July Guest Designer for Gossamer Blue

You can see the July Guest Designer posts on the Gossamer Blue Blog(PART 1 & PART2) featuring my layouts and answers to the questions they asked me. You just might find those answers interesting, after rereading them posted on the blog I found it interesting how open i was so head over and read all about it. 

Have a great day! ~MK

Monday: Sneakage

Thought I would share some sneak age of some projects I am working on, with, and few things I will be sharing in the upcoming weeks.  Here we go…

Hip Kit Club May Guest Designer

I have the honor of guest designing for the fabulous Hip Kit Club this month.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the kits Kimberly puts together every month. Not only do I get to create with the awesome kits also am getting to know the amazing design team! Over the next few weeks I'll be posting projects I've created with the kit and add-ons.

May Main kit

Embellishment kit

Color kit

Stamp kit

Here is my first layout & card 

This One Time...Wordless Wednesday was happenin

You can see the full layout and canvas frames tutorial I created on Shimelle's Blog.

This one time... my friend Laina Lamb

I was so excited when my friend Laina Lamb emailed me asking if I'd like to create with her new dies and stamps. Laina is so sweet and is like SUPER DUPER talented!We got to chat a bit a CHA and she just radiates awesomeness and inspires you to create!
I was instantly in love with the dies and stamps that she sent!I'm not a die cutter or a stamping guru you all know that but I can tell you that these dies and stamps had me so excited I went out and bought a new machine because my old one didn't work with these wafer thin dies.  ok enough of my rambling on with the cool stuff!
I received the following goodies to create with 

 Dies

Stamps

 

and here is what I created

This layout about My Girl Mandie uses both dies and stamps sets. I love the look of the stacked frames.

 This fun layout from CHA with Denise & Steph again uses both dies and stamp sets.  

 

and a couple of mini cards using the smile stamp

Have a great weekend!~MK

then there was this one time when a small town girl made her way onto Shimelle's Blog

That is right this small town girl feels like she has hit it big again. I was so happy when I got the email from Shimelle asking me to guest blog for her. We've worked on a couple things together last year and I had so much fun with it that of course I said YES again! This time the only prompt I got was "let your style shine" and according to my other friends I did just that with the 5 Ways of Getting Stitchy on Your Scrapbook Pages. Here is a peek at one of the projects on Shimelle's blog.

Shimelle and I met while we were both on the American Crafts Design Team and I'm so glad our paths crossed then. I was able to meet her in real life for the first time in Chicago last summer at CHA-S and then again a few weeks ago at CHA-W. She is so sweet, talented, and fun! I still pinch myself when I say my friend Shimelle(i know so dorky right?).  I would love to cross that big ol pond and hangout in her neck of the woods for the day, I'm sure we'd have some fun adventures together.

 Shimelle with flat Anna from Cocoa Daisy.Photo was taken at CHA-W 2013

A Big THANK YOU again to Shimelle! Hope you all enjoy and are inspired!~MK

February Guest Designer at Cocoa Daisy

So excited to share with y'all that I'm the guest designer at Cocoa Daisy this month! The kits this month are Awesome! Numbers, Love, more numbers, Kraft...all my favs! I got the following kits & stamps to create with. My projects came together really quick. you can see the main kit By the Numbers & the addons HERE...Here's what I created with the kit & addons. As you can see I'm loving 8.5x11 right now.I have lots leftover so I'll have more to share later this week hopefully some 12x12 layouts too. REMOVED FOR PUBLICATION This last one is based on the February Sketch Challenge you can find the details & see what the other ladies created HERE.
~MK

A Very Special Party Giveaway

There are online classes for everything these days, and my friend Shimelle has been teaching online scrapbooking classes for years - but she's decided it's time to kick it up a bit and go from online class to a four-week online party, and you're invited. Pretty Paper Party is the party to attend if you have a collection of paper stacked up for a rainy day, if you have more scraps of paper than you know what to do with (but you know you don't want to throw them away!) and if you've ever put a piece of paper back in your stash because it was just too special for the photos at hand. Through printable prompts and tutorial videos, Shimelle and dozens of special party guests will share beautiful and innovative techniques you can achieve with the paper you have already collected.

One of those "Special Party Guests" is me! I was so excited when Shimelle asked me to be one of her guests because her classes and challenges are always so much fun!If I was really cool I would totally have a fabulous sneak peek of my project for you but I've been on the go go go since I got off the plane from my scrapbook adventure last weekend so I just have this little teeny tiny looksee since this is all i have snapped so far of my project. leave me a comment telling me what your favorite pattern paper is..I'll pick a winner Friday morning. Also, if you’ve already registered, don’t worry, you can choose to either have your registration fee refunded or receive a free pass to give to a friend or family member. Class started Monday, but as with any good party it’s perfectly fine to arrive fashionably late. The class has no deadlines and everyone receives permanent access to all the class materials, so anyone can RSVP to the party at any time!

Sizzix Fresh Vintage Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 4 of the Fresh Vintage blog hop! I am super excited to be a part of this talented group of designers that will be bringing you inspiration each week . Every Tuesday and Thursday for the next 6 weeks, one of the 12 dies in the Fresh Vintage collection will be featured. 6-10 projects for every die will be posted by 75of the most creative designers in our industry.

To view the hop, you can click on the Fresh Vintage blinkie on the sidebar or right below. This will take you around to all of the designers on the hop.

Sizzix Fresh Vintage[ Hop back ] [ Hop forward ]

I received the Sizzix Bigz Die - Flower Layers #9 to work with. This die is so cool. I love all the layering you can do with it and all that the die will cut chipboard, cardboard(which I used), cardstock, metal, pattern paper(used it), fabric, felt(i used again) and more!
Once I had an idea of what I wanted to create I got out my favorite Epiphany Crafts tools(Round 25 Shape Studio & Round 20 Button Studio) to add my customized embellishment and away i went to create these...

A cute little spider web barrette. Felt, lace, EC Round Shape Studio, and a cheap little spider ring. Layer it all up and adhere it to a little barrette. The girls love these.

A Friendly card.The middle is the EC Round Button 20 Shape Studio. Simple, bright, fun and Quick! Love me a quick card!

Pumpkin barrette. Another little barrette a little different from the one above. This one I looped ribbon around and then layered the Flower layers #9 on top and bottom of the loops. I added the cute pumpkin using the EC Round 25 Shape Studio.

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy the rest of the hop!~MK

FAQ about the Fresh Vintage Blog Hop:

How do I hop around to see ideas using the current featured die?

Every Tuesday and Thursday between September 27-November 3, 2011 there will be a new Sizzix Fresh Vintage die featured on 6-10 of the 75 participating designers' blogs. The navigation buttons for "Hop Back" and "Hop Forward" will allow you to easily hop around and see projects featuring whatever the current die is, since those buttons are programmed to navigate only to the blogs that are participating for that die. On the next Tuesday/Thursday, the buttons will automatically reprogram themselves to navigate to the blogs that are signed up for the next featured die.

What if I start at a designer's blog that isn't one of the 6-10 signed up for that die?

No problem! Simply hit either the "Hop Forward" or "Hop Back" button on the Fresh Vintage navigation widget from any blog's sidebar and you'll automatically advance to one of the participating blogs.
Can I go back and view the ideas for a previously featured die?

Of course! Go to the "Blog Hops" link at the top of the page. It will bring up all of the blog posts where you'll find direct links to each participating blog along with a thumbnail image of the project.
Where can I buy the Sizzix Fresh Vintage dies, by Eileen Hull?

You can visit Sizzix.com to find a local and online retailers for Sizzix products. Also be sure to visit Oh My Crafts, one of this blog hop's sponsors, (between the dates of September 27-November 3, 2011) and enter for a chance to win a Flower Layers #9 die!
The Blog Hop has ended and the navigation widget is no longer in the sidebar. How can I see the ideas?

Go to the "Blog Hops" link at the top of the page. It will bring up blog posts where you'll find direct links to each participating blog along with a thumbnail image of the project

4x6 Photo Love with Shimelle:September 2011 Guest

Excited to be my friend Shimelle's September 4x6 Photo Love Guest over at 2 peas. I had a lot of fun creating both of these layouts.One is 8.5x11 and the other is 12x12 so there is something for everyone. These both came together really quickly and I used 9 4x6 photos which has to be a first for me I can't remember ever using that many 4x6's. This pocket page is a great idea for all those times you take a million photos but just can't scrap them all. I'm thinking this is going to be my go to design for kids birthday's and the holidays so that I can get more photos off the computer and on pages. This page I used Girls Paperie,7 Gypsies, Crate, Amy Tangerine, and Epiphany Crafts round & square Shape Studio tools.

For this 12x12 I used Crate, American Crafts, 7 Gypsies, and October Afternoon.
You can see how Shimelle picked her supplies and created her beautiful layout by watching this months video.
If you'd like to participate in this awesome challenge head over to Shimelle's blog post HERE for more details.
Thanks for stopping by have a great weekend!!~MK