KKS Dec Sneak Peek number two....Sharing a cup of Cocoa

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Good Morning Krafty Peeps! Welcome to Kraftin' Kimmie stamps second day of sneak peeks. For today's card I used the new Miles and Maisie stamp- Sharing a cup of cocoa. Awwww....so sweet! I made this into a Valentine's day card and when I think of Valentine's day I think over the top pink, red, hearts, chocolate, sparkly things, etc. I think I did a pretty good job of getting most of that category on my card *snicker*. Yes I know it's decorated a wee bit on the other side of too much but this is a girl who when we figured out we couldn't have the honeymoon in Europe like we wanted decided to go tacky all the way and spent my honeymoon in Niagara Falls. And ever since then my love cards tend to be influenced by heart shaped tubs and tacky wallpaper lol!

To see more sneak peeks from some of the DT and also some of our AMAZING krafty guests click here to go to the challenge blog and enjoy!!! Cheers, Andi

PRC Weekly Challenge...Heavy Metal

This week's Paper Romance challenge is to go Heavy Metal. I have to admit I got so excited at first and pulled out my Guns 'N' Roses t-shirts, feathered my hair and layered on the black eyeliner and got ready to rock out to my fave music. Then I read a bit further that the challenge was to use any kind of metal somewhere on your card and I thanked the Lord I didn't leave the house looking like this hee hee! Yes- I was a heavy metal queen growing up in the 80's and still love GNR, Poison, Whitesnake, Metallica but I have to admit I don't listen to them often and my playlist is more current with Muse or honestly- 95% it's Sarah McLachlan. So different from the younger me- good thing I didn't know it then or I would have been so ashamed of the older me lol! And...I really enjoy Classical. Yep the younger me would have fainted and fallen straight back as my super tight pinned jeans wouldn't have let me bend my legs LMBO!!

So once I calmed down and brushed out my feathered hair I made this card using Three Pane Santa and some JillyBean Soup paper and embellishments. I added a metal clip and metal jewelled brads to bling up my card. To play along with us click here to go to the Paper Romance Challenge blog and see more inspiration from the PR DT!  Cheers, Andi- your Heavy Metal Queen (see pic below hee hee)

btw- those sunglasses had fake blue snakeskin on the sides- sooo hip

Kraftin' Kimmie stamps December Sneak Peeks

Okay, I so couldn't resist playing around with my photo editing software to give Clint the Cowboy an western look. Don't you just picture an old Saloon with the bartender wiping glasses with the probably filthy cloth lol. I have been looking forward to this KKS release because it's 'For the Dudes' and all of Annie's images are for the men in our life. Clint is amazing and I have to say I can think of a few 'cowboys' in my life I can give this card to. Real or pretend ones hee hee.

To see more Dec peeks click here to go to the KKS challenge blog where we have some special Dec Krafty guests joining us to give the DT a holiday in Dec. You can see I chose not to take the time off because let's face it- I wanted to make cards with these stamps! So hop on over and please leave some love for our special guests. Cheers, Andi xo

I am EAD Designs December Guest Woot Woot

I am so excited to share my last secret that I have been keeping for months! I am the December Guest DT for EAD Designs and I flipped out when I was asked. I adore wall art and stickers so this was a real treat to be able to pick out my DT products for the month and get started.

This week's hop is focused around calendars or organization. An area my girls always need help with is to remember what to do for school each day. I got them these super funky chalkboards of an owl and a retro TV that peel and stick to their walls. My youngest DD had to first put on hers that it is a snow day here for her. My oldest wanted to put on it things to remember during the week and then decided to act and make up her weekly reminders hee hee. What a ham! I have to say my girls and I put these up in minutes and are super easy. To remove you just warm with a hair dryer and peel it off. And to clean them you just need a damp cloth. That's it! No nails to hang up a chalkboard- nothing!

To start the hop head over to the EAD Designs blog and if you have already hopped your way here from there  your next stop is my friend Stephanie. I got to finally meet Stephanie in person last September and we got along right away like a house on fire. Thank you so much Stephanie for thinking of me for this guest spot.

Also, if you want a chance to win some free $$ to spend at EAD Designs go over to play along at 365 cards where they are the  sponsors this week.

Cheers and if you are like us today- enjoy your snow day! Andrea

KKS weekly challenge is asking to Let It Snow!

** Please note this is my second post for today- please scroll down for my Oh Alice weekly Challenge **

Happy Saturday! I have to say I am loving that we finally have some snow on the ground. I am one of those weird people who love snow. Yep just love it! I like to look at it from out my window while in my warm house sipping tea and seeing it sparkle. When I was younger it was the only sport season I did okay in as I loved to toboggan and skate for hours and hours. I would also just lie down on the ground and look up at the grey sky with it's thick flakes drifting down and just feel the magic. By March I will have had enough and will be out there with my embossing gun helping Mother Nature melt it but now- we are bff's.

This week the challenge is to have snow on your card anywhere and the snowmen on my card is representing my snow. I have to say my card turned out no where near the image I had in my mind lol. My hubby liked it though so it stayed as it is. Or he wanted to go to bed- either way worked for me hee hee. I used Skiing Miles and my copics to help create my card.

FYI that KKS is having a massive sale right now too. Click here to read all the deets then click here to go to the challenge blog and play along to win some free stamps.

Have a fabulous day- Me and my Bff Snow plan too ;) Andi

Oh Alice and Some Odd Girl play together

CHAPTER 42: The Flowers are Talking!

`O Tiger-lily,' said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, `I wish you could talk!'

`We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: `when there's anybody worth talking to."

Alice was so astonished that she could not speak for a minute: it quite seemed to take her breath away. At length, as the Tiger-lily only went on waving about, she spoke again, in a timid voice -- almost in a whisper. `And can all the flowers talk?'

`As well as all can,' said the Tiger-lily. `And a great deal louder.'

Hello from all of us in Wonderland! This week we would like you to have a go at making your own flowers! So get fun creating, we can't wait to see what you come up with! I have to be honest on mine- a friend of mine made my flower specially for me :) So I cheated but she wanted to see her flowers on my blog so really I did it for her ;) lol. I also played around with my photo at a cool free photo editing website picnik.com. My new fave thing to spend time on- don't the pics look so cool! I played around with some vintagey settings to go with my 'Some Odd Girl' digi stamp of the cloud and rainbow.

This week we are being sponsered by 'Some Odd Girl', who have gorgeous Digi Stamps that the DT have been luckily enough to create with this week. So get creating your own flowers for your chance to win some of your very own ' Some Odd Girl' Images!

You have until Friday the 10th of Dec to play long with us! Click here to go to the challenge blog to play along and see what the rest of the DT have created.

Cheers, Andi xo

Paper romance weekly challenge- it's time to winterize!

Wow- it's time to winterize. Get the snow tires on, dig out the ice scraper for my car. And just where did I put my gloves last year? It's Dec 2nd and I am winterizing- including this card. The Paper Romance DT have been challenged to winterize their cards and now we challenge you to do the same and play along with us!

I used another brand spanking new image from High Hopes released yesterday called Travelin' Snow bird and his idea of winterizing is going somewhere warmer. I had a card kit from my friend Krista leftover from a recent class of hers and when I was designing my card I thought it was just perfect. It has Winter/Christmas images yet fun and perhaps tropical colours- perfect! Thanks for the card kit and layout Krista ;)

To play along with us click here to go to the PRC challenge blog to read the full details and to also see more lovely inspiration from the DT. I would also like to welcome the brand-spanking new team that are joining Amy, Cindy and I- glad to have you with us ladies!