Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Friends and Followers!

Allow me to share one big reason I've been missing.... our new puppy! This little sweetie pup is a Christmas present for my daughter. She is a long hair chihuahua. Just a day and a half after we picked her up she became very sick and it was several days and long nights of nuring her back to health. I am happy to report that Rosalee is healthy and playful again!

I have a couple projects I've worked over the past few weeks. Below is an art piece that began as a stretched canvas. I created this for a santa gift exchange at my LSS. I used Primary Elements with solution #2 for all the painted parts- canvas, tissue, grungeboard and silk flowers.

Tilted view... there is a double layer of ribbon covering the sides.

This card is for my hubby... we celebrated our 10th anniversary right before Christmas as well. The puppy was very sick during our special weekend so we stayed home to care for her but friends invited our human daughters for sleep overs so at least we had some snuggle time;)

(stamp credit- Rubbernecker)

I will be working on a bunch of projects this next week... some I can share and others you'll have to wait to see. But in the meantime enjoy your families and stay toasty warm!

Kimm

Warm Midnight Wishes

Warm and cozy greetings to all my friends and followers. It is a little chilly around most of the USA the past few days, Memphis included. Oh, how I hope that might bring us some Christmas snow!

This Christmas card is my personal favorite of all those I've made this season! It is for my mom but I hope you will enjoy the view:) The stamp is by Stampin' UP and colored with Copic markers with touches of a Spica glitter pen here and there. The background is a technique called Antiqued Glimmers (from the current issue of Technique Junkies) that I embellished with some embossing.
Enjoy your weekend and stay toasty warm!
Kimm

99 Cent Mitten Card

"This cute little winter card was made with a 99 cent stamp!", she says softly to her husband who looks in amazment upon his wife's talent and exceptional use of 99 cents.

And some things stay between friends, right girls?

Kimm
Background techniques used: Cling and Scrunch (Technique Junkies issue June/July 07) and Opalite Smoosh TJ issue Feb/March 05)
Stamp credits: Imaginesce, Stampin' UP

Christmas Penguins and Blog Winner

Hello Friends!

Tis the season to be busy!! Parties and Parades... shopping and snowflakes... cards and crafts to be made! I have a trio of three cards to share today all featuring this super cute stamp of penguins. The last one I actually colored first... then the next two I figured out to color over the black in the penguins with Copic neutral gray 7... boy do those cute little guys pop out with that touch of extra gray!

Also, I want to congratulate our Black Friday blog winner.... Vickie K.... hope you enjoy your goodies!!

Kimm BT

Technique Junkies November Treasure Hunt

Welcome to the next step along the TJ Treasure Hunt! Friends and blog readers may be exhausted from all the Black Friday treasure hunts this past weekend but I hope you have found this treasure hunt to be fun and relaxing! If you just arrived here you will want to begin at the Technique Junkies Blog so that you can collect all the clues! At the end of the treasure hunt your CLUES will spell a word... leave Pat Huntoon a comment with the correct word for a chance to win a fabulous prize!

First up, I'd like to share this fairy card featuring 'Color Outside the Lines' technique from the Dec. 09 issue of Technique Junkies Newsletter. I'm finding this technique to be especially helpful when I have large detailed images and I do not want to color the whole thing but want to work with a portion of the image or when I have a smaller image that I want to appear larger yet still highlight the beauty of the image itself.

Next I'd like to share this winter scene by Stampin' UP using the same Color Outside the Lines technique. With this scene I stamped the image with Rich Cocoa by Memento (rather than the usual black) and used frosty blue tones (BG000 and BG01 copic markers) for coloring. A tiny touch of yellow in the church window becomes very inviting in this chilly winter scene.

Your treasue hunt clue is the letter N.

This technique is great to use with a variety of coloring mediums... give it a try!!

The next stop is at  Lisa Somerville's website! Good Luck everyone!

Kimm