Shaped Cards with Sweet Stamps

Sweet Stamps Challenge:

Shaped Cards
No Squares or Rectangles

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!! There's plenty of wonderful things to choose from!

Here's the card I created:

I decided to go with a heart shape since Valentine's Day is right around the corner!!

Isn't it fun?  I cut the main shape from Make The Cut!  I used the parchament craft technique to make the three hearts that are grouped together!  I think it adds such a nice touch!

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

Happy Valentine's Day

Country Heart Small

White Embossing Powder 

Vellum

Foam Dots

Silver Rhinestones

Authentique Paper Pad Uncommon

Duchess Rose Shades Dye Ink

Have a wonderful day! Make sure to check out all the other work from the DT!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Paper Crafting Journey: Floral
Allsorts: One or More Hearts
Stamp, Scrap and Doodle: Anything Goes
Paper Sundaes: Valentine's

Paper and Such Giveaway!!

Paper and Such is having a HUGE Giveaway!!

The winner of the prize package will receive:
2 Paper and Such stamp sets of your choice
2 paper pads of your choice
1 bundle of every color twine we have in the store
a HUGE assortment of ribbon
(approximate value of $60)

What a great prize!!

There are so many great things in the Paper and Such store!!


There are a ton of ways to enter, check it out here!!

This contest will run until February 14th, with the winner being announced on February 15th!

 
Have a nice day!
 

Kendra

CI Paints Inspired By: Someone Special

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint is:

Inspired By: Someone Special

Join in for your chance to win some CI Paints of your own!

Have a great day!


Kendra

Footprint Painting

We did some footprint painting the other day and they had so much fun!  At first I think they thought I was insane!  But after I showed them what to do they loved it!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

Love Sweets

Good morning!

I have a My Thoughts Exactly project to share with you today.

For this project I used stamp sets Sweet Thoughts and Many Thanks:

The love and kisses sentiments are from the Sweet Thoughts set and the heart is from the Many Thanks set.  I thought they were perfect for a valentine's treat package!!

And the package holds candy kisses!!

I used the stamps to create my own v-day paper!! 

I really like how it turned out!

The paper:

Before                                           After

 And lastly, I used some of my Creative Inspirations Paint to add shimmer to the paper!!

You can always check on the MTE Blog for some wonderful inspiration from all the DT members!!


Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

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Challenges:

Decorate to Celebrate: Valentine's Party!
AUD Sentiments: The Word Love
Craft Us Crazy: Valentine/Love
Delightful Challenges: Anything But a Card
Digi Doodle Shop's Best: Anything Goes
DRS Designs: Hearts

Love with Sweet Stamps

Check by post below to see my Paper and Such challenge project for this week!

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On with Sweet Stamps Challenge:

Love

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!! There's plenty of wonderful things to choose from!

Here's the project I created:

I didn't get all the little hand sanitizer packages created for Christmas for friends that I wanted to, as I was creating so many for my mom, so I used this challenge to create on for a friend for Valentine's Day.

Side view:

The tangled hearts die, is so much fun!

I added some CI Pain to the hearts to give them a little shimmer!

Sweet Stamp Products Used:
Vertical Love
Bitty Background Hearts and Dots
Shades Dye Ink In The Pink
Tangled Hearts Border Die
Creative Inspirations Pain Tutu Pink
Red Rhinestones
Core'dinations Color Core Cardstock
Foam Dots

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Penny Black and More: Love and Hearts
Cupcake Craft Challenges: All You Need Is Love
Paper Creations Ink: Love/Romance
Paper Pretties: V-Day Project
Let's Ink It Up: Must Use Stamp, Anything Goes
Crafty Emma's: Anything But A Card
Incy Wincy Designs: Anything But A Card

P&S Sponsor Ribbon Carousel

Paper and Such is sponsoring the Ribbon Carousel! 

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This week, Suzanne is challenging us to use NON-Traditional Colors for our creations. Making a valentine card? How about NOT using red or pink, or not too much of it anyways? Creating a gorgeous winter scene? Try it with creams instead of whites. Whatever you’re making….try a non-traditional palate as a challenge!

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I used the "Tree Graffiti" stamp set released by Paper and Such this month!

I stamped the tree twice and cut out the heart on one of the trees and then popped that one up onto the other one. As to kind of make it look as though the "you + me" was engraved in the tree! I think it turned out pretty neat!

Paper and Such Products Used:
Tree Graffiti
Jillibean Soup Apple Chedder Paper Pad
Cappuccino Baker's Twine


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Julie is offering the winner of the Ribbon Carousel challenge a $15 GC for Paper and Such! How exciting!!

And the Ribbon Carousel is sponsoring Paper and Such!!

 Join in, both the challenges for your chance at winning! We'd love to see what you create!!

Check out the Paper and Such store for more great products!!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Challenges:

Ribbon Carousel: Non-Traditional Colors
Dasiy Doodle Creations: Anything Goes
Karen's Doodles: Paper Piecing

CI Paints Inspired By: Pink

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint is:

Inspired By: Pink

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

Have a great day!


Kendra

Love Snow

Good morning!

So last night I was inspired to create my first Christmas card for this year!! Yay me!

Cheery Lynn Designs challenge this week is Snowflakes!  Which is what inspired me to create this card:


I used a fun snowflake die from Cheery Lynn to create the snowflakes inside the circles.

I used one of my favorite winter stamps from SweetStamps.com "I Love Snow"!  Lastly, I added some Maraschino twine that I got from Paper and Such!

Skipping Stones Design Sketch:

Every Tuesday SSD has a new sketch to go off of!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Challenges:

Skipping Stones Design: Sketch
Cheery Lynn Designs: Snowflakes
Fussy and Fancy: Let It Snow
Crafting for all Seasons: Snowflakes
Sisterhood of Crafters: Winter
Delicious Doodles: Winter Wonderland

Publication

I got my Spring Issue of Paper Creations in the mail today!!

I had another card published in it!  So excited!

*Happy Dance!!!* ;)

Here is the article on page 43:

My card:

I just love this Oval Lace from that I used from SweetStamps.com.

I have another card being published next month in the Cricut Magazine and 3 in Paper Creations later this year!

Yay!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

Goofy

Just some fun pictures I took of my little girl the other day as she played with her beads she loves, wearing her brother's cap!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

Pre-Order MTE V-Day Stamps

I'm so excited to share with you an amazing release by My Thoughts Exactly!!  You can pre-order your stamps and they will begin to ship Monday!!



Lovey Puns Food

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      Lovey Puns Animals

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Candy Hearts
(How cool is that?!  You can make your own candy heart boxes!!!!)

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Candy Heart Add On 1

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Candy Heart Add On 2

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Candy Heart Add On 3 

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Love Label

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You can order single sets or there are bundles put together for you to choose from!

The first 20 people to order get the "Love Label" set free!! 

I can't wait to get mine!!  Feb. 1st is the official release of them, when the DT will be showcasing some wonderful projects created with these sets!!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

Rd, Pink and Wh with Sweet Stamps

Sweet Stamps Challenge:

Red, Pink and White

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!! There's plenty of wonderful things to choose from!

Here's the project I created:

I created a package for Valentine's Day that is holding some candy kisses!  I really like how it turned out.

Sweet Stamp Products Used:
Happy Valentine's Day
Garden Branch Die
Shades Dye Ink In The Pink and Duchess Rose
Authentique Paper Uncommon
Core'dinations Color Core Cardstock
Antique Rose Rhinestones
Foam Dots

Have a wonderful day! Join in for your chance at winning!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything But A Card
My Grafico: Love and Valentine's
Paper Creation's Ink: Love/Romance
Stamp and Create: Anything Goes
Clearly iStamp: Valentine's Day
Marianne's Design Divas: In with the New (New Die for me along with the paper)
Flourishes: Anything But a Card To Hold Valentines Chocolate or Candy!

Happy Birthday

Good morning!

I have a My Thoughts Exactly and Creative Inspirations Paint project to share with you today.

For this card I used Sweet Thoughts sentiments "birthday wishes"!

Firstly, I picked out my papers I wanted to use.  But decided that they needed a little extra WOW, so I used my new Resplendence Angel Dust!  I just love this glitter!!!  Using a Quickie Glue Pen I added glue to areas of the paper to make them look just like the glitter paper you can buy down town.  These papers turned out so nice!

 I just love how this card turned out!

I also used CI Paint "Sunshine" to add shimmer to the flames!

They went from boring...

to fun and glittery!!

You can always check on the MTE Blog and CI Paint Blog for some wonderful inspiration from all the DT members!!


Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Crafty Cardmakers: No Floral Embellishments
Catch the Bug: Birthday Celebration
Sweet Stamping: Glitter

CI Paints Inspired By: Birthdays

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint is:

Inspired By: Birthday's

Today happens to be my birthday, so I thought this would be a fun challenge for the week!

Here's a quick card I created for the kids babysitter, who's birthday was this week:

Used some Creative Inspirations Paint on the butterflies to make them shimmery!!

Have a great day!


Kendra

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Challenges:
Card Crafter's Circle: Happy Birthday
Frosted Designs: Paint
Charisma Cardz: Happy Birthday (Optional 3)
CASE Study: CASE Card

IBS January Release

Good morning stampers!! 

I'm so excited!!  Today is our January Release Day!!

Inspired By Stamping has 5 new sets that are being released today!!!

Here are all of the sets:

Be My Valentine


Hearts


Sweet Valentine's


Touched By An Angel


Be Mine

All of them are lovely!

Today, I created a Valentine's Day card:

I used a heart from the set Hearts to create the paper and a sentiment for this card as the main focus.

Check my posts to below to see all the other fun creations I made with the Hearts set!

Make sure to check out all the DT blogs, there is such lovely inspiration from all these lovely ladies:

Joanna; Inspired By Stamping
Amber Goble
Deb Hickman
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Gini Williams Cagle
Irit Shalom
Jennie Garcia
Kendra Sand <--------------You are here
Kassi Hulet
Kim Score
Susie Moore


Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Mami Doodles: White on White + One Other
Wags 'n Whiskerts: White on White + One Other

IBS Sneak Peek Day 2

Good morning stampers!! 

I have another sneak peek today using a new stamp set from Inspired By Stamping called Hearts!  Which will be released tomorrow!

I have two fun and quick projects that I created:

I just LOVE this little "Love" sentiment!  The font is so fun!

They're mini hand sanitizer packages....

I used a heart from the set to create a piece of paper and then added glitter to a few of them!  I also used the love sentiment on this package.

This is such a fun set for Valentine's Day!!

Make sure to check out all the DT blogs, there is such lovely inspiration from all these lovely ladies:

Joanna; Inspired By Stamping
Amber Goble
Deb Hickman
Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Gini Williams Cagle
Irit Shalom
Jennie Garcia
Kendra Sand <---------- You are here
Kassi Hulet
Kim Score
Susie Moore


Have a nice day! Make sure to check back again tomorrow, as it is release day!!!  You'll be able to see all the new sets!

Kendra