Friendship Warms The Heart

My lovely friend Siri sent me the stamp that I've featured on this Christmas make - How lovely is she? Thank you Siri! What a lovely stamp!

I thought that I would enter this make into the Simon Says Stamp Challenge which is 'Merry Christmas'.


I've coloured the image with Prismacolor pencils and sansodor and added some glitter to the tree and snow.

The snowflakes are made using the Spellbinders Create a snowflake one and I've added glitter to bling it up!

Hope you are all having a glittery, glitzy day!
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Rachelle Anne Miller
Ink - VersaFine Onyz Black
Colouring - PrismaColor; Sansodor
Paper - BasicGrey
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape; silicone glue
Other - Cuttlebug; Snowflake one; glitter; glossy accent glue; sewing machine

Gingerbread Hearts

Mmm Gingerbread - yummy, I keep meaning to get some :)

So this stamp is Willow with Gingerbread Heart and is from Whiff Of Joy and I've used the fab sketch over at The Whiff Of Joy Challenge Blog this week as inspiration.


Yeah my stitching went a bit wonky as I was at the end of reel and I was too busy making sure that I did not run out of cotton to look where I was stitching, LOL! The stamp has been coloured with PrismaColor Pencils and Sansodor.

Have a lovely Gingerbread day.
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Willow with Gingerbread Heart Whiff Of Joy
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Paper - Basic Grey
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape; silicone glue
Other - Cuttlebug; Spellbinders Snowflake one; Buttons; sewing machine; thread

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 7

Yep - It is Wednesday and that means it is the Quixotic Paperie Challenge.

This week's challenge is:

Lace

This is the last challenge at Quixotic Paperie for a few weeks to give everyone some time off in the Holiday Season :) We shall be back on the 6th January 2010.

Here is my make this week and I've used my lace as a little rossette to back the image which is from the fabulous CC Designs Cookie Crumbs - Reason For The Season as is the sentiment. The paper is from the Cosmo Cricket Early Bird pack.

Can't wait to see your Lacey makes :)
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - CC Designs Cookie Crumbs - Reason For The Season
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor
Paper - Cosmo Cricket Early Bird
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; silicone glue; double-sided tape
Other - Lace; Sewing machine

Good News!

Thank You Everyone!

I wanted to give a Great Big Thank You to everyone of you who helped in the recent The Original Scrapbox 12 Blogs of Christmas Give Away.


We made the first target of 12,000 click counts and The Original Scrapbox will be donating an EZ View Desk to the Friends of Utah County Children’s Justice Center! Wahoo! Well done everyone!

Sad news though, we did not make the 25,000 hits for the second charity giveaway. BUT The Original Scrapbox are going to give the second desk to charity anyway! Isn't that fantastic? Thank You The Original Scrapbox!

If you have a charity you would like the second desk to go to please let Rachelle (Rachellethewriter(at)gmail(dot)com) know as she is going through the nominations now.

Rachelle has announced the winner of the EZ View Desk on her blog.

Whiff Of Joy Willow With Christmas Candle

Another Whiff Of Joy for you today and I think that this is one of my favourites from this year's Winter kit. Isn't she beautiful? This is Willow with Christmas Candle. I've matched her with Basic Grey Papers from the Boxer pack and I've stamped a music background and used stitching and distressing.

Also I thought that this would fit with the challenge over at Saturday Spotlight With Hidden Potential which is about your favoutite music - which for me is Christmas Music at this time of year LOL!

My Favourite all time Christmas tune being - The Pogues Fairytale of New York. Ok so this doesn't look very Pogues-like but I do also like Christmas Carols - so perhaps I can get away with it? Tee Hee!


I've coloured her with PrismaColor pencils.


The sentiment is also from Whiff Of Joy and I've been using my Bow-Easy™ Template again :)

Have a lovely Tuesday
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Whiff Of Joy Willow with Christmas Candle
Ink - Versafine onyx black
Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor
Paper - Basic Grey Boxer
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape; silicone glue
Other - Bow-Easy™ Template; Ribbon; Nestibilities Label nine; Seam ripper; sewing machine; Cuttlebug

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.