Animals

Hi All!

Today I have a card to show you that I made just for fun.

My friend Marie, has this adorable stamp and let me borrow it.

I stamped the image onto white card stock with 

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

and colored it with my 

Fantasia colored pencils.

I used Distress Inks and blending tools to 

add the green for the grass and the blue for the sky

around the image.

I don't know who will receive this card, but I think

it's just adorable.

Thanks for popping over today,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

Happy Crafting!

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Anniversary cards

Hello blog fans!

Today I have a couple Anniversary cards to show you.

My friend Emma and her husband just celebrated their

50th wedding anniversary.

I was invited to a party for them, but I couldn't attend.

I couldn't let their party go by without making a card for them.

I made 2 cards and now have one in reserve for the next time

I need one.

This is the card I sent them.

The background was made by smooshing Distress Inks

onto watercolor paper using a piece of acrylic.

I'm sorry it doesn't show up better, but it turned out 

really pretty.  For the hearts I cut out a heart shape from a piece 

of card stock, placed it onto white card stock and smooched

over it with VersaMark ink, covered it with silver embossing powder

and heated it with my heat gun until melted.  I made 2 hearts this way

and fussy cut them and adhered them to the background with foam tape.

The Happy Anniversary sentiment is from Eureka Stamps.

I stamped it onto silver vellum and heat embossed it with 

silver embossing powder.

After wrapping it around the background panel, I adhered the panel 

to a white card base.

Inside I wrote a personal note to Emma and Charles.

This is the other card that I made.

I ran a piece of white card stock through my Cuttlebug

in an embossing folder and embossed tiny hearts covering the 

panel.  I cut out a heart from a piece of card stock and used it as 

a stencil and "colored" the heart using Nuvo Mousse in gold.

To see this technique watch this video that my friend

Marleen made.

The sentiment strip was made the same way as the one above,

but I used white embossing powder.

I added strips of silver vellum at the top and bottom of the

embossed panel and adhered it to the white card base with

foam tape.

Thanks for stopping in today, come again soon,

you never know what you'll find on 

Kristie Kreates!

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Little Gift for Mom

Hello blog friends!

Today I have a little something that I made for my Mom.

If you've been following me for a while, you know that

my Mom is 92 yrs old and lives in an assisted living home.

We have all given her plants over the last few years, but they 

never seem to live very long.

One of the problems is that they get too big for the pot and

once they get transplanted to another pot they don't do so well.

I think it's a general consensus that it's my black thumb that does

it.  All she has left right now is a sad African Violet that isn't going to

last much longer.  Someone keeps watering it and it's getting too much 

water.  Recently I bought a cute little "planter" of artificial succulents

and that's doing very well. LOL

I thought I'd make her up a little arrangement of silk flowers for 

the stand in front of her window.

Here's what I used.

I found some flowers when I was at the craft store for 

70% off, so I picked those up.

I had some styrofoam balls in my stash of craft supplies,

I cut one in half to hold the flowers.

I put some ATG tape on the flat bottom of one of the 

pieces and stuck it to the bottom of the "vase" that I 

was going to use.

I found this piece at Savers for a couple dollars.

It's the perfect size for what I wanted.

I really had no idea what I was doing, but I think 

this little arrangement turned out cute.

 

Here are a couple more pictures.

I think she's going to like this and it will brighten her room.

AND it won't die either!

Here's a view from the top to show what flowers 

there are.

So in the end, I spent about $3.00 to brighten Mom's 

room, I'd say that's a darn good deal.

Thanks for stopping in today!

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

try something new,

like flower arranging.

Who knows you might be able to

brighten someones day too.

Family We Chose and Good Times

Hello Blog Fans!

Today I have a couple more layouts in a series 

that I've been working on.  They have all been pictures from my 

"nieces" family picnic in 2013.

These are the last 2 layouts in that series.

The title on this layout is Family That We Chose.

I don't know about you, but my family has a lot of what 

I like to call my "fake family"

My "niece" Tammy's Grandmother was one of my Mom's

friends since high school.  We always called her Aunt Lou.

Her daughter Nancy, in the picture above wearing black and white

I have always considered my cousin.  My children call her Aunt Nancy.

Her daughter, Tammy, holding the baby, calls me Aunt Kristie and is 

my niece.  I know it's a little convoluted, but it's how we are in my 

family.

In this page of the layout are 4 generations of our 

Family That We Chose!

This layout is of my family.

Dave, my husband, me, my kids, Kelsie and Jaryd,

and my wonderful Mom.

In that lower right hand corner is the whole group of us.

My family and the decendents of Aunt Lou.

Are my kids just too beautiful or what?

When I was making this layout, I said
"Gosh my kids are beautiful!"

My friend Emma started laughing and said

"You say that every time you do a layout of your kids."

I guess that's true, but I just can't help it!
They are just gorgeous!
Proud Mama here I guess.

Thanks for stopping in today.

I hope you've been inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

Until then, 

Happy Crafting!

HB2U

Hi All!

Today I have a birthday card to show you.

I love the Crazy Dogs stamp set from Tim Holtz!

One of my friends has the set and I stamped all the

different dogs onto watercolor paper to color

when I got to them.

I wanted to use one for a birthday card for my son

and I chose this cute little guy.

The stamp doesn't come with the spots, I added those

as I painted with my watercolor crayons.

I used the HB2U from the

Whole Shebang stamp set

from CAS-UAL Fridays Stamps

I added a bit of Glossy Accents to his nose 

and the tag hanging from his collar to give a little shine

and dimension.

The sentiment inside the card is from the

Whole Shebang stamp set also.

I think this card turned out adorable and Jaryd will 

love it.  He is a big dog and cat lover and I'm sure he'll

appreciate it.

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see what the products are.
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Not Just Cards Challenge #47

 Hello and welcome to my blog.

Today I'm posting for the
Not Just Cards Challenge #47 

This month our theme is children.

Our sponsor is

We Are 3

and I chose this adorable unicorn

to work with. Her name is Ursula.

I was also given the unicorn sentiment from

this sentiment set.

I have an adorable little Godchild who loves

unicorns, so I made this card to send to her.

I printed the digital image onto white card stock

then colored it with my Fantasia colored pencils then

fussy cut the image.

I did add a little Wink of Stella in gold

to the star on her head to make her even more 

fabulous.

I used some scraps from my stash to make the card

and found this cute polka dot paper scrap for the front

panel.  I used an Action Wobble on the back of the 

image and adhered it to the card.

You can see Ursula in action 

here!

I printed the sentiment onto white card stock

and adhered it inside the card.

I think this card turned out adorable and I think

Andrea will love it too.

Thank you for stopping by today,

you can find more inspiration at the 

Not Just Cards Challenge Blog.

I hope you will play along with the challenge too.

Come again soon and see what I've been creating.

Until then, 

have fun crafting!

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Adorable Andrea

Hello blog followers!

Today I have another layout to share with you.

My last layouts were of Anthony and Andrea and today

I have another one from the same day that they were from.

This one is of Andrea.

As you can see from the title on the layout,

Andrea is our Godchild.

She is such a sweet little girl and we love her dearly,

how could we not?

 

I still remember the day Tammy called me and asked

if we would be her Godparents.

I burst into tears, I was so excited and touched

that they would ask us.

The title says adorable, but she is so much more.

Just love this little one, as well as her older brother!

The title was stamped with  wonderful 

alphabet stamp sets by Concord & 9th

Sophisticated Script Uppercase

and
Sophisticated Script (Lowercase)

The paper I used for the background is some I've

had in my stash for ages, but couldn't seem to use.

I was waiting for just the right layout and I guess

I found it, because I really love how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping in.

I have a couple more layouts from this same

picnic, of the rest of the family, so I hope you'll come back

and see how they turned out.

Until then,

enjoy the kids in your life,

because they grow up too fast.

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Catching Up On Some Scrapbooking

Good Day Blog Friends!

Recently I went on a scrapbooking weekend with my 

friend Mary. If you follow my blog you have seen the 2 bag books

I made that weekend.

Here are a couple layouts I also made.

My "niece" Tammy hosted a picnic and had a photographer friend 

come and take pictures.

These are some of the pictures he took that day.

There were so many good pictures of Anthony

that I had a difficult time narrowing them down.

Is he "The Man" or what?!?!?!

More of Anthony with little sister Andrea.

They are both just too cute!

I'm so far behind with my scrapping that these are

already a few years old.

 

Andrea is now going to be starting Kindergarten.

These are from 2013.

They both are so grown up now.

Thanks for stopping by today to see what I've been

 up to.  I hope you'll come back again soon.

You never know what you'll find on 

Kristie Kreates.