Off With Their Heads!!!

Hello ladies and gents! I'm actually attempting to blog from my cell phone and let me tell ya, its sooo not easy so I'm gonna keep this one short sweet and to the point. Long story short funds have been tight so I had to choose between my cell phone or my internet and as much as it sucked, the cell phone will trump internet hands down any day (especially with all the places o ffering free wifi!)Anyway I've been keeping an eye on the Splendid Stamping blog because I freakin LOVE IT! Anyway they announced the other day that there would be no more gvt or retro fresh challenges but there will still (thank God) be a FFF challenge as well as another type of challenge to which the current theme is Who's Your Alter Ego a challenge that required switching heads, bodies outfits etc between two or more TGF stams. Personally I LOVE doing that just to experiment so this challenge was not so much a challenge for me. Without further ado,my super duper switcheroo:

(Left: Head: c.c. Lula, Body: c.c. Leslie / RIGHT: Head: C.C.Friday Night,  Body: Anya Styles) 

Both ladies (well all 4) are colored with copics and glittered beyond all reason with Waterfall stickles all papers are DCWV. 

  

This lovely creation is the first of a few more creations to be entered in the Who's Your Alter Ego Challenge challenge at splendis stamping so wish me luck and stay tuned!

-Krys

Pockets Full of Love, and Lace

I am in love with pocket cards!!! The possibilities the ease, everything! Here's another Mother's Day card, hope you all enjoy it!

Tilda Spreads Love

I'm also in love with this DP from the Garden Tea Party Stack by DCWV. I used some of this paper a few weeks ago for my Tea Time In Wonderland post when I first received my Alice Bean in the mail. I fussy cut a flower and a few butterflies from one of the pages in the stack and used a small Recollections butterfly punch for the tiny butterflies here and there. The other DP was from the open stock at my LCS. I added some roses and stickled the background and small butterflies as well as adding a few pearls to complete the look. For the card insert I inked the edges with SU! Positively Pink and Tim Holtz's Walnut Stain to give it a distressed look. She will be entered in the Simply Magnolia 'Let's See Your Pockets!' Challenge (thanks Butterfly , for the suggestion!) as well as the Flutter By Wednesday's Challenge #238 and the Tilda Town Challenge #51 Anything Goes
OMG almost forgot to mention, the lace is from my local Walmart! The reason I'm excited is because they came in the cutest little plastic bubbles (which I have already re purposed one of). Each lace bubble contains 9ft of this darling lace and at $1 a bubble, I had to let everyone know about this deal! I'm including a pic below, has anyone else seen these things???

-Krys

A Gift From The Heart

Hello wonderful people! As much as I would love to prattle on and on, I will try to keep this one short and sweet since its so very past my bedtime :) but I'm very excited about how it turned out!

Queen Bean

Queen Bean

This week for Farm Fresh Friday the challenge is to alter/recycle something. I knew right away what I wanted to use, especially after looking through the DT's projects for inspiration. A few months back I thought it would be cute to create heart shaped valentines for a few friends. Each box would have different contents and be decorated according to the particular reciever's style and personality. As if on the same wavelength, my local CS had gotten in these adorable but so very blah chipboard heart boxes in different sizes for about 99 cent each! I scooped up a few and well... As you can see, at least one was recycled for this project, let us not speak on where the others went... coughs *closet* ^.^

Anyway, this box was collecting dust in my closet, the stamp used was TGF's Queen Bean colored with my trusty copics and blinded by my candy cane, crystal and black diamond stickles. I'm not sure where I got the roses but I dyed them with copic r29 to match her highness and glittered them with stickles as well. The bottom half of the box was decorated with papers from a recollection stack I can't recall the name of at the moment lol dumb joke but what do you expect at 1am? Along with TGF's Farm Fresh Friday challenge, I'm also entering her royal highness in the Allsorts week 203 challenge- A Passion for Flowers ,  as well as TPE Challenge #196 Lift It since it was inspired by a DT member of Splendid Stamping's Altered gift box. Lol thanks for putting up with my nonsense you guys are awesome, now I can sleep soundly. See you guys tomorrow...well later today!

P.S. I may also do a small haul insert later as well

Sulking in the Sun

You know how some days all you can think about is getting home sitting in your workspace (whether that be craft room, office, or like me, kitchen table) and crafting your little heart out? well yesterday was NOT one of those days for me. Extremely rare as these days are, they happen and they are frustrating! Yesterday was a BEAUTIFUL sunny day, crisp blue sky and fluffy white clouds, the kind that remind you of cotton candy at a fair. I wanted so badly to get in there and make an awesome card, had my mind set on it but my heart wasn't in it. For the life of me I couldnt get any good ideas, no spark of creativity, nothing and it was nerve wrecking! I even went through some of my favorite blogs and with all the beauties out there and gorgeous handiwork, I just wasn't feeling 'it', you know? Well before I knew it the day was over the kids needed a bath and a few bedtime stories and the Hubby would be home soon, most likely wanting just a snack. I gave up, threw in the white towel and admited defeat where I instead turned my attention to making a nutritious (yeah right!) batch of chocolate chunk cookies. Hubby loved them and apparently the smell of fresh baked homemade chocolate chip cookies make an excelent alarm for a 2 and 4 year old up way past their bed time :)
I wasn't ready to go to bed so I decided to stamp a few images so I could have them all ready to color when I needed them. I started coloring one of my favorite Amelia stamps from TGF and started to feel that creativity bug biting! I decided not to push my luck and end up ruining the coloring so I put it away to work on it more this morning. Sure enough just as I was finishing the coloring I could feel my creative juices flowing and in no time at all I had a sketch in mind and was in the process of finishing up the card I wanted so bad to make yesterday. Here it is all finished!

Amelia and Oliver 'My Favorite Thing' set



I colored her with copic markers and used prisma colored pencils to add detail. As usual I stickled quite a bit of this card with the color Crystal, LOVE that stuff! All the papers came from my stash and the clouds and sun were cut using my Cricut Create a Critter Cartridge (say that 5 times fast! O.o) and inked with copic markers B000 & 0 and Stampin Up! yo yo yellow.The plan is to enter this lil cutie in the Farm Fresh Friday (FFF) Challeng- Clouds and also Creative Card Crew challenge 33- Clouds