Going A Bit Shabby Chic

 I've got a sparkler for you today using the Prima clear stamps and Memory Box Pixie Paper with added sparkle from Viva Decor Glitter Liners from Quixotic Paperie.

Thought I would exercise my shabby chic muscles with this one, 'Jack of all styles, Master of none' Or perhaps it is just my short attention span?

Oh we do love a bit of sparkle don't we?

I've 'nested' the image on one of the fabulous Marianne Designs Creatable doily die cuts which works brilliantly with vellum by the way! For your charm fix have a look at the offers Elaine has at the moment!

That is it from me today.

Have a lovely Sparkly Saturday.

Kimx

p.s before I forget you might be interested to know that you can now get the Bazzill Kraft card from Quixotic Paperie, a much sort after and favourite crafty product :)

All Heart

So how many Valentine's cards are you making? 

One for everyone you know? Tee Hee!

I've got a good excuse to make Valentine's cards - trying out this lovely heart corner punch from Kuretake! The ribbon and brads are also from Kuretake. I had metallic coloured brads so I used Rich Red embossing powder to change the brad colour.

Get your hearts out folks! It's Friday!

Kimx

Cute Card Thursday - Recipe 1, 2, 3

Hey guys, got my DT make for Cute Card Thursday to show you today and this week we are sponsored by Simply Betty Stamps and the challenge is:

Recipe 1, 2, 3

So that means that your cards should feature a recipe of 1, 2, 3...any combo... it can be 1 paper, 2 ribbons, 3 buttons or 1 image, 2 flowers and 3 papers....the combo is entirely up to you.

For my make I've used 1 - butterfly; 2 - designer paper and 3 - cogs!

The paper (and butterfly) is the gorgeous Graphic 45 paper from Quixotic Paperie and the image is the beautiful Bella The Baker from Michelle Perkett.

Graphic 45 paper is one of those papers that I find really hard to cut into, I just love them so much! Bet you have your un-cutable favourites too?

Have a fun day!

Kim

Are You Going To The CHA?

Well if you are lucky enough to be going to the CHA (January 29 - Feb. 1) then don't forget to visit La-La Land Crafts downstairs in the "New Exhibitor" section, at booth 4607.

You can catch up with all the CHA Sneak Peeks on the La-La Land Crafts blog.

Have fun!

More Blog Candy Heads-Up!

Ok, so you can tell I'm on a bit of a blog candy thing at the moment! You might be interested in this amazing Blog Candy over at Christine's blog Change Of Heart Creations (closes 20th Jan 2011).

Oh Yeah! Thought you might be interested! 

Good luck!

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Wednesday again and I'm actually trying to find my desk! 

If you can find my desk for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday I would be very grateful! 

Tee Hee

Have a fun WOYWW, remember to link your mess creative space up to Julia's blog at Stamping Ground!

Mixed Media Tags

If you dropped by for WOYWW last Wednesday you would have seen my painting studio, otherwise known as 'The Kitchen' (no really, it is our kitchen). I showed you a couple of works in progress one of which was this collection of mixed media tags for Make The Day Special.

Please notice the close-up on the packet of choccie and caramel biccies (top right corner), which is an integral part of the creative process.

Moving on and away from the biscuits, here is the final design process for the tags...

The tags are for a swap which had the theme 'New', so I kinda went with a 'Live your life and grow your wings' interpretation about making new creative beginnings.

I used some of my favourite stamps available at Make The Day Special. The ladies you might recognise as the Suzi Blu 'You Are Loved' and 'Love Yourself', the butterfly is from the Unity kit 'Life Becoming' (which is on sale at the moment!). The 'Life' sentiment is from the {Ippity} Kit What Matters Most and the 'Live, Laugh, Love' sentiment is from the {Ippity} Simply Home Kit.

The stamped images have been coloured with Prismacolor pencils for the skin and hair tones and ZIG Art and Graphic twin pens from Kuretake for the dresses and wings etc. As you saw the backgrounds were coloured with acrylic paints so very mixed media tags!

And The Winner Is...

Yep I have the winner of my recent blog candy for you but before I announce who it is I just wanted to thank you all for joining in!

So the winner, as picked by Random.org, is:

Kevin from McCrafty's Cards

Congratulations Kevin! Please send me your mailing address by email (kim(dot)dellow(at)gmail(dot)com) and I will get your stamp off to you.

Keep your eyes peeled for more giveaways from me :)

Love U Mum!

Ok so it is a little early for Mother's day here in the UK but well, it doesn't have to be Mother's day to tell your Mum that you love her does it? 

Here is the very cute Sweetheart Marci from La-La Land Crafts and you can get her as a digi-stamp or as a rubber stamp - decisions, decisions!

I've matched her with some Hot Off The Press from my stash.

Such a cute stamp to be starting the week with!

Have a fabulous Monday.

Kimx

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