Quick Valentine Post

Here are a few cards created with Penny  Black "Her Heart," "His Heart" and some left over  Bitter Sweet BasicGrey card kits.  I love BitterSweet still, and I have a few packs saved for me-self :)  Check 'em out here ...

Happy Valentine's Day from Kelly

Hey there, Blog Readers!  Are there still any of you out here that peek in on me anymore?!  If so, bless your hearts, I hope to start getting creative more often, I truly do.  Thanks for being so loyal and peeking in on me.

I actually got some time to make a few things the past few days in preparation for Valentine's Day today ...

This one was created with a stamp from Penny Black "Hugs" colored with Copic markers and highlighted with a white gel pen and some goodies from a BasicGrey Bittersweet card kit.  The bottom left corner is rounded.

These cute little clear pails were snagged at Targets dollar spot just after Christmas.  I used more BasicGrey paper from my stash, JustRite baking stamp for the tops and Stampin Ups All Year Cheer (From the Heart) stamp with some gray grosgrain and chocolate satin ribbon.  Kept it simple.

This card was created from an extra ATC I had from a previous SWAP in which I had used a valentine House Mouse stamp, shades of brown and pink, more BasicGrey, chocolate satin ribbon, swirly pearls and ribbon roses.

I made a nice dinner for my hubby thanks to some great recipes I found at Eatingwell.com - Grilled Filet Mignon with Herb Butter (minus the Texas Toast) and Herbed Roasted Potatoes, broccoli and some lava cakes.  If I do say so myself, they were pretty yummy! :)  Hope you all got to spend time with one you love

Piece of Quiet

Although I have seen a few elegant tissue box holders (click for a terrific video by GinaK), my creations tend to lean towards the cute side. With the pretty swirls, I probably could have used a more elegant stamp, but this sweet little boy stamp from Penny Black was just itching to be inked. :)

I thought I had more pomegranate DP, so that I could stick with just the pom and the kiwi kiss colors, but alas I did not, so a little groovy guava was added to the design. I think the colors really work well together, but I was actually planning on pom and kiwi to match my parent's decor so that I could give my mom a little something to put her cards in.

Card details:

Stamp: Piece of Quiet

CS/DP: SU pomegranate and kiwi kiss, DP groovy guava

Ink: Tuxedo Black Momento

Tools: Nestabilities, cuttlebug birds and swirls folder, white gel pen, Copic markers

Embellishments: Rose red double stitched ribbon and tiny buttons from Rhonna Christmas collection

Well, practice, practice . . . I guess the next one will be for her. I have a couple more tissue boxes saved up. I will have to see if I can come up with a more elegant design. :)

Happy Stampin N Scrappin, Everyone! Don't miss out on the KL SNS challenge. You have until Friday night.

Hugs,

Hot Stuff . . .

I am trying to fit a few challenges in now and then in between my swaps I am participating in. I have one due Feb 1st that I just keep getting brain block on. I think of an idea, then . . . no, that's not very original, then another . . . no, I don't like that either. I am having a hard time deciding what I want to do, and all of the ladies in this group come up with totally AWESOME ideas, so I want it to be a good one. Anyway, even thought I probably should have worked on that today, I worked on a sketch challenge instead. This one just came to me and worked out pretty good, I think. So, here is Roxie's Sketch Challenge 159 for this week from SCS.





You had to have 3 layers.
The bottom one being the card base,
then a second layer about half way up the card or a little more,
then a rectangle slightly to the left. See the picture to the right.






So, I was stamping off some Penny Black images for the Wish RAK group, and I thought this image would be perfect in a rectangle, so here she is . . . gonna give this one to my DH for Valentine's Day. See the closeup for a better view, but it says . . . "Hey, Hot Stuff!" On the inside, since we clown around a lot, I wrote . . . "Wanna Get Lucky?!" LOL (sorry if I offended anyone). I thought it was cute. I am sure he will LOVE it.


So for the details:





Stamps: Light the Night from Penny Black, a tiny heart stamp from Inkadinkado, Happy Valentine's day stamp shown used on the inside (from Canadian Maple Collection)





Ink: Basic Black and versamark





CS: Real red, black, pretty in pink and some old SU dp and Ice stickles (not showing well in the photograph).





Accessories: Heart brad, silver round brads, prismacolors and gamsol, index tab punch, sheer black ribbon and red grosgrain ribbon and paper piercing.

Step-by-step details:

First I stamped the image of the Light the Night image, colored it with Prismacolors and gamsoled, and then added Stickles to her earrings, purse string, jewlry, dress collar and hemline, and the beads that hang from her shawl.





While this dried, I sponged the white cs with some ruby red for added softness and depth, cut the black cs to length for the bottom (might look a little better longer) panel and added the red floral dp from SU, ticket punched the corners to add my round silver brads, then covered the seam from that layer with the sheer black and grosgrain red. I use a slit punch at the fold to pull the ribbon through to the inside of card, then secure it with tape. You can use another sheet of cs or paper on the inside if you want to cover the ribbon and brad heads.





The image was then trimmed out rather close and I made a rectangle to layer her on. I chose the pink first, but it needed jazzed up a little. A heart from the Inkadinkadoo baby set I have worked well here with versamark, but it just wasn't bright enough, so I quickly added some clear EP and heated it. Then I ran a strip of red across the top and bottom of this piece and layered it on black sc to make it pop. I still thought it needed a little something, so I got out the paper piercer and added some holes along the top and bottom. I wanted to somehow use one of these pretty heart brads I have been hoarding for about a year (given to me by a dear friend). This was placed at the top of the rectangle for added dimension. With an image this size, it is hard to add a sentiment, so I got out the tab punch and in my own handwriting printed, "Hey, Hot Stuff!" on the tab, a little doodline, adding the image to the pink layer and the note and Valentine stamp on the inside, and it was done.





Thanks for looking, and if you also take a stab at this challenge, leave a comment and link up here so we can all take a look, too. No blog candy this time, but there will be one again in a few weeks. So stay tuned! :) Kelly

Are you up for a challenge?

Hey, everybody! I actually did another sketch challenge today from SCS. It was SC155 from from 2 weeks ago, but . . . I want to try something new for my readers this year. I am going to post a challenge for you (at least once a month) to try, and you can have a chance to win some goodies from me. It will be a small package/envelope mind you, but definitely something I think you would like and it will help you with your card/scrapbook making.

What's the catch you ask?!

You need to incorporate the following into this week's challenge:

• Use SC155 --click here to see the sketch. The different layers are numbered.


• Use either snowmen OR . . . if you are tired of snow/cold weather, use something for Valentine's day like hearts, etc.


• You must link your card to my blog by commenting here on this post so I know where to look. It can be on your blog on in your SCS gallery, but either way please let me know where to look to find it if you want to participate.
• You have until midnight Thursday, Jan 10th to play.

Here is my example with a snowman. The stamp is from Penny Black. I again used some paper from my DCWV Christmas pack (Can't believe I still have LOTS of this stuff left. A 6 x 6 pad goes a long way!) The cs is Cool Carribean and Night of Navy. I accessorized a little with a small gold eyelet in the tab on the center snowman, white gel pens, my cb divine swirls folder, and gold cord. I reused a small sentiment tag that was from a friend (*wink* Jessica), because I just hated to throw it away after the package was opened, and I used my SU markers, 1 inch circle punch and scalloped circle "nesties."

I hope to finish one later with hearts. I will let you know if I do.

Thanks for looking, and I hope you can participate too! Kelly :)

Belated Birthday card

I am on the Birthday Random Act of Kindness group at Splitcoaststampers, and I had a birthday card for "someone" on September 1st. Well . . . as luck would have it our time got away from a few of us, and the list was a little late. . . then I was out of town (ah well, ya know, life). So I felt really bad last night that I have a birthday card going out to an SCS sister that is late, so I made this card for her last night to put in the mail first thing this morning. It was from a Penny Black ATC that I had made as a prototype for my Penny Black swap (changed the colors a bit on the one I used for the ATC swap) that just ended on August 31st. For more pictures of the swapped ATCs check out my Swap Album at SCS.

So . . . I used this card with the sentiment on the front that says "Forgive me. . . " and the inside says the snail mail is running late, so the ladybug is helping out. Hope you had a great day! Happy Birthday from your SCS sister Kelly a.k.a. Littlekel90

Christmas in . . . August?

I finally got some stampin' time in last night. I quit one of my jobs, so I have some more free time. Down to just one full-time job now--woohoo! Although, I am sure I will miss the other paycheck.

Anyway . . . here is a Christmas card I came up with for this year. I know, I know . . . who is thinking of Christmas?! Well, if I were not in the Christmas Card Challenge for 2007 through http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ I would not be making them in late August either. I have made 10 cards every month (except one in which I made birthday and get well cards instead that month). If you do not need that many (which I really don't) you can make 10 other cards any occasion. It is a nice challenge to keep me on my toes. We just share a picture that we made them and they are all ours to do with what we want. The first person to post on the 1st day of each month wins a prize (did that January 1st since I was up that late and I was ready--hee hee--but haven't made it since then) I guess that is pretty obvious, since these were actually my July cards. I still have to make August. Oh, yeah, back to the subject . . . when we make something every month then the moderator puts our name in a drawing to win some goodies at the end too. So it's a win-win situation for you either way. You get to keep your own cards and you are in for a drawing to win more goodies. You should check it out at SCS (link above). Okay, here is my card. It is a little bit simple. I know I should have jazzed it up a little bit more with some more layering, but I don't think it is too simple. Tell me what ya think.