New Presents For Luka

Hope you and your family enjoyed your Christmas weekend. Now it is back to crafting! Tee Hee!

I have my Cute Card Thursday make to show you today. We have a fabulous sketch challenge on the go this week and I've used Luka with his new toy truck which you can get from La-La Land Crafts as rubber stamps or digi-stamps.

I've matched Luka with Pink Paislee Paper from Quixotic Paperie and the stitching was my first play with the Sew Easy Tool with the Cross Head.

Enjoy your Christmas week and crafting :)

Kim

Scribble Technique

Want to know how I got the colouring on this Christmas Tag using ZIG pens from Kuretake?

It is a fabulous colouring technique which I'm calling the Scribble technique.

You will need:

A craft mat or non-stick surface

ZIG Pens in this case I've used the ZIG Calligraphy pens

A spray bottle with water

Heat tool

Card

Scribble the pen onto the craft mat or non-stick surface and spritz with water.

Layer the card on top of the coloured droplets and lift off then dry with the heat tool. Repeat until you have the look you want.

Try getting different patterns, if you swirl the card in the droplets, or the droplets are big you will get a more even coverage of the colour. If the droplets are small and you touch down and lift off without swirling then you will get a more patterned look. 

Have fun with this one!

Kim

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With Love At Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Wishing you all a completely wonderful day.

ps. if you wanted to see how to make this little tag it is up on the Kuretuke website!

Edit: This tutorial is now on my blog.

Waiting By The Christmas Tree

Santa is putting on his suit, the elves are packing up the sledge, the reindeer are warming up  - it's Christmas Eve! 

I hope you have got all your presents including the ones for the pets? My pet cat - Squeaky would hunt under the tree 'til she found her present then she would sit with it waiting patiently until Christmas morning. Bless her, how she knew that gift was for her I will never know. It wasn't always a smelly pressy - I could understand her finding that! I think she read all the gift tags :)

So here is a Christmas make for the pets! The tree and pet stamp and the sentiment are both from Scrolls Work and I've used a touch of watercolouring with distress inks to give the subtle colours.

When is Santa coming? 

So what time can I go to bed? 

Can I go to bed now? 

Please? 

Tee Hee!

Have a wonderful Christmas Eve.

More Snowflakes Falling?

So we are almost there! Not long to go now! Are we taking bets for a White Christmas? What do you reckon? Will you have snow on Christmas Day where you are?

I've been all snowy with my snowflake makes recently, this one uses the CC Designs Snowflake Stamp kit available over at Quixotic Paperie with the sentiment from the Unity Itty Bitty Merry and Bright stamp available at Make The Day Special.

Hope all is Merry and Bright with you.

Kim

Summer Turned To Winter

Yep, more Christmas cards and this one today is from {Ippity}.

You might recognise the image from the Ippity Summer 2010 release? A Summer stamp on a Christmas card?  Yep, add a bit of snow and there you have it a Summer image turned to Winter.

I do love this stamp - so versatile :)

Have a lovely snowy day!

Kim

Just For You On La-La Land Crafts Monday

A bright card for Winter using the super cute Winter Marci from La-La Land Crafts that you can get as a rubber stamp or as a digi-stamp.

Doesn't she look nice and warm? 

Hope you are staying warm where you are.

Kim

Is It Snowing?

Has anyone got any snow? How snowy is it where you are? We are have lots of snow, watched it go from snow-free to a blanket of thick snow in two hours yesterday. I've captured a snowflake here to go with all the snow outside! A large decorated Tando Creative Snowflake available over at Quixotic Paperie.

I've decorated it using some Christmas paper and inks and added one of the sentiments from the CC Designs Snowflake Stamp kit then finished it with some Viva Decor Glitter Liner to add that touch of icy sparkle.

Elaine has lots of fab new products in Quixotic Paperie including some new very cute SCACD stamps. Also you might like to know that you can get

FREE P&P ON UK ORDERS OVER £30

16TH DECEMBER - 20TH DECEMBER

Last posting before Christmas will be 4pm on Monday 20th December, so get those last minute orders in now! 

Enjoy your snowy day!

Kim

Scroll Works Gift Boxes

A quick and easy gift box today! Decorated with the lovely Joy Holly stamp from the Scrolls Work Merry Christmas Range. 

All you need is a some patterned paper, your stamps and inks and any extras you want to add extra touches to the box.

The stamp measures just under 2.5 by 4 inches so the box measurements are designed to match the stamp size.

I've cut out two rectangles from the patterned paper, one for the lid (6 1/8 by 4 5/8 inches) and one for the box itself (8 by 6 7/16). 

Score a one inch border on each side of the lid paper and a two inch border on each side of the box paper. Score a diagonal line in each corner of the border on both pieces of papers.

Fold each score line and smooth out with a bone folder, or ruler, so that the pattern is on the outside. The corners should fold inwards and can be stuck to the walls with double-sided tape.

I used distress inks to decorate and add a vintage feel to my box.

For the stamp I stamped it with sepia Archival ink, cut it out and then added colour to the Holly and berries with the distress inks. 

I stamped the image again in red and cut out the diamond-shaped sentiment then stuck it to the image.

I added glitter highlights to the image.

Then covered the diamond sentiment with Glossy Accents.

There you have it a super quick gift box for that last minute wrapping!

Hope you get all your wrapping done.

Kimx

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Favourite Reads For Blog-A-Holics

I have a confession, I'll whisper this to you but please don't tell anyone...I'm a blog-a-holic!

What? You are one too? 

Oh I am so relieved! 

I thought it was just me. 

With 1255 blogs in my Google Reader, 'Following' or RSS-ing, and blogs followed via Network Blogs in Facebook. Well you can guess that I have a problem! 

But a problem shared is a problem halved! 

So I thought I would share my problem with you by sharing some of my favourite blog reads from time to time for you to add to your ever growing reading list if you haven't got them already!

The first in my series of Blog-A-Holic Reads is the gorgeous blog from Sue at Hello Gorgeous

You might remember that I mentioned Hello Gorgeous a little while back when Sue did a fun little interview with me for her blog.

Sue is a jewellery designer and she posts on her blog a 'Thanks Folksy It's Friday' series with Folksy makes that inspire her and links to the Folksy shops and on Tuesday she has a series called 'Twenty Question Tuesday' where she interviews artists, bloggers, crafters etc. Both are fun features and well worth watching out for.

Enjoy!

Christmas Wishes To You All

Some of you might have noticed a couple of mentions on my blog over the last couple of weeks for the ZIG pens from Kuretake? Just the odd hint here and there? I've been really lucky to have been able to give these pens a really good crafty workout and I'm hoping to share my thoughts and more projects with you in the very near future...

In the meantime here is a quick peak at my Christmas make for the Kuretake Countdown To Christmas, there is a new project everyday with lots of fun ideas like fabulous Christmas decorations and I love the decorated bag on 13 Days To Go! 

You will find little old me on the 12 Days To Go page and if you go take a look you can see a quick step by step for this project. 

I've used the ZIG Calligraphy pens to colour the holly, ZIG Calligraphy Metallic pen for the sentiment; ZIG Millennium Pen for doodling the holly and berries, ZIG Writer pens to colour the berries and the ZIG embossing pens to add the snow effect. 

So you can see how versatile these pens are but more on this later, right now I thought I would just tease you with a look-see!

Christmas Wishes to you all!

Kimx

Cute Card Thursday

Cute Card Thursday and this week it is:

One For The Kids

The sponsors this week are My Favourite Things

Here is one of the cards I've made for our nephews. I just love this Alison Acton stamp from Whiff Of Joy, so cute I thought it should get pride of place. I've used the Candy Christmas stamp from Scrolls Work for the sentiment.

Catch you all later.

Kim

Scrolls Work Santa Placement Cards

More preparations for Christmas? How about your placement cards for Christmas Lunch? These cute little Santas are from the Scrolls Work Christmas Festive range and are just a perfect size for placement cards!

I've been practising my calligraphy and used a gold ZIG Calligraphy Metallic pen for the names with a ZIG Memory System 2 Way glue pen to add the touches of sparkle with glitter to the lettering and Santa's fluffy beard and trim.

Thanks for popping in!

Kim

Metallic And Bright

The last run of Christmas makes and I'm still desperately playing catch up! Note to self - start earlier next year. I'm sure I say that every year and I never do! Hands up all of you how do the same?

 I've used the Unity Itty Bitty Merry and Bright stamp with sentiment, available over at Make The Day Special. I think I can safely say that this has been one of my top favourite stamps for this season. 

I've used the metallic Perfect Pearls to add that gorgeous shine.

Ooo I'm so easily distracted by shiny things.

Have a shiny day.

Kim

Let It Snow

Guess what? I'm still racing to finish the Christmas makes LOL! Haven't bought any presents, haven't sent any cards and we have only just put up our little Christmas tree. But I have watched lots of Christmas movies like Elf, Fred Claus (which was a bit dire I thought) and Blizzard so am trying to get in the spirit. 

Need the mince pies and mulled wine, that would help me to get my Christmas preparations done!

Used the lovely CC Designs Snowflake Stamp kit available over at Quixotic Paperie and it is reduced at the moment as well! I love the snowflakes in this kit.

Right off to do more Christmas Makes.

Hope you are getting yours finished!

Kim

Quixotic December Challenge - Thank you

I've been making some more notelet cards for my Etsy and Folksy shops, some thank you cards for all those lovely Christmas presents! Luckily for me the Quixotic Paperie challenge for this month is:

Thank You!

So these fit perfectly as they use one of the lovely stamps from the Paper Make Up Stamps Nature's song set. I've used the ZIG Calligraphy pens and  ZIG Art and Graphic Twin pens to add colour to the stamping.

Hope you are enjoying your Sunday.

Kimx

Cute Card Thursday - 142

Have you seen this week's Cute Card Thursday? A lovely challenge for the Winter months:

Floral Frenzy

This week the Sponsors are: Simon Says Stamp

I've used a Burgundy and Cream colour combo for my Floral Frenzy with the gorgeous La-La Land Crafts Marci with Rose which you can get as a rubber stamp or as a digi-stamp.

The pearls are from Quixotic Paperie and the sparkle was added with glass glitter available from The Altered Element.

Have fun with your Floral Frenzy!

Kimx

Believing In Angels

Another Celestially inspired make for The Altered Element Blog and this one use the theme of angels as it's celestial muse! The item uses a little alterable square pendent which has been treated with Golden Molding paste to build the texture then painted with Acrylic Paints and light dusting with Gesso.

The image is a rub-on from my stash and covered it with Ranger Crackle accents. The finishing touches some from the flowers (also from my stash) and the little sentiment is a cute little Vintaj Sentiment charm.

There are still some bargains to be had at The Altered Element Closing Down sale!

Catch you all later.

Kim

La-La Land Craft Heads Up

Just a quick heads-up for any of you folk who might happen to be in Costa Mesa California on Saturday 18th  December or Redlands California on Sunday 19th December. La-La Land Crafts will be doing some demos that you might wanna go get your crafty fix from LOL!

There is more information on the La-la Land Crafts blog.