12 Kits of Occasions July Summer and More

Hi, and welcome to the July post for 12 Kits of Occasions!

Our hostess this month is Marybeth Lopez from Marybeth's Time for Paper.

She sent us a wonderful kit full of summer goodies! And a bit of 

vacation too!

Settle back, grab a cuppa, and enjoy a bit of summer fun!

First off, Best Wishes and Fuchsias. Do you grow them? The day we hit 100, it's only 

a matter of time until my fuchsias say good-bye! Folks we in the Central Valley 

 broke a record for 100+ 21 days in a row... no happy fushsias here!

I tore the paper card with flip flops and added the palm tree and surfboard to 

a PTI die cut I had on hand. (Do you save your extra die cuts? Think I need another 

room to hold all of mine!) Marybeth included the darling tiki paper.

Tucked this little guy into the embossed wreath Marybeth had in our kit.

Popped up outer paper and added the tag cut from one of the sentiments included.

These bunnies from Purple Onion just might be my favorites. Added them to the

Poppy die cut.

Once again, with a ready made PTI die cut, the lemon lime duo goes with

one of my favorite PTI sentiments.

All these summery cards came together so quickly.

Easy breezy and fun!

Be sure to stop by and give some commenting love to each of the 

designers. Can't wait to see what they all did with July's kit!

Thank you, Marybeth!

12 Kits of Occasions 'Hello Fall'

Hello Fall! 

And hello to all of you!

It's time for 12 Kits of Occasions, a group of friends who loves to craft.

Our hostess this month is the fabulously talented Marybeth Lopez,

from Marybeth's Time for paper.

She sent us a kit full of autumn joy! So let's get right to it.

I'm leading off with the card I posted on the 12 Kits blog, and the adorable Purple Onion pup and wagon. Pumpkins are PTI: Autumn Scarecrow.

Marybeth included the kiwi twine in our kit.

Adore this scarecrow! From PTI's release last month. 

copic colored with sheaves of wheat, also from PTI: Give Thanks

Here's one that was easy breezy. This sweet pumpkin card was ready to add to designer paper.

I fussy cut the thank you banner, and the Autumn Berries branch (PTI) was already on my work table.

When one of these kits comes in the mail, the first thing I do is pair up dp with die cuts.

This wonderful cart from PTI's Make It Market, just seemed made for the autumn tree paper!

(Frame: PTI Cover Plate: Pretty Frame)

I slipped this sentiment inside the Memory Box Pinpoint frame, and watercolored and added the leaves to my sponge inked card. (Poppystamps)

Finally a shaker with the lovely embossed Serendipity Maple Leaf and Quote. 

Be sure to visit all the team to see what they did with their kits. 

I love going over to their blogs and thinking, 'this is so clever!'

Happens every month, folks. I love this talented team!

A great big mwah! to Marybeth for her fall kit! 

Loved playing with every bit, and still have more left over!

Hugs, all!

12 Kits August '17 Teacher's Pet

Hi Everyone! It's 12 Kits time!

The fabulous Lisa Elton from My Paper Tales, is our hostess this month at 12 Kits, 

and she gave us the most wonderful Back to School themed elements!

 I loved every bit, and made 6 cards, well, 

scratch that, 5 cards, and 1 milk carton. Take a look!

Loved reading to my kiddos when they were young, and now as a grandma, have read this precious book to all 11! When I saw this darling mouse holding a book, it reminded me of 

 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie'. The kids love it, and can quote most of it!

This darling milk carton die was included in the kit, along with the heart washi tape, bunny,

and sign sentiment. 

Crafting a card from all these darling elements was so much fun! Don't you love the hand buttons?

It takes 2 photos to show you this card. With the flap closed...

And with the flap open, to reveal the shaker.

Love that PTI apple!

And finally, a sweet little mouse making a wish. GAed 'great job'

Oh my! I have so much yet to play with. Thank you, Lisa, for a wonderful kit!

Thank you so much for visiting. Hope you enjoyed what I did with the August kit.

Be sure and visit the other 12 Kits teammies. It always delights to see what all

do with the same elements.

And there's a special guest too. Judy Marino from Judy's Craft Corner.

Welcome, Judy!

12 Kits July '16: Christmas in July

12 Kits time everybody! And just look at our goodies from

our hostess, Marybeth Lopez from Marybeth's Time For Paper.

Thanks to Lindsey for another gorgeous graphic!

The perfect way to cool off during the hot summer

is to play in the cool craft room. Turn up the air, and get lost in creating!

Beautiful papers, gorgeous die cuts, and then there were these darling critters...

Here's what I did!

Red and White! My favorite for Christmas. 

Loved Marybeth's die cut sentiment, might need to get this one!

Marybeth gave us double sided papers, and this one with the gold dots

had the green diagonal stripe on the other side. After I watercolored the 

holly and berry, I lined the image with gold pen to match the gold dots.

Love this little whimsical guy! Had to do a snowy scene for him.

MFT's Wonky Stitched Circles, and PTI's In the Meadow (hill)

PTI: Confetti Toss made the embossed snow.

Put a bit of glitter snow on his nose, pocket & hill.

These 3 elegant buttons were also in the kit.

PTI's Twig wreath just went perfectly with this  happy holiday paper.

A few die cuts from Make It Market: All Through the House too.

I colored the reindeer red and added wink of stella to his antlers.

Marybeth sent these die cuts, colored and gold embossed. Went with the 

floral paper perfectly! (So glad I have this Make it Market set to case

this bouquet!)

Finally, I had to make a tag set with the critters included in the kit.

Thanks to Marybeth, I've got a great start on the holidays!

And thank you for visiting.

Can't wait to see what all the others did with this kit!