Extreme Sewing

Hey Folks, Just thought I would share my Extreme Sewing Photo with you all. Lisa over at U-Handbag, a fabulous blog that I am a big stalker of (in a good way of course), has a competition running until the 20th December the first prize being a yummy Janome sewing machine.

The competition is to do some Extreme Sewing - Sewing in unusual places and there has been some wonderful entries so far on Flickr.

Here is my entry - Sewing on the Northern line on the Underground - just going on the Northern Line is extreme enough LOL!



David took the piccy - what a wonderful and patient boyfriend I have - 'Darling, I want you to take some pictures of me and my sewing machine on the tube.' He didn't even look surprised. LOL!

What Will Be In Your Christmas Stocking?

Hope you all had a good weekend. All finished your Christmas shopping I hope!

I have a Whiff Of Joy make for you today. I know my DT term has finished but I had the misfortune to have my DT packages go missing in the recent Postal strikes and Katharina has been ever so patient with me :)

I've still got some gorgeous Whiff Of Joy beauties from the Winter Kit to show which you can get individually and the Whiff Of Joy Christmas stamps are still at 20% off!

This stamp is Willow With Santa's Stocking.

Used my PrismaColor pencils to colour her.


With lots of stitching details.

Have a lovely Monday
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Whiff Of Joy Willow With Santa's Stocking
Ink - Memento Tuxedo black
Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor
Paper - Basic Grey Boxer
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape; Silicone glue
Other - Buttons; Sewing machine

We Have A Winner!

And the winner of The Original Srapbox EZ View Desktop and an entry into the draw for an EZ View Desk as picked by Random.org is...

Penni from Lazy Cats Cards!

Wahoo - Congratulations Penni! Please can you email me ASAP (Before the 13th Dec otherwise I will have to draw again)

The Original Scrapbox Christmas Giveaway

This Blog Candy Is Closed

The Original Scrapbox Gives Back with the 12 Blogs of Christmas
December 4-11th 2009 Blog Candy Giveaway!

Fancy winning one of these - an EZ View Desktop from The Orignal Scrapbox?

And one of these - an EZ View Desk from The Orignal Scrapbox?

And help Charity along the way?

This amazing blog candy is from the wonderful people at The Original Scrapbox who have 12 new EZ View Desktops to give away to 12 lucky blog hoppers and three new EZ View Desks to give away, one to a lucky blog hopper and two to charity.

There are 12 Blogs running this blog candy (see list below) - so you have 12 places to put your name down to win and each blog gives a chance of multiple entries to the draw.

On December 12th 2009, each blog in the draw will select a winner for an EZ View Desktop, from the post comments, then this winner will go through to the draw for the EZ View Desk which will be held on Rachelle's blog on the 14th December.



The Charity Giveaway - each time you hit on The Original Scrapbox website, during the blog giveaway, it is counted and for the first 12,000 hits The Original Scrapbox will donate an EZ View Desk to the Friends of Utah County Children’s Justice Center which helps abused children.

When they reach 25,000 hits on their website during the giveaway they will also donate an EZ View Desk to a charity nominated by you. If you would like to nominate a charity that would welcome an EZ View Desk then please get in contact with Rachelle Christensen at Rachellewrites(AT)gmail.com


To Enter The Draw:

The more you do the more comments you can leave on my blog, there are five potential entries in total!

You must do the first one even if you don't do the rest, help us get those hits on The Original Scrapbox Website for Charity! -

• Visit The Original Scrapbox website, choose your favorite product and leave a comment here, telling me what your favourite is and how you would use this product. (Entitles you to one comment)

• Become a Facebook fan of The Original Scrapbox here. Leave a comment here. (Entitles you to one comment)

• Facebook and/ or tweet (hashtag in Twitter with #scrapbox) the contest and share the link back to this post. Leave a comment here with your facebook and/or Twitter ID (Entitles you to one comment)

• Become a follower to my blog. (Entitles you to one comment)

• Spread the news - Post about this giveaway and link to this blog post or one of the other 11 blogs in the giveaway with a picture of the prize. (Entitles you to one comment)

Make sure your contact info is easily accessible so we can contact you if you win.



Now visit each of these blogs for more chances to win!

Rachelle's Writing Spot

LifeasLou

Vanilla Joy

PriscillaStyles

Capadia Designs

Crafty Makes - That is me!

Just Me,My Soldier and My Two Little Chicks

Random-Ish by Nichole

Auntie Thesis

Park City Girl

Lovely Little Handmades

The Queen of the Clan

This giveaway closes on the 11th December. I will use Random.org to choose the winner and if you are the winner, I'll email you and you must respond by December 13th or a new winner will be selected to go on for the Grand Prize.

No purchase necessary to enter. Entries that do not follow all of the entry requirements will not be considered. Open to residents of UK and EU countries as well as the United States and Canada.

Good Luck

Simon Says - Let It Snow

More snowflakes today and this one is for the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Challenges which is about 'Let It Snow'.

For today's card I have paper pieced the elegant Festive Winter Willow from Whiff Of Joy and layered her on a vellum background covered in glitter.


My rather dodgy photography doesn't show that her trim is given dimension with glossy accents and she has glitter on her holly berries.


I sat her on the Christmas present from the Whiff Of Joy Sled and added a little rosette with a Whiff Of Joy snowflake.

Have a snowflake day.
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Festive Winter Willow, sled and snowflake from Whiff Of Joy
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor
Paper - K&Co
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; scissors; silicone glue; double sided tape
Other - Martha Stewart round the page punch; Ribbon; Stickles; Glitter; Glossy Accent glue; Seam ripper; Cuttlebug; Nestibilities Label Nine

Inky Impressions Challenge 25

Morning all, I'm really excited to be able to show you my first DT make for Inky Impressions Challenge blog. The challenge for the next two weeks is all about -

Snowflakes

I've used Rachel's Gingerbread Christmas which if you didn't know is actually a digi-stamp! Yay for Digi-stamps - instant stamping fix :) I am such a Digi-stamp convert now that I've found a paper to print on that will allow me to colour with Copics or Prismacolor / Sansodor without my printer ink smearing or bleeding. Wahoo!


I've kept the card quite simple and let the image do the talking! She is coloured with my Prismacolor pencils and I've layered her up and added glossy accents to the baubles and lights for that extra dimension.

Have you got your trees up yet?
Ours went up Monday night - yay! Ooo pretty!
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Inky Impressions
Colouring - Prismacolor pencils; Sansodor
Usual suspects - silicone glue; paper trimmer; scissors
Other - Cuttlebug; embossing folder; glossy accents; computer; printer

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 6

Hey All, How you doing? It is the Quixotic Paperie Challenge number 6 and this week it is all about:

Stars

Don't forget that this month everyone is playing for a Mystery pack of yummy crafty goodies worth £20!

So here is my make for the challenge - A big Christmas Star! Ooo and if you want to see more Christmas Stars have a look at the one Kelly from Crafting Creativity has done!


This star is an altered wooden star from Quixotic Paperie, with one of the super cute angels from the CC Designs Sugar Plums Angel Emma Stamp set. Love!


I punched holes in the star with my Crop-a-dile and then covered it with Gesso (the star - not my Crop-a-dile! LOL!).


Then stamped out the music background on ordinary paper with Versacolor charcoal ink. Don't look too closely as you will notice that I stamped one upside down - Oops!


I then cut out a star to cover the front of the wooden star and started to add colour with distress inks and Brilliance ink. Then gave it a Gesso wash and stamped over with a crackle stamp and light distress ink.


Using diluted PVA I attached the paper to the front of the wooden star and when it was dry - well almost dry, I'm so impatient - I used my piercing tool to poke the holes through the paper ready to thread the ribbon through.


The cute angel is coloured with Prismacolor pencils and Sansodor and then added some shine with a wash of Brilliance ink. I've also used Pixie Dust Shimmerz Blingz on her wings. The final touch is a little bit of Angelina Fibers behind her.

Have fun with your star projects.
Kim

Materials:
Stamps - CC Designs Sugar Plums Angel Emma Stamp set; Music background; Crackle background
Colouring - Prismacolor pencils; sansodor; brilliance inks
Papers - Homemade
Usual Suspects - Scissors; Silicone glue
Other - Ribbon; wooden star; Crop-a-dile; Versacolor charcoal ink; Distress inks; Brilliance ink; Gesso; Shimmerz Blingz; Angelina fibers

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Need Help

Well that is so true on so many levels! LOL! But what I'm specifically talking about is The Original Scrapbox big Christmas giveaway to charity and blog hoppers. We desperately need more hits to reach our charity goals. If you had a moment would you mind visiting the website to boast our hits count?

We have approx 5,500 hits on the website but need 12k for our first target and 25k for the second target! The blog hop finishes on the 11th December.

To be in with a chance to win the desk you need to comment here.

Please spread the news!
Thanks guys, you are the best!

Back later with my DT make for this week's Quixotic Paperie Challenge.

More Chrimbo Cards

Will the Christmas cards ever end - I here you cry! Yeah I'm getting pretty desperate now - haven't sent any cards either LOL! Every year I think I will start earlier - but I never do do I?

This set of cards uses the ultra-versatile CC Designs Cookie Crumbs Reason For The Season stamp set which I think might be one of my favourites this season.


But I reckon that you can probably get away with using this throughout the year for baby cards as well - what you reckon?

Ok my sugar plums - you all have a good day

Catch yous laters
Kim

Mass Production!

Just a quickie, I'm in full mass production to finish my Christmas cards! Just wanted to show you these Hero Arts cards in different colours :)

Also wanted to let you know that we have reached 2000 Hits on The Original Scrapbox Charity give away and blog candy but still got a little way to go before the 11th December so don't forget to drop by this post to see how you can help and win!

And The Winner IS.....

Morning all,

Thanks everyone for entering and spreading the word for my little giveaway.

I have a winner for you for the lovely Charlotte Decorating Christmas Tree Whiff Of Joy Stamp giveaway as picked by Random.org:

Claude from Life and Tribulations

Congratulations Claude! Please email me your posting address (my email is in the sidebar) and I will get your new stamp off to you.

But don't forget to check out how you can win a new craft desk and help give to charity.

Oh and whilst you are waiting you might want to go check out all the Christmas special offers over at Quixotic Paperie.

Whiff Of Joy Henry Stops For A Hot Chocolate

A little Whiff Of Joy Henry Mouse Christmas Card today and he looks like he needs some warming up!


Copic markers were used to colour him and a little Stickles for the steam from the hot chocolate.

Just getting really excited about tomorrow's post - waiting impatiently...!
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Whiff Of Joy Henry Mouse and sentiment
Ink - Versafine Onyz black
Colouring - Copic markers
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; silicone glue
Other - sewing machine; Stickles glue; Cuttlebug; Spellbinders Snowflake 1; Lace ribbon; Seam ripper

News, News, News

Hi All, I thought I would do a bit of a news flash...

Have you seen that both Sugar Nellie and Elzybells Art Stamps are running December giveaways on their blogs?

I have some very exciting news too! I'm an Inky Impressions Inkette for the next three months :)

The other fabulous Inkettes are

Crystal Irwin - Senior Design Team Leader

Shary Nettleship

Chris Olsen

Jackie Rakoski

Beth Ranney - Thomas

Cheryl Walker

Dominique Hornberger

Angela Wood

Kim Y

But that is not my only news! I can't tell you much now...It is all hush, hush! But come back tomorrow to find out something that I think you will all be very excited about! I know I'm very excited! Tee Hee!

Oh and don't forget I have a gorgeous Whiff of Joy stamp still up for grabs.

Back later with a card (yep a Christmas card!).

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 5

It's Wednesday and it is the Fifth Quixotic Paperie challenge.

This week's challenge, as picked by Martine, is:

Charms

Here is my offering today - I've used My Mind's Eye Colourful Christmas papers and the Bow-Easy™ Template for the silver bow.

The super cute Gossamer Cornwand Fairy from Amy Young at CC Designs has been coloured with Copic Markers and Stickles glitter. I've given her some sparkly lipstick too - now I want some glitter lippy!

Little snowflake punch shapes have been used in place of the little spiders at the bottom of her skirt to turn her into a Christmas fairy and I've used Glossy Accents on her wings and shoes.

Yeah - but what about the Charm? I mean that is what the challenge is about after all?

Well I've used a Fleur De Lys charm, that I've snipped off the hanging hoop with my pliers then fixed it to one of the little wooden Christmas tree shapes that I had decorated with white paint, book paper and Rock Candy crackle paint.

I would have used a Christmas charm - but I didn't have one! So a little creative panic and hey presto LOL!


But before you rush off, have you checked out if you have won November's £20 shopping spree at Quixotic Paperie?

Have a Charming day
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Gossamer Cornwand Fairy from Amy Young at CC Designs
Ink - Memento Tuxedo black
Colouring - Copic Markers
Papers - My Mind's Eye Colourful Christmas papers
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue
Other - Stickles Glitter; Fleur De Lys charm; Wooden Christmas tree shape; Snowflake punch; Spellbinders Snowflake one; Cuttlebug; Vellum; Ribbon; Sewing machine; White paint; Rock candy crackle paint; book pages; Glossy Accents;

Whiff Of Joy Advent Calendar

Hey guys, have you heard about the Whiff Of Joy Advent Calendar where everyday a card is posted on Katharina's blog and you get the chance to win some yummy blog candy?

I have a Whiff Of Joy make for you all and this one uses Sled Packed with Gifts, Freezing Willow and a sentiment from the Winter kit.

I've coloured her with Copic markers and added some Stickles glitter bling.


Right off to make more Christmas cards! I've recounted and I only have around 25 more to make and not 40 as I first thought - phew!

Have a lovely Dec 1st
Kim

Materials:
Stamps - Sled Packed with Gifts, Freezing Willow and a sentiment from the Whiff Of Joy Winter kit
Ink - Memento Tuxedo black
Paper - My Mind's Eye Laundry Line
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; silicone glue
Other - Stickles; Ribbon; Seam ripper; Sewing machine; Cuttlebug; Nestabilities

Christmas Joy

Happy Monday to you all, I have another Christmas card for you today - only another 40 to do now.....Erm

Anyhow, this one uses the Hero Arts Stamps Clear Designs Holiday Dolls from Quixotic Paperie.

Oh the fun of Christmas card making. LOL!
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Hero Arts Stamps Clear Designs Holiday Dolls
Ink - Memento white, black
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; silicone glue
Other - sewing machine