Visiting Artist At Gingersnap Creations

I'm so excited! You might have noticed a new banner in the DT section of my sidebar? I'm tickled pink to say that the guys over at Gingersnap Creations have asked me to be one of their visiting artist for July - such an honour - thank you guys!

If you haven't checked out Gingersnap Creations then make yourself a cuppa and go have a peruse, you will be glad you did. Sharon and Ali, with their design team, have themed challenges, that last a month so plenty of time to get a make done LOL! But there is also loads more, with lots of inspiration, tutorials, techniques to help you expand your crafting - wonderful!

Right I better get on with my visiting artist pieces for the month LOL!

Kimx

Layers Of Color Distressed Tag

Anyone visiting my blog for WOYWW will have seen some yummy Layers of Color stamps from Make The Day Special and my tag templates - so do you want to see how it all turned out?

Well here it is a little distressed tag using the Layers of Color stamp set called Joyful Noise, hope you like it!

I love distressing - I just get completely covered in ink and it is great fun messing up pieces of paper. I'm sure by the time David gets home all the furniture in the flat is all covered in ink too!

Kimx

Materials:

Stamp - Layers of Color stamp set called Joyful Noise

Inks - Rangers Distress inks; Archival coffee

Paper - HOTP

Usual Suspects - Double-sided tape; Silicone glue

Other - Crop-a-dile; Eyelet; seam ripper; fibres

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 30

Quixotic Paperie Challenges is back from a little break with Judy's challenge which is:

A Fabulous Sketch

We have a little change in the challenge rules so don't forget to check them out and join in.

My DT card is all stamp work with no designer papers, I've made the background paper with the large stamp from the gorgeous Stempelglede Ornamental Butterfly stamp set. The little butterflies and corner decorations are also from the Stempelglede Ornamental Butterfly, so pretty!

I've added some lovely hot coloured lace as well and the cute little girl in her Mum's clothes is All Grown Up from Elizabeth Bell SCACD.

Can't see your take on Judy's Sketch. Have fun.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Stempelglede Ornamental Butterfly stamp set; All Grown Up from Elizabeth Bell SCACD

Inks - VersaColor various colours; Colorbox various colours; Versafine Onyx black

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

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

Other - Lace; Marker pens; Cuttlebug; Nesties

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

What is On Your Work Desk Wednesday and this Wednesday I have some peaks into my DT makes for tomorrow.

I have my Cute Card Thursday make almost finished with just the image to colour and I have my Make The Day Special make almost done and I'm using some yummy Layers of Color stamps. For an extra clue as to what my Make The Day Special make is going to be you might be able to spot my tag templates sitting on my desk - Hmmm I wonder what that will be? LOL!

Thanks for popping by to see my untidy creating, don't forget to check Julia's fab WOYW blog post (where it all started!) for this week!

Back later with the Quixotic Paperie Challenge make.

Kimx

Sewing Patterns In Pink

My card today uses some more of the yummy Hero Arts Stamps sewing-themed stamps - I did warn you that I had a soft spot for sewing-themed stamps didn't I? So I've gone with a totally stitchy theme for my card with some fun sewing machine stitching and thread and button embellishments.

I've paper pieced the pattern on mulberry paper to give a bit of texture and pink designer paper.

The little card bobbin embellishment was made by stamping one of the Hero Arts Woodgrain stamps on card and cutting the shape out then wrapping it with thread.

Thanks for dropping in.

Have a lovely day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Hero Arts Simply Handmade and Wood Grain

Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black

Paper - My Mind's Eye

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

Other - Thread; Button; Sewing machine; Mulberry paper

What A Diva

I didn't think that I would have this card up to show you today. It wasn't that I hadn't finished it, I had, but I had not photographed it until moments ago.

Elaine sent me some beautiful My Mind's Eye papers Meadowlark Dawn to try from Quixotic Paperie and the shabby chic black and off-white colour scheme just shouted a simple colour combination with a highlight colour to me and turquoise is sooo one of my favourite colours!

Thought the colours work perfectly with this little Diva which is one of Mo Manning's lovely illustrations available as a rubber stamp at Quixotic Paperie.

I've used some flat backed pearls, some that I've coloured with my Copic pens, and a large pin with a pin cap to embellish the card.

Hope you are having a good Diva tantrum day!

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Mo Manning From Stamping Bella Diva

Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor

Paper - My Mind's Eye papers Meadowlark Dawn

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

Other - Large Pin; Flat backed pearls; Pin caps; Copic pen

Make The Day Special Blog Hop Winner

Winner, Winner! The winner (as chosen by Random.org) from my blog for the card and mini-hanger I made for The Make The Day Special Blog Hop is:

Jan from Art By Jan!

Congratulations Jan, send me an email (my email address is in the sidebar) with your mailing address and I will get the makes off to you!

Don't forget to check out the Make The Day Special blog and the blogs of the other MTDS DT for more winners!

Make The Day Special Design Team Blog Hop

Welcome to the Make The Day Special Blog Hop

Hope you have been enjoying all the yummy stamps and makes so far. Don't forget that three lucky commentators will be winning some fabulous prizes and the DT makes are all up for grabs too!

If you have come from Lucia's fabulous blog Poppit's Cupboard then you are hopping in the right direction! If not then pop along to the Make The Day Special blog to drool over the yummy prizes and start your hopping!

I've used stamps from QKR Stampede which is one of the companies available at Make The Day Special.

My first make uses one of the fun and quirky QKR Stampede word art stamps.

My second make uses the QKR Stampede Quilting Tag with the Love sentiment and I've made them into a miniature hanger.

Don't forget to comment on all the blogs for a chance to win some fabulous prizes.

Your next yummy blog to hop to belongs to the lovely Lesley.

Thanks for joining us and

enjoy the rest of your hopping.

Kimx

Elisabeth Bell for SCACD Stamps - Blog Hop

Wahoo, it is blog hop day for the yummy new Elizabeth Bell Collection from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design - what fun!

I hope you have been enjoying the hop so far, with SCACD's wonderful design team, us lucky Quixotic Paperie Design team and special guest - Susanna Boyd of CardoftheWeek and Papercraft Planet! Wow what gorgeous makes with these lovely stamps!

The new collection is now available over at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design in the Elisabeth Bell section! For those of you in the UK/Europe, the collection is also available at Quixotic Paperie, in stock and ready to go!

If you have arrived at my blog from Elaine's gorgeous blog Quixotic Cards then you are on the right track. If not then pop over to Suzanne's beautiful blog Scrapbitz to start your hopping! If you are completely lost and need a recap then SCACD Store Blog is the place to be!

So here is my make for you:


It uses the SCACD Elizabeth Bell Flower Power stamp matched with Basic Grey Kioshi papers and lots of lovely pearls.

Isn't she a cutey? Flower Power Rules!

Your next port of call is Jacquie's yummy blog After Hours Stamper.

Thanks for playing along and enjoy the rest of your hopping.

Kimx

Cute Card Thursday - Recycle

It is Cute Card Thursday and this week the challenge is all about:

Reuse, Renew, Recycle

For my DT card I've used the fun QKR Stampede stamp 'Swinging' which you can get from Make The Day Special and some fun SEI papers.


My bit of recycling is the little shabby chic roses - would you believe they were once a plastic bag?

This stamp is such fun! I've coloured her with my good old PrismaColors of course.

Have a good recycle day!

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - QKR Stampede stamp 'Swinging'

Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black

Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor

Paper - SEI

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

Other - Martha Stewart punch; Plastic bag; Gem brads

Mad Hatter's Tea Party

Today I have an Alice in Wonderland themed card to show you and this one is my contribution to the Gingernap Creations Mad Hatter Day Blog Hop celebration.

The blog hop started on the 10th June - I'm late, I'm late for a very important date! But wait a minute - is that 10/6? As in the Mad Hatter's hat ticket?

Well yes! Now you can see the reason for the Gingersnap Creations blog hop theme! If you hurry on over there you can join in the fun too and there are prizes - yummy Alice prizes!

My little Mad Hatter is from The Greeting Farm Digi-stamp and the Cosmo Cricket papers, Prima lace and chess charm are from Quixotic Paperie.

But I have more news - I'm blown away to have been Ginger Gemmed for my entry into the recent burgundy, ivory and black colour challenge. Thank you so much guys!

Talking of blog hops, Make The Day Special will be having a blog hop this Saturday (26th June) so another important date for your diaries :)

Don't be late!

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - The Greeting Farm

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Papers - Cosmo Cricket Earth Love

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

Other - Prima Lace; Chess Charm; Button; Computer; Printer

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Another piccy of my workspace for you and the What's On Your Workspace Wednesday. I had such fun sharing my creative space with you last week that I thought I would do it again this week.

This week my desk is set up for photographing a make. My little work desk has to do everything!

But I thought I would also show you my bin set up - a couple of people asked me about the bags hanging from my desk that they could just about see in last week's WOYWW photo.

So here they are! I made a couple of bin bags from fabric to hang off of my desk and use whilst I am working because I am too lazy to get up and go to the bin. I think you can guess that one is for anything that can be recycled and the other is for things that can't be recycled. You often find me scrounging around in my bins for things to reuse!

Oh and if anything goes missing from my desk it is usually because it has fallen off into one of my bins.

Enjoy your WOYWW!

Kim

Simply Handmade Home Decor Wall Hanging

Some sewing for you today and a little stamped and stitched wall hanging. I just love this stamp from Hero Arts but then I am a sucker for all sewing themed stamps! Well, if I'm honest not just sewing themed stamps LOL!

I love the vintage look matched with the contemporary design and the slightly distressed fabrics!

I've put this little wall hanging up in to my Etsy and Folksy shops, but I'm not sure I want to part with it LOL!

Edit: I've added it to the challenge over at Practical Scrappers which this week is flowers. Thanks Tanya for the heads-up!

Have a Simply Handmade Day.

Kim

More For Father's Day

So it is Monday and the Summer Solstice, the weather outside is gorgeous, a stark difference from the very grey weekend we had here in London. I'm in a hopeful Monday mood, hopeful that I will be able to show you lots of makes this week and that I will be able to visit all your beautiful blogs to see what you have all been up to. I see it all on my Reader of course, but it is nice to hop and share some bloggy love!

To kick off the week I have a second Father's Day card to show you and you can see the theme I was working on with my Father's Day cards this year!

Enjoy your Monday.

Kim

Happy Father's Day - All At Sea

Hope all you Dads out there are having a Happy Father's Day :)

The New Unity Store Kit

Hey Guys, me again with a new product heads up - just had to show you these gorgeous stamps from Unity that are available at Make The Day Special. I just love that swallow so pretty!

Sorry to show you another thing to add to your wish list LOL! I don't know about you but my list is now taller than me :)

Have a lovely Father's Day

Kim

Susana's Custom Art And Card Design New Elizabeth Bell Stamps

Got some exciting news for you, there is a new Elizabeth Bell release on it's way from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design. You will only have to wait until the release day on June 25th to see them - that's less than a week away!

To help the time pass quicker Susana will be giving you FOUR chances to win the whole set! So check out the SCACD Store Blog on Sunday 20th June.

For the release day on Friday 25th June, the Quixotic Paperie DT will be joining in with Susana's DT and friends for some Blog Hopping fun, so don't forget to check that out! I can't wait to see all the love makes :)

If you're an Elisabeth Bell fan you definitely won't want to miss it, so make sure you pop June 25th on your calendar!

Summer Flowers

I have heard a rumour that Summer is around the corner so here is a Summer scene for you. Made using the super versatile My Cute Stamps Little Forest Friends from Make The Day Special.

I've paper pieced the stamps and made the leaf stamps into petals and the branch stamp into the flower stem.

Bit of sewing and Stickles to finish and there you have it, a little bit of Summer on a card :)

Have a Summery Friday.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - My Cute Stamps Little Forest Friends

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black

Papers - scraps from K&Co, Basic Grey etc

Usual Suspects - Silicone Glue

Other - Sewing machine; Stickles glue; Book page