A Reason To Smile

Happy Monday all! As you (hopefully) know, I finally reached a huge goal of mine to become a member of one of my long time favorite stamping company The Greeting Farm's Design Team. I am blessed enough to work with some of the most amazingly talented women out there and to me, that is more than a reason to smile! Things have finally slowed down around here as the holiday season comes to an end and since I  never got a chance to tell all my followers how grateful I am for their supportive comments and taking time out of their day to see what my crazy mind has come up with, this is a card to thank you all and let you know, you guys give me a reason to smile!

Winky Bean

I used the 3D technique I learned from watching a tutorial from an enourmously talented lady by the name of  Mariska. I wanted to keep this card CAS to let the image take center stage so I only used a few buttons and a strip of ribbon to embellish. I colored Winky Bean using my copic markers and used my TH black soot distress marker around the edges. Winky Bean came from a 8x10 set with several other retired beans and a bonus of two exclusive beans available only in the kit. TGF released it for pre order a few months back and at a cheaper price so I just had to have it. Those beans are so stinkin cute and versatile they work on just about any type of card! The banners were cut from various pieces of DP from the doodlebug Sugar Shoppe 6x6 pad I got on E-bay. I hope you guys like my card and thank you for the support!

Lots-o-Love,
-Krys

Color me Inspired

Hey! Yet another day of sunshine and heat when we were promised thunderstorms and scattered showers today so the family and I spent a good amount of time outside. My hubby's excuse for keeping me away from my craft room and outside for most of his four day weekend is that we only have another month of warmth before we'll be forced to stay inside anyway as it gets colder and colder here. Personally even thought people keep telling me it won't be that bad, I'm terrified. In the part of Texas I came from, winter only lasted about a week and if it got down below 20 degrees, we just about hibernated till the heat came back! I look forward to mid 50's but anything less than that and I am plain ol' grouchy lol. Anyway, since I was able to get back into my craft room I decided to work on a masterpiece of organization...pictures coming soon (a.k.a. when I finish) which I hope will be by the end of the week. I made quite a bit of progress and I am very excited about how its turning out so far but I can hardly wait to be done so I can share it with you guys! In the mean time, I have a cute little project for this week's FFF over at The Greeting Farm, following this lovely color palette that I simply adore!

Gorgeous isn't it??! I couldn't wait to try out this palette considering it is very similar to the one I've been using for decor in my craft room! SO without further ado:

(From L to R)

Magical Bean, Shiny Bean, Up Up Bean

I created this sign using another of the blank ceramic bisque signs I love so much, multiple beans stamped in tuxedo black memento ink and masking them to make a group scene, and coloring with my copic markers. I think this color palette is so beautiful and happy, it reminds me of my favorite flower, the Stargazer Lilly, so this color inspiration challenge came naturally to me. What a perfect word for a sign hanging in a craft room! And these little beans do just that, out of all the beans, they are 3 of my absolute favorite. They make me happy and happiness inspires creativity for me. Two of the 3 can be found as part of the Magical Kit, available now at The Greeting Farm's shop. What words, stamps, pictures etc. (if any) do you have around your craft room? How do they inspire you?

-Krys

Mixing it up

Hi guys! Sorry my last post was so short, I put myself in an unrealistic time crunch but still made it in time! Today I decided to try something different and give making a mixed media canvas a shot. My local Joann's was having a sale on canvases of all sizes so to start off, I grabbed a few 5x7 ones. When I got home I broke out my stamps, stencils, paints, and papers and went to work on my latest project trying to keep to the color scheme TGF's DT Member, Marcy, used for her release preview card so I could play along with this week's FFF, 'CASE' the DT here's what I came up with

As you can see, she's already made her way onto my wall! I'm very proud of this even though I've seen much better, I tried, got wrapped up in it and gave it my all. I used TGF's  shimmer bean, now available as part of the Magical kit in the Shop. I used an acrylic paint technique called a wash to create the background and used my honeycomb stencil with some antique gold paint to add texture. I stamped randomly with different flower stamps  and water color painted them with crayola washable markers. The sentiment is also from the Magical kit. All in all not bad for my first attempt, maybe the next one will be even better, maybe mixed media just isn't my forte, who knows! It's always fun to try new things and you won't always be good at everything but you never know if you don't try, right? Have a great day,

-Krys