Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 37

Back again with my DT make for this week's Quixotic Paperie challenge which has been chosen by Judy. What an interesting challenge this one is, I think you are going to like it:

'Something old, something new,
something borrowed, something blue'

Either make a wedding make or incorporate one of these elements into your make...old, new, borrowed or blue!

Right, so what have I done for this challenge? Well the ribbon is 'something old' I've had it for years! The acetate was 'something borrowed' from the front of a folder cover. My colour scheme has flashes of 'something blue' and the tag is to put on 'something new' i.e. a present! Think I managed to cover it all this week!

The lovely butterfly and swirls are available from Quixotic Paperie and are from the beautiful Stempelglede Ornamental Butterfly stamp set and the papers are from the gorgeous My Mind's Eye Meadowlark Dawn. I've used the fabulous Bow Easy Template for my bow.

Before I go I thought you might like to know that Elaine has recently had a delivery of lots of new goodies for Quixotic Paperie including Echo Park Papers, Prima Papers and some fab new Paintable clear stamps from Prima - love the Butterfly one, so gorgeous! I'm obviously in a butterfly mood at the moment.

Have fun looking at all the yummy new stuff!

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Stempelglede Ornamental Butterfly stamp set

Ink - Staz-on black

Papers - My Mind's Eye Meadowlark Dawn

Usual Suspects - scissors; double-sided tape

Other - Bow Easy Template; Watercolour paints; Acetate; Crop-a-dile; eyelet; Fiskars border punch

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

You are all wonderful, thanks for the encouragement and kind words you have been sending me about my missing mojo. It is also comforting to know that I'm not the only one spending to much time procrastinating and not enough time doing!

Well here I am again with a picture to show you how incredibly disorganised my craft desk is for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday. Pop over to Julia's blog to join in the fun and show us your mess!

So what is on my work desk? Part of three ongoing projects and three pairs of scissors, which is only a small proportion of my scissor collection (sheepish grin!).

Perhaps the lack of mojo is due to my lack of organisation at the moment? What do you think?

Have fun you all.

Back later with my Quixotic Paperie Challenge make.

Kim

Personal Challenge Update And More Gorgeous New Stamps

Day Two of my personal challenge to get more crafting done and less procrastination and I have managed to partially finish two of my three DT pieces for this week. I've also managed to get started on a couple of new art journaling pages, but I still managed to fit a lot of procrastinating in as well, old habits die hard!

Whilst I finish my DT makes I thought I would give you another shop update this time from Make The Day Special.

Emily has some lovely and different stamps from Suzi Blu over at the shop, they would look fabulous on any card but as I'm into journaling at the moment I was thinking that they would look wonderful on a journal page too.

There are lots of lovely Lawn Fawn Stamps available.

Have you seen the pretty Flourishes Stamps yet?

If anyone has tips on how to stop the procrastination demons I would be grateful!

Have a gorgeous day.

Kim

Start The Week With A Personal Challenge And Some Shop News

Ok so the weekend is over and we have a lovely fresh week stretched out ahead of us. What are your plans for this week? I have a challenge ahead of me this week, I want to re-balance how often I spend time on the computer and how often I spend time making things.

So you might have guessed by the fact that I've not been showing much on my blog at the moment that my Mojo has gone on Holiday and has been there for a while now. I hope that it is having fun - it never sends a postcard!

My challenge this week then is to make, make and make again. I have been doing some art journaling so I might show you some of that if you are lucky.

Meanwhile I thought I would show you some new yummy stock from:

The gorgeously spooky Kraftin' Kimmie stamps are in store.

The super sweet Mo Manning stamps from Stamping Bella are in the house.

The fabulously arty Stempelglede are ready to drool over.

Of course there are lots of other yumminess in store including lots of special offers!

Have fun my fluffy lovelies.

Kim

Cute Card Thursday And Ippity

Some texture for you today, I always like to mix a bit of texture together. The challenge over at Cute Card Thursday is:

Tree-mendous!

So get your tree and leaf stamps out. My tree is from the gorgeous {Ippity} kit What Matters Most which you can get from {Ippity} Inspiration.

I've used a mix of Acrylic paint and watercolour pens and pencils to colour the tree and bird stamps.

The calico was coloured with Acrylic paints.

As I've used Acrylic paint for this card I thought it would be perfect for the Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply challenge this month which is - Paints.

Have a Tree-mendous day you all.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - {Ippity} kit What Matters Most

Colouring - Acrylic paints; Marvy Le Plume II Watercolour pens; Watercolour pencils
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; Golden Soft Gel

Other - Calico; Acrylic Paints; Sewing machine; Bond-a-web; Corrugated card; Craft Vilene

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 36

Watcha All, I've been getting messy with paint recently so when Rowena gave us all at Quixotic Paperie the challenge to:

Alter It!

I was very excited! The challenge is all about altering something or incorporate an altered item into a card. I went for altering the cover of one of my sketch books.

I little bit of white paint and some lovely Crate Paper from Quixotic Paperie and there you have it, a new cover for my sketch book.

So here is the before picture - boring black.

Here is the after picture, funky clean and simple.

Well can't wait to see your altering.

Have fun

Kim

Materials:

Papers - Crate Paper

Usual Suspects - Scissors; Golden Soft gel

Other - Sketch book, Paint; Thread;

Learning To Flying

I thought that I would show you a card I made for Emily over at Make The Day Special recently. It uses the beautiful bird stamp from the Unity June 2010 Life Becoming.

I thought I would go a little simple with the stamping and then add a splash of colour with the papers.

Hope you all have a lovely Tuesday.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Unity June 2010 Life Becoming

Ink - Archival coffee

Papers - Basic Grey Two scoops

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double Sided tape; scissors

Other - Border punch; thread; buttons; Marker pen

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 124

It is a wide open Cute Card Thursday Challenge this week -

Whateva!

Yep it's an open theme so any ideas are welcome. I've had this colour combo buzzing around in my head this week, I even had a dream about it, how weird is that? Perfect for the Whateva theme I thought!

The image is one of the gorgeous Tiddly Inks from Christy Croll.

Looking forward to seeing what you guys do for this week's open challenge.

Have fun

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Tiddly Inks Everyday Princess

Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor

Paper - erm...from my stash!

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape

Other - Crop-a-dile; Computer; printer; eyelets; seam ripper

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 35

Life's A Beach!

That is the fabulous Summer Quixotic Paperie Challenge from Elaine this week, it is all about making a project with a beach or an underwater theme.

As you can see I went for the underwater theme with one of the gorgeous CC Design Mermaids - Calmsea - available over at Quixotic Paperie.

I've matched her with the beautiful teal and buff papers from the yummy Crate Paper Brook Collection also available from Quixotic Paperie as are the lovely iridescent pearls I've used to embellish the card.

Enjoy this Summer challenge,

can't wait to see what you do.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - CC Designs Mermaid Calmsea

Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; sansodor

Paper - Crate Paper Brook Collection

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

Other - Acetate; embossing folder; cuttlebug; Iridescent pearls

Smile - It Is Monday!

Today's card was one I made for this week's challenge over at Cute Card Thursday. Have you seen the challenge yet? It is all about:

Texting Crazy!

So get your sentiment stamps and word art out for this one.

I used the lovely word art stamp from the Unity Insightful Meadow Stamp Kit available at Make The Day Special with the so pretty Paper Make-Up Heart Fairy stamp available at Quixotic Paperie. I think they work well together.

Well I hope you have a day full of smiles.

Thanks for popping by.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Unity Insightful Meadow; Paper Make-up Stamp Heart Fairy

Ink - Versafine onyx black

Paper - SEI

Colouring - PrismaColor; Sansodor

Usual suspects - Silicone glue; scissors

Other - Seam ripper; Cuttlebug; nesties

Victoria Case New Release Blog Hop

Hey Guys, welcome to the Susana's Custom Art and Card Design new Victoria Case stamp release day blog hop!

If you have arrived at my blog from Dianne Prewitt My Paper Hugs then you are hopping in the right direction. If not then hop on over to Elaine Hughes Quixotic Cards to start your journey.

Once again the Quixotic Paperie Design Team is joining in the fun with the SCACD Design Team to show you the SIX gorgeous new Aurora images.

Victoria Case for SCACD Stamps are available in the UK from Quixotic Paperie or direct from Susana's Custom Art & Card Design in the US.

I've used the very cute SCACD Victoria Case - A Lady Bug Is Love (available in the US at SCACD) with Basic Grey Origins paper (available in the US at SCACD).

So the next Blog on your hop is Lori Aragon's My Comfort Cottage.

Enjoy your hopping and

thanks for sharing your day with us.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - SCACD Victoria Case - Lady Bug Is Love (available in the US at SCACD)

Ink - VersaFine Onyx black

Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor

Paper - Basic Grey Origins (available in the US at SCACD)

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

Other - Button; Raffia lace; Pearls

Hitting The Right Note Mail Art

Got something a little different for you today, my mojo for cards seems to have taken a bit of a back seat at the moment so I thought I would have a go at some mail art - decorating an envelope.

This mail art is my last DT make as visiting artist for Gingersnap Creations and is for the Colour challenge:

Yellow, Orange and Red

I've used a collection of stamps to make this piece Ippity Bit of Burlap, stamps from the Ippity What Matters Most kit, the hearts from the Ippity Moon Beams and Heart Strings and Layers of Color Joyful Noise available from either Ippity Inspiration or from Make The Day Special.

I had great fun make this mail art, so you might be seeing some more!

Don't forget that you have a few more of days left to win some yummy stamps over at the Make The Day Special Blog.

Have a lovely day

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Ippity Bit of Burlap; Ippity What Matters Most; Ippity Moon Beams and Heart Strings; Layers of Color Joyful Noise

Inks - VersaFine Onyx black; VersaColor vaious

Other - Envelope; Marvy Le Plume watercolour pens; Doily

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 34

Quixotic Paperie Challenge day and today it is the colour combo:

Kraft / Brown, Pink, Blue

Here is my DT piece using the super cute Miko from The Greeting Farm Roll call stamp set and I have matched her with lovely Echo Park Life is Good paper.


I've used my Bazzill template to add pearls and gems.

Thanks for popping by.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - The Greeting Farm Roll call stamp set

Ink - Versafine Onyz black; Versafine color

Paper - Echo Park Life is Good paper

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

Others - Bazzill template; Pearls and gems; cuttlebug; embossing folder

Happy In Teal

Happy Monday to you all. I have my DT make for Make The Day Special to show you today and some news on how you can win some yummy stamps.

First the make! I've used the lovely sentiment stamp from the Unity March 2010 store kit that you can get over at Make The Day Special.

I've used glitter and pencils to colour the sentiment and then a bit of DCWV papers and stitching to finish the look.

Emily has started to stock the fab Lawn Fawn and The Cat's Pajamas stamps over at the shop so well worth popping over to see the new stock.

But before you rush off you might want to check out the Make The Day Special blog where Emily has a Holiday competition running for you to win a selection of lovely Unity stamps.

Have fun.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Unity March 2010 store kit

Ink - Versafine onyx black

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Paper - DCWV

Usual Suspects - silicone glue; scissors; paper trimmer

Other - Sewing machine; Nesties; Cuttlebug

Gingersnap Creations Random Redhead Challenge

Got some sunshine for you today for this month's Gingersnap Creations Random Redhead Challenge which is:

Sunshine

Something a little different for this card. I've used a recent photograph I've taken of my favourite flower, hope it brings a sunny smile to your face.

Have a sun filled day

Kim

Viva The Blog Hop

Welcome to the Viva Decor Quixotic Paperie and Susana's Custom Art & Card Design Blog Hop.

If you have arrived at my blog from the Quixotic Inspirations then you are on the right track, if not then hop on over there to start your blog hop journey.

We have a treat for you today, the design teams from Quixotic Paperie and Susana's Custom Art & Card Design have joined together to show off some of the lovely Viva Decor products that the sister shops stock.

We hope you will join us on this hop and be inspired in ways to use the Viva Decor product range! You will also have the chance to win some fabulous candy - both Elaine and Susana will be giving away a pack of the most popular Viva Decor Pens (Ice White Pearl Pen, Holographic Glitter Liner and the Clear Gloss Gel Pen) - yum! yum! yum! But I'll tell you how to win them later!

In the UK/Europe you can find Viva Decor products at Quixotic Paperie. If you're in the US/Canada then Susana carries the Viva Decor range at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design.

For my card I've used Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp Little Red Riding Hood (available in the US at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design) matched with Basic Grey Kioshi (available in the US at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design) and the fabulous Holo-Iridescent Viva Decor pen (available in the US at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design).

I've added my Viva glitter to her hair clips, shoes and dress.

I've used my Bazzill Template to add Viva glitter as a couple of swirls.

Then a bit of Viva on the flower with a lovely pearl to finish.

Want to win some yummy Viva?

All you will have to do to win is answer a question at each store blog - 1 entry at each STORE blog per person please! Both blog candy draws will close on 31st July 2010.

Your next hop stop is the lovely Aud over at My Little Corner.

Have a hopping good time!

Kim