The Best Cake Ever

I know you don't want to hear excuses, you just want to see inspiration! So I won't bore you with my life, but I will be back with my kreations very soon. For now I know you will adore this awesome inspiration!! I was HONORED to recently receive a Beautiful Blog Award from Lorraine at Paper Vernissage. Thank you so much Lorraine for your kind words and finding inspiration in the little things I do :) Lorraine kreates wonderful cards/projects (I'm amazed at times what she does with recycled materials aka Thursday Throwaways), she also has a love for nature and captures things great and small w/ gorgeous photos - not to mention her sense of humor in some of her posts. So make sure to visit her. Now, talk about inspiration... this was the swap she gave me at the Dream Night Event. Wow, is this the cutest thing ever? I absolutely LOVE it. Every detail is just perfect!! A zero calorie cake she calls it that fits perfectly in a little box she made as well!! Don't ya love it! OK, if you are not seeing it, that is a little tealight that she covered with DSP and she used the little flower from the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch pack in the Summer Mini. Flippin' cute I tell ya!

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Get Ready for a Tropical Party!!!!!

More Dream Night Make-n-Take projects...all kreated with the new Tropical Party set in the Summer Mini. All the makings of a Summer party!! From the invitation to some cute favors!! The new Tropical Party set, Island Florals Bigz Die, Party Favor Boxes, Island Oasis DSP - all must haves for your upcoming summer luau!! Hope this gives you some fun inspiration

Here is the adorable tri-fold w/pocket invitation. The Old Olive belly band was inked with Old Olive palms from the Tropical Party set and adorned with Island Oasis DSP flowers from the Bigz Die, Island Florals in the new Summer Mini. The belly band wrapped around the Tempting Turquiose 'card', unveils an adorable invitation. Edges were spruced up with the Scallop Trim Border Punch.
The main invitation was matted with Pumpkin Pie and placed in the center. The bottom 'fold' of the invite, kreated a little pocket to place an RSVP card/directions or whatever extra info you wanted to add. Such a CUTE idea.




These Party Favor Boxes are SO cute. Check out page 27 of the Summer Mini. You get 6 die-cut boxes and bellybands in 2 different patterns (12 total) for $5.95. How cute to add these as a favor to a summer party? And they take no time at all to assemble, but these are only available while supplies last!
This came together SO quickly!! Island Florals (Bigz Die) were already precut with the Big Shot and ready to be put together and adorn our bellyband for a quick, easy, adorable favor box. Cute cute, right?


This is another very cute favor or gift idea. This Tropical Gift 'Box/Bag' was kreated with a piece of Rose Red cardstock and a Tempting Turquoise belly band, all 'wrapped' around a small Tempting Turquoise box. All were stamped with coordinating ink colors with the florals from the Tropical Party set. The 'closure' is kreated with Old Olive run through the Big Shot with the Top Note Die. Palms decorated in Old Olive randomly on the Top Note. The Crop-a-dile places uniform holes through all layers to thread a Pumpkin Pie Wide Striped ribbon.


I was lucky to be a part of a small 'Anything But a Card' swap with my Inksistas' also fellow SU demonstrators. I rec'd some fabulous projects!! Here are 2 that I thought fit perfectly with this 'party' theme.


How cute is this Mini Milk Carton? Fill it with some yummy candies and it makes a very cute favor. What about adding a name card and you have a place card holder?! Oh so cute!! Thanks Debbie Modrowsky for this great swap!






Dale Morin swapped this very fun Fancy Favor box. Flowers and band kreated with the new Island Oasis DSP

Ya ready to Party now?? I know I am :) So Fun!!!! Hope you liked seeing these great ideas from my recent Dream Night extravaganza!!

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Tropical Party

These are 2 cards from the recent Dream Night Workshop, kreated with the Tropical Party set in the new Summer Mini. I did add a few extra touches when I got home,Kim'isms', so these are the 'after' photos. ('Befores' just as cute, but I had to make them my 'own', ya know?)

This one started with an Old Olive card base, both back and front edge of card is given a decorative edge with the Scallop Border Punch.
So Saffron was run through the new Lattice Embossing folder for a textured horizontal strip and matte behind the focal image.
Accented the lattice a bit with a few swipes of Old Olive on a sponge across the lattice as well as distressing the edges of the So Saffron pieces, card base and palm image. It adds a bit more depth and character.
Old Olive palms were stamped around a layer of Whisper White
The palm tree was stamped in Old Olive and without reinking stamped to the right and left of the 'main' tree.

A few little Kim'isms' to this card:
* I stamped my palm again, on scrap, in Old Olive, snipped it out and layered it on a dimensional
* Crystal Effects on my 'main' palm branches gave it even more dimension
* A little bling? Coconut bling??? 2 rhinestone coconuts glisten from the tree :)
Can ya feel the island breeze??


Isn't it cute? It is a pocket card and matching envie. How adorable for a summer bbq invite or luau invite!
After assembling the Pumpkin Pie pocket card and the Tempting Turquiose/Whisper White insert, the Scallop Border Punch was used for some decorative edges and a strip of the new Island Oasis DSP adds more of that aloha feel to the 'flap' of the card.

The oh so yummy island drink is inked in Melon Mambo on the insert and again of a piece of scrap and snipped out.
The snipped out 'cocktail' is added to Tempting Turquoise polka dot dsp,in the Island Oasis pack, matted on Old Olive and Whisper White - all popped up on dimensionals.
When I got home, I added a few little Kim'isms' to this kreation as well-
* the umbrellas were colored in with SU Markers - Summer Sun, Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise, Only Orange and then layered with some Crystal Effects
* the straw was also colored with Summer Sun and highlighted with Crystal Effects
* the snipped out coconut on the front of the card was snazzed up with Dazzling Diamonds
Ahhhhh, can't ya feel the island breeze and smell the Pina Colada? :)
I'm ready for a Tropical Party, aren't you?

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Dream Night Gift Tote

Ugh! Another busy week! Sorry for the lack of posting. What is it about the month of May??? I do have LOTS to share with you, but just need a few more hours in the day and few extra hours of sleep - after a very late Dream Night Tuesday evening, I am still trying to recoup LOL

Let me show you a few things from Dream Night. As promised, this is the adorable rag tote we rec'd from Dawn (kreated using the Big Shot and Scalloped Square die to cut out fabric and batting & a sewing machine of course). Don't ya love it?? I'm a pink girl and I love butterflies, so this had my 'name written all over it' (has Shelli's John Hancock written on it too!) The same fabric was what she had handmade all the pj's, aprons, and decor in. Scroll down to next post to see Shelli Gardner in her pretty pjs :) The presentation of the totes was way cool - all rolled tight to make a tiered cake (see next post).

Around the cake were these BEAUTIFUL butterflies kreated with the Big Shot and Bigz Beautiful Butterflies die and Butterfly punch. Can you see the layers - a large Whisper White butterfly, an embossed with Perfect Polka Dots vellum butterfly, and a Whisper White Dazzling Diamonds Punched Butterfly. Delicate and SO pretty - gorgeous accent to this cake. How pretty would they look all over a real wedding cake!

The rest of Dream Night focused on cards and projects using the Tropical Party set and coordinating products from the NEW Summer Mini. Check back tomorrow :)


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Looky Looky

I had a wonderful opportunity to attend a post event(jammie party) last night with Dawn Rapsas winner of a Workshop of a Lifetime. What an event Dawn had in store for us, meeting Shelli, CEO of SU, 8 make-n-takes, displys, free products, an adorable gift, a chocolate fountain and table of deserts, and meeting up with some fellow demonstrators. It was so much fun!
Shelli is such a down to earth, sweet woman and even in jammies, she is always so fashionable! Yes, she is in jammies. They were hand made and delivered to her minutes before the event to coordinate with the decor, Dawn and all the 'helpers' of Dawns event (super cute aprons and pj's!!) Shelli and Dawn also sported the most adorable slippies :) Those are Shelli's piggies in her slippies/flip flops. The butterflies are kreated to match her jammies from the Beautiful Butterflies die - aren't they adorable?!

This 'cake' was adorable, pink and gorgeous butterflies (so me!!) and was eventually broken down and we each rec'd an adorable rag tote - you'll have to wait to see a photo. I was the first to ask Shelli to sign mine(on the bottom) and she was so cute - afraid to mess up her {heart} signature on fabric ~ perfect keepsake from a fun evening!

I am absolutely exhausted after not falling asleep until 2AM. Over the next few days I'll get to show you the make-n-takes and some fabulous anything but a card swaps I rec'd. For now, I'm off to plop on the couch, if my little ones will allow it. Nap time for all! LOL