Kennedy Grace Creations

Hello, hello, hello! Erica on the blog today, how are we all doing? Excited about Easter and having a few days off? We don't really do anything special for Easter in our house apart from having some chocolate Easter eggs and I do decorate a little bit. The decorating is more for a spring-y feel as I adore spring with all the flowers that pop up, buds on all the bushes and trees, warmer and longer days. It all makes me happy. Today's card is yellow and green, which are in my mind typical spring colours. I started out by stamping the  Beautiful Bloom-Sweet Rose  flower stamp on Strathmore Bristol Vellum water colour paper, I heat embossed it in white as my plan was to use my Derwent Inktense pencils for the colouring. I have neglected these watercolour pencils for a while and thought it would be nice to change things up a little from the Zig markers and Gansai Tambi watercolours I have used a lot recently. I started with the leaves and with a water colour brush dropped g...

Hello! Erica back on the blog today with a card that's completely out of my comfort zone colour scheme-wise. I had several 'yikes' moments while colouring this one! Purple is one of those colours that I'm not a fan of personally, I can't wear it without looking like I'm on my way to my own funeral. It sucks any rosiness right out of my face and I look pale and grey. Not the best of look, is it? I'm not that good at using purples when it comes to colouring either but this year I'm making an effort to step out of my comfort zone and trying things I tend to stay clear of. It can be a painful process and often my husband will know when I'm doing it as instead of a serene and happy wife colouring away, he has a grumpy and grunting red-faced grizzly bear impersonator..! This card was no different but I think it turned out very pretty in the end as I kept working on it for a couple of days without throwing it in the bin (this is huge progress for me) ...

Hello and happy Monday! I hope you all had a lovely weekend. I sure did as I spent it with a couple of crafty friends and we mostly crafted all weekend long. We did manage to drag ourselves away from the craft table for a few hours to enjoy the Christmas market and I'm not going to lie, there was a lot of eating involved! I don't know how much coffee I consumed over the weekend but it was a lot and that was the inspiration behind today's card and matching gift tag. Although I am a straight up espresso kind of gal, the stronger the better really, I love the idea of flavoured coffees. Not so much drinking them though but the idea always appeals to me and today's sequin mix is called  Mocha Vanilla Latte , it just screamed 'USE ME'. It seriously looks good enough to eat! For the card and the tag, I picked out coffee coloured card stock in several shades and picked a metallic copper one to be the main colour. On Kraft card stock I stamped up coffee beans wi...

Hello stamping and card-making friends. Meghan here, to share this gorgeous one-layer-wonder,  vinatge tea blessings card. I used the fabulous KGC stacked stitched rectangles and cut the largest rectangle from white cardstock. I then stamped these beautiful images from the vintage tea clear stamp set using Copic friendly ink (simon says stamp intense black). I stamped the cup then masked the image to stamp the teapot behind the cup. I colored all of the images with my Copic markers. Then it was time for the fun details. I went a little heavy on the little finishing touches since I was planning on this to be just a simple one layer greeting card. I added some metallic accents using my Sakura metallic and Stardust gelly roll pens. Lastly, using a fine tip black pen I went over all of the stamped black lines for the whole card. I know this seems like a tedious and unneeded step however, I assure you - it makes a HUGE difference and was totally worth the tim...