Are y’all staying warm!  I hope so!  I’m over this cold and freezing but I’m loving the extra time I’m getting to make cards! I have 2 today of the same design. They are personalized with the recipients names and are inspired by the challenge at PinkFresh Studio 💕

For January, the challenge is to go back over last year’s challenges and pick one to be inspired by.  I love that they do this!  It gives a chance for all those beautiful inspiration photos to inspire a card once again. The one that caught by eye was July “Summer Splash”. The colors are so bright and vibrant – something needed during this drab weather

All products used on my cards are from PinkFresh.  I started with their slimline dies for the base of each layer.  The floral stamps are from “In the Meadow” and the alphabet dies are from “Julieta Alpha”

With soft ink blending for the base and the letters, the bright floral pops!  I colored those with just some simple water coloring

They turned out so bright and happy!  Thanks for stopping by today. Keep stamping!🥰

Hello!  I hope it is warmer where you are than it is where I am! I’m getting lots of stamping time in as we hunker down in these frigid temperatures.  Today, I made a set of 3 cards using 1 technique.  A technique I haven’t done for a long time but that I love.  Ink blending + dry emboss folder

Over at Time Out Challenges, that’s just the inspiration – to use a favorite card making technique

I love pulling out things that I haven’t I’m awhile to use them again.  Distress Oxides and blending brushes made it to the stamp desk again and I loved it! I used colors that gave the feel of going from sand to sea

This seashell embossing folder is from Simon Says Stamp. Their Instagram challenge right now is to use embossing folders!  I love playing along with Simon because it’s such a fabulous company in the stamping world💕 The sentiment is also from Simon Says Stamp. 

If I can’t be at the beach picking up seashells, I can dream of it and Stamp it! Thanks for stopping by today to see my ink blended and embossed seashells💕 if you head to my Instagram, I made a video of one of these coming together!  Been a long time since I made a stamping video.  Going to try to do more!

Hi there!  Happy Monday💕 Here’s my card for the new challenge starting today over at Double Trouble

Thing 1 gives us this recipe (each is a minimum.  You can use more)

3 colors – I did blue, pink, brown, green

2 images – penguin, cabin, trees, globe, banner

1 sentiment – “for you”

The cute little snow globe with a cabin and penguin is from Pink and Main. The arch die and burst background die are from Reverse Confetti (miss them!) And the cute paper bow is from Kat Scrappiness

Thing 2 says to use a penguin so it was fun to pull out this set that I haven’t used in a very long time!  I added a touch of glitter detail – this angle helps you see it a little better

It’s a fun wintry card for January!  Which also goes along with the challenge over at Just Add Ink ” Just Add Something Seasonal”

Definitely the season for a COLD card! ❄️

Thanks for stopping by to see my card today.  We hope to see a bunch of cute penguins over at Double Trouble as you come play along! 

I have a fun card for you today! I’ve been working on this one for several days to get it to come together how I wanted

I’m playing with 2 challenges with this card.  The “A Cut Above” challenge – Anything Goes using die cuts is the first

I got these adorable Hero Arts die sets for my birthday in December and I was so excited to finally make a card with them!  The dies used are “Message in a Bottle” and “Summer by the Shore”

I love how they are layered dies to give all the dimension needed for seashells! 

There’s also a new challenge in town!!  The “All About” papercraft challenge

I love supporting card challenges!  It’s such a great way to think outside the box and join other card makers in playing with an idea for a card. Their first theme is “New”. These fabulous dies are new for my birthday and are quickly a favorite

The only thing better than these seashell dies is real seashells! I’ll be heading to Florida soon for another seashell trip and I’m so excited! 

Thank you for stopping my to see my card today!  I’ll be back soon with another card for some other fun challenges going on💕

Before I move on with my day – a big thank you to The Flower Challenge!  My winter floral card won their December challenge!  They are so fun to play with because it’s always about flowers – my favorite stamps and dies to use!

Have a wonderful and happy day!

🙂 Kellianne

Happy New Year stamping friends! I can hardly believe we are to 2026. I have been stamping a lot lately and I’ve been loving it extra!! Today’s card is for the new challenge up at Double Trouble

Here’s the recipe and my take! (Remember you can use more – these are just the minimum requirement)

3 colors – I used more!

2 squares – I did 9!

1 sentiment – “I love you more than cupcakes”

Thing 3 says to use at least 2 squares. This background die by My Favorite Things was just perfect for these sweet cupcakes. There’s 9 different flavors to go in these 9 squares!

I miss seeing all the sweetness from My Favorite Things.  But I have an amazing stash from them and I will continue to use it!  These cupcakes are so cute!

What’s your favorite flavor of cupcake? Did I include it? I’m not a huge fan of cupcakes but my sister makes these Texas sheetcake cupcakes that are incredible. I’d pick those!

See you in a couple days with another card💕💌

🙂 Kellianne

A new challenge at Double Trouble is up today and it’s everyone’s favorite – something, anything,  everything! My card today features something I love as much as stamps and dies – seashells! 🐚

For Thing 1’s recipe just pick what your 3-2-1 items will be and have fun!  Mine is seashells, soft colors, and one ribbon to go along with Thing 3’s option of adding ribbon, twine, or cord. My ribbon is an adorable paper ribbon by The Greetery!

I was also inspired by the Simon Says Stamp Instagram challenge to make a card using dies. My card is all dies!  (With the exception of the tiny hugs sentiment on the tag)

These adorable seashells are by Honeybee Stamps and that GORGEOUS 3D embossing folder is from Simon Says Stamp.  Look at the embossed detail of those shells 🐚I’m so in love with every element on this card!

That Greetery ribbon might just be the best ribbon die cut I have ever seen!  I love it so much!  Something fun I did with it was cut it out of a piece of the same green card stock that I had dry embossed with a different folder.  It gave it some subtle texture

I was just on the beach in the Florida Keys with my hubby weeks ago collecting seashells and having a blast.  Making this card was almost as fun as doing that! For fun, I’ll share my frames that I just finished of the shells we found on that trip🐚🪸

So until I can go shelling again, making cards with shells will have to do, which is so fun too

Thanks for stopping by to see my card today!

🙂 Kellianne

I got some fabulous new goodies for my birthday yesterday! I couldn’t even fall asleep last night because I was having so much fun die cutting, coloring and just enjoying all of it so much.

My first finished card is one that I made using the Lovely Layers mini Holiday Floral by Honeybee Stamps. There’s also a few of the Layering Snowflakes dies as well

I haven’t played along at one of my favorite for awhile – The Flower Challenge.  Their latest prompt inspired my card. As well as the Honeybee Facebook challenge to make a Christmas card

Florals are always my favorite! These wintery flowers and snowflakes came together to make such a pretty bunch

I love the touch of pink.  It’s a new favorite on Christmas cards for me!  I think the pinecones mixed in with the flowers are so cute too

The Merry Christmas banner across the front is from The Greetery

Thanks for stopping by to see my card today!  I already have a few more cards in the works because I’m having so fun at my stamp desk right now!  So I’ll be back soon!

🙂 Kellianne

New challenge up at Double Trouble!

Recipe by Thing 1 is

3 colors 2 layers 1 image (you can always use more than these, but these are the minimum)

I used stamps and several different dies, all by Catherine Pooler. The layout is inspired by the sketch at TSOT, which Thing 2 always encourages to play along with! 

I loved making those 2 background rectangles into tags and then adding ribbon to go along with the option by Thing 3. (Ribbon, twine, or cord)

I added some Old Paper distress ink as a bit of a “tea stain” to the entire card, especially the background

Thanks for stopping by to see my card today!  We hope you’ll play along.  Go to Double Trouble all the details and the link up💕

🙂 Kellianne

Happy Monday!  Time for a new challenge at Double Trouble

Thing 1 has a “tall order” with her recipe

3 colors 2 images 1 slimline or mini slim.  I chose mini slim

Thing 3 is throwing in a fun optional twist to include something that starts with T. My card includes a TABLE with TREATS.

I used stamps and dies by Honeybee Stamps, and the cute edged mini slim die is from Kat Scrappiness. At this angle, you can see that there’s a touch of glitter on the umbrella and ice cream treats

Thing 2 has another option to play along with the sketch at TSOT

I did watercolor as the background on the left side to match the sketch, and then I moved the sentiment to the bottom

Pull out your slimline products and join along!

Find all the details at Double Trouble

🙂 Kellianne

I’m right back with another card! I had so fun over the weekend getting to stamp more than usual!  I hadn’t played with my PinkFresh Studios stash for a while, and I love their October challenge board!

I got going so I could jump in on it.  I went with the first 3 colors and made a fall card

Those beautiful frames, as well as the floral images and coordinating dies are all from PinkFresh.  The sentiment is from a different PinkFresh set and went perfect for the person in sending it to

The theme of their challenge is “texture and shine,” so i was sure to add lots of both!  I didn’t have any gold paper left in my stash, so I actually just die cut those frames and then embossed them with gold! 

I loved adding all the texture and dimension and shine! This turned out so pretty for this autumn time of year🤎🍂

Thank you for stopping by!

🙂 Kellianne