HAVE YOU HEARD?...

A new dream came true this week, and it's true as one door closes another opens...

I, little me has the honour and great pleasure of announcing I will be on THE wonderful, fantabulous, amazing...

TEAM ANYA 02

Woohoo!!!! Can you believe it? I am SO excited to share this with all of you. Words cannot even tell you how AWESOME this is!!! You know how I LOVE The Greeting Farm images well this for me is the ultimate....

There are so, SO many talented ladies who went for TEAM ANYA and I feel SO honoured to be chosen as one of their DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS!!!!

Here's Jessica's announcement Thank you :) and here are the other three amazing ladies on the Design team with me. Congratulations to my fellow team mates!!! Please go check out their wonderful blogs...

Amy Young
Kelly Booth

Pam Varnell

and we will begin our Club Anya journey as of October 1, 2009!

In addition, please help me welcome our two distinguished Guest Designers...

Suzi McKenzie (October, Nov, Dec) and
Lysa Rohrer (Jan, Feb, March)

In honour of my new position in the wonderful Club Anya design team, here are the cards I entered for the design team call...

Thank you for stopping by and I am so looking forward to my new role.... Tee Hee it's very exciting, believe my cheeks are killing me with this ear to ear grin LOL! HuGs Kim :)

ICSketches #32 ~ Cuteasaurus

Morning a lovely Tuesday and I'm very busy gathering the last few items of school uniform, here's my design team card for Inspirational Card Sketches...

Well, Dawn has designed a fantastic sketch as always! Please go and have a look at the other design teams fantastic makes too.

I created this one very quickly (for me) the sketch was a breeze to follow. Of course I had to use more of this fabulous new Cosmo cricket papers, mmm. I have been trying to tidy up my craft stash and finding some older stash that's been very neglected like this super Kim Hughes stamp set!!! Love it!

This cuteasaurus dino I have stamped on one of the patterned papers and coloured with my copics. I have stamped the sentiment directly onto the natural ribbon and applied double sided tape before trimming. I used my nesties to cut the felt matt and simply placed the image on top. The buttons I have added a little thread and adhered with glue dots, the card I have finished off with more natural thread tied at the front. Click images for close look.

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket: boyfriend; Stamps: CHF - Kim Hughes - little guy (boy); Ink: Momento: black; markers: copic; Die's: Nestabilities: Squares; Other: grey felt; BG: buttons; natural ribbon & thread; glue dots; 3D foam;

Now onto some other news....

It is my last month as Design Team member at ICSketches, I've enjoyed it so much and will miss it greatly, so it seems they are in search of new members to join their fabulous team...

ICSketches Sept '09 DT Call... They are looking for 3 Designers for ICS! This call is for all walks of card makers. It will run from now until Sept 18th. Click link to get the deets and good luck!!!

Thanks for stopping by and I'm hoping to get a chance to do some blurfing later, Big HuGs and sorry for my lack of commenting, Kim :)

Roses on Paper - Combines

Turns out there is a guest DT call at the moment on Roses on Paper. All you need to do is to have taken part in one of their challenges.

So I have combined three challenges on this one...

This weeks Roses on Paper challenge to also incorporate flowers.

The fabulous Sketch on 2 Sketches 4 You

The 3 Stamp challenge on The Greeting Farm Fresh Friday

I have used the wonderful owl stamp by The Greeting Farm and coloured with my copics I just love this owl such character!!! The sentiment is also a GF stamp, I have covered with a good dollop of glossy accents and the third stamp is the heart from pretty hat set which I have created a border and heat embossed with clear EP. I have used my gorgeous My Mines Eye Bohemia papers and as you can see my flower is there... layered with bling flower and stone for a finishing touch. Click on thumbnails for close ups.

Supplies: Patterned Paper: MME; Core'dinations: whitewash card; MM: Natural cardstock; Stamps: TGF: Forest Friends: Pretty Hat; Ink: Memento: Black; Versamark; colourbox; copics; Die's: Nestabilities: Circles; Fiskars: Apron Lace; Hero Arts: vintage collage Flowers; EP: Clear; adhesive flower & stones; leaf ribbon; Glossy Accents; 3D foam;

Thanks for stopping by there's still a couple of days to enter my blog candy too, HuGs Kim x

Inspiration Sketches DT Call and 2S4Y too...

The wonderful creatively talented Dawn has started a new Sketch blog Inspirational Card Sketches.

Dawn is looking for 6 creative people to be her design team on her sketch blog, so if you think you might be interested, or just want to use sketches to work on your own cards, hop on over and check out her DT call!

Well Dawn, I had so much fun with this card! I have used (experimented) with a few new craft items too. The Main bloom I have cut from Tim's plain Grungeboard (wow this stuff is sooooo fun and it stinks... but in the nicest leathery way!) I have used distress inks to colour grungeboard and for the center I have used micro beadz with glossy accents, think it would have been nice with a touch of glitter! It feels so tactile, like smooth velvet you just can't see it in the picture!

The paper is so obviously my new love... October Afternoon, which has been cut and inked and raised and embellished with a touch of lace! The sketch has been finished off with a rub on sentiment and Bling!

Materials:

Paper: October Afternoon - Daydream collection, heavy weight cartridge, Plain Grungeboard.

Die's: Sizzix - Large Daisy#3, Nestabilities - Square,

Ink: Distress inks - spiced marmalade, mustard seed, colourbox - dark moss,

Other: Provo Craft - Art Accentz micro beadz, Birthday sentiments - rubons, glossy accents, lace from stash (hobby craft), 3D foam, adhesive Bling!

What? another card? two cards in one post... gosh,

here's my card using this weeks sketch on 2 Sketches 4 You it's from the very talented Kazan and what a fab sketch! Gorgeous cards as always from Kazan and the Design Team, they are such an inspiration...

I have been itching to use this paper for a while.. I love it's rich warm summer colours! I stamped the sentiment in brilliance ink and cut and raised. The swirl is cut from glitter card which I have tried to recolour using alcohol inks, although I have all but three colours... I think it tones well and it still sparkles not that you can see it in the picture!

My faux stitching on the edge I have banjaxed and am not happy with. The flower layer is so fun I have used plastic shapes from American crafts and finished it off with a gorgeous MM velvet Brad, so pretty...

click images for close up

Materials:

Paper: K&Co - Mira Speciality Paper pad, heavy weight cartridge, DCWV - glitter sheet.

Stamps: BG - inspire me,

Die's: Nestabilities - squares, sizzix - background shape, swirl with flowers

Ink: Brilliance - midnight black, sakura - pastel, Alcohol inks,

Other: American Crafts - Greenhouse plastic flowers, MM - velvet brads, Doodlebug - rubons, American craft ribbon, 3D foam, adhesive bling.

See how nice pictures turn out when the sun show it's rays, yummy...Thanks for stopping by, HuGs Kim x