The Card Concept 108

Hey Friends, welcome to the new The Card Concept 108 challenge! It's almost Valentine's Day so this inspiration photo should come in handy to get some cards done! It can work for other love related cards too. 

I tried to have large bold elements on my card like the pillows in the photo. For my clean and layered card I kept it mostly free of clutter and tried to have just one large focal point. I thought about it later that I could have sponged on Antique Linen Distress ink and roughed up the edges to make it Shabby Chic/Vintage. 

 The stamp set is Simon Says Stamp "Really like you'. I heat embossed the sentiment in clear powder over VersaFine Black ink. The background paper is from a 2012 line of crate paper I believe. I added a doily and bow and called it done. 

Head over to the blog and view the design teams beautiful cards and join us! 

Inspired by all the little things 42

Hi Friends, are you in Valentine mode? We are at Inspired by all the little things 42, although you can be inspired by our photo to make any kind of card! 

OK, I was a little stumped with the inspiration but worked it out. I'm not sure if my card style is sorta mixed media or HOT MESS? LOL! 

The Frantage embossing powder was fun to use! You can't tell but it's white with gold glitter mixed in. I had fun applying it to the Cartabella wood grain paper with Versamark and on the wood veneer hearts. I was trying to have a vertical element like the inspiration photo so I added Crate Paper letter stickers for the LOVE word. (They came in last years SSS February card kit.) 

The focal sentiment was stamped with SSS Hello Beautiful stamp set. A nest of gold thread sits under my MFT stitched circle diecut. 

I hope you will join us this week. Please click the link above and check out the design team's cards!

Kim

Other challenge links below.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge -Love theme

Inspired by all the little Things #41

Hola, Peeps. I'm here sharing my card for the Inspired by all the little Things Challenge 41. Take a look at this inspiration photo! So open to all kinds of interpretation. 

I chose to go whimsical and cute on this one and pulled out my Lawn Fawn Hedgehugs stamp and die. I used kraft card stock embossed with a heart embossing folder to mimic the twine.

 Some other Lawn Fawn products are the red patterned paper, the white heat embossed sentiment on black card stock and the Lawn Trimmings Gold twine. 

Carol Mayne is our guest this week. Stop by the blog and visit or even better, play in the challenge!

Hugs, Kim

Other challenge links below

Simon says Stamp Wed. Challenge -Anything goes

Inspired by all the little things 39

Hey Friends, how are you this fine day? How about a little Valentine inspiration this week? 

Inspired by all the little things 39 has a fun photo to inspire you. 

I knew I wanted to have a black and white panel on my card and the rest just evolved with the help of a Mojo Monday sketch #475. I used some Lawn Fawn patterned paper for the background and a unknown manuf. scrap for the banner. The hearts are die cut with spellbinder dies. I got the ribbon from Verve and the twine is Darice. 

Since I used this MFT sentiment, I guess this is my husband's card because it doesn't apply to anyone else! 

I hope you come play with us this week. Our guest is Hannelie Bester! 

KK Cutthroat Lizzie

Hi Friends, Today I'm sharing a Valentine card using Cutthroat Lizzie from Kraftin Kimmie Stamps and this week's challenge theme, Peace and Love. I kept the focus on Love because there's nothing peaceful about a pirate, eh? LOL  I colored her to match this cute American Crafts Yours Truly paper. The KK sentiment is called Everyday Sentiments. I also used this month sketch that can be used all month long when making Kraftin Kimmie projects. 

This week's hostess is Krafty Girl Stephanie, and her theme is PEACE & LOVE.

We always enjoy your creations so be sure to submit them so you can WIN a $10 gift card to the Shop!! Show us your stuff!!

This weekend's Frugal Friday sale items are up and ready! This is a perfect time to grab a couple of faves while they're on sale!!

Will you be joining us for the February Krafty Friends Blog Hop?? Click here for all of the details!

Have you joined the Kraftin Kimmie's Krafty Friends fb group?? It's the best place to keep up with all of the goings on as well as sharing YOUR creations and getting inspired by other Krafty Friends' creations!!!

Now create a card, scrapbook page or altered item with a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp or any other stamp and be sure to use our THEME as a starting point for your creation!!! You will have until February 13th at 11:55 pm EST to get your entries in!
Pull out those fabby stamps and play along! Have some krafty fun and join us this week!!

Fussy and Fancy -All about Love
Patties Creations Challenge-Valentine/Love
4 Crafty Chicks -Hand colored image

Hugs, Kim

BBTB Phone Challenge

Hi all, I have been wanting to play along with the "Bitten By The Bug" weekly challenge for a long time. It's one of the main reasons I created this blog. So for the first week since having a blog, I was lucky enough to have the "From My Kitchen" cartridge, which they chose for the challenge. This cute phone cut comes from that cartridge cut at 3" with black cardstock. I used the text bubble from Going Places for the sentiment. Not sure of the proper name for it. That was cut at 1 3/4" in red heavy dp. The sentiment was created on the computer and trimmed with a trimmer and corner rounded. I can't remember the brand of paper that the background paper is but It reminds me of sound waves so that's why I used it! That and it's just so cheerful! :D
I used sparkle white paper on the star ond center oval and the little highlight. I used 3 orange mini brads and some gingham and dotted red ribbon. I matted it on light blue CS. And did a little doodling. I was planning on adding the word, Valentine, somewhere on the card but it didn't work out. Maybe I'll put it on the inside. So happy to be playing and also happy to be growing skillwise. There are no spots of glue or crooked papers on this so I am getting better! Worthy of playing with the awesome design team at BBTB! Thanks for looking. Please be my first follower!
Love, Kim