Is It Spring Yet?

We certainly can't wait for some nice weather to be able to play outside again!!

These photos were taken last May on a nice afternoon! She was so happy to finally be able to get outside and play!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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2.29 Shipping P&S

Check out the P & S store here!!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Paper Piecing with P & S

On the Paper and Such blog, there is another fun challenge starting today!  Challenges last two weeks!

Paper Piecing

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint is also Paper Piecing, so two great challenges to join in for a chance at winning some great stuff!!

I recently ordered the Poppies stamp set from Paper and Such, since I have such a love for flowers, I just had to have it!!

I used My Mind's Evy Vanity Fair for this card!  P & S has some great 6x6 paper pads to choice from!!

Paper and Such Products Used:

Poppies

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

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

 Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Hiding in My Craft Room: Bring on Spring
Craft Your Passion: Paper Piecing
The Crazy Challenge: Anything Goes
Celebrate the Occasion: Birthday
Party Time Tuesday: Anything Goes
Stamp-N-Doodle: Embossing Of Any Kind

St. Patrick's Day with SS

Sweet Stamps Challenge:

St. Patrick's Day

Here's the card I created:

This is the first St. Patrick's Day card I have ever created!!  So that was pretty exciting!

Especially since I loved the inside sentiment I used that I recently found by SS! 

"Never iron a four-leaf clover, you don't want to press your luck." - Which is from the set Four leaf Luck Duo! Which consists of this sentiment and a 4-Leaf Clover.

I added some Creative Inspirations Resplendence Glitter in Emerald Green to the outline of the 4-Leaf Clover to add some fun sparkle using my quickie glue pen!!

I used the Queen Anne Lace die to add a frame around the St. Patrick's Day sentiment.  I added Green Olive Creative Inspirations Pain to the cut die to add shimmer to it!

After doing this I thought how fun it would be to use this die to create snowflakes for those holiday cards!!  I love this new die from Cheery Lynn!!  Cheery Lynn's Challenge this week happens to be "Lots of Layers"! 

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

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! 

Stacey, owner of Sweet Stamps is always getting new things in the store, it is so exciting!!

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Cheery Lynn Designs: Lots of Layers

CI Paints Inspired By: Paper Piecing

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint is:

Inspired By: Paper Piecing

I used some Creative Inspirations Paint in "Sky Blue" to add shimmer to the owl's birthday hat!

Join in, we'd love to see what you create, plus you have a chance at winning some paints of your own!!

Have a great day!


Kendra

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Challenges:
Craft Your Days Away: Paper Piecing

Pretty Little Lady

A digital layout created with some pictures of my little love bug!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Owl be your friend forever

I have another adorable card to share with you this morning!!  I used my Create a Critter cart, to cut out this adorable owl and tree branch!

I added the "Owl be your friend forever" sentiment from the Lovey Puns Animal set that was released by My Thoughts Exactly this month!  I just love this set!

Some of the sentiments in this set are fun for everyday cards as well, not just Valentine's day!

I used one of my embossing folders to emboss the owl's body and give it a little texture.  Add a little flower by its ear! 

I created this card for my sister, she asked if I could create a card for her to give to one of her friends! (My sister is 15)  So I think this is perfect!  I can see this sentiment will be fun to use for cards for some of my friends as well!

Check out the MTE Blog for more wonderful inspiration from Alyssa and the DT!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Truly Scrumptious: All Creatures Great and Small
Crafts and Me: Shades of Spring
Cooking it up with Katie: Favorite 3 (Bling, Cricut, MTE Stamps)
Inky Impressions: Punches/Die Cuts
Paper Pretties: Punches/Die Cuts
Lollipop Crafts: Anything Goes
Stamps R Us: Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge: Die or Punch
There She Goes: Animals

Bingo with Sweet Stamps

Sweet Stamps Challenge:

Bingo!

First off, here is the bingo card to work from:

I decided to go right down the center, with Die Cut, Ribbon and Bling!

Here's the card I created:

Considering it is still winter here, I decided to use this adorable snowlady from the set "Mr. and Mrs. Duo"!  Been wanting to get some Christmas cards made, so this was a great chance! 

This week's challenge over at Cheery Lynn is frame it, so I decided to join in, but do something a little different.  I decided to use different, I used the Snowflake Die along with one other to create a border around the image using snowflakes!

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

Mr. and Mrs. Duo

Memento Black Ink

Orange Rhinestones

Soft Pink Rhinestones

First Edition Paper Joy

Foam Dots

Snowflake Die from Cheery Lynn

Swedish Snowflake Die

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! 

Stacey, owner of Sweet Stamps is always getting new thing in the store, it is so exciting!!

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

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Challenge:
Cheery Lynn Designs: Frame It

Winter Snowman

Good morning! 

I wasn't sure what to create for today.  So I started thinking and decided to create a winter card, as I have been wanting to get a start on Christmas cards.  Then I decided I was going to use a little bit of all CI Products!!  I never used them all together before, so this was a fun challenge.

My card:

I just love this adorable snowman!! 

I added some Jeweled Inspirations in Siam in each corner to give the card some bling!!

I used CI Paint Fairy Dust on the snowman's hat and scarf to give them a little shimmer! On the two ornaments I added Resplendence Angel Dust Glitter to give them a little glimmer!

On this piece of paper I used a polka dot stamp and embossed with Deliquesce Super Sparkle Red to give it some fun texture and sparkle!  This EP is awesome!!

I hope you like my card!  As always, thanks for stopping by!

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

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Challenges:

Winter Wonderland: Christmas Card; Any Style, Colour

Ditzy Craftymess: Winter + Snowman

Ippity Challenge: CAS

CI Paints Inspired By: Polka Dots

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint is:

Inspired By: Polka Dots

Make sure to join in, for your chance at winning some paints for yourself!!

Have a great day!


Kendra

Sledding

Unfortunately, we have had a really weird winter this year and haven't gotten much snow, so we weren't able to go sledding at all.

But I did have some fun pictures of us sledding last winter that I was able to get scrapped!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Kendra

Let's Roll

A digital layout for the kids albums!

The little guy loves to "ROLL" his sister's hair!

I walked in on him one day standing next to her with the curling iron asking her, "Is it okay if I roll your hair?"  Too cute!

He's very much a BOY, but he sure loves to play along with his sister dressing up and "JUST PRETENDING" as he always tells me!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

Roses with Sweet Stamps

Make sure to check my post below for my Paper and Such creation for today!

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Sweet Stamps Challenge:

Roses

There are a ton of beautiful rose stamps to choose from in the Sweet Stamps store!  Along with many other flower stamps!  They happen to be my favorite!  I love flowers!!  I also LOVE the "Oval Lace Frame" I used!

Here's the card I created:

The rose stamp I used is called "Entwined Roses", which happens to be one of my favorite rose stamps offered from SS!  It was the first one that caught my eye when I first found their online store!!

Check out the shimmer on the frame!  I just the Creative Inspirations Paint!

SweetStamps.com Supplies Used:

Entwined Roses

Oval Lace Frame Small

Fanciful Flourish

White Dye Ink

White Embossing Powder 

Vellum

Copics

Foam Dots

Rose Pearls

Authentique Paper Pad Uncommon

Core'dinations Color Core Cardstock
Creative Inspirations Paint Silver Frost

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!

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Cheery Lynn Designs: Pretty In Pink
Simon Says Stamp and Show: Anything Goes
Stamps R Us: Anything Goes
Paper Pretties: Use Flowers

Color Inspiration with P&S

Ready for another fun challenge at Paper and Such?!?! 
I sure hope so!

We have another fun color inspiration challenge:

What a great inspirational photo to use to create a beautiful Valentine's Day/Love card!

My card:

For this fun card I used the "Love you" stamp from the new Simple Sentiments Stamp Set that was released this month!

I used some Creative Inspirations Paint to add shimmer to the polka dot paper.

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

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

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Paper Playtime: Use Cricut - Hearts or a Love theme (Hearts on the background piece of paper and the main heart were cut on my Cricut)
Lexi's Creations: Love
Simon Says Stamp and Play: Anything Goes
Stamps R Us: Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps: Valentines/Love
Let's Ink It Up: Ribbon and Lace (Must Use Stamp)

CI Paints Inspired By: Hearts

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint is:

Inspired By: Hearts

I used CI Paint Fairy Dust to add to the paper I created using some My Thoughts Exactly stamps.  I just love this candy kiss package!!

Have a great day!


Kendra

IBS Release Day!

Good morning!

Today is release day at Inspired By Stamping!! 

Make sure to check out all the wonderful new sets here!  There's 9 of them!  They are so amazing!!

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Today I have another layout to share with you that I made from my daughter's birthday!

I used the "Wish Big" sentiment from the Big Wishes set to create the title on the banner.  The star that separates the two words is from the set Cupcake Wishes, along with the fun piece of confetti that I used to create the background behind the banner!

Close-up of the entire banner:

More close-up pictures:

Love the confetti pieces as the background!  Adds a nice finished touch.

The little "Birthday Girl" sentiment is from the set Butterfly Wings.

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Lastly, I have a thank you card!  My brother-in-law's girlfriend called us this past week and asked if she and my brother-in-law could watch our kids for us!  I was floored!  She wanted us to go out together for our anniversary!  It's been such a long time that my husband and I have gone out alone, as I always want the kids around and feel bad asking someone to watch them, so this was a real treat!  It was long overdue!

So I wanted to create a card to thank her:

I just love the newly released Fancy Labels 18 set!!  I've always loved using Spellbinders on my cards and even love them more now that I have amazing stamps to go with them!!  The "Thank You" sentiment is from the stamp set The Sky's The Limit.

Joanna, was so sweet and sent us some flowers in our stamp packages to try on our projects this month as she is selling them beginning today!!  I used Dark Pink Flowers and Shabby Pink Flowers for this card!

I really like the different colors I used on this card, I've never really used these two colors together before.  I was inspired by the new paper pack "Lost and Found" by My Mind's Eye that I recently picked up.

I used Skipping Stones Design sketch this week created by Kazan Clark for inspiration - so I am entering this card in that challenge!


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

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



Have a wonderful day! Hope you have enjoyed all of our wonderful inspiration and all the new stamps!!

Kendra

IBS Sneek Peek Day 2

Good morning stampers!! 

As I mentioned yesterday Inspired By Stamping has 9 new amazing sets being released tomorrow!

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I have a fun summer layout to share with you this morning!  One of the stamp sets I used to create some of the elements of the layout are from the new set "Fancy Labels 18"!  This is a MUST have set if you like spellbinders dies!

Notice the flower in the bottom right...Joanna owner of Inspired By Stamping has some flowers she will be selling beginning tomorrow!  They are so pretty!!  I used a large white curly flower!

After stamping the frame inside the die, I was in LOVE!  I just love having stamps to go with the dies!  And they are so pretty!  The "Summer Joy" sentiment was created on my PC.

I also used a few of the other design elements from the set to border around the pictures and to put at the top and bottom of the butterfly piece of paper!

The stamped butterflies are from the set Butterfly Wings!

I used some CI Paints Peach on this one to create the beautiful shimmer!

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I also have a card I created with two of the stamps sets that will be released tomorrow!

The "Make a Wish" sentiment is from the Big Wishes set and the cupcake is from the Cupcake Wishes set!

A fun bright colored birthday card!


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

Joanna; Inspired By Stamping
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!  Saturday is release day!

Kendra

IBS Sneak Peek Day 1

Good morning stampers!! 

The post below has Paper and Such's February Release!

Inspired By Stamping has 9 new amazing sets being released this month!  I'm so excited to be able to share a few of them with you!  Plus, Joanna will have some flowers for sale!! They're beautiful as well!!

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First I have a layout to share with you that I created from my little girl's birthday.

I used the "Make a Wish" sentiment from the Big Wishes set. 

I used some of my CI Paints to add shimmer to the sentiment.

I used the heart from the "Cupcake Wishes" set to add hearts in the middle of two of the circles around the cricut cut Happy Birthday sentiment.  (pictured is one of them)

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I also have a card to share with you!  I absolutely love the new set I used for this card!  It's called Fancy Labels 18!  Works perfectly with the Spellbinders Labels 18!

I used another set from Inspired By Stamping as well called "Winter Wonderland", which consists of the snowflakes and sentiment!  Love this set!

I created a Christmas card, as I have been wanting to start on the early again this year!

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

Joanna; Inspired By Stamping
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!  Saturday is release day!

Kendra