I Read The News Today - Oh Boy!

The news today is SNOW! SNOW! and more SNOW. Ok so this might not be news for you folks in places that have already had snow or who always have snow but for us soft Londoners this is NEWS! I'm sure that it will mean that everything will grind to a halt. I bet even the underground trains have stopped running! Tee Hee!

I have more news for you today - the super cute La-La Land Crafts stamps are now all available as Digi-stamps over at the La-La Land Crafts blog! 

My final bit of exciting Tuesday news is that the gorgeous Sue Hodgkinson from Hello Gorgeous who runs the fab Twenty Questions Tuesday has asked me the Twenty Questions and you can see my answers over at her blog today! Great fun to do - thanks for asking Sue! Whilst you are over at her blog have a look at her gorgeous makes which she sells in her Folksy shop ---Mmm is it Chrimbo coming up? :)

Cyber Monday Sale At Quixotic Paperie

 It's "Cyber Monday" and over at Quixotic Paperie I've got a selection of special offers for you available for today and tomorrow! These offers are available alongside the existing SCACD Stamps offer and the Festive Gift offer for orders over £30!

Ice Skating Monday

A new week and a new make from me today. I've got a Christmas Tag using the very cute Ice Skating Marci from La-La Land Crafts.  She looks very happy in her bobble hat and gloves! 

I've added a lot of glitter sparkle and some hand-stitching to finish her.

So what does this week have in store for you all? Me? I'm busy with some commissions which is fun. Hoping to have them finished in the first half of the week and sent off so that I can work on some other fun things I have in store for my lovely blog readers :) 

Also if you drop by tomorrow I'm taking part in The Greeting Farm Holiday Blog hop - so that will be fun. 

Right better get on with some work then! Lots to do!

Have lovely busy days!

Kim

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 140

Did you see this week's challenge over at Cute Card Thursday? It is 

Blast From the Past

Where you can use a theme from one of this years CCT previous challenges,

 I chose the Bug challenge for my make. Our sponsor this week is...The Stamp Shoppe

For my make I've gone for a very subtle colour palette of teal and vintage gold. I've used papers from the Pink Paislee Old School collection available over at Quixotic Paperie and matched them with the very sweet Little Acorn Stamp from the Victoria Case for SCACD collection.

The sentiment is from the Whimsy Sentiment Collection and I've grunged it up with Tim Holtz Rangers distress inks and crackle glue. 

You can't see it too well on the front view photograph but I've edged everything with gold ink.

I don't know if you have had a chance yet to check out the new Pink Paislee Artisan Elements but you really should! They are such fun. I have a pack of the Pink Paislee Artisan Elements - Swirls and they are fabulous to play with. They are three dimensional stickers that are made of a sort of spongy plastic that takes paints, inks etc, so you can colour them however you want.

I used them here to add a little 3D swirly accent to the card, but I also used them to 'stamp' swirls in gold on the corners of the image for a bit of extra texture.

BTW - Big SCACD Stamp Offer - Between 27th November and 4th December Buy ANY SCACD Stamps set OR 4 of ANY INDIVIDUAL SCACD Stamps from the selection at Quixotic Paperie and get ONE free stamp from the SCACD stamp line (the free stamp will be selected by Elaine - no exchanges).  You can buy stamps from any of the three SCACD Stamps artist lines available at Quixotic Paperie.

For those of you in the US Susana is also having a big special offer on all exclusive SCACD stamps lines, as above, at Susana's Custom Art & Card Design!  For full details please see the SCACD Store Blog!

Right I'll be off, hope you all enjoy your day.

Kim

My Latest Make For Papercraft Essentials

Have you got your new edition of Papercraft Essentials - PE62? I have a cute storage box in it on page 72.

I can't show you the whole project but I thought I would put a tiny teaser up for you :)

It was fabulous fun to make and you can make one too as I have included a template with the design and you can get it with the magazine!

Hope you get a chance to check it out, I would love to see the boxes you make with it!

Kimx

Christmas Notelets

I have another in my serious of Clean and Simple cards to show today. This little notelet style card is a Christmas card and uses the lovely Merry and Bright Itty Bitty Unity Stamps available over at Make The Day Special. I love these stamps, they are such a good price and they aren't small as the name suggests, they are normal sizes and perfect for CAS notelets LOL!

I've embossed this image to give a bit of dimension.

Thanks for popping by.

Kim

Glittery Blog Candy!

Very late blog post from me today, but I just spotted this heads-up in my email about some yummy Blog Candy over at the Meyer Import blog, they are giving away some of their stunningly glittery Glass Glitter.

I thought that might pique your interest LOL! (Don't know why I told you all though - 'coz I wanna win it - Tee Hee!)

Good luck all.

Kimx

Paper Make-Up Nutcracker

The Christmas card making is in full swing now and I have another to show you today. This one uses the lovely Paper Make-Up Nutcracker image and a fab Paper Make-Up sentiment both are available over at Quixotic Paperie just perfect for Christmas. I've matched him with the very Christmassy Echo Park Merry Christmas and added some lovely flat-backed pearls.

I grunged (is that a word?) up the papers a little by screwing up the music paper and then using inks over the top.

Right, off to make more Christmas cards.

Catch you later.

Kimx

Marci Sends Her Christmas Wishes

Hello all, hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Where does the weekend go? So start of a new week and I would like to say that I have a make to show you everyday this week. I would LIKE to say it but I'm not sure I have! Well let's start the week with a make if nothing else!

I have a little Icy Santa Marci from La-La Land Crafts for you today, she is very cute with her little Panda. What a sweetie!

I got a bit carried away with the old glitter glue, putting it everywhere! Well we need a bit of sparkle don't we? 

Hope you all have stunning weeks. 

Kim

Sale Time Extended!

Has been Extended!

Throughout the weekend, until 11 pm Pacific Standard Time on SUNDAY  La-La Lands Crafts is having a 20% Off Sale. 

So that is 20% off ALL Marci and Luka Collection stamps, including panda and the new sets (*digis excluded). Sale price will not be visible on the website, but will be reflected in the customers' Shopping Cart. 

Do All Things With Love

Friday already and I have my Make The Day Special DT make to show you today. It use a sentiment and hearts from the November Unity store kit the Wishes and Kisses half of the kit. I just love this sentiment.

I've used another simple design to really highlight the wonderful sentiment and stamped the image with Marvey Le Plume watercolour pens.

Have you seen the new {Ippity} Autumn 2010 release yet? Well Emily has them over at her bog {Ippity} Inspiration all ready for you.

Hope you do everything with love today.

Kim

Cute Card Thursday - Sketch

Hey Guys, it is Cute Card Thursday Challenge day and this week we have a lovely Sketch to play with and the sponsor is yummy Kraftin' Kimmies Stamps. 

I've made my card today with the super cute La-La Land Crafts Caroling Luka and Basic Grey Papers.

Got a Heads-up for you: La-La Lands Crafts is having a 20% Off Sale tomorrow 19th November from Midnight to Midnight Pacific Standard Time. 

So that is 20% off ALL Marci and Luka Collection stamps, including panda and the new sets (*digis excluded). Sale price will not be visible on the website, but will be reflected in the customers' Shopping Cart. It is their "Friday before Black Friday ONE-DAY SALE"

For those not sure what the US Black Friday is - it is the Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the US and apparently it is THE Shopping and Sales day of the year where everyone makes a profit - hence 'Black' Friday! 

Have fun!

Kim

Grungy Altered Tags

Hi Guys, I've got a make for you today - Hurray! It is a recycled make for The Altered Element. I have a number of these cute little tags I got free from magazines, I've been meaning to alter them for a while. 

Turning them from cute to grungy :)

I started by covering the tags with a layer of gesso then painted it with a layer of Eco Green Crafts Acrylic paints. I then stamped the tags using stamps from the Creative Expressions Vintage Games and Vintage Aviation kits with Archival ink. I then used Tim Holtz Distress Inks to distress the edges and a layer of Crackle paint over the top. The final finishing touch was to edge the tag with a leafing pen and add some alcohol ink coloured wire.

Hope you are all having a fun week.

Kim

Design Team Call

Hey guys, I'm back to let you know that Emily over at Make The Day Special is having a DT call, here is what she says:

"Make the Day Special needs a couple of new people to join the design team! Main requirements: stamp mad, UK based, active blogger/facebooker etc are you interested? Email me emily(at)makethedayspecial(dot)co(dot)uk before the 21st November with a link to your blog/online gallery :)"

Good Luck!

Christmas Surprise

Hey Guys, it is little old me with another shopping heads-up. But you will forgive me when you see it! 

Elaine over at Quixotic Paperie surprised us all with this beautiful stamp set from Stempelglede. It is on pre-order and expected the first week in December. 

Oh my goodness it is beautiful! I'm in love!

Elaine has a special offer running at the shop too!

Catch you all later.

Ready For The Party

Hi Guys, got my Monday La-La Land Crafts make for you today and I thought I would give you another peak at the gorgeous Marci and Luka all dressed up and ready for a party. 

Don't forget that they are being released soon in the shop but you can get them for a limited time as Digi-stamps.

I've matched these cuties with Basic Grey Granola paper and some lovely flat-backed pearls.

Enjoy your Monday.

Kim

Sunday Is Shopping Day Part Three

Third and final shopping alert for today! and this one is from:

Elaine has been adding so many new and gorgeous items to Quixotic Paperie I just can't keep up! So I shall pick a couple of my utmost favourites of the new stock and you will just have to explore the rest yourself!

When I saw the new Kraftin' Kimmie Moonlight Whispers I thought 'B*gger! I NEED all of those!' Yep they are ALL on my wish list just love them! LOL! Let me tease you with a couple of them:

Have you been seeing all the fabulous, reasonably priced new dies coming out at the moment? Well Whimsy has a couple of lovely ones and they have been very popular:

The fab thing about the Ticket one is that it goes perfectly with the Whimsy Ticket stamps and you get an easy gadget to line up the image for a perfect cut.

Then you have the wonderful Marianne Design Dies:

Right, now that I've given you a day of temptation I shall make my merry way! 

Have a lovely rest of your weekend.

Kimx