You Have A Ticket To My Heart

I have been finding lots of inspiration from the Admission Is Free collection from Gel-A-Tins Stamps.  It is such a versatile set with some cute sentiments to go along with the great ticket stamps.

This simple card is perfect for any day!  Just pop it into your child's lunchbox or leave for hubby in his car.  Such a sweet reminder of how much they mean to you.

Supplies 

Admission Is Free by Gel-A-Tins Stamps

Bazzill Smooth Cardstock

Core'dinations Chocolate Cardstock 6x6

Ranger Archival Ink

Quick Quotes Chalking Ink

Studio Calico Chipboard.

Thank you for visiting today!
~Kate

Love Is Like A Butterfly

Happy Wednesday!  With spring in the air I have been creating with things that remind me of spring...pretty colors, butterflies, and flowers.  Today on the Gel-A-Tins Blog, I shared a card that reminds me of spring.

I used a stamp from  Gel-A-Tins Easter Bunnies Collection to create the grass bottom of my card.  I love the little flowers and butterflies just peeking out from this stamped image. 

The butterflies were punched from an EK Success punch.  I popped them up with Helmar ZapDots and added bling trails.  The scene is then double mounted on Core'dinations Cardstock. 

Gel-A-Tins Supplies:

Easter Bunnies

Other Supplies:

Core'dinations Cardstock

Papertrey Ink Stamping Cardstock

Ranger Archival Ink

Want 2 Scrap Bling

EK Success Punch

Helmar Premium Craft Glue & ZapDots

I have uploaded this card to the following challenge:

Sweet Stamping Challenge - clean & simple 

I hope you are having a lovely spring, too! 

~Kate

Discover True Beauty

This week Helmar has paired up with Pink Paislee to bring you some fantastic projects 

and today is my day to share what I have created on the Helmar Blog.

My first layout is simply layered with wonderful papers from Pink Paislee's "Secret Crush"

Collection.  I used lots of Helmar Premium Craft Glue to adhere these layers. 

I used Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Ink in Dusty Rose to add color to the scalloped ribbon from Pink Paislee and in Coal Miner to add color to "discover" in my title work. 

The banner and arrow are propped up with some Helmar Zapdots.  

In my last Helmar Live Ustream Class I used lots of this same Pink Paislee collection with Pan Pastels to create "My Love."  

Helmar Premium Craft Glue, 450 Quick Dry Adhesive and ZapDots were 

my Helmar glues of choice for this layout.  

Check out my latest Helmar Live Ustream Class below to see what fun techniques I shared! 

Supplies:

Papers & Embellishements ~ Pink Paislee

Chalking Ink ~ Quick Quotes

Pearls ~ FabScraps

Glues ~ Helmar Premium Craft Glue, 450 Quick Dry Adhesive and ZapDots

Journaling Cards

I have this wonderful stash of journaling cards in all shapes and sizes.  Some of them are years old. Some of them I have no idea who manufactured them.  When I am done with a kit or collection I tuck away the extra journaling cards.  I just can't see tossing them away, so when I saw Moxie Fab World's Journaling Card Challenge I pulled out my wonderful stash. 

"Have Love" is a play on the journaling tag.  That sweet, retro car image with the hearts trailing behind just invited the "have love will travel" quote.  

Supplies: 

Bazzill Cardstock

Doodlebug Design patterned paper

Cosmo Cricket & American Crafts alpas

Queen & Co. pearls

Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive & Zapdots

The cards above and below have quote journaling cards that I have hoarded.  Not really sure why I haven't used them before as they are super cute.  The simple sentiments on each card perfectly matched the simple style of each. 

 Supplies "I Heart You" & "You Are The Best:"
Bazzill Cardstock
Technique Tuesday stamps
Ranger Archival Ink (black)
Momento Ink (bahama blue)
Queen & Co. pearls
Helmar Quick Fix Adhesive & ZapDots

Have you designed a card with Journaling Cards?  I'd love to see them!

Curiosity

Paper and glue make me so happy. Seriously happy.

A form of stress relief and creativity in my otherwise organized, heavily scheduled world.

I relish getting packages of scrappy goodness in the mail.  

Pretty sure I told Scott to look for three packages for me this week. 

I find that exciting enough to make me giddy. 

In this month's package from Scrappy Chics Kit Club, I got the add-on kit 

which was chock-full of Authentique's Curiosity line.  It is definitely a 

school themed line, but I bucked the system a bit.  

The first layout I am sharing is definitely my favorite.

Chase is definitely a curious fellow!  He is always into something, generally when we aren't looking.

I loved that Authentique adds quotes on the strips at the bottom of their papers.

I added the one from the Curiosity line to the top of the layout.  Perfect! 

Scott's Mom became a proud Great-Grandma twice within a month.

You can see how proud she is to be holding the two cousins.  

The love stamp is by Glitz Design. It can be found in the Scrappy Chics' Add-On Kit this month. 

It is hard to tell from the photo, but I cut apart the Studious paper and laminated 

the alphabets to make flash cards.  The altered library card holder is meant 

to be storage for the laminated flash cards.  So simple!  

That is it for what I made from this month's Scrappy Chics November Add-On Kit.

Be sure to visit me on Saturday for the Helmar & Robin's Nest "Home For The Holidays" Blog Hop.

Love Birds

Love is all around!  At least in my family.

My sister, Kerry, got married last month.  

Her and her wonderful new husband got married on a whim way out in Arizona.

None of us could attend so when they came to visit this week

we took them out to dinner at one of Kerry's favorite restaurants

to share their new marriage and hopes for the future. 

How perfect that I wanted a "love" card for this occasion AND 

CropStop Challenge Blog's theme this week is love. 

"Love Birds"

I used this month's new Becky Fleck Spellbinders to create this card. What a fun new set!
The birds are from Tim Holtz's Caged Birds die. I spruced them up by mixing
Helmar Gemstone Glue and glitter then brushing the mixture on my birds.

CropStop Supplies:

Becky Fleck SpellBinders

Tim Holtz Die

Helmar 3-D Scrapdots

Cuttlebug Embosser

A pretty embellished envelope is always a nice touch for a special occasion.

I created this envelope to compliment the card for Kerry and Rodney.

Upload your love inspired creation to CropStop Challenge Blog by next
Wednesday at 11:59 EST to be eligible to win the random prize drawing.
Rules for participation can be found here.
Don't forget there is always a 10% off coupon to the CropStop
store on my side bar!

Congratulations again to Kerry and Rodney!
May your marriage be blessed with children and years of happiness.