Disney Autograph Books

A couple of years ago, I offered to make a autograph book for a friend who was going to Disney, and since then, I have made several! I have had multiple people come back and tell me the characters loved the books and said they were the best they'd seen. Heading to Disney, email me at keri-anne @msn.com (no space) and let me know what color scheme you'd like!

Wreaths

A little over a year ago, I decided to try my hand and wreath making, and I was pretty happy with how they turned out. I can make them in any size, for any holiday, or in any design you desire! Email me at keri-anne @msn.com (no space) if interested!

Wedding Decorator

I love anything crafty and I am willing to try and create anything. My friends were getting married, so working with them, I took their colors, their likes, their ideas and designed the decorations for their wedding. One of the various services Uniquely You Designs will offer to you.

Going, Going, Gone

Just a quick post to let you know the Stampin Up retiring list is up, and be ready for a gorgeous new catalog! Click here to check it out!

Stampin Up and Keri's Comeback

I am back!! I have signed up to be a Stampin Up demonstator, am working on opening up my own card making business and am revamping my craft room for ultimate organization, space and effectiveness. So, check back soon to see what's happening. Here's a few peaks at cards/invitations I've recently made...

Am I Back?

I can't decide. Do I resurrect the blog or not? Such decisions. And if I do, what form do I resurrect it in. Craft blog...life blog...combo blog. Ahh, these are the questions running through my head. I am leaning towards combo blog as craft and life each on their own are slightly boring :) So, let's see how this goes and how long before I post again :)

For kramomma

So I have at least one person who checks my blog regularly. And, well, I don't post regularly, so my friend kramomma (that's her screen name not her real name :)) has been giving me a gentle push to post something...so here goes.

I am in love with Cake Pops, which can be found here! They are fun to make, and totally delicious. I thought I would share some of my cake pop and cake ball creations from the holidays. These are not hard to make...just time consuming!




And a whole bunch of holiday candies!!

JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes 2010

It's that time of year when my family and I participate in the JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes. My gorgeous 9 year old niece has now been living with diabetes for 5 1/2 years. She amazes me...she is so smart and sweet and knows how to control her diabetes, use her pump, and calm me down when I freak out about a high or a low and she can tell me exactly what I need to do to get her levels back on track.

It is time...time for a CURE! I shared this poem years ago...and I will reshare it here because I pray so desperately for a cure for precious lil Sierra and all the other children who have to deal with finger pricks and shots and eating when you don't feel like it, and lows that make your body hurt, and counting every carb that goes into their body, and having their insulin pump mistaken for a cell phone.

Please go here and donate as generously as you can. Any amount, big or small is greatly appreciated.

There is some great research bringing us closer to a cure...help support that research so we can give Sierra her cure...

Really?!?!?!

I haven't blogged since November 2009...what...that is unacceptable. I need to get back to updating at least semi regularly!! Life has been super busy but I will get back to it...someday ;)

How bout a few pics of what I have been doing lately...

Celebrating birthdays!!
Seeing Lady Liberty with my niece!!
Vacation in NYC!
Seeing my fave guys in NYC at Radio City Music Hall!!

So, this week my nephew is staying with me and one of my goals during down time is to get my house cleaned up, including my craft room...I need to scrap and stamp my NYC trip!!! Hopefully I will get that accomplished so I can share!!

Gina K Release Party Fun!!

If you haven't attended a Gina K release party over at Splitcoaststampers...I would highly recommend it. They are totally fun, inspirational, and, well, hard on your bank account :)

This release, my friend Lee who is on Gina K's Senior DT was nice enough to let me play with her on one of her challenges. It was a color challenge using Cranberry Tart, Good As Gold, Black Onyx, and Ivory. I used the adorable snowman from Gina K Design Warm Winter Wishes by Carolyn King for this card. Hope you like it!!

Happy Halloween

This card was made for another fun challenge over on stamptv! It was to make a kickstand card, which I had never done before. These are super fun to do!!



Supplies:
Paper: SU Basic Black, SU patterned paper (sorry I don't know the name :() PTI Summer Sunrise
Ink: Versafine Black, PTI Summer Sunrise
Stamps: Gina K.'s Happy Haunting

stamptv challenge...sparkles!!

Gina K posts all of these fabulous tutorials on how to make cards, do techniques, use things in new and different ways. She is pretty much brilliant ;) Last week, she posted a tutorial on making your own sparkly background. Head over to stamptv and check it out for yourself. Here is the card I made. It is very difficult to get a good photo of the sparkly background, but you can see a bit of the shimmer! Hope you like it!!


Supplies:
Stamps: The Magic of Christmas by Rupa Shevde for GKD
Paper: GKD All Spruced Up, GKD Rocket Red, SU Whisper White (I am so not wasting GKD's white on a layer ;))
Ink: Colorbox Silver
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Christmas Ornaments CB folder

JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes 2009

Hi friends,

My annual JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes is tomorrow. I am $150 from my goal...so if you can help out, in any amount, small or large, I would greatly appreciate it.

For those of you who haven't heard me talk about my niece, Sierra, she is 8 and was diagnose with Type 1 diabetes in 2005. She uses an insulin pump which reduces the number of pokes she gets, but she still has to endure 8-10 finger pokes a day. In just the short 4 years since she was diagnosed, she is already showing signs of kidney damage. She will now take a pill every night for the rest of her life as a result. We need a cure now. No one should have to go through this, much less an 8 year old who knows more about diabetes and taking care of herself than any 8 year old should. She is such a great kid, she even grew out her hair for over a year to donate to Locks of Love.

So, if you are interested, and can make a donation (I know times are tough) then I would greatly appreciate it, as will Sierra and her family. You can click here to make a donation. If you aren't able to make a donation, please if you could say some prayers for a cure being found, for Sierra's health, and for all the walkers tomorrow as it is supposed to be really cold and rainy while we walk...but unless its dangerous weather, we walk.

To see and read more about Sierra see these a post here and here

Thanks!!

stamptv challenge...gold gold gold

I do not usually use gold in my card making. I am more of a silver girl. But this challenge was to use gold, and I gotta say, I am going to be using gold in my cards more often!!

I was the lucky winner of the Pure Luxury Holiday Assortment companion set from the wonderfully generous Gina K. Tonight was the first time I used it, and holy cow this paper is THE best paper I think I have EVER used. I pulled out the ivory, and checked three times to make sure I had just gotten one piece because it is so thick and sturdy!! Needless to say, I will need more of this!!

So, here is my card...

Supplies:
Stamps: GKD's The Magic of Christmas
Paper: SU Night of Navy, GKD Ivory, GKD Rocket Red
Accessories: Gold embossing powder, gold Hallmark ribbon, gold self adhesive dots

stamptv challenge...lil piggies :)

Hi there!!

I am continuing to love doing the challenges over a stamptv. And if you haven't checked out Gina K.'s most recent release of yummy delicious stamps, paper, ribbons and buttons you should check it out here!

At the rate that I am going, I may, someday, ink up all of the stamps I own!! :)

This was a color challenge, pink, navy and white or cream. I actually had several dreams about this card, lol. And, I will say that I felt like the card was much cuter in my dream...would love to hear what you think of it!!


Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Gina K.'s Down on the Farm, How sweet it is!, Inspiration Mosaic
Ink: SU Craft Whisper White, SU Marker Pretty in Pink, Versafine Black
Paper: SU Whisper White, Night of Navy, Pretty In Pink

stamptv challenges are addicting!!

I am in love with the challenges over at stamptv.com. They are amazing, inspiring, and easy enough that I can do them ;) I am having so much fun creating with them!! And I am inking up stamps that have never seen the glory of ink!!

I very rarely finish a card that I am in love with. But when I finished this card, I was in love!! Hope you like it too!!


This next card combined a challenge with making something for our families upcoming JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes. I am only 21% to my goal, so if you would like to donate please click here! For more information about why we walk go to this post.

Melanie Muenchinger is brilliant!!

She creates amazing stamp sets, make incredible cards, AND shares her brilliance so that I can try and be as cool as her. Well, I certainly can't be as cool as her, but I sure did try...and here is what I came up with using her super cool Inspiration Mosaic stamp!!


I still need lots of practice with copics, and well, I need lots more copics too!! But for a first try...not too shabby ;)

Stamptv challenge

I participated in my first stamptv challenge. It was bundles of fun and I am hoping to do more of these on a regular basis!! The challenge was to pick one color and one neutral and that's it for your card. I actually love how this turned out!!

Meant to post these a long time ago!!

I made about 55 of these notebooks for all of the people I work with for our first day of our new program year. They were super simple to do, just time consuming in that quantity because each persons name is on them too above the first letter of their first name...that's a whole lot of letters :0 You might not be able to see that in this pic (forgot to bring my camera home again). I will eventually stop posting bad pics, I am just so excited to be back creating again. I have a scrapbook in the works for my sister and will post that when I get it done.

I made a card!!!

Last night, I was in the mood to color. So I got out some of my new Ketto gals from Stamping Bella, my prismacolors and gamsol and had some fun! Today, I took one of my colored images and made a card!!

The pic is not very good and every time I rotate it, it ends up back in the sideways positon, grr. It's also a lil blurry, I took it with my phone as I left my camera at work, so use your imagination to make it more in focus!! ;)

ETA: Here are some better pics!!!