SFYTT-Masculine

Hi Peeps, how's your week going? I broke out my Simple Stories paper to make a masculine birthday card for my Nephew. It was fun to use these papers with the preprinted elements and the Sketch for you to Try for September. Most of the ink distressing is printed on the paper but I did add a little Antique Linen Distress Ink. The background was embossed with a Cuttlebug Diamond Plate EF.
Thanks for stopping by! Kim

Sketch for you to Try-Sketch
Going Gray with Scrap Creations-Polka Dots
Ooh La La-Magnificent Men

Flourishes Get in Shape Challenge

Hi Cyber-friends, how are you this day? Besides remembering 9/11, I'm pretty good! I made this card for the Flourishes "Get in Shape" Challenge. You could win the September release if you play along so that's what I did! I used last year's Flourishes Fall stamp set and made a shaped card with Spellbinder dies.

I must not have had my glasses on when I photographed this card, it's blurry. lol

I used the Echo Park Recollections Paper, Copics, Gold ribbon and gold pearls. Note to self, use a different color on the corn husks next time!

Thanks for visiting today! Kim

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Hi There, Bloggers! I'm playing in this weeks Flourishes Timeless Tuesday 236, use 2 ribbons. I did that by using a wide sheer ribbon with an olive green satin ribbon on top, down the center of the card. I used Lily Bee paper and some May Arts natural twine.
How about this beautiful Apple branch stamp? So pretty and so fall like. I tried my very best to color the apples. I'm going to Copic Certification soon and I hope to improve coloring stamps like this.
I also used the "out of the box technique" to cut out the apples and layer it on the scalloped oval. The stamps is quite large so the card is 4.75 x 6.
Thanks for visiting. Hope you had a nice weekend!
Kim
Corrosive Challenge 182-Fall
My Sheri Crafts-Fall
Wags&Whiskers-Ribbons and Bows

Just call me Grandma!

Hi there! I dusted off my Cricut last week. I don't have a pregnancy stamp set so I thought I'd make a card with "New Arrival" Cricut Cartridge. I can't remember if I mentioned on my blog yet that I'm going to be a first time Grandmother! I'm thrilled for my daughter and her husband as they take on their new journey. I'm thrilled for me too!! Can't wait to hold that little Bambino!

My card is fairly simple. Just an A2 sized card base with some layered mats. From the Simple Stories Summer Fresh 6x6 pad, I cut out one of the journaling cards, matted it and layered my pregnant girl on with some foam tape. Before doing that, I notched a space in the top of the base with a SU slot punch for my double twine bow (the Twinery) to sit. I also laid down a MS doily. Then added some red pearls. Easy peasy! I popped it in the mail today so she can get a little surprise snail mail.
Challenge links below. Thanks for visiting!  Kim

Papertake Weekly-Anything Goes
Challenge 4 Everybody-Anything Goes
Crazy for Challenges-Bows or Buttons-I have bows

Timeless Tuesday-Autumn Colors

Hi all, I have a card to share that I made for my daughter's 4th anniversary. I needed to make her and her husband a card and I wanted to play in this week's Flourishes challenge 233 which is to use fall colors. Jess and Joel are avid foodies and love to go try different restaurants so I thought this stamps would be nice for them, that and I just won this set from Flourishes for playing in their last release challenge.
I colored it with copics, I edited the photo so much that you can't see the BG0000 highlights all around the items but it's there!
I found an older Basic Grey paper pad, can't remember the name, that had the rich warm colors of fall and it blended beautifully with my colored image. I used this week Deconstructed Sketch 114 as well, added twine and a button and called it done!

Here's the inside! Love the herb images. Other challenge links below.

Jo's Scrap Shack -Anything goes
Pattie's Creation Design -Embossing -I have dry embossing on the gold card stock panel.
Annebelle Stamps -Color Challenge

TT160-There She Goes

Hi Friends, It's Tuesday Throwdown 160 time!! This week's challenge is called Pastel Rainbow. Make a card with pastel colors. We are sponsored this week by There She Goes Stamps! One of my favorite companies. I was generously given Poppy to play with. I have to admit that I had no idea how to color her hair, I did the best I could! But I had fun coloring her outfit with pretty pastel pinks and teals. I had the TSG sentiment stamp in my stash, Buckets of Love. I used an older MME paper pad and added some enamel dots. I attached the lace with TH Tiny attacher.

Thanks for joining us this week.

Kim :)

PS. When this post goes live, I'll be on my way home from a little vacation from Quebec, CA! I have never been there.

There She Goes -Color challenge, Pink,Aqua and grey ( I have a little grey in the script paper on the sentiment oval.)

Welcome Prince George

Hi Friends,
This card is a tribute to the new Prince of Cambridge. I had wanted to make a baby boy card for my stash ever since the Duchess Kate and William had their baby. I loved Diana and wish she could have seen her grandchild.
As luck would have it, this week's Flourishes Timeless Tuesday challenge 231 was a challenge that would work for a baby card. It is "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

• OLD – use something older from your product stash (paper, embellishments, etc.)
• NEW - the newest stamp that your just acquired
• BORROWED – scraplift or CASE a “design” from our Flourishes Gallery (*PLEASE link & credit the project inspiration piece from our gallery.)
• BLUE – add something blue on it!

**PS:  Your creation does NOT have to be a wedding themed project!**

Sooooo my old item is the K&Co paper from several years ago, a "new to me" Flourishes stamp set, a cased sketch from Allison Cope and blue paper and button.
I also kept a DTGD challenge in mind when making this.

Thanks for visiting!
Kim :)