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A Birthday Surprise!! Yeah, Baby!!

Happy February, everyone!! I hope the weather is nicer where you are! We are battening down the hatches right now, in anticipation of a huge snowstorm that should hit us this afternoon! As long as the hydro doesn't go out, I will be a happy camper in my jammies and with my ink and markers!! heehee!

So many of you may know that Thursday, February 3rd is my 40th birthday!! And to celebrate we're going to have a couple of fun surprises for you at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps!! The first will be a SALE.....you KNOW how I love sales!! And it's a good one too...but it's only good for two days! There will be a coupon code for you to use and I will have it posted first thing on Thursday morning!

The second surprise.....well, have you ever thought you'd like to be a Krafty Girl?? Do you think you have what it takes to play with some of the most talented girlies in the krafty bizness!? Would you like to get inky with new Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps before the rest of the world even sees them??? Heehee! Well, if you'd like a guest spot with our Krafty Girls, we'll be holding a KRAFTY GIRL CONTEST and anyone can apply!! So get your markers ready!!! Again, we'll post all the details first thing on Thursday morning!!

Now on to todays Krafty Kard!!! Heehee! The stamp I used today is from the newest release from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps! Meet Tiny Miles and Maisie! I just love these two little cuties....and the image can be used for either a boy or a girl card or scrapbook page. I love babies....but I love baby mice even more!! Heehee!



I stamped them on Neenah cardstock with Memento ink and coloured them up with my Copic markers. Then I cut them out and embossed them with my Nesties and sponged around the edge with some chalk ink while the frame was still on. The card base is Kraft cardstock and the papers are all from the new My Mind's Eye pad....love those papers!



The edges of all the papers were distressed with Sahara Sand chalk ink and I added some lovely twill across the middle and added a bow. I made a little circle/button/flag/sentiment thing, a la my lovely friend Joanne Basile! I love how she does that on lots of her cards! So cute! And the sentiment is from the Everyday Sentiments set.

So be sure to come on back first thing on Thursday mornin', (ma birfday) to check out all the details about our SALE and our CONTEST!! Eeeeee!

Happy kraftin'!

You Crock Me Up........wanna win 'em???

How would you feel about winning the stamps on this card???? You could win Samson AND the matching sentiment!!! What do you think?? Wanna give it a whirl??

All you have to do is create a card or scrapbook page using the sketch from my design as inspiration!! For my card, I started with the patterned paper from Scrapbook Walls and chose the card base which is Not Quite Navy. I stamped on the card base with my Cracked background stamp by Stampin' Up in NQN. I stamped Samson on Wausau bright white cardstock in Archival Brilliance Graphite Black ink and coloured him in with my Copic markers. I attached the dp and tied some linen thread on the top left. The focal image is matted on Kraft paper, decorated with a silver brad in each corner and popped up on pop dots!

So get stampin' and make a card using my sketch as inspiration and if you post it on a public gallery like SCS, use the keyword KHHC1 for Kimmie's High Hopes Challenge 1. Also be sure to comment here in THIS post so that we can all check them out. You have until Sunday, April 27th at midnight EST and I will post the random winner on Monday morning.

Well, I have to work again today, so not much stampin' going on. Hope you get to play with your stamps today!!!

Watercoloured Tilda!!

Okay, so you all know that when it comes to watercolouring, I'm no Sophia and I'm no Claudia, that's for sure!!! I mean, these girls are pros and I simply drool when I check out their blogs every day!

I enjoy colouring with my Copics and my SU markers but watercolouring is not something that I've picked up right away and I just haven't really had time to sit down and practice. So this weekend, when I had a little extra time, I thought I would give it a whirl again. Now, it's definitely not a masterpiece, but I actually think it turned out pretty well! I hope you like it too!

I stamped Tilda and her little Bird on SU watercolour paper in Archival Versafine Black Onyx ink. Then I used a watercolour brush along with SU reinkers and water to colour her in. The dp is Sweet Pea by Fancy Pants and I took the colours from the paper. I used Close to Cocoa in her hair, Pretty in pink for her wings and cheeks, Blush Blossom for her skin, Bashful Blue for her sweater, Certainly Celery for her skirt, grass and bird, Creamy Caramel for her boots and So Saffron for her socks and blending around her. I drew in the grass with a black pen too. It's not perfect, but I think I'm getting there.

SU watercolour paper is fantastic! It's nice and thick and takes the water and ink very well. The only thing I don't like about it is that it's not white. It's creamy and I would really like to find a bright white watercolour paper of the same quality. Anyone have any tips??? Anyone know of such a paper??

I ran the bottom piece of dp through my Cuttlebug using the D'vine Swirls embossing folder and added some pink taffeta ribbon. I attached the Prima flowers with a large fancy snap by Making Memories and put three pink SU brads in the corner. The sentiment is from Rain or Shine by My Favorite Things and I finished her off by adding Stardust Stickles to her wings and pop dotted the whole focal piece. Not bad, I think.

Oh and I suppose you'd like to know who won the Bunny Tilda???? Well there were 10 lovely entries for the sketch challenge and the random winner is..............LEONIE!!! Yaaaaaaaaaay!!! Please email me with your mailing address and I will get that in the mail to you!

Flowers from Edwin!

I had the whole day off yesterday......yeehaw!! And I played with a couple of new Magnolia stamps! Here is one using Shy Edwin!

This little guy hadn't even been out of this package yet.....don'tcha love playing with NEW stuff?? I made this one with two challenges in mind! The first one is for the Tilda and Co. Blog Challenge for last week (yes, I'm a little behing.....so what's your point?), which is to make a guy card! Also the Card Art Shop that my friend Inge designs for is celebrating 4 years, so they have a challenge to use 4 of something on your creation. Obviously I have the card divided into 4 sections!!

Anyway, I started out by stamping Edwin on Wausau bright white cardstock and stamping him in Archival Brilliance Graphite Black ink and colouring him in using my Copic markers. I don't know who makes the dp as it was sent to me by Magnolia and so is the card base, but I believe it's Bazill. I stamped the 'love' sentiment beside him which is from an MFT set and then I doodled around the frame. I matted Edwin and all four quarters of dp onto Cameo Coral to match the roses. I added black glitter brads by Making Memories in each corner, pop dotted Edwin and added some yummy Prima flowers. Of course, it wouldn't be complete without Stardust Stickles on the wings!!! Isn't he precious??

Don't forget that you have until tonight to enter my sketch challenge contest to win a Magnolia stamp!!! Go to this post for details!!!

High Hopes Project of the Month!!!

As you may already know, High Hopes Rubber Stamps has a Project of the Month special each month. Well, this month features some great new stamps that are perfect for those Teacher gifts! And not just the teachers at school!! How about for dance class, karate class, sunday school, gymnastics....the list goes on! We have so many important 'teachers' in our lives and we need to send them a little something special too!!

Here is a card using a couple of the stamps included in the 25% discounted grouping!! I used Mary J Teacher Angel and the School Background stamp. But the special also includes the Teacher's Desk and the sentiment Believe! When you purchase all four of the stamps together, you get a 25% discount for this month only!!

For my card I used yesterday's Card Sketch on Splitcoast. I stamped Mary J. on Wausau bright white cardstock and coloured her in using my Copic markers. The card base is Cool Caribbean and I used Pretty in Pink and Almost Amethyst to matt her. The strip of Apricot Appeal is stamped with the background stamp using the AA ink and the dp is DCWV from the Glitter Stack, I think. I added some Twinkle ribbon and some Prima flowers along with a couple of yellow glitter brads by Making Memories!

NOW!! How would you like to win Mary J???? I have one sitting right here beside me, just waiting for one of you lucky ladies to play with her!!! Want to know how?? Well, ya see....I'm sick and tired of the white stuff!!! I am SO ready for winter to be over!! So if you would like to win this stamp, just whip up a card that is nice and springy!!!! Post it on your blog or in the SCS gallery and link it up here in this post, so we can all see it! The deadline for this contest is Sunday, March 9th at midnight EST! On Monday morning I will draw a random winner and send out your prize!! Sound good!!? Now go get stampin'!!!

Kimmie's Kreation Celebration WINNERS!!!!

Well, since I'm up late, I thought I'd post the winners since I know you'll all be checkin' in to see them!!!! Heehee!!!

I just want to say that I'm amazed at the number of entries for the challenges and the talent out there is simply wonderful!!! Thanks for sharing my Birthday/Blogaversary and 100,000 hits with me!!!

So without further blathering.............here are the winners!!!!

KKCC1 - Altered Item

MARY



KKCC2 - Sketch Challenge

BONNIE



KKCC3 - Colour Challenge

SUE



KKCC4 - Lovey Challenge

FRANCES



KKCC5 - Paper Piecing Challenge

NIKKI



KKCC6 - Thinking of You Challenge

TORKELL




And I also have a SPECIAL award for our youngest stamper, DANIELLE!!!! She is a very crafty little girl and she entered two of the challenges!! Her first was this beautiful tin for the altered item challenge:



The second was this gorgeous card complete with my favourite thing about spring....butterflies!!!



Congratulations to all the winners!! Please email me with your mailing addresses and I will try to get your prizes out to you as soon as humanly possible.....although tonight it looks like a blizzard and my Jack Russell Terrier doesn't make a very good sled dog!! So I may have to wait until the weather clears up a bit!!! hahahahahaaaaaa!!!

Lovely Lola!!

Well, I hope you are having a wonderful Saturday!! I know I am!! Emileigh is out with her friends today and Al is sleeping after working 14 hours last night, so I have the day to myself!! I've been in my craft room all day, emerging only to take quick trips to the loo and to the kitchen to grab some sustenance!!! My kind of day!!!

I've received some wonderful entries to the challenges today and I bet more of you are working away. You have until Monday night to enter them, so lots of time.

I had a great mail day yesterday as my new Simon and Lola stamps arrived from Scotland!!! I ordered them about 10 minutes after they were released and it took about two weeks to get here, but they were worth the wait!!!

The first one is Lola with Flowers and I used some new We R Memory Keepers dp as it has this great washed out distressed look and I really like it. I coloured Lola in using my Copics and then used my Nestabilities to cut her out and emboss the frame and matted her on So Saffron. I distressed the edges of the dp more with my distressing tool and stamped the sentiment from MFT's By the Seashore....love that font. I paper pierced a line above the sentiment with my Mat Pack and then added some Prima Sprites with brads. This card was made with the Papertake Weekly Challenge in mind, which is to use Blooms of any kind on your card!!



This next card was made using Lola with her Bunny.....SO cute, right?? I lovey her!!! I used Kraft cardstock and this sparkly DCWV paper from The Town Scrapper and coloured her in accordingly using my Copics (love those things). I stamped the sentiment which is from Hanna Stamps and I added some lovely pink ribbon that I got at Michael's. I used my Mat Pack around the edges of the focal image and added a Daisy D's rhinestone heart and pop dotted the whole thing. Quick and cute!!!!

If you like the new Lola and Simon stamps by Sugar Nellie, my pal Suzanne over at Slumber Cards is having a challenge to win some!!! The challenge is to use shades of lilac or purple on your card as it is her favourite colour!!! The contest is open until next weekend, so be sure to enter!!!

Kimmie's Kreation Celebration Challenge #6!! Last One!

This is the final challenge for my week long celebration and I hope you've enjoyed everything so far!! You have ALL weekend to work on any of these challenges, so have fun!!

Since today's challenge is the last one, I thought I'd make it a little more special!! I want you to make something....and then do something!!! We all have lots of special people in our lives whether they are friends or family and we rarely tell them how much we love and appreciate them. We also make all these beautiful cards and gifts, but how often do we actually send them out?? I know that I am guilty of forgettting special dates and creating all these cards and then never mailing them out!!! Well, that is your challenge today!!

Challenge #6 is to create a Thank You or Thinking of You or You are Special to Me creation!! My card was made for someone who is a totally generous and unselfish person and does so much for others! (She's already received it, so I am free to post it now!!) I wanted to let her know how much I appreciated her, so I made her this card!

It features Sitting Tilda and I stamped her and coloured her in with my Copics and then cut and embossed the rectangle with my Nestabilities. The dp is by SEI and I embellished the top corner with my Photo corner punch by SU, added some brads, a few large Prima flowers and that scrumptious brown satin ribbon!! I sparkled up her little wings and stamped the sentiment which is from my go-to sentiment set, Essential Sentiments by My Favorite Things!!

Now don't forget the rules for these challenges: your creations must be NEW creations, you have until Monday, February 11th at 8pm EST to link up your designs in the appropriate post on my blog OR email me with a small pic, if you don't have a blog or gallery. If you do upload your creations to Splitcoast please use the corresponding code in your keywords, so that we can all check them out!!! The keyword for today's challenge is KKCC6!! ALSO for this challenge, please tell me in your keywords WHO you made this for and WHY they are so special!!

Just to make it a little easier for you, here are all the links to each of my challenges for this past week:

KKCC1 - Altered Challenge

KKCC2 - Sketch Challenge

KKCC3 - Colour Challenge

KKCC4 - Valentine/Lovey Challenge

KKCC5 - Paper Piecing Challenge

KKCC6 - You're Special to Me Challenge - right here!!

Oh and the winner of THIS challenge will receive a whole package of goodies including a High Hopes Rubber Stamp, a Sugarloaf woodmounted birthday stamp (provided by Phebe at the Town Scrapper), some yummy ribbons and embellishments!!!

Have a Happy Friday and .........go on, get stampin'!!!

Kimmie's Kreation Celebration Challenge #5!!!

See! I told you I'd come back!! *giggle*

Today's Kreation Challenge is Paper Piecing!!! You know you've all wanted to try it!! It's so much fun! Like playing paper dolls, really!!! And so easy!! You can give all your images cute little trendy clothes!! hahaha!!

Anyway, for your inspiration pleasure, here is a card using Tilda in the Wind that I got from Phebe at the Town Scrapper (she's my Magnolia dealer, you know.....she helps me with my 'addiction'). I stamped the image on white and then stamped it again on patterned paper, cut it out and layered it over the white image. I used the Stampin' Up designer paper called Fall Flowers. The colours are Soft Sky, Really Rust and Old Olive. I also used some punches to make flowers from some more of the coordinating papers. I pop dotted the whole image, added some ribbon and buttons....and of course I coloured her in using my SU markers on watercolour paper. The 'friendship' sentiment is from the MFT set Boho Blossoms. I just love the font on that set. So there ya have it! Another fun challenge....only one more left!!

Now don't forget the rules for these challenges: your creations must be NEW creations, you have until Monday, February 11th at 8pm EST to link up your designs in the appropriate post on my blog OR email me with a small pic, if you don't have a blog or gallery. If you do upload your creations to Splitcoast please use the corresponding code in your keywords, so that we can all check them out!!! The keyword for today's challenge is KKCC5!!

In case you plan on joining in all my challenges this week (and I hope you are), I will keep a running tally of links to find each challenge:

KKCC1 - Altered Challenge

KKCC2 - Sketch Challenge

KKCC3 - Colour Challenge

KKCC4 - Valentine/Lovey Challenge

KKCC5 - Paper Piecing Challenge - you're here!!!

So glad you are enjoying the challenges and I can't wait to see more of them!!!

Kimmie's Kreation Celebration Challenge #4!!!

WOW!! We are on Challenge #4 already!! Woohoo!! This party is rockin'!! I'm so glad you are all joining in the fun!!

Today's challenge will be to make a Valentine or Lovey type card!!! I'm sure some of you still have some V-day cards to make and if not, just make a card or sb page telling someone that you lerrrrrrrrv them!!! Heehee!!

The card I am posting for some inspiration is one I made using this adorable Tuxedo Kitty stamp by Whipper Snapper Designs that I snapped right up at The Town Scrapper!!! Oh and by the way, today's challenge is sponsored by Phebe!! But I'll tell you about the prize later......I love to make you wait!! *snicker*

The card is a very simple layout and design. I stamped the Kitty on Papertrey white cardstock and coloured him in using my Copic markers. I punched him out using my Mega Circle punch and then punched out the Basic Black layer using my Giga Scalloped Circle punch. The card base is textured Real Red by SU and the heart brads are from Hot Off the Press, which I also got at TTScrapper. I paper pierced across the bottom over to the sentiment which is from Essential Sentiments by MFT and punched out using the Word Window Punch! I pop dotted the Kitty, added some dots in each scallop using my white gel pen and tied on some polka dotted black ribbon! Super simple!

Now don't forget the rules for these challenges: your creations must be NEW creations, you have until Monday, February 11th at 8pm EST to link up your designs in the appropriate post on my blog OR email me with a small pic, if you don't have a blog or gallery. If you do upload your creations to Splitcoast please use the corresponding code in your keywords, so that we can all check them out!!! The keyword for today's challenge is KKCC4!!

In case you plan on joining in all my challenges this week (and I hope you are), I will keep a running tally of links to find each challenge:

KKCC1 - Altered Challenge

KKCC2 - Sketch Challenge

KKCC3 - Colour Challenge

KKCC4 - Valentine/Lovey Challenge - you're here!!!

Oh and the prize for today's challenge is.........the Mini Set, Be Mine by My Favorite Things!!! Wooohoooooo!!

Speaking of MFT, I'll be back a little later with a final MFTeaser!!!! Heehee!

Kimmie's Kreation Celebration Challenge #3!!!

Today's challenge is a COLOUR challenge!!! I don't know about you, but I'm gettin' kind of sick of the cold and snow! I'm ready for some springy weather, so your colour challenge is to create a card using SPRING COLOURS!! We need to brighten someone's day with a nice peppy SPRING card!!!

The card I have for your inspiration pleasure, is made using Little Missy by High Hopes Rubber Stamps!! Isn't she a doll? I coloured her in using the my Copic markers and taking the colours from the K&Co. dp. I'm having a blast with them! The card base is Kraft by SU and the sentiment is by C.C. Designs. I also added some of those pretty Prima Hydrangeas and some Bellas Baubles in the centres!!

Now don't forget the rules for these challenges: your creations must be NEW creations, you have until Monday, February 11th at 8pm EST to link up your designs in the appropriate post on my blog OR email me with a small pic, if you don't have a blog or gallery. If you do upload your creations to Splitcoast please use the corresponding code in your keywords, so that we can all check them out!!! The keyword for today's challenge is KKCC3!!

In case you plan on joining in all my challenges this week (and I hope you are), I will keep a running tally of links to find each challenge:

KKCChallenge #1

KKCChallenge #2

KKCChallenge #3 - you're here...bahahahahaaa!

OH and the winner of Challenge #3 will win.........Little Missy!!!

Kimmie's Kreation Celebration - Day 2!!

This is gonna be fun, I can tell!! Sounds like you gals are up for anything!!!! I'm so glad.....'cause I am too!! Sorry my post is a little late this morning! I had to take Emileigh to school for her first day of the second semester of Grade 10, then go to the grocery store and pick up a bunch of 'South Beach Diet' foods and then go and get the sticker for my card renewed, as I forgot to do that before my birthday!!! So it's been a busy morning already and I'm draggin' because I haven't had any coffee....but more about that later!!!

Today's challenge is my favourite kind - a SKETCH challenge!!!! This card features the cute Whipper Snapper stamp called Kindhearted Bug and don't ask me how I came up with the colour combo, but it seems to work!! I like the starkness of the black against the soft colours.

Anyway, use this card as inspiration for the layout on your card or scrapbook page....your entry can be either! Don't forget the rules for these challenges: your creations must be NEW creations, you have until Monday, February 11th at 8pm EST to link up your designs in the appropriate post on my blog OR email me with a small pic, if you don't have a blog or gallery. If you do upload your creations to Splitcoast please use the corresponding code in your keywords, so that we can all check them out!!! The keyword for today's challenge is KKCC2!!

Also you can enter each challenge as many times as you like, but you can't enter one creation into more than one challenge.....know what I mean?

So do you wanna know what you're playin' for today?? Of course, you do!! Since these contests are helping to celebrate my birthday, the winner of the Sketch Challenge will receive a whimsical Whipper Snapper stamp, perfect for making those always needed birthday cards......Clown Car!!! Isn't he too cute?? And today's prize is generously supplied by Phebe from The Town Scrapper!!

Alright, well there ya have it!! Go off and create!! I'll be back later this morning with another post featuring a My Favorite Things TEASER!!! Heeheehee!!!

Kimmie's Kreation Celebration - Day 1!!!

Well, Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeeeeeeee!!! I woke up this morning to the smell of something baking......and I thought I was imagining it. So I dragged my 'old' butt out of bed and went downstairs. Well, firstly, this is the sight that my bleary eyes first saw!!!



A dozen pretty pink roses from my honey!!! And I wasn't dreaming either.....he was baking me a cake!!! AND making me eggs and peameal bacon for breakfast....AND the coffee was already made!!! Aaahhhh....that makes this girl happy!!!

Sooooo.....what do you think of the name?? Kimmie's Kreation Celebration!!! I think it's perfect and Lisa Helmts came up with it!! So Lisa, send me an email and I will get a little something out in the mail for ya!!!

Okay!! Are you ready for the first challenge???? I hope you are, 'cause it's a doozy!!! No, not really!! I want to make sure that everyone who wants to, can play along so the challenges will all be easy-peasy!!! But I am going to give you the hardest challenge first so that you have lots of time to complete it!

One of my biggest challenges is altering items!! I tend to stick to what I know which is cards and scrapbook pages....I rarely stretch myself and go outside of my box!! Well, for this challenge, I did!! And you can too!!!

For Kimmie's Kreation Celebration Challenge #1, you will need to Alter An Item!! It can be ANY item....a can, a tin, a notebook, a clipboard....anything! Just take something ordinary and plain and decorate it with stamps and paper and embellishments!! I posted this challenge on the first day, so that if you don't have anything handy, you might be able to find something this week and join in the Altering Challenge!!!



For my sample, I took a lovely plain white lunch tin that I got from The Town Scrapper and altered it using DCWV patterned paper, Magnolia stamps and a whole lotta ribbon!!! Now you must forgive the picture as it was a rather dreary day when I photographed it and I had to use the flash. Believe me, it looks WAY better up close! Just ask Phebe, Ellen, Bonnie, Connie and my Mom....they've seen it in real life! But my idea was to make a cute little storage unit for all those loose unmounted Magnolia stamps......I think I might need to make another one, as I have a fair few of them...hahahahahaha!!

So here are the rules for Kimmie's Kreation Celebration Challenges (I just like sayin' that!!): your creations must be NEW creations, you have until Monday, February 11th at 8pm EST to link up your designs in the appropriate post on my blog OR email me with a small pic, if you don't have a blog or gallery. If you do upload your creations to Splitcoast please use the corresponding code in your keywords, so that we can all check them out!!! The keyword for today's challenge is KKCC1!!

OH!! I almost forgot?? Did you want to know what the winner of this challenge will win?? You don't?? Oh okay then, never mind........I'm just yankin' yer chain!!! Of course I'll tell ya!!! The winner of KKCC1 will win.........some NEW High Hopes Rubber Stamps!! How about that?? The winner will receive the Large Easter Bunny
AND the Small Easter Chickadee stamps, just in time for Easter card making!!!

MFT Sketch Challenge.....and Super Fun Party Plans!!!!

This seems to be a bad time of year for colds and coughs and just the general 'yuckies' and so many people seem to be sick. So here is a card for the very next person I know who comes down with something!!!

I used the horsie from Punny Farm by My Favorite Things for the first time and stamped him in Archival Versafine Black Onyx ink and coloured him in with my Copic markers. I tried to make him look like a palomino pony. Then I used the tiny grass stamp from It's a Jungle Out There to make the grass look more real.

The layout I used is this week's MFT Sketch Challenge over on SCS. Cindy Haffner posts an awesome new layout every week, so if you are ever lookin' for inspiration, you know where to go!! The dp is from my giant box of K&Co. paper from Costco and I also used Certainly Celery and Cool Caribbean, added some velvet ric rac by Making Memories, some Prima flowers and Prima brads. The sentiment panel was made using the large oval punch from SU and the scalloped circle punch. I punched out the scalloped circle in CC cardstock, then cut it in half right down the middle and overlapped the pieces by one scallop, so now it has more of an oval shaped scallop.

So I've been thinking a lot about next week's Birthday/Blogoversary/100,000 visitors celebration!! Firstly, I think I need to come up with a catchy name for it, so I need your help!!! Leave a comment in this post with some ideas for a Kool name for my PAR-TAY!!! Maybe I'll even send the winner a little sumpin'-sumpin'!!! *wink*

Anyway, here is what I have planned for next week......now hang on to your stamps, girls....it's gonna be a WEEK LONG CELEBRATION!!!! I figure, hey, a girl only turns 29 once, right???? Don't I look good?? Heehee!!

So starting on my actual B-day, which is this Sunday, February 3rd, I will be posting a super awesome fun challenge EVERY DAY for a whole week!!!! Each challenge will be posted first thing in the morning and everyone can join in the fun!! There will be a sketch challenge, a colour challenge, a technique challenge and MORE!!! A winner will be chosen for each challenge and I have some amazing prizes provided by some of the most awesome people in the biz!!! You can enter each challenge as many times as you like, but each card must be a NEW creation and you can only enter each card into ONE challenge!

How does that sound?? Super fun??!! I know, right!!! I'm so excited!!!

Wow!! You LOOOOOOVE Magnolias!!!!

I can't tell you how difficult it was to narrow down the winner!! There were over 50 entries and they were all super fantastic!!! Some were linked up in the contest post, others were uploaded to the SCS gallery and yet more were emailed to me directly!! It was crazy!!! I've come to the conclusion that.....you MIGHT like Magnolia stamps!!!

But I finally narrowed it down and the winner is................Marcie S. aka Disaster!!!! And here is her Tilda winning card:




Marcie, please email me with your mailing address and I'll get Tilda and her Basket out to you ASAP!!!

Congratulations and thanks to everyone for entering!! Keep your eyes peeled because I have more challenges and contests coming up......soon!!!

EDITED TO ADD: Someone expressed the fact that she thought the card had to be a Magnolia or Tilda stamp. If you go back and read the original instructions for this contest, it states that the challenge is to use the SKETCH from my card as inspiration. Nowhere does it say that you have to use a Magnolia or a Tilda at all. Just the sketch. The prize is a Magnolia stamp....that's all.

Who would like to win a Magnolia?????

I bet that title got your attention!!! Do you feel like a little contest??? How about a sketch challenge??? And you could win one of the much sought after Magnolia stamps!!!! How about Tilda with her basket......like I used on this card??? Sound good??

Well, Phebe from The Town Scrapper and I are sponsoring this fun little event and if you would like to win my friend, Tilda, here's what you have to do:

Just create a card or scrapbook layout using the above card design as your inspiration. The layout doesn't have to be exactly the same, but use it as a starting point!!! Then link me up in the comments of this post and direct me to your gallery or blog to check it out!! If you don't have either, you can email me a pic of your card, just please make sure that the file isn't very big. If you do upload your card to the SCS gallery, please use KMC1, for Kimmie's Magnolia Challenge 1 in your keywords. I say 1 because, you never know, I might have another one sometime!!

The deadline for submissions is Monday, January 14th at 8pm EST. I will announce the winner of this awesome stamp on Tuesday morning!!

Now on to my card!! I stamped my lovely Tilda girl on SU watercolour paper and coloured her in using my SU markers in Rose Red, Taken with Teal, Pretty in Pink, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel and Blush Blossom and I used my Aquapainter for the ground. The patterned paper is some of my fave SU retired paper, Loves Me. I'm bummed that you can no longer get it, but I can't wait for the new Berry Bliss to show up on my doorstep.....any day now!!! I added a little heart brad on her basket and I knotted a little piece of the matching retired ribbon and attached it with a glue dot to the middle strip. The layout is a Kimmie original and I added the photo corner punches in the top left for visual interest. And finally the sentiment is from How Sweet It Is by My Favorite Things.

Now hurry, go stamp something!!! And you could win a Magnolia stamp!!! Oooooooooo!

Designer Snowflake!!!

Wow!! What an evening!! Last night was the December Release Party on SCS for the new My Favorite Things stamps and let's just say my head is still spinning!! I got to see a lot of you over there, so you know what I'm talking about!!

We all met in the MFT forum at 9pm EST and had a blast!! Everyone was yakkin' and asking questions and the thread was moving a mile a minute!!! There were some sneaky peeks of the new sets, there is a contest to be a Guest Designer which ends tonight and there was a gift to everyone from Kim at MFT!!!

To be a MFT Guest Designer for January, see this thread for all the details!! You can win all the January release stamp sets and be on our Design Team for January!! We will be running this contest every month and it's gonna be fun!!

Also as a holiday gift to YOU, there is a coupon code for 20% off most items in the MFT store so be sure to use the code SCS1207 when you place your order. This code is good for a couple of days so don't miss out!!

So here is one of my creations for the release using Baby It's Cold Outside!! Actually I think this is my favourite of my own creations this time around. I got a bare wood cutout of a snowflake at Michael's in the $ spot and brought it home, knowing exactly what I wanted to do with it!!!

First I traced the snowflake onto this awesome designer paper by Heidi Grace and attached it to the wood. I stamped the BICOutside image onto SU watercolour paper and coloured her in using my SU markers and outlined the snowman and the snow using my Sakura Stardust gel pen. I also paper pieced her winter coat using some coordinating dp, matted the whole thing and added a snowflake brad by Karen Foster. I used a length of grosgrain ribbon to hang it from and added some yummy white organdy ribbon at the top and bottom. The bells charm at the top is actually from some wine charms that I found and I added it to the tag I made at the top using the BICOutside sentiment. Then I finished it off by placing some of my Mother of Pearl Bellas Baubles on each point of the snowflake.........aaaaaaaaaand I just noticed now that I missed a few of the points.........how embarassing!! Well, I guess now you know that I'm not perfect........baaaaaahahahaha!! I'll have to go back and fix that. Whoops.

Anyway, have a wonderful day. I hope you are getting all set for the holidays but enjoying yourself at the same time!! And in order to do that, you MUST stamp something.....Kimmie says!!

A Country Christmas Ornament

So I introduced you to my Cowboy Snowman yesterday and as I said, along with the other stamps I used, he is part of the Project of the Month at High Hopes for November. Unfortunately, the POTM sale is not up yet for some reason! So if you like it, you'll have to wait until they get it up and running to get it at the discount! BUT the other new snowpeople stamps ARE up and they are just as adorable!! Just go to the search window and put in HOTP for Hot off the Press and they are all there!!

I've had these round chipboard coasters sitting and staring at me for about a month. They've been mocking me because I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do with them and then, when I saw what the POTM stamps were, I had a brainwave!! SO, I covered the coaster with Sage Shadow cardstock after I had stamped on it with the snowflakes and the cowboy boot and also sponged around the edges. I added a strip of the striped Wanted paper by SU. Then I stamped the Cowboy on white cardstock and coloured him in with my SU markers and cut him out. I stamped the sentiment across his tummy and also added the sheriff's star on his vest. Then I punched a hole in the top of my ornament with my Crop-a-dile and hung my ornament with some white organdy ribbon and brown linen thread!! I think all the snowpeople will be perfect for ornaments this year, don't you???

Something exciting happend to me yesterday!! Wanna know what it was?? Well, remember how I created a few cards for the Lizzie Anne Designs Card Contest a couple of weeks back?? Well, yesterday they posted the overall winner and 10 runners up and I am a runner up!!! Woohoo!!!!!!!! The really funny thing is that I had created 4 cards especially for the contest and then added several others just to donate to the Cards for Cancer, which is where all the cards were headed after the contest. Well, it wasn't even one of my original 'contest design' cards that won!! It was one of my extras!!! Hahahaa!! So funny! And I will be receiving a new stamp set from the lovely ladies at Lizzie Anne Designs in the mail soon!!! That totally made my day!!!



Have a wonderful Friday and hey......go stamp something!!!

Pink Cat Studio Card Contest Winners!!!

Firstly, let me thank you all for your wonderful participation in this contest!! There were 177 entries into the four different challenges..........WOW!!! And they were ALL amazing!!! You have no idea how terribly difficult it was for the team to decide on the winners!! So difficult in fact that we are awarding not two, but THREE winners in each category!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Thanks to Melissa at Pink Cat Studio for sponsoring this awesome contest by donating the wonderful prizes and thanks to YOU for sharing your creativity with us!!! I hope you all enjoyed the challenges!!

Now........here's what you really came for..........the WINNERS!!!!!

Pink Cat Sketch Challenge

Ila



Tricia



Marianne




Pink Cat Colour Challenge

Pat Gingrich



Pat (foodpartyfun)



Julee Tilman




Pink Cat Supply Challenge

Monika




Colleen




Elizebeth




Pink Cat Theme Challenge

Janine Brain




Trixie




Beth




So all the winners can email me their mailing addresses and I'll get those stamps out to you next week!! Head on over to Pink Cat Studio today and check out their awesome stamps!!! It's not just Cats, ya know!!! And Melissa has her own contest going on right now, called Itchin' for Inchies!!! Sounds ............. interesting!! Hahaha!!!

Have a wonderful Friday!!!!