Itty Bitty Christmas Decoration

A Christmas Decorations for you today and I've been playing with my melt pot and paints to make this little fellow. It makes a lovely vintage tree decoration I thought?

I've used the Unity Itty Bitty Joy stamp which you can get over at Make The Day Special. The Itty Bitty stamps aren't small as the name suggests this one is just under ATC size (2.5 inch by 3.5 inch)

I would love to see your Christmas Decorations! Let me know if you have any on your blog and I will pop by to take a look.

Thanks for popping in today.

Kimx

Multicoloured Embossing Tips

Yep, I've another Christmas card today and these are some cards I made for a commission using the lovely Scrolls Work Poinsettia Stamp that I showed you on Sunday in Kraft and Bronze. 

Well for today I've gone real old School Christmas with traditional Christmas colours and some heat embossing but to mix it up just a little bit I've used a multiple colour embossing technique that I thought I would share with you.

For this technique you will need:

Embossing powders, I've used bronze, gold and green.

Stamp - Scrolls Work Poinsettia Block

Versamark

Coloured Card

A spare piece of paper for each embossing powder colour (folded on half and open up again)

STEP ONE

Stamp out the image in Versamark onto the coloured card and place on the first spare piece of paper. Pick the first embossing powder colour (I used the bronze) and pour onto small areas of the image. I started by pouring little piles of powder over the corners of the image and very little splashes in the centre of the image.

As quick as you can turn the coloured card over to pour the excess powder onto your spare piece of paper and give the card a few good taps to get all the excess off. As you can see not all the areas have been covered by the powder which is just the effect you want at this stage. You can pour your excess powder back into the jar for later use, the fold in the paper should help!

STEP TWO

Repeat STEP ONE for the other powder colours, using one colour at a time with a new piece of paper with a pouring fold in it. I used my gold colour second and finally my green, but play around to get the look you want. Each time you use a new powder try to cover the areas you missed with the previous powder.

Remember to use the spare paper for each powder you pour and don't mix them up if you want to pour the excess back into the jar.

By the end you will have the whole image covered waiting for the magic to happen!

STEP THREE

Heat emboss and watch your embossing colours shine through!

Enjoy and I would love to see your embossing makes so drop me a comment so that I can have a nose!

Kimx

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What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Welcome to my WOYWW! I haven't played for a couple of weeks and I've missed seeing all your lovely creative spaces, but I'm pleased to be able to join in again today to show my mess and to see yours! Tee Hee!

Lots of fun crafty mess! I've been playing with the fabulous ZIG pens from Kuretake I'm so lucky! So I've been practicing my Calligraphy and writing with the ZIG Calligraphy pens and Writing pens and then doing some stamping using the Art and Graphic pens! Love them!

The ickle birdie is from the Nature's Song Paper Make-Up Stamp set.

Thanks for sharing my fun with me and don't forget to look at all the other crafty messes going on by popping over to Julia's blog Stamping Ground!

Happy WOYWW to you all!

Some Christmas Heart And Doodles

Hi Guys, I have a Christmas card today, I know - Shock! This one uses the lovely Unity Wishes and Kisses stamp kit which you can get from Make The Day Special. Both the heart and the sentiment are from this kit and I thought that I could give them a bit of a Christmas spin as I think the kit is more for Valentines!

I doodled some holly leaves using a ZIG Millennium pen then coloured them with ZIG Calligraphy pens. The snow was added to the bottom of the card using a ZIG Embossing pens and some white embossing powder.

Simple and Christmassy :)

We have some new design team members over at Make The Day Special, so if you have a moment pop on over to the blog and check them out!

Materials: 

Stamps - Unity Wishes and Kisses

Ink - Archival Coffee and Black

Other - ZIG Embossing pens; ZIG Calligraphy pens; ZIG Millennium pen; Embossing powder

La-La Land Craft Monday

Hello my beautiful blog readers, Monday has arrived again and we are counting down those shopping days to Christmas.

It will be be a busy week on Crafty Makes, for once I seem to have more makes than days of the week, I might even have to start posting a couple of times a day - I don't know what is wrong with me! I've gone make crazy!

I have a few Christmas Cards to show you this week, but I have some other non-Christmassy things to show you as well, just in case you are getting tired of Christmas already (well some people have been making their cards since July - clever folks!)

To kick off the week I have my La-La Land Crafts DT make to show you. I've used the lovely Caroling Luka  which you can either by as a rubber stamp or you can buy as a digi-stamp - how cool is that?

Before I go don't forget the Cute Card Thursday challenge this week which is 'The Blues', the DT have made some beautiful inspiring cards and the sponsors are The Beary Scrap. Well worth a look-see!

Thanks for popping in on your rounds and I hope you are progressing well with all those Christmas preparations.

Catch you tomorrow.

Kimx

Bronze Embossed Christmas

Got my first gDT card for Scrolls Work for you all today. I've used the lovely Poinsettia Block stamp from the Scrolls Work Christmas Merry range of stamps. I love poinsettias :) 

The sentiment is also available at Scrolls Work and you can find it in the Scrolls Work Snowy Christmas range. The stamps work gorgeously with embossing powders like the bronze powder I have used here. I was curious to see how the bronze would work with the kraft, a sort of old school meets new school! What do you think?

Hope you are having a good weekend, thanks for dropping by.

Kimx

Box Of The Heavens

This month The Altered Element Blog theme is 'Celestial' and I have the first of my Celestially inspired makes today for - an altered box. Have a look in the Alterable Items section to pick up a bargain with the closing down sale.

I downloaded the free image from Vintage Printable and used Golden Gel Medium to attach it to the box that I had already painted with Eco Green Craft paints. The final touch was to add a bit of sparkle using Glass Glitter.

Thanks for popping by.

Kim

La La Birthday Party Blog Hop

Welcome to our La La Birthday Party Blog Hop!  If you have come from Alice's lovely blog then you are hopping in the right direction. If you want to start at the beginning then pop on over to the La La Land Crafts Blog to start.

It's our DT sister, Lisa's birthday this week and we're celebrating her with virtual birthday party in the form of a blog hop!  Let's play a game called "Lisa's Favorite Things"  Some of the DT brought "gifts" to the party (some of Lisa's favorite things!) ... all you have to do is hop to our blogs, leave a comment and collect the "gifts" along the way (write em down).  At the end of the hop (you'll have til Sunday night), you'll want to email Irina (irina_ca(at)msn(dot)com) 5 "gifts" you found on the hop. At the end of the hop, we will have a GIFT for one of you!  

plus 2 digis of winner's choice!)

I'm providing Lisa's favourite drinks for the party so that is lattes, espressos, cappuccinos, in fact all COFFEE DRINKS.  Please hop along to Kris's fabulous blog next.  Don't forget to stop by Lisa's blog too and leave her some birthday greetings.

Enjoy your hopping and good luck!

December Guest DT For Scrolls Work

First of December and I can share with you some exciting news! I'm a guest DT for Scrolls Work for this month! Scrolls Work is a rubber stamp company owned by Jacquelyn Heaton that supplies an amazing range of unmounted rubber stamps for all sorts of themes, from cute and funny to arty and steampunk, well worth a look!

Can't wait to show you some of the samples I've been working on :) 

Scrolls Work has a blog and a facebook page you might want to have a look at :)

Have a fab day and catch you all later.

Kimx

The Greeting Farm Hoppin' into the Holidays Blog Hop

Welcome to The Greeting Farm Hoppin' into the Holidays Blog Hop!

Hope you are having a good hop through all the wonderful blogs. 

To see the full hopping list then pop on over to The Greeting Farm Blog. 

I've used the super cute Beanie Anya (you can also find her over at Quixotic Paperie) isn't she just adorable?

Enjoy your hopping, there are prizes and contests so don't forget to visit The Greeting Farm blog to catch all the fun.

Thanks for dropping in.

Kim

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