PRC23- Everything but the kitchen sink featuring High Hopes....

How are you today?? I have to say I had a very crafty day yesterday and now I need a day to rest hee hee! One of the things I made was this card for Paper Romance's challenge 23- Everything but the Kitchen sink. The name of the game was to use lots of embellishments, papers, basically anything you wanted. I went crazy and used copics, punches, lots of paper, stickles, brads, crystals and nestabilities. Phew! I also used one of my fave holiday stamps from High Hopes from Paper Romance called Chris Mouse. He reminds me of my hubby every year when we pull out the lights. Actually more like Clark Griswald from Christmas vacation. A massive ball of string and lights and his blood pressure goes up just from looking at it. Of course not only do I not touch it and interfere with his system I don't talk to him and stay as far away as I can. We have learned the things we do well together....and the things we don't. This falls heavily in the 'don't do together' section of our relationship- just like grocery shopping and home improvements.

To read more about how you can also play to win hop on over to the Paper Romance Challenge blog and see what the rest of the DT has created. Cheers!

I have been holding onto a HUGE secret for months.....

Okay...where to start...okay first- I have had this secret for ages and ages!!!!! Happy secrets are hard to keep but I did it!!! Okay...it's also going to be happening for 3 months- right till the end of January. Okay...have you guessed it yet?? No..okay...well do you recognize the stamp on my card? I used it before on a card found here. Okay..I am just going to spill...

I AM A GUEST DESIGNER FOR HIGH HOPES- WOOT WOOT!!

Yippeeeeee!!! Today is my first post for High Hopes and I am thrilled! I get to play with High Hopes stamps all the time when I create for Scrappingreatdeals and Paper Romance and I love their images to colour with my copic markers...mmm...perfect stamps for colouring!

For my first challenge with HHRS we were to make a step card- I actually wasn't even sure what that was but I was up to it. Thankfully Lacey sent me a link to a tutorial from Beate on splitcoast that you can find here that walks you through it. Phew- thanks again Lacey! I used Ele-fun and some of my hoarded Echo Park summertime paper as it always says birthday paper to me. I also used my glitter pen and clear glaze to add dimension to my image. To read more about this week's challenge deets and how you can play to win click here to go to the High Hopes blog and also to see what the rest of the DT created. Let me put it this way- I almost resigned when I saw the rest of the ladies creations-AmAzInG!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, a bit more about me and High Hopes. I actually found out about High Hopes stamps a few years back when I first started using copic markers and I needed to find stamps that would allow me to colour them. I was shown High Hope stamps by Sheila and that was it- my first copic cards would be using their stamps so I have always had a soft spot for their images. In fact some of my first eva coloured cards were using some of their older images. I have included them below for giggles. These are some of my first ever cards using copic markers.

Yep...me and High Hopes...we go wayyyyy back :)



KKS weekly challenge- Primarily Purple (the best colour in the wOrLd!!)

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It's challenge time again and it's my turn to be the hostess. So I basically thought this is my chance to bring more purple to the world! Yep, purple is my fave colour and anytime I can get a chance to have purple paradise I am all for it. All you have to do today to play and hopefully win this week's challenge is to make your card 'primarily purple' and dedicate it to me. Okay you don't need to dedicate it to me but the purple part is true hee hee.

I got to play at Kimmie's house with Kimmie and Angie and we had so much fun. I played with Virginia and my Bo Bunny paper- love it!!!!! Great day, great friends, great colouring= perfect krafty day :).

To read more about the challenge deets and to see my fellow DT's amazing purple creations click here to go to our challenge blog. Cheers! Andi

Paper Romance challenge- Scrunched Ribbon with Itty Bitty's

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Seriously....SERIOUSLY..!!! Aren't these two so cute! I am not sure if they are monsters or aliens but how adorable! I HAD to have this stamp 'Nicest place to be' from the new Unity collection Itty Bittys and was soooo excited when Amy started carrying them at Paper Romance. I coloured them with my copics and grabbed some of my Jack and Jill paper by Prima. Then came the 'challenge' part of the card- and it was a bit of a challenge for me- to have scrunched ribbon on my card. I frayed the ends of my satin ribbon so I could grab a few strands and pull on them to create the scrunching. It took me a few tries- my chubby fingers didn't want to work with me today! Then I glued that sucker down before I lost anymore of my scrunching hee hee. Zip dry works wonders let me tell you!

To see some more amazing scrunched ribbon click here to go to the challenge blog and also read about Amy's 6 month DT call happening right now. Cheers! Andi

CCT Sketch using Kraftin' Kimmie stamps

I am sharing today a card I made for Cute Card Thursday that Kimmie is sponsoring. I used Merry and her delicious turkey..mmmm.... Don't you love Mary's candy cane striped stockings? I think I need a pair! This is just a quick post for today. I am working on organizing my craft room and this doesn't happen very often...at all hee hee! Have a great day! Andi

Oh Alice and Kraftin' Kimmie stamps play together for today's challenge

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"They don't keep this room so tidy as the other,' Alice thought to herself, as she noticed several of the chessmen down in the hearth among the cinders: but in another moment, with a little `Oh!' of surprise, she was down on her hands and knees watching them. The chessmen were walking about, two and two!

`Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,' Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), `and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel -- and here are two castles walking arm in arm..."

--Ch. 1: Through the Looking Glass

I have combined 2 challenges today for my cards as they fit perfectly together! The challenge over at 'Oh Alice' is to use some aspect of the game of chess. You might want to use a checkerboard pattern, feature a King, Queen, Knight or Castle (Rook). Or perhaps there is another aspect of the game we haven't thought of yet. On my card I used 'Sir Galahad' the Knight from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps to add my 'chess' component to my card. See that amazing swirl on my card. That is a new stamp I picked up at SGD that I am in love with by Impression Obsession. I then used the sketch that is the challenge for KKS this week by the amazing Michele to put my card together. A fabulous sketch I will absolutely use again and again! Junior Krafty girl Katie also wanted to play along with the challenge and used the new stamp Virginia to play along. I just love how her colouring with copics has evolved and she explained to me tonight how she adds random darker colours in the hair to colour like Krista hee hee!

Do you want to play along with us? Click here to go to the Kraftin' Kimmie stamps challenge blog to see the sketch to play along to win AND you can win even further by clicking here to go to the 'Oh Alice' challenge blog and read the deets on how to play to win there as well. Love it! Lots of ways to get the mojo rocking and perhaps win some free goodies. Good luck! Andi

Look at me posting on a Friday- playing along with Card Positioning systems...

This week over at Card Positioning Systems KKS is hosting the weekly challenge. Here is my card using their layout. I went over to Kimmie's yesterday and we had soooo much fun colouring our little hearts out!!!! This card is using Frosty the Snowmouse and some of my new Echo Park Christmas paper.

Yep so I packed up early and headed over to Kimmie's yesterday and made myself right at home. I used her bone folder, tape, pop dots, trimmer, ribbon, punches and cardstock. Hee hee. She had to keep looking for stuff over in my pile and teased me about using up all her tape. I of course had to state that this was just a ploy on her part to get me to buy her more double sided tape. The cheek of her!!! I refused of course lol!!! We are terrible to each other- constant teasing and loud loud laughing! Oh and Kimmie singing the same 2 lines of a song all day until I forced her to get 'real music' going or I was going to start singing as well. Not a nice sound on the ears my singing so it made her move right quick to get music we both like on. We have to do that or one of us will complain constantly about the others choice of music hee hee! I had so much fun and it's like another home to me. Obviously as I help myself to what I want to eat or drink and make not only myself a cup of tea but one for Mr. Kimmie too lol!!!! I must have wore her out as I don't think I had driven off her street before she had fallen into a 2 hour nap hee hee! Good times!

It's a beautiful day here in Ontario today and I have my hubby home with me. He probably expects me to spend some time with him so I better get going. HOpe you have a crafty day! Andi