, 2 DP, 3 Gems

Here's my creation:

 I used "Swan Family" for this card, another great stamp from Sweet Stamps!

Decided to make this a shaped card as well, something I haven't done in awhile.

Make sure to join us on the Sweet Stamps blog, we'd love to see what you create.  You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some "sweet" things of your own!!  Also make sure to check out all the other lovely creations from the other DT members!!

Have a great day!

Kendra

 

TSB Moose

I used the adorable "Moose" image from The Stamping Boutique for this card.  Perfect image for a male birthday card!

TSB is currently sponsoring Drunken Stampers this week and their challenge is "Sponge a background, no designer paper!"

It's been awhile since I made my own paper, so I thought it would be fun to do this challenge!!

Here's my finished card:

I first stamped two swirls on the card stock and then used a cotton ball to sponge some different shades of brown Creative Inspiration Paints onto the cardstock as well.

 I used "Tan", "Raw Sienna" and "Autumn Wheat". As you can see in the above picture I first dab the cotton ball on my scrap piece of paper before onto my good cardstock as I want to dab some of the paint off first so I don't get one huge glob of it in one spot.

I just love how it turned out:

Here's another close-up after the card was put all together:

The green embossed paper:

I used "Sage" and "Green Olive" for this piece.

Join in for your chance to win 3 TSB images!

Have a great day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Paper Playtime: Anything Goes
Cards for Men: Embossing
I love ProMarkers: Use ProMarkers and Embossing

CI Paints Inspired By: Spring

This week's challenge at Creative Inspiration Paints is:

Inspired By: Spring

Join in, we'd love to see what you create!

D2D Freebie

It's the first Friday of the month, so that means a freebie at Designed 2 Delight!

By playing along you'll receive next week's image free as well!! It's such a great progressive challenge. Plus you get wonderful digital images!!

An adorable watering can full of flowers!! It's called "Spotty Dotty Watering Can".

Here's what I did with the image:

We have officially started a new term at D2D! So we are welcoming a few new ladies to the team!  Welcome!  Their work is amazing, make sure to check out Card Ideas to see their work!

Introducing the new members of the Designed2Delight and Card-Ideas Design Team
Kristine Breach
Jennifer McGee
Karli Miranda
Bridget Douglass
Michelle Hebel
Kathy Winter
Peggy Wilson


They are joining the current team of
Lola Cordova - June 2010
Kathy Curry - June 2010
Debbie Standard - June 2010
Michelle Pearson - June 2010
Pat Sergeant - September 2010
Kendra Sand - September 2010
Debbie Fisher - September 2010
Katie Tate - September 2010
Emily Davis - September 2010
Kathie Zaban - September 2010
Kim McDonald - September 2010




Have a great day!! Happy April Fool's Day!  Have you played a joke on anyone today?!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Paper Playtime: Anything Goes
AiFactory: Bright as Day
Craft Us Crazy: Easter and/or Spring
Delightful Challenges: Flowers
The Rubber Cafe: Spring Flowers