Sunday, August 21, 2011

CI Paints Inspired By: CAS

Would you like a chance to win some of the great Creative Inspirations Paints that I use on so many of my cards?  If so, join in our weekly challenges.  Each month we draw a winner to recieve 5 jars of paint of their choice!

This week's challenge is:

Inspired By: CAS (Clean and Simple)
I just love this image, which is from The Stamping Boutique called "Tulips"!  It's a fairly new digi from Tracey.  Although I know they are done blooming here, I just had to create a card with this pretty digi as I love flowers!
I used Creative Inspirations Paint "Fairy Dust" to cover the frame.  I also used some of their new clear hot fix gems!  I just love them!

Have a great day!

Kendra

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Every Flower from D2D

Good afternoon!  We got both kiddos to take a nap this afternoon as we have a big night tonight!  We'll be out late, so we didn't want them crabby!

One of our friends insisted I drive his racecar tonight for the Powder Puff Race!  I'm excited, yet nervous!  It'll be fun to get behind the wheel again!  Sure will bring up a lot of old memories!

Anyway, while they were napping I got to work with this week's freebie from Designed 2 Delight!! 

"Every Flower"
I just love this new digi from Faith!  Under the flowers is the sentiment "every flower is to bloom", but I wanted to use a thinking of you sentiment.  As I plan to give this card to my mom, who hasn't been feeling well.

I printed it twice and cut out two of the flowers to pop them up!

If you missed out on receiving this image as a freebie, you can get it in the shop here.  Create a card with it and share your beautiful creation!  We would love to see what you do with it!  You'll receive next week's freebie in your e-mail then!

Have a nice day!

Kendra
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

"Racer Lewis" from Prairie Fairy

Have you seen the adorable "Racer Lewis" from Prairie Fairy?

He is so cute!

I used the color verison, which inspired the rest of the colors on the layout!

I'll be using him a lot as we are so into racing!  He'll be perfect for cards as well!!

Make sure to check out Prairie Fairy Designs, as Roberta has been designing some great digis!!

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra


Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Bookmark with Sweet Stamps Sentiment

Well there is a first time for everything! 

I have never made a bookmark before!  I had sooooooo much fun!  I think I will be doing this again for those readers in my life!  What fun!

This week's challenge at Sweet Stamps, I'm sure you have guessed by now, is BOOKMARKS!

I decided to do a corner bookmark:
For this bookmark I used a new sentiment from the last release "You Are Loved".  I just love this sentiment for something like this.  I have also been obsessed with the new Cherry Lynn Designs "Mini Exotic Butterflies", which is a set of 3, but I only used one on this bookmark.  The are so much fun to use!  They can be gotten through SweetStamps.com along with the teal pearls and Turquoise CI Paints I used.

Close-up pictures:

The pretty butterfly...
I just love the shimmer!  Adds the perfect touch!

Show us your bookmarks, we'd love to see what you come up with!  You have a chance at winning $20 to purchase some "sweet" things of your own!

Have a wonderful week!

Kendra

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Sunday, August 14, 2011

CI Paints Inspired By: Orange and Pink

This week's challenge at Creative Inspiration Paints is:

Inspired By: Orange and Pink

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

Have a great day!

Kendra

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Pink + Black


I created this card for a friend, who uses a lot of Thank You cards.  Every Christmas, as part of her gift I give her a ton of Thank You cards, so this another one to add to the collection.

I really like how this turned out....love pink and black!

I created this card for this week's "Pink + Black" challenge at D2D!  Join in for your chance at winning some D2D digis!!

Have a great weekend! 

 
Kendra

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Once Upon A Time...

...a little princess was born!
A layout of my little princess!!

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Sweet Stamps Bling It Up!



Sweet Stamps Challenge:

Bling It Up!


Here's my creation:
 I used "Dot Butterfly", a fun stamp from Sweet Stamps that I had a lot of fun playing with!  The things you can do with this stamp are endless. I had so many ideas running through my head, I could have made a ton of cards!!  I decided to do a little paper piecing on this card.

I added some Creative Inspirations Paint "Fairy Dust" to some of the parts of this butterfly to add some shimmer!!  I also used Rose Pearls, Silver Rhinestones, and Soft Pink Rhinestones 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!! 

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:
Creative Craft Challenges: It's Summertime
Pink Elephant: Butterfly
Stamp-N-Doodle: Ribbon, Punch/die cut and Pearls
 

Monday, August 8, 2011

Getting Old

So I've been wanting to try this for awhile now and finally took the time to play with the bubble wrap I've been collecting!

I put a little adhesive on my clear stamping block and adhered some bubble wrap.  What a great stamp it creates!!
I used CI Paints "Sky Blue", "Pumpkin" and "Canary"!

My finished card:
What a fun image!  I used a Gus stamp from Bugaboo called "Collect Wrinkles".  Their Gus and Stella line is so funny!  I've gotten a bunch of them to play with!

Close-up of the "bubbles"....

and of course the lovely shimmer!

I used this same technique on my card from yesterday.

Have a wonderful week!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Catch The Bug: Anything Goes

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Fun With Bubble Wrap

This week's challenge at Creative Inspiration Paints is:

Inspired By: A Tutorial

I was inspired awhile ago by a fellow DT member, Kassi.  She had a tutorial on "Bubble Painting"!

She used bubble wrap to "stamp" on her card.  I've been wanting to do this for some time now, so I thought today would be the perfect time to do it!!

Here's my creation:
 I just love how this card turned out!

Close-up of the bubble's and shimmer:
I used Creative Inspirations Paint "Blush" and "Tickled Pink" for this card!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Card Makin' Mamas: Birthdays
Clearly iStamp: Things with Wings
The Poodles Parlour: Around the Garden (Love the Butterflies in my Garden!)
Stampin for the Weekend: Spots and Dots
Raise the Bar: Anything Goes

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Bling Bling Bling

Good morning!  Hope you are having a great start to the weekend!  I have a fun card to share with you this morning!
I used the adorable "Gardening Kaela" from Designed 2 Delight for this card!  I just love her! When I saw this image I just knew I had to use her and will be using her a lot more in the future.  Being I'm such an avid gardener this digital image is right up my alley. 

I created these flowers with my Cricut.  I used "Walk in My Garden" and then added some bling to them!  I really like how they turned out.

I am hosting this week's challenge at Designed 2 Delight, which happens to be "BLING"!  Join in, we'd love to see your creations!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

Friday, August 5, 2011

D2D Freebie

It's the first Friday of the month, so do you know what that means?

A free digital image from Designed 2 Delight!!

"Cupcake Mouse"

Which is part of this entire set:
What a cute set!!

Join in this fun progressive challenge.  By creating a project with this image and sharing it with us, you will receive next week's image free as well!  Don't miss out!  Faith's images are so adroable!

Have a great day!

Kendra