Some Exciting News!

Hey guys, how are you all doing today? I thought I would share with you a peek from a couple recent {Ippity} Inspiration makes for the Craft Stamper Stamping Contrasts article in the October 2010 issue.

Unfortunately they have accidentally credited my makes to the lovely Kim Costello! So I am a little gutted LOL! But hey ho!

Have a fun day!

Kim

Mixed Media Gift Box

You know I love lots of stamps right? Like so many of us crafters we love all those yummy designs around don't we? Well when I saw this latest stamp from Unity designed by Suzi Blu available at Make The Day Special, I just HAD to have her! I love her!

I'm not supposed to be spending any money and I was going to wait but I could not resist putting a picture of her up on my blog last week and then I convinced myself that you would buy all of Emily's stock so of course I had to get in there first didn't I? Tee Hee!

I've made a gift box and painted it with acrylic paints and tea staining. I used the gorgeous key stamps from the Unity Key to Joy July 2010 kit, also available from Make The Day Special to emboss in gold.

The hearts are cut from a homemade paper fabric and I've finished the box off with painted fabric and a little matching tag.

Isn't she pretty?

Before I go you might like to know that the lovely new {Ippity} Stamps are over at Emily's {Ippity} Inspiration Blog with lots of lovely examples from the design team of these yummy stamps. Oh man I just want them all!

Have a fabulous Friday all you lovelies!

Kimx

Materials:

Stamps - Unity Suzi Blu; Unity Key to Joy July 2010 kit

Ink - Archival Black

Usual Suspects - PVA; Golden Soft gel: Craft Knife

Other - Handmade paper fabric; PrismaColor Illustration Markers; Book Page; Acrylic paints; Calico; Card; Gold Embossing powder; Gold marker pen

Cute Card Thursday - 127 Dieing for a Punch!

It is Cute Card Thursday and this week it is all about:

Dieing For A Punch!

Don't use punches and die-cuts etc. I had to think about this one, when I realised that that meant no border punches or nesties!

Here is what I came up with, she is the Queen Of Hearts designed by Christina for Tracey Feeger's Speschs stamps.


The papers are from K&Co and I do love the natural rustic look of them specially matched with the lovely corrugated card - yep - that is more corrugated card from me! Will I ever tire of using the stuff? No probably not!

I used my Bazzill template and Viva Decor Walnut Brown gloss for the swirls both available from Quixotic Paperie.

Have fun!

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Queen Of Hearts Speschs stamps.

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencil; Sansodor

Papers - K&Co

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

Other - Bazzill template; Viva Decor Walnut Brown gloss; Seam ripper

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 38

Quixotic Challenge day! This week the challenge is:

Shiny, Happy People

Get out your glitters and glosses it is time to get shiny folks!

For my make this week I've used one of my favourite Alota background stamps Witch's Hut. Elaine has a new delivery of these fabulous stamps arriving at Quixotic Paperie around mid-September, possibly sooner and you can put your name on one by emailing her (quixoticcreations(at)gmail(dot)com).

I've used Viva Decor Glitter liner Holo Iridescent to sparkle-up her hat and shoes. I also stamped the shelves onto acetate and used the glitter on the underside to add a shine to the spiders' webs

The papers are Echo Park Life Is Good from Quixotic Paperie. I've sketched a big Spider's web on the background paper with Viva Decor Pearl Pen Bronze.

You might be wondering about the cute little Witch bug? Well I altered Julia Bug from Julia's Kitchen with a witch's hat and a cauldron and a little wart on her chin!

Before I go don't forget to check out the yummy Sakura Stardust pens (perfect for this challenge!) and lovely Basic Grey Jovial and Pyrus papers!

Well have fun with your shiny makes
and I can't wait to see them!

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Alota Witch's Hut

Ink - Memento Ink; Distress inks; Stazon

Colouring - PrismaColor; Sansodor

Papers - Echo Park Life Is Good

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

Other - Viva Decor Glitter liner Holo Iridescent; Viva Decor Pearl Pen Bronze; Brad; Seam ripper; Acetate

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 126

I've got my Cute Card Thursday Challenge to show you today. This week we have a fabulous sketch to work too.

I've used one of my favourite Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Genevieve. I got her from Quixotic Paperie and I've had her for a while, thought this card would be a perfect excuse to ink her up.

You might have noticed that I've used some corrugated card again, I think it might be a theme going on here. I've also add a bit of stitching and some French knots in the bottom right had corner, you might have to click on the picture to see them.

It is a great sketch to play with, don't forget to drop by Cute Card Thursday see what the other girls did and have a go yourself.

Have fun

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Genevieve

Ink - VersaFine onyx black

Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor

Papers - K&Co

Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Double-sided tape

Other - Thread; Distress inks; Corrugated card

Looking For Some Summer Sun

My card today is a plea to the Summer weather. It seems to be a bit all other the place at the moment, so I thought a card to the weather might help!

As you can see I am going through a bit of a corrugated card and painted fabric phase at the moment! The stamps I've used are from the wonderful Unity Adventures in Happiness store kit which you can get from Make The Day Special.

Hope you have a day of sunshine.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Unity Adventures in Happiness store kit

Ink - Archival black

Usual Suspects - silicone glue; Golden soft gel

Other - Thread; Calico; Acrylics; Corrugated card; Glitter glue

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