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KKS: February Release DAY! Made with LOVE

 It's HERE!!!  The February release is in the Krafty Store!!!  Happy Shopping!  For today's goodie I made a Christmas Baking Planner, using Lulu from MADE WITH LOVE.  Now read a little further before you judge! lol.  Family traditions are BIG in my household!!  One of the things we do A LOT of is baking at Christmas... by A LOT, I mean about 3 to 4 days' worth!!  We bake lots and we snack on it ALOT and we make lots of "neighbor plates"... it's tradition!  We have some recipes we make every year, and we always try a couple of new ones out too.  Here's why I'm NOT crazy (besides that my mother had me tested, lol!)... the Daughter is getting married in a few weeks and one of her gifts is this Journal of sorts, I will attach ALL of our Christmas Baking recipes to it with Ribbon.

See?!?  There's a perfectly good reason why I'm thinking Christmas when it's only February!!  lol  Ok, that's it for me, happy hopping and then Happy Shopping!!!

 

KKS: Buds & Blooms Window Box card!

Hey yall!  Well today is the last day of peeks and tomorrow is the Release Hop!!  Today the Krafty Girls are inking up the last new set for February... BUDS & BLOOMS!  Earlier this week Krafty Girl Marilyn posted a Tute on the Krafty Blog on making Shadow Box Cards... holy guacamole it looked like FUN!  As soon as I saw the tute I new I was going to try it with this set!!  I stamped the middle and smaller line-art flowers with black ink and embossed them with clear... I didn't want the black "screaming at me", lol.  Then I used some watercolor crayons on the flowers and finished them off with a paintbrush and water!

For the center piece, I stamped the sentiment the same way I did the flowers, then scribbled some purple on it.  I did just a light "wash" of brush & water, I really wanted it to still look scribbled.  Add a crinkle ribbon bow and Voila!!!!  These would be fun to make for the kids' desks at home :)  I'll be popping in to the release party a little later today... hope to see you there!

 

 

KKS: Made with Love tag

Hey yall!  Welcome back!  Today we are peeking a brand new Cheryl set called MADE WITH LOVE!   So stinking adorable!  It's no secret that I think my home builder nearly "walks on water" and he's single, so whenever I bake I always make him a little something.  This week being Fat Tuesday & Mardi Gras, I of course had to make some King Cakes!!  Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a picture of the tag and plate of goodies before they "disappeared"!  lol  Our builder also has 2 adorable little boys so Lucas was perfect for this tag!!

 

KKS: Look for Rainbows

Welcome back to another Krafty peek!!!  Today the Krafty Girls are inking up a couple sets from Annie, this one is called LOOK FOR RAINBOWS.  I made a Pocket Page layout for today, I don't really show many current pics of the kids on social media, so I've left white blanks for the photo's.  I picked up a pack of the PL cards from Hobby Lobby, then I just chopped them up to suit my needs.  The Sunshine sentiment at the top of the page was cut in 2, then I added some pink cs with a fun border punched to make them fit.  The "Love this Life" was also chopped from one of the cards.  For the journaling card I added a little curly bracket.

I colored Miss-Sassy-Pants-in-heels, then fussy cut her and popped her up on my card.  I stamped her sentiment on a tag (also chopped from the card pack) then added a pink burlap bow.  Well that's all I have for today, see ya back here tomorrow!!  Happy hopping...

 

KKS: Ewe are Amazing!

 

Welcome back to day 2 of Krafty peeks!  Today we are inking up a super-d-duper adorable set called, EWE ARE AMAZING!!!  I used the set to make a thank-you card for one of my fave girls!!  I used last week's Mojo sketch.  I used some water color crayons, water and a paint brush for the background.  I was seriously too lazy to walk back and forth so I just stood over the sink with the paint brush and added more water as needed!!  Wonder if hubby will install a sink in the loft??

I fussy cut the sheep and popped him up. For the clouds, I couldn't find my HUGE collection of felt (the one that's rarely been used!) so I grabbed a scrap of batting... perfect!  Lol  Well this lil' cutie is ready for an envelope and then an adventure through the post office!   Thanks for popping by, see ya back here tomorrow!  Same bat time, same bat channel!  Happy Hopping!

 

KKS: Hello Spring!

Hey yall!  Welcome to the first day of peeks for the February Release!!!!  The weather here has just started getting in to the upper 60's and quite honestly I'm more than a little ready to warm up a bit!!!  Perfect time to break out some adorable Spring stamps!!  For today's peek the Krafty girls are inking up a new se from Becky called HELLO SPRING!  I was immediately inspired to ink up my planner!!!

This is my March month-at-a-glance, March is a little busy for us this year (DD's wedding, my anniversary, 2 family birthdays, Easter andSt. Patrick's Day... of course we celebrate this!) so I used my stamps for just the bottom half.  I stamped my bunny and gave him a bubble blower, on some sticker paper then colored him in.  I wanted more shading on my Sheep, so he's on regular Copic Coloring paper.  I also stamped some flowers on the sticker paper then punched them out with a small circle punch and "sprinkled" them around the page.

Oh my goodness!!  Would you just look at those cute lil Bunny-hiney's!!  These cuties are also colored on Sticker paper.  I LOVE the size of these critters... perfect for tags, planner pages AND cards :)  Well that's all I have for today, see ya back here tomorrow.

 

February Planner!

Hey yall!  On Saturday I got to spend some time hanging out online at the Kraftin Kimmie Krafty Krop.  My loft is finally unpacked and put away enough to be "functional", and we had no impending wedding parties or Guests/Visitors coming to town.... STAMP TIME!!!!

I decided to work on my February Planner pages, this is the "month view" and since I've take this photo, I've filled in a "few" details in the squares.  The cutie at the top is Lulu from the You Lift me Up set, I stamped her on my regular "copic coloring paper" and then used adhesive to adhere her.  The sentiments are from the Love Story Sentiments set, and I've stamped those directly on to my planner pages.  I also added some Washi tape and stickers, oh and the arrow is a die.

I'll be entering this in to the Kraftin Kimmie LOVE and PINK challenges, oh and probably the Fussy Cutting one too ;)  Thanks for popping by, tomorrow Kraftin Kimmie peeks kick off!  See ya soon!