WCMD Blog Hop and Giveaway!

Hello there! Did you see my post from yesterday?? So, the big news is that Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking magazine is officially no more at the end of this year. SO, what does that mean? Well, mostly it means we are all really really sad! 

But also, that means that this card you see below, will never be published. This was one of my entries for World Card Making Day 2014, and it won in the birthday category! Usually winners are published in a magazine issue, but since that won't be happening all the winners of WCMD 2014 are having their own little blog hop. We are all so excited!!

Here are the amazing ladies who all get to share in this fun news with me! You can find all their blog links at the end of this post. Have fun hopping!

First off, you should have come here from SIMONE's blog. (If you want to go back to the beginning or get lost at any time, just click from the list below.)

Here is my card:

I chose to do the stamp kissing technique for this one. I used some Mama Elephant balloons, a Hero Arts design block for kissing and Sweet Stamp Shop for the sentiment.

And let me tell ya, I totally sweat bullets over the placement of those enamel dots! I don't know why they are so hard for me, but I'm vexed every time. 

Here is the list of winners with three ladies in each category. If you have some time, take a look and leave some love. We are all going through a mourning process over this and there is always room for a kind word to all who are affected by this change.

Plus, be sure to read the fine print because some of us ladies are having a bit of a giveaway. Yes! You heard me right! I received a plethora of prizes and I want TO SHARE that love with YOU! Thank you so much to each of you for your kind comments and support through this last year. It has been AMAZING! So many new opportunities, and fun things to be apart of, and you have been with me through it all. So please LEAVE ONE COMMENT for me here for this visit and ONE COMMENT here if you LIKE my Facebook page. Each will give you an entry into my giveaway of lots of fun prizes! Contest ends Dec. 10!

Thanks so much for stopping in today. Love to you and yours!

xoxo

k

1.       Jamie Greene

2.       Simone Naoum

3.       Kristie Larsen    **Thats ME!**

4.       Donna Bowman

5.       Maureen Wong

6.       Mandy LaCroix

7.       Heather Hoffman

8.       Piali Biswas

9.       Christa Laszczkowski

10.   Jacquie Southas

11.   Wendi Lau

12.   Tosha DelJanovan

13.   Isha Gupta

14.   Jill Dewey Hawkins

15.   Virginia Lu

Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking Magazine Special Blog Hop

Hello there!  Today I have the privilege to participate in a very special blog hop for our beloved Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking magazine. As you all know by now, Paper Crafts has had to close down their magazine publications. There are so many of us who have been blessed to be inside those pages to share our love of crafting and inspire each other through this amazing craft of ours.

I remember seeing my very first Paper Crafts magazine in 2007. My mother-in-law had a copy and showed me certain cards as she ooh-ed and aah-ed through the pages. I remember seeing one card that someone had sew on with their sewing machine and remember thinking, "What!? I would never do something like that. Who would take the time to do that!?"
Little did I know that from a small moment in time, I would transform into what I am now. At that moment I had no intention of EVER doing paper crafts. In fact I remember thinking just that.. "I would never do that!"  However, I had a friend in NY who was a SU! demonstrator and a few of us met together by her urging, mostly to chat and eat snacks, but she ended up starting a fire storm in me! (Thank you Ann!)

I started my blog in the summer of 2008 and between birthing kids and moving homes (and countries) paper crafting has seen me through the crazy times. Late nights made up of die cutting, embossing, stamping, trimming, colouring and blurry eyed excitement as I tried new things and found something that helped keep me sane through the days of feeding, burping, diaper changing, and house cleaning. It has been something that has helped me be more than just a mom and house wife. It has helped me stay creatively fulfilled which we all know is so hard when you are a woman wearing so many different hats for everyone else but yourself.

I remember the first email I received from Susan R. Opel. Holy cow, did I squeal!!! It was for a December issue and I had 2 cards chosen. It was such an amazing feeling!
This year has been a big one for me as Paper Craft Magazine saw me through Gallery Idol 2014 AND a World Card Making Day win! I have been so excited to participate with them and other amazing crafters in these contests. I wouldn't be where I am without PC&S and their amazing team. Thank you thank you THANK YOU!! Here are a few cards to share with you, that will never express my full gratitude to each and every person that has worked at PC&S through the years. Thank you for your hard work and dedication not just to paper crafting but to each one of us as designers and online (and physical) friends! You have cheered us on and inspired us. Thanks Ever So Much!:

Double dry embossing inlay with vellum overlay.

You mean the world to us and you will be sorely missed!

Die cut images/Copic colouring/ Versamark background

We Love You:

Mosaic shade gradient stamping/Masking technique

xoxoxoxo
k

 If you are participating in the hop, you should have come from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

And,  Your next stop is Maureen Merritt! 

It's out! Woot!

Hey! It's just too exciting for me not to share... it's been a looooong time since I have been published and I really haven't done it all that much so I have that excited buzz that comes when you just want to pinch yourself to see if you are dreaming! 

Here's the page from the September Paper Craft Magazine. You can check it out this current issue HERE:

Most of you may not know but the last few years have been hectic and stressful for me. I had 2 babies  in 20 months of each other and made an international move that I totally thought I could handle, and quickly realised I most certainly could NOT handle it. one. bit. And while I know plenty of people have babies even closer than that and survive, and my sweet babies were wonderful, when I put it on top of moving across the world, it just threw me for a big loop.
After blogging, designing and connecting for a few years, I landed in Singapore and felt like I would never find myself again.
My crafting supplies stayed packed for over a year! But slowly and surely my desire to find pieces of myself started to emerge. This opportunity to do Gallery Idol 2014 was momentous to me because I had finally unearthed myself. I was moving forward once again. I was doing something fun and meaningful to me. I finally feel like myself again!

So thank you for all your votes and support. Thank you for visiting my little ol' blog when you have a chance and for all your sweet comments and emails. It has all meant so much to me. Thank you for letting me share!


love to you-
k