High Hopes Stamps challenge- Here Kitty Kitty kitty....

Happy Tuesday!!!!

Today High Hopes Stamps is challenging you to make a card featuring your fave pet or animal. Please please please don't tell Molly my dog but cat's are my fave. I think Molly actually knows that because she acts more like a cat than a dog most of the time...mind you my cats think they are dogs. Which is of course normal in my household hee hee. I coloured up Peeking Kitty and Get Well Soon sign with my copics and used a small piece of one of my MME Lime Tart papers. I wanted my card to be clean and simple to focus on the images and their colours. I like how it turned out and I think I am going to try to make more CAS cards!

To see more purrfectly done samples hop on over to the HHS challenge blog. Ha ha...that was punny ;). 

Have a great day, Andi

KKS has us in stitches!

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I have to admit something...I have been a huge fan of craft-lebrity Carol Burrage for many many years. I find her smart, witty and craftlicious. She frequently has me snorting my tea out of my nose while I read her blog posts. Yep I have loved her from afar for many a year..until this week that is. Now my love for her is tarnished just slightly because Carol is in charge of this week's challenge and we have been asked to HAND STITCH somewhere on our creations. Oh my..not one of my strengths and frankly this challenge had me pulling a full on temper tantrum. I still want your autograph Carol but I need to give it a few weeks ;).

Yep it all started out good. I grabbed my Sew Easy and put on what looked like a fairly simple zigzag piercing head and pierced my paper. Then I tried to sew it. Turns out I had no flippen idea at.all. how to do the stitches. None. My Family studies teacher would be having a bird if she knew that! I think she is still upset about getting applesauce in the face in the infamous blender incident. I would like to state on the record that I did tell her the lid wasn't fastened on properly but she was sooo frustrated with me and my lack of cooking skills she just yelled over and over again to just turn it on..so I did and then ducked and she didn't..and got a face full of ground apple. Yikes..scary at the time but oh so funny hee hee.

Sorry..back to the Sew Easy story. I was so lost I hopped in my car to drive to SGD to see my Thursday ladies clutching my pierced paper. I immediately laid down on the floor and started screaming for help while using my heels to push myself in a circle on the floor. After trying to ignore me with little success they offered to help by sewing it for me. Hee Hee. I am terrible! Now..they pulled a fast one on me and only sewed halfway around the paper and much to my chagrin insisted I had to learn how to finish it. Thankfully they had the patience of a saint and I learned how to do the zigzag stitch and finished my sewing. I stamped up Rosabelle and matched up my colours to the Graphic 45 paper I was using. I have to admit it felt great to be good at colouring after the sewing incident hee hee.

Carole...I forgive you.

Now to see MUCH BETTER hand stitched samples hop on over to the KKS challenge blog and to also read the full 'play to win' deets.

Yours in stitches..Andi

Kraftin' Kimmie stamps is playing with CPS!

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One of my fave challenge blogs Card Positioning Systems is playing along with Kraftin' Kimmie stamps. I have included the sketch below so you can play along too and win some KKS stamps- schweet! I used one of my fave of the new releases- Tori. Seriously how cute is she with that playful puppy! I had some Parisian themed paper and for some reason I just had to put them together. Probably because I watched a documentary recently about how in Paris they take their pooches everywhere, even into restaurants! I coloured her up with my copics to match the paper and the only embellie I really added was the bow. I figured the paper was so pretty and of course Tori was stealing the show so there was no need for more bling hee hee!

So grab your inks and papers and come play along with us!

Cheers, Andi

Blog Candy Alert!!!!

Blog candy time!!!

I haven't given any away in ages and I meant to do it for my 40th birthday celebration but I totally forgot...must be old age ;). So instead this is just to say thank you to all of you who come and visit me at my little corner in cyberspace. I always read and appreciate each and every comment as well :). 

This candy will be open until Sunday May 29th and the winner will be shared the next day. 

Here are some goodies that I would love to share with you!

* 4 Buttons Provided by Tessa Ann Designs- my FAVE button shop some of her custom made polymer buttons. I adore her creations! Thanks Tessa

* 3 Free uber cute High Hopes Stamps provided by Tina and Bethany from HHS. Thanks ladies- I adore HHS stamps and have sooo much fun colouring them.

*1 Magnolia cling mount stamp

* 1 role of this delicious rose blossom ribbon from American Crafts. I bought oodles of them!

*1 cute SU stamp I won at a Breast Cancer fundraiser by my friend Lisa Burns. 

I am cleaning out my craft room and finding lots of unopened items so the pot may grow. I know I need to purge but it is so hard lol!!

How to win:

- leave a comment on this post for one ballot

-become a follower or if you are already a follower leave a second comment ' with the words 'current or new follower'

-if you spread the news via any online source please leave another comment with the link of where you shared it so it can be verified if that is the winning comment chosen. 

This is opened to worldwide! 

Thank you so much for reading my blog and please know I appreciate each and every one of you xo

Cheers, Andi

KKS weekly challenge- be like the cool kids and start 'texting'!

This week's Kraftin' Kimmie stamps challenge is to have text on your card. You can put a sentiment on the front of your card design or use patterned paper with words. Easy peasy! I used some of my fun new MME paper from the Lime Twist collection which has a sweet page with chat balloons. Perfect! I feel like my sweet girl is saying hello to Spring. This cute lil stamp is called Spring Friends and is by the new KKS artist Cheryl Alger. I paper pieced her dress with more of the MME papers then coloured her up to match. I also used some of my precious Tessa Ann Designs buttons......they are soooo drool worthy! Using them just means I have to buy more right lol!

For more texted creations pop on over to the KKS challenge blog to see this week's challenge details to play along with us and see more lovely creations from the fab DT!!

Cheers, Andi

High Hopes Stamps Challenge time- get out your 3D glasses!

Time for another fun High Hopes Stamps challenge and this week it is to make a 3D item! Lots of great items you can make- sour cream containers, altered jars, recipe packets, gift bags or decorate a journal like I did.

I used the Annie Block stamp and coloured her up with my copics. I used Neenah paper but next time I will bring out my X-press It paper because my reds bled very badly and the old white gel pen had to come out to cover some mistakes. And the black 'frame' was to cover more red bleeding hee hee. I am all about soldiering on and covering up as best as you can. I used some MME paper Bloom and Grow and I think it was called from a few years back and the matching tag, flower and trim. I love when it is all matchy match :)

To see more 3D goodness hop on over to the HHS Challenge blog and think up some cool ideas to play along with us. We would love to have you join in!

It's finally time for the May KKS release!

Today Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps is releasing their new MAY stamps!

If you have been playing along with us this week you saw that we have a new line of stamps by Cheryl Alger, some RAWKIN' sporty girls from Annie and more cutie patootie dress up kids from Steven. Additionally, KKS is also introducing a new line of quotes called Scripture Quotes to help fill your collection with all you need to make the perfect cards. 

I played with 'Nurse Nellie' from Steven's line of dress up kids as I have a few nurses in my family. And trust me their medical knowledge is kept up to date not only for their job but also to take care of all their large family as we CONSTANTLY go to them with our questions. In fact my daughters often make me call their Auntie Tara to tell her they are sick and to see what she recommends to make them feel better. It's not enough that it is also what mommy mentioned because that wasn't good enough. But if Auntie Tara says it as well then its the perfect way to handle it hee hee! So Tara and Angie- this card's for you. Thank you to our 2 sister Nurses for all you do to take care of your favourite hypochondriacs xoxo.

So today while you move from blog to blog not only will you enjoy some amazing eye candy with the new images from the Krafty Girls we also have joining us some very special Krafty Guests. Yep, we have tons of samples made to whet your appetite and help enable you to get some of the new images...or all of them...no judging here ladies lol!!!

 To  start from the beginning, just head over to the Kraftin’ Kimmie Challenge Blog! If you have already been beeboppin' around your next stop after me is the uber cool Melanie. 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! 

Cheers, Andi