Faux Leather Birthday

I know, not such a creative title, but I was stuck!! Anyway, I made this one for my cousin Jason's birthday coming up this weekend. I know he doesn't read my blog so I'm safe to post already!! I tried out the faux leather look and am pleased with the results. I used Old Truck from TAC again...see I told you I only have a couple of sets for Masculine cards...either this Old Truck or Wanted or Bronco Buster from SU...so I'm a wee bit limited.

So I did the faux leather technique with the chocolate cs (I used the instructions from the CTMH Cherish book...I'm sure it must be on Splitcoast as well, but I had my Cherish book handy as I was on the phone with my friend Lorelei and she mentioned it so I looked it up and thought it would be perfect for this card! It would be great for western cards to...will try that out next time with one of my SU sets!! It is super easy actually, just wet some cs, crinkle into a ball, carefully unfold and let dry...now the instructions in the Cherish book said to iron it a wee bit on med heat, but I liked it better not ironed at all, so I just added some chocolate ink to mine to make the crinkles stand out a bit more and glued it down!

Here are a couple of closer picts of the liquid glass on the windshield and the faux leather paper...

It's snowy and cold and wintery here again today which really stinks, but it's supposed to be in the plus digits by the weekend!!

Thanks for stopping by!! Hope you have a super evening:-)

~Kelly

Welcome Baby Berry

I just love this paper from DCWV Nan's Nursery-Baby Girl, love it! I really like the boy stack too...I'll have a card done with those papers later this week!!

I made this one for some friends of mine that just welcomed their 3rd child, a baby girl..they have a boy and a girl too!!

I used sketch #26 from this weeks Sketch Saturday challenge and really loved the layout. i tried my hand at faux stitching and that really didn't work out, so I started over...not a good sight I tell you!! I really think it looks nice and I have a great CTMH set called Simple Stitches, but for the life of me I can't get it to look half decent!!

I am getting my hair done this afternoon and am taking Landon with me..oh that should be fun!!! My hairdresser is so awesome, today is actually her day off but because I didn't have anyone to watch Landon last week, she changed my appointment and since no one will be there I can taking him with me! It should actually be ok, I'll bring a tractor and some cows and he'll be right at home!!

Have a super day!!

~Kelly

Simple Christmas Cards~AMYRS46

Amy over at Prarie Paper & Ink has a great sketch for her weekly shetch challenges. It's not really a hard sketch, actually very simple, but oh so pretty...I think anyway!!

I was far too lazy to pull out the embossing powder like Amy did and after I discovered I only had 2 sheets of Shimmery White cardstock left it made that decision much easier and way less mess:-)

I used SU Shimmery White cs, CTMH Inks in Indian Corn Blue, Twilight and Moonstruck for the blues and Tulip for the sentiment and inside saying. Then I used Tulip, Hollyhock and Blush for the pink/red ones, Juniper for the sentiment and the inside snowflakes.

Oh yes and some MAMBI rhinestones for some added bling. I couldn't really get a decent picture of the shimmer in the cs, but it is very pretty!!

Here is the blue one...

and the inside...very simple, but still pretty...

Here is the pink/red one...

and the inside....

Maybe if you click to enlarge it you can see the shimmer better, but I promise, it is very pretty IRL!!

These are the perfect type of card to mass produce...which is exactly what I'll be doing this year...speaking of that I really should get a move on it, just over 2 weeks until we go to Las Vegas for a week!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a fabulous day!
~Kelly

Baby Card~Handmade by Kim

My sister Kim needed a couple baby cards for her friend Steph and Kippy who just welcomed Clara Jane into the world and for Steph's parents as well. This is the card she made for Steph and Kippy, the proud new parents!!

She used Taylor's Sketch # 38 for the layout and away she went. I think it turned out great and I love this Baby Girl Nursery stack from DCWV!! The flower brads look a little wonky for some reason, but I think it must just be the way the light reflects because they do look proper IRL!!

We've had a great weekend hanging out and visiting and such, so I am going to scoot and visit some more before she goes home.

Thanks for popping by!!

~Kelly

Sketch Challenge 173~SCS

Wow! I finally got around to getting a sketch challenge done on the actual day it was posted!!! I made this card for Miss Plicka, the owner of Just Dance where Kirsten does ballet. She is due around mid May I believe...but is measuring about 2 weeks big, so who knows when that wee one will make his appearance. I used the SCS sketch challenge # 173 this week for my layout and am pleased with the results!! I don't usually stamp on SU! Whisper White and then color in with markers, so I am not loving the lines, etc, but it's alright!! I also stamped the background with a baby rattle in Versamark, but it doesn't show up in the picture at all. I love the DCWV Nana's Kids slab and see that there is a Nursery Boy and Nursery Girl and Blossoms and Butterflies out now...I think I need to track them down:-)

Lance took Kirsten to pre-school today at it was our parent help day and her show and tell. this was the first time he has gone as the parent help....it's always me!! Anyway, they had a great morning together.

Tomorrow Kirsten and I will be baking some items for the garage sale on Saturday in Bassano. They have one every year and it is to raise funds for the Bassano pre-school, so we will be making Texas Brownies and Mars Bar Rice Krispies as our 2 baked items..may have to make a double batch of them though or they may not make it to the sale!!

Have a wonderful evening,

Stamps: Warm Words-SU, Baby Giraffe from TAC's Hello Baby

Paper: Dutch Blue CS, Autumn Terracotta CS-CTMH, PP from DCWV Nana's Kids. SU! Whisper White CS

Accessories: Buttons all from CTMH, CTMH Markers

With Love ~SBS 15 First Sketch Challenge

Slowly but surely I am getting around to getting Kirsten's ballet picts sent out to the Grandma's and made this one for my Grandma who lives in Ontario. This is the sketch from our first SBS 15 sketch challenge issued by our wonderful leader Monica. It also happens to be a fabulous sketch from Jen del Muro's blog, i{heart}2stamp. I'm not sure that I'm loving the solid green piece of CS, but all in all I think it turned out OK.

I am headed to the post office today to pick up a package from Jacksonbelle Embellishments...I kinda forget what I ordered, so it'll be an extra special treat when I open it up!! I don't think we have too much in store for the weekend...could always finish organizing my daughter's room I guess, but we'll see.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Stamps:TAC-Precious Girl

Paper: Making Memories, watercolor paper

Ink: Timber Brown Staz On, New England Ivy-CTMH

Accessories: CTMH Markers, watercolor brush, Dew Drops

Everything Nice for Lynnise

Everything nice is the name of this stamp set and it is too cute!! It is from TAC and this is the first time I've actually used this image, but have had it for a while...she is so cute!! There is a boy image as well that is just as cute...it is retired now....of course, that always seems to be the way it goes when you find something you love! Anyway, I made this card for my cousin in Utah. She will be turning the big 3-0 on the 10th and I wanted to send her a little something. I thought I might as well tuck in a family pict and one of Kirsten's ballets picts as well while I'm at it!!! Hope she likes it!

We are going to visit a friend of mine tomorrow morning so I can pick up some SU goodies I ordered a while back and we missed Lexi's birthday, so we are finally getting around to take the sweet little girl her birthday gift! Both Kirsten & Landon are excited to got for a visit and so I am.

Off I go, thanks for popping by and have a wonderful evening!

Stamps:TAC-Everything Nice, SU-Sincere Salutaions

Paper: TLC Meadowbrook Collection

Ribbon: TLC Meadowbrook Collection

Garden Angel

TGIF!! I made this card for a friend of mine who we went to visit the other day. I meant to bring her a picture of Kirsten from her dance recital last week and totally forgot, so I made this card for her to say "Hi" and will pop the picture in there!!

We got about an inch or so of snow last night and it isn't going anywhere too fast, but that's ok cause the kids are excited to go for a sleigh ride.

We are going to pick up the new mattress for Kirsten's new bed tomorrow and then will get her bed, etc set up and then scoot her mate's bed into Landon's room, so it should be an eventful weekend!! She is excited to have all her Tinkerbell stuff in her room! I just finished washing the new bedding, so it's already to go for tomorrow!

Hope you have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by:-)

Stamp: Bethany Garden Angel & Sentiment from High Hopes

Paper: All from TLC Tressie Collection

Accessories: Rhinestone/pearl brads-MM, Flowers-Prima, colored with CTMH markers on watercolor paper, stickles on er angel wings

Hey There

Well I have had a couple busy days and a wonderful lazy day today!! I took the kids over to my Mom and Dad's on Monday afternoon and my sister Kim and I went to the Rascal Flatts concert in Calgary!! It was super, fantastic, awesome, wonderful...yes I loved it!! We had 4th row seats and they were terrific, definitely makes the concert so much better!! Taylor Swift opened and she was great!! So much talent and such a wonderful young gal...only 18 years old too!! WOW!! It was part of my Christmas present from my Mom and Dad and I loved it!! Thanks Mom and Dad!! I got to go to the concert and they got to hang out with the grand kids...win, win situation I say:-) Anyway, Kim and I went for supper before hand and then to the concert, it was a great night out!! We then stayed the night at my Mom and Dad's and went to my friend Karlie's for a visit on Tuesday afternoon and then came home. The internet company that we go through was upgrading equipment today, so my internet was down so the kids and I just were hangin' out:-) Now that it's back up I thought I'd post a card I made with one of my favorite High Hopes Stamps...Jolie's Little Friend. I love High Hopes and am off now to figure out which ones of the new "jungle" themed stampes I must have!!

Have a super night and thanks for popping by!!

Stamp: Jolie's Little Friend, Sentiment-High Hopes

Paper: TLC

Accessories: Dew Drops, Stardust Stickles, Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol on watercolor paper