Another Altered Page

Hi Guys, for anyone who regularly sees my makes you will know that I am a bit of the style-flitter - I jump around the different styles having not worked out what my style actually is yet!

I'm not sure if it is just my need to try out everything, or my very short attention span or if, one day, I will settle on a particular style.

I've been having lots of fun with altered pages at the moment! So I thought I would show you another one, slightly different from my Alice In wonderland - Inspired make. I've called this one Language Bird. Ok so I'm not so good with naming my makes!

I thought I would enter this into the Free As A Bird Challenge over at Ink On My Fingers which holds the Sunday Stamper's Challenge and as it is the 100 challenge it is sponsored by The Artistic Stamper and The Stamp Attic.

I've used a page from an old English encyclopedia and from a German book - however, as I do not speak German I have no idea what the page is about!

I've coloured the page with Watercolour wax crayons and then masked and used inks over the top. The bird and branch are Wendy Rhodes stamps and I've used Glossy Accents over the bird.

There is a bit of doodling and stitching and I used the Bazzill Templates for the stitched swirls. The stamp is from Japan.

Right off to flitter
(is that even a word, my spell check doesn't seem to recognise it? Where is my Editor boyfriend when I need him?)
about with something else.

Hope you are all having a great Saturday

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Wendy Rhodes

Ink - Archival Black; VersaColor inks

Colouring - Neocolor Watersoluble wax crayons

Other - Glossy Accents; Bazzill Templates; Stamp; embroidery thread; Prismacolor Illustration markers; Templates; Mod Podge

Inky Impressions Challenges No. 34

Hey All,

Wanted to share with you my last DT card for Inky Impressions, thanks for having me on your team girls, it was fun!

This make is for the current Inky Impressions challenge:

A recipe -

3 Layers,

3 Embellishments,

2 Designer Papers,

1 Ribbon

I've used one of my favourite Inky Girls - Fairy Lili with an Inky Impressions Sentiment and matched her with some Papermania papers (I think they are Papermania!).

Don't forget to enter your makes and look at the lovely inspiration from the Inkettes!

Have a great day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Inky Impressions Sentiment and Fairy Lili

Ink - VersaFine Onyz

Colouring - PrismaColor; Sansodor

Papers - Papermania?

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

Other - Ribbon; Sewing machine

Lighting The Way With More Lighthouses

Another lighthouse for you today, this one is a Unity Lighthouse from the lovely Adventures In Happiness kit from Make the Day Special.

As I'm obviously in a sailing mood this week I thought I would give it some bunting and rope, well string!

Just to let you know, Emily has some specials over at the Make The Day Special shop and the Tweety Jills are on at 25% off!

Have a lovely day

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Unity Adventures In Happiness

Ink - VersaFine Onyz black

Colouring - PrismaColor

Papers - Cosmo Cricket

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

Other - String; Buttons; cuttlebug; nesties; stapler

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 22

We are getting our feet wet over at Quixotic Paperie this week! The challenge is:

Make A Splash

Create a make featuring a water theme in some way, so boats, scenes, pirates are all the thing this week.

Here is my DT make for the challenge and I went for a paper pieced scene using the yummy Crate Paper Brook kit with a little bit of Paper Doll thrown in!

I've inked around the edges of the paper to add dimension. The lighthouse and boat from the Paper Make-Up Sailing By set are stamped on the same papers then coloured them with a light touch of my PrismaColor Pencils.

Well I do hope you are going to sail away with us on this week's challenge!

Have fun.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Paper Make-Up Stamps Sailing By Stamp set

Ink - VersaColor various colours

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Paper - Crate Paper Brook and a touch of Paper Doll

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; Scissors

Other - Sewing machine

Papercraft Essentials Issue 54

Just a shameless plug for a recent article with templates I did for Papercraft Essentials Issue 54.

If you look really, really carefully you will see my cards on the cover too. Get your magnifying glass out LOL!

Still begging for votes for the TGF Royal Battle! If you have a spare moment please log in at the TGF gallery and leave a comment on our candy packaging! Thank you!

Scroll down for the winner of my recent blog candy and I'll be back tomorrow with a make (I hope!)

TTFN

Kim

We Have A Winner!

Hey All,

Thanks so much for entering my recent blog candy and spreading the word on your blogs. It was great fun popping around your blogs and saying hello!

Well I've drawn a winner with Random.org and the winner is:

Emma Lockley from Something Sweet

Congratulations Emma! Please send me your mailing address by email and I will get the goodies off to you!

Have a lovely day everyone.

Kim

{Ippity} Blog Hop Day

I'm Hippity {Ippity} Hopping today, it would be great if you would join me :)

I've mixed and matched two {Ippity} sets, Simply Home and Moon Beam and Heart Strings for you today. Both sets are available over at Emily's {Ippity} Inspirations Blog.

For a list of {Ippity} Hoppers please pop along through this link.

Happy Hopping all!

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - {Ippity} Simply Home and Moon Beam and Heart Strings

Inks - Archival Black

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Mod Podge; Double-sided tape

Other - Fabric; Cuttlebug; Nesties; Marvy Le Plume pens

Blog Candy! Blog Candy! Get Your Yummy Blog Candy Here!

This Blog Candy is Now Closed.

The winner was announced here

Hey Guys, hope you have been having a lovely Easter Sunday and have found all of your chocolate eggs? I have a little treat for you to go with the chocolates :)

Some of you might have seen a recent Little Miss Article I did for Papercraft Essentials Issue 52? It was great fun making the cards but I had lots of the lovely Paper Cellar Little Miss products left over so just wanted to share the fun! Papercraft Essentials have very kindly said that I can give them away as blog candy! Thanks Mel!

Some of the products have been used in the article so some of the packets have been opened and partly used but there is still plenty to play with as the packets are very generous.

If you are interested in winning all of this to play with then just sign up in Mr Linky below with a link to your blog so that I can contact you if you win. Please spread the word to your friends and followers with links and a picture of the candy if possible.

And of course - feel free to become a follower of my blog if you aren't already and you like what I do! :)

(If you do not have a blog then please link to this blog in Mr Linky BUT with YOUR name and keep an eye on this blog in case you win.)

The Winner will need to contact me quickly so that I can get the package out to them!

Open until 18th April 2010

Good Luck you lovely lot!

Little Miss Candy Contents:

One breast cancer care pink shopping bag

12x12 Patterned Paper Pack (28 papers)

6x6 Patterned Paper Pack (48 papers)

Make It Yourself Decoupage die cuts (4.5 sheets)

Make It Yourself Bubble Stick Ons (1.5 packs)

Make It Yourself Stick Ons (2 packs, both with one stick on used)

Make It Yourself Complements Small (2 packs)

Make It Yourself Complements large (1 pack with one sticker used)

Make It Yourself Glitter Borders (2.75 packs)

Make It yourself Velvet Borders (1 pack)

2 rolls of shaped border tape

TGF Royal Battle News - Week 4

Hey guys, how you all doing this lovely Sunday? Well I just wanted to thank you for the support and votes for Quixotic Stampers (Elaine, Emma and Rowena) in the TGF Royal Battle - my LO got through! Thank you!

This week it is Elaine's go and the challenge is Candy Packaging and here is what Elaine came up with - Mmmm sweeties :)



It would be great to get through to the next round so please vote for us again this week! You can vote by logging onto The Greeting Farm Gallery and leaving a comment on Elaine's lovely make. You only have one vote this time - please make it for us! Thank you!

Have a lovely rest of your day.

Kim

Curiouser And Curiouser! Cried Alice

I've been playing with paint and having a whale of a time! Why does playing with paint make me so ridiculously happy? LOL!

Well here is the result of a recent playing with paint session - an Alice in Wonderland inspired altered book page that has been rattling around in my head for a couple of months or so now.

I thought that I would enter it into the Sir Stampalot April Challenge which is all about 'Fantasy' and get this - you can win a Cricut Personal Electronic Cutter! Oh Boy Oh Boy! Yes you heard me right - quick, you have until Midday 29th April to get you entries in!

The details (skip to the pictures if you aren't interested LOL!):

For my altered Alice page I've used a range of techniques and materials. The background is painted in acrylics on an old book page and layered up on painted calico. I've used salt to give that broken-up speckled look and then a Tim Holtz mask to give the negative image shadow.

I really should have taken pictures of each stage as I was going along, but I didn't think it would ever get to my blog, LOL!

I've used Viva Decor glitter gel to add some dimension. Then stamped Paper Artsy and Tuesday Technique stamps on the background for the clock and clock parts.

Alice is from the internet and I've lightly coloured her with pencils - I wanted a tinted look rather than coloured look.

The Cheshire Cat was hand drawn using the recent Tim Burton film for inspiration. The key is a Stamps Away stamp on paper and then glazed onto the page with tinted Mod Podge (my new best friend!).

Of course I had to use fabric, lace, buttons and stitching LOL! Coloured, where needed, with acrylic paint. You might also have noticed some {Ippity} Stamps as well - the Mushrooms :)

This was such fun to do! It might take a bit longer than you average card - even at the rate I make cards! Which is very slowly!

Well thanks for looking

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend

Kimx

Materials:

Stamps - {Ippity}; Paper Artsy; Tuesday Technique; Stamps Away; Studio G Alpha

Colouring - Pencils; Acrylic paints

Inks - VersaColor; Archival black

Other - Buttons; Lace; Computer; Printer; Calico; Sewing Machine; Tim Holtz Mask; Mod Podge; Viva Decor; Glossy Accents; PrismaColor Illustration Markers

Pastel Nickie's Birdie

Hello Friday, Ok I blinked and the week vanished. If anyone knows where it went please could they send it back to me?

Got a bit of pink for you today with the super sweet Nickie's Birdie from Inky Impressions and I seem to be having a thing for button flowers at the moment - gone a bit button flower CrAzy :)

Hope you like this sweetie and have a super sweet Friday.

(oh now I just want some cake, all this talk of sweets!)

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Nickie's Birdie Inky Impressions

Ink - VersaFine Black; Colourbox chalk inks

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Papers - My Mind's Eye Laundry Line

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

Other - Buttons; Thread; sponge; Circle nesties; Cuttlebug

Getting Ready For The Wedding Season

Have you met Fhiona and Fhinn? They are from Your Next Stamp which you can find over at Make The Day Special. Here they are getting married :) Ahhhh!

All the hearts and the sentiment come with the wedding stamp set which has lots of cute stamps such as wedding cakes, champagne flutes and wedding rings.

I've finished the card with a fabric and paper flower.

Have a fabulous Thursday.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Fhiona and Fhinn Your Next Stamp

Ink - Versafine onyz black

Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor

Papers - HOTP

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

Other - Pearl brad; Organza; Tulle; Martha Stewart corner punch

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 21

Get out your metal it is the Quixotic Challenge today and it is all going:

Heavy Metal

To go with this metal frenzy, Elaine has a fabulous special offer over at Quixotic Paperie:

10% off all charms, pins, spacers, jewels, pearls and Prima flower centres from Wednesday 14th April 2010 to Wednesday 21st April 2010

Perfect for this challenge!

Here is my DT make for the challenge. Originally I had decided to use some pins, but then I was overwhelmed by this urge to try stamping on sheet metal. I've been meaning to try stamping on metal so this challenge was just the perfect opportunity to give it a go!

The Stove / Oven is one of the wonderful Alota background stamps - I love them, they are just fabulous! Another of my favourite stamps (yeah, I know, I have lots of favourite stamps!) is the Belles and Whistles Tania Baking which Elaine has on special offer over at Quixotic Paperie.

So two favourite stamps have been matched with one of my favourite paper packs at the moment which is the Material Girl from Cosmic Cricket and the little bow was made with my Bow Easy Template.

So get out your metal bits and pieces folks.

Can't wait to see what you do with them.

Kim

Materials:
Stamps - Stove / Oven Alota Stamps; Belles and Whistles Tania Baking

Ink - Archival black

Colouring - Copic pens; PrismaColor pencils

Papers - Material Girl from Cosmic Cricket

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

Other - Sheet Metal silver and copper; Thread; Ribbon; Bow Easy Template

Inky Impressions Flower Lili

Back to cards today! I've got an Inky Impressions girl for you and this is Flower Lili - so sweet!

I've matched her with some K & Co papers Que Sera Sera, one of my favourite packs, but I rarely use it. Do you have one of those paper packs that you just like to look at? It is too pretty to layer up on! LOL!

Little Lili is coloured with PrismaColor pencils (no surprise there!)

I've used one of the charms from Inky Impressions but I've cut off the hanging loop to leave a little dragonfly flitting about the button flowers :)

Thanks for popping by and catch you all later

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Flower Lili Inky Impressions

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Papers - K & Co Que Sera Sera

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

Other - Charm; Buttons; Inky Dew Drops; Seam ripper; Lace

Welcome New Teamies!

Hello All,

Did you have a nice weekend? Spring seems to be here in London, the sun was shining on Saturday, so much so that I even had my legs out! Being someone that is forever stuck in her trousers, wearing a skirt is a rare event but I was wearing a skirt on Saturday. I know - ShOck.

Don't worry no pictures were taken!- I would not want to loose any followers/subscribers!

Anyway, I've dropped by to let you know who Emily has chosen to join the Make The Day Special DT:

Lucia Gattuso

Jo Willis

Jane Millard

Lesley Gillian

Cath Stannard

Kate

What a talented group of Girls! Go check them all out - you won't be sorry! I just can't wait to start working with them all!

Catch you all later

Kim

TGF Royal Battle News - Week 3

Something a little different from me today and something a little out of my comfort zone LOL!

The Quixotic Stampers (Elaine, Emma, Rowena and me) are through to round 3 of the TGF Royal Battle thanks to Emma and your wonderful votes :) Thank you all for your support.

Well, this week the challenge is a Scrapbook page and it fell to me to have a go! Oh Boy! Not something I do a lot of as you know!

I borrowed the lovely photograph from Elaine for this layout and matched it with paper from October Afternoon and stamps from The Greeting Farm.

I stamped out the clouds and then masked them and sponged on some pearlescent ink. Then I stamped the balloon and paper pieced it. The lettering was printed and then I doodled on them.

I love mixing fabric and paper and the flowers are made from fabric and I've added a bit of stitching to the layout as well :)
I would love you forever if you could cast your vote on my make by commenting in TGF forum and help the Quixotic Stampers to get through to the next round, I would hate to be the one that lets the girls down!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

xxx

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - The Greeting Farm

Ink - Archival black

Papers - October Afternoon

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

Other - Fabric; computer; printer; Fiskars border punchs

My Watercolour Heart

Hey Guys, happy sunny Friday to you all.

I have a simple {Ippity} make for you today. It uses the Because Of You set available over at Emily's blog {Ippity} Inspiration and I've been playing with my watercolour pens.

Thanks for popping in

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Because Of You {Ippity}

Ink - Archival black

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue

Other - Marvy Le Plume pens; Ribbon; Kraft Card

Inky Impressions Challenges No. 33

Inky Impressions Challenge!

The Inky Impression challenge for the next couple of weeks is:

Charm It!

Here is my charmed make! It uses the new release Nickie's Birdie from Inky Impressions and of course a charm and ribbon from Inky Impressions too.

Don't forget to visit all the fabulous DT's inspiration (links are in my sidebar).

Can't wait to see all your charming makes too!

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Nickie's Birdie Inky Impressions

Ink - VersaFine Onyz Black

Colouring - PrismaColor; Sansodor

Papers - DCWV

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer, Double-sided tape

Other - Charm; Ribbon; Button