Bella Blvd. & Kiwi Lane

I have some special card projects to share with you this Monday. Bella Blvd. has teamed up with Kiwi Lane Designs to bring you a combination of products that are perfect for paper crafting. 

The Kiwi Lane Tiny Accessory Accents and Card Borders are the perfect template sizes for greetings and the flower shapes worked beautifully with all the wood grain prints of Bella Blvd’s new Hello Autumn collection! I combined the three to create this multi-layered Thanksgiving greeting. 

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I don’t know what it is about stars that I’m so drawn to lately, but I love that Bella Blvd. has so many great star prints in their collections and Kiwi Lane’s Tiny Accessory Accents included a star for accenting this Halloween Magic greeting. It’s perfect for using as-is or topping with another accent as I did here with this adorable Dracula.

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To see more Bella Blvd. and Kiwi Lane Design projects, stop by their blogs. 

Eek!

I had the opportunity the other day to create my first project with Bella Blvd's Halloween Magic collection and what a wickedly wonderful time I had! So many cool colors, patterns and spooky characters are packed into this line! 

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It's been a while since I've added googly eyes to a project...this spider was perfect for them! 

I can't believe summer is winding down! We just returned from our annual beach trip, Christopher went back to school today and I have lots of new holiday collections to start creating with. I love this time of year...although I'm really going to miss peaches and watermelon and long daylight hours. ;)

Halloween and Polaroids

Eek! I love creating Polaroid die cuts for my cards! They're so versatile and cute with any theme. How about a mummy holding a Polaroid prop? 

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Polaroids are perfect for framing your focal point...like this flying witch. 

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I used two sets of Polaroid dies for these cards, one from Papertrey Ink and the other from Taylored Expressions. And all the spook-tacular papers and accents are from Doodlebug Design's Halloween Parade collection.

Typography

It's Monday and on the Bella Blvd. blog we're focusing on lettering. The design team has created projects for you using the many Bella Blvd. alphabet options.

I made two cards...for the first I combined Punch colored Sienna Chip and Black-White High Five alphas with the fun new Snapshots collection.

The size of Sienna Chip is perfect for cards and scrapbook pages alike.

For my second card I used Bella Blvd's signature Alpha+Bits font and the brand new spook-tacular Trick or Treat line.

Both these collections are so eye catching and colorful, don't you think? And with the assortment of lettering products that Bella Blvd. offers, there are unlimited ways to add sentiments to cards and titles to scrapbook pages and decor projects.

What do you think of Snapshots and Trick or Treat? I look forward to seeing all your projects popping up on blogs, galleries and Facebook!

Hope you week gets off to a great start! Thanks for stopping by! :)

Woody

Hello!

T.G.I.F!

We're heading into another weekend! A fall weekend too. There's so many cool activities to participate in this time of year! Around my neck of the woods, there's a fall festival happening at Suzanne's Antiques and around the corner from there is a semi-annual flea market at another of my neighborhood vintage shops. You can bet I'll be there!

Today, I'm craftin' up a storm and I have a Halloween scrapbook page to share with you.

Here's Christopher dressed up as Woody! Last Halloween he picked this costume after seeing Toy Story with his dad over the summer.

I think Christopher made a very cute Woody! I tossed in a photo of his jack-o-lantern too. He always draws the face on paper, then I transfer it to the pumpkin for him.

I created this colorful page with the spook-tacular Halloween collection 'Too Cute to Spook' by Bella Blvd. Oh how I love this line, let me count the ways...or count the numerous projects I've created with it so far!!!

For the little flags, I used toothpicks and added a couple Bella Alpha Bits phrases. I used a die cut, to make the cool little rosettes! The Ciao Chip embellishments are awesome...I used a lot throughout the page.

There you have it...last year's costume page is done before this Halloween! I usually run about a year behind! By the time Halloween actually arrives, I'm usually up to my eyeballs in Christmas ornaments, cards and decor! I love it! That leaves my Halloween photos for next year and new collections to create with!

Hope you have a splendid weekend! Enjoy every moment and make some great memories!

Kathy :)

On the Cover!

I've been crafting all my life and got into paper crafting in 2001; then in 2002 I started my own wholesale card business, Card-Blanc. For this reason I am an idea book junkie and subscribe to about every magazine in the industry. I LOVE looking at and drooling over all the gorgeous cards, scrapbook pages and home decor projects and I often think that some of my creations could be in these magazines and idea books too.

This past New Year's Eve I made a resolution to get serious and start submitting my work. For some reason, I had thought that I would be discovered or something, that someone would just stumble across my work and publish it. Right! After submitting some of my cards I got a call for one of my Thanksgiving cards to be published by Scrapbook Trends magazine! I was so excited and couldn't wait until November when I would actually see my first card in print. However, a couple weeks later, the creative editor of CARDS magazine e-mailed to say that she had seen one of my Halloween cards in my galley over at Two Peas in a Bucket and wanted to know if I still had the card and if I'd send it in for publishing! Wow, sometimes you can be 'discovered' and now I had two cards that would be published! Hot dog!

Yesterday I thought it was close enough to October to see if CARDS had come out with their Halloween issue so I went to Archiver's to check. Imagine my surprise when there on the shelf was the issue I went looking for and my card was on the cover! I could hardly believe it or contain my enthusiasm! Thank you Alisha Gordon for recognizing my work and having faith enough in it to put it on the cover!