Quixotic Paperie Anniversary Blog Hop

Welcome to the Quixotic Paperie online store Anniversary Blog hop.

We are celebrating one year of Quixotic Paperie and do hope that you will join us. There will be lots of gorgeous makes to look at and of course some yummy prizes!

So if you have arrived at my blog from Quixtotic Inspirations (the Quixotic Paperie store blog) then you are on the right track! If not then really you will want to go to Quixotic Inspirations first to start a hopping :)

Quixotic Paperie was started on June 1st 2009 by Elaine Hughes. Having been an avid crafter (and craft shopper!) for a number of years, Elaine wanted to share her passion and see where it might take her - so, Quixotic Paperie was born! Since then, the store has grown, and now stocks a fabulous range of rubber stamps from around the world: The Greeting Farm, Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, SCACD Stamps, Paper Makeup Stamps, Belles 'n Whistles, the Mo Manning for Stamping Bella range, Stempelglede and more! In addition, the store carries a large range of charms and embellishments, and a host of gorgeous papers for all your crafty projects! If Elaine loves it, you will probably find it at Quixotic Paperie!

In November 2009 the Quixotic Challenges blog was started, where you can find weekly inspiration from the wonderful Quixotic Paperie Design Team, and join in for the chance to win a monthly prize.

I have totally loved working on Elaine's DT over the last year, she is one of the nicest people you can blog-meet and I've learnt so much working with her and the other wonderfully talented crafters she has in her DT (I think she had her eye's shut when she picked me to come along on the ride LOL!) they are an amazing bunch of girls!

Happy Crafty Birthday Quixotic Paperie, may there be many more to come!

Right, your next port of call is the amazing Judy Laing from Judy's Crafty Moments.

Don't forget to comment on every blog along the way for a chance to win, but I know you wont want to miss a blog as the hop list is stellar!

Enjoy!

Kimx

Materials:

Stamp - The Greeting Farm Stamping Anya

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black

Colouring - Copic Markers

Paper - Fancy Pants Designs All About A Girl

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

Other - Shimmerz paint; Shimmerz Spritz; Glossy Accents; Eyelets; Crop-a-dile; Seam ripper; Sewing machine; Sizzix embosslit alpha; Cuttlebug; Heart pearls; Nestibilities Star; Crafters Workshop Template

Stampotique Goes Purple

Hurrah for the Bank Holiday Monday! We love our three day weekends.

Got my Bank Holiday Monday make for you guys and this is a little different, I'm starting a paint sketch book for lots of experimenting and making a mess of. I did my first page on Friday and I thought I would share it with you guys.

It also fits the challenge over at Stampotique Designer Challenges blog which this week is 'Purple' - bonus!

What are you guys up to this Bank Holiday Monday?

Ice cream? What Ice cream?

Have a lovely day

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Stampotique Originals

Ink - Archival Ink Coffee

Colouring - Acrylic paint

Other - Mod Podge; Viva Deco Pearl Pen; Book page; Gesso; Viva Deco Precious Metallic colour

Tiddly Inks Meets Gingersnap Creations

Sunday make coming right up! Today I have a card that fits two challenges - well look at me with the two challenges and everything!

The image is from Christy Croll's Gothic Cute range at Tiddly Inks and the challenge over at the the Tiddly Inks Challenge blog is all about the bling (see the bling bottom right hand corner LOL!). The colour inspiration is taken from this months Colour Challenge over at Gingersnap Creations.

SO what do you think of the photo? Do you think it is focus? Still trying to work out the new camera.

Oh and ice cream update...there is a bit of a dent in the tubs now - Tee hee!

Happy Sunday you all.

Kimx

Materials:

Stamp - Digi from Tiddly Inks Always the flower girl

Colouring - Copic markers

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

Other - Cuttlebug; Embossing folder; nail file; Lace Ribbon; button; sewing machine; sticky gems

My Love Can Not Be Measured

Hello folks, how are you all doing?

I managed to get some makes done other than my DT work and hope to be able to show them to you over the bank holiday weekend.

For my Saturday make I've used the fab sketch over at Scrap-Creations Challenges and as it is a Stampotique Originals sponsored challenge this week and I've just taken receipt of my new Stampotique stamps - literally they turned up yesterday morning - I thought I would have a go and play along. The papers are Basic Grey Two Scoops and I've used some yummy Prima lace as well.

The wonderful Karin has been coloured with PrismaColor pencils and her dress paper pieced. She has pink hair, pink hair is my thing at the moment, as you will see again very soon!

So things on my list to do this weekend, in no particular order:

(i) try to work out how to take better pictures with my new camera,

(ii) eat lots of yummy food,

(iii) do some exercise to work off all the lovely food I've eaten,

(iv) hang out with me man (top of the list of course),

(v) get some much missed and much overdue blog hopping done,

(vi) not eat the two tubs of ice cream we got on special offer yesterday.

Lots to do! Catch you later!

xxx

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Stampotique Originals; Studio G alphas

Ink - VersaFine Black; various distress inks

Colouring - Prismacolor pencils

Paper - Basic Grey Two scoops

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

Other - Prima Lace; pearl brads; K&Co measuring tape paper; Nail file

Make The Day Special Patchwork Card

Hi Guys, hope you are all doing well. I've been a bit busy recently as I'm sure you all are too, but it means that the only thing going up on my blog has been my DT makes, not that that is a bad thing LOL! Just means that I'm not managing a make/ blog post a day at the moment!

Today the make is a DT make for the Make The Day Special blog and it shows some of the QKR Stampede stamps that Emily has over at Make The Day Special shop, such cute stamps!

I've added to the patchwork feel with some paper piecing of the image and a paper patchwork background with stitching.

Thanks for popping by and catch you later!

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - QKR Stampede Love; QKR Stampede Quilting Tag

Papers - SEI

Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; scissors

Other - Thread; Brad; Sewing machine

Cute Card Thursday May Guest DT Fourth Make

Hey Everyone, another card for you today and today it is my guest DT make for Cute Card Thursday which this week is all about:

No Designer Papers!

Fun one for me this week because like a lot of us I'm in love with my Designer Papers so it was fun to break the pattern (pardon the pun) and make my own papers for this challenge - hope you like them!

To make my backing paper I've used stamping, masking and a watercolour wash.

The image is from Stamping Bella and has been coloured with my favourite PrismaColor pencils with Sansodor blending so I thought I would enter the card into the Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply Challenge which is 'Pencils'.

The heart I used blending inks and stamping with {Ippity} stamps finished with some yummy lace ribbon.

Right that is all from me today.

Have a lovely day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - {Ippity} A Bit of Burlap; {Ippity} What Matter Most; Stamping Bella Ketto's Dolly; French Script

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Papers - Made by me :)

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape

Other - Lace Ribbon; Thread; Crop-a-dile

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 27

Been a bit missing in action - sorry! But I'm here today for this week's Quixotic Paperie Challenge, which has been set by Simonne and is all about:

Emboss It!

So out with the embossing tools, powders and folders for this one. I've used my embossing folders for my DT make.

The paper is from the Fancy Pants All About A girl collection, the pearls are 5mm Acrylic globe cut and have a lovely multicoloured look to them when they catch the light, the cute stamp is the Whimsy Hippo and the yummy lace is from Prima. All of these items are available over at Quixotic Paperie.

Well have a lovely embossed day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Whimsy Hippo

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Paper - Fancy Pants All About A girl collection

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape

Other - pearls 5mm Acrylic globe cut; Prima; Seam ripper; Stickles; Cuttlebug; Embossing folder

Make The Day Special Sympathy Card

I wanted to show you my recent make for the Make The Day Special blog, it is a sympathy card, or a card to tell someone that they are in your thoughts. I always find those sorts of cards the hardest to make and send.

It is a very simple card and has no embellishments, all I've used is stamping onto Kraft card. The stamps I've used are from different Unity and {Ippity} sets, the new {Ippity} A bit of burlap with white ink for the background, the plant is Unity Insightful Meadow and the sentiment is from the Unity March Store Kit.

Have a lovely day

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - {Ippity} A bit of burlap; Unity Insightful Meadow; Unity March Store Kit

Ink - Memento white; Archival black

Other - Kraft Card

Cute Card Thursday May Guest DT Third Make

Hi Guys I've got another Cute Card Thursday make for you and the challenge this week is a fabulous sketch from Caz.

The image is a digi-stamp from Kimprints and what a cutey she is, I knew I had to have her as soon as I saw her being a bit of a cat person :)

Thanks for dropping by guys.

I hope you have a lovely day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Kimprint

Papers - HOTP

Colouring - copic markers

Ink - Archival Sepia

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; paper trimmer

Other - Cuttlebug; embossing folder; Seam ripper;

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 26

Hey, Hey, Hey it is Quixotic Paperie Challenge Day! And we have a real interesting one for you:

How Sentimental!

It is all about making your sentiments and word art the focus of your make, and if you are short of some sentiments or word art than Quixotic Paperie has some beautiful ones new in from Paper Make-Up stamps.

It is one of the Paper Make-Up stamps word art that I have used for my DT make.

I've highlighted two of the words with a touch of colour added to a separate image and cut out and layered over the word art to add a bit of dimension. The paper I've used is from the Basic Grey Sugar Rush pad.

Little bit of stitching and and paper folding with a button threaded with fibres to finish off!

Looking forward to seeing your sentiment and word art makes.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Paper Make-Up

Paper - Basic Grey Sugar Rush

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

Other - button; fibre; colour pencils; sewing machine

Tickled pink!

I'm just tickled pink to have been picked as a Ginger Gem at Gingersnap Creations for my entry into the GC51 - Botanicals Challenge. Thank you so much guys, I will wear my badge with pride!

Some Digital Collage Art

Ok so you know me well enough by now to know that I am always dipping my toe into different things, Jack of all trades, master of none! Bit of a wiggle bum, chopping and changing what I show you on my blog.

I kind of think that if I cast a big enough net that I will find that 'thing' that really fits me, but in the mean time I'm enjoying the journey and learning lots of things along the way!

Well one of my loves is photography and digital collage art so I've been having a little play with Photoshop Elements and here is a piece I'm playing with at the moment called 'Flutter My Heart'.

Thanks for bearing with me :)

Hope you all have a lovely Monday.

Kim

Materials:

Image Sources: Music Sheet Craft Stamper; Photos Kim Dellow; Lady with rug, Open notepad Inkastamp.com (Doesn't seem to exist any more); Butterfly Vintage Printables

Software: Photoshop Elements 6

Out And About

Been trying to cram a lot into my weekend. Yesterday David and I were up early to Carpe Diem, seizing our day well and proper! We set out early for the Barbican to see the Céleste Boursier-Mougenot commission in The Curve which was wonderful.

To explain - it is an instillation piece with a walk through aviary where Zebra Finches can perch on guitars. The guitars are wired to loud speakers and as the birds build nests, clean themselves, chat to each other, they interact with the guitar strings filling the air with abstract strumming and bird song.

It was amazing. As you walk amongst the birds they will perch on you from time to time. There was something really calming and nice about being able to interact and get that close to the birds. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures so I can not show you anything but if you are interested then pop to this link here, the exhibition is open until next weekend and well worth seeing if you can.

I did take some pictures in the Barbican though and I really liked the lines and colour of this one so I thought I would show you it instead :)

We treated ourselves to lunch at a Sichuan restaurant in the King's Cross area called Snazz Sichuan which was yummy, then off to the free map exhibition Magnificent Maps at the British Library. I don't know what it is about maps but I love them. The exhibition was fabulous and totally packed, which was quite a surprise.

There were many amazing maps going back several hundred of years with amazing details and insights into the world and beliefs of the time. Amongst my favourite from the exhibition was the 2008 satirical London map by Stephen Walter called 'The Island'. If you are a bit of a mappy like me then I would highly recommend going to see this exhibition - just try to get there at a quieter time then just before closing which is when we went - Oops!

Today has been busy too, a little bit of crafting, hopefully you will see the results later in the week. I've also been slowly but surely listing more items into my Etsy and Folksy shops.

I shall leave you with this silly photo I took of him and me reflected in a mirror window - I dread to think what the people on the other side of the window thought whilst we were taking the picture, LOL!

Catch you later

Kim

My Cute Stamps Monster Tag

Another Monster make from Make The Day Special My Cute Stamps Eeek! A Monster set.

It's a little tag for a big monster! I've coloured the monster and background myself with inks and used fabric coloured to match, I've also used a bit of glitter to add some sparkle.

Emily is sponsoring the Papertake weekly challenge this week which is:

Shiny, Sparkly and Special

You still have time to enter and if you do you could win the yummy Where You Should Be {Ippity} stamp set.

But before you rush off to make something for the Papertake Challenge check out the new Unity stamps Emily has just put up in the shop.

Also it was the Spring 2010 {Ippity} release day yesterday and Ippity Inspiration has all the new releases - they are yummy!

Hope you have fun catching your monster LOL!

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - My Cute Stamps Eeek! A Monster set

Inks- Versfine onyx black; Versacolor various colours

Usual Suspects - Silicone glue

Other - Crop-a-dile; eyelet; calico; glitter glue

Cute Card Thursday May Guest DT Second Make

It is Cute Card Thursday Challenge day today and challenge 112 is all about:

Someone Special

I thought that this very special little Angry Ballerina and sentiment was perfect for a special little girl - isn't she the cutest?! I can feel that tantrum from here!

Stomp, stomp, slamming doors she goes :)

Have a tantrum free day!

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Angry Ballerina Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps; K&Co Leaves

Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black; Versacolor Bamboo

Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor

Papers - SEI

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape

Other - Embroidery thread; Circle punch

Stempelglede Has Arrived In Quixotic Paperie

Have you seen the new stamps just arriving over at Quixotic Paperie? They are from Stempelglede and are so pretty.

Thought I would be wicked and tease you with a couple of the new kits to give you a taste :)

Catch you tomorrow with another gDT make for Cute Card Thurday :)

Kimx

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 25

Challenge, Challenge, Challenge! It is Quixotic Paperie Challenge Day and this week we have a fab challenge from Judy:

Let Your Garden Grow

Which is all about making your own flowers to put onto your make.

Here is my DT make for you I was inspired by Elaine's scene cards for my make this week. I've used Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps from the Moonlight Whispers range available at Quixotic Paperie with Cosmo Cricket Earth Love.

I carefully singed the edges of my paper using a candle, whilst trying not to set fire to the flat. Luckily David doesn't read my blog posts, just looks at the makes - so I reckon I got away with it - Tee hee!

The flower was made from Mulberry papers and my current favourite - a bit of book page scrap :)

Ahhr Jim Lad, enjoy your pirate day you scurvy lot!

Shiver me timbers, splice the mainframe - wait up isn't that computers?

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Captain Scurvy and Cutthroat Lizzie Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black; Rangers Ancient linen distress ink

Papers - Cosmo Cricket Earth Love
Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

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

Other - Mulberry paper; book paper; White gel pen; candle

Had A Bad Day?

Hey guy's got a My Cute Stamps card for you today, you might remember that I mentioned you can now get these gorgeous stamps from Emily over at Make The Day Special?

I love the cute Eeek! A Monster set and just had to ink it up immediately! So here is a card to cheer a friend up after a bad day - hopefully brings a smile to their face?

Hope it brought a smile to your face too!

Have a fabulous day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Eeek! A Monster My Cute Stamps; Studio G Alpha

Ink - Archival sepia and black; VersaColor various colors;

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone Glue

Other - Crop-a-dile; cuttlebug; embossing folder; Kraft card