Kimberly

I am a lifelong teacher and mixed media maker with a passion for DIY projects, stamping, scrapbooking, sewing and paper crafts.

Author Archives: Kimberly

Make The Cards Challenge: A Masculine Card

The new Make The Cards Challenge is a Masculine Theme challenge.  I’m making a non-traditional color masculine card for this challenge!     I decided to use purple for my card today.  When I was helping my son set up his first apartment, I was surprised when he chose a purple, gray, and black color scheme.  It was… Read More »

Mermaid Card And Faux Water Stencil Technique

Today, I have a super cute mermaid using the Just Us Mermaid digital stamp from Kinda Cute by Patricia.  I’ve created a faux water effect using a stencil technique that I thought worked until my husband said it didn’t look at all like water. **Sigh** I decided that I liked the card so I’ll share it with you!… Read More »

Scrappy Tails March Release Blog and Video Hop

Welcome to the Scrappy Tails Craft’s Home is Where Mom is blog and video hop! Today, we are hopping along to celebrate the launch of the new release! Each designer along the hop will be showcasing products from the new release, so there will be plenty of Mother’s Day and Spring time inspiration! Hop along and leave your… Read More »

Scrapping 4 Fun Spring-Easter Challenge

The new Scrapping4funChallenges is a Spring/Easter Anything Goes Challenge.   Our sponsor for this challenge is Fabrika Fantasy.     They provided the digital image that I’m using for my card today and it is called Easter Bunny.   I kept my card simple this time!  I simply used Copic markers to color in the image and create the… Read More »

STAMPlorations Throwback Thursday Guest Designer

I’m over on the STAMPlorations blog today with the Throwback Thursday feature. I’ve picked an inspiration card and my job was to create 3 variations of that inspiration card. I selected a card created by Maria Fischer which has a black and white stamped image with a small amount of color added to the card with a geometric… Read More »

Create A Fairy Card With Sparkle And Sheen!

The Imperfectionists Rules of Cardmaking Rule 1: All cards should have sparkle, sheen, shine, or a metallic detail. That’s right.  I’m making up my own rules for cardmaking now! Rule 2: Always use a score board to score your folds and a bone folder to crease them for a tidy fold. Today I’m on The Hedgehog Hollow blog… Read More »

Star Stampz New Digital Stamp Release!

I have a new digital stamp released today from Star Stampz called 4 Leaf Clover. I created a card just for the release!   I think this little miss is so sweet!  Star Stampz releases a new digital image each month and the design team takes turns being the first to create with the new images! Copic Color… Read More »

Women’s Day Blog Hop: Tired Mom You Are Enough

Happy International Women’s Day! I’m participating in this year’s International Women’s Day Blog Hop and Linky Party! Today is a celebration of all women around the world and the qualities that that describe us.  We are taking a step toward women empowerment by being positive, encouraging, and uplifting to each other via our papercrafts!  The love for crafting… Read More »

Make The Cards Challenge: Coffee Theme

The Make The Cards Challenge for this week is a Coffee Themed Challenge!   I don’t really have a good coffee cup stamp set, so I purchased a digital stamp from Not 2 Shabby for this challenge.  I have a great stamp set from Cas-ual Fridays Stamps called Coffee Talk and I finally had a reason to use… Read More »