** Kyra & Kaylee** Custom Project

I have had these letters (their initials) done for my kids for quite a while and they are proudly on display in each of their rooms. 

So when my friend Amy and her girls came for a visit they saw them....which then lead to a fun project just for them.  I did their full name not just their initials, so it was a few more letters all together, but they turned out pretty good...well I think so anyway! 

and here are Kaylee's

They have just moved and are in the process of some reno's, so hopefully these will be a nice addition to their new bedrooms!

That's all for me for today!  I just got my December Kit from Monthly Cad Kit Club, so I need to get to work on that!  Awesome papers in this one and sadly it's the last one, so grab it while you can. 

Clock for my Dad

I am finally finished working on the clock for my Dad. I really love the way it turned out and I am hoping he'll love it just as much. I still need to find an easel type thing for it to stand on but other than that, it's done.



I bought this super fun frame clock from Funked Up Crafts here in Alberta. It's made by Kaiser Craft and is part of their Beyond the Page line.

All papers, buttons and hemp twine is from CTMH, the grandchildren sentiment is from Little Paper Shop, Robin's Nest dew drops and the perfect in every way piece was just cut from one of the sheets in the It's A Guy Thing paper pack.

My Mom is headed out here this afternoon for a visit and a sleep over. Tomorrow I am going to the zoo with Kirsten's kindergarten class along with 5 other classes from her school, so Mom will hang out with Landon here while we are gone. Kirsten is excited about their trip, me too, it's my first time going on a school field trip...well it's her first field trip too!!

Wishing you a wonderful day, it's beautiful here again today!

Grandpa's Girl

Hello, hello! I hope you're week is going well. Today is Kirsten's last day of school until next Wednesday! Friday is a lieu day at school, so she doesn't go then and here in Canada, Monday is Victoria Day, so no school then either. A week off, yay!!

I took this picture of Kirsten and my Dad (sorry about the glare) when we were over for his birthday and really love it so I thought I would make him a frame for it.


I painted the back and inside the frame with a dark brown and then added a piece of blue My Mind's Eye paper. I used some Heidi Swapp chipboard letters for Grandpa's Girl and covered then with Twinkling H2Os for a bit of a shimmer but not too much sparkle. I didn't want it to be to girly as it is for my Dad, but it's so hard to leave it plain...I added some flowers to using a Spellbinder die and then crumpled them up so they looked a little weathered. The leaves are from a Stampin Up Embosslit and I love how they work.

Overall I am super happy with it and Lance even likes it, so I'm hoping my Dad will too. They are gone to Sandpoint for the long weekend and are leaving tomorrow, so not sure when we'll see then, but in the next couple of weeks sometime. I am also working on another project for him as well. I am hoping to have it done by the end of the weekend!

I hope you have a wonderful day and thank you so much for stopping by!

A Frame for Clara

{ok this layout looks all nice and groovy in blogger...who knows if it'll be like that when you're reading it...sorry if it's not}

I just finished up my frame for Clara. I am so happy with the way it turned out!! I really wanted to put picts in and I may still before I give it to Stephanie, but my printer is out of my photo ink cartridge right now, so I just went ahead and finished it for now. I made the smaller picture strip for the bottom part for 3 smaller picts and the top one will hold a 5x7. I just stamped the 5x7 area so it wasn't so blank and white...same with the Hollyhock squares down below.

Here is the front...I know I said this yesterday, but I really love the DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Girl stack...I also got all of the matching embellies to go with it, but didn't use them. I used a ton of different products on this frame, so if there is anything that catches your eye that you are unsure of, just shoot me off an email and I"ll let you know what it was!!

Here is the back...I painted it in a glimmer white color first, then that didn't cover worth toot, so I went over it with this pretty green and then mixed the shimmery white and green again for a 3rd coat! Once it was all dry, I took one of my funky textured CTMH brush thingies and swirled it in CTMH Hollyhock ink first and then made all of the circle marks on the back of the frame and stand. I stamped a Heidi Swapp "All My Love" stamp and then added the date (CTMH Friendship alpha) and one of my personaled stamps to finish it off.

I finally had a chance to use my Shimmerz and I LOVE them {you can buy them at All That Scraps}!! Thanks Jennifer for the enabling!! Here is a close up of the letters...first I inked up some kraft colored Heidi Swapp chipboard letters with CTMH Hollyhock and then used Bubblegum Shimmerz on them. They turned out a bit darker than I had originally planned, but they still look really pretty...you can always go darker, but it's pretty tough to go lighter!! I used 2 flower shapes from a Doodlebug package of glittery alphas and just sponges CTMH Hollyhock ink on them and added a green Doodlebug glitter brad to the center.

Then I used a funky flourish shape, actually two of them to make the whole shape from Breezy Design. They are called Toppings, I used the Girls one and you can use glitter, flock or foil after you have out the rub on down....I chose pretty green glitter to go with the colors in my papers and then added some MAMBI rhinestones for fun!

I think that's all...oh, I tied some pretty white taffeta ribbon from SU and added two little bows to either side of the frame as well....so pretty and oh so girly!! Then her birthday info at the very bottom!! I hope Steph likes it!

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kelly

Baby Frame For Bryce

Hey everyone, I hope all is well where you're at!! It's late here tonight, but I just thought I would get this up here!

I finally finished the frame I was working on for Miss Plicka, Kirsten's ballet teacher. She had a baby boy back in April and thought I would make a frame for her....as I do for every wee one!! Bryce's room is done with Espresso furniture and kinda limey green walls with zoo critter bedding and such,which seems to be so popular these days. So this is what I cam up with. I really love the zoo critter paper from DCWV Nana's Kids stack, but I just got in DCWV Baby Boy Nursery Stack from 7 Kids College Fund and thought I would give this one a whirl....I really like it too! It's hard to spruce up a boy frame with doo dads, ribbons and bling, so I just used a few things. Here are better pictures of the silver metal charms and the little clear love embellie(sorry for the glare).

And here is the finished frame. I bought these funky frames from Michaels when I was down in the stated this summer for holidays and I really like them a lot more than the usual ones I find at Michaels up here...maybe next time I'll see if they have some of these ones in Calgary.

Off I go, it's almost 11:30 and I need some sleep!! Thanks for visiting me here today!

~Kelly

Baby Gift Set For Evan

My sister Kristy asked me to make this set for her friend Scott and his wife Megan who recently welcomed a beautiful baby boy!

I made a name frame for him as well as a picture frame. I got both of the frames from Michaels, painted them and altered away....I love this paper from DCWV Nana's Kids and although I am now out of these 2 papers, there are lots more that I like, I just need some baby girls to come into the world!

Here is the name frame:

And here is the picture frame:

I added some fun little borders in Paint Shop, I think I like the top one better than the bottom one, but thought it makes my picts looks better!

Hope you're having a great weekend, thanks for visiting me today;-)

Kelly

Altered Canvases & Blog Candy Alert

I went to a scrapbook retreat a while back and part of our goodie bag had 2 of these 6x6 canvases...well we actually had our choice of- 1-12x12 or 2-6x6...so with 2 children I picked the 2-6x6 ones. I covered them with Cosmo Cricket paper added a picture of each of them on their horse Buck, some ribbon and primas. The "wanna be a cowboy" is a rub on from the Rugged Creative Imaginations Swatch Book and the "ride baby ride" is from My Mind's Eye. I hung them up in my craft room, I know they are pretty simple, but I love seeing them every time I'm in here. Sorry that the pictures aren't super..it's a gloomy kinda day out.

On another note... Dawn over at Treasure Oiler Designz is celebrating her 1 year blog anniversary and is giving away some fun blog candy...go check it out. (You have to live in the US or Canada and have a blog!)

I hope you all have a super weekend...I'll be back tomorrow at some point..I am gettin' my hair done tomorrow...(gotta get rid of those pesky grey hairs!!) I am working on a cute lil' Tilda card, so stay tuned...

Card Tin For My Grandma

I made this card tin for my Grandma for her birthday. I filled it with about 25 cards and envelopes, a pen and postage stamps, so she's all ready to go when she needs a card for just about any occassion! Some each of Baby, Sympathy, Birthday, Thinking of You, Anniversary & Get Well!! I really, really love these colors together! I think I need one of these for my self now:-)

Hope you had a great weekend!! ~Kelly~

Paper: TLC Carloine Collection

Stamps: CTMH Rustic Alpha & Precious Alpha

Ink: CTMH

Ribbon and Memeory Gems: TLC

Flowers: Prima