A Kept Life

Thursday, July 2, 2015

Pretty Little Studio Island Adventure

Looking for a swashbuckling adventure? You have to check out Pretty Little Studio's new Treasure Island Collection. It is full of pirates and mermaids. Here's a peek at my card featured on their blog this week.

To see more just click here!

Finished Size 4.25 x 5.5”

Pretty Little Studio Products

Flair “Anchors Away”

Bingo Card “Ocean Blue”

Pattern Paper “ Treasure Island 8x8”

Die: “Will Tall Tide”

Tabs: “Treasure Map”

Stamp WPlus9 Cupids Bow

Wood Veneer Stars Studio Calico

The Twinery Solid Maraschino Twine

Twinery Firecracker Flag Ceremony

Are you gearing up for the 4th? It's always a big event in my area - fireworks are legal and you can expect it to be loud and smokey! Poor Moriko will be hiding in the basement!

Doing something a little different today - a scrapbook page at the Twinery. Yes... I do a little scrap booking too - not as much as I used to. The kids are getting older and not so happy with mom pointing a camera at them all the time.

I've had these photos from a BSA Flag Ceremony set to the side - so I was happy for the excuse to work on them for my Twinery Post. I'm featuring the new Firecracker Twine - Yep! It's Red White and Blue! You can read more here!

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Poppystamps Challenge - A Day In The Park

A new challenge begins today at Poppystamps. Not familiar with Poppystamps? Their parent company is Memory Box and I bet if you take a second look at your die collection you just might find you have a few Poppystamps dies in your collection already. The challenge this month is "A day in the park", and it's a monthly challenge so there is plenty of time to play! You just might even win a few free dies just for playing! You can get all the details here at the Poppystamps Blog!

I had lots of fun playing with my Poppy dies and wanted to show how I came up with my design. I usually mix and match colors and elements until I'm happy with the layout. Here's how it came together before everything got die cut and glued down.

I thought a bike ride through the park would be nice on a beautiful day! Apparently someone else had the same idea because there are kits flying in the background, and it looks to be a beautiful summer day. No rain in sight (that's my fantasy lately with all the rain we're having in the Chicago area.)

The sentiment is from the Poppy "Hope and Thanks" set. It has lots of sentiments to mix and match with the words "hope" and "thanks".

The Kite die comes with a large and small kite, clouds and little bows for the tail. I drew the kite string with a marker. I colored the tires, seat and handle of the bike with a sharpie marker to add color.