Kraftin' Kimmie joins up with Art Du Scrapbooking for a blog hop!

Hey everyone! This will be my last post for a while as I will soon be on my way to CHA! I'm so excited to get to meet so many blogging friends and design team sisters! I even get to meet Lols from across the big pond!! How awesome is that??!!! I will be working at the Scor Pal / Magnolia Mini World booth #856, so if you're going to be there, please stop by!

Welcome to a fantastic joint blog hop featuring Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps and the Art du Scrapbooking store in Quebec! Grab a cup of coffee and sit back to enjoy all the gorgeous creations using the January release of new stamps from Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps! If you’d like to start the hop from the beginning, head over to the KKS challenge blog and be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky random stampers will WIN some prizes!! All the new images are now available at the Art du Scrapbooking store online and in person or from the KKS online shop, where you will find ALL our stamps! Get ready....get set.....HOP!!

If you've arrived here from France's wonderful blog, then you're on the right track.  For my card, I used the adorable cat with mouse from Kitty Kapers 2! So fun!!! I LOVE his big, happy grin!! He's so proud of the gift he's presenting!! He's stamped with Memento ink onto X Press It paper and colored with Copic markers.

All the DP's, flowers, ribbon, and embellishments came from Art Du Scrapbooking.

As you make your way through the hop, be sure to leave comments at every stop! Now it's time to hop over to see Jocelyn! And don't forget, if you get lost along the way, just go back to Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps challenge blog to find your way. Thanks for joining us today, and good luck! 

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Spotlight Challenge

Good morning everyone! Hope you're enjoying your weekend! I'm a little late with my post today as I tried to type it up last night to post this morning, but we ended up with quite a little lightning show and the electricity just wasn't stable enough. It kept flashing off and on, so I ended up having to turn the computer off and go to bed. The rain sure was nice background noise though! I love to go to sleep listening to falling rain, and that doesn't happen very often in Northern Nevada. So anyway, it's time for a nw challenge over at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge Blog, and our fabulous hostess is the amazingly talented Elaine! Elaine gave us a really cool challenge of either highlighting part of an image, or only stamping and using part of an image. Either way is fine. How fun is that? Ok, I've got to tell you that when I ordered Patsy from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, I had some pretty funny intentions for her, cause I LOVE the look on her face!! She just looks, ummmm... curious and confused. heehee...So anyway, I was trying to figure out exactly what situation I wanted to put her in this time where she was "curious and confused", and I decided to make her a mom of a very expressive teenager.  And if you're a mom of a teenager, I can't help but believe you've felt this way at least once in your life. LMBO!  So here is what I made for the challenge.

I've used Patsy for the mom, and Poison for the teenager. They're stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen White paper and then colored with Copic markers. I just created the sentiment in MS word an printed it out onto the Cryogen paper. Nesties were used to cut out Patsy and Poison. Papers are Basic Grey matted with Bazzill cardstock, and I just did a bow with twine from PTI and hung a skull and bones charm from it.

Please be sure to pop over to Kraftin' Kimmie's Challenge blog to see all the gorgeous cards made by my Krafy Girl's teamies, and then we'd really love it if you'd join us in the challenge with any image from Kraftin' Kimmie for a chance to win Roxy (the stamp featured on Elaine's fabulous card!) Thanks for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back again soon!! Hugs!

Papertake Weekly and Peggy Loves Vintage

Hi everyone! It's time for a new challenge over at Papertake Weekly, and we're being sponsored the fabulous shop The Ribbon Girl! I seriously want to enter this challenge as I would like to have some of everything they've got in their shop! LOL! Dawny is asking us to use Buttons, Bows, Bling, and Blooms. Fun, huh? You can use one or all of them, but you must use at least one. For my card today, I used one of my favorite companies Peggy Loves Vintage!  It's truly wonderful to be able to pick one of these amazing vintage images, print it out, and make a fabulous card in minutes instead of hours!!

This adorable image is from Peggy's Collection of Cuties 2!! LOOOOVE them! She's got a collection of vintage images that would be perfect for whatever you're looking for! So if you've never been there to look around, and you like vintage images, what the heck are you waiting for? LOL! Hop over to Peggy Loves Vintage and check them all out! I'd recommend following her blog as well. She LOVES to give away free images!   The Dp's are Pion Design from a friend (thank you so much!!) matted with Bazzill cardstock. I added some lace from my stash and used one of my old Martha Stewart heart border punch. The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps and I also used some May Arts silk ribbon, a button, and used my pearl pen. I also did some machine stitching.

So that's it for me today! Please be sure and visit Papertake Weekly to see all my talented teamies creations for this challenge! And then we'd really love it if you'd grab your paper and glue and play along with us! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

Magnolia-licious Sweet Crazy Love Blog Hop

Good morning everyone and Happy Monday! yeah - I know, I know...Mondays are usually not the happiest day of the week. BUT...the Magnolia-licious Design Team is having our monthly blog hop today, which makes it pretty happy! Especially since we're featuring the fabulous new images from the Sweet Crazy Love collection! How do these images just keep getting cuter and cuter??!!  So if you've arrived here from seeing the amazing work of Angie, then you're on the right track. If not, then you might want to head to the beginning at Ms Ruby's fabulous blog, cause you don't want to miss a single thing on this hop! Trust me!  Here's what I've cooked up for you today, a book card.

First I want to apologize, cause it's really tough to get good pictures of these book cards. I love how this project turned out, but the pictures are pretty bad. If you'd like to know how to make one of these, just click on the tutorials tab up above. For my card, I've featured three of these amazing new Tilda images from the Sweet Crazy Love collection available at Magnolia-licious, #282 Tilda Sending Love Letters,  #225 Tilda with Daisy, and #236 Tilda with Cozy Heart.  The "I Love You" stamp is from Sweet Crazy Love as well, but I can't find the number on it right now.

See what I mean about the pictures.  Sorry!  There's lots of machine stitching and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts. On the inside left, there's a pocket to slip a tag with a personal note inside.

So that's it for me today! Now it's time for you to move on to see the "oh so talented" Cheryl and see the fabulous creation she has for you today!  Hope you join us over at Magnolia-licious Highlites. You'll find all the information on how to play along for a chance to win an amazing prize from Magnolia-licious! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Release Day and Blog Hop!!

Do YOU know what day it is??? It’s Krafty RELEASE Day and it’s our FIRST release of the year!! Today Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps is kicking off 2012 by releasing their new JANUARY stamps and there’s SO much gorgeousness to SEE!!

Over the last few days in our Krafty Peeks, we have shared lots of FUN new stamps for you to get inky with! We’ve got something for everyone!! There is a fun new SET introducing a sweet little character by Cheryl Alger for the little ladies in your life!! It’s called LOVELY LULU! We also have TWO fantastic sets of purrrr-fect images from Emilie Goulet called KITTY KAPERS 1 and KITTY KAPERS 2!!! And of course we have an amazing new set of six GORGEOUS GODDESSES stamps from Annie Rodrigue! PLUS we are also releasing a sassy coordinating set of GODDESS SENTIMENTS!!

You will get to see most of the new images today as you sit back and enjoy our JANUARY Krafty Hop! If you want to start from the beginning, just head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie Challenge Blog! As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stampers will win packages of these incredible stamps from the new release!! And when you’re done hoppin’, be sure to head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie shop, because ALL the new images are NOW available! So if you're on the right track,  you should have arrived here from the awesomely talented Michele!

And of course, as always, we have our Gimme Kimmies Kits available for those of you who ‘need it all’!! (You’ve been buying presents for everyone else all month long….don’t you think it’s time to reward your krafty self a little bit??!! ) The stamps are grouped together by artist and are available at a discount, but only for a limited time!!

For the hop toay, I've actually created two cards for you. The first one features one of the adorable images from the LOVELY LULU SET.

This was a really fun card to make. I am soooo in love with this entire LOVELY LULU set!!  She's stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen white paper and then colored with Copic markers. The grass is just hand colored in with Copics. She is then cut out with Nesties and popped up from the card base. The papers are from an old DCWV stack called Whimsy matted with Bazzill cardstock.

The sentiment comes with the set of Lulu's as well. The clouds and flowers were cut with the Cricut Expression from the Create a Critter cartridge. They're edged with chalk ink to help define the cut. The bow is made with May Arts Silk Ribbon and The Bow Easy, centered with a button from my stash.  The inside is decorated to coordinate with the card front.  Markers used:
clothes: B01, 02, 04, 06;  YG 11, 13, 17, 67
skin: E13, 11, 01, 00
birds: Y32, 35, 58
I used a bunch of different shades of green to draw in the grass. The grass effect is one I will be teaching in a card class coming up.

My second card features the GORGEOUS Athena!! I LOVE her and she was awesome to color!

Athena is stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen White paper and the colored with Copics. I'm sorry, I thought I kept track of the markers I used, but I guess I didn't.  I will tell you I know I used YG61, 63. I used grays on the armor for the silver, and Y26, 28 for the gold. Skin is E13, 11, 01, 00, and her hair is E97, 99, and 17.

The papers are Basic Grey matted with Bazzill cardstock. I used some lace from my stash and the bow if made with May Arts silk ribbon and The Bow Easy. All panels are machine stitched.  The awesome sentiment is from the Goddess Sentiments set.

And of course the inside is decorated to complement the card front. Now it's time to head over to see the lovely and talented Diana! Thanks so much for joining us in our blog hop today, and I hope you're having as much fun as we are! When you're all done, you can head straight over to Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps to purchase your "must have" stamps! If you're anything like me,  it will be all of them! LOL! Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Hugs!

Sneak Peek day three and new challenge day! Time for Annie Rodrigue!!

Ok, I know that a lot of you have been waiting impatiently for this day to arrive! Today is sneak peek day number three for the January release over at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!! And today is the day we show you sneaks of the new images from the one and only Annie Rodrigue! Yep! Moonlight Whispers time! WHOOT WHOOT!  The hostess with the mostest this month is the amazingly talented Nicole, and she has provided us with an awesome sketch for the challenge. And the new stamps from Annie?  GODDESSES!!! WOOHOO!! Nicole used the gorgeous Athena for her card, so that is the prize that is up for grabs this week! So first...the sketch...

And here's my card

For my card, I chose to use the gorgeous Goddess Aphrodite! Is she not amazing?! She's stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen white paper and then colored with Copic markers. She's then cut out using oval and petite scalloped oval Nesties. The sentiment is from the Goddess Sentiments set.

The DP's are MME matted with Bazzill cardstock. All the panels are machine sitched, and I added some May Arts silk ribbon and bow. I made the pins myself.  As you can see, the inside is decorated to complement the card front.

Please pop over to Kraftin' Kimmie's Challenge Blog to check out all the stunning creations by my teammies! And then we'd love for you to play along with us! Now don't forget to visit all the Krafty Girls' blogs and leave comments all along the way!  The generous Ms Kimmie is going to select TWO lucky winners, and each of them will get THREE of the Goddesses!!!  WOW!!! So what the heck are you waiting for...go check out all the fabulous images and cards, and leave lots of  love! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back tomorrow for the big blog hop and release of all these fabulous new stamps! Hugs!

Kraftin' Kimmie Sneak Peeks Day Two!

It's time for day two of sneak peeks for Kraftin' Kimmie's new stamps! Today we're featuring two PURfectly adorable sets called Kitty Kapers 1 and Kitty Kapers 2 illustrated by the awesomely talented Emilie Goulet!  My image is an adorable kitty from Kitty Kapers 1.

This kitty is cuter than cute could ever even think about being! LOL! She's stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen white paper and then colored with Copic markers. I then used circle Nesties to cut her out.  The DP's are Basic Grey matted with Bazzill cardstock.

Copics used: kitty: Y32, 35, 38, E97, 99;  collar and sleeve:BG72, 75; hand and arm: E13, 11, 01, 00; Gold Smooch for jewelry and collar tag; red Smooch on nails

The sentiment also comes in Kitty Kapers 1 which comes with three super cute images and four coordinating sentiments. I added some lace from my stash along with a bow made with curly ribbon topped with a button. The ribbon came from my fabulous friend DeeDee!

Please be sure and visit all my DT sisters to see their gorgeous creations using Kitty Kapers! Be sure to leave comments all along the way, cause Kimmie is going to pick two very lucky random commenters to win one of Emilie's Kitty Kapers sets! You will find a complete list of Krafty Girls that are showing sneak peeks over at the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge Blog. Hope you come back tomorrow, cause not only will we have a new Kraftin' Kimmie challenge for you, but we will be sneak peeking the new images illustrated by none other than Annie Rodrigue! I KNOW you've been waiting for this!! Thanks for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back again tomorrow!! Hugs!

A huge THANK YOU to Krafty Girl Cheryl for sharing the link for the falling hearts!! LOVE them!!!

Time for sneak peeks of Kraftin' Kimmie's new release!!

Guess what! It's time for lots of fun! Today is the first day for sneak peeks of Kraftin' Kimmie's January release!! Exciting!! Be sure you hop around to ALL the Krafty girls and leave comments for everyone!  You can find the complete list of Krafty girls that are peeking today over at the Kraftin' Kimmie Challenge Blog. Somewhere along the way on today's sneak peeks, some lucky individual is going to win a set of the featured stamps today! WHOOT WHOOT!! Will it be you????  Today, we are showing you the adorable new set illustrated by the wickedly talented Cheryl Alger! I'm showing off this TUTU Lulu who is just Tutu cute! *smiles*

Is she not sooooo stinkin' CUTE?! LOL! She's stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen White paper and colored with Copic markers. The DP's are from Nitwits matted with Bazzill cardstock. I added some lace from my stash, a flower and  metal corners from Wild Orchid Crafts, and some tulle I just gathered up and tied in the middle.
R81, 83, 85 for clothing and shoes; E13, 11, 01, and 00 for skin; B000 and Blender pen for shading the white; Y21, E31, 33 for hair.

Love those glittered hearts from Melissa Frances. The twinkle toes circle was part of the paper collection from Nitwits. I just printed it out and used Nesties to cut it out. All the panels are machine stitched, and Lulu is cut out using Nesties and popped up from the rest of the card.

So don't forget to check out all of the Krafty Girls' blogs and leave comments! And then please stop by tomorrow to see even more sneak peeks, a new challenge with more sneak peeks on Saturday, and then the big release day and hop on Sunday!  I am soooo loving this entire release, and I think you will too! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back tomorrow! Hugs!

Magnolia Sweet Crazy Love

Have you seen the new Sweet Crazy Love Collection over at Magnolia-licious?? Oh my goodness, I think I have to have every single one of them! LOL! They're ADORABLE!!  It's time for a new challenge over at PaperPlay Challenges and they're sponsored this week by Destination Art.  You could win a $25.00 AUD store voucher! This is also for the Magnolia-licious Design Team Challenge at Magnolia-licious Highlites. The amazingly talented Cheryl gave us a challenge of "anything goes".

I used this adorable #282 Tilda Sending Love Letters. It looks like she's sold out right now, but it wouldn't surprise me if Diana doesn't have more of her on the way. She' stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen White paper and then colored with Copic markers.  Her clothes are colored with RV91, 93, and 95, her skin is E13, 11, 01, and 00. I used T grays for the whites and I don't remember what colors I used on her hair.

DP's are My Mind's Eye Blush matted with Bazzill cardstock. Tilda is cut out with oval Nesties and there's lots of machine stitching. The butterfly was cut out using the Cricut. Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the ribbon is May Arts silk. I also used a black pearl pen.

Please be sure and visit both PaperPlay Challenges and Magnolia-licious Highlites, and join us in the challenges for a chance to win! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today. Sneak Peeks for Kraftin Kimmie starts in just a few hours (4am Pacific), so hope to see you back again for that! Hugs!!

Papertake Weekly - Die Cute Special!!

Hey everyone! Happy Tuesday! Hope you're having a fabulous start to your week! It's time for a new challenge from Papertake Weekly, and we're sponsored by The Stamp Fairy. Dawny is asking us to use a die cut and something cute. The Stamp Fairy was nice enough to offer the designers our "something cute" by offering one of their adorable images. I chose to work with this precious image Peapod as she stole my heart.

She's a digital image, so I printed her off and clored her with Copic markers. She's then fussy cut out and popped up. The DP is Nitwits Bumbleberry matted with Bazzill cardstock. I made a frame using a Martha Stewart punch around the page set which is popped up from the card base.

Placed behind her is a mini doily made with a Magnolia Doohickey die. I added some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts framed with some branches from another Martha Stewart punch. That pretty little butterfly was a gift from a friend (Thank you Linda!!). It's a miniature butterfly die from Cheery Lynn Designs, and the bow was made using May Arts silk ribbon.

The last thing I added were some cream pearls from a pearl pen. The inside is decorated to match the card front.  Please be sure and pop over to Papertake Weekly to check out all my amazingly talented teamies gorgeous creations, and then we'd really love it if you'd grab your paper and glue and play along with us! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

Kraftin Kimmie Challenge time - Shape it up!

Hey everyone!! Kraftin' Kimmie's challenge blog is back from our Holiday break and it's time for a new challenge! This week, I'm hosting the challenge, and it's to use at least three different shapes on your card (the actual shape of the card can count as one of them).  I used square, rectangle, circle, and heart.

Aren't they the cutest, sweetest couple you've ever seen??? LOL! I LOVE these bears!!! They're from the fabulous Lots of Love 2 Set! I am in love with all three images in this set! And the set comes with a total of five fun sentiments too!  They're stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen White paper and colored with Copic markers. They're then cut out using circle and petite circle Nestabilities.

DP is Love Struck by We R Memory Keepers matter with Bazzill Red and White Bazzill cardstock. There's lots of machine stitching and faux stitching as well.  The bow is made using May Arts silk ribbon along with the Bow Easy, and the heart was cut using the Cricut Expression and Doodlecharms cartridge.  I also used a Martha Stewart border punch for the heart border.

The inside is decorated to coordinate with the card front. Please be sure and hop over to the Kraftin' Kimmie challenge blog to see what the rest of my talented teamies created for your viewing pleasure! Then if you join us in the challenge with a Kraftin' Kimmie image, you will have a chance to win the adorable bear stamp I used for my card today!! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes!!

Hey everyone!!! Happy New Year!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday! Can you believe it's 2012?! Well, it's the first Tuesday of the month, and that means it's a new challenge from Papertake Weekly. We're sponsored by Lili of The Valley, and we have an optional extra of making a card FOR something new (house, baby, year, etc), or USING something new.  For my card, I used one of my new Lili of the Valley stamps.

DP's are We R Memory Keepers matted with Bazzill cardstock. The image is Milly Cuddle Time colored with Copic markers and then cut out with circle and petite scalloped circle Nestabilities.  The flourish is a Magnolia Doohickey die.  The bow is made with May Arts silk ribbon and the flower is from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Please be sure and pop over to Papertake Weekly to see the gorgeous creations by my talented teamies, and then we'd really love it if you'd grab your paper and glue and play along with us! Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!!

I'm a new Krafty Girl!!!!!

Ok....so I've been keeping a secret and I can finally shout it to the world!!! I'm now a Krafty Girl at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!!! WOOHOO!!!! I'm soooo happy and excited to join this AWESOME team of fabulously talented ladies!!! You will find a list of all the Krafty Girls on my side bar.  Kimmie's stamps have always been one of my favorite lines, and to be able to call myself a Krafty Girl has always been a dream of mine. I keep pinching myself to see if I wake up! LOL! Here are a couple of cards I've made using Kimmie's high quality rubber stamps!! I hope you join me every Saturday for a new Kraftin' Kimmie challenge from Kraftin' Kimmie's Challenge Blog!!  This first one is pretty appropriate after New Year's Eve. LOL!

Thanks so much for helping me celebrate my good news and for stopping by to see me today! Hope to see you again soon!  Hugs!!!