The 12 Kits of Occasions: April with Lisa "My Little Chickadee"

Are things blooming where you live! Our weather has been so strange but at least there is lots of green. I guess Spring has finally officially arrived! The theme for this month's 12 Kits of Occasions is a favorite for me as birds are something my hubby and I have always shared.  And I loved the supplies that this month's very talented hostess, Lisa from My Paper Tales, sent. Her kit contained the sweetest images with fabulous sentiments and lovely papers, as you can see in the photo below. I can't wait to see what the others have made. I have lots of leftovers that are waiting to be used!

COLLAGE AND PHOTO BY LINDSEY

Lisa has also invited a special guest to be this month's guest designer. I just peeked at one of her awesome cards and you will want to visit her blog as well as the blogs of all our members. Just click HERE to connect with the 12 Kits blog. A list of Lisa's supplies can be found at the top. I hope you enjoy visiting as much as I enjoyed creating with the wonderful supplies!!

LOVE THE CLOTHESPINS!

THE FEATHERS AND THE VELLUM WORKED SO WELL TOGETHER AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE SENTIMENT FROM SERENDIPITY STAMPS.

THE SENTIMENT FOR THIS CARD CAME FROM PTI'S SPRING HILLS SET.

Thank you so much for taking time to visit! We love having visitors to our blog hop and hope you have a wonderful time!

Sharron

Time Out "Wild"

The Time Out Challenge "Wild" is the perfect theme for me to get out my Gerda Steiner stamps. This was a great choice to do some masking too. I've been volunteering at our Zoo so knew I would find many ways to use these fun sets. The Go Wild and Party Animals sets go so well together. I colored these with Copics and Prismacolor Pencils.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Thanks for much for stopping by. Be sure to come back on Monday when the 12 Kits will be posting their April reveal!

Sharron

The 12 Kits of Occasions: March with Jessica "Many Thanks"

Another month and another chance to share our 12 Kits creations! This month our wonderful hostess is Jessica from The Paper Parade. I loved the great kit she sent to each of us (see the photo below). It contained so many things that I particularly enjoy--lots of adorable images ready to color if you wanted and I always can't wait to do, wonderful sentiments and the coolest paper! When you look at my cards you will see that I often let the papers take center stage! I would look at each one and then see how one of the images would fit perfectly. Thank you, Jessica, for a truly amazing kit and fun month!!

Since visiting all the blogs can be a little time consuming, you probably want to be on your way.
Click HERE to connect to the 12 Kits of Occasions blog. Links to each of the members' blogs can be found below their cards and a list of supplies that Jessica put together is located at the top.

COLLAGE & PHOTO BY LINDSEEY

There were several of these adorable bears and I only used two so I am looking forward to using #3. The sentiment is from PTI.

LOVE this image! Makes me think of when grandchildren are leaving and you know you'll miss them before they have even left. Sentiment from SSS and a piece of another sentiment from Mama Elephant.

Couldn't not color the mane and tail on this sweet unicorn! Another sheet of that awesome paper works perfectly.

This little cutie was the first image I colored. The die cut is from a Studio Katia die

The branch is from a Memory Box die and the the little stump is from a Studio Katia set of foxes.

Thank you so much for visiting and allowing me to share. Hope you enjoy the hop!! We'll see you next month!

Sharron

March PTI Blog Hop

It's been ages since I entered PTI's blog hop so I was so happy to remember some wonderful stamps that would work great for this month's hop. It's still cold here but we have lots of green emerging and our daffodils are up and blooming. I love SPRING!! And I loved getting some of my old (and still favorite) stamps out to play today!

Supplies:

Nest is from Birds of a Feather (retired)

Flowers are from Vintage Picnic

Sentiment from Spring Hills

Embossing Folder--Branches, Cuttlebug

Dies--Mix and Match (Pretty Brackets), Journal Card (both PTI)

Paper--White, Spring Moss, Spring Rain (all PTI)

Prismacolor Pencils

Wishing you all a blessed spring,

Sharron

The 12 Kits of Occasions: February with Lindsey

Welcome to another 12 Kits of Occasions reveal! Our wonderful hostess this month is Lindsey, who also does our collages and photos for each month. This month she sent us a fabulous kit full of pretty papers, great stamped and die cut sentiments and lots of fantastic images. I loved all the florals and succulents! See the photo below for an idea of all we received. Thanks so much, Lindsey, for an amazing kit. And I still have lots of leftovers!!

COLLAGE AND PHOTO BY LINDSEY

I love this Concord and 9th woodgrain panel. I thought it would work great for a bench for a bunch of succulents which came from a darling Clearly Besotted set.

This might be my favorite! Aren't the colors wonderful and I adore those blooms. Lindsey sent them already stamped and die cut.

I try to just use things from the kits. But I am so addicted to these PTI Bitty Big Collection papers. I just had to use them on several cards.

The sentiment and the tree ring just seemed made for each other. Hope you like my mod design!

Lots of gorgeous patterned papers were included!

Another PTI paper seemed to work great with the flowers that I watercolored using Lindsey's colors.

Time to visit all the other blogs. Click HERE to connect with the 12 Kits blog where you will find links to all the other members' blogs. For a list of all the supplies in Lindsey's kit, click on the link at the top. Hope you enjoy the hop!

Thanks so much for visiting,

Sharron

The 12 Days of Occasions: January with Jeanne "Snow Day"

It's the last day of January and here in Kansas we have had only a small amount of snow. So luckily I have had this month's kit to get my snow fix! The theme is "Snow Day" and our hostess, Jeanne of A Kept Life provided us with a ton of amazing supplies. She always does awesome kits and this one is no exception. I hardly made a dent in the supplies. There were many wonderful papers (Jeanne's specialty) and fabulous die cuts, stamped images and embellishments. See the photo below for a peek at what we received at the beginning of the month.

Jeanne also has a couple of guest designers. Cathy Weber who is a retired member of the 12 Kits is making an appearance. And Richard Breaks is with us again. Jeanne also had a drawing for a kit and the winner was Marcia Hill. She is also a former guest designer. We are thrilled to have them all with us this month. Be sure to visit each of their blogs! Click HERE to connect with the 12 Kits blog where you will find links to all the members and guests. A list of Jeanne's supplies can also be found at the top of the post.

COLLAGE/PHOTO BY LINDSEY

I love to have little critters and images that I can color so I especially enjoyed these adorable Pretty Pink Posh images. They are super easy to color too!

Look at all the wonderful snow elements! Jeanne also included some snowflake charms. I used one to tie on with this snowman scene.

The sentiment is BRRRR---perfect with the ice fishing bear!

This was my goof-up card! First I didn't get the shading for the snow the way I wanted. The die cut image was a bear on a sled (one piece). Unfortunately I tried to color the sled red and it bled all over the place. If you have ever tried to clean up Copic reds you know what a mess that can be. I didn't want to give up the cute bear so I cut him out and created my own sled out of red cardstock! I asked hubby if he liked him with or without the sunglasses and he voted for the glasses!!

And my last card is this cute little bird! Isn't she sweet! I will stop talking now so you can go visit all the other blogs. There is so much to see! Thanks so much for visiting and letting us share.

Enjoy the hop,

Sharron

New Twofer Challenge!

If anyone hasn't heard, Darnell has started her very first challenge! Although I've been very lax about entering challenges, I knew I had to do this one. She has this wonderful idea about getting more use out of our stamps and dies by doing more designs with the same supplies. This first theme is FEATHERS and everyone is to create cards for two different occasions using the same stamps and/or dies. For all the rules and a more complete explanation, please go HERE. There is wonderful inspiration from Darnell and the design team.

I have two feather sets and I decided to use the one from WPlus9, Fanciful Feathers. I was playing around with options when Therese, Lost in Paper, posted this amazing card. Isn't her design wonderful! And I fell in love with the blue!

Thanks, Therese, for the great inspiration. And also your hubby for giving you that wonderful book. 

The blue I chose was Bo Peep from WPlus9. It is such a lovely soft color. I also used a WPlus9 heart die. The sentiment (Chickadees) and owl (Framed Owl) are both from Technique Tuesday.

This could be used as a sympathy or encouragement card, for a man or anyone. The cardstock is SoftStone by PTI and the patterned paper is Black and White Basics, an older pad by them also. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps, Handwritten Floral Greetings. I also used PTI's Mix and Mat Pinked Edge dies.

If you haven't yet visited Darnell's challenge blog, you must pay a visit. And help support her new adventure by creating something with feathers! Congrats, Darnell!!!!

Have a wonderful day--and week! Thanks for visiting!

Sharron