S.O.C. October project

Hi Everyone,

October is synonymous with pumpkins. We carve them, bake them, chuck them, and do a host of other things with them. Well for my SOC DT project today I used my as the inspiration for my card and I colored one.

I was gifted a stamp some time ago, love the image and have been waiting for the perfect time to use it; and today is the day. 

I stamped her on kraft card stock and colored her in with my copuc markers. I love the color that you get using browns on kraft instead of white.  It's like I have a whole new set of markers.  I paper pieced her pumpkin outfit because sadly I have not invested in orange Copics, yet.  The pattern paper I used is from K & Company, Tim Coffey Fall Mat Pad.

So there you have it, my project for today.

I hope you try coloring on kraft card stock and let me know how you like the results.

Kelli

Tea & Tags Swap 2013 at My Scrap Room

Hi Everybody!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Boy has it been a super long time since I have blogged about anything.  I have been creating though and I have some projects to share with you, but I am sorry for my absence.

Well I have been participating in some swaps lately over at My Scrap Room.  I have been having such a ball making the projects for these swaps but I have also been completely exhausted these weeks and then I one of those weeks I got ill with the flu and another week I went home from work with fevers everyday.  It was horrible.  I am finally on the mend and ready to share with you what I have been up to.

 

To see the video of this album click here...

So there you have it. Thank you all so much for stopping by and sharing your time!  I will see you all in the next one.

Kelli

What I used...
~K&Company, Tim Coffey Fall Mat Pad
~Recollections Card stock
~Recollections Crochet flowers
~Recollections Metal Brads
~Recollections Flowers
~Studio G Metal Brads
~Studio G Glitter glue
~Dollar General Silk flowers, Leaves, and Raffia
~Dollar General doily
~Trico Flowers and leaves
~DCWV Burlap Paper
~Offray ribbon
~Fiskars Kaleidoscope border punch
~WOC Skeleton leaves
~MFT Mini tabs foursome die

My 25 Days of Christmas Challenge! Day 20

Hi Everyone,

Just a few more projects to go.  Here is my day 20 project..

I love the paisley pattern in this K&Company collection

What I used...
~K&Company Yuletide paper pack
~Studio G ink pad
~Recollections Christmas Stamps
~Recollections Card Stock
~Cricut Theresa Collins Sophisticated Cartridge
~Black bling
~Lace
~Bakers twine-RAK from Krafthead
~Pearl Strand - RAK from Krafthead

Thanks for stopping by and taking a gander at what I made.

Kelli

Apart from you but not Forgotten & Mother's Day card

Hello Friends!

I pray you all are having a fabulous week!!  I know I have been away for awhile and I apologize for that but please know that I thought about you all and each of you were in my thoughts and prayers.

I have been working on a bunch of projects but the reason why you haven't seen them is because of a lack of memory space in my computer.  I have been diligently trying to clear the computer of all unneeded files and programs. I still have a ways to go but I have cleared enough room to import photos from my camera and show you all that I have been working on.

***I have to give a big THANK YOU to Sandy O @ Paper Transformer for reminding me to get it into high gear and create my Mother's Day cards!  :D  ***

So, this blog will be about my Mother's Day card.  I am really please with how this came out and I am really proud of myself.  I pray you like it.  Please let me know your thoughts. So without further delay...

...Here it is!

I used a piece of Paper from K&Company.  I think it is called Garden Paradise; I know that it is an old collection but I thought it was perfect.  The card base is a cream color that I cut at 6 1/4" x 9 and folded in half to make a 6 1/4" x 4 1/2" card.  I cut a piece of tan card stock at 6" x 4 1/4" and then cut the patterned paper at 5 3/4 x 4.  I wanted a very thin border on this card.

I adhered a piece of chocolate brown ribbon onto a piece of cream antique lace and then wrapped it around the patterned paper and tan mat.  I used my Cricut Plantin Schoolbook cartridge and cut an oval at 2 1/2" in the tan color and another at 2 1/4" in the patterned paper and adhered them together.  Then I used the Nature's Garden Watercolor Alphabet Stickers by Colorbok to spell out MOM.  I propped the sentiment on some 3D dimensional stickers, added an little bling from K&Company and viola!

I added some cream flowers to the side of the sentiment and the curly wire.  Then I took some glitter glue writer in crystal by Deco Art and outlined the flower petals, leaf and curly wire.  Then I added the butterfly and added the glitter to the butterfly.  Finally I added the K&Company bling to the corners and the front of the card was done.

Can you see the sparkle?  I tried to really capture the twinkle on the flowers but my camera wouldn't behave.

I blurred out the written part of the card but here is the inside.  I didn't want to waste any part of this beautiful paper so I made the open oval part a picture window and filled it with butterflies and covered the butterflies with the glitter.  

Watch on YouTube here

The camera really captured the twinkle on the butterflies here.  I love how this card came out.  I pray my Mom likes it as well.

Alright amigos, it's time to go for now but until we meet again; thanks for sharing your time with me.

Kelli

Favorite Favors

To all the virtuous women!  "...Many daughters have done virtuously, nobly, and well [with strength of character that is steadfast in goodness], but you excel them all."   ~Proverbs 31:10-31  AMP

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Spring Challenge - "Hello Spring"

Hello to you this day,

This is the first blog from Favorite Favors here on "My Favor8 (favorite) Blog."  I have decided to enter a contest that Mary from CardzTV is having.  The challenge is to create a card, layout or craft project that is all about spring.  So after lots of consideration, I decided to look through my many stacks of paper for inspiration.  I found it with my "Garden Party" pack from Making Memories.

With paper now in hand, I needed to decide what type of project will be made.  I saw a tutorial on Youtube from Laura @ Following The Paper Trail, on her Matchbook Mini Albums and I fell in love. This was the answer to my prayers.  A Matchbook Album became the order of the day.  So, here is my Spring version of Laura's Album for Mary at CardzTV.  My project is entitled "Hello Spring".

I used pastel purple cardstock and the Making Memories Garden Party set including their chipboard letters and dimensional glitter stickers.  I also used adhesive rhinestones from Marcella by K&Company and some adhesive butterfly rhinestones I found at the dollar store to embellish the cover.

The inside cards are a mix and match of papers from the Garden Party pack.  Since the patterned paper was printed single sided, I cut 24 sheets and glued two of them together to create the double side.  I carried the butterflies to the inside of the album with the green, blue, pink, and purple butterfly ribbon I got from Walmart.  The other ribbons, the solid and the circles I purchased from a dollar store as well.  I LOVE dollar store finds!

I even added a butterfly to the spine on the album.

And here is the back...

I really had a great time making this album.  I am so grateful for the challenge and the idea.  Thanks Mary and Laura!!

Feel free to leave comments and critiques but only if they are good.  ;D  No, I'm just kidding.  Criticism can be good.  It challenges us and helps us to grow and become better.  And I am all for becoming a better crafter, wife, entrepreneur, person!

Quote: "Nothing is a waste of time if it adds to the person you will become." ~Love Comes Softly


Link to Mary @ CardzTV: http://www.cardztv.blogspot.com/ 
Link to Laura's Matchbook Album: http://followingthepapertrail.blogspo...