Buzz Buzz Buzz

Buzzy Buzzy Buzz, the last sounds of Summer buzzing on by, well actually there are no sounds of Summer as the wind and rain pelts against my window! Well let us just pretend that it is still Summer shall we?

I have my Summery DT make for Make The Day Special this week. I've used one of the new stamp sets from Paper Smooches, have you seen them yet? Very cute, this set is called 'Giddy Bugs'.

I stamped the sentiment, also from the kit, and coloured the image with ZIG Art and Graphic Twin pens from Kuretake which you can get from Make The Day Special. There is a little touch of glitter on the wings. 

Right well I need to buzz off now. 

Hope you all have a good Tuesday.

Kim

La-La Land Crafts Inspiration Monday

Hey Hey! It's La-La Land Crafts Inspiration Monday! This week the inspiration is 'anything but a card' so for my DT make this week I've made a little mixed media tag which is probably a bit of a cheat as I really do love making tags so do quite a lot of them!

I've used La-La Land Crafts Skeleton Luka for my spooky Halloween make.

You can get him as a Rubber Stamp or as a  Digital Stamp

I've added a free-stitching spider web,

with a button Spider! (The best kind in my opinion!).

If you like the background I've made then keep an eye out for the tutorial to follow!

Well as always there is more Inspiration on the La-La Land Crafts blog today and again
on Friday.

Have a great Monday.

Kim

Sunday Round-Up

It is Sunday Round-Up time and that seems particularly approriate this week as I am watching Toy Story 2 with Woody's Round-Up as I write this post!

Well to Round-Up this week I have a little card in Papercraft Essentials Issue 72 to 'toot' about but you might be extra excited about this issue - not 'coz of my card but because of the super cute Humphrey's Corner cover stamp set - so cute you won't want to miss it!

I also wanted to give you all a couple of heads-up for the week ahead, things you might be interested in checking out. 

First off have you checked out the Kuretake Design Team call?

Second is the new My Mojo Monthly Muse and inspiration from Sarah is up and ready for you to play with! Have fun!

Last but not least don't forget the Art From The Heart Blog Hops!

Catch you later and have a super Sunday.

Kim

Art From The Heart Birthday Celebration Blog Hop

Welcome the Art from the Heart 10 year Birthday Blog Hop Celebration

Lots of exciting things will be happening at Art from the Heart next weekend. To find out more  about all the celebratory events then pop on over to Dy Reaveley's Blog Art and Soul. 

In the meantime there are FIVE product themed Blog Hops for you to while away the time with in preparation for the big event!

If you have hopped to my blog from GezzyB's Jots then you are on the right path for the Stampotique Team's blog hop. If not then pop back to Dy's blog to start.

I've got a little mixed media jotting book for my make, it uses one of my favourite
Stampotiques - Karin.

I called the book 'Threads of Ideas'.

The idea being that it is a book to capture all those ideas before they unravel!

Before you move on - you will need to collect a letter from me which is: I

This is part of an anagram of a Stampotique product

and you can find out all the details over at Dy's blog which is your next port of call after leaving me a comment of course LOL!

Happy Hopping.

Kim

Vintage Shoes

I'm not usually one for double parking my makes, posting two or more makes in a post, and I try to avoid posting more than once a day, but I'm getting to the point where I have more samples than days to post them!

I have to admit that I am starting to lose the plot a little on which I've posted and which I haven't, it is not helped by my somewhat haphazard filing system as I seem to have everything marked as 'not blogged yet'.

Hey Ho!

Anyway, I do have some makes to show you today, not one, not two but THREE makes! They are all from the samples I made for Creative Expressions recently and you have already seen a little peak of a couple of them.

All the makes use the If The Shoe Fits A5 stamp plate designed by Sam Poole.

Did you know you can use Cosmic Shimmers Powders to distress and vintage your papers? I didn't until I tried it. The papers are called Foundation Papers and I added extra details with the  Cosmic Shimmers Powders and That Special Touch Flourish Mask and some Versamark.

Yep, I did use those circle flowers again, I know you are getting tired of them - but look how well the circle sentiment from the stamp set works with them!

I've also distressed the next sample with the Cosmic Shimmers Powders and been at the Foundation Papers with the tearing.

This time I stamped the smaller shoes from the kit in Versamark and used the Cosmic Shimmers Powders to add some sparkle and also some colour to the rose too.

Ok my final sample today is a little different from the other two as there is no distressing just lots of dots.

For this one I used the Foundation Papers to layer the dotty paper which I made using 3D Crystal Colour Lacquer and the That Special Touch Polka Dots Mask.

You can see the 3D sparkly effect of the Lacquer - cool! The ribbon is a lovely sheer polka dot and the Spellbinders dies is the Labels 9 Nestie.

The dots you see before your eyes are real!

Well I better go and try to organise my filing system.

Catch you later. (Much later!)

Have fun

Kim

It's Challenge Day!

Hello folks, I've got my challenge card for Cute Card Thursday and Pixie Dust Studio for this week and we have two great challenges to get your creative juices tingling!

Cute Card Thursday is all about using punches and Pixie Dust Studio is about going back to school.

So here is a little 'Hello Teacher' card to start the term for Kindergarten/ Primary School with Pixie Dust Studio's Walter's Jammies using the small Kurepunch Duck and medium Kurepunch tag M.

The 'Hello Teacher' uses a ZIG Chalk Writer from Kuretake to write on the 'blackboard'.

Hope you have fun with these challenges this week.

Kim

Go With Your Heart

Hope you all had a good long weekend, did lots of fun relaxing and art making. I have my Make The Day Special project for this week and I went with a grungy, shabby chic tag using the Unity Itty Bitty and Authentique Co-branded stamp Go With Your Heart.

Such a pretty stamp. I've used the ZIG Black Sparkle Embossing Powder to emboss the stamp on top of an acetate panel treated with Eco-Green acrylic paint and ZIG Alcohol Inks which are also known as their Kurecolor Refill Inks.

The papers are from the Prima 6x6inch Printery paper pack (which I am totally in love with!) and then added some pearls to finish the piece. 

Have you checked out some of the new stamps in the Make The Day Special shop? Here are some of them:

Flourishes

Simply Betty

Paper Smooches

PICTURES OF THESE STAMPS HAVE BEEN REMOVED - people have been pinning these pictures into their 'Digital-stamps and Printable' boards on Pinterest BUT THEY ARE NOT digi-stamps they are copyright protected images.

Please respect people's copyright - not respecting copyright is stealing.

Which are your favourites? 

Have a great day.

Kim

Inspiration Monday {Stitching - Real or Faux}

Bank Holiday Monday! YAY! La-La Land Crafts Inspiration Monday! Double YAY!

It's all about the Stitching this week at the La-La Land Crafts blog - real or faux! Triple YAY! 

For my card this week I've got another sample of the fabby 'No-Line' Colouring technique and I've used the super gorgeous La-La Land Crafts Sweetheart Marci which you can get as a Digi-stamp or a Rubber stamp.

Don't forget to check out the La-La Land Crafts blog for the other lovely makes and again on Friday for more. 

Then there is the Customer Gallery link up your makes to win. Plus you have a couple more days to enter the Birthday competition to win some Copics or the Birthday hop to win lots of yummy crafty goodness! You better go check it out today as they all end on the 31st August.

Right, I'm out of here! 

Have a good Bank holiday Monday.

Kim

Wrinkles Don't Hurt

A little mixed media project with stamps from Creative Expressions for today's post. 

I fancied getting my fingers all painty but I also wanted to have a go with the fabulous 'No Lines' colouring technique that Zoe from Make It Crafty has come up with. Love the look of this technique (as I might have mentioned before!) it gives images such an arty/ illustrator look. 

So I thought I would try it out on one of the images from the Wrinkles Don't Hurt stamp set.

I've added some extra texture with some of the Comic Shimmer Ultra Thick Embossing powder.

The 'No Lines' image was stamped with Sand coloured Memento ink and coloured with Prismacolour pencils. 

The sentiment is also from the Creative Expressions Wrinkles Don't Hurt stamp set.

So what you guys up to this weekend? I'm so looking forward to the long Bank holiday weekend here in the UK, I'm planning to take the weekend off! I know shock! But you never know I might get my fingers inky or painty at some point, I might not be able to keep away.

Have a fun Friday.

Kim

Cute Card Thursday And Pixie Dust Studio Challenges

Wow is it Thursday already? It is, so that means it is the Cute Card Thursday Challenge day and the Pixie Dust Studio Challenge day and my card fits both! Hurrah!

The Cute Card Thursday Challenge is a sketch and the Pixie Dust Studio Challenge is to include a tag.

I've used the cute Socket the Reindeer from the Pixie Dust Studio Winter Release.

Hope you enjoy the challenges!

If you are near your TV or computer today check out the Creative Expressions shows on Create and Craft today at 12pm and 4pm.
Freeview 36 / Freesat 813 / Sky 671 / online

Some of the cards I was busy with last week using Frilly Things, If the Shoe Fits & You Look 'Scent'sational stamp sets will be on the show with Jo Channon.

Have a great day!

Kim

La-La Land Crafts Birthday Blog Hop!

Welcome to the La-La Land Crafts Birthday Blog Hop!

HIP, HIP, HOORAY, Marci and Luka Turned ONE on August 1st 

To celebrate this momentous occasion, La-La Land Crafts are having a very special blog hop with some of La-La Land Crafts’ alumni and friends joining in the birthday fun.

But that is not all!

La-La Land Crafts is offering up a HUGE BLOG CANDY! Scroll down to find out more!

So if you have hopped here from the lovely Karen Maldonado's blog Real Life In Pictures then you are on the right track. If not then hop on over to the La-La Lands Blog to get started.

Happy Birthday Marci and Luka

I've made a Fancy Dress Party Invite with the super cute Buccaneer Marci.

What will you be wearing at Marci and Luka's Fancy Dress Birthday party? I've always fancied going as Cleopatra but I might have to borrow the body as well as the outfit for that one!

With lots of my favourite circle flowers!

So I mentioned a blog candy didn't I? 

Take a look at this prize package!!

 

This Blog Candy contains the following:

~ Set of 12 Copic Markers in NEW 2011 colors

~ Set of Spica Pens

~ Pack of X-Press Blending Cardstock

~ New Scor-pal and pack of Scor-Tape

 ~ 3 sets of 12x12 Basic Grey Collections paper packs

~ $20 gift certificate to the La-La Land Crafts Store

To find out how to be in with a chance to win these goodies hop on over to the La-La Land Crafts blog.

Right the next beautiful blog to visit belongs to Rosemary Shaner - Rosemary's Creations.

Have fun!

Kim

Home Is Where...

Hello folks, how are you all doing today? I'm watching the rain on the window and happy to be at home today :)

Perfect day for a Home is Where the Heart is card :) This stamp is one of the co-branded Itty Bitty stamps from Unity.

I've used the ZIG Art And Graphic Twin Pens from Kuretake to stamp the image and you can now get these pens over at Make The Day Special! Wahoo!

Hope it is sunny where you are.

Kim