Kraftin' Kimmie - anything but a card

Hey everyone! Hope you're having a fabulous start to your weekend! It' time for a new challenge over at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge blog, and this week our hostess with the mostest is the amazingly talented Angie!  Her challenge to us this week is to make anything but a card with your Kraftin' Kimmie stamps! Here's what I created for this awesome challenge!

Isn't she the cutest thang evah???!!! LOL! LOOOOVE her! She's Julie from the Moonlight Whispers line at Kraftin' Kimmie's.  I also used a Trinket from the Everyday Trinkets set which I adore!!  Julie is stamped with Memento ink onto X-Press It cardstock and then colored with Coipc markers. I cut her out and popped her up from the lid of the gift box. The sentiment "Let's Party" comes with her. FABULOUS!!

There's a little bit more of an angled view of the box, the trinkets are on each side of the box. The box was cut using the Cricut Expression and the Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge from Hallmark Scrapbook. The DP's are digital from Nitwit Collections and the cardstock is Bazzill.

Please be sure to pop over to Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge Blog to check out all my talented teamies creations for you. You are sure to get some amazing inspiration! Also check out all the details on how to play along with us for a chance to win the image Angie used on her fantastic project (Miss Information), but don't forget you have to use a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp to be eligible to win!!  Oh! And don't forget to check out Kimmie's Frugal Friday specials this week! She has six awesome stamps on sale for 40 - 50% off!!!! Thanks for stopping by to see me today, and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

It's time for a new Magnolia - licious challenge!!

Good morning, everyone! Happy April 1st! Hope you're not having too many April 1st jokes played on you. :)  With it being the first of the month, that means it's time for a new Design Team Challenge from Magnolia-licious! This month our challenge is from our awesome Ruby, and it is to make baby themed projects/gift sets.  You can read all about it and see all our projects over at the Magnolia-licious Highlites Challenge Blog. Here's what I came up with for you today

I used the Cricut Expression with the Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge for the box and then had some fun decorating it. with #201 Baby Tilda from the new Princes and Princesses Collection from Magnolia-licious!! I simply adore this enire collection!! I did alter her just a tad by cutting off the butterfly and replacing it with a little "welcome" sign. I sat precious little Baby Tilda on this FABULOUS #542 Sweet Moon! I am going to be using this moon a LOT, LOL! I LOOOOOVE it!!!  The images are stamped with Memento ink onto Cryogen White paper and then colored with Copic markers (listed below). I then fussy cut them out and popped them up from some gorgeous Graphic 45 paper.

I used a Martha Stewart PAP set with some Bazzill cardstock. There's lots of machine stitching and the only other thing I added are some pearls made with the Viva Decor Pearl Pen. Very simple, but I do like how it turned out.

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Copics used are clothing: YG61, 63, C3, T1, 2, blender pen; hair: E51, 53, 57, 31, 33; Crown: Y32, 35;  Moon: E51, 53, Y32, E33, R20; skin: E13, 11, 01, 00, with a touch of R20 on her knees. I used chalk on her cheeks.

My plans are to stamp and color the moon on a onsie to put in the box. I just couldn't get it done by today. So that's my baby gift set for you today. Please be sure to pop over to Magnolia-licious Highlites to check out my teamies gorgeous creations. And then we'd love it if you'd join us in the challenge. Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today and hope to see you back again soon! Hugs!

New Hallmark Ladybug project posted on the blog!

Here's a sneak peek! I cut the gift box that comes with Regina's Christmas card set. If you haven't been over to see them yet, please be sure and visit her. She's so awesomely talented!!! Instead of filling it with the Christmas cards from the set, I put a little different twist on it. Please visit the Hallmark Ladybugs blog and check it out! Thanks for stopping by!!! HUGS!!

My first project for Regina's Cutting Designs

If you haven't been over to see Regina's new shop, I would urge you to go look around! This is the easiest box I've ever cut with my Pazzle! Regina creates the cutting files and you can get them in either WPC format or PDF format. The wpc format will work on your Pazzle machine (and I'm sure other cutting machines as well), and if you don't have a die cutting machine you can also get them in pdf format. That way you can print them right off your computer onto cardstock and pattern paper and cut them out yourself. It doesn't get any easier than this folks. All I did was cut it out in the paper of my choice, and then decorated it the way I wanted. I decided to fix this one up for fall. Wouldn't this be a great hostess gift to take to Thanksgiving dinner? Besides Regina's cutting file, I used Basic Grey paper, a Cuttlebug cut and emboss die for the leaf in metal, a piece of acetate for the window, an Autumn Leaves stamp on the tag and Mini Monograms for the scalloped circle under the ribbon. Please go over and wish Regina well on her new adventure. These files are AWESOME! Thank you Regina!!