Kathy's Christmas Wish

As many of you know, last Christmas instead of asking for presents I took donations for the troops, it was a great success and thank you everyone for pitching in and helping the troops. This year I decided to do something very similar. You all know I'm a big animal lover so I thought I would combine my passions and help both the animals and the troops. I will be collecting donations for the Puppy Rescue Mission. They help soldiers that are serving overseas and that find a loving companion while there, bring that dog or cat to be in a forever home with there soldier. My Christmas Wish is to raise $500 or more for the Puppy Rescue Mission, so they can continue all the wonderful things that they do. If you planned on purchasing me a gift, please use that money to contribute to help me reach my goal and make my Christmas Wish come true! Every little bit counts, so I ask that one day you skip the coffee or go to spare change jar and make a donation.

You can make donations online to a charity page I created or deliver donations in person to me:

http://kathyschristmaswish.chipin.com/kathys-christmas-wish

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me! Thanks :)

Here are some of the cutest puppies ever!

Not sure why the pictures and tracker are over the place :P

ABC Crop

If you haven't checked it out yet, My Sketch World is hosting an ABC Crop! I know it started already but I just wanted to give a little shout out, in case you were looking for something fun to do this month and needed some inspiration. Since school just started its been a little crazy for me, so I'm hoping to settle into my new schedule and get to some scrapping! Hope to see you there (:

One Hour Sketch Challenge!

Tonight at My Sketch World, my friend Ginni, was hosting the One Hour Sketch Challege (OHSC)! Whoa an hour to create a layout, it may sound like a challenge, but it really was a lot of fun. You do get some hints before the night of the OHSC to help you prepare, but I didn't have much ready hehe :) I really liked how my page came out and my mom even played too! The next OHSC is Oct 15, hope you can join in (:

I was so excited to be able to use some Bella Blvd. The paper, cut outs and word cut out is from them. The banner is from a marvy tree punch that is supposed to be a tree :) The circle I cut out with the new giant Creative Memories circle cutter, I love there cutters and this big circle was a great investment, no more plate tracing for me. The transparency and foam letters are from Creative Imaginations and of course the cardstock is Prism! 

Vote

I made this layout way in the middle of the night during a late night scrappin adventure with my friend. This was for the 2008 election :-) It was again inspired by the challenge jar :D Unfortunately I must have put the slips back in the jar and I have no idea what they were lol I do remember one was use a sketch which is exactly what I did. It was altered a little because I only had 1 photo for this layout. :0)

The cardstock is from prism (yay prism). The patterened papers are from rusty pickle, I don't know why I don't have more of this collections its awsome and the only 2 sheets I had :-P. Bling is unknown. The stamps are from gel-a-tins, lovin the stars, I had to lighten the layout so you can see the images stamped on the dark blue cardstock. I used Tim Holtz vintage photo distress ink, the best one out there in my opinion.

Enjoy <3 Kat

rainy

This layout took a little bitt to do and had a rough start. So I grabbed the challenge jar and picked 3 things: die cuts, ink & highlight words in journaling. Below is the result :-)

The cardstock is shimmery from Prism, they made the best cardstock! The raindrops I embossed on the layout. Pink Paislee made the sticker letters, love the font! The cloud stamps are from Love Elsie/Ki Memories. The ink is from Tsukineko its Versafine in black, its the best out there! The die cut small tag is cut with the cricut. I am not sure who makes the beads, wire & the large tags. To highlight the words in the journaling I used chalk.

Just a Jar

So the other day I was playing in the art room and trying to figure out what to do with some photos I had. Well on my desk is a little friend that is there to help me out when I am having a duh moment. His name: Challenge Jar!There are strips of paper in there with different ideas. To help me out I pulled out 3 strips which read .... chipboard, art medium, transparency. This is what I came up with :0)

Happy NSD ....

YAY got to make a layout today :-) My hand is doing better with the new brace and I'll try to get back into my room later tonight!!!! I made this layout for the ki challenge! Hope everyone is having an awsome day. -Enjoy Kat

 

Finally Friday Challenge by 2 Peas

Ok 1 more the night (omg its almost 2am my time) every friday on Two Peas in a Bucket they have a finally friday challenge, so this weeks was grab 5 things from your desk and make a card!!!! Whoohooo more cards. Enjoy!!!! -KAT

My grab items from my desk:

1. Bo Bunny Patterened Paper


2. Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch


3. Inque Boutique Markers


4. Robin's Nest Clear Gems


5. Jillibean Soup Journal Block / Ribbon

 

Scraps for Cards Challenge by Ki Memories

Yay I am totally in love with all these challenges, it gets me in my art room and my mojo back too.

So this challenge came from the Ki Memories Blog, every week they post a new challenge and this weeks was a great one...Scraps for Cards. We have have tons of scraps and making a couple of cards is always a good thing too, so since mothers day is the next holiday I decided to work on that theme. I got to use some new stamps from the Pink Cat Studio, this owly set is just the cutest too and they have digi images :-) But without anymore torture here are the cards. Enjoy! - KAT

 

Layout Challenge Friday by Bo Bunny

So every friday on the bo bunny blog they post a super cool sketch for you to try out, so I decided to play along with this past friday's sketch :-) Here is what I came up with Enjoy!!!!

This was my first time making a flower embellishment for my page and a banner too, it was so much fun. Ohh yeah and the paper folding technique too :)