catching up

The October issue of Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine is now available online! Pretty impressive issue! There are so many tutorials, tips, and resources! If you haven't yet, consider subscribing today. Each month a new digital issue comes out and I cannot even keep up with all the inspiration! To subscribe, click here ----> Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking Magazine subscription

Along with having a beautiful and easy watercolor tutorial in the issue, one of my projects is this card. Shabby, chalkboard, gold, butterfly, and coral!?! That's my kind of card! :) The section this card is from is about wood. Wood is so trendy and I love it. The butterfly is a wood veneer and it has been covered with washi tape. Washi tape is a great way to add color to any of your wood shapes!

Well, the little man started 3rd grade almost three weeks ago now. He is happy and loving his teacher. He got the only male teacher in the building and they are both into golf and math. :) Its nice to have him come home and tell us all about his day and what he is learning. Very grateful! The Short Course season started for swimming last night. He was anxious to get back into the pool (after only a week off, haha) and about his new coach and new level. He did great and he will make new friends soon. We also headed to MN and the State Fair for the long weekend. We picked quite the day to attend as there was 252,092 people there! It is an all-time attendance record. I know that I personally have never experienced that many people in one place. Wow. Quite the adventure and memory for sure! Hopefully now I can hit my blogging and crafting stride. So much is coming up and I look forward to sharing it all!

thanks for always stopping by!

~kimberly

Supplies:

The scribble stamp and washi are both from Close To My Heart.

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Happy World Card Making Day!

Happy World Card Making Day! I hope you can set aside some time today to create cards, or learn something new, or attempt to make cards while just hanging out with good friends! And, if you do create cards, be sure and enter them in the World Card Making Day contest! Great prizes to be won!

Feathers are pretty trendy right now and like always, I started wondering...wondering if I could make my own? It was actually pretty easy to do. I cut vellum to the size and basic shape of the feather I wanted. The wire was adhered to the center. For my feather, I used these darling twist ties from Close To My Heart. (The excess paper was trimmed off the edges.) Once dry, I cut into the vellum with scissors, repeatedly, until I was happy with the fringe results.

The background is stamped, but to give it a softer look, once it was inked, I misted it lightly with water before stamping. I added washi strips (cut from WR Memory Keepers 6x6 washi) and gems and enamel dots (from Close To My Heart) to finish the card off. Fun and very different for me!

If you are looking to learn some new techniques today, be sure and visit my YouTube channel for lots of ideas. With well over 50 videos, hopefully something catches your eye! 

Link: Kimberly Crawford YouTube Channel.

And there are quite a few videos over on the Paper Crafts Magazine Channel too! (a few with yours truly :))

thanks for always stopping by!

~kimberly

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