Girl Elf from KLM Designs

Hi Everyone

As you may have gathered by now I adore the digi stamps from KLM Designs so I thought I would show you another card made using one of the new releases for November

This time I decided to use the girl version of the Elf from last week and below is the card I came up with – although I adore the image I’m not completely happy with the card but I think this cold isn’t helping.

For this card I decided to use my prismacolor pencils and blended them with a Lyra Rembrandt Slender Blender pencil (but the Prismacolor PC 1077 Colorless Blender would work too) . The papers are from an old paper pack by Papermania and I finished the card with some snowflakes cut with an X-cut punch with a rhinestone in the centre and some grosgrain ribbon.

Here is a closer look at the Girl Elf

If you would like more ideas with the new releases from KLM then why not visit the blogs of my fellow Design Team members – you can find them in my side bar.

You can also buy these digi stamps from the KLM Designs store HERE

Speak to you again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Robyn’s Fetish November New Release Blog Hop

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So it’s finally here!! Today we launch our new digi stamps into the range at Robyn's Fetish.

To celebrate we are having a blog hop, each member of the design team has a different new release image to reveal to you. If you are currently hopping along then you should have arrived here from Deanne's blog, if not then please begin the hop at the Robyn's Fetish Challenge Blog

As a part of the blog hop we are also launching a challenge for you to take part in and one lucky person will win the new releases!!!

The challenge is: Colour Challenge!!!

We would like for you to make a card/paper crafts project that uses a Robyn’s Fetish image and only the following colours only for your image, papers, card stock and embellishments – the colours are: Red, White and Blue (you can also use black!)

This challenge will remain open until 11.30pm EST Sunday 15th November, to enter you can either leave a link to your creation in the comments section of the blog hop post on the Challenge blog or email your entry to me (Donna) at theartofpapercrafts@hotmail.co.uk

So for the hop here is my new release image:

My new image is Denise!!! For this card I coloured her with my Prismacolor pencils and blended them with sansodor (UK gamsol). The patterned papers are from K & Company and to finish the card I used a border punch, butterfly charm, grosgrain ribbon and a metal ribbon charm from Making Memories .

Here is a closer look at Denise – isn’t she cute!!

So now back to the hop – the sequence for the hop is:

1. Challenge Blog - challenge
2. Sara – Puppy Pilgrim
3. Meredith – Patty Pilgrim
4. Jeri – Patrick Pilgrim
5. Amanda – Kitty Pilgrim
6. Robyn – Flowerpot
7. Lisa – Sally Da Sheep
8. Deanne – Fireplace 1
9. Donna – Denise

So now you have reached the final stop on the hop, thank you so much for taking part and please enter the challenge!!

If you would like any of the new releases you can find them in the store now, to get to the store click HERE

Speak to you again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Robyn’s Fetish New Release – Sneak Peeks

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On Friday 13th November Robyn's Fetish will be launching their new digi stamp designs.

To celebrate these new releases they will be having a blog hop and a challenge for you where you could win some of the new releases.

The blog hop will begin at 12.01am EST Friday 13th November.

To wet your appetite for this forthcoming event my fellow Design Team members are each posting a sneak peek of the new release digi stamps, so please pay each of their blogs a visit (you can find their blogs in my side bar).

Here is the sneak peek for the my blog

We look forward to you joining us on the 13th and the blog hop will begin on the Robyn’s Fetish Challenge Blog

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sew Many Cards Sneak Peek Revealed

Hi Everyone

So finally I can reveal to you the image that I gave you a sneak peek of last Thursday.

If you want to know more about things that are happening with Sew Many Cards then you can visit the blog HERE or the new network site HERE

Back to my speak peek – the image I used was Halen with Dragonfly and the sneak peek came from this card

For this card I coloured Halen with my Prismacolor pencils and blended them with Sansodor (UK Gamsol). The papers are from a Diecuts with a View kit that I purchased from QVCUK and to finish the card I added stitching with a Sakura glitter gelpen, grosgrain ribbon, a dragonfly button and some flower eyelets.

Here is a closer look at Halen – Isn’t she adorable!!!

We really hope you enjoyed the sneak peaks from the Design Team over the last few days and thanks for joining us.

Crafty hugs Donna xx

Sew Many Cards Release Party Countdown!!!

Welcome to the Sew Many Cards Release Party Countdown Stop #6.

Every day for the next 6 days the Sew Many Cards Design Team will be showing you Sneak Peeks of the new releases for 11/03/09.

Here is the sneak peek for today:

To be a part of the Sew Many Cards Party Release Hop:

-create a post with a link to the hop showing us your Sew Many Cards Creation. (You can get your freebies HERE )

-incluse your guess on what you think the image(s) is/are. Remember that everyday another image or two will have a sneak peek posted.

You have until 11/02/09, midnight, CST to submit your creations.

Earn entries:

-by guessing what the image is (there are 9 in total)- earn up to 9 entries

-for every creation you make using a Sew Many Cards image

-for leaving a comment on the Design Teams personal blogs (you can find the Design Team line up at the Sew Many Cards Ning Community)

There will also be a Scavenger Hunt! Start your hunt HERE. FInd out the name of the stamp used in the creations, leave a comment with your answers. Stop by the Sew Many Cards Shop HERE for help! Everyone who submits the correct answers will be entered into a random drawing to win free digi’s from Sew Many Cards!!!

The hop will start on 10/28 at Angela’s Blog HERE and the Sew Many Cards Ning Group HERE and go through 11/02 with the sneak peeks. The final reveals, winners and new challenge will be posted on 11/03/09 so stay tuned!!!

The scheduled Countdown stops for this event are:

#7 – 10/28 Sarabeth

#6 – 10/29 Donna and Cheri

#5 – 10/30 Jeri

#4 – 10/31 Deanette and Sheila

#3 – 11/01 Kim

#2 – 11/02 Angela

#1 – 11/03 PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!!!

We really look forward to you joining us all for this event.

Crafty hugs Donna xx

KLM Designs November Releases Sneak Peek

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Well can you believe that October is nearly over!!! I can’t! There is always a good side to the end of the month because it means that we are very near to the new releases from KLM Designs being available!!! I have to say that I thought Octobers one’s were amazing BUT the ones for November are brilliant – I can honestly say you are going to love them!!!

As we are near to the launch of these fab digi stamps the Design Team are now allowed to show you a sneak peek of some of what is coming on November.

So would you like to see what KLM Designs have come up with???? Okay I’ll show you – but only one, for now!!!

For my Sneak Peek I decided to use the ever so cute Snowman with Quilt. I just adore snowmen and this one has to be one of the cutest I’ve seen in a long time – the only thing is I’m a bit worried that he might get a bit too warm with that quilt!!!

I chose to colour him with my copic ciao markers and chose my colours to co-ordinate with my patterned papers. The papers are from a Diecuts with a View stack and I cut one of the words from a sheet to use as text on the card. To finish my card I added some organza and satin ribbon and attached a snowman charm with some jump rings.

Here is a closer look at him – so do you agree?? he is cute isn’t he!!!

So now you have seen my sneak peek why not pay a visit to my talented Design Team mates and see what they have to show you, you can find a link to their blogs in my side bar.

Also remember to visit the KLM Designs store in November to be able to get our cute new releases to come to your house so that you too can have fun playing with them.

‘Speak’ to you all again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

A Partridge in a pear tree

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So today I thought I would show you a card I made using one of the new Christmas Sets from Prickley Pear. They are lovely images and the quality of the stamps is brilliant.

I wanted to have a ‘play’ whilst I was working and I didn’t really have any idea in my head of what I was trying to achieve. I just knew that I wanted to use these particular stamps and my Tim Holtz Distress inks.

I started with a piece of white gloss cardstock and added some Fired Brick and Peeled Paint distress ink all over with my blending tool. I also added a tiny amount of Pine Needle to the corners. I then used the Aged Mahogany inkpad to stamp the Partridge in the tree over the top. Once that had dried I inked the outline stamp of the partridge with Shabby Shutters and stamped off the edge of the gloss card, to stop it smudging I dried the images with my heatgun which made the images look like that had been done with a resist technique instead. I also used the text stamp from the set on the gloss card, inked with Fired brick but before I stamped it on there I stamped on scrap paper so that I had a lighter impression.

For the card base I started with plain white cardstock and coloured it with Fried brick and my blending tool. After it was dry I stamped to silhouette partridge with Pine Needle ink and the text with Fired brick, making sure to stamp off the edges too. To tie everything together I also used the Peeled Paint ink and blending tool around the edge of my patterned paper. Finally I added some organza ribbon and a faux metal tag to complete the card.

I’m really pleased with how it turned out and have to say I had a blast just playing!!!! I think I might just have to have another go!!

If you would like any stamps from the Prickley Pear range you can find their online store HERE

‘Speak’ to you all again soon

Crafty hugs Donna xx

New Release Images from Robyn’s Fetish

Hi Everyone

Today Robyn's Fetish are launching nine new digi stamps into the range. To celebrate we have a sketch challenge going on over on the Challenge blog where you could win the newly released images!!! The challenge will end at 11.59pm EST Sunday 25th October – so why not head on over and give it a go!!

The new releases are also reduced by 15% for this weekend only to celebrate their launch, so now is the best time to go to the store and grab yours before the go back to their original price on Monday.

We have also asked some of our Design Team if they would like to play with the new releases so why not take a visit to their blogs and see what they have done with them – each DT member has a different image.

So I thought I would also show you a card made with one of the new stamps.

For my card I used the ever so cute Penny. Once again I coloured her with my copic markers to match with my papers from K & Company. To finish off my card I added some paper flowers with rhinestones in the centre.

Here is a closer look at Penny – isn’t she just lovely!!!

Well that’s it for this post, don’t forget the the new weekly challenge launches on Saturday. Also why not join us on our new forum HERE – we would love to have you.

Crafty hugs Donna xx