Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Hair Curlers

 

I can remember curling my hair with rollers. The type varied as the years passed until a curling iron took over. Now my favorite hair item is shown with the card. #buylocaltampabay

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Curly Hair

 

You really need to zoom in on the hair to see the detail. If you would have seen me coloring her, you would have thought I was making a huge mess. The first step is to color all the hair orange. The darker colors are put on by making dots on top of the orange leaving some of the orange showing. This was my first attempt and I think it turned out decent. 

Friday, December 11, 2020

Christmas Poinsettias

 

Here are a few Christmas cards I made using the velour designer paper from Stampin' Up.  I will have a few more to post before Christmas arrives.

Saturday, November 21, 2020

Sending Flowers

 

I bought this die from a friend back in July and couldn’t find it when I went to use it. While moving furniture to put up the tree, I found it. Which one is your favorite? Look carefully to see the pearls and rhinestones.

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Sings the Blues

 

This  panel is larger than the other music panels that Jim has made. It makes me think of The Blues and the movie Lady Sings the Blues.

#buylocaltampabay

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Sunflower Wreath

 

One of the things my friends and I like to do is borrow Stampin' Up items from each other. I borrowed the dies needed to make this card from my friend Julie. I’ll be showing other cards I made from it this week.

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Leaves

 

This time of the year in most parts of the country the leaves are starting to change color.  Shortly, they will be falling off the trees and will be raked into piles to be trashed or recycled as mulch.  Where we live, the leaves are still green and will not fall until the spring.  For the next few posts, I will be featuring leaves.

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Pineapples

 The format for posting has changed since the last time I posted.  Because of that, I have no idea how this post will look when I am finished with it.  Hopefully if it looks bad, and it probably will, I will be able to make adjustments. 
We have planted several pineapple plants using the tops of pineapples  that we have eaten. No fruit yet because they haven’t been planted long enough. Maybe we will have one next year. Here we each made a pineapple one in glass and one in paper. #buylocaltampabay





Thursday, July 23, 2020

Red Roses

When I was young, my dad grew roses. My brother now has some of my dad’s rose bushes. My husband makes stained glass panels with roses. I have been with roses most of my life.
Blow this one up bigger so you can see the texture in the clear glass, it looks like rain. Also the clear roses are etched.
Because most of our craft shows are canceled, we are beginning to list items online. Check out what we have posted so far. More will be coming, so check back in a few days.
#buylocaltampabay

Monday, July 13, 2020

Blue Blossoms

When I get new things from Stampin’ Up!, I have to try them right away. Of course, I get carried away and make too many. Here is one I made this weekend.



Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Peach Poppies

I know I haven't been doing a good job posting on my blog.  I post a lot of projects on my personal Facebook page and also on our business Facebook page.  I need to remember to also post here.  If you are looking for one of our projects, try our Facebook page, Kilroy Krafts.  I am going to try to post here more often too.

I have a series of poppy cards I worked on last week.  I may have gotten a bit carried away with how many I made.  You may get tired of seeing my posts of them and hope I go back to not posting.

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Happy Easter

Jim had some glass left from a special order he made.  They may want another window made something like this but a little bigger.  He only had enough glass to make a small one but he wanted to get an idea of how it would look.  This is the end result.

Thursday, March 26, 2020

Poppies

I know it has been awhile since I posted to the blog.  I take most of my pictures with my phone and for some reason the phone and the blog do not get along well.  It is so much easier for me to post on Facebook using my phone so that is what I have been doing.  You can find us there by searching for Kilroy Krafts.

I have been featuring cards made using this poppy set on Facebook so that is what you can expect to see for awhile when I post here.  Thank you to all who are working during the corona virus outbreak. I don’t want to forget anyone so I am not going to make a list.


This card has a fun fold which means it opens differently. To open it you would lift using the white card stock that has the purple designer paper on it.  That panel is not attached to the designer paper behind it.

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Nativity in Glass

This piece got finished tonight. You can think of it as a late Christmas decoration or getting ready early for next Christmas.