PTI Anniversary "stripes" contest

I love making this card in a variety of colors and Watercolor Wonder is great for the "stripes" in my card.

Enjoy!

Kristin

Happy Anniversary #2

Here's is the 2nd anniversary card/post for the week.  Our best friends celebrated their 17th anniversary recently and she and her daughters adore anything I make... so it's pretty fun to craft for them too :).  Her husband is certainly appreciative as well ;).

This is a combination of Papertrey Ink and one of my favorite lines from Echo Park (ever?!?) This & That: Graceful.

Enjoy!

Kristin

Strawberry Explosion: Teacher Gifts

This is a picture heavy blog post today!

End of the school year is this coming week (YEA!!!!).  I'm sure my kids are excited, but not by much.  Yes, I was the over achiever all those years, but I'm old now :).  I am ready for homework-free evenings.

As you can see it *appears* as though I went all out for the teachers this year, but really these products made it super simple.  The stamping was amazingly simple and easy and I stayed with the same color theme for each one.  I used DT's idea for a pouch (anyone? who's was it??) from the berry basket die.  I bought cellophane wrap and my daughter insisted on the curly-Q ribbon (and she was right!) and voila!

Enjoy!

Kristin

Flying Hill over "Prairie Hill"

Pink Paislee... love them! They have come out with several lines that I adore.  For around $5 I can get the small paper pack and while this is the only one I have, I simply love Prairie Hill.  Lots of distressing, Kraft card stock, a postage die (on Fine Linen of course) and little bits of goodness peeking out.

Enjoy!

Kristin

PTI Day 1 Sketch 5

PTI 5th Anniversary Day 1 Sketch 5
PTI is 5 years old! Nichole put 5 sketches on her blog and my interpretation of the 5th sketch is above.  I changed it quite a bit but really like the bright colors.  Not my usual style.  Finally played with MS5 collection (swoon!).  The sketch I used is in the link above.

Enjoy!

Kristin

out from under the rock :)

Hey there! I really haven't meant to be hiding under a rock... it just sorta happened that way. The first weekend after school started for my son, my husband and I spent the entire weekend painting and moving JetMax cubes into my "new" craft room. It is actually going to be a craft room for my kids and I. They *love* to craft with me and I love it too. So, I now can truly spread out and have "stations" : stamping/assembling (main work area), cutting/diecutting/cricut, laptop, mini-books, and sewing. Finally, one of the only things we purchased was a 5 ft. (foldable) table that is in the center of the table for the kids. They can sit there and leave their crafts out- or I can sit with them if we are doing a project together (instead of on the floor which is what happened in the past!). OR, if I have a BIG project or girlfriends over, most all of that can MOVE and everyone can have their OWN spot!! So, we just need to finish up the walls and I'll post pictures. WELL.... that was a LONG intro into those 2 cards (sorry!!). Do you remember SAFaire weekend? Nichole posted lots of challenges. Well, these were cards I made (the top was close to a CASE of Pine's card- #3) for the challenges. The bottom ended up being my dh's birthday card and it was for #6 with the notches/twine.

Enjoy!

Kristin

Playing around

Quick post... I was just messing around a few weeks ago (I seriously think I made this card sometime in March and never posted it!)... and just kept cutting and stamping and this came about. I have no idea if I even like it. But, here it is :)

I do believe I will start being more active again.  I go through waves and I have several cards and projects I just need to upload and post.  So, should be seeing them soon!

Life is about to be a lot busier too (for all of us I'm sure!)... end of school, start of summer... so much to do over the next well 3 months, my schedule is already full (at least I have a vacation planned in there... I will need it!).

enjoy!

Kristin

Blue Butterfly

Another quick post from me today.  This printed paper has fast become some of my favorite (Beautiful Blooms from PTI), MS5, SN die, always love the SS:Butterfly die, and BB: Text Style II.  This also was a "reject" from that Paper Crafts sketch call. 

I'm thinking of submitting for their current new call... it would help if I would do more than walk *by* my desk.  Cards and gifts apparently do not magically appear by osmosis... LOL

Enjoy!
Kristin