Paper Popsicles And Shimmerz Swap

A bright card for a not very bright day. I don't know what it is like where you are but here it is Grim!

This week we are having a swap over at Shimmerz Paints with Paper Popsicles and I have some cards to show you and if you pop over to the Shimmerz Blog you will see more wonderful makes from the fabulous DT.




Shimmerz Blingz Spiced Cider and Sunflower Paint

Have a Cheeky Wednesday
Kim

Materials:
Papers - Pebbles; Little Yellow Bicycle
Usual Suspects - Double-sided tape; silicone glue
Other - Shimmerz Paints - Sunflower, Spiced Cider Blingz; Gem brad; Bubble trim; sewing machine

Triple The Sketch And Shimmerz

A challenge card for you today! Finally I've managed to do a card for a challenge. The challenge is over at Triple The Sketch and the DTs from Triple The Sketch and Shimmerz have been playing along. Here is the sketch:


You can do anything you want - really, anything! You should see what all the girls have been doing - some amazing cards and fabulous LOs.

So here is mine...You might remember this teaser sneak peak I showed you with the shiny, Shimmerz apple?



Well here is the full item :)


Everyone can play along, just pop along to this post to link your make, you have until Thursday but have a look at all the posts for the week (starting Friday 28th August) to see all the wonderful makes - fabulous inspiration! I can't wait to see your take on the sketch :)

Have a Apple-ful UK Bank-holiday Monday
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - October Afternoon
Ink/colouring - Marvey Le Plume; Shimmerz Paints Celery and Fire Engine Red
Papers - October Afternoon
Usual Suspects - Double Sided tape; Silicone glue; Scissors; Paper trimmer
Other - Sewing machine; Computer and Printer; Border punch

Shimmerz Meets Cornish Heritage Stamps

Just a quickie to let you know about a fun swap going on at Shimmerz Paints and Cornish Heritage Farm this week, starting today and ending on Thursday. The DTs from Shimmerz Paints and Cornish Heritage Farms have made some beautiful projects, well worth checking out!

Have A Shimmerz-y Cornish Heritage Farm Evening :)
Kim

More Moving House

Another moving house card for you, I'm obviously going through a moving house phase at the moment!

The house is made of fabric, backed with card and sprayed with Shimmerz Spritz Baby's Breath for that sparkle and I've used Shimmerz Paints Teal on the embossed card and yummy Choc-o-lot on the button.

Have a sparkly house Saturday
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Studio G Alpha
Ink - Versafine Onyx black, Sepia brown
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Double-sided tape; Paper trimmer
Other - Fabric; Button; Embroidery thread; Shimmerz Paints Teal, Choc-o-lot and Spritz Baby's Breath; Cuttlebug; embossing folders

Moving House

So have your eyes recovered after yesterday's explosion of colour? LOL!

Well I have a much more subtle offering for you today. This uses the fab cover stamp from the September issue of Craft Stamper which was designed by the competition winner Susan Wherry - Well done Susan I love your stamp.



I've stamped it out on BasicGrey paper and an old book page and used Shimmerz Paints Fire Engine Red on the door and chimney and Sunflower on the string.

Have a subtle but by no way subdued Friday
Kim

Materials:
Stamps - Craft Stamper
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Papers - Basic Grey
Usual Suspects - Scissors; 3D-foam
Other - String; Shimmerz Paints Fire Engine Red and Sunflower

Green Tea

How are you all doing this Wednesday? Busy?

I've got a card for you today and it uses a fabulous image from Mo's Digital Pencil, isn't she beautiful? I've coloured her with Prismacolor pencils and the wonderful Summer colours Tickle Me Turquoise and Island Salsa from Shimmerz Paints. The little tea pot charm is from Quixotic Paperie.



I've Spritz-ed the cardstock with Eucalyptus

Have a Tickle Me Turquoise Wednesday
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Mo's Digital Pencil
Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor; Shimmerz Paints Tickle Me Turquoise, Island Salsa
Papers - BasicGrey; Prima Marketing
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape
Other - Fibres; Charm; Button; Shimmerz Spritz Eucalyptus; Paper distressing tools

Shiny Shoes

A card, a card! Wahoo! I've managed to post a card! I just love this stamp! Ok so you know by now that I pretty much say that for every stamp I have. LOL!

Well they are all my favourites and this one is no exception, she is a The Greeting Farm cutey that you can get from Quixotic Paperie along with the Shimmerz paints I've used to highlight her, the button and the leafs.

Of course she has to have sparkly shoes - goes without saying.

Have a Shiny Shoes Saturday
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - The Greeting Farm
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - PrismaColor Pencils; Sansodor
Papers - SEI
Usual Suspects - Silicone glue; Paper trimmer; Scissors
Other - Buttons; Thread; Shimmerz Paints Coal, Angel Wings, Under the Sea Blingz

Sneaky Peaky

Elaine has been a busy bunny and has been adding lots of lovely stuff to Quixotic Paperie, including Rangers Stickles, papers, charms and stamps, stamps, stamps :)

Have you seen the wonderful Paper Makeup stamps? I adore those wonderful fairies and the monsters are just perfect for those little monsters in your life :)

Then there are the gorgeous CC Design Stamps some are on sale as well! Also there are some really cute animal stamps on pre-order from Tina Wenke, so sweet. But I thought I would show you another of the yummy Belles and Whistle stamps that can be pre-ordered too.

Stamps, stamps, stamps - we love our stamps!

Before I go a little bit of a sneak peak for you of a project using one of my fav Paper Makeup fairies and Shimmerz Paints which you can also get from Quixotic Paperie Tee Hee :)

Have a Stamp filled day
Kim

Busy Bee

Buzz, Buzz, Buzz.
Busy Bee, Busy Bee.

Have you seen this lovely little Gorjuss Bumble Bee from Sugar Nellies? So Sweet! I've used Gayle's lovely sketch from The Sugar Bowl Challenge this week, I've just made the deadline! Well I've been such a Busy Bee :)

The wonderful summery papers are DCWV from Quixotic Paperie aren't they glorious?


Her little wings are coloured with Prismacolor pencils and Shimmerz paints Angel Wings which you can now get from Quixotic Paperie - Wahoo! You know how I love Shimmerz! I am so glad that Elaine is stocking it!

Hope you are having a Busy Bee Day
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Sugar Nellie Gorjuss Bumble Bee
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - PrismaColor pencils; Sansodor; Shimmerz Paints Angel Wings
Papers - DCWV
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-side tape
Other - Ribbon; Hinges; brads

I Shiny Robot

Beep Beep to you this morning, got a Stampendous Robot for your today. When I first saw these stamps I knew I had to have them and I knew that I had to colour them with Shimmerz Paints. Perfect metal effect! Tee Hee. Beep Beep.



Have you seen that Stampendous has joined the Twittering world?

Have a great day.
Kim

Materials:
Stamp - Stampendous
Inks - VersaFine Onyx Black; Distress inks
Colouring - Watercolour pencils; Shimmerz Paints Angel Wings, Coal, Fire Engine Red, Sunflower
Papers - Cosmo Cricket
Usual Suspect - Paper Trimmer; Glue dots; Double sided tape
Other - Crop-a-dile; 3D-glue

It Is Release Day At Shimmerz Paints

Shimmerz CHA Summer release is here, just look at these wonderful colours and I love their names :) Perfect Summer sparkle seeing as the weather here in London is so not Summery at all!

And guess what?....Shimmerz Paints is running a competition all you have to do is put in an order for the new paints at the shop and then comment on the blog post linked here to be in with a chance to win $25 of your choice Shimmerz Products. Wahoo!

Caribbean Sunset

Island Salsa

Jilted Jade

Tickle Me Turquoise

New Shimmerz Release

Oh my goodness look at these yummy colours! Shimmerz are releasing these lovely colours next week on the 21st July, aren't they just perfect summer colours?

By the way have you joined the Shimmerz facebook page yet? Great for having a quick Shimmery chat :)



Some of you might have noticed that I have not been about this week as much as usual! I've been on a free-motion machine embroidery course and I can tell you I loved it to bits. Will no doubt bore you with some of my makes later :)

By The Sea

Look, Look! A challenge card to start the week. I had planed to get a lot of challenge cards done over the weekend but of course time just vanished before me eyes. But I did manage to get this one done for the Whiff of Joy Challenge blog which has a fab sketch to follow.

I was dreaming of the seaside when I did this card you know, ice creams, that beach worn look and lots of Shimmerz sparkly water :) and she just looks so happy and relaxed she must be on holiday!



Materials:
Stamp - Whiff Of Joy
Ink - Versafine onyx black
Colouring - Promarkers; Copics
Paper - BasicGrey
Usual suspects - silicone glue; trimmer; double-sided tape
Other - Shimmerz paints - Under the sea and Celery; Acetate; Cuttlebug; Embossing folder; Buttons; Nail file; shaped scissors

Birds Of A Feather

The Shimmerz Paints and Impression Obsession is still going on and here is another make from the swap, hope you like it :) I saw this stamp a couple of months ago and fell in love and was so lucky to be sent it in the IO/Shimmerz Swap.

What is it about birdcages that is so appealing? It is not like I want to keep a bird in a cage or anything. One of my local charity shops has a lovely ornate vintage-style birdcage that if it wasn't for the fact that we have absolutely no room at all and that my OH would think I had finally lost it (LOL), I would have bought it immediately!



Materials:
Stamp - Impression Obsession
Ink - VersaFine Onyx
Colouring - Shimmerz Paints Sunflower; Fire engine red; Shimmerz Blingz Spiced Cider
Papers - MME Bloom and Grow
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Double-sided tape
Other - Sewing Machine; Button; thread

Shimmerz and Impression Obsession

As promised here is one of my makes for the Shimmerz and Impression Obsession product swap where the DTs get to play with each company's products. I was very, very lucky indeed to get hold of some absolutely gorgeous Impression Obsession stamps (thank you guys), two of which I have used in today's card and the other I will be showing you later in the week.

Details: I just felt that this wonderful vintage dress stamp Feminine Form matched beautifully with a vintage feel card. I've coloured the stamp with distress inks and Shimmerz Paints Aqua Marine and Angel Wings, the background under the doily is the fabulous Porcelain Crackle stamped onto patterned paper that had been sprayed with Shimmerz Spritz Baby's Breath. Both the doily and the patterned paper yo-yos where also sprayed with Shimmerz Spritz Baby's Breath. I finished the card with some paper distressing, partial sewing, buttons and a bead charm recycled from a broken necklace.




(Click the photos for a bigger picture)



Thanks for looking and if you have some time do not forget to check out the Shimmerz blog and the Impression Obsession for more wonderful makes.

Materials:
Stamps - Impression Obsession Feminine form and Porcelain Crackle
Ink - VersaFine Sepia
Colouring - Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Inks; Shimmerz Paints
Papers - K&Co Ancestry
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue; Double-sided tape
Other - Buttons; Bead Charms; Sewing machine; thread; Doily; paper distressers

Shimmerz Bee Fancy Dress Party

Good Morning all, start to a new week and I have some exciting Shimmerz news for you today.

First of all this week Shimmerz and Impression Obsession are hosting product swaps so you will see lovely Impression Obsession images used with yummy Shimmerz on the DT blogs of both teams - well worth a look-see. I'm due to post my makes tomorrow and I have some beautiful images to show you :)

Second bit of Shimmerz News is that the wonderful Stacey, owner of Shimmerz Paints with her hubby David (there is such a cute piccy of them both here!), has a fab-ishous publication incentive running for anyone to join in! How cool is that? The details can be found on this post.

I have a Stampendous bee stamp for you today and before you ask - they are going to a fancy dress party LOL. What colour are your bees? Of course I've highlighted the bees with some Shimmerz.



Materials:
Stamps - Stampendous; Woodware sentiment
Inks - VersaFine onyx black
Colouring - Copics; Promarkers; Shimmerz paints Celery, Angels Wings; Sugar Plum
Papers - BasicGrey
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; Silicone glue
Other - Fiskers border punch; Sewing machine; thread; corner rounder

Almost There...

We have almost finished, the floor is down and we are now in the process of sorting out where everything goes. I still haven't got my craft desk up and working again but we are getting there. Hurrah.

I would post some piccies of the new look but I have no idea where the cord to download from the camera to the computer is! Hey-ho it will turn up.

On some upsetting news it seems that someone is trying to pass-off Shimmerz paints as their own product, Stacey is completely understandable furious and is going to follow this up seeing as Shimmerz is protected by intellectual property rights. But it is just unbelievable what some people will do to to earn a fast buck.

Anyway I have a Shimmerz card to cheer us all up :)



Ask me if we will be DIY-ing again, Er- NO!

Materials:
Paints - Shimmerz Sunflower; Blingz Spiced Cider
Papers - K&Co
Usual Suspects - Paper trimmer; double-sided tape
Other - Seam ripper

It's The Shimmerz Birthday Blog Hop

Hey Guys, the Shimmerz Blog Hop has started and you can be in with a chance to win $80 worth of yummy Shimmerz products.

To get you in the mood here is my Shimmerz Birthday make:

Happy Birthday Shimmerz

So you need to start at the Shimmerz blog and blog hop in sequence through the design team's lovely Birthday Makes. Which means you should have got to my blog from Karen Taylor's blog. If you haven't then go to the Shimmerz blog to start your hop.

We are blog hopping until Friday 19th June which gives you time to hop and comment on all of the design team's blogs and then on the Shimmerz blog. Why do you need to do this? Well you remember the $80 Prize draw? To enter the draw you need to:

• Hop in order through the Shimmerz design team's birthday makes
• Comment on everyone's blogs
• Collect the 'special' word from each post
• The 'special' words will make a phrase and the last hop post will let you know what to do with that phrase!

Ok so the next blog to hop to from here is Kim Ross.

And the 'special' word from me is BIRTHDAY

Have a wonderful hop.

Materials:
Stamp - Stamping Bella; Woodware Sentiment
Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black
Colouring - PrismasColor pencils; Koh-i-noor pencils; Shimmerz Paints Sunflower, Fire engine red, Angel wings; Shimmerz Blingz Spiced Cider
Paper - Home made Distressed Ginham
Usual Suspects - Silicone Glue; Paper trimmer; Double sided tape
Other - Ribbons; Chocolate cake LOL!

It's A Party

Pencil Tuesday in your diary as on Tuesday the Shimmerz First Birthday Party Blog Hop starts and you could win $80 worth of yummy Shimmerz products. There will also be other blog candy around as well.

Just thought I would give you folks a heads-up :) More details on the way.

Tuesday Shimmerz Darez

This week the Darez is a wood Darez, the DT have made some wonderful projects with wood so go take a look at the Shimmerz blog and of course that is the place to go to enter your own lovely make.

Here is my humble wood example and it is an altered coat hook I got from one of the many 99p stores that have popped up in my region. I've used the Shimmerz Spritz Terra Cotta and Eucalyptus for this project.

Looking forward to seeing your projects.