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

Happy Thanksgiving and a Black Friday giveaway!

Happy Thankgiving to all my faithful readers!

I have a few Thanksgiving cards to share with you and a black friday giveaway!

This one here is my favorite. I saved this ribbon for a long time for just the right card... and this one was it!

Thanksgiving pumpkins... the bottom layer I sponged distress (applied in smooth circular motions).

This harvest wreath card has alot of coloring detail... but it was very relaxing to make!

Now onto the giveaway!!

In honor of Thankgiving, I have an unmounted Thanksgiving stamp by Hearts In Touch, a Nutmeg Mini Deck by Cosmo Cricket and a pack of precut Neenah cardstock for all your copic coloring!

Write in the comments if you are a Black Friday shopper...

or maybe you prefer your black friday shopping online?

You have until Sunday, Nov. 29th  at midnight to enter (US addresses only please).

Kimm