HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I can't believe we are saying 2019! I have great plans to get back to creating more this year and I hope you'll come along for the journey and share your creativity, too.

I had planned to start the blog posts tomorrow but Bob is still home and he is trying to get some medical appointments taken care of before he goes back out. Those trips require near full days with travel/ appointment/ lunch. Ugh. One even has required an overnight to the big city.  That means I'm not getting the creating done ahead of a writing retreat I have the 3-6.  So my plan now is to spend the week following the retreat to get items made and scheduled on the blog beginning Monday January 14th. I do hope to get a video done of my Happy Planner Miss Maker planner that I will be using to keep me on track with challenges. If all goes well, that will air tomorrow. (I'm writing this on the 30th as we prepare for that overnight. I just don't know if I'll have time to get the video filmed before we have to leave in a few hours.)

One exception is I will be here on January 2nd. for WOYWW! We are crossing the 500th Week of visiting other artistic folks around the globe. Our doors and hearts are open to show what we've been up to and there is always room for new folks. I hope you will join us!

I hope you are jumping in to 2019 with both feet and full of creativity!

WOYWW - Creative Card Chicks

I won't be linking up to WOYWW until next Wednesday, but this was the best day to post the monthly Card Chicks cards. I'm trying to get back on track with the various challenges and I was determined to post to Card Chicks on time this month. 

This is the kit Miami Kel sent us to work with. 

I added Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Peek A Boo Peach and Crumb Cake

I had this gift wrap embellishment kit in the scrap rack - perfect pairing for this kit. I only used the small chimpanzee on one of the cards.

I used the birthday sentiment from the kit for this card. To color the image, I put a drop of various SU reinker colors in my paint pallet and used a water brush to add pigment. The color isn't real good in the picture for some reason.

Her hat was watered down Crumb Cake with a Peek A Boo Peach band. Her hair is Daffodil Delight. I colored her blouse in the Peek A Boo Peach. I used a stronger pigment for the pockets then watered it down a bit more for a lighter shirt. I used the same technique on her khaki's using Chocolate Cake and the Basic Black for the boots and binoculars.

The Always Artichoke strip is embossed with the Petal Pair embossing folder from Stampin' Up!

The entire card is paid out on a Chocolate Chip base.

For this card, I embossed a mat using Layered Leaves embossing folder on Crumb Cake. I added the bakers twine and the enamel dots, Kelli had included in the kit.

The cool thing about being a part of this group is that each month one of us sends a kit to everyone.. and no two people will do the same thing with the items. We often look at someone else's card and say 'why didn't I think to do that?!' LOL 

I hope to go back and work up the other kits. I'll show them off as I do. 

That's on my desk, what's on yours this week?

WOMEN UNLEASED!

While your life may seem really crazy right now - NOW is the time to think ahead to what you want 2018 to be for you. 

For me, my word is ACHIEVEMENT. There are so many things I want to accomplish next year. One is to explore various avenues of creativity... to nurture my style for the things I want to Achieve in 2018

To kickstart my creative motor I've signed up for the #WomanUnleashed on-line Retreat. I hope you'll join me!

Just click on the link below and be prepared to unleash your True Creative Spirit!

http://theradiantmama.com/OP/winter2017/

Creative Blessings!

Kelly

CORRECTING A BOO BOO

Okay... having internet to work with after almost 7 weeks has made my life interesting. Then I go and complicate things by posting my WOYWW on my country music blog rather than here.

So if you want to know what I'm up to this week, you can check out the CREATIVE post HERE

Not holding my breath but next week life should return to normal. Maybe.
Creative Blessings!
Kelly