Author Archives: Kimberly
This week’s Make The Cards Challenge is a technique challenge and it’s all about background stamps. I used the fabulous Wild Thing background stamp from Catherine Pooler. I heat embossed it in gold and ink blended on some Spiced Marmalade distress oxide. I love the way this card turned out! I also created a gold frame embossed… Read More »
This week’s Saturday Challenge Theme for Three Room Studio is Celebration! We would love to have you join us for the challenge! One lucky randomly selected participant will win a $15 gift card to the Three Room Studio shop for playing along in one of the November Saturday Challenges! For my card, I used the “Skate,… Read More »
I’m participating in the Coffee Lover’s Blog Hop for Fall/Winter 2021. This hop runs from November 12-19th. Kat Scrappiness is pleased to be a returning super sponsor for this hop. As a design team member, I am pleased to use some Kat Scrappiness products to participate in this hop. Everything in the Coffee Category is 15% off from… Read More »
I have a quick Christmas card that would be very easy to mass produce. If you have 50 cards to make, just do each for all 50 cards at one time before moving on to the next step. There are only 6 steps in all for this card. I have a quick video to share the process with… Read More »
The new Scrapping4Fun Challenge is an anything goes challenge with a thankful theme. The sponsor for this challenge is LeeAnn’s World 101. My project used a beautiful circular bird and floral image that I really enjoyed coloring. I went for bright florals for the image and a soft amber for the bird. I used some… Read More »
I was playing with some of my Scrappy Tails Crafts stamps and dies today trying to recreate a version of something that inspired me in a paper crafting magazine a month or so ago. I searched my stash for foil specialty paper and all I had left was a copper foil! I’ve been working my way through my… Read More »
This week’s Make The Cards Challenge is a sketch challenge! Isn’t this a great sketch! That circle could become any element you want. You could die cut a floral and put it there! So I used some of the freebies included in the package of the latest Papercrafting magazine that I purchased. I don’t usually make cards… Read More »
The Star Stampz Challenge for this month is to create a winter card that is not a Christmas card! For this month’s challenge, I selected the Polar Bear digital stamp from the Star Stampz Etsy Shop. So I clearly forgot that this was called Polar Bear when I was coloring it! I made the little critter… Read More »
I don’t know if you have heard of Craft Roulette or not. I had never heard of it until I was invited to be a guest on the show. Mary Gunn FUNN came up with a fabulous way to give crafty friends a wonderful way to get together with all the things we’ve had going on for the… Read More »
It’s time for the November scrapbook layout challenge on the Challenge YOUrself blog! I really enjoyed this challenge. You know that I love to stamp in my scrapbooks!! I had a blast pulling out some pretty florals and creating a fun layout with one of my favorite pictures of me! One of my students snapped a picture… Read More »
As soon as I saw this week’s Saturday Challenge theme, I knew exactly the card I wanted to make. This week’s theme is hearts! You know I’m pulling out one of the fabulous heart stencils from Three Room Studio! This is the Heart Ray Full stencil. I’ve added some orange and gold Picket Fence glazes with the… Read More »
Most of the holiday cards that I have been making this year have been using traditional Christmas colors. I decided to change it up a little today and use some non-traditional colors for the cards that I’m making. The pink card uses heat embossed snowflake images in white that I ink blended with Spun Sugar and Work… Read More »
If you’ve been visiting my blog for the past couple of years, you know that I’ve fallen in love with digital stamps. I love that I can change the size of them and I really love that they take no physical space to store. I’ve got a craft room jammed full of stuff that I’ve organized and that… Read More »
The new Make The Cards Challenge for this week is a color challenge! I pulled out the Wild Things background stamp from my Catherine Pooler collection and heat embossed it in gold on white paper. I ink blended on some Spiced Marmalade distress oxide ink and added some scraps of dark brown cardstock strips. I used my… Read More »
It’s time for the Saturday Challenge at Three Room Studio and I pulled out one of my favorite stamp sets. The theme this week is bold and bright so I pulled out some new Catherine Pooler Ink colors to play with this set. I used the Hello Fri end stamp and die set from Three Room… Read More »