SU Flower Pin

Check out what one of my fellow SouthWest Stamper members made for me......... I received this Flower Pin for Christmas last year from Sue (a fellow SW Stamper Friend) and I had never posted it. She made it using the SU Bigz Flower Die.......She used the Big Shot machine and die cut the flowers from fabric - and then layed the flowers and hot glued the pieces together. She added a pin to the back and created this amazing flower pin for me. I enjoy looking at it so much.....that I pinned it to the handle of one of the cabinets in my studio - this way I can look at it every day and feel blessed that I received this from her. We are getting ready to leave on vacation - going to spend a month driving back to Wisconsin and visiting family and friends along the way. We are leaving tomorrow and heading to Greeley Colorado. My BFF has a second home there and we are planning to stay with her for a couple days before we head off to Wisconsin. Will report in along the way - Hope you keep Living Your Dream.

CraftNooners Card May

Today I have a post that I totally forgot to post (at the end of May)......Here's a sneak peak at one of the cards my CraftNooner (and BFF) Buddy Jan made for our last gathering in May..... Jan designed this really BRIGHT and FUN card using this amazing Chicky-La-La as our focal point. (I know Jan, I can hear you saying right now "Who" makes this stamp set - AND - the actually "Name" of this stamp set is.....YOU ROCK GIRLFRIEND!) Jan also brought over her Copic Markers and allowed us the opportunity to try our hand at Copic Coloring (I think I failed at this part of the challenge).

Jan also let me stamp an additional Chicky La-La Lady (I kind of like that name for this stamp set..........) so I could color her later and make another card using her cute cute image.

Next my buddy Opal had us try our hand at water coloring.......Using Gelly Roll Pens. WOW, the colors just slide on the paper and blended so nicely. THANKS Opal for turning me on to this amazing method of water coloring.

And last (but certainly not least) my CraftNooner Friend Berta had us make this very LOVELY card with an unexpected edge to the card. The DSP she had us use all coordinated and matched so nicely........and the REAL FUN was layering the flowers (using the same DSP) to create a great layered look to our finished card. This was a card I was for sure going to C.A.S.E. again soon.

My CraftNooner Stamping Buddies went on hold from June 1st till the end of the year. Two of the members were returning to their second homes and we decided to do card challenges from a distance. We each picked two month and each of those months we selected not only a color theme but also a design challenge. We are to make three cards and mail those cards to each of the CraftNooner members (Jan, Opal, Berta and Kadie). The challenge would be to use the colors for that month and incorporate the technique for that month into the design of our cards. I will be sharing those cards with you very soon. I will tell you - Not only have I been having a BLAST meeting the challenges BUT......I am also OVERWHELMED with the envelopes I've been receiving in my mailbox from the ladies. MISS YOU LADIES and can't wait till we are back together and resuming our every other Friday CraftNooners gatherings.

Hope you had a great weekend and you can swing back tomorrow - I'll be sharing lots of new posts next week of cards I've been working on in August. Thanks for stopping by and Keep Living Your Dream!

Christmas in July

Today I would like to share five amazing cards that I made during a SaddleBrooke Saturday Fun Shop. This Fun Shop was a Card in a Box event that my good buddy Kris Holmes put together. There were six of us that attended this Fun Shop - and not only did we have a fabulous time.......We also walked away with five Christmas Card ideas. Here are those cards: This first card was designed by my friend Kris......I FELL IN LOVE with this Snowman - and have already placed it on my "Have To Have Stamp List". This next card was designed by my Stampin Buddy Liz - It's an easel card, which I actually squealed when I saw we were making an easel card.......I had never made an easel card and with the help of Liz, it turned out beautiful.

Next is a card designed by my SaddleBrooke Stamper friend Patty - she designed a very elegant card that pulled together some traditional Christmas colors along with a layout that I knew would be a winner to duplicate for my Christmas cards for this year.

This next card was designed by my SaddleBrooke Stampin Buddy June. LOVE LOVE LOVE how June had everything diecut and the card front run through the CuddleBug to help us put her card together quickly. Can image how this card could be duplicated with other Holiday diecut designs for all different Holiday cards with this layout.

And last (but certainly not least), my SaddleBrooke Stamper Buddy Opal designed this card that displayed a fabulous scallop circle focal point on the center of her card. WOW............How lovely is this! I immediately knew that this was going to be another card I would be able to make LOTS of for my Christmas cards this year.

ALL and ALL......this was a great KICK-OFF to some wonderful Christmas card that I WILL be duplicating this year for my 2010 Christmas Cards.

Thanks for stopping by today - and please stop back tomorrow and I'll share more Kards by Kadie designs with you. Keep Living Your Dream!

Card Making Sketch Book

Scrapbooking Sketch Book

I want to share with you today a sketch book I created to help me with my scrapbooking. Here is the journal book I created to hold my scrapbooking sketches in....... I took a blank hardbound book and created this "Kadie's Scarpbooking Sketch Book" for me to keep samples of layouts for me to use for scrapbooking. Here is what the tabbed sections look like.

I divided my book out into single and double page sketch layouts along with combination sketches.

I went on line and goggled Scrapbooking Sketches and there were thousands of sketches to pick from.....I printed off from several sites and was able to created MANY MANY pages for my sketch book.

Here's just a few more samples of what the inside of my sketch book looks like.

Have to tell you that this has really helped take the guess work out of creating scrapbook pages -which in turns allows me to create more pages and get more fun books completed for my grandkids.....It was totally worth the work it took me one afternoon to get this sketch book completed.

Hope you can stop back tomorrow to see the great card making sketch book I created in July. Keep Living Your Dream!

SU Color Collection Sampler

I created this SU Color Collection Sampler to help me keep track of the new SU colors.....check it out: I created the cover to model both the Inventory book and punch template ring that I created.

I printed out a page for each collection and I then punched a square of each color out and glued it to each section.

Here is what all four collections look like.....

And a tight and close-up look of what the punched out cardstock looks like.

I have made two of these sampler rings to keep in my travel bag and one is sitting on my studio desk to help me quickly know which color and collection my card stock is located.

I love creating new projects and the more organized I am the faster I can get the projects out of my head.......off the ground.....and finished. All these samplers help me do just that.

Thanks for stopping by today - hope you can stop back tomorrow for two other creations I came up with and completed in July. Keep Living Your Dream!

Punch Template Ring

Today I want to share with you a fabulous tool I made to help me determining what punch I want to use for my projects. Here is what the end results of my hard work looks like. I took every single punch I owned and spent time punching out that punch on to a black piece of card stock and then labeling each of the pieces of card stock with the punch and SU name of each of those punches.

I also divided my punches up into sections - which makes it easier for me when I'm working on a project to go directly to that type of punch.

Here's a sample of what the pages look like when I open the booklet up.

I can then lay the template over the stamped out image I want to use and this will help me determine if the punch is appropriate or not for my project.

And here is yet another punch laying over one of the images in our SU catalog........What a fabulous idea this was. Only wish it was my idea...but....NOT. It's one of those ideas that someone - somewhere came up with it - and we are all greatful for that persons brilliant idea.

Stop back tomorrow and I have one last sampler I made.....and that is a new SU Color Collection Sampler.......It will surely be worth your stopping back. Keep Living Your Dream!