PRC18- It's a colour challenge...

Happy Thursday! This week's Paper Romance Challenge over at PRC is hosted by me! And as Fall is my fave season I have issued another Fall inspired challenge- use the colours Pumpkin, creme and black on your crafty item. I used one of the new High Hopes stamps- Froggy candy Bookmark to make this bookmark for my oldest DD. She was born in the Fall so she loves Halloween themed items and had issued a demand for a 'cool bookmark'. I hope this one fits the bill for her!

I hope you all have a gorgeous day and have time to get inky fingers! Cheers, Andi

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and my Oh Alice challenge card...

I combined 2 challenges into one this week as I had a 'vision'. The KKS challenge this week is to use the colours purple, green and orange which suits Miss Witchypoo just fine. Then the 'Oh Alice' challenge is to make a window card- another idea that Miss Witchypoo was all over! I used my nesties to cut out my window and it made lining it up a snap as I could cut through multiple papers at a time- I love things that work well with me being a lazy crafter hee hee.

How about you? Do these challenges inspire you as well? Maybe together like I did or separately. Either way- both challenges come with prizes so it's win win! To read more about the challenges and to see the AMAZING creations the DT's for both teams created click 'Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge blog' and also the 'Oh Alice' challenge blog to get started!

Have a craftin' great day! Andi

KKS weekly challenge- it's all black and white....and glow in the dark

**please note this is my second post for today, scroll down for my 'Oh Alice' challenge card**

Today's challenge from the sweetest and most talented Aussie I know- Donna- is to use black and white on your card. Ever since I picked up the COOLEST glow in the dark embossing powder at SGD I have been waiting for the opportunity to use Mitzi the Mummy and have some of her friends glowingly by her side! You should have seen me locking myself in our basement bathroom trying to take a picture in absolute darkness with my bad eyesight hee hee. I am very happy with the effect though! I hope the picture gives you a bit of an idea of how it looks.

Click here to go to our challenge blog and play along with us to win! It is so amazing to see how we all interpreted the challenge- now let's see how you roll with it!

Oh Alice....

`Why the Lion and the Unicorn, of course,' said the King.


`Fighting for the crown?'

`Yes, to be sure,' said the King: `and the best of the joke is, that it's my crown all the while! Let's run and see them.' And they trotted off, Alice repeating to herself, as she ran, the words of the old song: --

`The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown:

The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town.

Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown;

Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.'

Hey everyone! We have a wonderful challenge today and a prize at stake from The Mad Hatter herself! Jessica will be giving away an {Ippity} prize pack of stamps plus a nice array of 6x6 designer paper to ONE lucky winner this week who is "Crowned" by Random.org!

Speaking of crowns, THAT's this week's challenge, brought to you by our very own Twisted Sis Sammi: Use CROWNS and/or MYTHICAL Creatures on your card or creation today! Click here to be taken to our challenge blog to be inspired by the amazing DT creations and also so you can link up your card to play along with us and perhaps be our lucky winner! 

It's release day with Miles...

Katie's creations- Junior Krafty Girl

Today Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps is releasing their new FAB-U-LOUS September images! As you’ve seen over the last few days in our Krafty Peeks, Annie Rodrigue has created some sweet and sassy ladies this month! There are five images in the complete set and they are Annette, Betty, Jayne, Raychel and Samantha and each one comes with it’s own sexy sentiment!!

And Steven Leary is back with Miles the Mouse and some new friends! This month they are sharing some sweet times at a birthday party AND getting ready for some fall fun! You’ll get to check them all out in today’s September release day KRAFTY HOP!!

If you want to start from the beginning, just head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie Challenge Blog! If you are already hopping along you would have arrived from Tara's blog and after leaving a comment here to try and win you now go on to Jen Balcer's blog. I met Jen and she is so beautiful and such a nice lady! As you hop from blog to blog, be sure to leave a comment at each and every stop because some lucky stampers will win packages of stamps from the new release!! And when you’re done hoppin’, be sure to head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie shop, because ALL the new images are NOW available!

Also, you enjoyed the ‘Gimme Kimmie’s Kits’ so much last month, that we’re doing it again!! For those of you who just HAVE to have all the new images, we’ve got the perfect thing for you! It’s called the ‘Gimme Kimmies Kit’!!! Instead of clicking on each image that you’d like, you only have to click once to pick up a Gimme Kimmies Kit AND it’s at a discounted price!! What could be better???

Sneak Peek- Annette

**Please note this is my second post of the day- scroll down for my Oh Alice post**

Don't you just think Annette looks like such the saucy minx? I love her innocent but sexay pose. I knew right when I saw her that I wanted to use a cherry paper background of some sort- and have her lips match in a cherry red. I just love this pin-up girls from Kraftin' Kimmie stamps! I know I know I gush every month but I honestly can't get enough of them! This week's challenge brought to us from Kimmie herself is to use Pink and bling- no problem!! One of my fave things on a card and Annette loves the bling too so we worked well together ;)

1 more sleeps till release day! To get more of your release fix hop over to the challenge blog for more sneak peeks and inspiration. xoxo

Oh Alice...

Just as Alice said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a door leading right into it. `That's very curious!' she thought. `But everything's curious today. I think I may as well go in at once.' And in she went.

Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the little glass table. `Now, I'll manage better this time,' she said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and unlocking the door that led into the garden.

Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocked) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the little passage: and THEN--she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains..."

Hello out there! It's a lovely day here in Wonderland and we are celebrating the summer with a nature theme today! Well, TREES and FLOWERS and BIRDS to be more exact! We scored a GREAT sketch sponsored by PAGEMAPS today that is just perfect for today's theme:

For my second Oh Alice post I was not only inspired by the pagemap sketch but also the story and just had to have an element of a key on my card. I used this small key I had handy and cut a small mushroom out of my paper to mimic the drinking of the potions, eating of the mushrooms and the key of course. I have to admit I have a few tree stamp sets I adore but I have been hanging onto this old SU one for years still without seeing ink so it was time to get it dirty. I used craft ink pads to show more vibrantly on the kraft paper. Hope you like it!

Now hop on over to the Oh Alice challenge blog to see the other amazing creations and see how you can play along as well. Happy Saturday! Andi