I recommend taking your artist out for an inspirational outing. That's what I did for me yesterday. I visited our local art gallery and saw a wonderfully intriguing installation by artist Meryl McMaster. What a treat! Here is some of her beautiful photography.
If you are near Toronto, visit the Whitby Station Gallery. The exhibit is on until April 8.
Thanks to everyone who "liked" our facebook page last week. The first PRIZE PACK goes to Heather Hockin Christy and the BONUS PRIZE goes to Rose Henderson. Go to our facebook page for details. It was so much fun, we're going to give more prizes away next month. Stay tuned and "like" our facebook page!!
I've been collecting canning jars, not just Mason but Crown and Ball too. I use them to store dry goods in my kitchen cupboards (how dull!), but I know there are more innovative ideas for my Masons, so I started a pin board at Pinterest. Now let's see if I can make something fun. How about you - do you love Mason?
Scrapfest registration starts tonight - Wednesday Feb. 15th at 8pm (ET). Hurry and register for the 2 day event with fun classes and a big marketplace. We're sponsring a give-away on the Scrapfest FB page - just go there and then go to the Kelly Panacci FB page and LIKE our page for your chance for the prize pack.
For a chance at the BONUS prize, if you LIKE our page, then COMMENT on our wall, your comment will be entered in an additional draw for 2 stamps sets seen here. Good luck!!
Frosted Rose - I took this picture on an early morning walk on our farm in November. Late in the season, the rose re-bloomed, but life was cut short by winter's dance. Thought I would post it in honor of Valentine's Day. Have a happy one!
If you've been on my facebook page, you've seen these projects in a group pic, but thought I would share the larger pics and some details. These are the projects that I featured on Rogers DAYTIME TV (Durham Region) earlier this week.
I love the way these fortune cookies turned out. I just printed 3.5" circle shapes onto my patterned paper, then cut out with scissors. They look cute in the glittered take-out box (bought at Michaels) that I decorated with a KP/K&Co layered accent and some ribbons.
I bought this frame in the wood craft dept. at Michaels. It was $1.00. Just covered it with our patterned paper (from the KP/K&Co.Designer Paper Pack), then embellished with stickers (top left), die cut and Layered Accents.
This was fun to do. I made it from a cereal box. It's decorated with our patterned paper, stickers, border and crepe paper. I have some more images that show how I put it together, so I will try and post those in a bit.
This was another deal at Michaels. The chipboard pages were in a package with the binder ring. 4 pages for $1.50. I just painted the scallop edges, then pasted the patterned paper, added stickers, die-cuts and ribbon.
I had fun this week creating a bunch of Valentine projects for the 2 segments that went live yesterday on Rogers DAYTIME. One of the segments is available to view online, so check it out at: Rogers DAYTIME TV
Isn't this the cutest idea? I think this is the fastest Valentine project I've ever made. I took a teabag out of it's wrapper, changed the string to pink and sandwiched it between one of the Layered Accents (from our Valentine Collection with K&Co.) and the original tea tag. Hubby's gonna love it when I bring his afternoon cuppa!
We're at CHA (Craft & Hobby Assoc.) in Anaheim and have spent a couple of days walking the show floor. It's been great connecting with far-away friends and biz contacts and seeing our latest collection at the EKSuccess booth. Check out the pics below. We noticed these crates outside the convention centre and found the K&Co markings on one of the crates marked number 2 (that's where our product was packed). We were amazed to see all these crates outside, reminding us of the "behind the scenes" action that takes place outside the show dates.
Here is how the BLOSSOM collection looks after the EKSuccess team worked their magic (my travel camera doesn't take the best pics). I love the decorated birdcage and the 3-D elements on all the hand crafted projects. I took some more close-up shots that I'll download shortly, but I thought I should show you the complete "vignette" to start.
Here is a peek at some of the scrapbook papers from the Blossom collection. I designed more than 60 patterns that have been divided into 2 paper packs, a mat pad and single double sided papers. There are specialty papers too including flocked, glitter and thermography.
