Find Joy in the Ordinary

Hi guys! Just wanted to pop in today with a cute little tag I made a while back but hadn't had a chance to blog about yet using the adorable Angel Kaylee digi from Some Odd Girl

Angel Kaylee Digi

And a Close Up

I'm still working on my 3D technique but I believe its coming along nicely! I colored Kaylee using my copic markers and some wink of stella for shimmer on her outfit and wings. I inked around the edges of my papers with walnut stain distress ink to give it an aged look and tie it in with the browns in her hair and outfit. next I layerd a scrap of DP onto some leftover chocolate chip SU! cardstock to create a simple elegant looking background for Kaylee. The sentiment is from one of The Greeting Farm's new releases, Dollie With Hearts, stamped in Timber Brown Stazon ink. I loved that sentiment the moment I read it and couldn't wait to stamp it on everything! Like many of my 3d paper pieced projects I kept the embellishments simple, adding only a bit of ribbon and a few DIY enamel dots so that the focus would be on the image. This tag wasn't for a particular challenge, just part of my New Year's resolution to practice techniques that give me a hard time so hope you guys like it!

lots-o-love

-Krys

Tag, You're It!

Well hello hello! Beautiful weather here starting a beautiful week as here in Texas we're heading into our warm season (FINALLY!). Unfortunately, that wont matter for too much longer for me and my family because its still snowing in NY o.O! Yeah this is going to be a HUGE adjustment for me and my little family and DH is growing increasingly grumpy about this as our PCS date draws nearer. As much as I love the warm sunshine and downright unnecessary heat waves of Texas, I'm actually very much looking forward to a change of scenery as my family moves into a new chapter of our lives together. I will enjoy the warmth and sunshine while I'm still here though and to celebrate the warmer weather I decided to ink up one of my absolute favorite stamps Cheeky Beach. I've wanted to own this darling diva since I first started stamping, but she, much like Birthday Anya II eluded me until this last haul and I just couldn't wait to use this beach babe! Enough of my rambling though, on to the project!

TGF Cheeky Beach

Today I have two tags for you, one on kraft and the other on plain white both featuring Cheeky Beach. I decided to make tags because they come together fairly quickly (and because my LCS had all their tags 50% off ^.^) Both lovelies were colored with copic markers with outfits, shos and accessories paper pieced in honor of the Paper Piecing Challenge for FFF over at The greeting farm. The Cheeky on the left has a pair of sunglasses paper pieced from the same DP used for her swimwear and flower. The sunglasses were created using a stamp I found a few years back at my LCS in the dollar bin, I bought it but never found a use for it until now! Who knew they were just the right size to adorn TGF's Cheeky Beach? AWESOMENESS! For the background I used my prismacolor colored pencils and a few Hibiscus flowers and sunburst stamp (also a stamp from the dollar bin!) A bit of stickles and a scrap of torn paper and I had a beautiful beach scene easy peasy.For the Cheeky on the right I used the no line technique again (not ideal when you're also trying to paper piece an outfit by the way!)  The clouds in the background were created by tearing strips of paper and using light upward strokes with copic markers B01 and BG000 and the hot air balloons were cut from a piece of Bo Bunny paper.  There you are, two totally different tags quick and simple without looking it, give it a try, you wont regret it! See you next time guys and gals

-Krys

Bag 'em and Tag 'em

OMG I'm so sorry you guys I've been absent for a while and I hope I didn't lose any of my awesome followers because of this! A few posts back I mentioned that my husband left for basic training and I've been trying to adjust to essentially becoming a single parent over night. I already had much respect for all the single mothers out there but I have a whole new understanding and level of respect for the women who do everything and still manage to find time for themselves. I'm blessed to at least have finances taken care of so I can focus all my attention on business matters and raising my two beautiful girls, but what about those women who maintain the household, raise children, tend to business matters AND are the sole source of income??? All that being said I just wanted to give praise to all those strong women who do this every day not just for a few months! Now on to the actual cause of my blog; cards and craft projects.


For the last week I've been working on one huge project (it was HUGE to me at least). As we all know, Valentine's Day is right around the corner, partly because you cant go anywhere without seeing hearts and candy, the other part because you can't turn on the tv without seeing an advertisement for Jared's, and guess what? I LOVE IT!!!! Lol call me crazy but I look forward to this day more than I do Christmas so I start counting down every year, poor poor hubby ^.^ Well TGF did it again, just in time for my favorite holiday they release a stamp, Sweetie Bean,  that was simply perfect for my project! For my oldest daughter's class I made gift bags with tags using sweetie bean and they turned out wonderfully!

Sweetie Bean

I ended up making 23 in all, 22 for my oldest daughter and her class plus one extra for my youngest so she wouldn't feel left out! Man are my markers up for refills after all that coloring! I plan on entering these sweet treats in TGF's Farm Fresh Friday Challenge Love is in the Air! 

I'm trying to keep the ball rolling with the V day theme until after V day has passed because as I said before, I FREAKIN LOVE IT!!!!! lol bear with me you guys it'll all be over soon...maybe ^.^

See you next time,

-Krys