WOYWW #743

 Good morning, crafty friends!

NOTE: Before I go any further, I want to remind you to check back here tomorrow for a visit with our very own, Tracy Easson!  Tracy takes us inside (and outside) her workspace where she creates her beautiful artwork. She also shares a tip on starting your own crafting business.  

Getting this post up and staying out of Bob's way as he prepares to leave this morning. I think this is his last 2-week trip. Beginning October 1, he'll be back on the 3 weeks on/ 3 weeks off and back up in Chicago. 

He's going to miss this shorter drive.

I've been busy working on challenges for the Spectrum Art Creations Friends FB group. Tomorrow is the last day to turn in the August challenges. So far this month I've done:

* 3 #SACsAug23 challenges (using products I've purchased from them at any point to make something)

* 8 items made from Mintay products including 4 cards posted HERE

I still need to make at least 2 Christmas cards before end of day tomorrow.

Please keep my SACs family and others in your prayers as they are in the direct hit from the hurricane.

Okay... what you came to see:

This is the remnants of all of those projects. I'll need to clear the way this morning to work on G45 Christmas cards.

Weather has cooled and tomatoes are beginning to produce. I've been dehydrating bell peppers. Tomorrow I'll start on tomato sauce.

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

#TAGTUESDAY - Part 1

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Craft A Long videos are just too long for me to upload in one pass. I just keep telling myself that while I don't have broadband, at least I'm not working with dial - up. #glasshalffull

In Part 1 we'll put together the master board using the bits and pieces left from the four sheets of Mintay papers I've been using for the Spectrum Art Creations Mintay challenge items.

I'll have Part 2 tomorrow where we make the tags.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

MAKE IT- MAIL IT Monday!

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Okay, today was supposed to be a Memory Dex card. I'll be doubling up on the next go round. Between Bob being home, celebrating our anniversary then a bad hotel experience for me over the weekend, just wasn't in the 'cards'.

However, I did have four cards made up for the Mintay Challenge with Spectrum Art Creations so that's the video and pictures for today.

I had to use Mintay papers/ products purchased in July/ August. Earlier this month I purchased two 12x12 sheets from the Bird Song collection and two 12x12 sheets from the Secret Place collection. I kind of mixed and matched everything around.

I've already done 4 projects I'll show you on Friday. For now, here are the four cards I made. I needed some general Thinking of You kind of cards:

Each card began with a Soft Succulent card base and one of the journaling cards from the collection. I used a stamp from one of my Paper Pumpkin kits, added velvet ribbon and pearls from Stampin' Up!

If you want to see the walk through, here's the video:

I'll be back tomorrow with tags from left-overs.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

#KCDAUGJJ23 - Inspired by Tracy Easson - Week 3

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Yep, I'm late again. 

I fought a good portion of yesterday trying to get the video for this week to upload. The video stuck in processing for several hours. I tried multiple things to make the video process but nothing worked. I finally gave up and dove into projects I have deadlines for - without giving yesterday's post another thought!

I'm trying the video again this morning in Firefox. If it works, I'll come back and add the link at the bottom of the post, as usual.

In the mean time, here's this week's project:

I used THIS stamp set from her Soul Whisper's collection . This is one of my favorites!

I made a postcard from a food box, covered with the Winter collection from Maja Designs that I'd purchased from Spectrum Art Creations over a year ago. Three of the colors for this month's challenge were in the background paper. The girl is cut from one of the 6x6 sheets and brought up on dimensionals - with the wings in the background.

I did this in full on the video:

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

LATE TRACY EASSON PROJECT

 Hey all!

Man, this month is flying by!  I don't think it helps to have Bob only gone two weeks ... and home only two weeks.  Last week was Bob's first week home and I failed to post Thursday's video here... so check out what I did for Week 2 and Week 3 will be here tomorrow!

Creative Blessings!

~Kelly

WOYWW #741

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I'm rushing to get this post up. Bob is on his way home... about 30 minutes out. Which means, I may not be as lucky as last week in getting to everyone. I'll do my best and may be late. 

Here's my desk as I left it last night:

I'm working on the new color challenge this week, featuring our own Tracy Easson stamp set. To the left you'll see a sheet of cut aparts from a G45 8x8 pad called Ocean Blue. I've used part of it on the right diagonal of the 6x9 art journal page. The top left diagonal is a water print from Hobby Lobby with a dylusions bubble stencil & Stamperia  Cream paste. You can just see the colors for this month's challenge. I'll be adding color to the sea shells with a Magicals alcohol application. 

If you want to see in the Week 1 challenge with Tracy's stamp set, you'll find the blog post HERE

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

INSPIRED BY TRACY EASSON

 Good morning, crafty friends!

This post should have ran yesterday but after a rough night sleep Wednesday night, I just could not get the things done that needed.

We kick off our Inspired By series this week with stamps from Tracy Easson. Tracy is a fabulous artist from Scotland and a member of our WOYWW blog hop group. You can see her blog HERE.

Tracy will be in our Creator's Corner on Thursday, August 31st.

For this week's card, I chose to use two of the sets from her large collection.

BELIEVE

SOUL SYMBOLS

I absolutely loved both of these sets.  While SOUL SYMBOLS is more of a 'star' theme, I thought they'd make beautiful snowflake/ Christmas images, too. 

What is a 'soul symbol'?  Basically, a sigal assigned to your birth month. You can read more and find yours HERE. (NOTE: the sight is AD heavy)

My soul symbol, or sigal, is a FLOWER.

If your soul symbol is the flower, you have an incredibly pure and lovely heart. Wherever you go, you spread a great deal of happiness and joy. You embody tranquility, adding elegance to a boring environment. The kindness you exude encourages folks to take a break from their hectic lives and appreciate the peace.

Your lovely heart and soul are your unique selling proposition and you never compromise on that, no matter how hard life gets or hurts you, You always emphasis your inner fortitude, positivity and beauty.

Now that we know more about soul symbols... here's the card I made this week:

Because I had to work with the August colors:

I used colors from my Lindy's Magicals - Industrial Chic collection. I used Time Travel Teal, Rusty Lantern Lime and Shabby Turbine Teal. I brought the Mango Melody in by using some vellum from a retired Stampin' Up! collection and mounted everything on Balmy Blue card base.

I hope you'll check out the links I've provided.  In the mean time, here's the video where I put the card together in 'real time'.

I'll be back Monday with our Memory Dex card of the week!

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly