Old-Fashioned Lady Skating Lantern

Welcome to my very first posting for Squigglefly Challenge #81 – SFC81 - “Green, Silver and Flower”.  The challenge runs from January 17th thru January 23rd.  Please use a Squigglefly image only to enter into the challenge.  If you do not have one, there are several FREEBIES available so you will be able to play along to possibly win an image of your choice.  Remember to please use SFC81 for your keywords when up-loading your creation to any on-line photo galleries.  Hope you’ll be able to join us.  Would love to see what you may create.  Check back every Monday to find out the winner and brand new challenge.  

Supplies Used:

Digital Image:  Old-Fashioned Lady Skating by Inger Harding from Squigglefly (Colored image with Prisma color pencils and OMS).

Sentiment:  Walking in a Winter Wonderland from Sentiments 4 You.

Card Stocks:  Ivy (TAC), Silver (Colorbok – Pearlescent) and prints (My Mind’s Eye – Sweet Dreams Holiday Avenue).

Template:  Lantern Gift Box by From My Craft Room.

Die-Cuts:  Nestabilities Circles/Scallop Circles and Ovals/Scallop Ovals.

Punches:  MS Snowflake punch, MS Iron Gate Border punch and EK Success Small Daisy punch.

Inks:  Sakura Stardust (Snowflake in center of sentiment, ice skates blades and purse).

Embellishments:  Silver Pearls, Black Fun Flock (fur around coat), Crystal Snow Ultra Fine Glitter (snow), Acetate and 1/8” Silver ribbon.

Challenges Entered:

Sentimental Sundays Challenge – Challenge #38 – Winter plus a sentiment (January 22nd)

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you’ll be able to join in for this challenge at Squigglefly.  Have a fabulous week!

Hugs, Kym

Are You Ready For Some Football?

The question this week is, “Are You Ready For Some Football?”  After an exciting weekend of watching some awesome football playoffs, the Green Bay Packers will be playing the Chicago Bears next weekend.  From the choice of colors I did on the football bear I am obviously a Green Bay Packer fan at heart.  GO PACKERS ALL THE WAY!!!! 

I chose this fun template called Football Shaped Card from The Cutting Cafe.  This set also includes the sentiment Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?  I designed this card to be a football easel card.

Welcome to another challenge at Cards for Men with a fabulous sponsor, Meljen’s Designs.  They will be sponsoring Challenge #2 – “Let’s Party”.  The challenge runs from January 17th thru January 30th. I hope you will be able to join us for this challenge.

Sponsor Blurb:  Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family.  Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at the WHIMSY STAMPS STORE to browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images!

Prize:  4 Digital Images

Supplies Used:

Digital Images:  Fall Ball Teddy Bear and Party Chips and Nuts from Meljen’s Designs (Colored images with Prisma color pencils and OMS).

Sentiment:  Are you ready from some FOOTBALL? sentiment is from the Football Shaped Card template from The Cutting Cafe.

Template:  Football Shaped Card from The Cutting Cafe.

Card Stocks:  Brown and Yellow (TAC) and White (Georgia Pacific).

Die-Cuts:  Nestabilities Ovals/Scallop Ovals and Double Ended Tags.

Embossing Folders:  Cuttlebug Tiny Bubbles Embossing Folder.

Embellishments:  Inkssentials Glossy Accents (Bear’s eyes, nose, cheeks, paw and helmet), White Eyelets, Green Brads, 1/8” White Satin ribbon and Foam Squares.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you’ll visit The Cutting Cafe to see Regina’s wonderful templates and Cards For Men to join in this week’s challenge for a possibility to win some images from Meljen’s Designs.

Hugs, Kym

Winter Girl Easel Drawer Card

This week I used 2 templates from The Cutting Cafe to create my Easel Drawer Card.  The first template I used is the Frame Shaped Card that I created into an easel card.  I then used the month January from the 2011 Calendar Set to show the birth date that this card is intended for.  What a fun way to personalize that special someone’s birthday by printing out the month and highlighting the date. 

This week at For Fun Challenges there is a color challenge - “Black, Olive and Purple”.  What a fun challenge using these fabulous colors together.  The challenge runs from Wednesday, January 12th thru Tuesday, January 18th.  Hope you’ll be able to join us this week.

Supplies Used:

Digital Image:  Winter Girl from Inger Harding (Colored image with Prisma color pencils and OMS).

Sentiment:  Make a Wish – May all your wishes come true from Crafty Sentiments (Birthday Circles).

Templates:  Frame Shaped Card and 2011 Calendar Set from The Cutting Cafe and Drawer template From My Craft Room.

Card Stocks:  Black, Ivy and Violet (TAC), Black Glitter (Basic Occasions) and prints (My Mind’s Eye – Deena’s Penny Lane).

Die-Cuts:  Nestabilities Circles/Scallop Circles.

Punches:  MS Snowflake punch, EK Success Small Daisy punch and Marvy Rounded Corner punch.

Inks:  Sakura Stardust Gelly Pen (girl’s lips, bows in hair, hearts on mittens, pom poms and snowflakes).

Embellishments:  Silver Jump Rings, Silver Snowflake Charm, Black Rhinestones, Crystal Snow Ultra Fine Glitter (snow), Inkssentials Glossy Accents (eyes and lips), 3/8” Lavender Multi Gingham ribbon and 5/8” Purple Glitz ribbon.

Happy Birthday 4-Drawer Card Box

Last month I won Top 3 and Guest Designer Spot at Gingerloft Challenge.  I was able to pick out an image to play with for their upcoming challenge.  The theme is “New Year, Birthday, etc.”  So, I chose this darling image Playground2 and created a 4-Drawer Birthday card box.  This one was really challenging for me.  I ended up re-doing the flowers placement 3 times.  I’m still not sure if this is what I exactly had in my mind to create.

Supplies used: 

Digital Image:  Playground2 from Gingerloft (Colored image with Prisma color pencils and OMS, cut image out and popped up with 3D foam squares).

Sentiment:  For A Special Friend – Happy Birthday sentiment from Sentiments 4 You.

Template:  Star Shaped Card from The Cutting Cafe.

Tutorial:  Box with 4-Drawers from Kirsten’s Blogg.

Card Stocks:  Ivory, Brown, Ivy and Orange (TAC), Crinkled Brown, Blue, Yellow and Red (Wausau Paper) and Birthday prints (Celebrate).

Die-Cuts:  Nestabilities Scallop Circles and Ovals/Scallop Ovals.

Punches:  MS Branch punch, Marvy Small/Medium Daisy punch, EK Success Small Daisy punch, EK Success Small Retro Flower Power punch and EK Success Rock Fern punch.

Inks:  Tea Dye Distress Ink (sponged around top of box and yellow flowers) and Sakura Stardust Gelly Pen (daisy flowers and ball on image).

Embellishments:  Silver Flower Charm, Silver Jump Rings, Blue, Brown and Red Rhinestones, Black Diamond Stickles (center of daisies on image), 1/2” Wooden Buttons (knobs on drawers), Inkssentials Glossy Accents (dog’s eyes and nose and ball) and 5/8” Leaf Satin ribbon.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Hugs, Kym 

 

Snowflake Easel Candy Box Card

Welcome everyone to my very first post for The Cutting Cafe.  I created this Snowflake Easel Candy Box Card.  I used The Cutting Cafe’s Snowflake Shaped Card template and Candy Box template.  From the Snowflake Shaped Card template I created an easel card and from the Candy Box template I re-sized the box to be 5 1/2” x 5 1/2”.  I wanted to show how The Cutting Cafe files can be changed to whatever size you may need.

 

Supplies Used:

Digital Image:  WINBIRD Scarf from Bugaboo Stamps (Colored image with Prisma color pencils and OMS).

Sentiment:  Wishing you snowflake kisses from The Cutting Cafe (Snowflake Shaped Card).

Templates:  Candy Box and Snowflake Shaped Card from The Cutting Cafe.

Card Stocks:  Blue (Bazzill Basics), White Glitter (Basic Occasions) and Snowflake prints (K&Company-Let It Snow).

Die-Cuts:  Nestabilities Circles/Scallop Circles.

Punches:  MS Snowflake punch and EK Success Small Snowflake punch.

Embellishments:  Blue Rhinestones, Silver Snowflake Charm, Jump Rings, Stardust Stickles (used on branch), Crystal Snow Ultra Fine Glitter (hat and scarf), Inkssentials Glossy Accents (bird’s beak) and 1/2” Blue Snowflakes on Sheer Organza ribbon (Really Reasonable Ribbon).

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Hope you liked the combination of the Snowflake card and Candy Box.  Have a wonderful day!

Hugs, Kym

 

Love Birds Tea Light Candle Box Card

Welcome to another challenge at Cards for Men with a fabulous sponsor, The Stamping Boutique.  They will be sponsoring Challenge #1 – “a sketch by Shirley”.  The challenge runs from January 3rd thru January 16th. I hope you will be able to join us for this fabulous sketch challenge that one of our design team member’s, Shirley created.  Thank you so much, Shirley!  Here’s the sketch:

Blurb:  I'm Tracey Malnofski, the artist and owner of The Stamping Boutique. My team and I are very happy to sponsor 2 Sketches 4 You. My store has been open since September 2009.I am currently a stamp artist for UnityStampCo. and I've worked for InStyleStamps, Squigglefly, and TheDigiShack in the past. I'm a professional artist and an active member of the Artist' Guild in my community. I have quite a busy household with a husband, 3 teenagers, 5 mini-dachshunds and an Appaloosa mare. It's noisy, but I love them all. I'm truly blessed.

"The Stamping Boutique" is dedicated to quality products and original artwork. We not only provide wonderful digital images in our store, but also several lines of red rubber images. Our designers are chosen for their character and personality,as well as, their beautiful designs. We work hard to give you our very best. Thank you so much for having us as your sponsor this week.

Prize: 5 images

 

Welcome to the first 2011 fun week at For Fun Challenges.  This week’s challenge is a to create a “recipe” card/project.  The recipe is as follows:  1 image, 2 buttons or brads and 3 different types of papers.  The challenge runs from January 5th thru January 11th.  Hope you’ll be able to join us.

Supply list: 

Digital Image:  Love Birds from The Stamping Boutique (Colored image with Prisma color pencils and OMS and cut out).

Sentiment:  Lighting Your Way for a Blessed New Year! (Done by me on the computer).

Template/Tutorial:  Treat Box Card from Splitcoast Stampers.

Card Stocks:  Beige and Ivy (TAC), Brown (Bazzill Basics), Brown Polka Dot print (K&Company-Glad Tidings) and Red and Tan prints (K&Company-Let It Snow).

Die-Cuts:  Nestabilities Scallop Ovals and Double Ended Tags.

Punches:  EK Success Small/Medium Retro Flower Power punch and MS Branch punch.

Inks:  Antique Linen Distress Ink (sponged around sentiment).

Embellishments:  Yellow and Red Rhinestones, Silver Flower Charm, Jump Rings, Velcro Dots, Acetate, Yellow Stickles and Brown/Tan Striped Grosgrain ribbon.

Just wanted to add regarding my project that I had made a major boo-boo.  I was so excited to be creating my first Tea Light Candle Box Card that I completely forgot to place my image and papers according to Shirley’s sketch.  It wasn’t until I sent my card to Donna that I noticed the mistake.  I’m so sorry, Shirley!  Your sketch was absolutely wonderful!  I will make this one up to you, Shirley.  Hugs and love ya!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  It truly feels wonderful to be back again!  Have a wonderful day!

Hugs, Kym

  

So Much News To Tell

Happy 2011 New Year to everyone!  You’re probably wondering what has been going on since I haven’t posted for quite sometime.  Christmas is always a busy time for me.  This year I worked on many different projects that consisted of using only card stock for the gifts I gave to my family.  I will be posting these projects within the next week or so for everyone to take a look at.

For the first good news is that I have been chosen for Squigglefly’s Design Team.  My first post will be on January 17th.  I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful design team.

My second good news is that I have been chosen for The Cutting Cafe’s Design Team.  I am really excited since Regina creates many fabulous templates and printable images.  My style of card making has changed some as to where I’ve been challenging myself to create other projects besides a card all the time.

My last good news is that I have been chosen for Craft Us Crazy’s Design Team.  My very good friend, Jeri has decided to start up her very own challenge blog.  When she posted for a Design Team, of course I applied and was so thrilled to be chosen.

I am so very honored and humbled to be on these wonderful Design Teams.  Including Cards for Men and For Fun Challenges.  I cannot wait to start creating my cards/projects for all these spectacular companies.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs, Kym