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03 April 2012

Happy Birthday Kelly!

Today is a very special day -- it's Kelly's birthday!! Happy Birthday Kelly! Make sure you stop by her blog or Facebook and sprinkle some birthday wishes on her. To celebrate, she's having a huge store wide sale of 37% off everything in the store (excluding bundles) running today through Sunday. This is a fabulous time to browse through everything in the store and see what you need to add to your scrapping stash. Kelly's got everything from full kits, word arts, page starters, date stamps, pixie trails, paper stacks, frames, quick pages and so much more. You'll find everything at KellybellDesigns.com.

And as a special treat, Kelly and the entire Creative Team have an AMAZING birthday present to share with all of her fans. It's a blog train of Disney character autograph pages!

OMG! Wow, this blog train will knock your Disney socks off! Each of the gals have created 2 fabulous 4x6 inch autograph cards. So when you've made it through the entire team, you'll have a collection of 30 autographs pages of the most popular Disney characters. You can print these out individually on cards or upload them to a photo service to create your own autograph book. All the gals had a blast working on these cards. Kelly's kits are just perfect for scrapping all the Disney characters!

Here is your path to follow. Take your time, ooh and ahh along the way, and say hello and thank you to each of Kelly's Creative Team gals.

Kelly - http://kellybelldesigns.com/blog/

Abby - http://not2shabbyabby.blogspot.com/

JamieB - http://scrappinframeofmind.blogspot.com/

Jenn - http://scrappingwithjenn.blogspot.com/

JessicaK - http://handbagsandscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

JessicaP - http://applesofmyeverything.blogspot.com/

Julie - http://www.designsbyjul.blogspot.com/

Linda - http://www.mjajdesigns.blogspot.com/

Lisa - http://lisacampbelldesigns.blogspot.com/

October - http://octoberdawn.blogspot.com/

Roxana - http://scrapscardsandmore.blogspot.com/

Wendy -http://neverlandscraps.blogspot.com/

You're gonna love the autograph pages! Hope you enjoy Kelly's birthday celebration. Have fun shopping today and enjoy the blog train!

Link for you!

16 November 2009

Blog Hop! Chirstmas Cards and Tags in 10 Minutes or Less

What a fun challenge this month! Most of my cards are pretty speedy anyway, so I knew this would be fun, except for not having any Christmas stamps. Time to place an order! I went with two very versatile sets that gave me the most bang for my buck: Vintage Santa and Flourish Trees of Hope. I just love all the trees and prases in Trees of Hope. I figure I will get more use of this set than just for Christmas. With Vintage Santa, all the Christmas greetings drew me to the set along with the snow flakes. I can leave them in a trio or cut them to have individual flakes. Finally, this is just one, cool Santa! For the blog hope, I've come up with five new projects, some cards and a gift tag.

VIntage Santa, Inspiration Avenue

First up, a very simple Christmas card. Some green Bazzill, a bit of Reece SWIC paper and a couple stamps. I added a hint of glitter to the tree with my stardust gelly.

Santa is pretty good on his own, so again a simply stamped card with a hint of color from Reece, a touch of sparkle to the snow flakes. I love doing cards that are not your typical folded half sheet.

I found myself using too much green, so the snow flakes drew me to blue. I really had a lot of fun mixing these two sets.

A fun gift card. I was inspired by a card from Laurie over at Soapbox Creations. I really liked the punched out santa here.

Finally, this card was a bit more complicated, but with a stamp positioner went very quickly. I used one of the trees to create my background pattern. (One of my first thoughts in seeing this set.) I cut out my kraft square, then took a pencil to quarter it off and find the center so I could position my stamp easier.

Please enjoy these other blogs for many more ideas and lots of great inspiration!
Laurie W

19 October 2009

Fall Blog Hop

Time for another blog hop! This one has a fall theme. I wanted to do something a little different with this and try to use some untraditional fall images for my first card. (Didn't really have a choice since I don't have any fall specific images and I wanted to take a break from Halloween and challenge myself.) Here, I used Miss Moxie papers and Hat's Off stamp set. I LOVE the colors in this paper kit and it's become a favorite.

Now back to Halloween, here are a couple fun ones, and again, a little untraditional. I've been having fun doing different sized cards and this first is a #10. When I first saw the spider in Spookalicious, I thought of Fun Flock. This is a great accessory and fun to use, especially when you have sticky embossing powder to use. It really helps keep the image neat and controled, as opposed to using a glue stick/wet glue. I used my stardust gelly for the web and colored the images with Prisma Pencils.

This final card has a boo of it's own and was inspired by some Tootsie Pop ghost treats that I'm making. I used a coffee filter and cotton balls to create the cute little ghostie and stamped the head of the skeleton from Spookalicious for the face.

Please enjoy these other Angles' blogs and their fall creations!

20 July 2009

Replenish Your Card Stash!

Time for another blog hop. With the lazy days of summer upon us, what better time to get a jump on making some cards for those up-coming occasions. It never hurts to have some miscellaneous cards ready to go. The ladies of TAC are doing just that and have some new ideas to help inspire you.

For my first card, I went with an old technique that is really quite easy, but wows: Versamark Resist. You stamp your image on glossy cardstock with Versamark. For this sample, I used the new Frost Versamark! Next I used one of our Kaleidacolor, multi-color dye pads. Leaving the colors separated, I ran my brayer over it a few times, then brayered the glossy, overlapping the colors slightly to blend them together. I was going for a fall theme and used Autumn Leaves, one of my favorite color combinations. Stamp set: Want to Fly from Spring Serendipity.

This next card is another with a set from Serendipity, Fishy Friends. These guys are just too cute, and I knew I had to have them. Here is a very quick and simple card. I recently got some of the Palette Hybrid cubes. These are great! Love the smoothness of of the color coverage. I used some grey Bazzill from the mono packs and the blue is from Miss Moxie cardstock.

Finally, back to those cows! This is a fun set and that I paired with a greeting from Bookoo Blessings in the new base catalog. This is an older set, but very versatile. I love the variety of fonts that are used.

I hope you enjoy these cards and those from the TAC Demos. Have fun and enjoy hopping from blog to blog.

12 June 2009

Happy Father's Day!

Another blog hop! This one is Father's Day themed. Hopefully you can get some ideas to complete for those last minute Father's Day gifts. Just another week away. My hubby teaches and I thought it would be fun to have a reminder of the kids while he works. So I went through my stash of stampables and found a blank mouse pad. You can get these at Ikea for next to nothing and they're fantastic!

You want to use a permanent craft ink for these, so I used our Versa Craft. This is a permanent, crafting ink and great for things other than paper--you can check out the cork board below too. I heat set the ink and let dry for a few days too. I again went at it with my Copics. When coloring a fabric, you need a very light hand with the pens. Otherwise, your ink is going to spread where you don't want it. I'm really happy with how these colored up.

Stamps used:

alphagrunge

the kids have been discontinued, but is one of my favorite sets, they're so cute.

For more great Father's Day ideas check out these fellow TAC stampers!
Kelly Rae

08 June 2009

Blog Hop! Home Decor

Here I am with another blog hop. This month's theme is home decor, and was a real challenge for me. As it seems with a lot of the home items I do, I have these fantastic ideas in my head, but can never get them quite right. The same can be said for this project. I'm not as happy with it as I'd like to be, but perhaps it will inspire you. Allow you to take the idea and improve upon it.

When I first saw the theme, I knew what I wanted to do--stamp on cork and create a giftable cork board. Finding the cork was actually the easiest part of this. I do recommend a tight cork though, I think that was part of the problem. I could only find a loose cork and it didn't stamp up as well as I had hoped. You also want to stamp with Versacraft ink. This is a permanent, pigment ink that is great for stamping on those items that are not paper, wood for example. If you want to stamp and color right away, please heat-set the ink first. This will keep your image from smearing, and ruining your coloring medium.

Here I stamped my images, want to fly with the Versacraft and let them sit for several days. (I would have heat-set, but since I wasn't overly thrilled with how they stamped up, I had to sit on this for a few days.) When choosing stamps for this project, you really want one that is more bold than detailed. I colored my image lightly with Copic markers. Any permanent marker will work though, just be sure to test it first on the back, or some scrap to see how it colors.

To make the cork board a little more interesting, I added a post-it pad and ribbon to hang it up. I attached the ribbon with Wonder Tape. I used a wider strip and wrapped it over the edge of the cork for added security.

I hope you enjoy this project and do find some inspiration. It was fun to create and now that I know how my cork works, I think I will try this again with a different stamp set. Here are some other Home-Decor projects to enjoy!

Kim

07 May 2009

Mother's Day Blog Hop

Time for another blog hop! This one is for Mother's Day projects. Have you done anything for your mom yet? Here are the links to those who are participating. Hope you enjoy their projects! I can't wait to see what they've done.

Thank you Stacy for putting this together for us!

04 May 2009

My first blog hop

Hi! I'm participating in my first blog hop, the opportunity to see various TAC projects based on the same theme. This month, our theme is the Scor-Pal. My project is below. Here you can see the projects of other Angle Demos. Enjoy!