Poppy Seed Challenge #1

Okay so I have just a few minutes till the deadline for the fabulous challenge  by Lisa Johnson over at Poppy Paperie

It was quite a challenge but I thoroughly enjoyed it! I think the distress ink of the flower could have been darker, you have to be close to the card to get full effect! Hope you can see the polka dots I stamped on the light yellow background too!

Will post the supply details later, Thanks for stopping by HuGs Kim :)

It's Release Day and Monday Mania at Club Anya & Friends...

Good morning, well it's the first of March and that means release day at The Greeting farm with a few other fabulous friends and today over at the Club Anya & Friends Blog our Release Day is being celebrated with a MONDAY MANIA Challenge that you won't want to miss! 

This week our Monday Mania hostess, Trish, came up with a cute "SEEING SPOTS" challenge, a recipe where you must use at least 3 circles on your project. I came up with this fun card, can you see all the spots, dots and circles? It uses the new "Amelia" stamp from the "HAPPY DAY" set, available TODAY at TGF!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket: garden variety; Stamps: TGF: Happy day; Ink: Archival: black; Tim Holtz: Distress Inks; Copic: markers; Dies: Nestabilities: circles; cuttlebug tags; Other: button; natural thread; 3D foam;

Skin: E000,21,13 & RV10
Hair: E50, 53 
Outfit: Y17,35, R37, BG11,13,45
Shadow: B60,
and I use my colourless Blender throughout.

What's more? TWO of these lovely ladies have a PRIZE hidden on their blogs! There's a Camille or Ebony Stamp to GIVE AWAY, and All you gotta do is leave a comment on everyone's blogs and come back TOMORROW to find out who won! You'll have until 10 PM CST TONIGHT to enter! GOOD LUCK and HAPPY STAMPING!

Amy Young

Jessica Diedrich

Kelly Booth

Kim Costello <---you are here!

 Pam Varnell

Lysa Rohrer- Guest Designer

Thank you so much for stopping by I also wanted to share my other news, today is also the launch of my new Etsy shop WOOO HOOO...

I'm so happy to finally open it, I have a link to the right, I'm hoping to build up lots of other items like my drawings and embellishments too :) BiG HuGs Kim :)

Club Anya & Friend's - Ebony preview...

Good Morning....
Well It's time for another fabulous fantastic Club Anya and Friends release preview and we have another stamp that was a digi, the one that you have also been eager to have made into rubber? Yes... It's the fabulous, wonderful Ebony :) Also if you head over to Club Anya and Friends we have a Saturday Sketch to inspire you too...

I think the papers really inspired the direction my card went today, I thought I would try a muted vintage colour palette.
I have coloured Ebony using my copics and cut her out and layered her onto the oval from the die cut frame. I went for an oval as the sketch was so similar to the card I made yesterday I was in danger of recreating it, tee hee!

The little rose embellishment on top of the crochet flower is one I made myself using air dry clay and a push mold! I just love the effect and when it was dry I went over it with a little pearlescent acrylic paint. The sentiment is from Happy day set also released on Monday! You can click on the images for a close inspection LOL!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Basic Grey: wisteria;
Stamps: TGF: Ebony & Happy Day (release on 1st);
Ink: Memento & Archival: black; Copic: markers; Tim Holtz: Distress Inks;
Dies:Sizzix: Ornate Frame; Cuttlebug: oval;
Other: Crochet flower; Air Dry clay; sculpey push molds; pearlescent paint; 3D foam;

I keep forgetting to put the copic colours I used on my images, so hope this helps... For the....
Skin: E000,21,13 & RV10
Hair: 100, W-3, W-1
Band & Shoes: E04
Outfit: E50, Y28, B91,93,95,97
and I use my colourless Blender all over the place, tee hee.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you check out Club Anya & Friends blog to see the rest of the Design teams fantastic samples! BiG HuGs Kim :)

Happy Day March Preview - Club Anya & Friends,

Good Morning, it's time for another fabulous fantastic Club Anya and Friends release preview, I'm so happy to have these little cuties...they were sold in small quantities by TGF a few weeks ago, but Monday 1st March sees the official release of 'Oliver and Amelia' at The Greeting Farm with wonderful sentiments too!

I thought I would include a few challenges with my card today!!! I have followed Mercy's marvelous Tuesday sketch and I've used Oliver from the set so I could enter the Quixotic Challenge #15 - One for the Boys...

Went for my copics for this one, tee hee and used these fantastic papers for the colour inspiration. Oliver is so super cute and love his cuddly Dino's. 'Smiley' is one of the sentiments you will find in the set. I have put a button in place of the bow in the sketch. You can click on the pictures for a close look!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket: joy ride;

Stamps: TGF: Happy Day (release on 1st);

Ink: Memento & Archival: black; Copic: markers; Tim Holtz: Distress Inks;

Dies: Nestabilities: circles;

Other: button; natural string; 3D foam;

Thanks for stopping by and hope you check out the rest of the Design teams fantastic samples! I will be back tomorrow with another... and Club Anya & Friends Sketch Saturday too, BiG HuGs Kim :)

Club Anya and Friends - March Preview...

Good Morning....

Woo Hoo Well It's time for the awesome March previews and today includes wild card Wednesday Challenge of 'embossing' brought to you by Club Anya and Friends. We have a preview of another stamp that was a digi, the one that you have been eager to have made into rubber? Yes, Hooray it's Camille :)

I was totally inspired by the picture of Bella in my side bar.... Now it's really a very experimental card and I think it's way too dark but I HAD to try, tee hee... I stamped Camille in archival as it's waterproof and went in with my water brush using black distress inks and went to work colouring her in. When I finished the main image I created a soft background with lighter distress inks and inked the edges with my blending tool. The flourish I have stamped directly over, using a mask over Camille and heat embossed till set.

There is quite a bit of embossing on my card, the flourish, the sentiment and some dry embossing with the frame around the main image and the flourish at the top. I have inked the edges of the card to bring out the detail.

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket: garden variety; Stamps: TGF: WS Camille (release on 1st); Talk Loud; Tim Holtz: Fab Flourish; Ink: Archival: black; Tim Holtz: Distress Inks; Dies: Nestabilities: label 1; MS: border punch; Other: Cuttlebug: embossing folders; embossing powder: clear; 3D foam;

Thanks for stopping by and hope you check out the teams fantastic preview samples! BiG HuGs Kim :)

Club Anya & Friends - Saturday Sketch

Hello again Friends!

It's time for another awesome Sketch Challenge brought to you by Club Anya and Friends and this week's sketch is drawn by the talented Pam...

Two posts in one day can't be bad hey? This is my first time inking up the fabulous rockstar Anya... I KNOW!!!! how fantastic is she. I went all out and gave her some super funky blue hair and embellished all over with sparkly spica glitter (you could probably see it better clicking on the thumbnail). I also used combined it with WCW challenge of paper piecing. So I only got to use my copics on her skin and hair.

And with a little artistic license and my layers went a little squiffy compared to the sketch. Finished off with large bling so they looked like big bright lights tee hee!!!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: WRMK: write out; Stamps: TGF: Rockstar Anya; Talk Loud;

Ink: Memento & Archival: black; Tim Holtz: Distress Inks; Copic: markers; spica glitter;

Dies: Nestabilities: label 1; Sizzix: tag; Other: Stones: Paperchase; grosgrain ribbon; 3D foam;

Have a WONDERFUL weekend everyone and be sure to pop over to the Club Anya and Friends blog on Monday for Monday Mania! Thanks for stopping by and your wonderful comments you sure know how to make a girl feel loved, although I am monitoring them as I've been getting quite a bit of spam... HuGs Kim :)

BasicGrey Challenges - Colour combo 4

So you've probably notice a slight change on the blog look? what do you think I've been needing a bit of a facelift for some time... I've updated a few bits and bobs but still working on a few changes as I go...

On to the important part of my post... It's time for a fun Basic Grey challenge....

and Martine has inspired us with a fabulous colour combo for Basic Grey challenges and I decided to go for a spring easter card using one of Amy's adorable baby bunny's... SOOooo CUTE!!!

I have coloured with my copics and used my blender to really wash the shadow around the bunny! With nib to nib technique (if that makes sense). The tail I have finished with a little fun flock, well..... it just HAD to be done tee hee.

So, instead of grass I went for a little flower garden with some fluttering butterflies!

Supplies: Patterned Paper: BG: urban prairie; textured cardstock;

Stamps: Sweet November: Babybunnychick; sentiment;

Ink: Printer; black; Copic: markers;

Die's: Sizzix: branch & Flower's; Nestabilities: Label;

MS: border & butterfly punches;

Other: adhesive stones; fun flock; John Lewis: ribbon; 3D foam;

Thanks for stopping by and I will be back later with a card I've created for the fabulous sketch over at Club Anya and Friends blog...

BiG HuGs have a wonderful fun weekend!!! Kim :)