WOYWW #716 & #100dayproject - Day 1

 Good morning, everyone!

Before I get to my desk, I want to remind everyone there are only a couple of days left to sign up for the Card Makers Summit. We kick off the event tonight with a chat on YouTube then the classes begin tomorrow. This is all FREE unless you choose to buy the lifetime all-access pass. But FREE is good. Make some time to Play. If you know any of the instructors, feel free to contact them for their link. 

I am promoting Tiffany Solorio. She will be my guest in the studio tomorrow! Here is Tiffany's Link

You can also find out more by watching Tiffany's video HERE

Quick peek at my desk then you'll see where I'm going with picture number 2:

This is all of my 'most reached for' punches. They fill 3 shelves of a craft cart. On top of the punches, I have the diagram for placement of items in the cube storage. You can see the progress - or lack there of - HERE.

Items to the right are what came out of the top of the cart that will NOT go back in. The stack of junk mail envelopes with the pink clip... those are junk mail envelopes cut in 1/2 to make tuck spot belly bands for junk journals. I got the idea from Scrapbooking With Me on YouTube. Once I can get back to crafting, I'll get those turned into covered bases that I can then just decorate as needed for a specific journal.

I've pulled them all out of the craft cart because I'm prepping for my Day 1 project of the #100DayProject. You can find information for that HERE. Basically, you plan to do one creative thing every day for the next 100 days. I failed miserably at the creative last year so I decided to use the challenge this year to get the studio in order... one Day - one Task at a time. 

I have 3 black  craft carts. The one with all of my adhesives has a handle and won't fit between the Project Life cabinet and the filming table. So I pulled all of the punches off the one without a handle and did this:

Yep. We finally had a warm enough day this week I could spray the black cart teal to match the creative corner and add a pop of color. 

I'm giving this a few days to cure then I'll sort out all of my adhesives and put them on this cart next to my filming table. Then I'll put all the punches on the one I take the adhesives off of.

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Julia and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Stamping Ground for all the details. Miss Julia has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list.

 

 Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

MAKE IT- MAIL IT MONDAY

 Good morning everyone!

Spent a bit of time getting a couple of cards made for today before I totally empty out the filming corner. I'm tired of the disaster. I'm taking the studio one area at a time and working my way through.  I'll show pictures on Wednesday of the first mini-project I did on Sunday.

Before I get into today's card I want to talk about the Cardmaker's  Success Summit 2023 that will be going on the end of this month. I participated last year and had a blast. We even have a virtual crop... and it's all FREE! (Though if you want life-time access, you can purchase an express pass)

Each presenter has a link for you to sign up. This month on KellysCreativeDreams, we're all about Tiffany Solorio so unless you know someone else on the panel you normally work with, please sign up through Tiffany's link. I'm linking her INFORMATION VIDEO HERE and you'll find her sign-up link in her Description Box. Come join the fun!!!

Today, I played with Lindy's again. I know... surprise!  But I also added in older sets of Stampin' Up! Brushos and Sprinkles.

Here are the two cards then I'll tell you what I did.

You'll notice one is lighter than the other. That is because you will NEVER get the same look twice when working with these powders. That's part of the magic.

I mixed up the powders (Stampin' Up! Granny Apple Green) (Lindy's Magicals Forest Green from the Jingle Bells collection) with a few squirts of rubbing alcohol then dabbed the color on with a makeup sponge. You'll get a walk-through in the video below.

Then I layered a strip of varigated tweed patterned paper from my stash as well as the image in the center. I mounted the mat on a retired SU Emereld Envy card base from my stash. 

I've been asked if I decorate the inside. I do, just usually when I'm ready to send it off so I decorated these with identical insides:

I used clear vellum stickers from The Paper Studios St. Patrick's Day packs.

Here's the video with the walk-through:

I'll be back on Wednesday with a way to get all that bling under control & a look at 'hopefully' the new and improved filming table!

Creative Blessings!

~Kelly