Think Spring with SS

Sweet Stamps Challenge:

Think Spring

Here's the card I created:

I decided to create an Anniversary card!  When I think of spring, I think of daffodils!!  So right away I thought of this "Cutwork Daffodil" stamp from SS!

I added some Creative Inspirations Paint in Ivory to this butterfly die.  I just love these dies from Cheery Lynn!  I also really like the flourish I used from them as well.  I add some CI Paint in Sunshine to the flourishes to give them a little shimmer as well.

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 "sweet" things to choose from! 

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Cheery Lynn Designs: Add a Flourish
Catered Crop: Ribbon
Let's Ink It Up: Show Us Your Flowers
Allsorts: Say It With Flowers
Crazy 4 Challenges: Spring
Just Some Lines: Spring Cleaning (Die, Stamps, Paper and Ribbon are over 6months old) 

Sketch with P&S

On the Paper and Such blog, this week's challenge is to use the provided sketch!

Sketch

Here's my take on the sketch:

Both the sentiment and bike are from the set Basket of Flowers from Paper and Such.

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:
Let's Ink It Up: Show Us Your Flowers
Penny Black and More: Springtime
The Craft Place: Anything Goes

Baby Girl

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint is:

Inspired By: Babies
 A good friend had a baby in January, she is soooo adorable!

They didn't know what they were having, so as soon as I found out I created this quick card for them:

I used some Delinquence Embossing Powder in Super Sparkle Pink from Creative Inspirations for the sentiment.  I also added a little Ivory paint to the heart pins.

I think it turned out pretty cute, for being a quick card!


Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Catered Crop: Ribbon

IBS March Release

Good morning stampers!! 

It's release day for Inspired By Stamping!!

 Eight new sets are being released today as well as some more beautiful flowers! So exciting!!

Joanna is giving away a free stamp set today along with some of the beautiful flowers!!  Make sure to leave a comment.

She is also having FREE shipping today, use code MarchFree!!  Check out the store!

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First, off I am showing another layout in which I used the "Little Phrases" set!!  I've been looking for a set like this for awhile!  I have had this layout in mind for some time now!

I just love this picture of my little girl!  She just loves putting on all her "BLING"!

Here are four of the sentiments from the Little Phrases set!

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I was also inspired to create a cute little Easter treat basket using some of the stamps from the Easter Wishes set!!

Filled it up with some yummy chocolate!

Challenge:
Great Impressions: Something Handmade
Karens Doodles: Pastel + Easter
Penny Black and More: Springtime

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These are the two great sets I go to work with:

"Easter Wishes"


"Little Phrases"

Make sure to check out the rest here!

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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
Kendra Sand (me)
Kim Score


Have a nice day!

Kendra

GI + CI Blog Hop

Great Impression Stamps and Creative Inspirations Paint have teamed up for a blog hop!!

Please check my other posts for today below - Paper and Such March release and Sneak Peek's with Inspired By Stamping's March release!

Great Impression Stamps is celebrating their Grand Opening of their online store!!  You are now able to order stamps directly from them!  How exciting!!  They sure have a lot of adorable stamps to choose from!

You should have arrived her from Kassi's blog, if not, please start at the beginning (Creative Inspirations) as you don't want to miss out on all the fun! 

One lucky person will win a prize of 5 jars of paint (winners choice) and a $25.00 gift certificate to Great Impressions!!! What a great prize! All you have to do is hop along to each blog and collect the letters that are being given away to spell out a special word! At the end of the hop leave the word on the last blog for your chance!

You will have until 8:00 PM EST Sunday to enter!
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Now for my project:

I fell in love with the Pull Toys stamp as soon as I saw it!  What a great stamp for those baby cards!  So I decided to feature the stamp along with some CI Paints!

I took some close-up pictures to show the beautiful shimmer of these adorable animals!!  For the giraffe and duck I used Mellow Yellow.  I also used glossy accents to add some texture and glossy to the giraffe's spots and nose along with the ducks beak.

I used Silver Frost for the elephant!

The "baby boy" sentiment was computer generated and I used Blue Ice over the top to give it a little shimmer. 

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Your next stop along the hop is Kianel!

But before you go, you'll want to write down the letter that
I have for you:
N

Thanks for hopping along and have a nice day!

Kendra

IBS Sneak Peek Day 2!

Good morning stampers!! 

Please check the post below for Paper and Such's March Release!

Another day with some projects using Inspired By Stamping's new stamps that will be released tomorrow!!

Remember, Joanna is giving away one free stamp set each day and some flowers!  Be sure to comment for your chance!!

Today I have created two Easter layouts with the Easter Wishes set!
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First up I have a layout for my little girl's album from her first Easter in 2010:

I used the Happy Easter sentiment, one of the eggs and a flower from this set to create the two side pieces of paper!  I just love creating my own paper!  Especially since this year I had a tough time finding much Easter paper I really liked.

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I have another layout for my little girl's album from Easter last year:


The Happy Easter sentiment, banner and eggs from this fun set:

The set also includes a fun Easter egg tree, in which I paper pieced, so I could pop-up some of the eggs and give them different colors:

I wasn't going to add the little flowers on the bottom, but it was kind of plain and bothering me, so I did.  The flower is actually a flower from around the tree.  I cut it from the stamp so that I could use it just as the flower!!  So cute!

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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
Kendra Sand (me)
Kim Score


Have a nice day! Make sure to check back again tomorrow, as it is release day! 

Kendra

PAS March Release

Good morning! Today Paper and Such is having our March release! 

You should have came here from Pattie's blog, if not please start at the Paper and Such Blog, you don't want to miss anything.

 There are 2 stamp sets being released today!!

For my card today, I used the Get Well Chick set.

Isn't it fun?!

The set includes this chicken image along with three snetiments, the one I used along with "Get Well Soon" and "Chicken Soup is good for thew soul."

The sentiments in this set are so fun!

Here's the entire set:

The other set being release today is called "Daisies"!! Another wonderful flower set from P & S!!

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Your next stop on the Release Hop is Meredith from Paper Canteen!

Enjoy the hop and all the wonderful inspiration! 

Here's the entire Blog Hop list:

Shannan Teubner (March Guest Designer)

Julie Smith

Janice Melton

Kim O'Connell

Amber Hillman

Pattie Goldman

Kendra Sand <---------- You Are Here

Meredith Winston

Stephanie Mino

Naomi Gong

Mindy Young

Paper and Such Design Blog

 

Julie from Paper & Such is offering someone a chance at winning each of the stamp sets being released today, don't miss out!!  So join in the hop and be sure to leave comments along the way for your chance!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

IBS Sneak Peek Day 1!

Good morning stampers!! 


Inspired By Stamping has 8 new amazing sets being released this month!  I'm so excited to be able to share a few of them with you!  Once again, Joanna will have some flowers for sale!! They're so beautiful!

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So Happy Layout

I just love it, my little girl will be walking around ever once in awhile and all of a sudden she will start saying "So Happy! So Happy! So Happy!"  Melts my heart every time as I just love knowing she is happy!

 So I knewI just had to create a layout sometime with the title so happy for a memory!

The set Little Phrases has a "Happy" stamp that I thought would be fun to use to create a border around her picture.

Aren't these flowers pretty?!  I love them!!  I used a Peach Daisy and a 2 Toned Pink flower from the release for the layout!  The others are from my stash.

I used Fancy Labels 18 to create a little tab for the date.

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I also created a card using the new Little Phrases set:

 I also used some new flowers that will be for sale Saturday!!  I just LOVE the semi open red rose buds!!   I also used a dark red flower with dark leaves!  Two of the little red roses are from my stash.

I also used the Fancy Labels 18 set for this card.  Just love these label sets!!

Challenges I would like to enter this card in:
Diva's by Design: Favorite Things (Stamps/Flowers/Ribbon)
The Paper Shelter: Anything Goes
The Stamping Boutique: Pearls and Swirls
Shop Our Stash: Embossing (The Black Paper uses a Damask Embossing Folder)
The Cutie Pie Challenge: Pearls and Swirls

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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
Kendra Sand (me)
Kim Score


Have a nice day!

Each day Joanna will be giving away one stamp set and flowers to a lucky person who leaves a comment!  So please make sure to leave some love!

Make sure to check back again tomorrow for some more sneak peeks!

Kendra

Monochromatic with Sweet Stamps

Sweet Stamps Challenge:

Monochromatic

Here's the card I created:

This was such a fun card to create!

I just love all the little details I put into this card!  I love the Beautiful Day sentiment I used! Along with the Fillet 3 for an accent.

A little shimmer on the butterfly using CI Paints!!

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! 

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Cheery Lynn Designs: Doilies
Kaboodle Doodles: Think Spring
Paper Playtime: Flowers
Let's Ink It Up: Show Us Your Flowers
Paper Creations Ink: Spring Is In the Air
Pollycraft: Spring has Sprung
Totally Stampalicious: Spring Is In the Air
Penny Black and More: Springtime

CI Paints Inspired By: Family

This week's challenge at Creative Inspirations Paint is:

Inspired By: Family

For this challenge, I created a layout of myself and my pride and joy, my beautiful kids!

I created this layout for my little girls album and am still working on a version for my little guys album.

I used CI Paint Plum to add shimmer to the word "LOVE".  I just love the shimmer these paints add to any project!!

Have a great day!


Kendra

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Challenges:
Die-Ing For A Challenge: Anything Goes
Crafty Ann's: Anything But A Card

Flashback Friday's

Over on the Flashback Friday Challenge blog, the challenge is to share your first paper pieced card!

Wow!!

So I went back looking and found this card:

I created this baby card back in April of 2009!  Not too bad, but some things could be added!  2009 is when I began creating cards, so it's fun to see how your style has changed over the years!

Share your first paper pieced card! 

You can a chance at winning $15 gift certificate from Paper and Such!!

Have a nice day!

Kendra

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Challenges:
Flashback Friday: First Paper Pieced Card

MTE March Release

Ready for March's stamp release from My Thoughts Exactly!

I sure hope so, the stamp set is so fun, as always!!!!

 

"Easter Greetings"

Check out the My Thoughts Exactly blog for inspiration!!

I'll have some fun projects next week!

Have a wonderful day!

Kendra