That Smile

A layout created for my little girl's album.  Just took the pictures a few weeks ago.  That adorable smile gets me all the time!! 

Hope everyone has had a nice long weekend!!

Kendra

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CI Paints Inspired By: Back to School

This week's challenge at Creative Inspiration Paints is:

Inspired By: Back to School

I can't believe next year at this time my little guy will be starting Preschool!!  Not ready, I love having him home when I am off in winter.  We just got papers yesterday, that we have to bring him in for 4K screening in a few weeks. 

Anyway here is my creation for this challenge:

I created this card for a friend, who is a teacher.  She is back to teaching this week and this have been so crazy so I haven't gotten to talk to her in awhile, so I thought a card would be a good thing to put a smile on her face and let her know I was thinking about her.

I was so excited to find the ribbon for this card, it works perfectly!

I used a Stamping Boutique image called "Back to School Desk".

Have a great day!


Kendra

D2D "Falloween Cat" Freebie

Can you believe it is September already?!?!

Yesterday, was the first Friday of the month, so do you remember what that means?

Faith at Designed 2 Delight has another freebie for everyone!  And as always, it's adorable!

It's called "Falloween Cat"!

If you played along with us last week, you got the entire set e-mailed to you:

If you didn't join in, you can still get the single kitty as a freebie from the D2D blog.

 I have mine all colored in, just need to put it to a card yet!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Creative Vision Design Team 6 Hop TODAY

Good Morning Stampers!

Today is the official kickoff for Creative Vision's brand new design team! Together we will hop our way around the blogs and meet the very special and talented members of Design Team 6. There will be random prizes awarded to bloggers who post comments. Be sure to become a Creative Vision blog follower, if you are not already, in order to be eligible for those prizes. Following the hop Laura will give away a few SHOPPING SPREES! YIPPEE!

As many of you may know, I love stamping, so I was very excited to be able to join this team!  I've had fun playing around with Laura's Creative Vision Stamps!  And everyone is so friendly on the team!

Here's my first card:

I used a "Thank You" sentiment stamp from the Thank You Set.  I really like the font of this sentiment. 

I stamped it 3 times, in three different colors:

 

I really like how the front turned out!

In the inside, I used "thanks for everything" sentiment also from the Thank You Set.

Let's continue to hop our way to each team member's blog as we showcase our collective talent with this hop theme - SHOW OFF YOUR STYLE.  I tend to have a clean and simple style, yet I think elegant!

Your next stop is Stephanie's blog!

Here's the complete list:
Creative Vision (Laura)
Kendra <-------You are here
Stephanie
Christy
Mary
Allison
Lauren
Chelsea

Have a nice day! Don't forget to become a follower of Creative Vision's blog and leave us all some love, it could make you a winner!!

Kendra

Creative Vision's DT 6

I'm so excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Creative Vision Design Team 6!  Laura is such a sweet person and has some fun stamps!

We have our first Blog Hop tomorrow!  So make sure to check back!  There is going to be prizes!!

Have a day!

Kendra

PF Fall Package

Prairie Fairy has a some new releases!!  As of Friday you will be able to purchase the Fabulous Fall Fun Pack!



This fun pack has 10 new Lewis and Gillian images in jpg format at a dealeo! You will be able to see the previews on Friday when this fun pack is released. This deal will only last one week though and then it will be gone! The images will be listed individually after the week is up.

I'm currently creating a card with the adorable Lewis the Fisherman!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Sweet Stamps Sketch

We have a sketch for our challenge this week at Sweet Stamps! 

Join in, we'd love to see what you create!  Plus, you have a chance at winning a $20 shopping spree at Sweet Stamps to get anything you'd like!!  How cool is that?!?!

Sketch:

My creation:

For this card I used a "Rose Bouquet Small" from Sweet Stamps.  I just love this stamp, it is so pretty!  I also used the "Fanciful Flourish" die from Cherry Lynn and "Teal Pearls" which can also be gotten through Sweet Stamps.

Close-up :

I used a my ProMarkers to color in the image.

Have a wonderful week!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Stamps R Us: Anything Goes
Woodward USA: 3...2...1 Challenge (3 Papers, 2 Embellishments, 1 Image)
Bearly Mine: Flowers Flowers Flowers
Passion for ProMarkers: Anything Goes

CI Paints Inspired By: Lots of Layers

This week's challenge at Creative Inspiration Paints is:

Inspired By: Lots of Layers

Here's my creation:

This was a quick last minute card I created for my father-in-law.  He's been starting to ask me to create cards for him, instead of always buying them!  So happy about that!  Anyway he asked for a Baptism card on Monday and needed it Wednesday, geez guys are so last minute! But I managed, and am pretty happy with the turn out.

Anway....I have 10 Layers of paper!! 

I used some Creative Inspirations Paint "Blue Ice" to add shimmer to the cross.

Have a great day!

Kendra

Bay Beach

A fun layout for the kids albums of a recent trip to Bay Beach.  They have all kids of fun rides for the kids!  They had a blast!

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

Halloween Fun

I have a fun card today using a digital image from The Stamping Boutique! 

 It's called "A Crowded Mash"!

Such a fun halloween image!

I used Creative Inspirations Paint "Fairy Dust" to add some shimmer to the witches boots and a few other parts of the image!  I just love the shimmer from these paints!!  I also used some of their new Metallic Inspirations!

Yeah, I know you're probably thinking, halloween already?!?!

I was going through my digital images the other day and I came across this one that I have been waiting to use, and as I am ready for fall to be here, I thought I would finally use it!! :)

TSB is currently sponsoring "Bitten By the Bug" and their challenge is Halloween.

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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White on White

Sweet Stamps Challenge:

White on White

Here's my creation:

 I used "Daisy Bunch", from the last new release from Sweet Stamps.  I used it to create the background along with a little bit on the front sentiment piece, in which I then colored in. 

I used the French Flair Stackers from Cherry Lynn to create the main focal point.  Then like I mentioned above I used "Daisy Bunch" in the bottom left corner.  We could only use color on our image, so I filled this one in with my ProMarkers.  For the sentiment I used "Thank You Elegant", which I think is so pretty!

I used CI Paint "Citrus" to add a little shimmer to the flowers.  I finished the card off by adding some "Silver Rhinestones" and "Snow Pearls".

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! And thanks for stopping by!

Kendra

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Birdhouse Fun

My little guy LOVES being outside helping me in my flower beds and feeding the birds!  For part of his birthday gift, his great-grandparents gave him a birdhouse.  He was so excited!  My aunt mentioned that he should paint it!

Well you don't tell a 3year old that as they don't forget much, which is okay!  So he has been on my case to paint it! So I got out a bunch of paints and just let him go to town!

He had so much fun!  He kept telling me, "This is going to be so pretty!  The birds are going to love it!  They're going to have lots of babies in it!" lol Too cute!

He decided to leave it dry and asked me, "Mommy, it would look really pretty with your special paints!" Referring to my Creative Inspirations Paints!  He always enjoys watching me craft.  And went on to say, "I'll be careful and just use a little."  How could I say no?!?!

So I decided to let him use a few of them to add his own shimmer to the birdhouse, so he was happy!

 Just look at the shimmer!!!  I let him use Fairy Dust, Buttercup, Rose Quartz, Royal Purple, Turquoise and Mango.

Finished Birhouse:

All proud of his creation!

Hanging up in the tree!

You can see right were he used the CI Paints here on the front side!  His birdhouse is very shimmery!!

Have a nice day!

Kendra & Sawyer