Saturday, December 31, 2016

Happy New Year

Here is another quick post to wish you all a very Happy New Year! Wishing you all health and happiness.  Here are some quick place cards I made for our New Years Eve supper (well, late supper).


These were fun and easy to make, mostly die cutting.  I used Spellbinders dies for the notebook base and the oval for the names.  The background stamp is an older Hero Arts Confetti woodblock (that I love) also from Hero Arts is the 2017 stamps and the name/letter dies. Lawn Fawn "Cheers" die and the champagne flute is by Papertrey Ink. Enjoy your New Years Eve, please be careful on the roads (we have a storm here but luckily my family all live very close).

Thanks for 2016 and fro taking the time!
Kim

Friday, December 30, 2016

CAS-ual Fridays Celebration!

Time for another challenge over at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog! We are Celebrating for this Challenge!



I love using grey and white for a card, I find the color combination classy.  I decided to make a shaker, after all New Years is around the corner and what better then confetti to celebrate! I used StazOn Opaque Cotton White with my Misti for the "Bravo" stamp and the "Exclamations" stamps on the inside panel.  I was able to stamp multiple time thanks to the Misti to get a crisp white sentiment.  For my shaker I used the Fun-Fetti Fri-dies in silver, silver glitter and turquoise glitter papers and added some Lucy's little things Winter Mint sequins.

I wish all of you a very Happy 2017!!!



Join us at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog for the chance to win $25 worth of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and, drum roll please... Michelle with double the prize if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps! 



Thanks so much for taking the time!
Kim

Sunday, December 25, 2016

Merry Christmas!

A quick post today to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. I hope you all have time with family and friends. The holiday season is a wonderful time to reflect and simply be happy. I know that I am enjoying mine tremendously with my loved ones!



This card features Neat and Tangled products and was my husband's Christmas card. It sincerely is the most wonderful time of the year!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!!! 
Kim

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

My Favorite Things - Polar Bears!

The following project is a card that I made for the daughter of a good friend.  She loves scene cards and these polar bears by MFT fit the bill perfectly!


I used many different companies to build this card. The frame used to die cut the base panel and the subsequent layers is by Avery Elle (Wonky Stitched Rectangle).  The mountains are by Mama Elephant and the snow hill is by Lawn Fawn.  I coloured my bears, the ice and background trees with Copics then put the entire scene together and popped up my bears with foam tape.  I die cut a few MFT hearts and uses Christmas Red Stickles on them. I finished by stamping my sentiment by Papertrey Ink and adding some Pretty Pink Posh sequins!

Thanks so much for taking the time!
Kim

Monday, December 19, 2016

Last minute Christmas projects with CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

This is the time when many crafters are in the process of completing last minute holiday projects!  I am certainly not the exception! 

I am sharing a tag today that I made for my husband, I usually like to mass produce tags and have them on-hand for any last minute gifts. But, I figured that he should have a special "one and only" tag and the Mistletoe and Holly set by CAS-ual Fridays was perfect!!



I stamped the mistletoe in MFT Black Hybrid Ink and used my trusty Prismacolor Pencils to colour in the image.  The white berries looked ok with the pencil but I added liquid pearl drops to make them a little more dimensional.  I then stamped my sentiment with VersaMark Ink and used Red Glitter embossing powder by Ranger I believe. Put my tag together added some festive ribbon and bells and, of course, Sparkling Clear Sequins by Pretty Pink Posh!

I will be back this week with a few more holiday projects before Christmas!

Thanks for taking the time!
Kim



Friday, December 16, 2016

Time for another Cas-ual Friday's Challenge :)

Happy Friday all! One more week of work for me then I am lucky enough to have a two-week break with family and friends. I can't wait to recharge my batteries for 2017!

I always love a new challenge over at CAS-ual Friday's :) My project this week features the fantastic Funny Flakes dies.  I am simply in-love with these dies, the design of the snowflakes is amazing! This is my second project this week featuring them and I will have more between now and Christmas!

The challenge this week is CFC163 - Christmas and Hanukkah 


I made seven of these tags in a variety of colours, I just couldn't stop! Lol I have a picture lower in this post that shows the seven tags.  I used a variety of glitter paper and shiny cardstock for my snowflake dies and I decided to use Kraft to really showcase the design of those dies.  The sentiment is from the fantastic CAS-ual Friday's Snowy Sayings set and I embossed all of the sentiments in white. I put a variety of sequins in the centre of the snowflakes, some twine and voila!





Join us at the CAS-ual Fridays Challenge blog for the chance to win $25 worth of CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and, drum roll please... Michelle with double the prize if you use CAS-ual Fridays stamps! 



Thanks so much for taking the time!
Kim

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

CAS-ual Friday's Funny Flakes

I have been so enjoying the Funny Flakes die set by CAS-ual Fridays Stamps :) This card is for one of our favourite couples!


I did inlayed die cutting for this one with a mix of red mirrored cardstock and silver glitter cardstock. I really love the effect that is gives the snowflakes :)  The sentiment is a die by Simon Says Stamp, always tough to find french sentiments I love the scale of this one. I topped everything off with sequins!

Thanks for taking the time!
Kim