My Little Artiste

So here is another LO for the "Lifted" class
I am taking over at SC.
I used my CKC November Kit,
and a picture of my precious, precious, precious,
sensational, wonderful, gorgeous,
 (you get the idea.....) Grandbabe!!

He loves to work along side me in the studio.
And he is indeed an Artiste!!

Love this.....
Look at those epoxy feathers.....
Oh goodnes!!

And those Heidi Swapp arrows.
(She is another one of my BFF's, yes
her and Maggie.  Oh sweet Maggie =)
misted in her color shine Peach no doubt.
Goodness.  Sweet Goodness.

Yep took my white Scripto and went to town on some journaling.
Best.pen.ever.

Epoxy arrows.....where ya been all my life.

Mister Huey white opaque mists.....
hello.

And there you have it.
Oh precious boy.
You have my whole heart!!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~

A Day in the Life of My Hair

I am currently taking a class over at Studio Calico.

It is called Lifted.

This is my first LO for this class, and these lovely

items are from my CKCB November Kit.

It is actually out of my comfort zone,

this here LO.

Like WAY out!!

When I completed it originally, it was just that grey

background paper that you see.

Well my layering was right in the middle.  

It was off.

I tell you.

Off.

For me anyway. 

I seldom center things.

I am cool like that =)

So I decided I would cut the grey down

and add it off kilter, I mean off center =)

on another sheet of PP.

Score!

I had just a touch of this Crate Paper paper

that I love,

and then I mounted this whole mess on my BFF's

paper line (yes Maggie.....dear Miss Maggie).

From her first line.

And yes this story is about my hair.

My crazy, wild, getting longer by the minute

hair.

Oh sweet doily,

sweet gold doily,

how I love thee!

And lots of layered bits.

I did add a few embellies here and there,

but not my usual embellishment heavy design,

but it's growing on me.

Much like my hair =)

Thank you for stopping by and seeing me =)

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

November CKCB Kit

Welcome to the November blog hop!

You should have come here from the lovely Angela's blog.

Angela http://colestoucan.blogspot.co.uk/

WOW!!  So it is totally November!!!

WOOT!!!  Hello Holiday Season.

Welcome!!

So our kit over at the CKCB this month is from JBS.  

Take a look at this bit of lovely.

Oh my goodness.

I love fall colors, the cooler weather, owls.

Lovely.

And there are several addon kits as well with this one.

I chose the mini kit to also counterfeit this month as well.

YAY!!

I mean look at this little mini.

So cute!!  So much fun here.

So let's start with the main kit.

I will be working on my mini fast and furious

this month, but I know I will also be doing regular

pages too, so hence two kits for me this month =)

Here is my cardstock.

Yes several sheets this month.

Not my usual way of working,

but this month, I wanted to incorporate LOTS

of scrap pieces.  

I did include just a few sheets of PP, but only a few.

And LOTS of scraps in my main kit.

This is just a small sampling.

Lots of black and brown and red and lovely fall colors.....

Here are some embellies.

I LOVE the "i love us" 

and the felt pieces.....

and the vellum....

and the keys.....

and the.....

and the.....

Well you get the picture =)

Lots of cut apart cards.....

And then this is just a look into my scrap envelope.  

Yep LOTS of fall goodness in there.

And then the mini.

Well Sir Cuteness (my gbabe) wanted me to do his mama a mini

right along with the one I make him of his Halloween fun.  

So this year I will be making two mini's.

Count 'em 2!!

WOW!!!

So the Heidi Swapp mini is the one with the heart and that on is mama's.

Then the other mini is I believe from.....ummmm..... well the name of it

leaves me at the moment.....hmmmm.....

anyway.....

It was a plain chipboard mini and I misted it with a SC mask and

HS Tinsel mist and looking so forward to adding the goodies to the front.

LOVE.

Here are some of the goodies for the mini.

I mean seriously.....

The 12x12's I'll cut down. 

Look at that spider web paper.

Oh Theresa Collins..... YOU ROCK!!!

And this envelope.

Oh Theresa.....seriously!!  And this frame....

I tell ya,

she killed it this year!!

Now instead of doing a Halloween paper pack,

I decided to stay with TC, but do one for colors instead,

because I am NOT into scary Halloween stuff and stuff,

so I chose this paper pack, because it stays with TC,

so the colors go together and introduces more than just black and 

orange.

Lots of fun tid bits.

Yep Theresa Collins frames.

OH YEAH..... Maya Road.....

That's where that mini came from.

Silly menopause brain =)

So there you have it.

My lovely kits for CKCB November Kit.

Now Hop right on over to the fabulous Jemma http://just-jimjams.blogspot.com/

And see what loveliness she has in store for you. 

And in case you get lost along the way.....

Guest Designer:  Vikki  http://islandscrapper1.wordpress.com

Angela http://colestoucan.blogspot.co.uk/

Dawn  http://dawnsscrapbookcottage.blogspot.com (you are here)

Jemma http://just-jimjams.blogspot.com/

Julene  http://julenebydesign.blogspot.com.au

Lesley G.  http://ohblogitifyoucantbeatthem.blogspot.co.uk

Lisa H. http://lisahausmann.blogspot.com/
Leslie  http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com

Lynnette http://sassyscrapper2010.blogspot.com/

Millisa http://millermall.blogspot.com/

Stephanie http://skylinepaperie.blogspot.ca

LOTS of fun stuff coming from the Design Team this month.

So do please keep checking the CKCB Blog and back here,

as I have LOTS of fun goodies coming your way =)

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

A Momma and Her Boy.....

Last fall Sir Cuteness and his mommy took pictures in the park.

They were SO good!

They are the kinda of pics that you just continue to use.

I love this watercolor style PP

from my CKCB kit.

I added some of my own water color to frame the pics,

then went to town.

I added lots of word stickers here and there,

and added some Simple Stories Bingo goodness.

And lots and lots of butterflies sewn right up the side.

I find that a great design element used over and over 

in a pattern works so well on a simple page.

It adds a pop of goodness without overpowering the 

simplicity of the page.

Love.

So there we have it.

Another page down.

Simple, yet beautiful.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

Monochromatically Speaking

So every once in a while,

I have a month that I just can't

seem to get it together.

October has been one of those months.

It seems that it looks as though I have taken

the month off.

Not so.

But it does appear that way.

I have done some LO's

and cleaned and rearranged my studio space,

and purged some OLD things out.

Yep it has been a productive month,

just not here on ye ole blog.

But all that is about to change as

I have four LO's to feature toward the end

of the month,

and our new kits will be up on Friday,

SO excited about that!

So LOTS of fun stuff happening.

Let's get to it.....

This bit of loveliness is pulled together

from my CKCB October Kit.

My FAV coffee spot turned 5 the 24th of September,

and they had a special evening of free coffee and pastries,

ANY free coffee and ANY pastry.

AMAZING!!

I took this pic on the way out the door.

And then when it came time to get this on a LO,

I chose to go mono.....

.....chromatic that is.

I NEVER do monochromatic LO's.  

I really LOVE the way this turned out though.

I may have to do this again.....

ohhhh with green.....

or yellow.....

or blue.....

or white..... OH dreamy white!

So many possibilities!!

Let me just say, my hair is NOT this red/purple.

It's the filter I used, but it's fun to go a funky color

even if it is just in a filter  =)

I am a brunette.

But red was fun.

Ok at least in a pic it is.

And these letters.....

They were a VERY pale pink that didn't go with

anything pink on this LO.

They were dull.

That was the biggest issue with them,

because the rest of this LO has a nice glimmer to it.

So what's a girl to do?

Well pull out Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Primrose

of course, and spray the dickens out of them!

Let them dry and spray again.

And do this over a 2 day period,

and you get a nice depth of color.

It looks red here.

It is not.

It is the most beautiful shiny depth of pink.

Love.

This 5 is all glittered out and it is from Thickers.

All I did was stick on the page.

No alterations needed.

Then I put a lone Maggie Holmes (yes, my BFF =)

chipboard sticker. 

All by it's lonesome, and generally I would add

a buddy, but I put it on top of a polka dotted heart

stamped goodness.

And decided no buddy needed.

Love.

This red hair.....

cracks.me.up.

anyway.....

Look at this puffy sticker goodness.

Love.

And why yes that is more Maggie Holmes

goodness.

Love.

And several frames.

Yummmy.

So that's it.

Lots of yummy goodness in pink.

This page was fun.

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty, Kind of Day ~~ 

Grid Me - CKCB Challenge #3

Well hello there!!

Today is Challenge #3 over on the CKCB 

and it is all things grid.

Now when I was first given this challenge,

I thought, Hmmm...... what do I do with this?

You see, when I use grids it is quite by accident.

I don't sit at my desk and think, 

"I'm going to use a grid for my background today."

Nope.  I'm more of a fly by the seat of my pants

kinda gal.  If I see it and it makes me smile then

grid or not, that's my background.

I know, my system is mind boggling =)

So for this one, I pulled out some grids.

Honestly didn't even know if I had any,

but I did.

But it wasn't jumping out at me. 

So I looked over on my desk 

and to what do my wandering eyes appear?

Maggie Holmes of course.

My BFF.

Just sayin'

anyway.....

This lovely was staring at me.

So I set about using it as inspiration.

So mine certainly isn't of the perfection kind,

but it is of the mine kind,

and I love it!

I drew my grid using a ruler, 

but as you can see, not exact.

A little haphazardly.

This is a picture from our vacation last year.

It is a dark picture of me holding up our supper

we'd just caught.  

I need to go back in and edit some of these shots

to lighten them up a bit, but I just LOVE this shot.

dark and all.

I remember how I felt holding this up.

Amazing!!  

I decided tto go with a very simple color combo:

Black, White & Yellow

Love it.

This little beaut was in my Maggie Holmes (BFF)

chipboard stickers.  LOVE IT!

Who Knew?  I liked to fish?!!

And I also REALLY liked the whole thing vintaged out

like only Rhonna's app can do.

Love it!

Well thank y'all for stopping by and I hope you will do something

with your own grid design, and when you do, please link up.  

We'd LOVE to see it!!

Have a Blessed and Beautiful,

Krafty Kind of Day ~~