100 % FUN!!!

So I asked myself some

questions at the start of this year

about how I wanted to blog 

and what challenges I wanted to 

participate in on a regular basis, etc.

Of course, I want to do a monthly kit 

with CKC blog.  

But I also thought about some of the other

challenges out there 

and which ones really spoke to me

and why.

Well, the one that kept coming to mind

and the one I decided to start trying to do

is the one over at Simon Says Stamp.

It is a weekly challenge that goes up every Monday.

The wonderful Ashli Oliver

is on the design team

and the equally as wonderful May Flaum

heads it up.

So I decided to really challenge myself and 

try to keep up with the weekly challenges.

This week it is an anything goes challenge.

So.....

Yep, what a great time to use

an over size,

big as your head % sign

that goes wonderfully

because of the oversize,

big as your head picture.

This is an iPhone pic 

blown up to an 8x8 

from Persnickety.

Seriously didn't have high hopes

that it would turn out well,

but oh my goodness,

it is FANTASTIC!!!

Look at his gorgeous face.

Our Sir Cuteness as the most beautiful

eyelashes, and I know you can't see them

here, but they showed up SO well 

in this print.

LOVE.

So the % sign is wood veneer,

ginourmous wood veneer!

So at first I thought maybe I'd try

Perfect Pearls to spruce it up.

#epicfailure

So I covered it and embossed it with white.

Better, but still could see the PP

SO I embossed it again with the white

and voila!

I love the outcome!!

At first you don't succeed and all that.

Ya know...

And then of course Maggie.

Have y'all seen her new

Styleboard line coming out soon?

Yes, It will be making an appearance

here on ye ole blog.

I am certain of it!!!

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Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

Celebrate Good Times. Come On.... Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

So I always look at the challenges every week over at SSS through

Ashli's blog, and even participate sometimes, BUT it seems that

I never get my pics of said completed challenge project done,

and before I know it is Monday again, and my project didn't 

make it up on their blog.

SO, I am challenging myself to doing these challenges every Monday,

AND get them up on the SSS blog.....starting THIS week.

So here we go.....

=)

The challenge this week is "Celebrate".  

When I make a page about a celebration,

I rarely like to do a page LOADED with the overall topic 

of celebration, like say a birthday.  

I might go with the color scheme of the party,

or the style of something like that, but RARELY will you 

see a very overt celebration page from me. 

It stems from my early days of scrapbooking 

where EVERYTHING I did seemed to be very themed.

BUT I made an exception, sort of, for this page and 

this topic.

I did a VERY themed 4th of July page as far as product

is concerned, but what you will find missing, are the very
themed 4th of July photos of fireworks, cookouts
and sparkler pics.

You see this 4th, my man and I ventured out on an 

adventure in the wild.  Complete with backpacks and

tent, we decided to go on a little trip in the woods to the

lake.  Now the plan was to find fireworks at the lake of

course, but we never found the lake.

We're cool like that.

Instead, we took a wrong turn and ended DEEP in

snake and tick country.  Luckily we saw no snakes,

but the ticks nearly carried us off!!!

anyway.....

We saw no fireworks, ate peanut butter (for him), 

almond butter (for me) and crackers for supper,

and turned in early and listened to the fireworks
just across the hill from us, that we couldn't seem to find.

Again with the coolness.

I know.  =)

So when I saw the topic this week, I pulled out my

CKC July Kit and used just a couple embellies from it,

pulled out my Twopeas July Printables, some Pink Paislee paper

that I got on clearance at my LSS, because it  was last

years line, a crackle tag I made in Claudine Hellmuth's

Technique Toolbox class, and the inside of Sir Cuteness'

poppers, and went to town.

Oh yes and three pics from our very unorthodox 4th of July.

Yes, it is the way we roll.

I fussy cut pinwheel like goodness.....

Added a "celebrate" sticker from my kit.....

Added that printable.....

Made me a banner.....

And mists.....

Oh sweet fireworks those mists.....

Some Simple Stories Title Goodness.....

with a little improvisation on the "B".....

=)

There's that lovely popper goodness.....

and that tag.....

Oh that tag.....

Some more fussy cutting of the chevron....

Some bling.....

And called her good.

This page was SO much fun to do!!!!!

I'm so glad I preserved these memories and got to

use some lovely 4th of July papers.

Celebrate Good times y'all =)     Come on!!

And play along at SSS.  It is so much fun!!!

I hope you have a Blessed and Beautiful, Krafty Kind of Day ~~

Metal Works

So this week at the Simon Says Stamp & Show

the challenge is to use metal.

And since I am trying to get my son's Smash Book done 

by the end of February, 

and he LOVES clocks,

I went to my Tim Holtz tray of goodies

and pulled out this beaut.

I stamped some clocks and cut them out and glued them onto

the background with butterflies

and then gessoed and misted

and then added some beautiful

packaging that had clocks on it

on which I matted a very special picture

of my son and I

when he was in high school and ran Cross Country.

We have some wonderful memories of these events.

This was such a fun addition to his journal.

I think he is gonna love this one.

So put some metal on something and head on over to SSS to show off your work

and be entered to win a $50 GC.

Now how fun is that?!!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Crafty Kind of Day ~~

~~ Sentimentally Speaking ~~

This is the first time I am linking up with SimonSaysStamp Challenge.

This week's challenge was to make something with a sentiment,

so I decided to take my add on CKC card kit and make a couple of cards.  

I found a card on Pinterest that I liked,

so I decided to do a little scrap lifting and

Voila'!!!

Lovely card!!

A close up

detailing the details =)

I actually made this card first.....

Love the colors.....

and the vintage page in the middle.

Let's detail it, shall we?

This was SO fun!!

Have a Beautiful Blessed and Lovely, Crafty Kind-of-Day ~~