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So I’m trying to recoup from the past week of all the HSN craziness, but I thought I’d take a quick moment to share this great little card from our Miss Shari!

[ Shapes | Life Additions #2 (chevron+tabbed folder / This+That: Lucky (flower+vase)

Love the chevron design on there! Shari made the chevron background larger than the tabbed folder shape, adhered it, and then trimmed off the edges of the chevron background. Perfect placement of the chevron. Sweet!

It’s just ever-so happy and springy! Perfect to go along with the mood of the spring weather we are having here. (Sorry, if it’s snowing where you are. ;) Apparently it snowed in Utah this past weekend too though.)

It is February. I can hardly believe it! Officially, we are now in the month love….and warmer temps, I’m hoping. :) Not only is it Valentine’s Day next week, but it’s also hubby’s and my 25th anniversary.

Holy cannoli! 

We talked about doing something extra special–like take a trip to Hawaii (I was sooo close to hitting buy when looking at plane tickets)–but I thought that if I was going to spend a chunk of money to do that, then I’d much rather put it towards a trip to Europe with the family a little later in the year. Our family loves to travel and take pictures and we talk of going to France (speaking of love) and Amsterdam quite often (among a million other places to go). We’d love to do London too, but don’t know if that will be in the cards. We are dreamers here in the Bradford house and I’m hoping that dream will come to light for us, because we’ve been talking about a trip like this for two years now. Since Zach speaks French and his bestest missionary companion lives in France, he really wants to go see him.

So, to help us get started in our ‘loverly’ month, here’s a gorgeous card by Queen of Cards herself, our sweet little Shari!

[ Shapes | This+That: Love (printables)  / Background Basics (flower background)

oooooh la la!

i. love.

So. Are ya havin’ the big food party at your house next week? Gotta be the one cookin’ the turkey? Have ya got all the tables and chairs ya need? Am I stressing you out now?

How’s about  place cards? No? Don’t have any ideas for that? You know Thanksgiving is next week, right?

Well rest your pretty little self, Shari’s gotcha covered there! Take a look at these!

[ Shapes | This+That Autumn (leaves) ]

That girl has got a way with her inks and sprays and mists . . . oh my! Those leaves are amazing!

Now, have you taken care of an Thanksgiving cards or invites that you need to send out? Need yourself an idea for that one too? Well, Shari’s got that one covered as well! Check it out:

[ Shapes | This+That: Autumn (leaves) / Giving Thanks (title)

Another fantabulous card! Love how she's coordinated the leaves and banner of the card with the place cards so that you can keep a repeating theme. And how cool would it be to make a little banner with just those leaves and string them up like garland? Or sprinkle them on your table? Maybe write a little message on the flipside of the leaf so that when people pick them up they can read a little message of gratitude. So fun!

Some amazing ideas here Miss Shari! Love 'em!

[For more on how Shari made these cards, check out her blog HERE.]

And now I thought it might be fun to show off some fun ideas that we’ve seen in the past here at KBS.

Right now a lot of you are thinking about preparing an advent calendar or your December Daily. You might remember this fun little *ehem* number from last year. And there may be those of you who weren’t around last year and may not have seen this one. Hence, the flashback. :)

This is the Christmas Countdown kit that you can use in box or tag form or both! If you want to read all about it, check out this post HERE. And no, I still haven’t bought my frame, wire and clips to hang these cute little boxes. I knew I wouldn’t get it done this week either, so I’m sharin’ it anyway. :)

And see that snowflake there on day 16? Yeah, see what Shari did with that snowflake here.
(I think that snowflake is one of my favorite shapes….)

Wouldn’t that make a simple holiday gift or decoration?  Totally love. As you can see, the kit is so versatile for any holiday project!

The ‘Queen of Cards’ is at it again with something very thrillering (yeah, it’s a word)  for Halloween!
There’s no escaping their fabulousness.
They just send chills up+down my spine.
This mortal just can’t resist them.

(I think my continual listening of Thriller has affected my thoughts today.)

I do love ‘em so . . . truly.

[ Shapes + Printables | This+That: All Hallows' Eve ]

Okay, I think that creepy hand is becoming my all-time favorite from that kit! I looove seeing all the different uses the girls have done with it! Additionally, I love how Shari used the printable elements from the full This+That kit to create her card. You can always use those babies for more than just the kit. Remember what Laura Vegas did with her printables? At the tip of your brain? Maybe checking it out again HERE + HERE will help refresh your memory. :)

We’re always looking for quick cards, eh?
Something that you can keep on hand and whip up when you need to send a note?

You know that the KBS shapes are good for cutting. 
But did you really ever think about using them digitally?

Check out this card from our little  Miss Shari.

[ Shapes | Best Thing Ever (title and flourish) / Recipe Cards (patterns/card base)

In Photoshop, Shari cropped the recipe cards to size and added the flourish to create the base.
Next she created a white panel with the greeting.
Then she added text to the label.

Once it was all created, she printed the components, trimmed them, and assembled them.

voila!

You could then save this as a card and have it on file for the next time you just need to whip something up!

love it!

It’s as easy as 1-2-3  . . . oh, and 4. :)

The Queen of Cards is here again!

Look at these fabulous cards she made!
Loooove the positive- and negative-space way she made these!

[ Shapes | Happy (title) / This+That: Summertime (butterfly)]

Shari printed these–including the aqua patterned background paper–and then ran them through her Silhouette to cut out the butterflies. I love how she used the phrase as a printable image for this rather than cutting it out. So versatile, wouldn’t ya say? :)

sigh.

love.

And I just realized that I forgot to include Shari’s tip from last week!
Goodness gracious. So much goin’ on and all….

Here it is: 
“I will just say that I usally cut out all my elements with white cardstock first and test fit them onto my projects.  Only when I have the sizes I need do I load my printed paper up for cutting.  I love my printed paper and never want to waste it by cutting out something that won’t work.”