Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Weekly Challenge- I smell Spring Flowers...

I'm the hostess for this week's KKS weekly challenge and I am feeling Springy so I challenge you to use 'May flowers' on your card. We have been  having lots of April showers so I felt it only fitting that May flowers make an appearance here and thankfully also in my garden.

Flowers and today's Royal Wedding make me think of England's wild garden's and of course the faeries I know are flying around in them. So on my garden card I have flowers and a fairy. I coloured up Isabelle and used one of my fave colour combos pink, white and teal. I embossed a piece of wax paper with my swiss dots cuttlebug folder and then cut out my flower using Tim Holtz's tattered flowers. Layered some more flowers, added some crystals and then topped it off with icing..I mean some tasty crinkled ribbon.

Come play along with us today at the KKS challenge blog and also see what else the Krafty girls have created to show some May flowers!

Cheers, Andi

Kraftin' Kimmie stamps plays with Cute Card Thursday Challenge blog

Kraftin' Kimmie stamps is this week's sponsor over at the Cute Card Thursday challenge blog so if you do yesterday's challenge plus this one you have so many ways to win some schweet KKS stamps. I also had time to play along with this one and I used one of the new Dress Up kids- Chef Sheldon on my card today. For the CCT challenge its an easy one- just pick your favourite past CCT sketch. I used this older one above and changed the circle to an oval. Cause that's how I roll ;).

So pop on over to the CCT challenge blog for the full instructions on how to play along and have a wonderfully crafty day!

Cheers, Andi

Kraftin' Kimmie stamps and CPS are playing together...

Card Positioning Systems is one of the TOP go to sketch sites for me and many of my crafty friends. Not only do they feature a new sketch each week but when you play along you are also entered to win a prize from that week's sponsor. This week its Kraftin' Kimmie stamps turn to be the hostest with the mostest! I used this week's sketch above to create a card showing up the hilarious Krafty Quote by Gloria Steinem. My youngest read it and was quite puzzled at first. She said 'but mom..fish don't need bicycles?' and when I replied exactly she thought about it for a min and then her face lit up when she got it hee hee. What a smart cookie! I am teaching them that they don't NEED a man to be happy but it is wonderful to find one that they WANT to spend their lives with.

Deep thought eh?

Yep I have had 3 cups of super sized teas today and I am on a roll! LMBO!

To see more details about playing along hop on over to the CPS challenge blog and see more samples from Krafty Girls and also the CSP design team. Uber talents over there ladies! Enjoy! Andi

Chocolate bar treat wrapper tutorial featuring High Hopes stamps...

Today I am featured over at the High Hopes stamps challenge blog showing how to make this candybar wrapper. I learned how to do this years ago following a tutorial I learned from splitcoaststampers.

I used Blowin' Buddy Bear to decorate my wrapper and some of the flower stamps from HHS. To see step by step instructions hop on over to the High Hopes Stamps challenge blog and see my picture tutorial. I hope you enjoy it and maybe even try one yourself today!

Cheers, Andi

Happy Easter to all of you!

Happy Easter to you and your loved ones today! We have had a wonderful family filled weekend here at our house and we were so happy to share our Easter morning and egg hunt with my sister and her daughter who we haven't been able to see for about a year and a half. A lot of laughs this weekend let me tell you. And already feeling the chocolate overdose but I am soldering on lol!

I am sharing a card I made today using my beloved Whipper Snapper images. This one is using Ester Bunny and I spent about 2 hours colouring this image just enjoying the blending and shading and using all these fun colours. You can always tell when I love an image when I go overboard on how long it takes me to colour it lol! Some patterned paper and my lovely new to me dyed seam binding ribbon and voila- a bright cheery Easter card.

Well just a quick hello from me today as we are heading out to share a dinner with some of our favourite people. Cheers, Andi 

KKS challenge- make it Frilly..

This week's KKS challenge is to add frilly ribbon or lace to your creation. Easy for me as I rarely don't put ribbon on my card. I made this card in between visiting with my sister and my niece who I haven't seen in a really long time. I wore my sister out and she had a nap and gave me a chance to create. I made this card with my fave Pink Paislee paper that keeps popping up on my cards and one of the great new April Kraftin' Kimmie quote stamps by Lucille Ball. Some lace, silk ribbon and bam- frilly lacy loveliness hee hee!

To play along with us and read the full challenge deets hop on over to the KKS challenge blog and see all the rest of the frilly creations that the Krafty Girls have created.

Just a quick post from me as I actually now have all 3 of my siblings here- something that hasn't happened in years! We can't stop laughing and eating great food together. I hope you all have a lovely Easter Weekend filled with blessings, family, friends and good food. Oh and lots of chocolate of course...dark chocolate ..

Cheers, Andi

High Hopes Stamps challenge- Bunnies, Bears and Balloons...OH MY!

Bunnies, Bears or Balloons...OH MY! This week's challenge reminds me of one of my fave movies The Wizard of Oz and the famous line "Lions, Tigers and bears...oh my!". I used the brand spanking new stamp 'Sitting Buddy with a balloon' on my card today and was able to use Bear and Balloon for the challenge. 2 out of 3 isn't pretty good I think! I used the following colours on the bear- E42, 43, 44, 47 for those of you who are interested.

Want to play along with us to win some High Hope stamps? Hop on over to the HHS challenge blog to see the full deets and to also see lots of HHS Diva samples to help get your mojo fired up today!

Cheers, Andi