Sunday Round-Up

Sunday, Sunday, the week is ending and a fresh one is about to begin. 

So tell me, how was your week? Did you accomplish everything you set out to do at the start of the week? What plans do you have for the new week?

It has been a very busy week for me, been finishing some DT work, unfortunately I can't show it to you just yet. I've also been playing with paint and ZIG pens from Kuretake and I hope to show you some of that next week.

If you have got your new copy of Simply Cards and Papercraft Issue 80 have a look at page 73, you might recognise little old me with some shabby chic cards using funky foam! They were great fun to do!

Another little toot - Toot Toot! My blog was mentioned in the recent issue of Popular Crafts which was a very nice surprise!

Before I go don't forget my blog candy, you only have until tomorrow (17th January) to sign up!

Enjoy the rest of your day and your planning for the week ahead.

Cute Card Thursday Meets Quixotic Paperie

Cute Card Thursday is sponsored by Simon Says Stamp and this week is all about:

Monochrome

Now I started out with good intentions for my Monochrome DT piece, I promise you, but a little bit of extra colour snuck onto my card before I knew it! So ignore the yellow highlights I have a shades of grey card for you!

The Memory Box Pixie papers and Kraftin Kimmies Valentine Willard stamp are all from Quixotic Paperie and I added a bit of stitching with the Sew Easy Tool.

That's me today, thanks for dropping in and see you tomorrow!

Kimx

Sale Time!

Quixotic Paperie is having a sale!

La-La Land Crafts New Release Giveaway

How would you fancy wining SIX gorgeous La-La Land Crafts Rubber stamps?

Well today is your lucky day because the SIX gorgeous new Marci and Luka images are now available as rubber stamps and if you go to the La-La Land Crafts blog you could be in with a chance to win all of them! 

Oh Yeah! Now that is what we are talking about!

Good luck!

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Painty, Painty!

Hello All, It is Wednesday so that means - What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday! (If you are new to WOYWW then pop on over the Julia's blog Stamping Ground)

I've been painting again, which means taking over the kitchen! Got two projects going on here, a journal page that I'm gluing and some tags that I'm painting. But you will also see our broken cooker and an open packet of my favourite biscuits (*Cheeky Grin*). Tough life LOL!

Thanks for popping by and if you are interested my Blog Candy Giveaway is still open!

Have a fun WOYWW

You Light My Way

Oh Valentine's Day, the day to celebrate Lurve and here is a Lurve Tag for you! Well I'm in a bit of a tag mood at the moment as I'm making some tags for a swap and now I can not stop making tags!

This tag is for Make The Day Special and it uses the lovely street lamp from the Unity Adventures in Happiness kit which is on at Half Price at the moment so you might want to check it out! The sentiment is from the Unity Wishes and Kisses kit.

Bring on the Lurve :)

Kimx

Meyer Imports Blog Candy

Have you seen this lovely group of Glitter Crystals? Well they are from Meyer Imports and if you pop over to their blog now you can sign yourself up to be in with a chance to win a set! 

Yummy, wouldn't mind trying these out! 

Blog Candy!

This Blog Candy is now closed.
Keep your eyes out for more in the future!

How about some blog candy?

Yep, I think it is time to have a little blog giveaway as a thank you to all the lovely and creative people who pop by my blog from time to time to say hello!

But this giveaway is not just for my regular readers but also to give me the opportunity to meet new blogging buddies as well!

If you have not met this little lady before she is the very cute Summer rubber stamp from the very popular, and lovely, The Greeting Farm. She is foam mounted, ready to use and is looking for a new home!

So don't be shy come and say hello! All you have to do to be in with a chance to win is:

1. Become a follower (if you aren't already!)

2. Spread the word (with a link and the above photograph if you like) about the giveaway on your blog, facebook, twitter etc

3. Link your blog below

Simple!

The blog candy will be open until Monday 17th January 2011 12pm (GMT) when the winner will be chosen by Random.org and is open worldwide.

Cute Card Thursday - Some Favourite Stash

Hi Guys, It is Cute Card Thursday! Wahoo! First of the year and this one is:

Out With The Old!

Which means you have an excuse to get all your old stash out and use it all up to make way for new stash of course!

Sponsored this week by The Stamp Shoppe.

The card I have to show you today was a commission card and is one of my favourites from December. You might recognise the paper from the K&Co Amy Butler collection, last year or the year before (?) and is still one of my favourite paper packs. I have a small stash of these little bookplates that I got last year and are a favourite bit of metal accessory. The stamp is from the CC Designs Reason For the Season kit from Christmas 2009 and yep, you guessed it - it is another one of my favourites! 

So this card is full of my favourites from my stash!

Enjoy going through your stash for this challenge!

Kim

Lovely New La-La Land Crafts Images

Oh I'm just so excited! 

Why? I hear you ask!

Because I get to share with you news of the beautiful new images from La-La Land Crafts.  I almost fell off my chair when I first saw these new images, just the cutest! 

I'm busy colouring them at the moment and they are lovely, I particularly love Sugar n' Spice Marci, I'm such a sucker for any baking related stamps!

Well I thought you guys would wanna see all these cuties and the best news is that if you can not wait for the rubber stamps you can get the digi-stamps now over at the La-La Land Crafts blog.

~ DARLING MARCI ~

~ SWEETHEART MARCI ~

~ SUGAR N' SPICE MARCI ~

and ~ AMOUR LUKA ~

Let me know if you have coloured any of these beauties in, you know me, always up for a good nose at all the gorgeous work everyone does!

Containing my excitement, off to do some work now...

Catch you later!

Make The Day Special Baby Hanger

Ok so we are now 4 days into the New Year...how many of those resolutions/ life-style changes have you kept too? Oh how we struggle to become better people with the New Year! I'm pacing myself this year, that is my New Year's resolution to pace my life-style improvements over the whole year and not just in the first two weeks of January, this works particularly well if you still have Christmas chocolates left over - *Big Grin!*

Tee Hee!

A make for you today using the Unity and Cosmo Cricket cross-over - De-lovely Childhood stamp kit  available over at Make The Day Special. I've made a little hanger for baby's door.

Good luck with your resolutions / life-style changes!

Thanks for popping in.

Kimx

Thank You Cards For 2011

Happy New Year All, here is my first La-La Land Crafts make of 2011 and I've used the lovely Marci with Rose for a thank you card. You can get her as rubber stamp or as a digi-stamp.

I've used the lovely Meadowlark Dawn papers from My Mind's Eye available at Quixotic Paperie.

Just trying to get use to it being 2011!

Have a wonderful week.

Kim

My Favourite Makes 2010

Hi Guys, we are at the eve of a New Year and it is only natural that we want to look back over the passing Year. I love hopping around people's blogs at this time of year to see all their favourite makes and I've picked some of my favourites for 2010 to have them in one place. 

I was happy to find that I had a few favourites from 2010, you know how it is, sometimes you love what you do and sometimes you hate it (and sometimes both - do you get that?)!

 This year I found it quite hard to pick just 10 to show but I had to have a cut off point somewhere!

Enchanted Seamstress Picture from October

Mixed Media Gift Box from August

Life Tree Card from August

Live It Journal Page from September

Timely Rose Card from October

Walk In The Park Notebook from October

Had A Bad Day? Card from May

Mini-Us Anniversary Card from October 

Curiouser And Curiouser! Altered Book Page from April

Simply Handmade Card from June

It is fun to see how the work develops and the direction it goes through the year. A lot of my favourite makes seem to fall within the second half of this year. 

All years have their creative ups and downs, as I am finding out, and I definitely feel that I had a positive creative jolt in the second half of this year. I put a large portion of this change in my work down to starting to explore art journalling and a change in my own creative mindset. 

So it has definitely been a challengeing and interesting year for me. I look forward to seeing where it goes next year not just for me but for all of my crafty/arty bloggy friends, just the best creative community and I'm so happy to be a part of it!

Thank you for popping by and do leave me links to your 2010 catch-up posts so I can have a good nose :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Cute Card Thursday Thank You!

Cute Card Thursday is helping us all out this week with the fabulous challenge of

Thank You!

How are your Thank You cards going? I have one here, a really simple one!

She is the super, super cute The Greeting Farm Cheeky Cherry Cherry Pie available over at Quioxtic Paperie. Oh so pretty, isn't she lovely? Yep, another one of my favourites!

Thank you for popping by.

Have a fun and relaxing week.

Kim

Last Minute Bargains

Only a few days left to grab a bargain before The Altered Element closes it doors for the last time!

Recycled Painty Heart

Oh I do like a bit of messy paint, as you know! So I've got a bit painty mad using the Unity Kisses and Wishes stamp set.

Lots of fabulous recycling for this one, some packing and old sewing patterns all recycled!

So what you all up to during the Christmas week?

Have a great Painty Heart day.

Kim