Five Things To Do With....Flat-Backed Pearls

Hey All, got something a little different for you today.

Elaine from Quixotic Cards challenged me to use flat-backed pearls in five different ways. She gave me two weeks to do it and I took a month! So I've failed already but I thought I would show you anyway LOL!

All the pearls are available from Quixotic Paperie in lots of scrummy colours and lots of different shapes and sizes.

I had initially thought that I would do five different cards with five different uses for the flat-backed pearls but then I just got a bit carried away and crammed all the uses on the same card!

The card used some Hot Off The Press papers with a little bit of the Basic Grey Sugar Rush papers. The image is CC Designs Swiss Miss Rosalie coloured with PrismaColor pencils and highlighted Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Stardust pen.

Uses One and Two:

I've used these 3mm metallic silver flat-backed pearls as Rosalie's buttons and as a little accent on the side of the image.

Use Three:

Some 4mm red Flat-backed pearls to add balance to the card.

Use Four:

The 4mm and 8mm flat-backed pearls as flower centres.

Use Five:

Ok a little weird this one but I wanted to add some paint to the background paper and thought I would play with using the pearls to make marks. So I covered some cardboard with a thin layer of silicone glue and added some of the 4mm flat-backed pearls and let it dry to make a flat-backed pearls stamp!

Then I added acrylic paint and dragged it across the paper. Followed this with a bit of sparkle using Fire-engine red Shimmerz paint and Pixie dust Shimmerz Blingz using my ad hoc flat-backed pearl stamp :)

Well I had a lot of fun with this, once I started I kept coming up with different uses for the flat-backed pearls there is so much you can do with them.

I would absolutely love to hear how you use yours.

Right, now I have to pass the baton over to Elaine and set her a 'Five Things To Do With' Challenge and I was thinking I would love to see what she does with the fabulous Bazzill Jewels Templates...Over to you Elaine :)

Have a Pearly day

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - CC Designs Miss Rosalie

Ink - Versefine Onyz

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Paper - Basic Grey Sugar Rush; Hot Off The Press Papers

Usual Suspects - paper trimmer; silicone glue; scissors;

Other - Flat-backed pearls; Sakura Gelly Roll Clear Stardust pen; Shimmerz Paints; Sewing machine; black lace

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 17

Challenge, Challenge, Challenge - It is Quixotic Paperie Challenge day today and Elaine has chosen a really fun challenge for us all:

Altered Anya and Friends

What fun and you have two weeks for this challenge so plenty of time to join in! You can do anything you like to tweek and change your The Greeting Farm stamps for this one. If you pop along to the challenge blog you will see some more examples of what we mean!

Also there is an extra prize for this challenge - our favourite entry to the challenge will win, so get your The Greeting Farm Stamps out ASAP!

Meantime here is my altered TGF make. I've used my two favourite TGF stamps Wild Sprouts Annika and Geisha Anya. She is coloured with my Copic pens and I just so want that hair and outfit!

The papers are from the gorgeous Paper Dolls new in Quixotic Paperie from Crate Paper.

I've used the beautiful Pearl pins available at Quixotic Paperie and I'm just in love with these pins :) The double bow was made using the Bow-Easy Template and you know how much I love that!

I can not wait to see what you do with this challenge.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - The Greeting Farm Wild Sprout Annika and Geisha Anya

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Colouring - Copic Pens

Papers - Paper Dolls Crate Paper

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; silicone glue; double-sided tape; scissors

Other - Pearl Pins; Bow-Easy Template; Ribbon; Crop-a-dile

Blog Candy Heads-Up

Hey all, Emily has some blog candy over at {Ippity} Inspiration open until 21st March 2010 :)

H{Ippity} Hop Is A Hopping

Got some very sneaky peaks for you - they are from the card I have made for the Monday {Ippity} Blog hop. If you want to see the card it is over at {Ippity} Inspirations :)

Tee Hee - Mean of me I know!

This sentiment from the Fishy Philosophy set always reminds me of Dory from Finding Nemo.

Just keep Swimming!

Kim

Heads-Up!

Hey All, a quick heads-up for you -

Emily has Free P&P on offer for this weekend for your Unity and {Ippity} orders so pop on over to Make The Day Special for the Unity stamps and {Ippity} Inspiration for the {Ippity} stamps, inks and papers.

Happy shopping :)

Kim

{Ippity} Hello

Just in case you had not noticed - It is Friday - Woop! Woop! As it is Friday it is my {Ippity} make day :)

My make today uses the {Ippity} Because Of You Stamp Set which you can get from Emily over at her blog {Ippity} Inspiration.

Emily has been making some changes over at her shop Make The Day Special. You can find some yummy Unity stamps there and you can also pre-order the Your Next Stamp range there as well. Keep your eye on the shop as Emily is adding new stamp ranges over the next few weeks.

The background is the script stamp from the set stamped in white on coloured card. I've used ribbon from the Make The Day Special Kit #2 and a Cretan Stitch with beads to make a border.

I bordered the sentiment with a straight stitch and beads.

Have a lovely Friday you all.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Make The Day Special {Ippity} Because Of You

Ink - Memento White; VersaFine onyx black

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; Double-sided tape

Other - Embroidery thread; Needle; Beads; Ribbon; Fiskars border punch

Inky Impressions Challenges No. 31

It is a colour challenge for the Inky Impressions Challenges this fortnight:

Think Green

All you need to do is add green somewhere in your make. I've used the Amy Butler papers from K&Co with the lovely lime greens.

The image is the cute Lili's Cleaning Day from Inky Impressions and I have coloured her with PrismaColor Pencils.

The heart embellishment is made from painted corrugated cardboard and I've layered it up with some netting, fabric and Hessian with a button and paper beads to finish it.

Have fun with your green makes.

Kim

Edit: The lovely Shirley has done it again and pointed out that this card fits the challenge over at Cute Card Thursday which this week has a Lucky Green theme. Thanks Shirley!


Materials:
Stamp - Lili's cleaning day from Inky Impressions

Ink - VersaFine Onyx black

Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor

Papers - K&Co Amy Butler

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape; Silicone glue; Scissors

Other - Netting; Fabric; Hessian; Corrugated cardboard; paint; button; thread; Button

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 16

A new challenge from Quixotic Paperie Challenge blog for you today and this week it is:

Leaves It Out!

Well actually what we want is for you to 'leaves' it in - or in other words add leaves to your projects :) Ok so it was a very poor pun on words chosen by me!

My project has quite a few leaves in it! Well first there is the leaves in the image which is the gorgeous CC Designs Sweet November Fruit of the Month Grape.

Second you could perhaps say that the flowers on the backing paper could be leaves? What do you think? They could be clover leaves perhaps? Well the papers are from the Cosmo Cricket Earth Love paper pack and I've distressed the edges a bit with distress inks.

The image is coloured with PrismaColor pencils and I've used Glossy Accents on her dress. I've carefully highlighted each of the grapes individually with the glue as I wanted to give the skirt dimension in keeping with the design.

Glossy Accents is great as it only goes where you put it. I've tried other dimension glues but Glossy Accents work beautifully.

The bow was made with the Bow-Easy Template and I did a double bow. What do you think? That Bow-Easy sure does work! Yeah I know I've said that before LOL!

The charm is the large Toadstool available at Quixotic Paperie, oh and if you have a look at the card you will see some flat-backed pearls on it too! Packed it all this week!

There is a third set to leaves in my make... I used a die-cut leaf to mask off bits of the backing card for the image then inked around the leaf to give a negative image.

Gosh that was a long post for me!

I will let you get on with what you were doing :)

Have fun!

Kim

Materials:
Stamps - CC Designs Sweet November Fruit of the Month Grape
Inks - VersaFine Onyz black; VersaColor various greens; Distress inks straw

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Papers - Cosmo Cricket Earth Love

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Scissors; Silicone glue; Double-sided tape

Other - Glossy Accents; Bow-Easy Template; Toadstool Charm; Flat-backed pearls; Cuttlebug; Leaf die; Ribbon; Fiskars border punch; Slots punch

A Heads-Up For You

Happy Monday everyone,

Just a quickie to say that Elaine has the new The Greeting Farm Stamps at Quixotic Paperie and she is offering a free embellishment gift pack to anyone who spends £15 or more (excluding P&P) on The Greeting Farm Stamps range for the next week (1st - 7th March 2010).

This is Ebony from TGF range and you can see her being used perfectly on Elaine's lovely blog.

Also whilst you are at Quixotic Paperie check out the Bow-Easy Template it makes tying perfect bows really easy - well just as it says!

Hope you have a very productive Monday!

Kim

Make The Day Special {Ippity} Friday

Watcha! It is my Make The Day Special {Ippity} Stamp day again and I have a sparkly make with the Make The Day Special Kit #2.

Emily has a couple of sets made up for you and I have just seen the newest kit addition to the shop and it is a real cutey! You can see the new kit here just full of the joys of Spring.


I've used kit #2 to make this card, the only thing I have added from my stash is the stickles on the tree leaves and the black card the rest is all from the kit and I have photographed it with the ribbon in the kit - just coz I love ribbon - tee hee!

Well it is a Friday sign-off from me and I
hope that you have a sparkly, ribbony
and of course fluffy Friday :)
Kim

ps. Trust me to forget something! Don't you forget to join Emily's blog candy it closes on the 28th Feb!

Materials:
Stamp - Make The Day Special Kit #2
Ink - Rangers Archival Ink black
Usual Suspects - Double-sided tape; silicone glue
Other - Ribbons; Buttons; Flowers; Stickles; Corner rounder

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 15

Beep Beep Grind Whirl -----H-E-L-L-O-----Whirl Grind Beep Beep

Hello All, it is the Quixotic Paperie challenge and this week we have:

One For The Boys

I have another hanger for you today and for this one I have used the wonderful My Mind's Eye Lil' Robots paper kit available over at Quixotic Paperie.

How cute? No, sorry, I mean how very male? LOL!

The hanger uses the die-cuts that come with the Lil' Robots papers. I've printed the sentiment in the little die-cut speech bubble.

Forget the boys! This one is so going up in my craft space!

Whirl Whirl Whirl

H-A-V-E---A-N---E-L-E-C-T-R-I-C---D-A-Y

Beep Whirl Kim Whirl Beep

(I think I might need oiling)

Materials:

Papers - My Mind's Eye Lil' Robot

Usual Suspects - scissors; craft knife; silicone glue; 3D-foam

Other - acrylic drops; metal chain; Crop-a-dile;

Go With The Flow

Hey All, I have a Make The Day Special {Ippity} stamps card for you today.

I've used the lovely Fishy Philosophy set from the new release and I think that Go with the flow is definitely my philosophy for today!


The pond weed has been coloured with Stickles glue which gives a lovely sparkly underwater feel.
But me no buttons! Oh lovely buttons! Buttons, buttons, buttons...

Sorry. Did I get a bit distracted by buttons just then?

Edit: The lovely Shirley has pointed out that my card fits this week's challenge over at Cards For Men which has a Green theme. Thanks Shirley!

Hope your day flows easily!

Kim

Materials:
Stamps - Make The Day Special {Ippity} Fishy Philosophy

Inks - VersaColor charcoal

Colouring - Stickles glue

Usual Suspects - Silicone glue

Other - Cuttlebug; Embossing folder; Spellbinders Nestibilities; Calico; Corner rounder; Kraft card; Buttons, lots and lots of lovely buttons (off again!)

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 14

How is your Quixotic Paperie Challenge make going? This week it is all about making

Something For Mum

I've made a little bookmark using the really, really cute CC Designs Itzy Inkies Flower Power set available at Quixotic Paperie.

I've kept it thin and not overly embellished so it will fit nicely into a book! Well after my last mistake of trying to make a bookmark and putting so much on it that I had to make it into a hanger LOL!

I've used yummy Cosmo Cricket Earth Love papers and some fabulous flat back pearls and Stickles glue in the flower centre to finish the bookmark.

(btw did I say how really cute the CC Designs Itzy Inkies Flower Power set is?)

Have a Flower Power Saturday

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - CC Designs Itzy Inkies Flower Power set (very cute!); Studio G Alpha

Ink - Versafine Onyz Black

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Paper - Cosmo Cricket Earth Love papers
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape; silicone glue

Other - pearls; Stickles

I'm Going To Eat You Little Fishy!

Make The Day Special {Ippity} Stamps day here on my blog and this week I've been able to play with one of the fab stamp sets from the new release.

There are eight new stamp sets in the release all available from Make The Day Special and all just gorgeous (I'm sure I've probably said that already - tee hee!).

My make today uses stamps from Fishy Philosophy. I've stamped one of the pond weeds onto light kraft paper. The layers are all fabrics and get this - The blue fabric is from an old cushion that I re-purposed and dyed myself! (Ok so I'm easily impressed LOL!)

The little fishy has been stamped onto white paper and coloured with PrismaColor pencils. I then smeared with glitter and covered with Glossy Accents to get a really sparkly fishy.

Don't forget that Emily has a stamp set from the new release as Blog Candy on her blog {Ippity} Inspiration - Yum!

Hope you have a swimmingly good Friday.

Kim

Materials:
Stamps - Make The Day Special {Ippity} Stamps Fishy Philosophy

Ink - Versafine Onyz black; Versacolor blue and bamboo

Colouring - Prismacolor pencils; Sansodor

Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; scissors

Other - eyelets; button; fabrics; Crop-a-dile; Glossy accents

Inky Impressions Challenges No. 30

Hey All,

Inky Impressions card for you today and this one is for the challenge over the next two weeks which is:

Think Spring

there are some amazing samples from the DT, well worth a look!

My make uses the Lili's Cleaning Day - Spring Cleaning of course!

She is coloured with PrismaColor pencils and I've added bling with Inky Drops.

So who is Spring Cleaning? I know I should be....

Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Inky Impressions Lili's Cleaning Day

Ink - Versafine Onyz black

Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor

Papers - October Afternoon

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape; silicone glue

Other - Star Nesties; Cuttlebug; Ribbon; Inky Drops; Bow-Easy Template; Ribbon