Love Chocolate!!

This week's Paper Romance Challenge was offered up by the fabulous Judy - and that is to make your own flowers!! I love flowers but I must say- to make my own - doesn't really fit into my schedule lol!

But I managed to pull one off - I used Betsy Veldman's tutorial here to make this fabulous flower!

I used vellum and then misted it with some Maya Mist to make it the beautiful colour it is!

My stamp is one of Kraftin' Kimmie's Miles Mouse stamps called "Birthday Friends" and I coloured it up so that beautifully gorgeous cake was chocolate!! yummy!

Take some time to travel around to the rest of the design teams blogs to see what kind of flowers they have created!!

Stamps: Miles Mouse Birthday Friends, My Favorite Things (sentiment)
Paper: Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients (January)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: vellum, Papertrey Ink button, My Favorite Things Sweet Blossom twine, Spellbinders Nestabilities Circles

Happy Birthday Masculine Style!

This week’s Paper Romance Challenge is all about birthdays and the men in our life! Make a birthday card for your husband, son, uncle, brother, a co-worker.... Just gear it towards the masculine side!


I am still using this Miles Mouse image - not only because I LOVE it but because I am waiting for stamps - grrr Canadian Postal System!

I kept it very simple - as in no colouring - and kept the embellishment down to a bar minimum - because men don't even care about that stuff - believe me I wanted to add bows and ribbon lol!


Why don't you pop over to the Paper Romance Challenge blog and give it a try!


On a personal note - I have been sick - so therefore no posts and I am sorry about that - I have been making cards but just can't stop coughing long enough to get the energy to post - I think I am turning the cough corner this week, lol - so hopefully can get back to normal.

Paper Romance Challenge!

Oh it feels good to be back and at "it" again! I love getting into a routine - all those presents and candy and turkey just threw me off my equilibrium - back to fiber and salads...yeh right :)!

This is the first challenge of the New Year for Paper Romance! As always, you can check out the details on the Paper Romance Challenge blog - Every week there is something to be won yay!

This week we were challenged to "Let the Sun Shine In"!! and I say - gladly!

My card features a Kraftin' Kimmie stamp starring Miles Mouse and the stamp called Birthday Friends - they look pretty proud of themselves carrying around that beautiful cake!

I stamped and coloured the image with my copic markers and then using My Mind's Eye designer paper, set out to construct my card!

Using the Sweet Sunday Sketch, I made my creation featuring a border from a Jenni Bowlin bingo card that said cake - appropriate don't you think?

Check out all the other design team members creations too - I know you will be floored!!

Paper Romance Challenge #25

Good morning and welcome to another Paper Romance Challenge - my apologies that I am one day late!

Hope you can play along. You could be the winner of a $5.00 gift certificate to Paper Romance by playing along with us. Please link your card to the inlinkz on the Paper Romance Challenge blog and if you're uploading to an online gallery, please use the keyword PRC25.

This week’s it is Joy Rozema's Challenge and that is to make a card with some of your favorite things!  I have so many favorite things - so I chose to use a few of them - BLING!! yay!! Punches!! yay!! Flowers!! yay!!

I used one of Kraftin' Kimmie's stamps from the Miles the Mouse line called Birthday Friends and coloured him up with my copic markers.

Then I added the flowers and the EK Success cupcake punch with Flat backed Gems topping the cupcakes! The Designer Paper is We R Memory Keepers - Vintage Blue and the cardstock is from Core-dinations Core Impressions Cardstock. I just sanded the letters so that they would show through!

Thanks for looking and I hope you can play with us! Link your card us by next Wednesday night for a chance to win that $5.00 gift certificate!

Kraftin' Kimmie Day and news.....

Good morning, I don't know if it is going to rain or not today....it is kind of dreary out but I do see a clear sky over to the west.....so here's hoping!

The news first:

Waltzingmouse Stamps is starting their previews tomorrow and you will be floored!! We have all been stamping away to bring you the best projects around - so come on back tomorrow to see!

DRS Designs - has a new contest called "By Invitation Only" and here are the details right from the bosses!

"By Invitation Only"
Is a new stamping contest that's won before a
card is ever stamped!
But, as the name implies, you have to be invited to play.

How, you ask?? It's simple!

We all have stamping friends that impress us with every card they make. 

It's your job to
nominate them!! 

Email us the link to their blog, website or gallery
and we'll check them out and see if we agree with you!!

If we do, we'll invite them to choose 1 to 3 unmounted
stamps from the online collection.
To complete the contest, they will stamp a card using
the chosen designs, post it to their blog or gallery and send
it to DRS Designs.

Once our invitation is accepted, they will receive a cool
blinkie for their blog and 

they'll also be qualified for our
Sunday Stamper blog post on the DRS Designs Blog,
where we'll feature one outstanding card every week!

So.....
spread the word....
search the blogs.....
and send your nominations to:
invite@drsdesigns.com

 

So there you go - what a contest! Go forth and nominate!!

 

And here are my make and takes from last weekends awesome Kraftin' Kimmie Day! If you ever get the chance - you need to go!! it was fabulous!

 

 

Aren't they fabulous??!! And with the help of Melanie and Andrea - I did them!  I love the colouring on Goldilocks hair so I had to show you a close up! I am such a loser when colouring hair, but after Melanie's fabulous lesson, I think I kind of did not so bad LOL!!

Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge....and a bit of Blabbering.....

Warning: The following post has been fueled by several cups of coffee and a day of stamping....read at your own risk....bwahahahaha!!!!

Good day! I'm sorry I haven't been around this week, but we have been busy farming - not Farmville or Frontierville - but real actual farming lol!!- combining beans to be precise, and since my son has gone back to school I am doing the go'fering this fall - you know - go for this, go for that ...love it!

This week's sketch challenge at Waltzingmouse Stamps was a fun one and quite simple!! I used my Nutcracker Sweet stamp set and some Making Memories Christmas paper. I also was able to work in the Musical Backgrounds stamp set - absolutely love it!

We would love for you to join us for the 16th sketch challenge! You could be a Top Mouse!

Today, I took the day off of farming to go to Kraftin' Kimmie's First Annual Krafty Day! 

It was a blast and I got to see so many people - my whooty friend Kerry (who met me at the door and saved me a spot - thank you Kerry - - I detest walking in alone) whom I met at CHA and was thrilled to find out she was going to be here as well 

- also Andrea - who I kind of knew but really didn't (you know?) and now I do because she did two awesome make and takes and we were able to get in a few minutes of visiting (since she didn't have her laptop- *grin*)  with Kerry and Kimmie, - great advice and fun times! - AND I found out that I think I am luvin' Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps - I wasn't sure because there is so much colouring - but what a relaxing way to spend the day - colouring-- I mean really!!! 

Karen and Sarah were at our table and I got a chance to meet the awesome Amy Leggate from (Paper Romance)....... all fun!! 

Of course Scrappin' Great Deals was there with 25% off everything!! - so I had to get something - Sheila has the new October Afternoon Seaside paper pack in - woot woot - and since I am a paper hog.....it was a given!!

So that is why I didn't get my post up this morning.....whew....

So sorry for the rambling - like I said - coffee, stamping and friends (oh yeh - maybe some food too..) a perfect day!!

You Think??

When I saw today's Inspiration Challenge, which features the gorgeous artwork of Lorelie Kay Designs, I was fixated on this fine piece and knew I had to ink up my sweet little Lillith from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!

Isn't she just the cutest little diva ever?!!



She was stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink which dries so fast and does NOT bleed when you use copic markers! - wahoo!

So then of course, I coloured her with my copic markers - heading out in two minutes to pick up MORE markers.....I'm am sinful!!

My patterned paper is from Imaginisce, Perfectly Posh - and perfectly suited for glamour divas like Miss Lillith!

The sentiment is from My Favorite Things, and I can't find it to link it up, which makes me think it is out of stock - everyone loves it!

Thank you for taking a look today. I don't say it often but I am grateful for everyone who likes to stamp and everyone who just stops around to take a peek!!

Hopping in my sin wagon and off to shop......