Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 42

 Beware all those who enter here as Quixotic Paperie has gone all 

SPOOKTASTIC!

with this week's challenge picked by the spine-chillingly, eerie Elaine!

My scary make this week uses the reanimated Mitzi the Mummy from Kraftin' Kimmies stamps with the startling Black bird papers from Memory Box and finished with slimy, oozing Viva Decor Walnut Gloss pen. All of these scary, pulse-fastening products are available over at Quixotic Paperie.

Don't get too scared! To distract you from the horror I have some news for you, when you pop over to the Quixotic Challenge blog to check out all the other lovely spookiness you'll notice that the blog has changed! The challenge blog and the inspiration blog have merged to a yummy store blog Quixotic Inspirations. More changes are a foot as you will see in the coming weeks - all this spooktastic-ing is making me quite the Edgar Allan Poe! All mysterious! Mwaa Ha ha ha.

Ok - spooked myself again. 

Back behind the sofa for me!

Kim

Materials:
Stamps - Mitzi the Mummy from Kraftin' Kimmies stamps
Inks - versafine onyx black
Colouring - Prismacolour pencils;
Papers - Black bird papers from Memory Box
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape; silicone glue; scalpel
Other - Viva Decor Walnut Gloss pen; Seam ripper; Crafter's Workshop Template

Jewellery, Jewellery!

Something a little different from me today, I've been itching to play with some jewellery making as I haven't made any for ages. I made this a few weeks ago and have been meaning to put it up on my blog for a while - so today is the day. I little bit of vintage style bling for your finger!

It uses Prima lace and a pearl bead available over at Quixotic Paperie.

Have a glitzy, glamours jewellery day!

Kim

Paper Make-Up Blog Hop Fun!

Welcome to the Quixotic Paperie and Paper Make-Up fun blog hop to put a smile on your face! The two design teams have joined together to showcase the Paper Make-Up Stamps and give a little inspiration for these fabulous images.

So here is my little Monster - I just love the Paper Make Up Monster stamps and thought that little Calder here looked a little lost and sorry so a perfect - Oops I forgot card! That is the face I pull when I forget something LOL!

If you’re in the US/Canada, you can buy Calder With Water rings and all the other gorgeous stamps direct from Paper Makeup Stamps!  If you’re in the UK you can find the range at Quixotic Paperie!

Hope you like him and enjoy your hopping - here is the list of gorgeous inspiration for you:

*** THE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS! ***

- Elaine Hughes  - Rowena Barnard – Kim Costello – Carole Middlehurst –
- Judy Laing – Emma Lockley  - Kim Dellow (you are here!)

- Katie Cotton – Christi Thorsen - Tangii Crain - Lisa Kind - Randee Elsing - Shaela Odd -
- Tina Hale - Andrea Vernagus - Anita Hovey - Bonnie Sharp - Danni Bindel - Dawn Barrett - -
- Ginger Schwerin - Lisa McKinney - Maria Gurnsey - Michelle Van Patten - Simonne Clay - Stephanie Zito -

What Did You Do This Weekend?

Well it was a quiet weekend for us. We didn't do an awful lot, just relaxed. We did have some dim sum at one of our favourite restaurants, I had my camera with me so I took a picture to tease you all with the lovely food! 

Then spent the rest of the weekend watching Harry Potter movies and eating sweets. Think I might need to do some exercise next week! 

Hope you all had a lovely weekend.

Kimx

Art Journaling With Unity And Ippity

Hey Guys, I've been playing in my art journal with paints, stamps and inks and thought I would give you a peak at how it turned out. I know, I know it isn't a card but I just can't help myself - LOL!

I built up some textures with layers of paint, bits of newspaper and book pages. Then added the top colour with my Neocolor watercolour crayons. The stamps I used were the Stars and moons from the Ippity Moon Beams and Heart Strings kit, the sentiment from the Ippity What Matters Most kit and the grass is from the Unity Insightful Meadows kit. Yum, love these stamps!

Thanks for popping by and viewing my playing!

Kim

Materials:

Stamps -  Ippity Moon Beams and Heart Strings kit; Ippity What Matters Most kit; Unity Insightful Meadows kit

Inks - Archival Coffee

Other - Acrylic paint; Gesso; Neocolor watercolour crayons; Book pages; Newspaper scraps; Glue stick; 

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 130

Cute Card Thursday Challenge this week is all about:

Tweet and Flutter

Adding birds or butterflies to your makes, so I went for butterflies and this lovely image from Tiddly Inks.

Short and sweet today! Don't forget to pop on by to CCT to see all the lovely inspiration.

Thanks for popping in.

Kim

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 41

Quixotic Paperie Challenge DT make to show today and this week the challenge was thought up by the lovely Emma and is:

How Does Your Garden Grow?

All about adding flowers and / or leaves to your make. 

I decided to go on a bit of a steampunk / punk / emo  theme for my make this week using the wonderful The Greeting Farm Wild Sprout Eric available over at Quixotic Paperie. I've matched him (her?) with the gorgeous Graphic 45 papers from the Halloween in Wonderland and Christmas Past packs. 

The papers were fun to distress and I 'rusted' a silver chain, safety pins and brads to embellish the make. The leaves are cut from a book page and I lightly glazed them with the Viva Decor Walnut Gloss Pen. 

The cogs are light card painted with acrylic paints. Got some more close-ups:

Showed a lot of details today! Think I quite like how this one turned out LOL!

Before I go just a quick mention of the new special stamp from Elizabeth Bell at SCACD. Elaine has her on Pre-order for delivery in a couple of weeks.

Have a fabulous Emo Wednesday.

Kim

Materials:
Stamps -  The Greeting Farm Wild Sprout Eric; Studio G alpha
Inks - VersaFine Onyz Black and sepia
Colouring - Prismacolour pencils; Sansodor
Papers - Graphic 45 papers from the Halloween in Wonderland and Christmas Past
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; silicone glue; Double-sided tape
Other - Chain; Safety pins; Brads; Acrylic paints; Book page; Viva Decor Walnut Gloss Pen; Seam ripper; Mask

What's New Quixotic Paperie?

Hi Guys, I thought that I would take the opportunity of a quiet Sunday to post a little look-see at some of the new products Elaine has in Quixotic Paperie.

The first is one of the fabulous new Alota background stamps this one is perfect for Spooky Halloween makes.

Elaine has also got the new September releases from C.C. Designs.

I'm totally loving the new Crate Paper 6x6 Pads like this wonderful School Spirit. 

Being in total denial about Christmas and thinking of not making any Christmas card this year my next pick of the new yummies from Quixotic Paperie might be a bit of an odd choice! But the lovely backgrounds in the new Echo Park Christmas Papers might still sway me back to Christmas cards LOL!

Enjoy!

Kim

More Painting Experiments

Another page from my art journal to show you this weekend. I think I'm calling this one 'In A Spin' or maybe 'Maelstrom'.


It was great fun getting messy with this one, lots of paint, making swirls, making marks and generally throwing it around the place - including, as I found out later, the walls in the kitchen. Well we needed to decorate. Tee Hee!

Have a fun Saturday.

Kim

Cute Card Thursday - Play On Words

This week's Cute Card Thursday Challenge was definitely a challenge for me as I'm not the greatest when it comes to words! The Challenge is:

Play On Words

So put your punning hats on!

For my really bad pun I've used the cute Shelby from Paper Make-Up and available over at Quixotic Paperie. I've matched her with the yummy Cosmo Cricket Pixie Licious Papers.

All right duckies,

I shall catch you all later.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - Shelby from Paper Make-Up; Studio G Alphas

Colouring - Prismacolor; Sansodor

Papers - Cosmo Cricket Pixie Licious

Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Double-sided tape

Other - Fiskars border punch; Buttons; Thread; Nestibilities; Cuttlebug

Key To My Joy ATC

I thought I would do an ATC today, I haven't done one for ages and I do enjoy making them! For this one I have used the lovely Unity Key To My Joy stamp kit available over at Make The Day Special. I've also used the wonderful Black and Red colour combo inspiration from Gingersnap Creations.

Hope you have a day through of joy.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Unity Key To My Joy

Ink - Archival Black; VersaFine Onyx black

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; Scissors

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 40

I like to Move It, Move It,

I like to Move It, Move It

I like to MOVE IT!

Ok, confession - I am a bit of a fan of the film Madagascar and no I don't have any children so I can not even pretend I like the movie because of them!

This week's Quixotic Challenge is right up my street:

"Move it, move it"

That means have something on your project that moves in some way... a tag you pull, a flap, slider card, spinner card, double slider card, flower pot pocket or even a shaker card.

Here is my Move It make - Cute and creepy Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp Mitzi Mummy looking for some brains to eat! BRAINS! Mwahaha!

Ok - I'm scaring myself now!

I've matched her with the lovely Memory Box Black Bird Papers and used my Shimmerz Spritz paints to sparkle up and darken some floral felt ribbon. The little corner pearls were made with my Viva Decor Walnut Gloss pen.

You can get all these lovely goodies from Quixotic Paperie and the Shimmerz is all on special offer!

Well, what about the movement I hear you ask? If you look to the right of the image you will see the little pumpkin, which comes with this stamp. If you move the pumpkin up or down the Mummy comes alive and starts eating brains!

ARrrrrgghhhhhhh! Ok scared again!

Think I better go hide behind the sofa - that well known technique for eluding scary, brain-eating Mummies.

But before I quiver away, have you seen Amy Young's gorgeous new Twisted Sisters for the C.C. Designs Sweet November range? Elaine has them all at Quixotic Paperie waiting to be rehomed - they are gorgeous!

Mwahaha!

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp Mitzi Mummy

Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black; Distress inks

Colouring - Prismacolor Pencils; Sansodor

Papers - Memory Box Black Bird Papers

Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Golden Heavy gel; double-sided tape

Other - Shimmerz Spritz; floral felt ribbon; Viva Decor Walnut Gloss pen.

Playing With Paint And Glue

I've been dropping subtle hints here on my blog over the last week or so that I might subject you all to my playing with paint and art journal pages. Well today is your lucky day got a mixed media journal page to show you!

I thought I would start with this piece as it directly inspired the recent mixed media gift box I posted not so long ago.

I would have called this piece 'Paris' except if you look closely at the map you will see it is actually an old UK road map, so perhaps I should call the piece 'Travel' or 'Road Trip' instead?

Playing with paint is such fun, I'm not totally sure if this page is finished yet but that is the great thing about having an art journal it never has to be perfect and you can add to it any time you want!

Have a fabulously painty day.

Kim

Another Mixed Media Card

Some more playing with texture for my make today. For this one I've painted some calico, ripped out book pages and torn up packaging. I love getting messy! For the focal point of this piece I have used the gorgeous stamps from the July Unity Store Kit Key To Joy available over at Make The Day Special.

I did think that the butterfly and sentiment worked nicely together, what do you think? If you take the music notes on the butterfly as the 'Master Key'? Is that pushing it?

Well hope you have a musical day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamps - July Unity Store Kit Key To Joy

Ink - Versamark sepia; Distress ink Vintage Photo

Colouring - Neocolor crayons

Usual Suspects - Golden Heavy gel; silicone glue; Bonda-web; Scissors

Other - Calico; Acrylic paint; Book page

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 128

When I saw the challenge for this week's Cute Card Thursday I was so excited:

Fabric

Yippee I thought! Just one of my most favourite things to incorporate in a card!

I have gone the whole hog and used some gingham fabric for my background and some matching fabric scraps for the bunting. I thought it was a perfect match for the lovely Tania Baking from Belles 'n Whistles available in a new clear photopolymer stamp format over at Quixotic Paperie.

Oh and I might have used some more corrugated cardboard again! I know, I know - I'm obsessed with the stuff!

Isn't she gorgeous?

Have a fabulous day.

Kim

Materials:

Stamp - Tania Baking from Belles 'n Whistles

Ink - memento tuxedo black

Colouring - Prismacolor pencils; Sansodor

Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; bonda-web; Scissors

Other - Fabric; doily; corrugated card

Quixotic Paperie Challenge Blog Challenge No. 39

Thank you all so much for the messages of support about the mix up with my work in Craft Stamper, you are all so wonderful! I love you all! I'm thinking of changing my name as there are just too many of us Kim's in the crafty world so any suggestions would be gratefully received LOL!

Anyway onwards and upwards! It is a new Wednesday and a new Quixotic Paperie Challenge, which this week has been chosen by the lovely Simonne:

Black, White and One Other Colour

Fabulous! One of my favourite colour combos. I've chosen yellow as my added colour, I thought it went well with my gorgeous Belles 'n Whistles stamps Lemonade Anyone? available at Quixotic Paperie.

Many of the Belles 'n Whistles Rubber stamps are on Super Special Offer Prices so definitely the right time to get them!

The papers are the wonderful My Mind's Eye Meadowlark Dawn and I have used the black raffia lace and a heart shaped pearl to add embellishment, all available at Quixotic Paperie.

Another close up of our Lemonade Sweetie! I added some sparkle to the drinks with the Viva Decor Glitter Liner Holo Iridescent.

BTW the new The Greeting Farm September releases are in stock at Quixotic Paperie, I have my eye on Sweet 'n Toxic! Love!

Well off now to finish some more cards!

See you later.

Glitter Fluff

Materials:

Stamps - Belles and Whistles Lemonade Anyone?

Ink - Memento Tuxedo black

Colouring - Prismacolor pencils; Sansodor

Papers - My Mind's Eye Meadowlark Dawn

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

Other - black raffia lace; heart shaped pearl; Viva Decor Glitter Liner Holo Iridescent; Buttons; Markers