Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #26 ~ Love

We have a lovely challenge over on the Paperbabe Stamps blog today all about lurve...

and I've made a one layer card using the new Pin Up digi stamp!

I started by printing the faint outline version onto some yummy Bristol board, I think it's still my favourite to colour.

Then I got stuck in colouring away, I decided to add some polka dots to her stockings using a black posca pen. I wanted a sheer look to her top but not too see through. The background is all copics I'm pleased with the look I was going for a shabby chic vintage backdrop. 

The eyes have been designed with just a dot so you can add your own size and style of iris. I've added a few accents of sparkle, she is a sexy crafter after all. I finished the card with a 'love' sentiment

This is pretty much most of the copics I've used I didn't add the posca pens or the colorless blender to the picture.

I'm entering my card into a few other challenges too

Crafting from the heart ~ Anything Goes

simon says stamp ~ Have a Heart

ribbon girls ~ Love

wags n whiskers ~ with Love

crazy challenge ~ Love

whimsy inspires ~ with Love

lil patch of crafty friends ~ Anything goes

inspiration destination ~ Anything goes

Copic Europe ~ 50 Shades of red

Thank you so much for stopping by today

HuGs Kim x

'Mwah' with love...

Hello, hope you had a fun week so far and a beautiful Valentine's! I wanted to stop by with an easel card I made using some new additions found in Quixotic Paperie.

I bought the stunning My Mind's Eye - 6x6 Paper Pad - Stella & Rose - Mabel because I loved the woodgrain pattern and the fabulous colours are the inspiration for the colours I used to for the pretty Miss Anya from The Greeting Farm - Miss Anya Hats Off - Stamp Set. I used the sentiment from The Greeting Farm - Oliver & Amelia - Just For You Set. The Heart is an old sizzix die as are the die cut letters.

I am also entering this card for Club Anya & Friends Mystery Monday... this week they chose this sweet card from Pifa. I haven't entered anything to Cute Card Thursday for ages and their theme is Hearts and Flowers, And Crazy 4 Challenges C4C74 has Hearts for their challenge too.

Hope it inspires and if you notice Elaine is now stocking some gorgeous DIVINE TWINE in 10m Bundles yum yum. plus, pop by for the...

 

DIVINE TWINE - 10M BUNDLES

KRAFTIN' KIMMIE - 50s RELEASE PREORDER

NEW WHIMSY STAMPS IN STOCK!

*NEW* MY MIND'S EYE 6x6 PADS

*NEW* ELISABETH BELL FOR SCACD STAMPS

*NEW CARMEN MEDLIN FOR SCACD STAMPS

*NEW* VICTORIA CASE FOR SCACD STAMP

PAPER MAKEUP STAMPS - JAN/FEB RELEASE

That's it from me today, have a lovely creative day!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

Simon Says Stamp & Show ~ TAG

Good Morning, ooh Monday so...
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
everyone...

 hope you had a fabulous weekend and ready for this week's theme at 

Simon Says Stamp and Show....

Your Tags

It all started because I wanted to try some cork sheet with Tim's Tag & bookplate die, Of course I backed the cork with some card first, then continued to embellish with a few of Wendy Vecchi Studio 490 stamps... for the sentiment, the Background, the leaves & tag. You might notice that the leaves and letters are covered with clear rock candy crackle paint, then inked.

Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die was used to create the huge flower, each flower layer was stamped with designer woodgrain using distress inks... Finished with a shimmering of copper perfect pearls. The heart is hanging from a jump ring attached to a memo pin which is secured into the cork pretty well. The ribbon is Websters pages gorgeous winter trims...

Hope it inspires and why not pop round the rest of the team to see their awesome tags!!!

THE director ~ Linda Elbourne 

Dan ~ Kim Costello <~ You're already here
Linda Coughlin ~ Lori Hassler ~ Lynne Forsythe
Nancy Crissinger ~ Nancy Wethington ~ Terry Wietsma-Girbes

Thanks for stopping by, have a super wonderful creative day full of LO♥E ahh!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

Kim Hughes' New Stamps!!!

So, the wonderful talented Kim Hughes opened her own stamp company on February 1st called Paper Smooches! I was so excited, jumped over and put all three of her new whimsical and fun clear stamp sets into my basket... well, they arrived the other day and I couldn't wait... Kim's fonts have always been some of my favourites and her fabulous images are super adorable!

I've made these mini little valentine's card's just 3" cuteness... one will pop into my son's lunch bag on Monday. Kim has also supplied a brilliant designer drafts to inspire and I've used three, not sure if you can tell which ones LOL!

I've used Basic Grey - Hopscotch Papers and coloured the images with copics and all the hearts have a shimmer of spica glitter.

Have a wonderful and creative weekend, I will be back  Monday for my Simon Says Stamp & Show project!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

Simon Says Stamp and Show....

Hope you had a fabulous weekend...

 and ready for this week's theme at Simon Says Stamp and Show is....

Some Love

I am a bit late with my sample...

I've made a card full of love, using Tim's Heart Wings die...

The heart is cut from chipboard, painted with Claudine Hellmuth Gesso. When dry the edges were inked, then I completely covered with distress stickles and while still wet I poured on some glitter. Now, the wings are cut from satin and double layered, the chipboard crown is coloured with silver paint dabber.

Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die was used to create the rose and the seam binding I coloured using distress ink.

and the wonderful sentiment from Crafty Secrets Bird Notes... It says: 'know the song in your heart and sing it like no one is listening'... how romantic LOL! The papers are 7 gypsies and embossed with the bingo texture fade.

Hope it inspires and why not pop round the rest of the team to see some more love!!!

THE director ~ Linda Elbourne 

Dan ~ Kim Costello <~ You're already here
Linda Coughlin ~ Lori Hassler ~ Lynne Forsythe
Nancy Crissinger ~ Nancy Wethington ~ Terry Wietsma-Girbes

Thanks for stopping by, have a super wonderful creative day!

BiG HuGs Kim :)

Craft Stamper - a Valentine's Project

And a little giveaway, yes I want to thank you for following my blog and it's very sporadic posts LOL! and as a thank you I have a copy of this months Craft Stamper waiting to be posted to anyone who leaves a comment and random generator number will choose a winner on the 23rd of Jan :)

Wow, we're still seeing blankets of snow and some gaps where we needed it for our fabby snowman LOL!

OK... so it's been over a week since my last post I had to check my archives, as I thought for sure I'd already raved about being in this months Craft Stamper magazine but apparently it was one of those posts composed only in my mind.

This is a bit overdue and I just had so share the fun, it's a little funny to think I was creating for valentines three months ago. You can click on the magazine cover to take you to their website where they have a super cute vintage picture to download.

I was inspired by the age of valentines and did a little research into the original cards and handmade gifts it's amazing all the information. Valentine Puzzle Purses were the rage in the 18th and 19th century and so I just had to create one.

I hope you enjoyed my sneak peeks and sorry I haven't edited the pictures, In this issue you will see I've created a puzzle purse, with a metal rose inside an ornate box, a couple of vintage cards, a picture frame and postcard. I opted for digital patterned papers and found them so versatile and a great way to be really experimental. So if you can get through the snow I hope you enjoy your copy.

I do have more posts intended for today so hope I can get on here later too and show you my Design team card for the Basic Grey challenges and a card for the greeting farm challenge too phew!!! so much to catch up on!

BiG HuGs catch you later, Kim :)

Basic Grey Challenge - Hearts

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Challenge 22 - Hearts

As today is a very special day, we would like you to get all loved up in your creations and show us some hearts, it can be any size and any quantity of hearts you wish, and also not forgetting to use at least one item from BasicGrey somewhere on your creation.

This is quite a busy card for me but just went with the flow... I have coloured this super cute image with copic markers, I have gone over the colours with the colourless blender to create softer more muted tones to coordinate with the patterned papers! After cutting with a nesties die I have gone over the whole image with distress inks!

The flourishes are similar to a previous creation... I have stamped directly onto the dp and cut out, hand shaped and have raised on 3d foam. The little hearts are die cut and I have embellished them with a glitter marker so they sparkle just a little. The sentiment has been stamped onto a shape die cut from kraft card and inked edges, as has the heart button. There's really a lot of hearts on this card... the background paper, the pockets, the button, the sticker trim, the glitter hearts, and a little heart swirled in the bottom corner!

click images for close up!

Materials:
Paper: Basic Grey - Bittersweet, heavy weight cartridge, PTI - kraft card
Stamps: Sugar Nellie - Simon & Lola, Basic Grey - Ambrosia Halvah,Inspire me, PTI - mixed messages,
Die's: Sizzix - background shapes, hearts, heart button, Nestabilities - Circles
Ink: Impress - Black, Tim's - Distress inks, colourbox queues, American Crafts - Glitter gems,
Other: Basic Grey - bittersweet element stickers, Adhesive Bling, 3D foam, string from stash,

Thanks for stopping by and sorry I didn't get round to see you last week, hope to catch up over the next few days, Have a fantastic Valentine's day and enjoy a wonderful weekend with your loved ones, BIG HAPPY HuGs Kim XXX

2Sketches4you and DCM Hearts

The Dare over at DCM this week is to include hearts so I've made lots of hearts not to dissimilar to the border sticker included in the Basic Grey Bittersweet collection. I have used the fabulous sketch #18 over at 2Sketches4you by the very talented Laura, thank you!

This stamp it just too cute and who could possibly resist inking it up as soon as it comes through your letterbox? I have paper pieced the image using bittersweet papers and copic markers to colour the rest! She has been raised on 3d foam and embellished with Sakura Stardust and stickles. You should be able to see the sparkle in one of the close ups!

The border of hearts is die cut from different patterned paper inked around edges and raised on 3d foam. The background paper has lots of hearts over and the stamp sticker in the corner has a heart flower (think that covers the heart theme!) The sentiment is die cut. I have been playing with my camera the weather just makes photos really poor! Click on pictures for a close up!

Materials:
Paper: Basic Grey - Bittersweet, heavy weight cartridge,
Stamps: The Greeting Farm - Angel Anya,
Die's: Nestabilities - Circle's, Sizzix - Hearts, Endless love alphabet,
Ink: Distress inks, sakura - stardust, stickles, copic sketch markers,
Other: Basic Grey bittersweet stickers, Adhesive gems and Bling, 3D foam,

Thanks for stopping by, will catch up with you over the weekend, HuGs Kim x

Basic Grey - My Sweet Valentine's

I really wanted to get all this uploaded earlier but I've had such a busy weekend! My baby turned five yesterday... wow we've been entertaining and partying everyday and still have a little lunch party to go to tomorrow! So much fun....

Challenge 18 - Digi Print Challenge

We have a special challenge for you this week, we would like to see you use one (or all if you want to) of my illustrations (Only people taking part in this challenge are allowed to use these images (for now anyway) and of course when the challenge is over you can continue to use them if you wish but please remember that these images are copyright to me and should only be used according to my terms of use), oh and course not forgetting to use at least one item from BasicGrey somewhere on your creation :)

So here's my creation with my illustrations hope I did myself justice... I drew this boy as a shy boy giving his valentine's a gift without being soppy or in any way romantic, notice the blush on this shy boy's face? So typical!

I printed the image onto a heavy weight cartridge but it came out a little faint, I used my copic markers to colour the rest and cut with my labels die, with the die in place then inked the edges with distress inks! The card base I have stamped with script stamp and distress inks!

The word Valentine's I printed directly onto basic grey patterned paper. I then cut out and laid it to the back of the darker paper to draw around. I cut just a little away from the pencil line so that I could achieve a shadow effect! The cut out word has been raised on 3D foam and I've highlighted with white gel pen and added shadow with grey marker to distinguish between the letters!!

Materials:

Paper: Basic Grey - Bittersweet, heavy weight cartridge,

Stamps/image: My drawings - Shy Boy, Valentine's, Script

Die's: Nestabilities - Labels 1,squares, sizzix - neet knacks,

Ink: Distress inks, sakura - pastel, copic sketch markers,

Other: Doodlebug - rubons, edge distresser, Adhesive gems and Bling, 3D foam,

I hope you like and get a chance to have a go. It's such a wonderful feeling to see such talented designers using my sketches, WOW our design team has done some amazing creations hope you have a look! Thanks you!

So... onto some other big news, As you know I am a member of the wonderfully talented design team over on Basic Grey Challenges blog and I took the chance and entered one of my card's into the Basic Grey gallery and I received an email to tell me it was accepted so off you go and have a look at my card in the Official Basic Grey Gallery! Woo Hoo! I would like to thank Martine of course for her wonderful sketch, you've helped make it all possible! Thank you sweetie x!


If you made it down to here, thank you, and I'm really looking forward to seeing all your wonderful creations! Hope you have a great weekend, Happy HuGs Kim x

Happy Valentine's Everyone

Flocked Love Letters

This is the card I made for my other half, and it also fits in with the DCM extra dare - We have Valentines day coming up on the 14th- as you well know, and obviously we have to do a romantic type dare to celebrate! So, this weeks little extra is to give us a card with a romantic theme AND to use both red and black ribbon!

I was so pleased with how the letters came out... I've included a picture of my flocking half way through. I die cut each letter in double sided sticky sheet using a heart shape for the 'V'. I then placed them on the acetate. I peeled off the front protective sheet then put this through swirl die cut. I placed all the pieces back into place like a jigsaw, so that I can cover selective areas in flock. I Flocked first with fun flock, then removed the rest of sheet and covered the swirls in glitter.

I used eyelets to fix the acetate layer in place over DCWV patterned paper, then threaded red and black ribbon through. 'Hugs and kisses' were rub ons under acetate.

click on images to enlarge

It's a shame the flocking didn't come out in the photo very well, it has a lovely texture, very velvety. Thanks for stopping by and Happy Valentine's! HuGs x

Love Birds

Di Hickmans Wednesday Sketch

I went for unusual colours this time. The birds I cut with paisley dies and assembled drawing on their eyes.

The background I created by cutting heart template from thin copy paper (you can see in the pic how pretty the paper is now). I then stamped floral Anna Griffin stamp through. When dry I chalked the edges with blending chalks to highlight the shape. It looks a bit fussy and the technique developed while making the card! So I will try again better!

Thanks for stopping by! Kim HuGs x