More Exciting News!!!

Posted in Announcements, CASology Challenge, December 2014, Design Team Call by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here today with some super-doper exciting new to share with you.

I made it on the CASology Design Team!!!!

Can you say back flips!!

When Melissa sent me the email, I was on the train going home from a long day at work.

I remember reading the email and screaming with excitement.

Everyone on the train was wondering what was going on. I couldn’t contain myself.

For those of you how know me, know that I play along with CASology all the time.

Some times at the 11th hour!! So to now be apart of the team you can imagine how I feel!

Wait, I have more!!

When I found out that Hazel from Hazel’s Paper Designs made the team with me, I was even more excited.

Hazel and I meet while playing along with the CASology Challenges.

Yayyyyyy, Hazel!!

Stop by her blog and welcome her as well!!

So this came full circle for me!

I can’t wait to see all of you over on the CASology Blog for my First Challenge January 6, 2015!!

See you in the New Year!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

~Kymona

26Oct2014

There’s No Place Like Home….

Posted in CASology Challenge, October 2014, One Layer Card by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here today with Casology Challenge Week 118: Home!

First let me say Thank you to Judy and the other ladies over at CASology for choosing my candy apple card as an Honorable Mention. I was so excited to see my card on the list. Just in case you missed that card you can find it here.

Now on to the card for this week.

When I first saw the cue word, I wasn’t sure what to do because I do not have any home stamps, dies nothing. I have pattern paper with homes on them but that didn’t appeal to me.

On Wednesday, as I was cleaning up and organizing my dies, I found a Lawn Fawn Die that I didn’t even know I had.

Its the Happy Trails die set. I said to myself, why do I have this and not the stamp set. That didn’t make sense to me. I look thought my stamps every day and have never seen a set that matches this. So, I didn’t give it a second thought.

On Thursday, something told me to check my stamp sets to check if I had the matching stamps that goes with that die. If I do not have that set, then I would give the die set away. So, I check and BAM, there was the stamp set. I laughed so hard because we are all guilty of buying stamps, dies and there tools and forgetting that we even have certain things.

So, I looked at the stamp set and wondered what can I do with this set? What did I buy it for? Then it hit me, people live in there RV’s too. I do have a home stamp. Now I can enter the challenge!!

Here is my card:

Yeah, I can see a family calling this RV home. Out in the woods, enjoying nature and not having to worry about anyone bothering them. Imagine moving your entire home from state to state without having to pack. I love it!!!

I used these Copic colors to color my RV: YR02, YR04, YR07, R24,N4, N5, BG02, Y15 and Trees: G02, G07

I created a mask to cover the entire card front except the circle. I used Simon Says Stamp Audrey Blue Ink for the sky and Ranger Archival Ink Leaf Green Ink for the grass.

So what do you think? Can this pass as a home? Let me know what you think.

Supplies used:

15Oct2014

Candy, Candy, Candy…

Posted in Blog Challenge, CASology Challenge, October 2014 by Kreative Kymona

Second Post for the Day

If your looking for the a2z Scrapbooking Design Team Challenge, click here

Hello everyone!! I’m here today with CASology Week 117. The theme is CANDY!! I love this theme.

I haven’t played with them in such a long time. I really miss being apart of the different challenges. I’m really going to make a big effort to participate more.

So, onto this challenge. Candy!! When I saw the cue card, I smiled because candy is such a perfect cue, since Halloween is on the way. In my thinking, I felt like everyone would do a Halloween theme and as you know, I try to be as different as possible.

My mind went straight for the new stamp set that I just order and received from Newton’s Nook Designs called Apple Delights. I ordered this set because of the “Candy Apple”!! Perfect!!! This set came right on time.

Take a look at my card:

Can you see the shimmer on that caramel!!! It makes me want a candy apple!! I might have to go over to Coney Island today to get one. I know the perfect store.

In any case, what do you think of my card? Does it fit the criteria for CAS? I think so.

Let me know what you think?

Supplies:

Thank you for stopping by!

~Kymona

31Aug2014

L-E-T-T-E-R…….

Posted in August 2014, CASology Challenge by Kreative Kymona

Second Post for today!!

Hello everyone!! I’m here today with CASology Week 110 and their Cue Card word is LETTER.

I have to say when I sat down to create I had to think really hard on what I wanted to create. All of the ideas that came to mind someone already bet me to the punch.

I felt stuck. So, I took out a stamp set I’ve never used and one piece of color card stock and decided that I had to come up with something using these two items.

I choose Papertrey Ink Wet Paint Alphabet and Stampin’ Up! Basic Black cardstock.

I ponder over what in the world I make that represented a letter. I thought about having all of the letter be my background but the word is singular so that wouldn’t work.

Then a light bulb went off and I came up with this:

I decided to spell out the word L-E-T-T-E-R and emboss it with Stampin’ Up! Tempting Turquoise Embossing Powder (which happens to be on sale for next to nothing, let me know if you need it).

I added a Stampin’ Up! Rhinestone and my card is done.

Nothing much to it but I like it.

What do you think? Let me know below.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Kymona

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31Aug2014

Thanks…

Posted in August 2014, Blog Challenge, CASology Challenge by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone!! I’m here today with CAS(E) this sketch #90! Today’s sketch was created by Chrissy Larson.

I’m also here with Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge.

I’ve noticed recently that I’ve ordered stamp sets and do not use them. So, I decided that I will start creating cards with stamps sets that I’ve never used.

So, today’s card was created with Papertrey Ink’s Fancy That stamp set. I also wanted to use some cardstock that I haven’t used in a while. So I decided on Stampin’ Up! new in color Blackberry Bliss and Lost Lagoon cardstock.

These two colors together really look so nice together.

Take a look at my card:

Take a look at my rhinestones. I colored them with the same colors that’s in the medallion.

The colors in the medallion are Blackberry Bliss, Lost Lagoon and Hello Honey all from Stampin’ Up’s new in colors markers.

I die cut the Simon Says Stamp Thanks die from Lost Lagoon card stock 4 times for dimension.

I cut white cardstock using Avery Elle’s Custom Panels Die to get that odd shape.

What do you think?

Supplies used:

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kymona

17Jul2014

Who Do You Feel Strongly About?

Posted in Blog Challenge, CASology Challenge, Clean and Simple, Copic Coloring, July 2014, One Layer Card by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone! I’m here today with Casology week 104. The Cue Card is Pet!! I’m also linking this card to Addicted to Stamps and their challenge is CLEAN AND SIMPLE (CAS).

When I first saw the word I immediately thought of a pet animal. I figured everyone would choose that so I decided to look up the meaning of the word “pet” to see what else it means.

I decided to go with pet as an adjective: to feel particularly strongly about someone or something.

Take a look at my card:

Nothing like a father’s love for his only daughter!

I decided to do a one layer card with a lot of white space, one focal point and a sentiment, CLEAN AND SIMPLE (CAS) at its best.

My Koala’s are from my new Sweet Stamp Shop Koala stamp set and my sentiment and hearts are from Lawn Fawn’s Love You Tons stamp set.

I used my Copic markers #B12, B14, #R20, R24 and C3.

I wanted to color with my Copic’s for practice. I need to color more often. I want to master this skill.

This was my first card but I didn’t like how the sentiment “little sister” turned out but I wanted to share it with you.

Plus the belly is blue and not pink.

What do you think? Let me know!

Supplies used:

Thank you for stopping by.

~Kymona

9Jul2014

You Make My Heart GLOW!!

Posted in Blog Challenge, CASology Challenge, July 2014 by Kreative Kymona

Second Post for the day!

Hello everyone! I’m back again with CASology Week 103. The Cue Card is “Glow”! Yes, glow. What can I do? I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do so I turn to Pinterest for some inspiration.

As I browsed Pinterest the common theme was glow-in-the-dark. So, I asked myself how can I get my card to glow in the dark. I did some research and I found some glow-in-the-dark paint. Thank you Martha Stewart!!

Now in order to get the full effect of my card the lighting in the picture at a minimum. I was trying to take the picture in complete darkness but my camera wouldn’t take the photo, so I did the best I could.

Take a look at my card:

I added glow-in-the-dark paint to the wood heart and let it sit under the light for a couple of hours. When you turn off the light the heart really glows. My kids thought it was the coolest thing.

Since my camera wouldn’t take the picture in the dark, I turned on a small light in my hallway to the left of my room where the card was located. I set the camera to automatic and it took a couple of minutes to actually take and when it finally snapped this is what I got. I love the glow of the heart from the camera but I really love the glow on the desk from the heart and the the sentiment.

So what do you think?

Supplies used:

The wood heart is from AC Moore craft store.

So, what do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!

~Kymona

1Jul2014

Cherry Berry FLOAT..

Posted in Blog Challenge, CASology Challenge, Clean and Simple, July 2014, One Layer Card by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone! I’m here today playing along with CASology Week 102: Float!!!

I have to admit when I saw this cue card, I wanted to do a hot air balloon or just regular balloons. I thought that would be easy.

Then I said to myself, why not be different. Why not be unpredictable. So, I went through all of my stamps to see what would float? What could give the feeling of floating?

Guess what! I found something. Yes, yes, yes! What could we all use on a nice summer day to cool us down?

Yes, yes, yes!! A float! Not just any float or the most common one, A CHERRY BERRY FLOAT with two straws!

Take a look:

D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S

How cute is this!!! Did you see the sparkle on my ice cream!!! I was going to add some other embellishments but decided against it since this is a clean and simple card challenge and white space matters, lol.

The Copic colors I used were R29, BG49

So0000, tell me what you think. Really, let me know. What is a good idea or what!

Supplies used:

Thank you so much for stopping by!

~Kymona

26Jun2014

Fresh & Fun Watercoloring!

Posted in Blog Challenge, CASology Challenge, June 2014, Watercolor by Kreative Kymona

Hello everyone! Yes, yes, more water-coloring for me. I love it.

I’m here today with CASology and their Cue Card is Wood!

Yes, wood. I was wondering how can I use my favorite technique (WATERCOLOR) and wood. Then a light bulb when off and I knew what I wanted to do.

Take a look at what I came up with:

Yayyy, I was able to combine my water-coloring with woodgrain!! I love it.

1. I used Simon Says Stamp woodgrain cardstock.

2. I stamped Papertrey Ink Splat hello stamp with Distress Inks.

3. I used my paint brush to smear the circles, so that they have a spilling look from one side of the circle.

4. I added some sequins and WALA, I was done.

So tell me what you think. I would love to know.

Supplies used:

Thank you for stopping by!

~Kymona

20Jun2014

Pop of Color!

Posted in Blog Challenge, CASology Challenge, Clean and Simple, June 2014, Watercolor Backgrounds by Kreative Kymona

Third Post for the day!

Hello everyone! I’m back again today for the third time. Can you tell I’m having fun!!! Yes, I was up late last night playing around with my stamp supplies in my little stampin corner. I created a couple of watercolor backgrounds and I knew I need to use one of them for my next card.

I’m here this evening with CASology. They are celebrating their 100th challenge and all of the friendships they’ve made throughout this time. I wanted to join in on this celebration so I created a card celebrating them!

So the cue word is CELEBRATE!! So fitting for this great accomplishment.

Here is my clean and simple card:

I love how the gold matches the watercolor background. I decided to use black ink for the sentiment because I wanted it to stand out from the background.

What do you think?

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