Living in Paradise: Happy New Year DT posts

Hau'oli Makahiki Hou (Happy New Year in Hawaiian) and welcome to the first wonderful Wednesday of 2012...wow...where does time go?!? Well, a lot of mine is spent making fun cards! First up is to today's challenge at 365 Cards and this week we're all doing "pretty pairs"! Mine is Red and Gingham, and although I combined mine, you don't have to! I just had this super cute paper I wanted to use that had both! So the stamps are from SU!'s Valentine Defined, the DSP is Bella Rose (retired) and a "borrowed" crochet flower and brad from a card my mom made me (thanks mom!!)! Here's some other challenges I was inspired by for this one:
1. Bearly Mine Challenges - anything goes
2. Crafty Sentiments - Love and romance
3. If The Shoe fits... Scrap It! - use up my stash: I've had this Bella Rose DSP for awhile
4. Mojo Monday - sketch
5. My Time To Craft Challenge - XOXO hugs and kisses
6. Robyn’s Fetish Challenge - anything goes
7. Incy Wincy Designs - anything goes
8. Papertake Weekly Challenge - anything goes
9. pile it on - anything goes
10. Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog - your choice

Next up is a recycled chow mien noodle can that I made into a "bank" for the Box Tops for Education that I'm collecting. Of course I had to use this super cute D2D image!

I used School Maisie Belle and colored her up with Copics! The patterned paper (that you can see much of) is Paper Reflections school theme and I embellished it up with buttons, grosgrain ribbon and some black pom-pom trim. Here's some other challenges I was inspired for this one:
1. Catch The Bug Challenge Blog - inspiration photo: I was inspired by the colors
2. Do you Stack up - rainbow of colors
3. One Stitch At A Time Challenge - use a digi
4. Sketches by Carly - sketch: it's kinda hard to see but I was inspired by this sketch!
5. Stamp-n-doodle - anything goes
6. The Pink Elephant - anything goes
Thanks for stopping by and can't wait to see what you come up with!
Aloha,

23 comments:

Caz said...: Oh what a lovely creation, Thanx for joining us at Incy Wincy Designs. And good luck.

Caz Incy Wincy DT; January 3, 2012 at 11:36 PM
Caroline Rawcliffe said...: Both are great projects, Kim.
Thanks for joining us at Rainbow Lady.; January 3, 2012 at 11:38 PM
Allie Gower said...: Hau'oli Makahiki Hou
My cousin lives in Hawaii, and an old best friend is stationed there.
I love your card, the flamingoes (did I spell that right) are so cute!; January 4, 2012 at 1:25 AM
Nannieflash said...: Gorgeous card love your image and your colour choice. Thanks for joining us at Bearlymine, good luck with the challenge. hugs Shirleyxxxx; January 4, 2012 at 1:30 AM
Sue Nicholson said...: Beautiful image and card thanks for joining us at robyn's fetish Callenge 88, good luck, cheers sue n x; January 4, 2012 at 2:41 AM
Linda . J said...: Love your card Kim, all the details are so fabulous, so beautifully coloured.
Thank you joining in our challenge at Catch the Bug.
Hugs Linda; January 4, 2012 at 3:48 AM
sammi said...: The recycled chow mein container is awesome! Love it! Thank you for sharing your creation with us at Catch The Bug. Hope to see you again, next week! ~~Sammibug,~~ Guest Designer For Bugaboo Stamps; January 4, 2012 at 4:43 AM
Rainbow Lady said...: Hau'oli Makahiki Hou to you too... how I miss Hawaii... super projects thanks for playing
Love Cynthia x; January 4, 2012 at 5:25 AM
Sue from Oregon said...: Super cute!; January 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Kristine said...: Oh these are super cute Kim!! Love the way you used Carly's sketch to make an altered project *Ü* Thanks for playing at SKETCHES BY CARLY!! Good luck!; January 4, 2012 at 6:06 PM
STAMPING SAM said...: Beeautiful on both! Love the 365 card, color is perfect and so very cute. Box Top container is perfect but I have a feeling you may need to enlarge it to collect all of those box tops! Have a great day - Love, SAM aka MOM; January 5, 2012 at 2:35 AM
Unknown said...: Beautiful card and such a sweet image. Thanks for joining us at Stamp n doodle's weekly challenge.; January 5, 2012 at 2:53 AM
Cindy Groh said...: Your card is so pretty. I just love it. Great job.
Thanks for joining us at Robyn's Fetish this week; January 5, 2012 at 8:58 AM
Carly said...: Hi Kim Mc!:)
I love this card! The buttons are so cool!

xxCALRYxx; January 5, 2012 at 6:13 PM
Anonymous said...: Lovely card Kim; great colours and layout. Thanks for playing along with us at Papertake Weekly this week and good luck!
x; January 6, 2012 at 2:44 AM
Edwina said...: Love your card! The pinks are great! Love the flowers. Thanks for playing alone with Anything goes at Robyn's Fetish. Edwina Brown; January 6, 2012 at 12:58 PM
Faith S. said...: What a wonderful recycled/altered project!! LOVE it...and I always need a place for all the Box Tops. :) Your card is super cute, too. Love the red and green!; January 6, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Rae Anne said...: What a darling little schoolgirl! I love the twine-tied heart embellishments! Thanks so much for participating in Catch the Bug's Photo Inspiration challenge with Bugaboo Stamps! :D MWAH!; January 6, 2012 at 4:35 PM
Unknown said...: Both Beautiful..... totally gorgeous!

A big thank you for sharing with us over at Crafty Sentiments for our love and romance challenge, I wish you luck..

Jo x

Crafty Sentiments DT
http://craftysentiments.blogspot.com/; January 7, 2012 at 1:31 PM
Vickie said...: Awe! Cute can!! Thanks for playing with us at Stamp-n-Doodle:); January 8, 2012 at 3:14 PM
Cards By MI said...: Very clever us. and very sweet looking. Thanks for playing with us over at BMC this week.
Love n hugs
Marie; January 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Christina Hicks said...: Lovely idea, I have got to try this, I have box tops everywhere.; January 10, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Pat said...: Great idea, Kim! I need to make a similar container for the box tops that I save for our neighborhood school. The image you used was perfect :); January 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM