Charlotte, It's Cold Outside!!!

It has been a VEEERY long week and I had a little itty bitty nap when I got home from work last night. Is that wrong?? I was exhausted!! But I got another card made while I waited for Emileigh to get home from her babysitting job, so that was productive!

I think this is my favourite card so far that I have made with one of my Whiff of Joy stamps.....(I say that until I make another one..heehee)! It's so soft and pretty and pastel-y!!

I started by stamping Charlotte on SU watercolour paper which is 140lbs weight, so it's the good stuff! I used Versafine Black Onyx ink and used my faithful SU markers to colour her up! I had picked out these lovely patterned papers by Melissa Frances so I used Bashful Blue, Regal Rose, Almost Amethyst and Certainly Celery markers. I punched out a couple of snowflakes from purple glitter paper from the DCWV Glitter Stack and attached them to the corner. I used the new scalloped border punch on the BBlue layer underneath the strip at the bottom and added some pink satin ribbon. I added a grouping of buttons at the top for the Papertake Weekly challenge to Button It!, pop dotted Charlotte and added Stardust Stickles to her hat and the snow. The sentiment is by The Cat's Pajamas and I love the font!



So did you know that there is a Whiff of Joy GALLERY now??? Yepper!! We on the Design Team have been adding our creations since we got the stamps so there's lots to look at! Go on over and check them out and be sure to leave us some comments and let us know what you think!! And if you've received your stamps from WOJ, be sure to upload your designs! We'd love to see them!

So I am off to start some laundry, run the dishwasher and get to stampin'!!! Have a wonderful weekend!!

A Poochie Challenge!!

Good Thursday morning!!! It's going to be a BEAUTY of a day today, here in Ontario! It's supposed to be the warmest day this week and lovely and sunny!!! I'm up SUPER early this morning because Emileigh has a Badminton tournament with her school and has to be there for 8am!! Ugh!

Normally I am so busy with all my design team requirements, new releases and stuff, that I almost never have time to play with stamps by other companies that I love! The Cats Pajamas is one of those companies!! Unfortunately, I have very few of their stamps at the moment. I was able to get some of the Clearly Swanky Sets when they released them at Christmas time last year and I'd like to get some more....I believe they are releasing a new set this weekend!! I hope my local stamp store gets some in!!!

Anyway, this week Leigh O'Brien is holding a TCP Challenge on her blog and it's a SKETCH challenge, which, as you know, if my FAVOURITE type of challenge! So how could I resist??? And it's a loooooong card, which I love! So, I pulled out this stamp of Poochie holding a flower pot that I got in a Pay It Forward from a friend and stamped it three times. I chose these coordinating patterned papers by Imaginisce because they are so springy and soft! I love the contrast between the gentle colours and the black for the card base and matting. I coloured Poochie using my Copic markers, doodled around the frames and added Stardust Stickles to the centers of the flowers. I pop dotted them on the middle strip, added some yummy American Crafts ribbon along the bottom and some Basic Grey brads at the top. The sentiment panel is made my stamping the Hanna sentiment and punching it out using my Marvy Oval punch and the matting is punched out of Basic Black using my Marvy Scalloped Oval punch. I'm really lovin' the way this turned out and I'm going to add this awesome sketch to my book of sketches.......when I get around to making it!! *giggle*

Have a super sunshiney day!!

Pile of Knuts!!!

Just thought I'd share a picture of what I've been up to today. I had the day off from work....well, library work and here is what I did!! This is a design I may have showed you before using Knut from the Cat's Pajamas Clearly Swanky Sets. A lot of people really liked this design I guess, because I have orders for 12 of them and I completed them all today. They are all stamped, coloured, Cuttlebugged, punched and glittered!!

Now I'm going to go sit in front of Survivor and price my items for the garage sale at my local sb store this Saturday. I have a few things I'd like to sell and I get store credit with whatever I sell!! I did really well at the last one and I'm STILL spending my credit at the store!! It's awesome!! Whenever I go in there, I don't even have to get my wallet out!! SCORE!!!

Have a great evening!!

Sugarcoated Knut!!!

I've had a lot of fun playing with the Cat's Pajamas stamps this week!! As you know, I was able to purchase the Clearly Swanky Stamp Sets last weekend and they are just a hoot!! Love those penguins and Poochie and Sprinkle, but today I'm sharing my pal Knut!! I'm not sure if he's supposed to be the same polar bear named Knut that hangs out with Leonardo, talking about global warming and such, but he's just as cute!!! And of course, if you can't find the Cat's Pajamas stamps near you, just email Nancy at Stamp Art and she can mail you out some!!! The clear stamps are great because they are flat and light and cost very little to mail!! Tell her Kimmie sent ya over!!

This is a card I designed for my Christmas Card orders and I've already received an order for a set of them! I used my Archival Versafine Black Onyx Ink, which is PERFECT for using with clear stamps and I stamped him on Shimmery White paper. I used my SU markers and my Aquapainter to paint him and matted him on Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery. The card base is Whisper White with a layer of Bashful Blue which I ran through my Cuttlebug with the Snowflake embossing folder. Then I punched out the photo corners and a couple of Martha Stewart snowflakes using my white Sugarcoated cardstock. I got it, along with several other colours at my local sb store, but it doesn't have a company name on it so I don't know who makes it. I'll try to find out. But some people have asked what it is exactly.....it's cardstock that is totally glittery!! So of course, I HAD to have it!! The white is perfect for snowflakes as you can see!!

****Don't forget!! You only have a couple of days left to enter my contest to win some awesome Pink Cat Studio stamps!!! I've received a bunch of entries over the weekend and there is still time!!! So get stampin'!!!

Have a Cool Yule!!

Ask....and ye shall receive!!! Last week Sharon in NE requested that I play with some Cat's Pajamas images!!! And wouldn't you know, I've been drooling over their new line of Clearly Swanky Stamp sets that they just released but I hadn't ordered any. WELL!! On Saturday I made a quick trip into my favourite stamp store, Stamp Art, and what did Nancy JUST get into the store?????? ALL three new Clearly Swanky Stamp sets!!! How about that?????

These adorable winter images with Poochie, Sprinkles, Knut and of course those cute penguins are so much fun!! I played with them all this weekend!! This card features one of the new penguin stamps, a little swirl stamp and that awesome sentiment!! This card is going to be one of the easy-to-recreate cards that I will be taking Christmas card orders for. It is also convenient for me that I had some new critter stamps to play with for Jeanne and Sherry's Just Because We Wanna challenge to make a card with a little animal friend on it!!!

I stamped him on Whisper White cardstock with Archival Versafine Black Onyx ink, which by the way, is fabulous on clear stamps!! I coloured him in with my SU markers and watercoloured the ice he is standing on, doodled around the frame, added some red Stickles on the candy cane and his hat and matted him on three colours of cardstock! The card base is Vintage Violet with a piece of Soft Sky dp and I stamped the sentiment and swirls directly on the dp. I added some stitched grosgrain ribbon (which is no longer available) and pop dotted the main image!! Totally fun....and easy!!

Now when I left Stamp Art, Nancy still had some of these awesome stamps available, so if you are looking to purchase some, just email her (her info is on the website) and she will be happy to help!! She only charges actual shipping and if you are Canadian, they won't be crossing the border, so no duty charges or anything!! Yay!! And don't forget to tell her that Kimmie sent ya!!!

Don't forget to check the post below this for all the details on my Pink Cat Studio contest!!! Lots of fun and lots of prizes!!!

Shiver Me Timbers!!!

My godson is turning five years old this week and I needed to make him a special card!! I don't own the Stampin' Up set, Ahoy Matey! but a friend sent me some images to play with! So play I did!!

When I saw Colleen's Thursday Throwdown challenge to make a Tent Topper card, I KNEW I had to make time to do it!! I've never done one before and it's super easy and super cute!!

The images were stamped with Black Stazon ink on Whisper White cardstock and I used my SU markers to colour the little pirate in! I punched him out (that doesn't sound good, does it?) with my Mega Circle punch and also a Giga Scalloped punch in Basic Black to mat him on. I doodled some tough barbed wire looking stuff around the edge and also added some Ice Stickles on his sword and hooked hand and also in the scallops. The patterned paper I used is from the Once Upon a Time line and looks just like old parchment. I also coloured in the treasure chest and parrot and cut them out. The sentiment is actually a Cat's Pajamas stamp that I own and I LOVE that saying!! I stamped it directly on the patterned paper with Archival Versafine ink in Black Onyx. I added some eyelets and some rough looking linen thread and then pop dotted the main image!! And there ya have a Tent Topper!! Pretty cool and I think Cameron will like it.....although, I'm sure he'll be MORE interested in the present that the card is attached to!!

Don't forget that today is the last day to enter my challenge to win some newly released High Hopes Rubber Stamps!! You have until midnight tonight and I will announce the two random winners tomorrow morning!!!

Also I will have a really awesome Kool Krafter to introduce you to!!! Can you guess who it might be??? Hmmmmmm......

You're a Treasure!!!

This is the first card I've made using the cute little Cat's Pajamas pirate stamps that Vivian (Vivlyn on SCS) sent to me last week!! It was a quick one but I love it just the same as if I'd spent an hour on it!

I stamped 'Simon Sees' with basic black SU ink on shimmery paper and coloured him in using my SU markers and I used my Stardust gel pen to shine up the telescope and the bones on his hat. I punched the image out with my Marvy Mega Circle Punch and then doodled around the edge of the circle using my Chocolate Chip marker (the journaling end). I punched a piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock using the Giga Scalloped Circle Punch and then did the dots with the same gel pen. I used CC for the base and then the patterned paper is supposed to look like old-time parchment from the Once Upon a Time line by DCWV. I used the ticket corner punch on the corners and stamped the sentiment 'You're a Treasure' and the skull and crossbones in chocolate chip too. I wrapped some dark brown suede stuff around it and pop dotted the whole piece on the base. I dotted the corners with the gel pen...again (I love that thing)!! I think it's a cutie card!!

AND yesterday was National Scrapbooking Day and as you might have read, I went to an all day crop....and I do mean ALL DAY!! I spent 9-5pm at the local sb store doing challenges and eating and I won some door prizes and met some new people ...... and oh yeah, I did some scrappin' too!! I was also glad to find out that I didn't bring the most stuff....not even close!! I got three 2-page layouts done there and when it was over, I went home for supper. Well, my honey had worked all night, gotten home late in the morning, stayed up to cut the grass, weedwhack, clean up the yard etc. and so he was still sleeping when I got home. And Emileigh had slept over at her girlfriend's house and the family had taken them out of town to a nice park where they did some fishing and stuff...and SHE wasn't home yet either.

Anyway, after I ate (all alone) I went over to my friend Donna's house for a croppin' party!! There were originally supposed to be 6 of us but a couple of the long distance people had to cancel. That was okay though because the four of us had a great time chatting and sharing ideas and tips! We gabbed and ate some yummy snacks and stuff! It was so nice and I really enjoyed myself! Oh and I did get ONE layout done..hehe! It was so wonderful to spend a whole day scrappin'! I haven't done too much other than cards over the last few months, so this was really nice.



Here is one of the layouts I finished. All the pictures I worked this with weekend were from our trip to Florida in February. This one features some pics from the Tennessee Aquarium where we stopped on the way to Florida. We spent the night there in Chattanooga and had a super fun evening at the aquarium (well, I did....Al and Emmy, not so much) seeing all the cool underwater creatures!

The patterned papers I used were by Polar Bear Press and the cardstock is Handsome Hunter and Certainly Celery. I used Alphabet Fun Upper and my Karen Foster Snap Stamps to do the title and stamped a little froggy from Very Punny on the corner. Then I added some buttons and linen thread and some grosgrain ribbon. I kept our tickets from the aquarium, so that's them on the left and I used a rubon on the bottom of the right page. The journaling reads: We arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee around 4pm on Saturday, February 24th, 2007. Our original plan was to go to Ruby Falls and Rock City but it was closed, so we decided to go downtown! It was a really pretty area with cute little storefronts and we found the Tennessee Aquarium! Since we wouldn't be going to Sea World in Florida, Al and Emileigh agreed to go!

I will have some more pages to share later on! Hope your week starts out great!!

Oh and remember the scrappin' challenge that I set out for anyone who wanted to give it a try??? Well the winner is Erika (splrunning on SCS)!! So email me your mailing address Erika and I will pop your Kandy in the mail!!!