Author Archives: Kimberly
Many of the stamp sets that you can purchase today are outline stamps and they require that you love to watercolor or use alcohol markers or colored pencils. We all tend to have a favorite medium of choice for these images. Sometimes, I just want to stamp the image and get my project done. I have a few… Read More »
Challenge YOUrself is a scrapbook layout challenge site that requires that you create a scrapbook layout for the monthly challenge and you include a picture that has YOU in it! We so often take the photos for the special moments, that we often aren’t in any of them! This month’s Challenge YOUrself theme is to create a holiday… Read More »
The theme for the next Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge is a Gratitude/Thank You/Thanksgiving challenge. As always, it is an anything goes challenge, so you can create any project you want! I love that these are anything goes. Sometimes you just want to make something besides a card! Today, I created a scrapbook layout! We have 2 sponsors for… Read More »
November marks the last new stamp release of the 7 Kids Craft Store exclusive stamps. There are 3 great sets that we have to share with you on our last YouTube video hop! I’m sharing a set called Faerie Winter Dance today and I will share a combination of the other two sets tomorrow! I created a card… Read More »
There are some stamp sets that you buy and you love them so much, you use them all the time. Pretty in Peony from The Rabbit Hole Designs is one of those stamp sets for me. I just love the flowers in this set and it has a nice variety of sentiments as well. I needed to create… Read More »
There is nothing so satisfying as completing a task! I did 31 scrapbook layout challenges this month…all on time and all on prompt. This is a satisfying moment! Today’s prompt was about crowns and queens. We were given 3 sayings to inspire our layout. 1. Her courage was her crown and she wore it like a queen. 2.… Read More »
There are several things that I’m learning about traveler’s notebooks as I’m using the first ones I created. They really are fun to use. I like having a place where scrapbooking meets journaling in a pretty relaxed way. I may be the only person that looks at my traveler’s notebooks, but I enjoy going back ever few days… Read More »
Some days you just want to create a quick and easy card! I have one for you. It will take less than 10 minutes once you gather your supplies. I used this week’s Paper Craft Crew Sketch: My card consists of a watercolor wash background with splatter, a gnome fussy cut from patterned paper, a strip of… Read More »
I will confess that I was a little unsure of the stamp set included in this month’s Create and Inkspire card kit. I love the value I’ve been getting in these kits! This one came with some beautiful specialty papers and cardstock, a two step stencil, and some rub on luster paint. The papers are so nice, I… Read More »
Every now and then, I like to create a clean and simple (CAS) card just to show myself I can. I LOVE CAS cards and I aspire to create all CAS cards. It often never works that way because I like all the things!! I love techniques and embellishments and layers way too much to confine myself to… Read More »
Participating in a month long layout a day challenge is really quite a challenge! I’m enjoying it immensely and I am loving all the scrapbooking that I’ve been doing. I don’t think I’ll ever give up stamping and cardmaking, but I am finding that right now, I’m really loving the scrapbooking. Scrapbooking was how I got involved in… Read More »
The October Main Scrapbook kit that I purchased from the Hip Kit Club this month has been a blast to play with! I’ve already created 3 layouts and I’m going to create another one today. I’m so happy with the variety of papers, chipboards, thickers, and die cuts that I got in this kit. I love that they… Read More »
Last week I shared a card that I created with an underwater scene created by Patricia Alvarez from Kinda Cute by Patricia. I added one of her pelican digital images to the top and created a twist on her underwater scene. Today, I have a Hills and Lake background that Patricia just created and I added her Elf… Read More »
The digital image that I played with this week for the Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge is a really fun image! I had so many ideas for how I might use this as a Thanksgiving decoration that I actually printed it in several sizes. I finally decided on the one I would share when I was looking through my… Read More »
Yesterday was day 21 of the LayOut A Day (LOAD) challenge at Scrap Happy for October 2020. The story prompt was to show a best fishy catch. This is an easy one for me. I bet there are a few thousand pictures of people holding fish or fishing rods in my house. My husband’s YouTube channel and his… Read More »