Inspired Me

Thanks for all the lovely birthday wishes and coming to my Birthday Blog Party. You all made me feel so special! Awwwww!!!!  So glad you enjoyed hearing some of my favorite childhood party memories.  I also enjoyed reading your fun birthday stories. This was such a cool idea and I hope to do it again next year. :) Maybe next time we will play some games and have more prizes. I did have some great moments over the last few days especially going to Alamitos Bay yesterday! So relaxing there. Oh, and I did have my Lemon Cake Pie and it was heavenly!!!!  I think I will have to make up another special event so I can get more. LOL!  OK, now for the winner! Ron randomly selected a winner and I decided to pick TWO !!!!! So they are: Rita D Rita D. May 28, 2012 12:17 AM "Happy early Birthday Kelly! sounds like you had a lot of fun memories, more than me. But the best memory that I have is when I celebrated my 50th in Jamaica! yeah baby! We tried to do...

A while ago I made some thank you cards for my mom and decided to try a smaller sized card- 4 inches by 5.5 inches. I surprisingly enjoyed working with that size. So I am hooked now! I used Crate Paper's Pretty Party paper collection. All the different patterns they have all feel like Summer to me. I loved hand cutting the flowers and was cutting up a storm. Then I distressed the edges of the flowers and paper with brown ink. Some of the cards are identical and some similar. I like they have their own personality. Don't they look so vintage and fun? I will be making more with other colors and maybe styles. Looking forward to this, too. So fun and relaxing! So here are some note cards I made and will be available to purchase soon in our Etsy shop. They will be sold in small sets. Lazy Summer Note Card Collection Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day.

Welcome to my Birthday Blog Party! I am starting my celebration early to fully enjoy my day. My actual birthday is May 29th but why not start early right? :) When I think of birthdays past, they were always such exciting times for me. Many of my birthdays were celebrated with fun parties from my childhood to my young adult years. I loved all of those special parties and to this day, I still love it. Maybe this is where my love for event planning all started. At my 3rd birthday, my parents gave me a big one. I don't really remember but the pictures are so cool. I had lots of kids there, a clown, a little merry-go-round ride and lots of games. I had a white little outfit on and was looking so cute for a Spring party. Boy, I looked so happy! Also, I was brave not to be afraid of the clown, too. My mom was holding me as I blew the candles out. Another year, I had my first slumber party. That was so fun! I invited several friends and ...

Our Mother's Day card collection was a hit! I love how they turned out and hoped all the moms would feel the love we put into these cards. However, I never expected to receive so much of the love I sent out to circle back and hug me! I love communicating on Twitter (my Twitter name is ksunlight). One of my Twitter friends is the Gospel Recording Artist Vickie Winans.   I met her last year online and shared my cards with her.   She loved them and sent out the most incredible tweets. Since then, she has been an amazing cheerleader for me and K. Simone Designs. For Mother’s Day I wanted to make something special for Vickie. I thought about creating one of my special mini album cards.   I had some of Prima’s beautiful patterned paper and some other special embellishments. That is just what I needed to get started. After adding some purple glitter paper, bling, delicate trim and flowers, it was a masterpiece! I packaged the album in this beautiful floral bo...

Well, we made it through Mother's Day. I made lots of beautiful cards and they sold well. So thankful! Here are a few more to share that turned out so nice. Used Teresa Collins pp and the flower is Prima. This pp is so heavy and textured. Love it! More Teresa Collins pp, lacy ribbon trim and a rhinestone slider. Love this card! Used Prima Meadowlark pp, pink and pearl trim and the sentiment is on pop dots. Love this circle cut out card. I used Prima pp with this lavender cs, Recollections flowers and leaves and pearls. Used my Spellbinder to cut this shape. Used Recollections flowers and leaves, Zva bling with Prima pp and lavender cs. This was one of my favorites too. I used Recollections flowers and leaves, Zva bling and a little purple glitter paper on the sentiment. Hope you enjoyed looking at all the Mother's Day cards I have shared over the weeks. It has been a joy for me and I know all the cards are happy in their new homes! :) Have a ni...