Thursday, February 5, 2015

New Craft Room

I know I just had a new purple craft room for only 9 months and now it is tan and a lot smaller.  How did that happen!

 We have a son with some health issues so under Doctors advice we tore all the old carpet out, repainted, fixed some issues and then moved him to a bigger more airy room and me to his former bedroom.  He still has hives, been 6 weeks but we are getting some answers to help him, his immunity is a wreck and I am hoping we have more defined answers next week when we get to see his test results.

I had another chance to get the craft room organized more efficiently but also keeping it pretty and comfortable to work in.  After 4 times I think I may have it right. lol


What a mess, this is only a portion of my craft room in the living room while we redid the bedroom half of the house.


Here it is, 12x12 foot room with a tiny closet. I love it and my furniture actually fit!


This is the desk I chalk painted and I love the storage it has on both sides. 


I have a new light, it hangs low to the desk and I can turn the lights to any area in the room. Great for coloring and it warms me up when I am cold.


So you have seen all four walls in my room, I have about 2/12 foot to walk around my middle desk to each section.  I tried to organize for how I work and by theme.
 

On the tops of each tower, (3) I have all my gifts from my blogger friends, I love them and thank you all for your generosity.

So here is a closer look at how I store my stuff

Pretty boxes from Micheals and labels for large stamps, punches and papers.  The plastic suit case type boxes on the bottom left are great for my Spellbinders, round, oval, rectangle and Go-create dies.  The boxes are from Micheals too, big sale one day 50% off storage, I had fun!


These are the big drawers from my Chalk painted chest. I have a small drawer for Vegabond accessories, Tim Holtz Sizzix dies, ribbons, paint and sprays.  The lower right photo is the tiny closet I have for more not so pretty storage.  See the pretty box on the top with flowers in it, well it sits on my middle desk so I can enjoy their beauty. Actually now I use it because I see it.


Here are metals and canvas type things in a bottom drawer. I used the smaller Prima boxes to put on top of a shadow box I had so I have more storage but can move them around.  A lot of the storage boxes here are flowers, wow I had no idea how many flowers I had until I organized them by size and vendor. Crazy! 


This is my color shelf with Copics and Distressed Inks. I also have my Magnolia stamps in binders on  plastic sheets so I can see them better. I have misc stamps in the wire baskets on the bottom left photo.  In the bigger plastic totes on the 2 bottom right photos are my dies, yep a lot of dies, how do I accumulate all this! So each wide box has individual bins so I can easily find them. I have them labeled for corners, swirls, doily, by vendor, ect. One is just for Magnolia Doohickeys.  They are also from Micheals. My friend is using these boxes for her Magnolia collection.  

Well I am blessed with generous friends and husband whom I am grateful for all I have. I hope to have given you some ideas for storage and it doesn't have to look ugly. lol
Have a great day and thank you for the comments you leave for me
Kelly


Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Magnolia-licious Challenge "Winter Fun With Doohickey Dies"

Hello my friends and new visitors, welcome to my blog!
I have a new card to share with you for our new challenge at

 Magnolia-licious, "Winter Fun with Doohickey Dies" .  


I used "Pixie Tilda" climbing the snowball and "Tilda with Lovikka Mittens" who is waiting above for Pixie Tilda to get to the top.  I made my snow ball using the doohickey die Lace Coaster and one coaster is behind Tilda with Lovikka mittens.


The girls are colored in Copics and are mounted with dimensional glue dots.


Here are some dies all from Magnolia, my papers are from Maja Design.


Here is another view, there is a lot of dimension on this card.



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Thank you for your lovely comments today and have a wonderful week!
Hugs, Kelly

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Midweek Magnolias Challenge #106 Valentine/Romance/Love

We have a new challenge at Midweek Magnolias "Valentine", "Romance" and "Love" which are all my favorites!  Can't get enough of the love!  Our designers created some beautiful cards for the occasion so I hope you get a chance to stop by their blogs and leave them some love.


My Valentine

I usually pile on the papers but I only used one 12x12 Magnolia designer paper for this card. One of my favorite images "Tilda with Heart Arrows" is colored in Copics.


The tag is a Magnolia doohickey "So Wrapped Lovely Heart" die that I frantaged with Shabby White.  I had some chit chat stickers that I made my message with.  "Make my heart happy forever, be my Valentine."


 The bottom frame is a chipboard piece that I frantaged with Shabby White. I also have a ribbon going around the rest of my image to form the frame.



Two angles of the card.


Thank you for stopping by my blog today!  Please join us for our new challenge at Midweek Magnolias Valentine, Romance and Love!! 
Have a Happy Day,
Kelly

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Magnolia-licious Challenge "Love is in the air"

Hello and Welcome to the Magnolia-licious Challenge "Love is in the Air"

Pinch me I still cannot believe I am a Magnolia-licious DT! lol
 For this challenge I made a Top Hat


The images I used are "Tilda with Dot bow" and "Bonny Tilda", both are colored in Copics. 


On Tilda's outfit I used a Gelly roll pen and a Micron 01 pen to make the white and black dots.


I found this very pretty tulle and pearl piece at Hobby Lobby and it fit perfectly around the base of the hat. To dress the bottom up more I added a few pearls and flowers.


The top of the hat is covered in lace with a Memory Box heart box die, which I put tulle inside so it would cascade out of the heart box and down the side. I also used WOC, Magnolia and Kort and Godt flowers on top.


I cut our the paper feathers and distressed them a bit and then added it to the feathery taupe feather along with gorgeous sugared Prima flowers.


A better look at the top


Here is the back of the hat with some hearts, pearls and the Doohickey die, large butterfly.


I love those little Magnolia hearts.  On one of the hearts I Frantaged a metal key with Shabby White.


My top hat was destroyed by our playful kitty.  She climbed up to my shelves on the wall and had a lot of fun with this hat, lol thankfully I had this photographed for my DT post. 



Don't forget to share a comment on the Challenge Posts & "W"ednesday posts. If you leave comments on the DT girls blogs and/or the posts on this challenge blog...you will be ENTERED to WIN!!  
The more blogs you comment on for each challenge or post, the better your chances to win! 

Every week one random commenter from all the 
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I truly appreciate your comments!
Hugs Kelly



Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Midweek Magnolias Challenge #105 Let's See Some New Stash

 Welcome to my first post as a Midweek Magnolias Designer!!
I am very honored and excited to be on their team as a designer. Thank you to my friend Karen G. for asking Suzi if I could join their team!  I am truly blessed!!

 The first Midweek Magnolias Challenge is Let's See Some New Stash


I just had to use my new doohickey dies from the Doohickey Club #3 Ooh La La, my card is covered in them. lol


Here is a good selection from the club kit.  Can you pick out 7 of the new dies? lol


Tilda and Wiola are colored in Copics and I used Maja papers for the card. In between the Go-Create shapes I added a burlap doily. My flowers are Wild Orchid Craft, Magnolia and Kort and Godt.


Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and sharing with me my new DT position with Midweek Magnolias.  I hope you enter the challenge for a chance to win the prize.

Have a great day!
Kelly



Magnolia-licious "W"ednesday

I am so excited and honored to announce that I am one of the new design team members for the Magnolia-licious Challenge blog!!  I have to say I was quite stunned when Diana asked me to join her team, it took days for me to become normal again, lol

From the start I have always enjoyed Magnolia Stamps and wanted to be on this design team.  4 years ago I was so timid and such a newbie so along the way with much inspiration from my friends and watching the professionals, I have learned how to color and make cards and other things.  Crafting with Magnolia images is so relaxing and brings me joy so I hope to inspire you in some way to go for your dreams or goals and enjoy the process. ❤

This is my first post for "W"ednesday Inspiration at Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog



I used Casey from Saturated Canary to make a small gift card box.


Also on the box are some of the new doohickey dies from the Doohickey Club #3 Oh La La I really love them 


The inside I put a doily and made a decorative sentiment card to dress up the gift card and there is room for some cash as well





For a chance to win the weekly “Leave a Comment” Surprise Package all you have to do is:

1. Leave a comment on any of the posts on the Magnolia-licious Challenge Blog.
2. Leave a comment on any of the DT’s blog post for that week.
3. The more posts you comment on the better your chances to win.
4. Like us on Facebook.

I have won a Surprise Package from Diana and it is very nice.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today, have a great day!
Hugs Kelly




Thursday, January 1, 2015

Candy Winner!!!

Happy New Year sweet friends!
  I must thank you for the most sweetest wishes and compliments you left for me on my Celebration Candy post.  You sure made me feel great!  I really enjoyed your guesses, some of you guessed one of them, unfortunately I cannot say which teams they are until my first postings on January 14th 2015.  lol I know more waiting, hehe

My Celebration Candy winner is............

BIORAMS

Congratulations and Please email me with your full name and address so I can send out your goodies!!

Thank you ALL for participating and I wish you all could have won today but I know I will have more Candy offerings in the future!!  See you all on the 14th!

I thought you may want to see my DT calendar that I made myself.


The beautiful Pion papers make this very soft and elegant. My poinsettia's are a die from Sue Wilson. The ornament is a die from Memory Box.  I am using clothes pins to hang each month of my new duties so I do not forget. lol


Wishing you all a very Happy New Year with countless blessings and happiness!
God Bless
Kelly