BINGO Challenge & Kraftin Kimmie Previews { Day 3 }

My favorite day of the Kraftin' Kimmie previews is here!! The hugely talented Annie Rodrigue's Moonlight Whisper girls (and boys) are my favorite of Kimmie's lines of stamps and this release does not disappoint! She has designed a fabulous new bunch of girls this month and if you believe in Faeries than these are for you!
The DT and April Krafy Guests are combining these sweet faeries with KK's Saturday Challenge, which has been brought to us by this weeks hostess, Tara. She has challenged us with a fun game of Bingo...no, not that kind of bingo, silly! We are using a bingo card to guide us in our choice of embellishments! I have never done a challenge like this, so I was a little unsure, but I found it really fun! All you have to do is choose a line (either vertical, horizontal, or diagonal) and use the embellie options from that line:)
Here is the 'card'. Play along this week and link up your creation to the KK Blog for your chance to win A free Rosabelle stamp (used by Tara)!

For my card I used flowers, ribbon and brads. I used this sweet new faerie, Isabelle. I stamped her, coloured with copics and added sakura glitter pens to her hair, dress, wings and shoes, then cut her out ever so carefully and mounted her onto a fun nestie shape with dimensionals. I used Prima paper, a Recollections flower, some SU ribbon, glitter brads and CS.  This card is totally not my style (I'm not a floral kinda girl) but I actually like the way it came out! I like to push myself to try different styles- it's fun to experiment and you never know what kind of results you'll get!

For the inside, I used the same nestie shapes, along with the sweet sentiment that comes with Isabelle.  A Martha Stewart punch finishes it off:)
Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the Kraftin' Kimmie blog tomorrow for our Blog Hop!! There will be some serious eye candy that you won't want to miss out on...I for one, have saved the best for last;););)
Jenny

Kraftin Kimmie Previews { Day 2- Steven Leary}

TGIF!!!! While you are reading my post, I am off to take my Student Nurses on a field trip:) We are on our way to The Alzheimer Society of Alberta and NWT for an exciting presentation on geriatric nursing in Alzheimers and Dementia! Feild trips are fun- even for grown ups:)
So today the Krafty Girls and April Guests (me included!!) are previewing Steven Leary's Dress-up Kids! The little guy that I have worked with is Fireman Phil...and isn't he a cutie!!! I love anything 'little boy' being the mom of boys....

Since I had my cosmo cricket paper pad on my desk from yesterdays card, I thought that I may as well use it again, since I wanted a red/black/yellow colour scheme. I also used MFT's banner dies, TCP's Coolvetica alphabet and a MFT sketch challenge last week.

 Hop on over to Kraftin' Kimmie's blog to see a list of the participating designers for todays preview:)
Thanks for stopping by!! See you tomorrow for another preview (if you like Annie Rodrigue's images this will be the day for you!!!! Eeek! My personal fav!)
Jenny

Kraftin Kimmie Preview {Day 1- Krafty Quotes #3!}

 

Hi All! As one of the April Guest Designers, I'm so excited to be able to bring you this months release samples for Kraftin Kimmie stamps...Today the DT and Guests are sampling Krafty Quotes #3! These are really neat stamps because they are very large and make putting together cards really quick and easy! Plus they are true Kimmie style and chalk full of SASS!! lol!

I used a quote from Gloria Steinem for my card. I think it's kinda funny:)

I also used a sketch from Stamping Bella's Bellarific Friday. I flipped the oval the horizontally to fit my stamp.

I kept it pretty simple, obviously having the spotlight on the sentiment...I used Cosmo Crickets Circa 1930 paper, as I think the quote has that kind of era to it, when women seemed to be liberating themselves. The black strip joining all the papers vertically is a PTI die, the woman chipboard sticker is from the same CC collection and the flower is made using circle punches (distressed), topped with a button and SU twine double bow. I stamped the sentiment in Memento tuxedo black, cut it out using an oval nestie and distressed the edges with Colorbox Chalk Ink in 'toffee'. I matted that in a black scallop oval nestie die cut.

Here is a closeup of the tattered flower. I love the look of these and they are as easy on the pocketbook as you can get...just use those little scraps that you would otherwise throw in the trash. You don't even need a punch- since they are meant to look 'homemade' you can cut them out with scissors and it's completely okay that they aren't perfect!! Sometimes I spray them with water and then crumple and uncrumple, but here I just roughed them up a little dry and I think that they are just fine...a little crisper, but thats the look I wanted anyway:) Well, that's it for me! Drop by tomorrow for another Krafty Peek!

TCPTUES154- Ahoy There, Baby!

Greeting TCP fans! This week Alma has challenged the Cat Pack (still feels so strange to think that I am 'one of them'...hehe) to make a project with a baby theme...A member of the design team, Tracy, just welcomed a little bundle into her life! So this card is dedicated to her- Congrats Tracy!! Being a mom is the most amazing thing I have ever done in my life...also the hardest, but nothing could be more rewarding:) I am blessed to have 3 wonderful children and I thank God for them each and every day (even the bad ones- I'd rather have a million bad days with kids than one good day without)!!!! And here is a shot of my little photographers assistant, trying to tear down my white backdrop and knocking the card over three times while trying to sneak into the viewfinder for a 'cheeeese';) LOL!!

So enough with the sappy and on with the crafty!!
I really don't have much in the way of baby stamps...gonna have to put an order in...DH (read 'Darned Hubby' here) has been doing some thinking- he must have to much time on his hands at work is what I think, and he is talking about...Gasp..putting me on a stamping budget!!!! Ack!! What the heck?? LOL! He must be sniffing around for a beating....
So I used this little whale from 'A Whale of a Time' and turned it into a babyish kind of card... blue of course, in honour of Tracy's bouncing boy!
You should have arrived my way via the lovely Leigh. She always has some fabulous creation that will make you green with envy! At least she does that to me anyway!

I also used Verve's sketch for this week, flipping it on it's side:

I loved last weeks colour challenge (teal, yellow & orange) from Sony and couldn't resist working it into this card.....I love this MME paper..might have to break the budget and get another 6x6 pad, as I'm starting to get low on this specific pad!I used the Wave Cutup die, cutting my teal piece in half, using both the positive and negative side of the die to give a contiuous wavey look.  A little paper-piecing, black baby-braddie for the eye, chocolate taffeta SU ribbon, and cheapy-cheapy Michaels teal adhesive pearls finish it off!
For the inside I kept it pretty simple, using the wave die again, and the 'congratulations' sentiment from the new, must-have set 'Simply Said', which is a bargain at twelve smackeroos! Covers all your main phrasey needs;) I adhered a row of the smaller teal pearls for the final touch.

To start back at the beginning and see all the goodies that you missed, check out Alma's blog. Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Jenny

BIG NEWS!!!!!!!!! {Hang on to your underbritches}!

Finally!!!!! The day that I have been hoping for and dreaming about for months is here.....I have been in shock the past week and I think I need a pinch so I know it's real! As of today, I am officially the newest member of the Cat Pack! That's right people, Alma has asked me to join the Design Team over at The Cat's Pajamas! I am super thrilled beyond words.  But sadly, as a door opens for me, another closes for someone else...TCP is saying goodbye to a very talented artist, Sonja "Sony" Christoph. She will be missed, but I have a feeling that we'll see lots of her in the future- she does amazing stuff with TCP! I wish that I could have gotten to know Sony...I've admired her for awhile now and her blog was how I ended up stumbling upon The Cat's Pajamas! Strange how the world works!!! Best of luck to you Sony in school and in your career- you are an unbelievable talent! Check out Sony's stampin' blog and if you want to see some mind blowing stuff, her art blog will knock your socks off!!!

I'm going to show you a couple of cards that I made for the last TCP release a few weeks ago (I think that it was a test..glad that I passed;) lol! I never did get around to posting them on my blog.
These cards were both featured on SCS forum during the release, so if you came to the Pajama Party then you've seen them before....

I used the new 'Field of Pinwheels' set...I didn't have the pinwheel die yet, so I made my own (I don't recommend it- buy the die instead- it's so easy!) I also used the Flower Button Cutups die for the flower behind my big red button and the Inside Pinking die as well....See the little sparkle on all the little pinwheels? I applied Tiny Twinkles to each one......A glitter brad anchors my pinwheel and on the last picture you can see it in motion as I blew on it while taking the picture (I know, I am quite the talent doing two things at once;) Look at it go!!

And honestly, I made these cards awhile ago and I cannot remember the sketches that I used...Here is the the set in it's complete swankiness.....Look at the other sweet sentiments that come with:)







Here is the second card using 'little' Big Bear in Catch My Drift:

I coloured Bear with copics and paper pieced the balloons. The dp is a mix of October Afternoon, again- not sure where the layout is from.... I added the little tack and 'air' (?) to the sentiment....on the inside I curved the 2nd sentiment and stamped it along the edge of my nestie circle. I love how you can manipulate polymer stamps that way and get a little curve if you so desire! And did you check out the new watermark?? Now I really feel like a professional:) I could look at it all day long!

So in closing of this post, I would like to sincerely thank Alma for this wonderful opportunity! I feel so grateful that she chose a relatively new and unknown stamper like me to join this amazingly talented design team. Taking a chance on a newbie, and not just picking the 'famous' stampers to promote her business, to me says alot about her character:) So THANKS a million and I will do my best to represent your fabulous products!!

HUGS, Jenny

Krafty Saturday

Wow- I just realized that my last post was my 100th blog post!! I feel like it's a huge milestone! I started blogging in August, 2010- not that long ago really! Anyway- I was looking through my first few posts and I must have not figured out the straightening tool in photoshop yet!! Crooked as can be:) Thankfully I have improved and I hope that I get better day by day! I am even thinking of having my blog professionally done..what do you think? Anyone have any advice on blog designers? Where to go, who to see..that sort of thing?
Anywho, onto Kraftin Kimmie's Saturday Challenge, and the magnificent Michelle is this week's hostess, and she has designed this great sketch for us to play with!

I used the sultry Annette, coloured her with copics (although I feel like I am in a copic rut as of lately!!) Oh well- you can't always be a winner!;) lol! I added spica clear glitter to her eyelids, lips, belt-y thing, heels and the tops of her stockings....Some prima flowers, MFT border die and Taylor's tiny twinkles on her necklace and ring make it a card:)  Thanks so much for stopping by! Head over to Kraftin Kimmie's blog to see the DT and Krafty Guests creations!!! And play along with this fun sketch for your chance to win some KK rubbah!

I'm A Krafty Girl!!!!

Hello my friends.....I have some super exciting news that I've been bursting at the seams to tell you...I was chosen as one of five Kraftin Kimmie Guest Designers for the month of April! Whoo Hoo!!! Kimmie had been emailing me when I was off in Mexico awhile back and I had left my email open on the computer at home, so I wasn't able to open my account when I was down there.  When we got home and realized after a few days and calls to the provider that the emails I had recieved were being hijacked by my basement computer and my laptop wasn't getting any. And Kim had been trying me with no response....and of course the emails said 'please get back to me asap'....I'm no rocket scientist, but I'm pretty sure 'asap' doesn't stand for 'more than two weeks from now'!! Yikes!! I had a meltdown, emailed her back and got some counseling from my trusty hubby. Thankfully she had checked my blog and knew I was on holidays:) Thanks for not giving up on me Kim!!!!
So, I will be playing along with all of the Krafty Challenges this month, as well as helping out with the peeks at release time (I have some of the new stamps in my hands and let me tell you, they are Cuh-Yoot!!! That Annie Rodrigue is something else I tell ya!
So our first KK Challenge is 'Stripes'....I used some stripe dp, as well as striped bakers twine for my card.

I used my 6x6 MME Fine & Dandy 'tickled pink' dp. I liked the cherries with this image and of course in keeping with the striped theme, I used a funky little striped pattern as well. I coloured my image with copics (not in love with the hair, but I find blonde hard to colour- I actually have a hard time with anything yellow-toned with my copics...maybe I just have an aversion to it or something??) I added some glitter pen to certain places, but I don't think you can see it in the pic. I had this chipboard cherry laying on my desk, and I wasn't thrilled with the colour or pattern, so I added some buttons with rhinestones over the hole and wrapped some twine around the 'stem'. I popped it up on a double bakers twine bow and now I quite like it!! So that's it for my first challenge as a Krafty Girl...what'd ya think?? I'd love to know;)

I also used Jen's SFYTT for the month of March.....