Happy 1st Birthday Kraftin' Kimmie!

Kraftin' Kimmie & Me

George with his morning coffee, the Christmas Cards that I am making & the Exclusive Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp that we got in our Kraftin' Kimmie Goodie Bags.

Melanie & Me

Myself & Andrea

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY KRAFTIN' KIMMIE!!!

As most of you know, I attended the First Annual Kraftin' Kimmie Day in London, Ontario on Saturday, September 25, 2010 with my Best Buds, Shanna & Brandi.

We had a FABULOUS weekend! Words cannot describe how much fun we had and I can't wait until our next scrapbooking day, weekend or trip together.

My Ms. September Card was a take off from my Ms. December Card. It was the perfect design for the Kraftin' Kimmie Card Challenge. If you wanted to participate in the challenge at the crop, you had to make a card using a Kraftin' Kimmie Stamp and the colour purple.

I used Core'dinations Cardstock, Daisy D's Gypsy Harvest Patterned Papers, a brown safety pin from my stash and some green heart beads also from my stash. I also used Stampin' Up 1/8" Early Espresso Tafetta Ribbon and CTMH extra small white brad inked with copic markers.

I used the Billionaire & Storybook Cricut Cartridges to spell out "Ms. September", Stampin' Up's Spiral Border Punch and EK Success' Scalloped Border Punch.

For the front of the card I used Kraftin' Kimmie's Annette stamp and CTMH's Month by Month stamp set. If you look closely on the calendar on the front of the card, I stamped "kk day" on the 25th to represent Kraftin' Kimmie Day. I used the "birthday" & "pumpkin" words from CTMH's Seasonal Thoughts stamp set. I only inked the "k" in the word pumpkin and "day" on the word birthday. For the inside, I used Kraftin' Kimmie's sentiment stamp that comes with the Betty Stamp.

Copic Markers used: Skin - R000 & R0000; Eyes - E0000 & YG95; Nylons - V01 & V000; Dress - V15, V06 & RV99 and Hair - E77, E74 & E79.

I was thrilled to meet Kraftin' Kimmie for the first time face to face. She is a fabulous woman and not only is she very creative, but she has a good business sense and I can see her doing amazing things in this industry.

We participated in two make 'n' takes with Melanie and two make 'n' takes with Andrea who are both on Kraftin' Kimmie's Design Team. They are both fun, amazing women who just genuinely love what they do in this crazy crafty world of ours.

I was really hoping to meet Melanie on this trip because her copic colouring just blows my mind away. So to do two make 'n' takes with her, get a photo taken with her and to get her autograph on one of the make 'n' takes just made my day that much better.

Before I left on my trip, Trevor told me that he wanted a souvenier Kraftin' Kimmie t-shirt if they had them. When Kimmie found out that I was buying extra t-shirts for my family, she asked if I would send her a photo of us in them. Well, I mailed her a CD last Friday with all the photos that we took that day & this family photo.

She was surprised to find out that my husband would willingly wear her purple t-shirt. I think he looks good in purple.

Congratulations Kim & wishing you many more successful years to follow!

Ms. December Card

The Ms. December Card was another sample card that I made up for the Charity Stamping Party that we had. Our Charity Stamping Party was on the same day as Kraftin' Kimmie's New Release Day. Betty, the stamp that I used on this card, was part of Kraftin' Kimmie's New Release on September 12th.

For the Ms. December Card, I used Cor'dinations Cardstock, Basic Grey's Jovial 6 x 6 paper pack, Stampin' Up 1/8" Olive Tafetta Ribbon, CTMH extra small white brad inked with copic markers and a paper clip from my stash.

I used the Billionaire & Storybook Cricut Cartridges to spell out "Ms. December", Stampin' Up's Spiral Border Punch and EK Success' Scalloped Border Punch.

For the front of the card I used Kraftin' Kimmie's Betty stamp and CTMH's Month by Month stamp set. For the inside, I used Sugarloaf's Whisper lip stamp, Stampendous' Merry Kissmas stamp and a sentiment stamp from Stampin' Up's Cold & Cuddly stamp set.

The Copic Markers I used are: Hair - E18, E39, E19 & E15; Skin - E00 & E000; Eyes: YG95, YG97 & E40; Lips & Red Clothing - R27 & E07; Green Clothing - YG95; Stockings - E40.

As always the card looks better in person. The colours are much richer than what they look like in these pictures.

Naughty Nite with Stephanie

On, Saturday, August 21, 2010, Shanna & I attended our girlfriend's Bachelorette Party. We had a beautiful pasta dinner, shared stories, laughed until our stomach's hurt & wore matching pink & grey Cheetah print pajama bottoms.

The invitations were pink & orange Cheetah print, so when I was picking up a few things at WAL-MART one night and saw these pajama bottoms for $10.....well, I like to make any excuse to wear pajamas outside my house.

Shanna (my best-friend), Brandi (my other best-friend & cousin) and I went in on the Bachelorette gift. Brandi was out of town camping. So she missed out on putting the gift together & the party itself, but she was in on the idea.

We decided to make a pail filled with "naughty" items for the bride & groom to be. Chris is the groom to be, hence the title on the pail: "Naughty Nite with Chris". Well, he was the groom to be when we made the pail, but the wedding was Oct. 2nd, so now he is the husband.

The items inside were "tasteful" and with a purple theme because the bride's favourite colour is purple, but that is all the details that I will go into because my daughter reads my blog.

I used a white paint can from my store; which I can't honestly remember if it was from Creative Imaginations, EK Success or Provo Craft. The Cheetah print paper is from Creative Imaginations Chic Bebe Girl line & the cardstock is from Bazzill & my scrap bin.

The letters and shapes were cut out from my Cricut Machine and the mini brads for the dots above the "i" are from CTMH. The pom pom ribbon is from Bazzill.

For more information about how the card was made, please visit Shanna's blog. I made the pail & she made the card. We make a great team!

Just a Reminder

This is a card that I made for my friend, Ellena.

She doesn't have breast cancer, but she does have a form of Lymphoma Cancer & she has always been a big supporter of Breast Cancer since she knows & has known people close to her with Breast Cancer.

To me, the pink ribbon represents more than Breast Cancer. It represents unity among women, it represents strength, courage, endurance & love. Ellena has all of that and more. So, I figured it was okay to send her a card of support with a pink ribbon on it.

I wrote in a personal note to her on the inside of the card. Nothing too deep because I can't get what's in my head out onto paper very well, but a note just reminding her that I am always here for her.

The stamp set is from My Favourite Things. The fabric is from Fabricland, the ribbon & paper is from my stash.

Copic Markers Used: RV00, RV02, RV04, T0 & T2

Bingo Christmas Card

I made this Bingo Christmas Card just for the fun of it. Well, not completely. We made up Bingo Cards for our Charity Stamping Party with Stampin' Up's New "Bingo Card" Stamp that is in their Mini Catalogue right now. I wanted to show that this stamp could also be used to make a card because most people find the size of it intimidating for a card.

I had a lot of fun making this card. The hard part was picking the numbers to go on the card. I am very anal....I know most of you will find that to be very shocking of me, but I am. So, I couldn't just put random numbers on, no, that would be too easy. Every number on this card has some sort of meaning to me. I just can't help who I am sometimes.

I used Bazzill Brown & Kraft Cardstock and Patterned Paper from Basic Grey's Jovial 6 x 6 paper pack. The buttons are from CTMH, the poinsetta flower & leaves are from Bazzill & so is the red embroidery floss and the brown brad is from American Crafts.

I used Stampin' Chocolate Chip, Real Red & Old Olive Ink. I used CTMH Say It in Style, Card Chatter - Christmas & Small Friendship Alphabet stamp sets and EK Success' Whale of a Punch Corner Punch for the die-cuts on the inside of the card.

3rd Annual Charity Pajama Stamping Party

DAT'S 3rd Annual Charity Pajama Stamping Party was a HUGE SUCCESS!

A BIG THANK YOU goes out to all of you who came out and participated in the event & to those of you who couldn't make, but still placed an order.

With your support we raised $910.00 for the Northern Cancer Fund - Chemotherapy in Honour of Ellena Esteves.

With all the orders placed with Close to My Heart & Stampin' Up, we had $770.00 in Hostess Rewards to purchase items for next year's Yard Sale with a Twist.

It was a great day filled with many laughs, lots of inspiration & packed full of fun.

We had 41 items to sell off at the Yard Sale with a Twist and that raised $880.00. Then Ellena sold off her extra card kits from that day & that brought in another $30.00 for a grand total of $910.00.

Not only did we raise money for a very good cause & in honour of a very amazing, strong & talented woman. We played BINGO on the stamped out BINGO cards that Shanna, Amy & I made. We made a Christmas card with Shanna from Close to My Heart and a Christmas card with Ellena from Stampin' Up. We raffled off some prizes. We brought lots of samples for everyone to see and we even had some punch & sweets to treat our taste buds.

It was an absolutely great Sunday afternoon!

I would like to thank Tracy Warwick for lending us a hand with cleaning up after the activities of the day. Your assistance was greatly appreciated.

I would also like to thank my husband, Trevor; my cousin, Brandi & my friend, Kelly for all their assistance with keeping things running smoothly throughout the afternoon. Without your assistance, it would have been a very crazy day for Shanna, Ellena & I. So, thank you.

A special thank you also goes out to my daughter, Amy. She helped us with a lot of the prep work when Ellena wasn't able to because she was in the hospital. Amy also did a lot of the set up & take down on the day of the event & did a fabulous job running her Copic Air Brushing Demonstration Table. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

December Calendar Page

Friday, November 19, 2010 - FULL
Time: 7:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Cost: $20.00

YEAH! I am so excited! This is a first for me. All of my workshops for the rest of this year are designed, packaged & ready to be taught. I have never been this ahead of the game before and it feels incredible. I just had to share that with all of you.

For this calendar page we are using SEI's two-sided patterned papers from their Christmas Mint line Peppermint Bark & Ribbon Candy.

The satin ribbon & embroidery floss is from WAL-MART and we are also using Stamping Bella Ruby Red 7mm & 5mm Bonbons.

The button die-cuts in the top right corner were made with the Marvy Button Clever Lever Silhouette & Embossing Craft Punch.

Photo Sizes for this layout are: one vertical 4 x 6 photo, two horizontal 2.75 x 3.75 photos and three horizontal 2 x 3 photos.