Happy Like Yellow

Spring cards...

 

 

There has been some really great projects shared this week during the STAEDTLER and Stampendous blog hop!  I have two more cards to share with you today. I used my watercolor pencils and poppy stamp to create a few really soft cards in a more layered style. I'm a doodler so I adore my STAEDTLER triplus finliners. They come in three soft shades...black, grey, and a light grey.  I love adding those little details along with layers of colorful tidbits and florals. 

 

Thanks for stopping by my little corner today!

Don't forget...

Each of the STAEDTLER design team members will be giving away a very special prize package, our “Sweet Summer” Giveaway to one lucky blog reader at the end of the week!! To be eligible to win, please leave a comment on this blog post by midnight friday.  A winner will be selected randomly and I will post the winner here on my blog on Wednesday, May 29th!

The “Sweet Summer” Giveaway includes the following:

 
1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment
4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint
1 Mars plastic eraser
1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener
1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil
1 Pigment liner sketch pen
2 Creative idea brochures

Please do check out some of the other ladies inspirational projects and leave a comment on each blog for a chance to win! 

Kellie Mowat: http://makeitwithme-kell.blogspot.com/

April Derrick: http://memoryvilla.com/blog/

Jamie Martin - http://stampthis.blogspot.com/2013/05/stamp-this-with-stampendous-and.html
Janelle Stollfus - http://rainpuddlesdesign.blogspot.com/2013/05/color-me-happy-with-staedtler-and.html
Jennifer Dove - http://just4funcrafts.blogspot.com/2013/05/stampendous-and-staedtler.html  

Stampendous Impressions - Stampendous

Good Things... (image heavy post)

 

Yes good things are a happening this week! It's a week filled with creative inspiration and lots of fun projects! STAEDTLER and Stampendous have teamed up to share some cool projects, supplies and prizes this week and I'm excited to share one of my projects with you today!  

I've been dabbling a bit into the world of mixed media lately and I wanted to create a sort of exploratory journal to keep where I try some techniques I'm learning as well and paint and play a little bit. It's always fun to try new things and just let go! For my little journal I've splattered, painted and stamped using one of Stampendous Impression's gorgeous stamps!

 

 

Each of the STAEDTLER design team members will be giving away a very special prize package, our “Sweet Summer” Giveaway to one lucky blog reader at the end of the week!! To be eligible to win, please leave a comment on this blog post by midnight friday.  A winner will be selected randomly and I will post the winner here on my blog on Wednesday, May 29th!

The “Sweet Summer” Giveaway includes the following:

 
1 Set of 6 Triplus fineliners, pastel assortment
4 blocks of FIMO soft oven-bake clay in vanilla, peach, lilac and mint
1 Mars plastic eraser
1 Double hole metal pencil sharpener
1 Mars Lumograph sketch pencil
1 Pigment liner sketch pen
2 Creative idea brochures

Please do check out some of the other ladies inspirational projects and leave a comment for a chance to win! 

Stampendous - Stampendous Impressions

Cyndi Bundy - http://scrappychickcyndi.blogspot.com

Suzanne Czosek - http://www.suzzstampingspot.blogspot.com/

Tenia Nelson - http://jazzypaper.blogspot.com/

And remember...

Stampendous is giving away a fantastic prize as well so please stop by and leave a comment on all the blogs for a chance to win!

 

STAEDTLER, Stampendous Blog Hop

Hi everyone! There are some exciting things happening this week! STAEDTLER and Stampendous are teaming up all week to share some creative inspiration! There will be tons of great projects to take a peek at and....each STAEDTLER team member will be giving away a fun prize pack to one lucky winner at the end of the week!

So do stop by this week and take a look! I'll have a few mixed media projects to share as well as a few of my own!

Also Stampendous will be giving away some of their fun stamps too!

Hope to see you next week...Until later!

Take care!

Doodled Cards...and a Gift

I have a few sweet things to share today and I have been in full stylist mode over the past few weeks hence the pretty styled photos that I have to share today. It's quickly becoming a love of mine and as I slowly increase my photography skills and equipment I'm sure this habit will continue. I love the simplicity or chaos and feeling you can create with a simple photo, along with the crafting of course!

I made a few simple little cards using my STAEDTLERtriplus fineliners, love that they come in different shades of black, grey, and a lighter grey. I thought of filling in my lines but I preferred the simple look.

I can use these cards just about for any occassion and add little tidbits or a typed message on the front. Along with these cards I was thinking of a end of the year gift for my sons teacher and I had purchased these really cute little boxes from michael's some time ago and already covered them with some paint and text paper. They make the perfect gift boxes to hold trinkets or candy! I added a cute handstamped card that I drew a oval doodle on and colored with my STAEDTLER colored pencils.

I love making these little happy things full of color and spring blooms. The pink flowers are torn strips of watercolor paper and boy do I really have to make some more of these. They are so fun and easy to make! And oh so GIRLY! I really only made them for styling purposes but I have some other ideas that they can be used for too!

That's it for today...I have lots more to share over the next week so I shouldn't be mia for too long! Enjoy this wonderful week everyone!

Take care!

Sing a little song...

 

Most times you will find me singing some sort of song, softly and under my breathe or too loudly and my son says "mom"... in that tone of discontent.  It's something I do that keeps me sane inside and sometimes I don't even realize I'm doing it until someone ask "what is that you're singing"?  I'd like to think it's a sign of a happy heart when everything else seems not so clear.  

I used and old photo of me singing in the car and blowing a kiss on this page . I like these random moments because the photos are so much more real.  They tell the truest story of how you are feeling at the time. Although it's just a snippet it has a certain sincerity about it. I love honesty in photography, nothing that's really too contrived! 

 

 

I love my scraps and I wanted to share a layout I created using only scraps of punched pages and strips of patterned paper. Sometimes I think It's an inner challenge of mine to create using only scraps. I think the only thing that's not a scrap here is the 6x6 foundation page and the flower petals. Which they are scraps also because I keep a random set of torn apart flower petals. 

 

Hopefully my little scrappy page will make you see your scraps in a different way! But then you might keep a totally scrappy mess like I do. Really I'm so bad about throwing away things because I just know that little piece of paper will find a home someday! 

I hope you guys had a Happy Mother's day weekend. I just relaxed and caught up on some movies and crafty time. I'm off to use one of my favorite gifts for Mother's day! A Michaels gift card!  Woo-Hoo...My other favorite gift was a little crafty candly holder that my son made in school. I love it when they get crafty! 

Be back soon with more fun inspiration to share!

 

 

Hello...

Happy Mother's day to all the amazing Mother's out there! Hope you all are getting some R n R, some kind of fancy drinks and dinner today! You deserve it!

I've been working on some fun new inspiration post to share, hopefully soon! So take care and enjoy your weekend!

Kim

Color crush and a winner...

I had to kick my butt in gear and get some things posted to share today! Including posting a winner for the giveaway...

Congratulations!!!.

...Lisa Flaherty...

and I decided to pick another to send a fun little surprise!

...Pam Sohan...

Thanks for stopping in everyone and for all your sweet comments about my little bag. It was such a fun time working with the team and sharing the designs we came up with!

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I also thought I'd share a little card and some sneaks of a few things I'm working on. The card came together after I started spattering a bit of watercolor and layering the pieces together. I adore this pinkish lavender color. This will definitely be a color you'll probably see around here more often. I think I've gotten off of my peach kick for a minute. But now I'm on to lavender. Woo Hoo for lavender! It's such a springy color in it's lighter shades.

I hope you all are enjoying this lovely week! We got our sunshine back here in florida!  Until later!

Take care!

Cocoa Daisy Blog Hop!

Hi everyone! Welcome to my stop on the Cocoa Daisy Day of inspiration blog hop! You should have come from Jody Ferlaak’s blog. Today as a part of our celebration we are sharing a little project we all did using some fun canvas hip bags!

If you are starting here, please be sure go to Cocoa Daisy and check out the rest of the teams bags! There are some really awesome bags to be seen! 

For my bag I chose to keep it pretty simple and just used a little paint and glitter. I taped off the bag in a crisscross pattern and then used 3 colors in cool peach tones, white and just a little glitter. I thought of using a little more embellishment or appliques but instead just kept it clean and simple. You could also use a little embossing powder on some areas as well instead of glitter. 

In honor of our celebration I’m going to be giving away some fun things from some of the CD kits. A few patterned papers, a roller stamp and a few other extra stamps that I received.  Please leave a comment just to say hello and if you like the Cocoa daisy facebook page and let me know I’ll enter you a second time in my drawing!

The drawing will end on Monday may 6th and I’ll announce a winner here on the following day.

Good luck!  And make sure to stop by all the DT blogs because some are having some awesome giveaways as well!

Now it’s on to Lisa Saunders blog!

Here is the full blog list if you stopped in the middle.

Alissa Fast

Anna Bjorklund

Ashley Calder

Christine Drumheller

Denise Morrison

Emily Pitts

Jaime Warren

Jody Ferlaak

Kim Stewart

Lisa Saunders

Mandie Pierce

Mandy Kay Starner

Mandy Koeppen

Sharmaine Kruijver

Stephanie Wheeler

Have a great weekend!

Inspiration day!

Hi everyone! I stopped by today to invite you all to a day filled with inspiration, fun and games! Saturday is National Scrapbooking day and Cocoa Daisy will be hosting an exciting event including a fun blog hop with prizes!  
Here are a few projects I created with this months kit Record Label! It's such a fun kit filled with all kinds of fun tidbits! 





I will have a fun giveaway on saturday as well as some of the other DT girls so please do stop by and join in on the fun!

Kim

Where my heart is...

I'm constantly inspired by florals of all kinds. It's such a soothing thing to see them and have their subtle fragrance in the air.  And so much like life, their beauty is fleeting so you learn to cherish the small amount of time that they are with you!  What can I say, my heart loves them! Most times I like to add them to my projects, I use them on gifts and tags, I hang them from a little banner on my wall.

Sometimes they do take over a project and for these cards I had to include a little floral inspired tag to go along with them. Whenever I give gifts I like to include lots of little things like tags and ribbons to make them extra special. Their might be a little post card attached with a note. It's almost impossible to give a gift without making it into an art project. 

I made a set of simple cards using my STAEDTLER watercolor crayons...the more I learn to use them the more I love them. I will have to create more projects in the future using these for sure. So many possibilites! When I made the first card using the little hand drawn hearts I just new I had to make more. These are just a few that I completed this week! 

I've gotten back to doodling little hearts and frames on my layouts. I don't know why I stopped. It may be that I'm a little impatient and sometimes don't like to take that extra step or maybe my STAEDTLER pens weren't nearby, I don't know. But I do know that I need to take an extra few minutes to add a few doodles because I love these cards and they might possibly be my favorite!

I wanted to pop in and share these lovely cards with you guys! Working on the STAEDTLER design team has opened up a whole new world for me and made me believe that I need to have more faith in myself. I'm still learning how to use so many mixed media and drawing supplies these days and some days I feel like my head will explode from all the ideas and things I want to try. I'm thankful for the opportunity to get to try them though! The journey is definitely a more colorful one!

If there are things you want to try like watercolor or stamping or whatever, just go and try it, have a little faith, sit them on your desk and look at them everyday...One day they will speak to you and you will make something wonderful! 

Hope to be back soon to share some fun news!

Have a Mavelous Saturday everyone!