Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps is reducing, reusing and recycling!

Let's see...this lovely pink grosgrain ribbon my kiddies pj's came wrapped up in at Christmas time is yummy but the wrong colour for my card. Let's use some glimmer mist and change the colours to see what works....

Oh yeah...candy apple red that's the ticket....

Voila!

This week's challenge is to use a recycled element to your card. I was sooo excited because lazy as I am I planned to reuse an image I had already coloured and used on a card and just make it on another card. Piece of cake! So I was bragging to Kimmie about my idea and she had to clarify that's not what the challenge meant....lol! It is to take an actual item from around your house and include it in your card. As the pictures above shared I used a ribbon that came on some pj's for the kiddo's. What a great idea for a challenge! I used Abigail Apple who is just as delish to colour as she looks. I coloured her to match my yummy MME papers and died the bow to match. Love her!

To learn more about this week's challenge click here to go to the challenge blog and you will also see some great ideas from the rest of the DT on how to add some recycled elements to your projects.

Cheers, Andrea

Paper Romance Hop- Anything but a card...

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The Paper Romance team has some fun stuff in store for you today, so make sure you start at the beginning of the Hop with the Paper Romance Challenge Blog HERE. The Hop goes live at 7:00 AM CST today and closes on Saturday, January 29th at 7:00 AM CST. Comments left after that time are loved and appreciated, but to be eligible for Amy's prize (read on!) you must complete the hop by Saturday morning.

If you came here from Ria's blog, Ria's Scrapcards, you are in the right place! Ria always makes such amazing creations doesn't she!!

Our Design Team Challenge for this week is "ANYTHING BUT A CARD." My "Anything But a Card" project today is a dinner menu for the Valentine's day meal my hubby and I will have. I used a Unity Itty Bitty - 'What's Shakin'. I stamped it on Neenah cardstock and added some depth and colour with my copic markers. I used W1, W3, R27, R29 and RV00. I then wrote out the menu myself which explains my slanted handwriting hee hee. I layered the menu on black, red and pale gold paper to give it a touch of romantic elegance. I then used some black rubons I had in my stash to dress it up a bit. Now all that's left is to give my hubby the menu so he can make it for me lmbo!

Amy is offering a $20 gift certificate to one hopper today that completes the hop, so be sure to leave a comment on all of the Design Team's blogs to have a chance to win! Play along with us and you could win a $5 gift certificate to Paper Romance too! So that's 2 chances to win but first remember to leave a comment at each blog to get the big prize! 

In your comment on my blog today let me know what colours you like to use on your Valentine/Anniversary cards. It will help give me new ideas instead of just red and pink. 

Next up on the hop is Amy's blog- Paper Romance. You will love what she has made!

Cheers, Andi

High Hopes Stamps- Make it sparkle baby!

This week's is challenge week over at the High Hopes stamps blog. Last week was an amazing paper piecing tutorial- did you get a chance to check it out? I have to give a shout out to Kristine- it was amazing! So the challenge this week is brought to you by someone who obviously loves their bling....not saying who in particular.....OKAY IT'S ME! I am pretty consistent. Whenever it's my turn to pick a challenge I go to glitter. I luvs it sooo much. On my card I used some sparkley SEI papers and a heart embossing folder. I also mounted my cute monkey on pink bazzill bling paper. I then misted my card and my flower with Pearl glimmer mist to give it an all over shine. I also glittered up the cupcake wrapper and the hearts on the cake. A sparkly heart brad finished up my glittering. The only thing is I can't really see the glitter in this photo. I will have to try and take a better one during the day so you can see just how overboard I went in my sparkle madness LOL! I used the ever so cute and delish Cuppy Cake Jake stamp. I also ADORE this sentiment. Seriously- how perfect is it! You could use it for Valentine's, birthday, whenever and for whatever age!

To see how the rest of the DT got their glitter on click here to go to the challenge blog and get your mojo all sparkled up. To find these stamps for yourself you can find them at High Hopes Stamps, SGD and Paper Romance. I have to say that I have many of the love themed ones from this release and I am in heart heaven!

KKS Weekly challenge..."little pig little pig LET ME IN..."

**Please scroll down for my "Oh Alice" post and some big news regarding the challenge blog**

This week's Kraftin' Kimmie stamps challenge has been issued by the talented and oh so cute Tara! This girl reminds me of Snow White big time! And not just because she has a picture with Ms. White herself on her blog lol! Perhaps that is where she came up with this week's challenge....Fairy tales! How fun is that! I got to use the new KKS 'Tickled Pink Piggies' stamp as right away I couldn't get the story about the 3 little pigs and that poor wolf huffing and puffing out of my head. What fairy tales do you think of when you look at KKS's huge lineup of stamps? For more inspiration click here to go to the challenge blog and see what inspired my fellow Krafty Girls. Have a magical day! Andi

Oh Alice...it's time to say Good-bye....

Today's OA card is once again using Nikki Sivils patterned paper and a brad embellishment to help create a good-bye but always in my thoughts cards. I kept it clean and simple to let the words speak for themselves.

The reason for this is there is some big news regarding the 'Oh Alice.." challenge blog from the blog's creator and Mad Hatter the lovely and uber talented Jessica Diedrich. You can read her words here at "Oh Alice".. Before you head over there I want to thank Jess and all my Twisted Thirteen sisters who let me play along with them since the Fall. I have loved working with all of you and while I have decided not to continue on when the blog changes into the 'Altered Alice' blog I wish all these lovely talented ladies the very bestest! I will be back next week to kick off their first post and then will back away and continue to look to this blog for inspiration from these diverse artists. Now without further adieu click here to read the post explaining an ending and an amazing new adventure is my beloved friend Jess....

Paper Romance Challenge- Make a fun shaped card...

I haven't had the chance to play along with a PRC challenge since before Christmas so it was fun to have another reason to craft this week. This week over at the Paper Romance Challenge blog Cindy has challenged us to make a fun shaped card. I used my nestibilities to cut out a shape and went from there. I have had this cute stamp - Angel Bear in Clouds- inked out and ready to be coloured for awhile and when I sat down to craft and saw him peeking out from a massive pile of paper I knew just what I wanted to do. I used some new MME paper and cut out the image and popped him up. I have had this dream charm for years and had promised myself that this was the year to use it. One more NYE resolution checked off!

If you would like to play along with us and win a gift card for the Paper Romance store click here to go to our challenge blog and read all the deets and see the rest of the DT's eye candy for inspirations. Cheers! Andi

It's time for the KKS January Release!

Today Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps is releasing their new JANUARY images!  We’re kicking 2011 off with a bang as we have SIXTEEN new stamps for you!!  As you’ve seen over the last few days in our Krafty Peeks,  Annie Rodrigue has created some incredibly sweet BERRY GIRLS!!  There are six images in the complete set and they are Abigail Apple, Andrea Acorn, Lily Lemon, Olivia Orange, Rebecca Raspberry and Stella Strawberry! Each one comes with a coordinating accessory stamp AND a bonus sentiment stamp!!

We ALL have baby cards to make every year and this month, Steven Leary has brought us the most adorable BABY images!!  There are babies, teddy bears, ducks and a pair of little mice you might know!    They are Baby Bubble Bath, Special Delivery, Tiny Miles and Maisie, Buggy Full ‘O Ducks and Teddy Bear Trio!!  Two of them also come with matching sentiment stamps!! These stamps are so cute my daughters had to play along too!

Also this month we are excited to be sharing the last five stamps from our past artist, Crissy Armstrong!  These stamps are just full of cuddly cuteness!  Check out these adorable ANIMALS!!  They are Buster the Bulldog, the Froggie Family, Cheeky Monkey, Stripes the Zebra and Tickled Pink Piggies!  And each one comes with a coordinating sentiment stamp also!!

We are thrilled to have ALL THREE of our amazing artists joining in the hop today!! If you want to start from the beginning, just head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie Challenge Blog!  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! If you are still hopping along you would have arrived from my friend Vicki's blog and now it's time to go to Crissy's blog!

Again we’ve got ‘Gimme Kimmie’s Kits’ for those of you who just HAVE to have all the new images!  We’ve grouped each line of stamps together and called them the ‘Gimme Kimmies Kits’!!!  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???