Peace, Love, Snow

Hi All, 
     Today I have a project for our first challenge of 2014 at 613 Avenue Create! 

Our sponsors are ALL DRESSED UP  and SQUIGGLEFLY.  I chose an image from All Dressed Up for our optional theme of  Colors, Sights, Sounds of Winter.

I realize green isn't a color associated with Winter but the snowflakes are!

And this particular shade of green was so difficult to photograph!  

It's really a little deeper than this.

 The candies are called Sixlits...remember those as a kid or am I dating myself?  Anyway I thought they were perfect for little "snowballs"!

It's very hard to see but I used Icicle Stickles on the snowflakes and the "hi".

So that's it for now...thanks for stopping by!  And don't forget to link up on our

 BLOCK PARTY - 500 Followers Giveaway Page

 We have some awesome sponsors and prizes!

Hugs,

Kathi

Challenges:

Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge Blog - #10 Anything Goes    1/10
Totally Gorjuss - Ribbon    1/11

Craftitude Challenges - Anything Goes    1/9     Top 3
Craftyhands - Anything Goes      1/17
Polkadoodles - Anything Goes    1/12
Sister Act Challenges - Anything Goes    1/10
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes    2/1
Glitter n Sparkle - Anything Goes   1/10
Hobbycutz - Anything Goes   1/11
Robyn's Fetish - Use a digi   1/10  
Catch the Bug - Anything Goes   1/11
The squirrel and the Fox - Anything Goes   1/10

There's No One Like You

Hi All!  
Geesh being sick and busy is not a good combo!  Usually by this time of the year I have tons of Valentine's completed!  Oh well...guess I'll just have to eat the candy I don't have time to package and decorate!  Mmmm...nom nom...LOL...that's the sound of a true chocoholic!  :)  

Well I did get this one completed and mailed to my daughter in college.  She just loves those Andes candies.  When we would go out to eat at The Olive Garden they would bring everyone at the table a candy with the bill...well she usually ate them all!  And want to ask for more!  LOL!  Hmm wonder where she gets that from??  :)  

The paper is old from my stash, black CANDI dots, sentiment by MFT, ladybug stamp is from a square peg set and don't remember who made it (sorry) colored with Copic RV29 and Stickles.

More Valentine's to come!  Thanks for stopping by!  Kathi

Challenges:
Sweet Stampin' - Love Is All Around
HIMCR #83 Reds!
Glitter and Sparkle - Valentine/Love
Fashionable Stamping - Show Some Love
Dream Valley - Valentine's
Anything But A Card - Share the Love
Milk Coffee Challenges - Valentine's/Love
Sarah Hurley Challenges - Anything But A Card
Lady Anne's - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Black/White plus One

Color Challenge at JDE!

Hi Everyone!  Back to reality of a full work week, at least for me anyway!  Hopefully you'll be able to join us this week at Jackson's Digital Expressions for our Color Challenge using RED,WHITE & BLACK. 
Personally, I love this color combo and they're my husband's favorite colors sooo it was the perfect opportunity to create an anniversary card for this challenge. 

I was playing around in PhotoScape (a free photo editing program) and I set the image as "reverse black and white".  I just love how it looks!  I used the My Man II image and cropped it from the waist up.

 inside sentiment by Verve Stamps

Additional supplies:  Dies: Spellbinders and MFT, license plate letters by MFT, My Mind's Eye striped paper, red/white papers from stash and black CANDI dots.

I hope you'll join us at JACKSON'S DIGITAL EXPRESSIONS this week!  Thanks for stopping by!

Kathi

Challenges:
Clearly iStamp - Clean and Simple
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
Party Time Tuesdays - Anything Goes
Tuesday Alchemy - Anything Goes

Mr. & Mrs. Claus - CAS Challenge

This week at Jackson's Digital Expressions it's CAS time again!  The challenge is make a CAS (Clean And Simple) card and use patterned paper.  I used the new release Mr. & Mrs. Claus.

I used the sketch this week at the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #172

Supplies:  My Mind's Eye Vintage Christmas 6x6 pad, Spellbinders square die, Jotted Heart die by Verve, Fishtail Flag die by MFT, sentiment by MFT from The Merry KISSmas Pure Innocence set, colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.

Come join us this week at JDE for our newest challenge!  

Kathi  :)

Challenges:

The Sweetest Thing - Sweet Sunday Sketch #172
Paper Playtime - #89 Anything Goes
The Kraft Journal - Holiday Cards Challenge
House of Gilli - Die cuts
Lady Anne's Challenges - Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom Door #45

Pink or Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge at JDE!

Hi all!!
This week at Jacksons Digital Expressions our challenge is to create a project using the color pink or a project supporting Breast Cancer Awareness (pink, ribbon, sentiments, etc).  And members of the DT and supporters have decided to donate .25 per entry to go to BC treatment.  So far we are up to $1.25 per entry!  We are not asking for donations we are simply asking to create an item and enter in the challenge at JDE this week.  Please feel free to advertise this on your own blogs because the more entries = more $ donated!

So onto my projects for the week.  First is a card I created using the Awareness Walk digi and I cropped just one girl from the group.

I stippled the cloud background and used an oval Spellbinder for the image which I cut the outline of the girls back.  Colored with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.  The stamp is from My Favorite Things - Pure Innocence - Have Hope set.  The dies are from Verve called Charming Ovals.

JDE is sponsored again this week by Bugaboo Stamps.  I used the Ribbon Bear Leaning digi to make a 

5 x 7 photo mat for my cousin who has been dealing with breast cancer herself.  She will be doing the relay for life in October.  I paper pieced the ribbon and the heart on his bum  :)   and I used chalks to color him in.

This week is also Stella Says Sketch #120

 

matching card - sentiment by Ginger's House

So everybody get your craft on this week and join us for our BCA Challenge and let's raise some money!!

Kathi  :)

Challenges:

Catch the Bug - SSS #120

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes 

Repeat Impressions DCC926 - Paper Piecing Challenge 

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - More than 1 fold 

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes 

Whimsy Inspires Challenge Blog - Anything Goes 

Craft Us Crazy - Halloween or Anything Goes 

Southern Girls Challenge - Spots & Stripes 

Hiding In My Craft Room - Anything Goes 

Totally Gorjuss - Punches or Dies 

Outlawz Challenges - CAS 

Dream Valley Challenges - Go Pink 

Graduation thank you card & enabler alert :)

Just when you thought I was done with the graduation stuff I finally finished the thank yous!  The shirt die is from MFT and the Thank you stamp and the Jotted Heart Die are from one of my favorite stamp companies Verve.  And Verve is having their 5th Anni-Verve-sary Sale!  You can save 10-50% off stamps and dies.  Sale ends 8/24.  I'll be entering this card in their Customer Card Carnival and maybe I can win some new stamps!  Whoo hoo!

Hugs!

Kathi  :)

More graduation cards

I made these cards for two of Shianne's long time friends.  Alyssa is a "ginger" and Missy is a brunette  :) 

The digi stamp is by The Greeting Farm called Grad Anya.  The die is from My Favorite Things and I ran the yellow through my Cuttlebug with the tiny dot embossing folder.  Then I touched all of the dots with Stickles.  The sentiment is a freebie from Desert Diva.  I colored the skin with Copics E00 and E000 and the rest with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol.

Thanks for stopping by!!
Kathi  :)

Graduation card and a tip

It's time to catch up!  I really have made many things over the past few months but I've only had time to post some of them.  So I am going to try to post a few things  :)  Here is a card I made for my daughter for graduation.

 On the scalloped edge I rubbed the Perfect Medium by Ranger that came with my Perfect Pearls set.  It's kind of tacky to the touch.  I then used a brush to "paint" on some PearlEx #674 Interference Gold.  I really like the effect.

Supplies:  stamps by My Favorite Things, Cuttlebug folder used on the banner, scalloped oval by Spellbinders.

More to come!   Kathi  :)

Jackson's Digital Expressions Blog Hop!

Welcome to the BLOG HOP and Design Challenge for the Jackson's Digital Expressions blog.  If you came here from Chana's blog: CARD-D-OLOGY  then you are headed in the right direction!  If not go to Jacksons Digital Expressions so you can start at the beginning.  There is a letter hidden at each blog so collect the letters that make up the mystery words because you'll want to win some prizes right??  Make sure you leave a comment on every blog because every designer has a digital image for you to win!  When you have all of the letters and know the mystery words then return to the Jacksons Digital Expressions blog and leave a comment with the answer for your chance to win a gift card and digital images!
                    
                 So let's get to it!  My challenge was to create Anything but a card. 

I created a photo album for my husband.  As soon as I saw this digi I fell in love with it and had to use it! The image is called Proud Popa and here is my inspiration photo.  It was meant to be  :)

I used Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol (an odorless mineral spirits) to blend the color.  Members of the DT will be doing tutorials on coloring with various types of media and this technique will be included.  So stay tuned for those!  I used the Spellbinders Nested Lacey Pennants dies, the mini heart is from a Verve die called I heart U, large heart die is called Jotted Heart (Verve) and the teal die cut is from a My Favorite Things Die-namics/stamp set called Vertical Greetings.  The black paper is basic Grey called oliver greyson/ver-2702.  I used my Bind-It-All which has been sitting on the shelf for too long!

Here are some of the pics from the album:

notebook paper stamp by Verve

                                                          This is the inside back cover.

 So now you need to move along on your adventure  :)   Next up is Berni....

Jackson's Digital Expressions start here!
RJ 
JoAnna
Lawren
FranCine
Joyce
Trish
Chana
Kathi   you are here
Berni   http://berni46.blogspot.com/
Katya
Lesia
DeNetra
Lisa
Chauntelle
Pamela
Kim
Shelia
Princess
Jackson's Digital Expressions end here

Such sad news....

Hi all...just bringing myself to create a post.  On August 31st two of my daughter's friends and soccer teammates were killed in a car accident.  Bella & Elana were only 16 and 17.  They did not have their seat belts on and the other two girls in the car who did have theirs on survived.  There was also another car with 5 other teammates right behind them and saw it all happen.  They tried to help the girls but couldn't.  Bella was starting her Sr. year but instead her funeral was on the first day of school.  It's still so unbelievable.  So I coped one of the best ways I know how...crafting.  I made the 7 girls involved composition book journals.  I know how therapeutic journaling can be and they need every tool they can get to help them through this tragic time in their lives.  The entire team and community have really shown their strength and ability to come together and help each other grieve.  I had just recently bought the My Favorite Things "Love you with all my Heart" stamp set and it was just so fitting for the journals.  My daughter suggested using Bella + Elana's favorite colors...blue and yellow.  The girls really liked them and I hope they help. 

The color doesn't show well but it's a Periwinkle blue and it's very old from Making Memories yellow from Core`dinations.  The side was punched with a MS punch,  I used the Grand Nestabilities Grand Labels Eleven, MFT stamp.  I used chalks to color her in and put a little Jolee's crystal in her barrette.

So if ANYTHING good could possibly come from this tragedy it is that my daughter and I have become even closer.  I think she has helped me through this more than I've helped her.  How did she become so mature and strong?   I can't stop hugging her....  So please hug your children whether they are 3 or 30 and make sure they always wear their seat belts.    Hugs....Kathi