The 12 Kits of Occasions: September with Kim "Under & Over the Sea"

Welcome to another reveal by The 12 Kits of Occasions! We are winding down our year and have a wonderful kit created by Kim at Cupcakes, Cards and Kim. She has been a member of the group from the very beginning and always sends fabulous supplies to get our creative juices flowing. This month is a water theme from time spent relaxing in a pool to visiting some of the ocean's magical creatures! I adore the sweet mermaids and fun otters. And I was so lucky to actually see sea otters on a trip to California a couple of years ago! No mermaids though!! );

So come with me to visit the other blogs to see what wonders they have created. Just click HERE to contact with the 12 Kits blog. We even have a guest designer who also was one of the original 12 Kits members. Can you guess who?

Below is a peek at some of the supplies sent by Kim. Lindsey is our creative photographer who each month does a wonderful collage. She spoils us that way!

PHOTO BY LINDSEY

Hope you loved Kim's supplies as much as I did! Thanks, Kim, for a wonderful month! And thanks to you for coming for a visit. Hope you enjoy the hop!

Have a great weekend,

Sharron

The 12 Kits of Occasions: August with Birgit "Fairy Tales"

This is such a fun month for us in The 12 Kits of Occasions group. We had a chance to put aside all the daily activities and join together at a playground with gnomes and fairies and all things magical! We even met a dragon or two!

Our talented and super sweet hostess is Birgit at Crafting While I Wait. This month was even more special to me as hubby and I just returned from a trip to Maine. And part of our visit included breakfast with Birgit and her very sweet husband. I had never been to New England before and have totally fallen in love with Maine! We were looking for birds so spent much of the time hiking through wonderful wooded areas and on two boat trips. And yes, that included whales and puffins!

PHOTO BY LINDSEY

Birgit included so many wonderful stamped images and fabulous dies. These especially reminded me of Maine. Loved all the ferns, mushrooms and amazing wild flowers. Along the path one day were many tiny fairy houses. And who could prove whether they were made by visitors or some of the tiny folk that lived there!

I added a couple of images from Fish in the Reef, a stamp set by Marianne Design. You can barely see the embossed bubbles or her shiny scales!

Isn't a glass of wine a perfect addition to a happy day!

Be sure to visit the 12 Kits blog to find your way to all the other participants blogs. Birgit has a

wonderful guest designer that came to play with us. I met her too when she and Birgit were in Kansas in the spring. Wait til you see her amazing creations!

Hope you enjoy the hop! Thanks again to Birgit for a magical journey. Sending all of you "a million magic wishes"! 

Looking forward to seeing you again next month,

Sharron

The12 Kits of Occasions: July with Marybeth "Summer and More"

We're back with our July posts and even more summer fun!! And the hostess for the 12 Kits of Occasions this month is the sweet and extremely talented Marybeth from Marybeth's Time for Paper. See Lindsey's wonderful collage below to get a peek at all the fantastic goodies. I adore Purple Onion  so was thrilled to open my kit and find all these charming images. Marybeth even fussy cut many of them so they were ready to color if we wished! Oh, and there were gorgeous fuchsias from Pretty Pink Posh, especially fun to color! Thank you, Marybeth, for a wonderful kit!!

I can't wait to see what all the other designers made so I'm anxious to go visiting. Hope you are too! Just click HERE to reach the 12 Kits blog where you can find links to all the blogs.

COLLAGE AND PHOTO BY LINDSEY

I love how these wonderful stamped images are made more special by the addition of some adorable Purple Onion critters!

I used a PTI Mix & Mat die set for the card below.

I used one of Jennifer McGuire's techniques to make a Shadow Box card. Here is the front,

and here is the inside!

And lastly is this fun crew off for a road trip!

Hope you are having a fun summer and that we gave you some inspiration for your summer designs.

Love when you come by!

Sharron

Celebrate One Cupcake at a Time!

I've been playing with my wonderful new The Cat's Pajamas supplies. I was so lucky to win last month's challenge! Here is one of the adorable bunnies ready for a birthday party. This is for a friend's birthday and since it's a summer birthday, I was able to use some fun paper I had in my stash--lots of yummy watermelons. There was even a pattern that worked for the paper-pieced cupcake and an envelope liner. There's still lots of time to enter this month's "Summer" Challenge. It goes until the end of the month.

Stamp set is TCP One Bunny. The sentiment is from PTI. And inside I used the sentiment that came with the bunny "Celebrate One Cupcake at a Time". Colored with Copics.

Thank you so much for coming by. 

Hope you are enjoying your summer so far,

Sharron

"Outdoors" at The Cat's Pajamas

Here is a VERY late entry to the current challenge at The Cat's Pajamas. I have been coloring some of the images from my newest set. There are three adorable images in Live More. Today I colored with Prismacolors and stamped a sentiment from Mama Elephant. A PTI die helped add a little trim to the image. The watercolor-look paper is from a pad called Melon Patch that I found at Micheal's.

Sending this off for a friend's summer birthday!

Thanks for stopping by,

Sharron

The 12 Kits of Occasions: June with Michele "Sum, Sum, Summertime"

Welcome! Come share a dose of summer with the 12 Kits group, planned by our wonderful June hostess, Michele from I Card Everyone! Her kit was so very amazing. Just check out all the wonderful products shown in the photo below. There was not one thing that I already had and I had a ball playing with all the fun new products. Hope you enjoy this kit as much as I did. Go to the 12 Kits blog HERE to connect with all the blogs. You will be amazed with all the fun designs!! Thanks, Michele, for a very special month!

COLLAGE AND PHOTO BY LINDSEY

These little guys are so adorable. Luckily I still have more!

There are several sets of Leading Ladies over on the Ellen Hutson blog. She was so easy to color. I hope to add some of these to my craft room soon.

This image and the one in my last card are from Waffle Flower Stamps. 

Gotta love these sweet bunnies from The Cat's Pajamas!

Hope you are having a good summer. I love that you took some time to come by for a visit. And we always hope you get a little inspiration from our creations. 

If you are somewhere with high temperatures like we are having here in Kansas, try to stay cool!

Hugs,

Sharron

TCP Tuesday Challenge #327: THE OUTDOORS

Summer fun and a day at the beach! Little bunny is having a great day making his castle, pretty good don't you think! I absolutely love all the images in this Live More set that was released last month at The Cat's Pajamas. I was even lucky enough to win a gift certificate during the release too. I had purchased a pad of paper at Michael's ages ago with wonderful ocean patterns that were perfect for my cards. Both are colored with Prismacolor pencils. And both sentiments are from Hero Arts Monthly Kit June 2018. 

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Supplies:

Stamps: Live More (The Cat's Pajamas), Sentiments from Hero Arts Monthly Kit-June 2018

Papers: Stamper's Select White, Kraft,  Weathervane (PTI); Coastal (DCWV); Red from stash

Dies: Fancy Circle (Studio Katia); Stitched Rectangles, Stitched Circles (Lil' Inker)

Additional: Wink of Stella Clear

(Please excuse my slight slip with my die on card two. I'd already done all the coloring so felt it had to do!)

Thank you so much for paying a visit. There is still time for you to participate in the challenge and it's a great way to celebrate summer!

Sharron