Friday's Spotlight & PPA Challenge...

Paper Pal Arts Spotlight...

Is on K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple sweetie) - So here is my simple card that didn't take long at all to make, and you can punch the flowerw out instead of cutting them out by hand which saves even more of your time! Enjoy and make sure to click HERE to view more samples for this challenge using the K.I.S.S. method.

Friday's Spotlight is on...SU! Convention '09

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at our yearly convention??? Well here is a little sneek peak for ya!

Lot's & Lot's of wild, funny, enthusiastic, and very talented stampers!

Lot's & Lot's of display boards with tons of VERY cute ideas!

Lot's of displays to get great ideas from!

Even Holiday and special occasion displays to spark your creative juices!

The unveiling of new products like our "Simply Adorned" jewelry.

Also new this year was the introduction of SU! teaming up with "Build A Bear"!

We get the chance to view new products, and be able to use them in Make-N-Takes.
Convention is so much fun and you walk away feeling inspired and full of ideas - so join my team and be apart of our 2010 Convention Group!

KENDRA

Friday's Spotlight & PPA Challenge...

I combined a new challenge with Friday's Spotlight.

Today's spotlight features the Trio Flower Punch $15.95.

The following cards all use the Trio Flower Punch, but the first card below is also a new challenge that I'm doing. Every Friday, I will complete the challenge and post it with our spotlight.

So above is my "PALS PAPER ARTS" challenge card. The design team chose an Inspiration Challenge this week. They simply wanted us to use the provided picture from Pottery Barn Kids to inspire our project. So this is what I came up with...and you can find more challenge cards and also the design teams cards HERE. I hope you will take a look at their fun site. Enjoy the other cards below using the Trio Flower Punch...I hope the inspire you to play!

There is something so striking about pink and black together! I used medium rhinestone brads and also, I pulled the rhinestones off of the small brads for the (2) lower flowers on the card so they were more dainty. The swirl stamp is from Priceless, and the sentiment is from Short & Sweet.









This sweet pea baby inspired me when I came across it. Credit goes to Andrea Walford and her sister, Sophie. I added the Baroque Motifs Vine stamp and then added the Trio flowers with blue brads. I completed the card with a sentiment and some handstitching around the edges with my black gel pen. This makes an adorable baby shower card! Sentiment stamp is again from the Short & Sweet set.












This 3x3 card is in Chocolate Chip and Sahara Sand CS. I stamped the image with Sahara Sand Ink and added a sentiment from the Warm Words set and stamped that in Ruby Red Ink. I added (1) flower that I punched from Ruby Red CS and added a center on my flower using my White Gel Pen.

And last, but certainly not least...is an 8x8 scrapbook page. I took the Inspired by nature set and used the grass stamp to create branches on a Christmas tree. I would stamp on and stamp again without re-inking to give me some dimension with the branches. I also used Craft Whisper White ink to stamp my sentiment "Sparkle" from the Warm Words set on the Old Olive strip of CS. I also added some snowflakes to that same strip from the Christmas Post set and used the Versa Mark pad. I punched Flowers out and used my embossing tool to soften the centers and curl the tops upwards. I used small rhinestones that were removed from the brad portion to the centers. I used a paper piercer to punch holes in my paper and put Hemp Twine through the holes and tied very small bows for added decoration on my tree. Photo corner and twine and another flower on the bottom of the page complete my project. The space underneath the Old Olive strip is for journaling your favorite festive memories. I wish I remembered who's site a saw a card using the branches this way and she made a hanging ornament...my memory is so BAD!

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY!

KENDRA

Sunday Share...

These are last weeks sketches. Below you will see the items I made using these sketches. I hope you were able to use these as inspiration this week to create some fabulous things!

HAPPY STAMPING,

KENDRA

June Club Demonstrations

So just thought I'd share with you if your not a member of one of my clubs, and remind you if you are...of the items I demonstrated this past month at our Card & Project Club, and at Scrapbook Club.


This was the gift everyone received this month. I also demonstrated this tag mage from Punched Scallop Circles.

This was a card that I demonstrated in both clubs. The idea came from my friend and upline, Sue Brown. It uses the retired Parisian Breeze Dpecialty DSP (I'm sad this one had to retire!), and also it used the Soft Summer Set from the Mini Catalog. I used chalks for a soft look.

This page was demonstrated in each of the clubs and highlighted the set "Just Beachy". I am SO glad I got this set. I LOVE IT!!! It makes the cutest cards and pages.

This page and card used a technique called Floating Water Color. I used a piece of Shimmery White CS and heat embossed in White the rose image from Fifth Ave Floral. Then using re-inkers, I water colored the roses.

It is a really pretty technique. The page I demonstrated at the Scrapbook Club and I even cut small pieces of the rose to give it a 3-D effect.

This page and card were our Make-N-Takes for both Clubs. Scrapbook gals made the page of course...and Card & Project Club made the card. We used the Classic Stars Jumbo Wheel in Real Red to run along the bottom of the page twice, and the card once. Then a piece of Ballet Blue Textured CS was stamped with the word Sparkle from the Warm Words set. Stars were punched out using the large & small star punches. Photo mats in Whisper White were added to the page and both had a Bashful Blue ribbon to tie it all together!

HAPPY STAMPING,

KENDRA