Lost Coast Designs~Don't Lose Your Head ATC

Today I wanted to share my project posted over at Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity! Our Challenge theme this month is Monochrome. In addition, all month long we are celebrating Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween 2015! Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are some of the event sponsors. Everyday during October there will be new inspiration posted from each member of the design team!

This is my post for today, I wanted to cross-post here to celebrate!yay!!

Today is another ATC, "Don't lose your head"!

Love this funky skele guy! He made a wonderful ATC! I heat embossed him in white on black cardstock. These are the stamps I was given to play with:

Happy Skeleton

Flying Skull

Grunge White Swirl and Grunge Black Swirl Background stamps

So don't lose your head but Halloween is right around the corner! Hope to see you play at Lost Coast Designs Portal!

~kim

I am also playing along with the Wicked Wednesday's ATC Challenge:Halloween this week :)

Visible Image Sunday Play~Me Time Tag

Hello!

Happy Sunday!

I wanted to share a colorful tag I made for my weekly project to share with Visible Image.

I used my favorite stamps, colors and textures, hope you like it!

I used Grunge Harlequin, Plasma, the wonderful "MeTime" sentiment stamp and the sparkle burst from the "Sparkle at Christmas" set. The Sparkle set is a true must get and is so versatile beyond the Holiday Season.

I used an assortment of the bright DecoArt acrylics, Distress Ink and Distress Paint on top of lots of texture to build up the base. All of the stamping is heat embossed using Ranger Superfine, Black.

Have a fabulous week and hope you can sneak some me time :)

~kim


All the links to learn all about Visible Ink:

Inspiration from the Design Team on the Visible Image Blog, HERE

Come and JOIN the Facebook Group where you can enter our 'Show & Tell Challenge' for your chance to WIN some awesome Visible Image stamps! 

And don't forget to LIKE the Visible Image FACEBOOK PAGE too!

You can also sign up for the Newsletter HERE

Lost Coast Designs~Daisy Hell Hound! From Regions Beyond...

Today I wanted to share my project posted over at Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity! Our Challenge theme this month is Monochrome. In addition, all month long we are celebrating Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween 2015! Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are some of the event sponsors. Everyday during October there will be new inspiration posted from each member of the design team!

This is my post for today, I wanted to cross-post here to celebrate!yay!!

Today I present Daisy, Hell Hound! She is scary right?

To make Daisy a bit scary I used some Lindy's Stamp Gang EP that changes color when you alter the angle of view :)

I love these stamps, so fun! All stamps were heat embossed and colored with Distress Inks. I am really loving embossing again, it is all about texture! Here are the stamps I was given to play with:

Ironwork Wall

Daisy

Have a fun day!

~kim

STAMPlorations~Project Sneak Peek Day!

Welcome to another wonderful Monday!

I am hoping you have time during your busy day today to hop over to the ARTplorations inspiration blog by STAMPlorations, to see a project I have posted :)

Here is a sneeky peek and you can get there by clicking HERE

Don't forget, there is still loads of time to play along with our Mixed Media Challenge, the theme is always Anything Goes except a card and just include any stencil in your project. The Challenge linky is HERE

Make it an amazing day!

hugs,
~kim

Sunday Play with Visible Image

Happy Sunday!

This is a fun Visible Image weekend! On Friday we shared the Pink Blog Hop to raise funds for Breast Cancer Cares. There is a fabulous prize as well, and still time to Hop and Donate :) Start the Hop HERE, please visit and donate, thanks so much!

Today I have another small postcard to share.

Some bright painty fun with acrylic paints and fingers :)
I used the awesome Smile Sparkle Shine and Drag & Drip stamps by Visible Image.

Have a fabulous day and hope you have time to check out the Hop!

All the links to learn all about Visible Ink:

Inspiration from the Design Team on the Visible Image Blog, HERE

Come and JOIN the Facebook Group where you can enter our 'Show & Tell Challenge' for your chance to WIN some awesome Visible Image stamps! 

And don't forget to LIKE the Visible Image FACEBOOK PAGE too!

You can also sign up for the Newsletter HERE

Vera Lane Postcard~Party Time!

Happy Friday!

Earlier today I posted the Visible Image Blog Hop and hope you enjoyed that Hop! The fundraising drive continues at Visible Image for Breast Cancer Care, so please share, scroll down for the Hop or click HERE


I love making postcards! They are a bit bigger than an ATC but still so fun and so not overwhelming. So when I found the Vera Lane Studio Facebook Group and found out she is having a postcard coloring challenge, (of course!) I had to play along! I love her digital stamps, so quirky and fun! U have used them before on some ATCs and had a blast.

Here is what I colored, have a great day!

Check out the digis HERE on Etsy when you have time!

~hugs
~kim

Visible Image~Pink October~Breast Cancer Care Hop

Hi! Happy Friday!
This is a special day with a PINK hop with Visible Image! All the info is below, have a great day!

Visible Image is raising funds for Breast Cancer Care throughout October with our BIG PINK EVENT!

Today is our BIG PINK BLOG HOP so we hope you will join in and help us raise as much money as possible for this wonderful charity. 

You'll also be in with the chance of winning an AMAZING bundle of stamps! 

**Look out for and collect the pink letter at each stage of the blog hop!**

More about our BIG PINK fundraiser...

Breast Cancer Care's BIG PINK event will help more people find a way to live with, through, and beyond breast cancer. It really is a wonderful charity which is close to our hearts.

Visible Image is donating 50% of all sales of their 'Stay Strong' stamp during the whole of October. These beautiful words are perfect for anyone facing difficult times. 

See the fabulous stamp HERE

We have an EVENT set up over on Facebook where you will find all the details of our fundraising activities! So please come and join in, and invite your crafty friends too... There are some fantastic prizes to be won this month!

Here's the blog roll for today's PINK BLOG HOP...

START AT Visible Image Blog

Kim Bacon

Sue Joseph

Lisa Nygards

Kim Robertson

Teresa Morgan

Pauline Butcher

Susanne Rose

Kim Johnny...me :)

 Final stop! END AT VISIBLE IMAGE BLOG -  

where you will find all the details of how 

to be in with a chance of winning our fantastic prize! :)

This is the fabulous prize pack!

You should have arrived here from Susanne's fabulous blog. If not, please check above for all the bloggy linkies :)

This is my pink-ness for today :)

I made a frilly pink postcard to share, filled full of love and positivity to carry on when it is needed most. Stamps used: Sentiment This is Me set. The big heart is filled with multiple stampings from the Plasma set for the lacy texture.

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Now your next stop on our PINK HOP is to hop back to Visible Image!

Thank you for joining in! 

All the links to learn all about Visible Ink:

Inspiration from the Design Team on the Visible Image Blog, HERE

Come and JOIN the Facebook Group where you can enter our 'Show & Tell Challenge' for your chance to WIN some awesome Visible Image stamps! 

And don't forget to LIKE the Visible Image FACEBOOK PAGE too!

You can also sign up for the Newsletter HERE

Lost Coast Designs~A Murder of Crows Postcard

Hello!

Today I wanted to share my project posted over at Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity! Our Challenge theme this month is Monochrome. In addition, all month long we are celebrating Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween 2015! Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda are some of the event sponsors. Everyday during October there will be new inspiration posted from each member of the design team!

This is my post for today, I wanted to cross-post here to celebrate!yay!!

A Murder of Crows Mail Art Postcard!

This postcard is 6 inches x 4 inches. The background is colored with DecoArt acrylics and Distress Paints. All stamps are heat embossed.

These are the stamps I was given to play with:

Spray Webbing

A Murder of Crows

Bird on Bike

Have a great day and hope you have time to check out our challenge and 31 Days of Halloween!

~kim

Stencil Sunday~Hello Dear Friend~Tag

Happy Sunday!

Today I have a project shared over on the STAMPlorations blog for Stencil Sunday!

I hope you have time to hop over and see all the amazing projects shared and maybe make some time to play with us too!

Today I made a bright, happy tag to share, using the fabulous ARTplorations stencils I was given as part of the DT.

The background of the tag was made using my homemade gelatin plate along with DecoArt acrylic paints and the Shower of Flutters ARTplorations stencil. This was the second print I pulled off the plate. I outlined the butterflies with my white Signo gel pen to help them POP.

I added some bubbles using the Bubbles stencil and a couple of blooms using Bloom Silhouette. I stenciled some more for some layers and texture using Botanical Lush and Bloom Factory

The sentiment is from a STAMPlorations set called Vignette:Trendy Feathers.

Don't forget to share your stencil play with us at the STAMPlorations Mixed Media Monthly Challenge, the theme is always Anything Goes except a card!

Have a great day and have fun!

~kim

Pink October~Visible Image!

Hello My Crafting Friends!

For the month of October, Visible Image is having a very PINK month of events to support Breast Cancer Care. One of the many fabulous things is a portion of the proceeds from the sales of the Stay Strong stamp will be donated and the stamp will have special pink packaging for this month only. Please visit one of the links above to see it :)

This is direct from the Stay Strong Visible Image shop page:

We are donating 50% of all sales of our ‘Stay Strong’ stamp during October to Breast Cancer Care. We’re also turning the packaging PINK!

Join in with The Visible Image BIG PINK Event over on Facebook… competitions, challenges and a BIG PINK blog hop!  You can keep track of our fundraising total HERE!

Make sure to check out the Visible Image Facebook page for more fun and more info!

For my inspiration piece today, I want to share a small canvas I made.

 I built up the background with some stencils, and drywall tape. The Visible image stamps Grunge Harlequin and Ink Splats are the border images. My center is the fabulous Butterfly INKognito.

Leave Your Fears Behind, is embossed and cut apart for movement. I adore this powerful statement. It is wonderful!

Have a fabulous week and check back soon more more PINK fun!

Inspiration from the Design Team on the Visible Image Blog, HERE

Come and JOIN the Facebook Group where you can enter our 'Show & Tell Challenge' for your chance to WIN some awesome Visible Image stamps! 

And don't forget to LIKE the Visible Image FACEBOOK PAGE too!

You can also sign up for the Newsletter HERE

~kim

Wizard of Oz~ New Digital Scrap Kit by Marta van Eck

Hi!

Today I wanted to share a couple of projects I made using the fun new digital scrapbooking kit by Marta van Eck. It was released at Mischief Circus last Monday and you can find it HERE This images are fabulous to print out and use in so many fun ways.

I was given the kit to play with  and I made a couple of digital pictures.

Have a fabulous day!

Stencil Sunday~New Mixed Media Challenge at STAMPlorations!

Happy Sunday!

Today starts a brand new challenge on the STAMPlorations Mixed Media blog, anything goes except a card, please use a stencil, any kind of stencil, just have fun and get inky and painty! You can link up HERE and see some awesome inspiration from the Mixed Media Team. 

I have a fun tag, with lots of painty fun to share today!

All the background colors are mix up and finger applied using various DecoArt acrylics as well as Americana Multi-Surface. I added some DecoArt White Tinting base with some better color.

I used the ARTplorations stencils Some Birds and Old Rose Prints, my favorites!
I used DecoArt's modeling paste for dimension.

Added a shiny 'gem' up top and a touch of micro beads, they are so fun, but, boy I am messy and they get all over!! Still adds to the mixed media fun for sure!!

Come play and see all the wonderful October projects HERE

Lots of prizes, the winner gets a $15 STAMPlorations gift certificate or 2 stencils. The top picks get a stencil, so fun! Come play, can't wait to see your projects!

Have a great day!

~kim

Happy October~Visible Image~Zombie Dawn

Yay!

I am so happy it is October! I love the cooler weather, here for me it should be soon anyways! And of course, I love Halloween!

Today for my Visible Image DT play I made a tag using the wicked Zombie Dawn set!

She is a bit more ghosty I think...

On top of the acrylic paint and ink background, everything is heat embossed. I really love how embossing makes everything shiny and adds more POP!  The pumpkins are made with texture paste using a Dreamweaver metal stencil with orange embossing powder on top.

Zombie Dawn, the hands and sentiment are all fine stamps by Visible Image! I hope you have fun getting ready for Halloween later this month and I would really love to see what you make!

Inspiration from the Design Team on the Visible Image Blog, HERE

Come and JOIN the Facebook Group where you can enter our 'Show & Tell Challenge' for your chance to WIN some awesome Visible Image stamps! 

And don't forget to LIKE the Visible Image FACEBOOK PAGE too!

You can also sign up for the Newsletter HERE

Happy Hauntings! 

~kim

Lost Coast Designs~Trick or Treat Kitty

Hello!

Today I wanted to share my project posted over at Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity! Our Challenge theme this month is Monochrome. In addition, all month long we are celebrating Smeared Ink's 31 Days of Halloween 2015! Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda or some of the event sponsors. Everyday during October there will be new inspiration posted from each member of the design team!

This is my post for today, I wanted to cross-post here to celebrate!yay!!

This is my Trick or Treat Kitty ATC! She is heat embossed in black and colored with Distress Inks.

I used all Carmen's Veranda stamps on this project today:

Large Tree with Birds

Tabby Cat 

Flying Skull, the wings

Thanks for coming by and have a fantastic October!

Boo!

~kim