The 12 Kits of Holidays - June 2013 Edition

It is that time again for our posting of The 12 Kits of Holidays and this month our fabulous hostess is Jeanne from A Kept Life.  If you know Jeanne, you know that her cards are out of this world, so much detail and doodads and bows that you can not take your eyes off of her work, it is simply amazing!
This month we are back to making cards for Christmas and the paper and all the ingredients that Jeanne sent are fabulous and I had a blast playing with all of them.  I am looking forward to see what the rest of the ladies have made too.
This month we have a special guest playing along with us, Cathy from Empty Nest Crafter.  She took a break this year from our group and is back this month to play along...I know she will do amazing things with this kit too.
I have 5 cards and 3 project to share with you today so there are lots of photos to look at. Once you are finished here be sure to use the links at the bottom to check out what everyone else has created.  You can also see the mile long list of ingredients on Jeanne's post.  Thank you so much for taking time to stop by and peek at my cards....have a great holiday week!

Anything Goes Challenge

Kit Photo - Courtsey of  Kara

Jeanne - this month's hostess

Christina

Amy

Kim (that's me)

Kara

Kelly

Jessica

Joyce

Renee

Tracey

Sharron 

Marybeth 

Cathy - this month's guest

ColourQ #195 and CAS(E) this Sketch #34

Happy Friday! I have one card for two challenges to share tonight, ColourQ and CAS(E) this Sketch.  Love when this happens.  We are melting on the west coast today and will be for the next several days, not sure how warm it was today but warm enough to not have to cook and that works for me.  Darnell from djkardkreations was kind enough to share her fabulous old fashioned phone stamp with me and it gave me my idea...that and this week's sketch.  Thank you so much for taking time to stop by to peek at my card....have a wonderful weekend and stay cool!

In addition to getting this card made I took some time to organize my sequin collection.  Joyce from Cards-by-the-Sea was so sweet to share with me where she found this fabulous bead organizer and it is so perfect for sequins.  Michael's only had one so I will be going back for one more next week when I have another coupon.  You can't beat the price $5.40!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White, Limeade Ice, Aqua Mist and Winter Wisteria

Dies: HeadLines Alphabet

Patterned Paper: Limeade Ice and Doodlebug - Take Note

Punch: SU - Scallop Edge

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Stamps: Heart-2-Heart #4 and Phone stamp - Darnell, thank you!

Dynamic Duo's #58 - Take Two

Just a real quick post with my second card for this week's Dynamic Duo's challenge.  Like I said before I was not sure what to do with these two colors and after I made my first card I fell in love with it.  I remember some time back on the PTI site seeing a card set by Michele here using the Guide Lines stamps and finally collected all 3 and they were all great bargains from the PTI forum.  This card design is not mine but why mess with a good thing right?  Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my card...have a great week!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock - Canyon Clay and White

Stamps: Giga Guide Lines and Guide Lines

Ink: Canyon Clay and Hero Arts - Soft Cantaloupe and VersaFine - Black

Button: Canyon Clay

Die: Limitless Layers - Circles

CASology #50

Ok, I think this will be my last post for the day and save any other cards to post tomorrow.  This card is for this week's CASology and the "cue" card is Free...now when I first saw it was free, I thought do what ever you want type card but once I took a closer look I found out that is was the word free. What a strange cue card word, right? After a few minutes it popped into my head and now I think it is a fabulous cue card word.   I put Lucy to work right away and made my cute little red car, my next problem was finding a square to cut our my Free Parking words and then bingo....Lil Inkers Stitched Squares and they were a perfect fit too! Just made my day, if I had taken the time to measure it all out it would have never worked, not in a million years.  Thank you so much for taking time to peek at my card....have a great week!

Ingredients - All Papertry Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White, Black and Aqua Mist and WP9 - Red

Stamps: The Alley Ways - Life is Short

Bling: Zva Creative

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Squares

Car: Lucy (my Silhouette)

Dynamic Duo's #58 and Muse #23

Two more cards to share today, the first one is for this week's Dynamic Duo's and you still have time to play along too!  This week's colors threw me off at first, not colors I generally use but I have to say that I am very happy with the way they turned out. I used Soft Cantaloupe ink from Hero Arts and Canyon Clay ink from PTI and I love how they look together.  I even added a few pearls to dress up my Folk Art Medallion from Waltzingmouse Stamps.  I would have bet money that I had a clear block big enough to fit this stamp and not only that I was sure I had used it before too, but no on both accounts so that is why my medallion is off the edge.

My second card is for this week's challenge over at Muse and Anita from France is they guest designer this week so I had to play along...you still have time to join the party over there too.  I fell in love with the soft and sweet colors she used along with all the wonderful sequins, just a beautiful inspiration card.  Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my cards....have a wonderful week.

Anita's inspiration card

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Dynamic Duo's

Solid Card Stock: White and Canyon Clay

Stamps: WM - Folk Art Medallions and Country Labels #4

Ribbon: Canyon Clay

Pearls: SU

Ink: Canyon Clay and Hero Arts - Soft Cantaloupe

Muse

Solid Card Stock: White, Spring Rain and Winter Wisteria

Ink: Winter Wisteria, Spring Rain and Sweet Blush

Sequins: Neat & Tangled

Stamps: Neat & Tangled - Across the Card

Papertrey Ink - June 2013 Blog Hop

This month's theme for Papertrey Ink's Blog Hop is Gold! Not a color I use much at all, so I have to think a bit outside the box.  I was hoping to find a piece of nice shiny gold metallic card stock but of course that was not going to happen, so I used the piece with a bit of a mat finish and it looks fine to me.  I pulled out some gold embossing powder and a few gold brads that has been hanging around for sometime.  My goal was to use what I had on hand for this card, I did not want to have to go shopping for anything.  So see, quick and easy! Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by to peek at my card...have a great week!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White

Stamps: Love & Marriage

Gold Card Sock: my stash

Embossing Powder: Ranger - Queen's Gold

Brads: my stash

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Squares

ColourQ #194 - Take Two

Just a real quick post with a second card for this week's ColourQ Challenge #194.  We have had a busy weekend so not too much crafting time...yesterday we spent the day at Shoreline in Mt. View for an all day rock concert, Van's Warp Tour and had a wonderful time but the weather was warm and by the time we arrived home I was beat!  Today I met a girl friend for tea and had a lovely lunch, I always love going for tea, a great way to spend time with a sweet friend.  I needed to get this card finished so I can pop it in the mail for some our friends wedding anniversary.  I love these Camellia's from Waltzingmouse stamped on polka dots, it really makes the flowers shine!  Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my card...have a great day!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White and Hawaiian Shores and SU - Calypso Coral

Patterned Paper: Pure Poppy, Hawaiian Shores and New Leaf

Stamps: WM - Camellia and Clearly Besotted - Framed Sentiments

Ink: VersaFine - Black and SU - Calypso Coral

Pearl: Doodlebug

ColourQ #194, CASology #49, and just for fun!

I have 3 cards to share today, I made them yesterday but ran out of time to get them posted.  My first card is just for fun.  I used to scrapbook a lot (now I use Project Life, so much easier for me to keep up with) and when ever I would go shopping for supplies, Ashleigh felt she needed supplies too.  Our favorite little store seemed to have far more stamps in it than anything else, that should have been my clue, right?  She would always pick out something for me from her, so I now have a fun collection of Disney themed wood mounted stamps. I don't have the heart to get rid of them, they have so many fun memories.  My two favorite stamps are of Cinderella, my favorite Disney princess but since I DO NOT color any stamped images, I figured they would never see any ink. I recently learned about water coloring, so I pulled out Cinderella and dusted her off, stamped her in VersaMark and heat embossed in black and went to work.  This is what I came up with.

My second and third cards are for challenges, CASology #49 and ColourQ #194.  Both of these cards were quick and fun to make.  The "cue" card for this week's CASology is Fish, what a fun theme, right?  I knew I had just the stamps to use.  Years ago, my sister and I took some stamp classes in Elk Grove at a wonderful little store and one of the cards we made used these fun fish stamps from A Muse Artstamps. My sister was sweet enough to pass these fabulous little guys on to me and I am so happy she did!

My final card is for ColourQ #194 and I went with a summer theme after seeing the inspiration colors, so beautiful and perfect for this time of year.  I used Debbie Olson's card she made here as my inspiration to go with the colors too,  she is one incredible lady and so talented! All I really did was change up the colors and the theme, why reinvent the wheel!  I also found this cute little starfish in my stash so add a bit of fun!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Cinderella

Solid Card Stock: White and Spring Rain, Joann's Metallic Paper

Stamp: DayDreamer and Hands of Time and All Night Media - Cinderella

Bling: SU

Ink: Spring Rain and Harvest Gold and VersaFine - Black

Clock Hands: Lucy (my Silhouette)

Embossing Powder: Ranger

CASology

Solid Card Stock: White, Hawaiian Shores and Summer Sunrise

Twine: The Twinery

Ink: VersaFine - Black

Dies: Lil Inkers; Stitched Rectangles

Stamps: A Muse - Fishes and Best Fishes

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug - Swirls

ColourQ

Solid Card Stock: New Leaf, Pure Poppy and White and SU - Coral Calypso

Patterned Paper: Pure Poppy

Baker's Twine: My Stash

Ink: Hawaiian Shores and VersaFine - Black

Charm and Bling: My Stash

Dies: Spiral Notebook, Flipping Out

Stamps: Flipping Out

Dynamic Duo's #57 and Avery Elle June Challenge

Happy Tuesday! Hope you are having a fun week...I have 2 cards to share today, the first one for Dynamic Duo's Challenge #57.  I made a Mother's Day card using a NBUS stamps from Verve and PTI! So much fun playing with stamps that have been sitting around for a while.  I loved the green and black color combination for DD this week and I opted for the dessert option and used a flower stamp. 

My second card is for this month's challenge at Avery Elle.  The sketch for this month was so fun, I had to play along. I pulled out another NBUS stamp set, Bonjour. The cookies are just too cute to pass up and who would not love a plate filled with these?  I choose to go with some pastel colors and they went so well with the little sequins. Thank you for stopping by to peek at my cards...have a great week.

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Mother's Day

Solid Card Stock: White and Black

Stamps: Garden of Life and Verve - Mother's Day

Ink: Limeade Ice and Memento - Bamboo Leaves and VersaFine - Black

Pearls: Kaiser

Dies: MFT - Flags

Bonjour

Solid Card Stock: White

Patterned Paper: Sweet Blush

Stamps: Avery Elle - Bonjour

Ink: Spring Rain, Limeade Ice, Harvest Gold and Memento - Angel Pink

Sequines: Neat & Tangled

Waltzingmouse Blog Party - Summertime Fun

It is the 17th of the month and it is time for this month's Waltzingmouse Blog Party and the theme is summertime fun...and who does not love a good fireworks show? And after a baseball game is even better! This is my second attempt at my card, I wanted to make one using the cool star/flag stamp from 1776 but after I printed up some blue gingham card stock my blues did not match and I really wanted to use the gingham paper so I started over.  My card is pretty simple but I do those the little fireworks stamps that come in the set, so fun! You still have time to play and you can get all the details right here...
Before I forget, I learned something new today...NBUS, do you know what that means? Well I had no clue and have seen Darnell use it several times, even in commenting. I was in the dark or late to the party, not sure which but Darnell was sweet enough to "splane Lucy". It means Never Before Used Schtuff...very clever and a quick and easy way to say what you are using is new...another one of her "Darnellisims".
Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my card...have a great week!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Solid Card Stock: White and Pure Poppy

Gingham Paper: Pink Petticoat - Digital

Stamps: WM - 1776 and Country Labels 4

Ribbon: Britex

Pearls: Kaiser

Ink: SU - Real Red, Memento - Danube Blue and ColorBox - Lemon Drop

ColourQ #193 and WP9 Mood Board and Cloud 9

These are my last cards for the day...I may make a few more but will not post them tomorrow. My first card is for this week's WPlus9 Mood Board and Cloud 9...I was very sad to read that this is the final challenge for Cloud 9 and their theme is Anything Goes so I will be using one card for both challenges. It has been fun using my WP9 stamps to play along and you still have time to get your card ready for their final challenge, you can get more info here. I am using the set I won from a past Cloud 9 challenge, so fun to get free stamps!  I used Fresh Baked for the first time and I love this set and will be using it lots more.  

My second card is for this week's ColourQ challenge #193, bright and festive colors that I had to make it into a birthday card.  I went through all my stamp sets looking for little birthday greetings to fit into these Frame It dies.  I just received 14 new colors of sequins from Neat & Tangled and since this was a birthday card I wanted it to look like a party! Thank you so much for stopping by to peek at my cards...have a great rest of your weekend!

Ingredients - All Papertrey Ink unless listed

Cloud 9 and Mood Board

Solid Card Stock: White

Stamps: Fresh Baked

Dies: Lil Inkers - Stitched Rectangles

Ribbon: Harvest Gold

Ink: New Leaf, Harvest Gold and Memento - Angel Pink and VersaFine - Black

Colourq

Solid Card Stock: White, Pure Poppy and Hawaiian Shores and SU - Pacific Point

Patterned Paper: Pure Poppy and Limeade Ice

Sequins: Neat & Tangles

Die: Frame It's #12

Stamps: Birthday Bash, Frame It's #1, 2012 Birthday Tags and Stylist Birthday Sentiments